It is ‘a piece of apple’, not ‘an apple’.
Of course, I’m talking about speaking the Chinese language.
Unlike English, you often add a classifier, or measure word, when you are describing quantity. It is, therefore,more proper to say ‘a piece of apple’, i.e. yi ge pingguo 一个苹果; rather than ‘an apple’ 一苹果– without the [...]
I know it is difficult to write ‘Merry Christmas’ Chinese characters. For those who like to receive the greetings in Chinese, however, your effort can be a highly valued gift.
Try writing it by following what I do in the video below. Just in case if you want to see the characters in print, here [...]
“Now Chinese is looked at as a key to the future!” says Professor Cornelius C. Kubler of Williams College.
The number of people learning Chinese in the USA has doubled over the last four to five years.
There are currently about 300,000 people learning the language in the country. About 60,000 of them are in colleges and universities: thirty or forty thousand in schools, like high schools, junior high schools and kindergartens; and twenty or [...]