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Getting Started
Learning Chinese might end up being the most difficult and challenging thing I’ve ever done. I’ve been at it a year now and I speak Chinese like a … well, a one year old.
The holiday season in Taiwan
In this piece I share some thoughts on Christmas (聖誕節 Shèngdànjié) and New Year’s (新年xīnnián) in Taiwan.
Act natural
In this article I want to discuss several aspects of Chinese sentence construction that don’t always come naturally to English-speaking students.
Leading to frustration
They are 使得(shǐde), 讓(ràng) and 令(lìng). They all seem to mean “lead to,” “induce,” “bring about.”
Speech of parts
But in Chinese, apparently, these components fall into two categories, with different words.
In Chinese, it’s never relative
One of the workhorse parts of speec …
Searching for the meaning of “找”
As you can see already, English and Chinese words do not exactly match one to one.
How to receive things in Chinese: 收(shōu)vs. 受(shòu)
In English among many other things …