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In this month's newsletter: 1. Knocking on 101 MILLION! ChineseClass101.com and our sister sites at Innovative Language Learning are fast approaching a big milestone - 101 MILLION lesson downloads! You could win a Premium LIFETIME Subscription! Best of all, you're already entered to win! Click here to find out more... 2. I Am Woman! March 8th was International Women's Day and is an official public holiday in China! Click here to read how it is celebrated in China! 3. Best Lessons and Blog Entries for March! Find out what’s popular this month! The blog has great content for you to see. Welcome to the ChineseClass101.com newsletter. Spring is coming and we are ready to welcome in the new season with fun and exciting... Show more

Today's All About Chinese lesson focuses on the origins of written Chinese--the only writing system that has been in use continuously for over 3,000 years. All characters are made up of smaller 'picture' elements within the character. Some of these smaller pictures within the character give a hint as to meaning and pronunciation (though not always). The first Chinese characters were simple objects like "human", "hand", "foot", "mountain", "sun", "moon" and "tree". Then logical combinations of the simple characters followed. These simple characters also sometimes serve as the root of a more complex character, and are called "radicals". Most linguists believe that writing was invented in China during the latter half of the 2nd... Show more

Chinese Verbs Chinese verbs are not inflected... meaning that they don't change form. Only one form of each verb exists; there is no conjugation.  It doesn't matter who is talking, when they are talking about, or who they are talking to, the verb is the same. Word Order Since there is no conjugation of verbs in Chinese, Word order is often your only clue to figuring out who is doing what. The good news is, in normal Chinese declarative sentences, word order is the same as that we use in normal English declarative sentences, being:subject - verb - object Negation of Verbs Negation occurs before the verb and any prepositional phrase, just add a negation word, 不 'bu4', in front of the verb. Expressing Tense Chinese... Show more

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In today's All About Chinese we take years of Chinese learning experience and China life experience and boil it down to bring you the top 5 reasons to learn Chinese. There are numerous different reasons to learn Chinese, below some of the more important reasons are listed. Chinese is the language of nearly one-quarter of the world's population. Speakers of Chinese are spread throughout the globe. Unlike most languages, Chinese has a unique writing system, which provides visual comprehensibility and is considered by some to be an art form. Chinese grammar is easy! When you learn Chinese you also learn how the Chinese think. The structure of Chinese is not only logical, but also pragmatic, and very related to the... Show more

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