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5 Indirect Negative Responses in Chinese
Sometimes your colleagues and friends express their thoughts or ask your opinions on their view, but you think it's absolutely not great


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


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
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