If you are working in logistics involving China, this is a useful vocabulary list. I will be expanding on this with some example documentation relating to logistics in the future. As usual I use Pinyin for the Chinese pronunciation.
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This is a complete list of country names in Chinese with audio pronunciation.
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All the vocab and phrases you will need to navigate a Chinese airport.
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If you are looking for a way to revise Chinese vocabulary so that you can remember how to read and write the characters and words, I haven’t found a solution that is as good as Skritter. The power of Skritter is based on it’s character recognition, which allows you to practice writing the characters with
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Let’s face it, learning any foreign language is tough, and Chinese is certainly one of the most difficult for native English speakers. This is my top ten resources for learning Chinese. 1. Skritter I love Skritter, it is my favourite Chinese learning App for learning Chinese words and Characters. Skritter uses SRS, which means your
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If you are travelling to China or a Chinese speaking country but don’t know Chinese, below are a list of the top 25 useful phrases you should learn. Think of this as a cheat sheet for visiting China, so perhaps save it on your phone or print it out before you travel.
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SRS is the most potent ways to build your vocabulary when learning foreign languages and is in fact a great way to learn just about anything. SRS is essentially an optimised way or revising lists of information, or in the case of language, revising vocabulary lists. With SRS each time you revise a word and remember it’s meaning, the time to the next revision of that word is increased; conversely where you get a word wrong the time to the next revision of that word is decreased. The result of this is that you revise words you know less and less often. SRS doesn’t have to be used for language lists, it can be used for revising any information that is suitable for memorising with flash cards.
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Teaching your children a second language is always a challenge. For those who are native Chinese speakers this is obviously a lot easier, but for those of us who would like to teach our Children Chinese despite our own lack of Chinese fluency, this is a challenge. There is no single correct approach to teaching
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Hanyu Pinyin, or simply Pinyin, is the the standard way of Romanising Chinese, or simply put, allows Chinese words to be written with the standard Latin Alphabet, A though to Z. Pinyin also uses tone markers (accents) to denote the four Mandarin tones. Pinyin provides a uniform way of documenting and thus standardising Chinese pronunciation.
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There are three de character in Chinese which often confuse learners. My intention is to explain these in detail. In summary the three Chinese de characters are: indicates possession – the same as ‘apostrophe s’ in English is the equivalent of “-ly” in English e.g. quickly indicates possibility or how an action was performed I
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