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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...