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Are you learning or planning to learn Chinese? Did you know that by understanding how a Chinese word is constructed and what parts (called morphemes in linguistics) it is made up of...

China is one of the world s oldest and richest continuous cultures, over 5000 years old.China is the most populous nation in the world, with 1.28 billion people.One fifth of the plane...

Commentary The source text is the main body of an article published on The Guardian’s website, Syria’s Truth Smugglers, written by Julian Borger. It is chosen from a section called ...

Mainstream language teaching today is still largely based on the Communicative Language Teaching in most part of the world in the so-called Post-Methods Era. In the 1970s the idea of ...

TIPS FOR LEARNING CHINESE 1. Be aware of tones Mandarin is a tonal language, which means that speaking the same word with different pitch will give the word different meanings. ...

There are two series of Mandarin language learning books which I feel brilliant for English speaking students: For younger learners (of about primary school and secondary school...

Mandarin is the national language of China and Chinese is the most widely spoken language in the world. More than one billion of the world`s population are Chinese speakers. The Chine...

Hi, I am Ruiying Neighbour, a UK qualified teacher who has enjoyed teaching at primary level in the UK since 2004. From my first name, you can probably gather that I am not a girl who...

My name is Yanyan Case, an experienced Mandarin Teacher based in Derby. Mandarin learning is becoming more and more desirable worldwide and hopefully you are not out of the trend. ...

Cantonese is the official and most popular language in Hong Kong. Compared to Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese has 9 intonations instead of 4. It`s been said that it`s one of the most diff...