Hanbridge Mandarin Chinese Online Learning

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. ...