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Chinese language learning couldn't just rely on books, it rely more on the demonstration of action and word. Unfortunately, not everyone has a chance to learn Chinese in China or has the time to attend class in school. But luckily, the YouTube can fill most part of the gap. However, you can find thousands of videos on YouTube yet the quality of teaching is uneven that you don't know which you should watch. If you want to learn Chinese on YouTube but you find it hard to find them out on your own, please read on! Below are the top 10 YouTube channels for Chinese learners may want to check out regularly: 1. Hanbridge Mandarin on YouTube Hanbridge Mandarin YouTube channel was created by the Hanbridge Mandarin's teacher team. This channel provides you with great content for learning Mandarin Chinese. You can find the video lessons cover a wide range of subjects and they are totally free. Like I was saying above, the quality of videos on YouTube vary greatly that it mixed w...

Some of us have terrible Spoken Chinese. Some of us think our Chinese is pretty good. Regardless of how good you "think" your Spoken Chinese is, you aren't a native speaker, so you have room to improve. In this article we will look at some strategies for how to improve your spoken Chinese . 1. Take the initiative Talking with others in Chinese, developing good language habits. When you talking with Chinese, pay attention to the speaking tones and grasp some popular expressions. 2. Watching Chinese TV Often watching Chinese TV and listening to Chinese broadcast, you can improve your spoken Chinese quickly, and these are also the most effective means to improve your Chinese listening skills . Get Chinese TV recommendation here: Top 5 TV Shows For Learning Chinese . 3. Dialogue training Through the dialogue training, we can grasp some practical Chinese. 4. Replace exercise Replace some of the ingredients of the original sentence to practice, through this way ...

Read the Chinese writing below and tell me how you think when you finish the reading. 大家好。我中文的名字是顾思。我二十年龄了。我工作在一所中学校，各个的目的。有时候一个替代老师， 平时当一个“学校后照顾”员。 Do you find it pleasant to read? If your answer is yes and you would also write a Chinese article like that, well, it means that your Chinese writing needs to improve! The writing above is a counter example, then how to improve your Chinese writing effectively? This article lists seven practical tips for all the Chinese learners, learn it now. Tip 1: Expand Your Chinese Vocabulary You can’t express yourself well if your vocabulary is limited. There is no accurate number to tell how many words the Chinese language has, and don’t ask me how many vocabularies should you learn, a good writer should expand vocabulary as much as possible. Except for vocabulary in the dictionary, you also need to learn the new buzzwords which could make your content fresh and interesting. If you have to write a large number of articles on the same topic, ...

One of the easiest ways to meet people and have them feel comfortable quickly is to speak Chinese jokes. However, humor is hard enough if it's not one's native language. How can you learn popular jokes or pop culture in Chinese? Here are some suggestions to help you become funny in Chinese : After you improve your Chinese, you can read Chinese books, magazines, and newspapers. Many feature jokes, newly fashionable words and sentences on. If you don't know the meaning, you can ask a Chinese friend to explain. Reading is a great way to really learn the language. 1. Chinese Movies Movies are a great way to improve your Chinese . There are many funny Chinese movies included. ROB-B-HOOD 宝贝计划 If you are the one 非诚勿扰 The Eagle Shooting Heroes 东成西就 The Happy Ghost 开心鬼 Aces Go Places 最佳拍档 You can learn many funny lines and words from these movies. 2. Searching on the Internet There are also many fashionable words on the social network sites like Weibo, WeChat a...

Reading Pinyin is not really so difficult as the alphabet only has 63 letters. If you pay close attention, you can memorize the sounds in less than a couple days. Introduction to Pinyin Pinyin is the romanized spelling of Chinese character sounds. They have both initial and final sounds. The finals sound loud while the initials are a bit quieter. The finals are divided into two groups: single finals and compound finals. The single finals contain only one vowel. The compound finals contain several vowels or a combination of vowel sounds. Once you learn the sounds of the individual letters and the combinations in pinyin, you can really speed up your Chinese learning pace. Contact us at Hanbridge to jumpstart your Chinese learning with a free trial class . Pinyin table with tones ā á ǎ à āng áng ǎng àng iū iú iǔ iù ē é ě è ēng éng ěng èng iē ié iě iè ī í ǐ ì īng íng ǐng ìng üē üé üě üè ō ó ǒ ò ōng óng ǒng òng er ē é ě è ...

The Chinese pinyin system includes three parts: shengmu (initial), yunmu (final), and shenɡdiào (tones), and the tones in Mandarin are very important. Even if the initial and final are the same but have a different tone, the meaning will be different. So if you really want to master this language, you must learn to make each tone very clearly, otherwise you may not be understood by Chinese speakers. There are four different tones and one “natural” tone in Mandarin. So pronouncing each distinctly is important. The first tone should be high and flat without any change. The mark is “-” . The second tone should go up, as when asking a question. The mark is “/”. The third tone goes down first then up. The mark is “√”. The forth tone goes from top to bottom. The mark is “\”. The natural tone should be very light and short; there is no mark for it. When you practice the tones, here are some tips to help you: 1. Practice the four tones one by one. Read all the same tones togethe...

Everyone knows that learning to read Chinese is not a simple task, but is it possible to learn to read Chinese quickly? Given the sheer number of characters, it is improbable that a foreign speaker will learn to read characters quickly. However, learning to read pinyin does offer the Chinese language student an opportunity to begin reading and communicating quickly. It is important to know the sounds and blended sounds of pinyin syllables. For example: yao and you. Many beginners are confused by this and often make mistakes with this. Obviously, when we read yao, the mouth is bigger than when you read you. Another example, si and shi, which a flat tongue, another one is retroflex. When we read these two syllables, the tongue is at a different place. If you can not distinguish well when you reading them, it is likely you will make a lot of mistakes. Chinese has four tones, and neutral tone. Each character has its own tone, some even have two or three. Of course, for many l...

If you ask the mandarin learners what is the most difficult part of learning mandarin Chinese? The majority of them will tell you it is the pronunciation. Actually, the elementary difference between Mandarin language and western languages is that mandarin is a tonal language and its mastery is essential. Moreover the tone determines the meaning of the word or syllable. Mispronounced tones can make your spoken mandarin difficult or even impossible to understand, that’s the reason why so many mandarin learners found it hard to follow other people’s talking as well as made themselves understood. But using the correct tones will allow you to express yourself clearly. For example: 练习 liàn xí (4th tone and 2nd tone), means “to practice,” but 联系 lián xì (2nd tone and 4th tone), means "to contact" Tones in English are using for inflection, which is a completely different usage from Mandarin. Rising tones in English often imply a question or sarcasm. Falling tones may be us...

Chinese Alphabet, known as ‘Pīnyīn’ in Chinese, is the very essential step to start Chinese learning. Although it’s as same as English letters in writing, the pronunciation between them are quite different. This article lists the tips to help you learn it! When we start to learn a language, we usually begin with an alphabet. However, given that Chinese is written in characters, which are pictographs and not individual letters that make up words, pinyin is the system that transposes characters into words. One of the main differences between Chinese and English, for example, is that Chinese is a tonal language, with “initials,” “finals” and “tones” that form words. In the word ”pīnyīn,” for example, pīn begin with the initial “p,” and the final “in” and uses the level tone “-.” There are 23 initials, 24 finals and 5 tones in Chinese. An initial followed by a final can make up a complete syllable – spoken with a tone . For most Mandarin learners, the challenge is learning the diffe...

Students just beginning their Chinese study may think the characters are too difficult to remember. Therefore, you need a tool to read and write down Chinese. That tool is called pinyin. First, what is pinyin? Pinyin is a kind of auxiliary tool for us to learn Chinese. It is a Romanized representation of the phonetic sounds of Chinese. Chinese Pinyin is also the international standard stipulated by the United Nations for spelling Chinese special terms and names of persons and places. The Chinese syllable consists of three parts: initials, finals, and tones. For example, the character “ 妈 ”,pinyin is “ mā ”， “mā” is made up of the initial “m” , the final “a” , and the level tone “-”. In Chinese, we have 21 initials: b , p, m, f, d, t, n, l, g, k, h, j, q, x, zh, ch, sh, r, z, c, s. And there are 36 finals: a, an, ang, ai, ao, o, ou, ong, e, en, eng, ei, er, i, ia, iao, ie, iou(iu), ian, in, iang, ing, iong, u, ua, uo, uai, uei(ui), uan, uen(un), uang, ueng, ü, üe, üan, ün. At la...

Pinyin is an essential part of Chinese learning, for the beginners, maybe they don't need to learn Chinese characters , but they do need to learn Chinese pinyin . However, not all the Chinese learning materials have pinyin listed, for example, all Chinese movies have Chinese and English subtitles but without pinyin on it. Therefore, you need a program/software to help you convert Chinese character to pinyin. If you search on the web, you’ll find there are many tools can achieve it, but as a non-Chinese or Chinese beginner , you may be unable to find out which one is the best. In this guide, we’ll introduce three best online tools to translate Chinese character into pinyin for you. 1. Chinese To Pinyin Converter This tool offers Hanzi to pinyin conversation with numbers, accents and no ton options which meets the different needs of pinyin format. Further, it can identify common used polyphone and the conversion is very accurate. For the seldom-used polyphone phrases, it will d...

It seems as though people gravitate toward one of two extremes when discussing the difficulty and time required to master Chinese. Either it really easy or horribly hard. It requires just weeks or decades of time to gain fluency. Which is true? The answer is probably found somewhere in the middle. An important distinction is to clearly define what is meant by “fluent”. Here are some milestones to mark your fluency: 1 year to lie on your resume and hope no Chinese speaker interviews you for a job. 2-3 years for basic fluency, but with difficulty found in vocabulary. 3-5 years to feel comfortable in the language. From my own teaching experience, learners with business purposes in China regard a one-year’s intensive study as a challenge; while others with higher and more specific demand in academic research or more professional field find it possible to become a fluent Chinese speaker within 2-3 years. This is all very good news! But let’s get back to you. In th...

Compared to pronunciation and character writing , Chinese grammar might be the easiest part for beginners. For example, the verbs are not conjugated, and there are no masculine and feminine words (as in Latin-based languages, for example), and no plurals. On top of that, Chinese has only three tenses---past, present and future. Yet, people usually just use present tense, so you don’t need to worry about that. Further, there’s rarely any need to distinguish between the polite and familiar forms of saying things (as in some languages, where, for example, there is a polite form for “you” when addressing someone older or with more status). So, to save you a lot of time, I will share the grammar patterns you must know. 1. Subject + Verb+ Object This is the most basic Chinese language pattern, which also follows the same sentence order as in English. So, for example: I = Wǒ 我 Go = qù 去 Shenzhen = Shēnzhèn深圳 Add it all together to make “Wǒ qù Shēnzhèn” 我去深圳– I go to Shenzhen. ...

Chinese is believed as the most difficult language to learn in the world, no matter its phonetics, characters or grammars . However, with the widespread of Chinese culture, thousands of people are learning Mandarin and looking for some easy ways to handle it. Do you also regard Mandarin as a hard nut to crack? Never mind, provided that you learn it with a proper attitude, you could gain the harvest beyond your expectations. Then let’s see some basic steps for to learn Mandarin, which are actually suitable for any kinds of language learning. Step one: To build a strong mindset. There will be nothing impossible if you put your heart into something, which is the same with learning Chinese. Even though you may have been told that learning Mandarin is difficult, just please put it out of your mind. In fact that the Intelligence is usually not the decisive factor for learning. With persistently effort and persistence, you could do even better than those who seemed cleverer. ...

What's the difference between Mandarin and Chinese? I'm trying to organise lessons on the net, but there are courses in both. Which one would allow me to converse all over the country. You know what? Chinese is a general term that refers to the common language spoken in China. Mandarin is just one of seven major groups of dialects in China! Traditionally, besides Mandarin, the other six are Wu, Gan and Xiang in central China, and Min, Hakka and Yue on the southeast coast. All these dialects derived from Old Chinese. Here are three factors that making Mandarin as the official language in China, that its historical reasons, political influence, and geographical environment. In short, Mandarin is a dialect based on northern dialect while Chinese consists of seven different dialects. Generally speaking, Han people are native speakers of a dialect of Mandarin. During the history, the North China Plain provided few barriers to migration, leading to relative linguistic homogenei...

Many people have said that Chinese is the most difficult language in the world. But it is also a very interesting language! Most foreign language learners feel puzzled about the gap between their own language and Chinese, especially when it comes to grammar and the four tones in Mandarin. These are the main reason for most mistakes during the process of study. Today let’s summarize what kind of mistakes are often made by Chinese language learners and see how these can be avoided. 1. Four tones (Mispronounce) Chinese is a tonal language, different from most other languages in the world. So the concept of tones is difficult for most people to grasp, even for those who have a talent for learning a language. Although there are only four tones, trying to use them correctly can make people feel crazy! Solution: Practice a lot, listen to Chinese audio, watch Chinese TV, and talk a lot with Chinese people and ask them to help you correct your pronunciation. 2. Chinese characters (...

As we know, the Chinese sentence structure is: Subject-Predicate-Object. Subject and object normally are nouns. And predicate are mostly verbs. So in addition to master a large number of nouns, it also will be very helpful if you can have more verbs in learning Chinese . Chinese verbs can be classified into different categories according to their different semantic characteristics. To help you better understand this, we have divided up the most common and useful into the list and categories below. Types of verb NO. Verbs Example sentence Negation (present/past) Action verb 1. chī，hē，yào，mǎi，qù， 吃, 喝, 要, 买, 去, (to eat,drink,want,buy,go, kàn, tīnɡ, shuō 看, 听, 说 .... Look,listen,speak...) Wǒ yào yìbēi kāfēi。 我 要 一杯 咖啡。 （I want a couple of coffee.） 不 [bù]/没 [méi] Existential Verbs 2. zài,fāshēnɡ,chūxiàn... 在, 发生, 出现 ... (to be at /in/on ..., happen,appear..) Láobǎn zài ɡōnɡsī。 老板 在 公司。(Boss is in the company.) 不 [bù]/没 [méi] Existential Verbs 3. Yǒu 有（h...

When you first start to learn Chinese, adopting a Chinese name will be necessary. The easiest way to come up with a Chinese Name would be simply a transliteration of your given name in English. But, what if you want to find a local Chinese name that makes sense. A good name is expected to pave the way to a successful and prosperous life. Here are some Chinese sayings about how important a good name is in Chinese. (cì zǐ qiānjīn, bù rú jiāo zǐ yí yì, jiāo zǐ yí yì ， bù rú cì zǐ hǎo mínɡ ) 赐子千金，不如教子一艺；教子一艺，不如赐子好名 Instead of giving your child gold, teach him a skill; instead of teaching him a skill, give him a good name. bú pà shēnɡ cuò mìnɡ, jiù pà qǐ cuò mínɡ 不怕生错命，就怕起错名 People would rather be getting a tough life than getting a wrong name General Rules about Chinese Names Most Chinese names are made up of three characters. All Chinese names start with the family name, or surname, and then following the given name. Given names are usually 1 or 2 character(s). Most family n...

Unlike English or other alphabetic languages, Chinese words and phrases sometimes cannot be translated as their literal meaning indicates because many Chinese characters carry more than one meaning. So I believe this is somehow frustrating when you first learn Chinese. But no worries! There is only a small number of them! And today, I will show you the five most interesting ones with no English equivalent. 1. 老外 lǎo wài When you arrived in China, this word might have been the most common Chinese word that Chinese people said when they saw you. The literal meaning of “lǎowài” is “old outside.” This word was first believed to carry a negative meaning when describing foreigners. But as time goes by, it has turned out to be a more and more positive and common word, even a cute nickname for foreigners. So next time, when Chinese people call you lǎowài, don’t get mad! 2. 吃醋 chīcù If you have a Chinese girlfriend or boyfriend, then this word might be very useful! The literal m...