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FIrst of all, you need to enter the so-called 'Chinese mentality' when writing in Mandarin. In other words, you need to be aware of the main sentence structure (Subject , Verb, Object) and its variants. My l...

This varies. Usually the topics are very broad. Most students struggle with writing essays because of the grammar and sentence structure, in addition to trying to use complex words. Topics include: Holiday d...

的 is a character that implies possession, but can also be used with disyllabic adjectives (adjectives that are two characters long.) For example: 红花 = red flower. 的 is not needed here because the word for re...

Measure words are characters that are used when describing how many there are of a certain object. E.g. if you want to say 'five books', you have to say ‘五本书 not ‘五书’. Therefore, 本 (the measure word) is need...

We use this structure when we want to say that b occurred because of a. Let's consider an example in English: "mum gave little brother a present, because he studied hard." In Mandarin, the "yi...