Articles tagged with ‘Numbers’

1. Student Q&A, September 2024: Slowly spoken Chinese, passing listening exams and understanding numbers

   

   Should you slow down the Mandarin you listen to? How can you prepare for difficult listening exams? And how can you understand Chinese numbers in context?

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2. Do you really know how to count in Chinese?

   

   Counting in a foreign language is one of the first things we learn, yet it takes very long to master numbers in Chinese. Most students abandon practising numbers too early, leading to a surprising and serious gap in our knowledge: we simply don’t know the numbers as well as we think we do, which will cause problems both in real life and in listening comprehension tests. Do you really know how to count in Chinese? Tests included!

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