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Top 6 YouTube Channels for Learning Chinese

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...

How to Improve Your Spoken Chinese

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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 ...

HSK GRAMMAR :How to Use "欣赏(xīn shǎng)" VS 喜欢"(xǐ huān)"

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7 Tips to Improve Your Chinese Writing Skills

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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, ...

How to Speak Chinese Funny

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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...

How to Read Pinyin

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 ...

How to Practice and Master Mandarin Tones

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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...