As a Chinese teacher, over the years I’ve come to see that there are particular topics and language points that students seem to have a ‘mental block’ with, to the point now where I can usually predict in advance which particular content will prove to be a stumbling block with most students. In this post, I want to give you a quick checklist of some of those, so you can make sure that you are okay with them.
分类存档：Overviews
‘Cutesy’ Chinese: The Art of 撒娇
I haven’t posted in a while, because life has been super-hectic. Like I’ve been promising for a while, I have several posts in the works that I hope to bring to you soon-ish. To tide you over for now, I thought I’d try and write a post about something that I mentioned to a student the other day – how to sound ‘cutesy’ in Chinese.
The General Pattern of Chinese Word Order & the Pre-Verbal / Post-Verbal Split
So whilst Deliveroo is processing my order, I thought it was about time I update. Today’s theme is something that is in part something I’ve noticed myself and also part something that I’ve since seen written about to some degree in academic literature, but not really ever in Chinese learning materials.
中文秘诀 | The Secret of Chinese 