[audio:http://www.echineselanguagelearning.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/zf.MP3]Pinyin of Chinese song "祝福" lyriczhù fú祝福péng yǒu  wǒ yǒng yuǎn zhù fú nǐ 朋友 我永远祝福你péng yǒu  wǒ yǒng yuǎn zhù fú nǐ 朋友...

Qǐng wèn nín duōdà niánjì le?Li Lei请问您多大年纪了？Excuse me, but could I ask you how old you are?Wǒ jīnnián bāshíjiǔ le.Old man我今年八十九了。I'm turning 89 this...

Kàn, zhuàngchē le. zěnme bàn?Alice看，撞车了。怎么办？Look, there's an accident. What should we do?Bàojǐng!Tom报警！Call the police！Hǎo de, bùguò hàomǎ...

Zuótiān yǒu jià fēijī chūshìle.Chen Hong昨天有架飞机出事了。A plane crashed yesterday.Shì ma? zài nǎr?Kate是吗？在哪儿？Zài Dàlián fùjìnde hǎiyù zhuìhuǐle.Chen...

Sometimes people describe China's landscape as being like a staircase with three steps.The top step of this staircase is in the west, where the Himalaya mountains are (India is on the other side of these mountains). Tibet is in this part of China. And Mount Everest is here (it's the...

天气一热，我就想游泳。(tian qi yi re, wo jiu xiang you yong.)In the construction "一 + Situation 1, 就 + Situation 2", Situation 1 is the condition, whereas Situation 2 is what results directly from it.E.g: 我一喝冰水，就肚子疼。“一” and "就" are both...

这家饭店的菜又好吃又便宜。(zhè jiā fàn diàn de cài yòu hǎo chī yòu piǎn yī.)In Chinese, one uses "又……又……" to link coordinate verbs (verbal phrases) or adjectives (adjectival phrases) to underline that two situations or characteristics exist...

[audio:http://www.echineselanguagelearning.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/wb.mp3]Pinyin of Chinese song "吻别" lyricwěn bié吻别qián chén wǎng shì chéng yún yān xiāo sàn zài bǐ cǐ yǎn qián前尘往事成云烟消散在彼此眼前jiù lián shuō guò le...

Paul学汉语是为了来中国做生意。(Paul xue han yu shi wei le lai zhong guo zuo sheng yi.)"为了" is often used in the first clause of a compound sentence to indicate the aim, the second clause indicates the action taken to achieve the aim,...

他没有学过汉语，可是口语很好。(ta mei you xue guo han yu, ke shi kou yu hen hao.)“可是” is a conjunction expressing transition. It's used between two clauses,...