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Lesson 16. Understanding the Difference Between Which and That

The answer is ‘no’. Just because they are both used for introducing relative clauses does not mean that they have…

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Chinese Idiom: The Story Behind「對牛彈琴」

Origin of the Story In ancient time, there was a musician named Gong Mingyi. He played zither – a traditional…

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Lesson 6. Difference between ‘Koko Soko Asoko Kochira Sochira Achira’ in Japanese

In the previous lesson about ‘This’ and ‘That’ in Japanese, we concluded that the prefix: ‘ko-’ is used when ‘the…

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Chinese Idioms Everyone Should Know

If you are learning Chinese, you should know a few 成語 (chéng yǔ) or Chinese idioms. They are widely used…

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Chinese Characters of Japanese and Chinese Are Not All The Same!

Both 漢字 (Japanese Kanji) and 汉字 (Chinese Hanzi) are translated as Chinese Characters'. At the present time, approximately 70% of…

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Lesson 5. 「これ、それ、あれ」vs「この、その、あの」- Difference between ‘Kore Sore Are Kono Sono Ano’ in Japanese

皆さんこんにちは! お元気ですか?   Just like Italian and Spanish, there are three words of demonstration in Japanese: Object near to the…

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10 English Idioms You Need to Know!

An idiom is a phrase or a group of words that has a metaphorical meaning. Next time, use these idioms…

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The Three Kingdoms of French Verbs! Understanding the Three Conjugations and Stem Concept of French

Bonjour! Do you know that all of the French verbs belong to the three conjugations? Today we are going to…

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Lesson 3. Understanding the Difference Between「不」Bù and「沒」Méi – Chinese No or Not

Both 不 (bù) and 沒 (méi) are negative determiners in Chinese. They can be put in front of a verb or…

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Lesson 2. 10 Common Ways to Say ‘YES’ in Chinese

There are countless ways to respond ‘yes’ in Chinese. The reason is, ‘yes’ is more like a ‘concept of affirmation’,…

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