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Why Learn Numbers First ? Numbers as prefixes and suffixes in Chinese
Numbers in Chinese play a very important role in word formation. Numbers are used as prefixes and suffixes to build other words.In fact, after learning how to count from 1 to 10 in Chinese, lots of other numbers follow easily. This means that you could easily start to go shopping, ask telephone numbers, talk about age and much more.. Everywhere we turn in life, we need numbers. In Chinese, numbers are much more than that. Let's take the months of the year which you can easily learn in one go after you learn to count from 1 to 12. In Mandarin, the months of the year are simply formed by combining a number to the word "month". That would mean for example that January, would be one (yi 1)+ month(yue 4) = Yiyue. The same logic applies for the other months. Listen to our podcast on numbers and get more tips on how numbers can help you expand your vocabulary.
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Learn Chinese Language Tips and Techniques
By Rosie Wang
There's no doubt learning any foreign language requires effort, time and commitment. This holds true even more, especially when there's a big difference between one's native tongue and learning a new language.
On the other side, knowing the tips and techniques of learning a new language can make all the difference on how effective and successful you can achieve.Read Full Article>>>
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- Eating out - At the restaurant : In this this podcast lesson you will learn the following:
- At the hotel : This lesson contains the following parts:
- Shopping for clothes- Learn how to go shopping for clothes in this podcast
- Making phone calls in Chinese: Learn telephone Chinese
- Post office Chinese lesson podcast: Learn how to send and receive things at the post office
- Seeing a doctor : Learn how to talk about your health problems to a doctor
- Going Places: Learn words related to traveling
- Going to the bank : You will learn the following:
By breaking down the lessons into useful phrases, vocabulary and sentence structure analysis, experience has proven that most foreigners will learn enough to communicate with while in China. We have picked the most relevant topics ( the things a traveler always needs)
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Chinese Culture and Living in China - What to know
Culture shock is a term that is easily available out there. Well, it basically refers to the feeling a traveler gets when s/he visits another place or country and finds that local customs are quite different from his or her area of origin. Culture shock comes in a number of stages depending on how long a visitor decides to live in a foreign country. Most foreign visitors to China admit experiencing at least some form of culture shock. As far as I know, the best way to enjoy your travel abroad is to have a certain amount of tolerance stored somewhere in your mind prior to arriving in a foreign country. With tolerance and keeping an open mind, your experience abroad will end up being more fun and a great learning process.Most foreign visitors, especially visitors from western cultures, will be greeted by several dissimilarities in culture from day one of arriving China. Even more so if they are not visiting those highly developed and westernized cities like Shanghai, Shenzhen and the Hong Kong semi-autonomous region. On this site we have provided you with basic cultural tips and life in China, to make your experience a rich and rewarding one when you visit the country, or are in the midst of Chinese. Business travelers will find this especially useful as cross-cultural communication plays an important role, more than ever in the global world of business and travel. As you probably know, China is fast replacing the west as the most popular travel and business destination of the 21st century. In 2005 China was the world's 4th place, most traveled, with over 56 million visitors. There has been a geometric increase in the number of students, businessmen, job seekers and tourists heading towards China. With the upcoming Beijing Olympic games in 2008, the number of visitors is expected to quadruple before and after the games.
Travel in China : Photos and Videos of famous places
We have a modest collection of photos and videos based on our travel experiences in China. Get a first hand view of life in China as we take you through a cool photo gallery and video footage of different places visited.
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