Mandarin Chinese Basic Sentence Structure – I eat food
Learn Mandarin Online – Basic Sentence Structure
Today I took a trip to Wulai Village which the home of the Atayal aboriginal tribe. I decided to teach my less on Mandarin Chinese basic sentence structure here! The village is in the mountains and is famous for its hot springs and mountain hikes. You can get there by taking the MRT transit system to Xindian station then transferring to a bus. The entire trip is only about 40 minutes from the city center!
In this video tutorial I try my hardest to teach Mandarin grammar with an easy example. If you’d really like to hear some GREAT sentence examples from some of the best and most experienced teachers in China why not sign up for a 7-Day trial on ChinesePod.com and learn with the MASTERS!
While many people believe that Mandarin Chinese is the hardest language in the world the basic sentence structure and grammar is actually EASY and follows a similar pattern to English: Subject, Verb, Object. There are some tricky sentence structures that come up but generally grammar is one of the easiest parts of learning the Chinese language.
Our example of a Subject, Verb, Object sentence is: I eat food, wǒ chīfàn (我吃饭). “Wǒ” is the subject, I, “chī” is the verb, eat, and “fàn” is the object, food. The character fàn (饭) literally means cooked rice or meal but actually refers to food in general!
June 29th, 2009 at 2:20 am
Hi David,
Thanks for all of the mandarin lessons. I’m currently in Singapore and would like my son to learn how to speak mandarin so it will be easy for him to understand the language when he starts schooling next year and I found your blog via google. It is very helpful. We actually are enjoying and make it a family bonding moment whenever we watch your videos. My son wanted to tell you…”You’re the Man”
. Thank you very much and we look forward to more mandarin lessons and videos from you.
Thanks,
Kristalyn
March 30th, 2010 at 8:50 pm
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