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5 Chinese Phrases for ordering in Restaurants (Part 1)
Have you experienced situations when you're in a restaurant, and would like to order food, ask for culinaries, take away food, pay the b


How to Improve Chinese Reading Skills Effectively: The Guide for Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced
Do you also want to master your Chinese reading skills successfully? Here, we have a few tips and suggestions for our beginner, intermediate


Responding with ‘好的hǎo de’, ‘好啊hǎo a’, ‘好吧hǎo ba’, ‘好嘛hǎo ma’, ‘好啦hǎo la’
‘好hǎo’ originally means ‘good’, and when it’s used as a response or reply, it automatically transforms to mean ‘fine’, ‘sure’ or ‘ok’. Yet,


5 Common Chinese Interjections to Add Tonal Color -啊(a) 吧(ba) 呢(ne) 啦(la) 嘛(ma)
Many of you may already know it’s a common phenomenon for Chinese sentences to end with interjections, which serve to express one’s tone or


6 Gifts to be Avoided in Chinese Business Etiquette
In Chinese culture, giving gifts (送礼‘sòng lǐ’) to your business partners or clients is often a manner to show your respect, gratitude and ho


Grammar Talk: Comparing the Use of ‘就jiù’ and ‘才cái’ to Express Time
Many people get confused when it comes to certain supporting words. That’s because these supporting words have no actual meanings to be tran


How to Speak Business Chinese Professionally: 12 Essential Phrases for Social Business
Whether you want to be more involved and engaged in a business conversation, or to show your sincerity and enthusiasm in working with Chines


One Simple Song to Practise Chinese - Part 2
Here comes the next Mandarin song for you to practise Chinese with us! It'd be mainly be suitable for learners at beginner-intermediate...


One Simple Song to Practise Chinese - Part 1
In the coming few weeks, I’d be sharing with you a few Mandarin songs specifically selected, which are good for Beginner-Intermediate...
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