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Some Chinese characters don’t explain more.
They just add more.🔥🔥
A second piece feels like a clue.
A third piece starts to feel like a crowd.🌲🌲🌲
Chinese can be surprisingly visual once you stop treating every character like a random drawing.✨
[Word List]
• 林 (lín) — Tree ×2 → Grove
• 炎 (yán) — Fire ×2 → Flames / heat
• 从 (cóng) — Person ×2 → To follow
• 竝 (bìng) — Standing ×2 → Side by side
• 森 (sēn) — Tree ×3 → Forest
• 众 (zhòng) — Person ×3 → The masses
• 鑫 (xīn) — Gold ×3 → Prosperous wealth
• 蟲 (chóng) — Insect ×3 → Insects / bugs
• 燚 (yì) — Fire ×4 → Blazing fire
Learn how to confirm a plan:
所以我们明天下午三点见?
Suǒyǐ wǒmen míngtiān xiàwǔ sān diǎn jiàn?
So we are meeting tomorrow afternoon at three?
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Chinese tones are not as “fixed” as they look on paper 🤯
Put words together, and the melody starts adjusting itself:
你好 gets smoother, 一 changes outfits, 不 dodges another falling tone.
It is less about memorizing exceptions and more about noticing how Chinese protects the rhythm.🎵
Your mouth will thank you later.✨
[Word List]
• 你好 (nǐ hǎo) — Hello
• 很好 (hěn hǎo) — Very good
• 很忙 (hěn máng) — Very busy
• 老师 (lǎo shī) — Teacher
• 我们 (wǒ men) — We / us
• 一 (yī) — One
• 一样 (yí yàng) — Same
• 一定 (yí dìng) — Definitely
• 一天 (yì tiān) — One day
• 一年 (yì nián) — One year
• 一起 (yì qǐ) — Together
• 不 (bù) — No / not
• 不去 (bú qù) — Not go
• 不是 (bú shì) — Is not
• 不忙 (bù máng) — Not busy
• 不好 (bù hǎo) — Not good
Practice restating what someone said:
也就是说,这个词不能这样用?
Yě jiù shì shuō, zhège cí bù néng zhèyàng yòng?
In other words, this word cannot be used this way?
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i found this compilation of easily confused chinese words compared side by side in pdf format.
feel free to download it here: drive.google.com/file/d/1VjZ…
Practice giving a simple personal idea:
我想我们可以先试一试。
Wǒ xiǎng wǒmen kěyǐ xiān shì yi shì.
I think we can try it first.
生活就是要学会接受变化嘛~
Shēnghuó jiùshì yào xuéhuì jiēshòu biànhuà ma
Life is all about learning to accept change
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