Different degrees of want
想 xiǎng 要yào 想要 xiǎng yào can all be used to describe the action of ‘to want to’ in Chinese. However, there are some differences between […]
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HSK 2 GRAMMAR
subj + 差不多 Chà bù duō to show approximation:so so, not very different， about the same negative adj. + 死了 sǐ le extremely…(in a negative way) […]
HSK 4 Vocab
ài qíng bǎo hù bǎo zhèng ān pái ān quán àn shí àn zhào cái liào 爱情 保护 保证 安排 安全 按时 […]
越 yue。。。越 yue。。more。。and more。。。
越 yuè …越yuè … simply means when a quality or a state is becoming more and more… Here are a few sentence structure: yuè lái […]
HSK 3 Vocab
Only includes the ones that does not included in HSK 1 and 2: Chūn xià qiū dōng Jì jié Xuě 春 夏 秋 […]
Question Particles 吗 ma， 呢 ne，吧 ba
Unlike in English, most questions start with a question word such as ‘what’, ‘when’, ‘weather’, in Chinese, we place question particles at the end […]
HSK 2 VOCAB
150 words: PDF: hsk-2-vocab 吧 ba modal particle, to indicate a suggestion 颜色 yán sè colour 白 bái white 黑 hēi black 红 hóng red 右边 yòu biān right 左边 zuǒ biān left 外 […]
不但。。。而且 Not only…but also..
不但 bú dàn。。。而且 ér qiě Not only…but also… Here are the example sentences mentioned in the video: xióng xiān shēng bú dàn zuò shì […]
Yumi 的旅行手记 Yumi’s Travel Diary: New York 1
Yumi 的旅行手记 yóu měi de jué dìng hěn tū rán 由美的决定很突然。Yumi’s decision was very sudden. zhǐ jiān suí yì qiāo dòng le jǐ xià jiàn […]
HSK 1 (A1) Grammar
PDF：hsk-grammar-1 Pronoun 代词 Dài cí Personal Pronouns 人称代词 rén chēng dài cí nǐ wǒ tā tā tā wǒ men nǐ men tā men tā men tā […]