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How to be a tough guy in Chinese

The following phrases are commonly used in casual spoken Chinese. They can help you to express your frustration, dissatisfaction, or ensure that people will not mess with you. Either that, or these phrases may earn you a free beating. Use at your own discretion. The 找 (zhǎo)pattern: looking for… 找 (zhǎo) is most commonly used [...]

怎么搞的？zěnme gǎo de?

This is a common saying I hear on the streets.  This is used when someone is not satisfied with one’s own or another person’s actions, sometimes showing misunderstanding about what happened.  怎么搞的 (zěnme gǎo de) carries the tone of blaming or complaining.  In English, this phrase would be translated as “What’s going on?“  or “What’s [...]

Spoken Chinese sentence pattern-01

We have been through a very busy week again, especially when we have a group of Wheaton students visiting. Good thing is that we finally put our first weekly sentence pattern together,  hope you all enjoy and tell us  in comment how can we do it better later, here comes the first one, AA=A一(yī )A [...]

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