Small Talk in Chinese: 5 Topics to Get You Started

When learning a new language, being able to produce sentences is often the best way to go about practicing. Small talk is the best way for beginners to start using the language and tolearn about the cultural norms of the language they are learning, including in Chinese.

【老外在天朝│Interview】Learning mandarin is an adventure of the mind

Julien is a student from France who has been studying at Mandarin Inn for 2years. He thinks that learning mandarin for westerner especially is first-of-all an adventure of the mind. As in any real adventure, there are some tigers on the road. We’re all bound to make mistakes (especially with the accents)! But it will also be very rewarding, to try some food or communicate with some people you’d otherwise never meet.Interested in what she considers the most important method of learning Chinese? Let's have a look together! 

5 Ways to Say Goodbye in Chinese

Greetings and send-offs are probably among the most common phrases you’d learn when you’re just getting started on a language.

Let’s Talk Feelings and Emotions in Chinese

Feelings and emotions are an innate part of human nature. It is one of the first things we communicate when we learn to talk as babies.

What’s Life Like in Shanghai Longtang?

I strongly recommend that you take a walk in some famous Longtang areas, that would totally be an experience.

10 Most Frequently-used Chinese Measure Words

As a Chinese English-language-learner, I was trying to find a measure word subconsciously. Few English nouns require measure words, and literally every Mandarin noun needs a measure word.

跟我教汉语 | “吃不了”有几个意思?

正在看电视连续剧的Kathy听到了以下两个句子: (1)你给我买这么多的零食,我一个人吃不了。 (2)明天早上我要坐飞机去旅游,明天中午那顿饭我是吃不了的。 Kathy非常困惑地向Mandarin Inn的老师请教,这两个句子中的“吃不了”是不是一个意思。