A Short List of Resources for Studying Chinese

When learning a language, it is important to combine extensive methods with intensive methods. Extensive methods rely on consuming a lot of relatively easily understood content and focusing on the general gist rather than nuance. When studying extensively, use context to learn new words or just quickly look them up and move on.

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How to Practice Your Chinese Pinyin Pronunciation

Speaking a language is essentially a behavior, and how do we learn behavior? By mimicry. A lot of the time when we can’t seem to get pinyin right, it’s because we’re not shaping our mouths or using our tongues the same way that native speakers do. Seeing and picturing the mouth movements of a fluent speaker is a visual lesson that everyone can use to get rid of English-speaking habits that challenge their progress.

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What’s The Differences Between Chinese And Amercian When They Make Hand Signs For Numbers 1–10?

Are you learning Mandarin? Do you want to learn some hip Chinese words popular on the internet, like “囧”? Do you know which Chinese word corresponds to “bump”? Curious? Learning some popular hip Chinese words should make your Chinese more native and trendy.

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Chinese Pronunciation: Tones of Pinyin

All Chinese words have a tone of some sort. The Chinese language has four pronounced tones, which in pinyin are marked with a little symbol above the vowel to which they relate, and a short, less pronounced tone, called the ‘light tone’, which is given no tonal marker (see table below).Tone plays a very important role in the meaning of the characters. Different tones in pinyin will lead to different character and meaning of each Chinese word.

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Chengdu-Famous For It’s Giant Pandas And Beauties

Chengdu, the capital of China's southwest Sichuan Province, is famed for being the home of cute giant pandas. Located in the west of Sichuan Basin and in the center of Chengdu Plain, the city covers a total area of 12.3 thousand square kilometres (4,749 square miles) with a population of over 11 million.

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