Answer to Video Lesson: What’s Your Type?
Answers:
1. B 2. A 3. A 4. B 5. C <<Back to Video Lesson: What’s Your Type? …
Mandarin Essentials
Answer to Is Being Tan Or Being Fair-skinned More Beautiful?
Answers: C Analysis: Xiǎo Xīn: Āi, wǒ zuìjìn yòu shài hēi la. 小新： 哎，我最近又晒黑啦。 Xiao Xin: Ah, I got tan again recently.
Xiǎo Míng: Tǐng hǎo de ya, xiǎomài sè de pífū kàn shàngqù hěn jiànkāng. 小明： 挺好的呀，小麦色的皮肤看上去很健康。 Xiao Ming: “This is great, wheat-colored skin …
Is Being Tan Or Being Fair-skinned More Beautiful?
“美 (Měi) Beauty” is not an absolute, inflexible concept. There are differences between the understanding and pursuit of beauty between the East and the West. For Chinese, among many standards of beauty, fair skin is a rather important “标准 (biāozhǔn) criterion” to judge “外貌 (wàimào) …
Video Lesson: Let’s Break up!
How to express “we are not right for each other, I guess we have to break up?”
Exercises in the Video:
1. A: We have been together for two years. You still have kept the photos of your ex-girlfriend. Wǒmen fēnshǒu ba! B: Lisa, bié …
Answer to Video Lesson: Let’s Break up!
Answers:
1. B 2. C 3. B 4. A 5. A <<Back to Video Lesson: Let’s Break up! …
Answer to Do You Know the 3 Common Parts of Speech?
Answers: 1. C 2. B 3. D 4. A
Analysis:
Lán tiān, báiyún, qīngshān, bì shuǐ, zhè shì yì fú duō měi de fēngjǐnghuà a. 蓝天，白云，青山，碧水，这是一幅多美的风景画啊。 Blue sky, white clouds, green mountains, clear water, how beautiful the landscape is.
Wǒjiā háizi jīnnián shí sān suì …
Do You Know the 3 Common Parts of Speech?
The most common “词性 (Cíxìng) parts of speech” in Mandarin includes nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Do you know how to correctly differentiate among them and how to use them correctly? Take this quiz to test your comprehension.
Please choose the best answer to fill in
… Answer to Do People Really Chop off Their Hands for Double 11?
Answer: D Analysis: “成功剁手 (Chénggōng duò shǒu) be successful in hands-chopping” is a popular Internet buzzword, which means that people have been able to stop buying things randomly and have gotten out of the bad habit of overspending. Wáng Qīng: “Lì Li, jīnnián shuāng shí …
Do People Really Chop off Their Hands for Double 11?
Double eleven is over. Some Chinese say they have to “剁手吃土 (duò shǒu chī tǔ) chop their hands off and eat dirt,” and Double 12 is around the corner. Double 12 resembles Double 11 and is another new shopping carnival day. Are you ready for …
Video Lesson: Seeing Guests off in Chinese
How to see your guests off politely in Chinese style?
Exercises in the Video:
1. A: Angela, wǒ děi huíjiā le. Xiàcì liáo. B: Jenny, zài dāi yíhuìr ba. Which of the following is true according to the dialogue? Please choose the best answer. A. …
Answer to Video Lesson: Seeing Guests off in Chinese
Answers:
1. B 2. B 3. A 4. C 5. B <<Back to Video Lesson: Seeing Guests off in Chinese …
Answer to Put This Chinese Conversation in Order And Find out When to Go to Sleep!
Answer: A Analysis: Rúguǒ yào xiǎng tígāo shuìmián zhìliàng, nǐ bìxū zhùyì rùshuì de shíjiān. 如果要想提高睡眠质量，你必须注意入睡的时间。 If you want to improve the quality of sleep, you must pay attention to the time you fall asleep.
Yǒu shùjù biǎomíng zuìjiā rùshuì shíjiān duàn shì wǎnshàng jiǔ …
Put This Chinese Conversation in Order And Find out When to Go to Sleep!
Please put the sentences in the correct order:
Suǒyǐ gèngjiā yǒu zhù yú wǒmen jìnkuài jìnrù mèngxiāng. 1. 所以更加有助于我们尽快进入梦乡。
Yīnwèi zhè duàn shíjiān réntǐ jīnglì xiàjiàng, 2. 因为这段时间人体精力下降,
Rúguǒ yào xiǎng tígāo shuìmián zhìliàng, nǐ bìxū zhùyì rùshuì de shíjiān. 3. 如果要想提高睡眠质量，你必须注意入睡的时间。
Yǒu shùjù biǎomíng …
Answer to How to Tell the Difference Between 3 “Famous” Chinese Words
Answer: A Analysis: 闻名 (Wénmíng): have fame for/be known for
有名 (Yǒumíng): famous
著名(Zhùmíng): well-known
Lì Li: Nǐ zhīdào Lǐ Xiǎo Lóng mɑ? 丽丽：你知道李小龙吗？ Li Li: Do you know Bruce Lee?
Xiǎo Jūn: Dāngrán le, tā shì yǐ Zhōngguó gōngfu ér wénmíng de dòngzuò yǎnyuán. …
How to Tell the Difference Between 3 “Famous” Chinese Words?
You asked, so I’m here to answer! An eChineseLearning student was recently puzzled about the differences among “有名 (yǒumíng),” “著名 (zhùmíng)” and 闻名 (wénmíng) in Chinese. She asked, “Why are there 3 words for the same thing?” I assured her that they really have different …
Answer to Video Lesson: If You Love Me, Marry Me!
Answers:
1. B 2. B 3. B 4. A 5. B <<Back to Video Lesson: If You Love Me, Marry Me! …
Video Lesson: If You Love Me, Marry Me!
How to use if clause?
Exercises in the Video:
1. A: Alice, wǒ xiǎnɡ mǎi nà jiàn yīfu, tài piàolianɡ le. B: Shì a, hěn piàolianɡ, rúɡuǒ bú tài ɡuì, jiù mǎi ba! Which of the following statements is true according to the dialogue? Please …
Answer to Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is with “耍嘴皮子 (shuǎzuǐpízi)”
Answer: B
Analysis:
Li Hua: Nǐ bié zài yì páng shuǎzuǐpízi le, kuài diǎn guòlái bāngmáng ba! 李华：你別在一旁耍嘴皮子了，快点过来帮忙吧！ Li Hua: You don’t just talk on the side. Hurry to come here and help!
Zhang Li: Hǎo ba, wǒ mǎshàng lái! 张丽：好吧，我马上来！ Zhang Li: OK, I’ll …
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is with “耍嘴皮子 (shuǎzuǐpízi)”
In daily conversation, you will hear common phrases that are meant to describe a situation or person but the meaning can easily get lost in the literal translation if you have never heard it before. So today I’ll introduce you to “耍嘴皮子 (shuǎzuǐpízi).” Essentially, it …
Answer to Video Lesson: I’ve Made My Plans for the Weekend!
Answers:
1. B 2. C 3. B 4. B 5. B <<Back to Video Lesson: I’ve Made My Plans for the Weekend! …