Learn Chinese One Word A Day

跳

2008-06-12T00:03:00.000+08:00

跳

Pronounced as ti-au

Means jump/hop

爬

2008-06-11T00:37:00.000+08:00

爬

Pronouced as par.

Means crawl.

跑

2008-06-10T00:35:00.000+08:00

跑

Pronounced as pow.

Means run.

走

2008-06-09T00:30:00.002+08:00

走

Pronounced as zh-old.

Means walk.

回

2008-06-08T00:28:00.002+08:00

回

Pronounced as huay

Means return/back.

P/S: This is a very interesting character. Its just a square inside a big square.

来

2008-06-07T00:25:00.001+08:00

来

Pronounced as lie/lye

Means come

去

2008-06-06T08:23:00.002+08:00

去

Pronounced as chu-ee.

Means go.

Chinese Songs

2008-06-03T15:08:00.003+08:00

Some visitors to this site might be interested in looking for some chinese songs for their enjoyment.

So I've created another site http://orientalcreations.blogspot.com

This sites include all those songs which I think, are pleasant to the ears. So go to that site, click on some of the videos, I guaranteed that you'll love them.

Recap

2008-06-01T12:00:00.000+08:00

The last 8 posts introduces these words: 我，他，你，是，好，男，女，人

This post will help you to make sentences with these 8 words.

我是男人 - war-shi-naan-ren (means I am a man)
我是女人 - war-shi-nv-ren (means I am a girl)
她是好人 - tar-shi-how-ren (means she is a good person)
他是好人 - tar-shi-how-ren (means he is a good person)
他是男人 - tar-shi-naan-ren (means he is a man)
她是女人 - tar-shi-nv-ren (means she is a woman)
你是好人 - knee-shi-hao-ren (means you are a good person)
你是女人 - knee-shi-nv-ren (means you are a woman)
你是男人 - knee-shi-naan-ren (means you are a man)

Notice the 她 & 他？Both are differentiated with a 女 at the left of the character. When you see any word with a 女 at the left side of the character, its means this word is referring to a female or feminine person/animal.

是

2008-05-31T12:28:00.000+08:00

是

Pronounced as shi.

Means is/was

人

2008-05-30T00:00:00.000+08:00

人

Pronounced as rern or replace l to r in learn, as in rearn.

Means Human/People

男

2008-05-29T00:00:00.002+08:00

男

Pronouced as naan.

Means male/man.

女

2008-05-29T00:00:00.001+08:00

女

Prounoced as nu as in nude but without the de.

Means female/woman.

好

2008-05-27T00:00:00.001+08:00

好

Pronounced as how

Means good. Or much/very in some cases.

P/S: I'll go thru these instances later.

你

2008-05-26T00:00:00.001+08:00

你

Pronounced as knee, nee

Means you. Normally this word is used in most conversations between 2 people.

他，她，它

2008-05-25T00:22:00.002+08:00

他，她，它

Pronounced as ta or tar
Means him or her or it. How do you differentiate the above characters? Its very simple.

他 - used to refer to a male.
她 - used to refer to a female.
它 - used to refer to an item or animal.

我

2008-05-25T00:20:00.000+08:00

我

pronounced as war, wor.

It means me or I in Chinese.

Learn Chinese Word A Day

2008-05-25T00:16:00.001+08:00

This blog is created to help those who would like to learn Chinese at their own pace. This website will focus on the daily words used by Chinese. Every week, there will be a recap of words learn in the past 7 days. Every word pronunciation will be linked closely to English words, thus making learning easier, but at times, you might need to pronounced them using romanised spelling. But you will not have to go through the pain of learning all the Romanised pronouciation of each word.

So Happy Learning.

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