Chinese greetings range from classic textbook phrases to how ordinary people talk to each other day-to-day. Here’s how to greet people in different situations: 1. The Classics (The Ones Everyone Learns First) Nǐ hǎo (你好) = Hello Nín hǎo (您好)…
Let’s look at some practical, day-one conversational building blocks. Instead of learning a huge list of random words, I think what seems to be one of the best ways to start learning any language, Chinese included, is to look at…
Numbers in Chinese are really logical. Just learn 1 to 10, and you can count all the way to 99 – No problems! Here’s a quick-start guide to Chinese numbers: 1. The Basics: 1 to 10 These are the building…
Pronouns in Chinese are really easy because they never change form depending on where they are in a sentence. There’s no switching from “I” to “me,” or “they” to “them”, like in English. The word stays exactly the same! Here’s…
I’ve said before that I’ve forgotten much of the Chinese I’d learned as a child, as well as the 10-week Mandarin class I attended many years later. I do think the stuff I remembered when I started learning again is…
Hi there, my name’s Chris and I’m learning Chinese. I was born in the UK, and as a child didn’t know anyone who spoke Chinese all the time, so being able to speak Chinese wasn’t very useful when I was…