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  • experience 经验 经历 体验
    经验(
    Beginning, Chinese General, vocabulary

  • At the airport 在机场

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    airport, Beginning, Chinese General

  • Dialogue in taxi 出租车

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    对话（duìhuà）dialogue:
    Beginning, Chinese General, direction, road, Taxi

  • At the post office,　在邮局

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    Beginning, Chinese General, mail, post office, 把

  • Ask for direction

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    ——   今天        晚上        来  我  家  玩   吧！—— jīntiān wǎnshàng lái wǒ jiā wán ba ！——  好 的，     你  家  在   哪里？—— hǎode ， nǐ  jiā  zài  nǎlǐ ？
    Beginning, Chinese General, direction

  • Ask for direction 2

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    A：Qĭngwèn ， diàntī zài nǎlǐ ？ A：请问，电梯在哪里？ B：qiánmiàn （ wǎng ） zuǒ guǎi 。 B：前面（往）左拐。 A： xièxiè 。 A：谢谢。 Words: 电梯diàntī：lift; elevator 前面qiánmiàn：front 往wǎng：towards 左zuǒ：left 拐guǎi：to turn Grammar:
    Beginning, Chinese General, direction

  • Ba or Ma, 好吧？好吗？
    I wrote to my student the other day: 下周的课改在一点上怎么样？ He replied:  好吧，没问题。 I was pretty sure he wanted to say "Ok, no problem." However, the "好吧" made me feel a little confusing: was that hard for him to accept the new schedule? For all beginners, we know '好的' means OK as response....
    ba, Beginning, Chinese General, grammar, ma

  • For beginners, Pinyin
    I've been thinking about upload this image for long time. Students always ask me how many syllables we have when we combine our Pyinyin. And my answer is always now a lot if you don't consider tones.
    Beginning, Chinese General, Pinyin

  • ma? 吗 or ma! 嘛
    We have two kinds of 'ma' sound in the end of some sentences, they sound similar, but one is used in question sentences, and the sentence is always read in rising tone; the other is used in falling tone, and seldom used in questions.  Let's see how different they are. 吗ma, is probably one of...
    Beginning, Chinese General, grammar, ma, question