There are around 8000 characters. 4000 are daily used, the others are some concepts used in specific situations. For example, if you want to read a newspaper, you have to know between 3000 and 3500 characters. Its difficult to evaluate the...
The Putonghua also called standard Mandarin is what we teach at our school. Over 70 percent of Chinese people speak standardized Mandarin, the Putonghua. However, there are many dialects spoken in China. The main difference among the variet...
Vocabulary Yo: To want Fn: Rice Tāng: Soup Ci: Dish Shnme: What? Minbāo: Bread Dialogue Li Qiang: Yo byo fn ma? = Want not want rice? = Do you want rice? Roger: B Yo! = Dont want! = I dont want! Li Qiang: Yo byo tāng ma? = Want not want...
If we had todescribe thecocksin one word:Conservatives.They arequickthinkers, pragmatic and resourceful, preferring tofocus on themethodswhose effectivenesshas been provenrather thantake riskscomplicated andunnecessary. The senseof observat...