Category Archives: Chinese grammar

Learn Mandarin grammar — Chinese negation — Forming Chinese negatives — the differences of the usage of bu4 不, mei2 you3 没有, and bie2 别

Posted on 11/08/2011 by Chinesetolearn

Grammatically speaking, Chinese language is a relatively simple language for  it does not have verb conjugations. The same form of verbs can be used for all tenses. For example, ta1 lai2 wo3 jia1 他来我家 can be referred to something happened … Continue reading →

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Learn Chinese -Learn Mandarin : the right word to say about playing musical instruments in Chinese: musical instrument vocabulary and chui1 吹, la1 拉, qiao1 敲, da3 打 and tan2 弹. Also the history of Chinese musical instruments and complete Chinese musical terms.

Posted on 11/01/2011 by Chinesetolearn

In English you can use the verb “play” for any musical instruments : piano, cello, violin, or clarinet. You can say “I love to play piano, and I love to play clarinet too.” However, in Chinese, there are quite a … Continue reading →

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