If you ever visit a Chinese Website or take a holiday in China, you may be confused how discounting works, with signs giving a number, sometimes with a decimal point, followed by the character 折. 9折 for example doesn’t mean a 9% discount, nor does it mean a 90% discount, what it actually means is a 10% discount.
This is a list of colours in Chinese. I have added some vocabulary for patterns to make this complete. Each colour in Chinese has it’s own character and is followed by (sè), which means colour. Thus for example when you say blue, the character is (lán), however you would say (lán sè), or literally “blue …
In this post I will provide Chinese clothing and footwear vocabulary. How to say Small, Medium and Large clothes sizes in Chinese To say Chinese clothes sizes, simply state the size and add (hào). For example is size 12. For small, medium and large sizes simply uses the (small), or characters followed by . This …
If you are going shopping in a Chinese speaking country or perhaps shopping online on a Chinese Language site, below is a Chinese vocabulary list for clothing and footwear: English Chinese Pronunciation (Pinyin) apron pídài baseball cap bàngqiú mào belt pídài bikini bǐjīní yǒngzhuāng blazer xīzhuāng wàitào blouse chènshān boots xuēzi high boots gāo tǒng …
So you are going to a café, coffee shop or even Starbucks in China. In this page I will provide you with vocabulary and phrases you can use when ordering coffee.
If you’ve learned how to count in Chinese, you may want to learn some common maths terminology. In this post I will go through some maths basics, such as how to say plus, minus, equals, and may other terms.
Counting in Chinese is relatively easy being a decimal counting system. This means Chinese has the numbers for 0 – 9, ten, hundred, etc. In Chinese you can write numbers as numerals as we do in English, that is 0,1,2,3,etc., or you in words, the equivalent of zero, one, two, three, etc. Whichever way you …
In this post I will cover all the vocabulary you need to check in to a hotel or hostel in Chinese. At the end of this post I have provided a complete list of vocabulary and phrase list sort alphabetically that is more extensive that the sample dialogue which I step through first What is …
Rocket Languages offers a number of different languages, however I am focusing on Chinese for this review. Overall I rank rocket Languages as one of the better Chinese learning resources, although it has some short comings. The price is similar to other Chinese learning solutions. Pros and Cons Pros Step by step lessons aimed at …
