Hanbridge Mandarin Chinese Online Learning

Everyone who is learning a foreign language needs dictionaries, do you think so? How many dictionaries do you have? Maybe it’s normal that you have an electronic dictionary instead of some dictionaries made of papers. But here is an interesting dictionary that I want to introduce to you. This dictionary doesn’t have the most complete vocabulary, but there are very many useful words in it. There is a varies of contents and clear category. There are beautiful pictures and useful words. Most of the words you usually use in your life, you can find them in this dictionary. You can look and learn to recall a wealth of everyday vocabulary in Chinese with this intuitive easy-to-use visual language dictionary. Whether it's for business or pleasure, pick up 6,000 key Chinese words and phrases on a range of subjects: from shopping and eating out, to the sport and beyond quickly and easily. You can find every word you need to know fast using the clearly labeled color illustrated sc...

If you want to improve your Chinese reading, you must read as much as you can. There are so many reading resources online, so which one is better? Today, I will introduce the 10 best Chinese reading resources that are available online. No. 10 煎蛋：地球上没有新鲜事 http://jandan.net/ Suitable for: Intermediate or advanced This site includes many interesting articles about science and technology. The style of the articles are humorous and relaxed. You don’t need to actually understand every single one of the articles; just get their general idea. You can also leave your comments in the comment zone and discuss with other readers. You can improve your Chinese reading with ease through this site. No. 9 好读： http://www.haodoo.net/ Suitable for: Advanced This website contains a large amount of traditional Chinese e-books. Most of them are famous Chinese classical novels. You could read them online or download them to your computer. My suggestion is to download them because the online text...

Learn how to count numbers in Chinese is very necessary for living in China. Although the whole world is using the Arabic numerals, you still need to learn how to read them in Chinese, and how to write them in Chinese characters. 1. Number’s Chart in Chinese Character (from 0 to 10) Number Chinese character Pinyin English 0 零 línɡ zero 1       一 yī one 2 二 èr two 3 三 sān three 4    四 sì four 5    五 wǔ five 6    六 liù six 7    七 qī seven 8    八 bā eight 9    九 jiǔ nine 10    十 shí ten Pay attention to number 1 and number 2, the pronunciation of these two numbers are a bit special in Chinese, when 1 exits in tel-phone numbers or address numbers, we prefer to say " yāo " instead of " yī ", number 2 is a bit complicated, when we do the count, the number 2 is always read as " èr ", when it occurs with a measure word...

Chinese characters are the last of the ancient (Egyptian and Sumerian being the others) character forms to stay in use until present day. Based on pictographs, Chinese characters combine shapes and connotations to form unique, block-shaped characters that carry meaning. Archaeological researchers discovered many such signs carved on earthenware excavated from Banpo Village in Xi'an City and Jiangzhai Village in Lintong. The etchings were carved during the Yangshao Culture Period some 6,000 years ago. Several examples of early characters and their modern successors follow below: Some of the most sophisticated and intricate early characters are represented on tortoise shells and animal bones that date from the Shang Dynasty (17th-11th century BC). These characters closely resemble the item they describe. The history of Chinese characters is long and rich. While the modern Chinese character list top 60,000, only about 3,000 are commonly used – making learning to read Ch...