Chinese grammar

Chinese particles usually have no real meaning by themselves. They are often attached to the words or sentences to help construct the sentence or serve certain functions.

The "most" basic Chinese sentence structure is similar to the structure in English. But when adding more details become tricky. Let's learn how!

Before we talk all about Chinese grammar, we’d better reach an agreement: learning Chinese grammar is crucial to learning the Mandarin language. Even though this sounds obvious, many Chinese learners approach learning Chinese as learning vocabulary only. This is not the right approach to fluency. Let’s also make clear what ‘grammar’ really means, so let’s […]

In Chinese, we have two specific words to describe something that happens earlier or later than the expected or regular […]

This “都” character might seem confusing because it can mean “both” or “all” in English. Here is when and how […]

了 le can be used to describe the change the state of the situation. In other words, new situation that just happened.

The completed set of Integrated Chinese 2 lesson 11-20 grammar infographics is here! We use 57 infographics to introduce 50+ […]

Multitasking seems a must-have skill nowadays. In this infographic, we teach you how this grammar works! The sentence structure is simple: […]