Free Beginner’s Chinese Course – Lesson 1: “Hello”
Lesson 1 of our free beginners Chinese course
Does Chinese use punctuation?
Modern Chinese does use punctuation and is remarkably similar to English.
Does Chinese use spaces between words?
Written Chinese doesn’t use spaces between words, but modern Chinese does use punctuation, so you can still tell where one sentence stops and the next starts. With Chinese words being multiple characters, a Chinese reader relies on experience to know where one word stops and the next start. Chinese Beginner books and learning material often …
Are Chinese characters words?
Chinese characters can be stand alone words, but single character words are not the most common. In fact, Chinese words can be one or more characters and typically range up to four characters or even longer. Below is a chart showing word length in characters based on our online Chinese-English Dictionary, which contains nearly 120,000 …
Complete list of Mandarin Chinese classifiers and measure words
This is a complete searchable list of both Mandarin Chinese classifiers.
What is the difference between 楼 and 层?
The short answer is that 楼 (lóu) means “floor”, while 层 (céng) is a classifier meaning “storey” or “layer”.
Chinese Classifiers: What are they and how to use them
In this post I explain in simple terms what a classifier, also called a “measure word”, is.
How to say “or” in Chinese
In this post I will cover the Chinese words for “or” as well as the difference between 是 and 或者
Borrowing and Lending in Chinese
In this post I will cover how to borrow and lend things in Chinese.