Mandarin language learning for beginners

It will take 9 minutes to read this post but it’ll help you out in unfamiliar situations and avoid some misunderstandings when traveling in China!

Greetings in Mandarin

Chinese Alphabet: There is no Chinese alphabet in the sense we understand it in the West. Chinese characters are not letters (with some exceptions), Chinese characters represent an idea, a concept or an object. While in the west each of the letters of our alphabet represents a sound that generally has no particular meaning. (...)

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Basic rules of Chinese stroke order. And when in doubt, just look it up. (Rule 3 vs. 9 and 10, for example, may seem to contradict a little bit.)

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