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Chinese aspect markers guo, le and their differences – How to say ” The seagulls glided across the sky” in Mandarin: hai3 ou1 hua2 guo4 tian1 kong1. Howie Day Collide with lyrics

Posted on 02/03/2012 by Chinesetolearn

[audio:http://www.chinesetolearn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/listen-to-sentence.mp3|titles=listen to sentence] Learn Mandarin – How to say ” The Seagulls glided across the sky” in Chinese: hai3 ou1 hua2 guo4 tian1 kong1. 海鸥滑过天空 Hai3 ou1 (海鸥 seagulls, noun) hua2 (滑 glide, verb or as aspect marker) guo4 (过 … Continue reading →

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Tips for learning Chinese character – formation & usage of characters – liu shu 六书 – xiang xing / pictograph /pictogram, zhi shi / indicatives / ideogram, hui yi / combined ideogram, xing sheng / phonetic-semantic compounds, zhuang zhu / mutual explanatories / transfer, jia jie /phonetic loans & deja vu lyrics

Posted on 01/29/2012 by Chinesetolearn

Many Chinese language learners feel each Chinese character is a complicated picture or puzzle. Even if they spend considerable time to recognize and practice writing the characters – after a few days – their memory of those characters is gone … Continue reading →

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