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SlidesCarnival: Free PowerPoint & Google Slides Templates That Stand Out

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Captivate your audience with our collection of professionally-designed PowerPoint and Google Slides templates. Boost your presentations and make a lasting impression!

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Wordwall - Create better lessons quicker

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The evidence is in the practice

ESSA Level 3 correlation evidence in math and ELA, earned by teachers running frequent formative assessments.

When teachers run 30+ formative questions a week, the research is clear: they get more data-driven, their students get more engaged. Wayground is built to make that practice enjoyable ot run, attainable to fit a class period, and habitual enough to last past September.

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Find standards-aligned resources that engage every student. Wayground (formerly Quizizz) helps teachers differentiate instruction with AI and track student progress.

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We're delighted to announce that our school is now running Moodle 4.0!

Feel free to log in with our example logins and try out the new navigation (username = student, teacher or manager, password = moodle). Explore our our new course, Mindful course creation, developed using Moodle 4.0.

As a Teacher, enable Edit mode, drag and drop the collapsible course sections; set timed assignments, required pass grades, send content change notifications, organise a live BigBlueButton conference and more!

As a Manager, explore custom reports and see how they will help you and your colleagues.

As a Student, explore your new My courses link and the improved timeline, keeping you up to date with deadlines.

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Xmind - Full-featured mind mapping and brainstorming tool.

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Xmind is the most professional and popular mind mapping tool. Millions of people use Xmind to clarify thinking, manage complex information, brainstorming, get work organized, remote and work from home WFH.

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Overview

Welcome to eTower, a collection of online, interactive modules for learning Chinese language and culture. This free and open resource is specifically designed to bridge users with some previous Chinese language learning experience to a higher proficiency level. Whether you are new to online education or to the Chinese language, these hands-on interactive lessons will immerse you in both the language and culture of China.

Built around best practices for teaching and learning Chinese, each module allows you the ability to create your own path through the various activities and tasks based on your prior knowledge and personal learning goals. You will have the opportunity to interact with the system by reading, writing and speaking Chinese - in turn, you will receive tailored feedback in real-time based on your performance.

Want to see it in action? Click on the button below to read instructions for how to use the modules in Getting Started. Or, if you want to go directly to the modules, click on Begin Modules.

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The MERLOT system provides access to curated online learning and support materials and content creation tools, led by an international community of educators, learners and researchers.

MERLOT is an international community of educators, learners, and researchers.

Add a Material

Submit an online learning material you've found or created to the MERLOT Collection.

Create your own materials, add materials to the MERLOT collection, and be a part of the community. All for free!

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H5P makes it easy to create, share and reuse HTML5 content and applications. H5P empowers everyone to create rich and interactive web experiences more efficiently - all you need is a web browser and a web site with an H5P plugin.

Mobile friendly content

H5P content is responsive and mobile friendly, which means that users will experience the same rich, interactive content on computers, smartphones and tablets alike.

Share rich content

H5P enables existing CMSs and LMSs to create richer content. With H5P, authors may create and edit interactive videos, presentations, games, advertisements and more. Content may be imported and exported. All that is needed to view or edit H5P content is a web browser. H5P content types and applications are shared here on H5P.org. H5P content may be created on any H5P enabled web site like H5P.com or your own Drupal or WordPress site with the H5P plugin installed.

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H5P is a completely free and open technology, licensed with the MIT license. Demos/downloads, tutorials and documentation are all available for users who want to join the community.

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There are several H5P content types and applications to suit various needs.

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Take a look at the Documentation pages. If you can't find an answer there, you can post a question to the H5P community in the Forum. Selected companies also provide H5P related services.

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Teachers, instructional designers and other authors may now build content more than three times faster with the help of AI and the new tool, Smart Import. We have also launched a new version of the Moodle plugin for H5P.

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Falcon on the future of AI and H5P, and the results from last month's survey.

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Transforming media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting.

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Web-based app for making ebooks in the classroom. Teachers can get started for free and invite students to join their library. Add text, images, audio and video and easily publish your books online.

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Seamlessly make your images, videos, and 360 content interactive with text, links, images, videos and over 70 call to actions, creating memorable experiences for any audience

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Lingco Classroom provides the tools for instructors to elevate the language learning experience. Our platform uses adaptive technology to help every student reach fluency.

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What we do

Backed by AT&T and Stanford's startX, PlayPosit is an online learning environment to create and share interactive video lessons. Teachers begin with any online video (screencasts, Khan Academy, TED, etc.) and transform what is traditionally passive content into an active experience for students, with time-embedded activities.

Awarded the "best open educational resource", PlayPosit is designed for K-corporate, flipped, and blended environments.

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What we do Backed by AT&T and Stanford's startX, PlayPosit is an online learning environment to create and share interactive video lessons. Teachers begin with any online video (screencasts, Khan Academy, TED, etc.) and transform what is traditionally passive content into an active experience for students, with time-embedded activities.

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Easily create beautiful interactive video lessons for your students you can integrate right into your LMS. Track students' progress with hassle-free analytics as you flip your classroom!

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Scratch is a free programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations.

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EFFORTLESSLY BUILD ENGAGING INSTRUCTIONAL CONTENT, RIGHT FROM GOOGLE SLIDES

The fastest way to transform presentations into classroom conversations

Imagine if you could engage every student in your class, every day. What if you could instantly see who's confused and who's ready for more? That's the power of Pear Deck. And now, with the Pear Deck for Google Slides Add-on, you can add the magic of formative assessments and interactive questions to your presentations right from Google Slides.

Design brilliant slides & engage your class

Open up Google Slides & the Pear Deck sidebar

Design a new presentation or open an existing one in Slides. Just getting started with Google Slides? Upload your PowerPoint or Keynote lessons to Google Slides and get going!

DROP IN FORMATIVE ASSESSMENTS

Our team of educators created a library of templates to support learning objectives typically found at the beginning, middle, and end of a class. Think: bell ringers, checks for understanding, exit tickets, and more. Simply drop in one of these templates for instant engagement and watch your class transform.

Create custom questions

You can always create your own custom activity or question from scratch. Use Text, Number Response, Multiple Choice, and Web Slide questions to engage students. Or upgrade to Pear Deck Premium to add Drawing and Draggable™ response types.

ADD AUDIO TO ANY SLIDE TYPE

With the Pear Deck Add-on, you can leave audio instructions, descriptions, or examples for your students to hear while they read the prompts and respond to Interactive Questions in your Pear Deck Slides presentations. Make a new recording instantly or upload one from your computer. The recordings you insert will play in the Student View of your live presentation Sessions, so it's perfect for any remote learning lesson!

Present with Pear Deck

Start your presentation and students will join your Session from any device with a web browser. As you advance your slides, students will be prompted to answer your questions! Students' answers can be displayed anonymously on the classroom projector, so instead of worrying about getting the right answer and feeling silly in front of peers, your students are putting ideas out there in a safe, anonymous way, discussing, and learning from each other.

GO DEEPER WITH THE tEACHER dASHBOARD

As an instructor, you can quickly see what each individual thinks on the Teacher Dashboard. Noticing a lot of wrong answers? Adapt! Take a pause, back up, re-explain. But don't forget to help the learners help each other: Why did some people choose this while others chose that? How can we find out the right answer? What else do we need to know?

INVITE TEACHERS TO YOUR SHARED tEACHER DASHBOARD

This feature enables teachers using Pear Deck Premium to share Session controls and valuable student insight with other designated educators, including student teachers, special educators, co-teachers, or even substitutes. With a real-time view of individual student work and the ability to guide and provide direct feedback, educators teaching together can better support the diverse needs of learners everywhere!

Using Videos, Animations and GIFs in your Pear Deck? Get ready to Power-up!

Want to show a video about the Mars Rover in your Pear Deck presentation? Need to carefully layer in information on a slide to reduce information overload? Found a perfect GIF of a plant emerging from its seed? If you want your videos, animations, and GIFs to play at full resolution when you present with Pear Deck, install the Power-Up Google Chrome extension.

The Power-Up is a free Google Chrome extension. Installing it ensures that videos, animation, and GIFs embedded in your Pear Deck slides play at full-resolution on the projector and student devices - exactly the way they should!

Install the Power-Up from the Chrome Web Store on the device you use in class. Now when you present with Pear Deck, the Power-Up magically enables the display of your videos, animations, and GIFs.

Get the Power-Up

Learn Pear Deck for Google Slides

Watch a video for self-guided Google training:

Or, dive into a self-paced Pear Deck for Google Slides practice deck:

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We express ourselves in different ways. On Flip, you can use our simple and fun built-in camera to record your thoughts, add effects and share within your Flip group as video, audio only or text in your web browser or mobile app.

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Flip is a video discussion and sharing app, free from Microsoft.

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Flip (formerly Flipgrid) is a video discussion and video sharing app, free from Microsoft, built for classrooms and beyond. Learn more.

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Learn to Write ANY Character in 5 Easy Steps - Skritter Chinese

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Welcome! 欢迎！If you were heading to hpc.vcea.net or Visualising China then please rest assured that you are in the right place: we moved to a new platform in 2017 with a new address, and more content. You can find out more about this change, and our work more widely by reading our project blog. Search our collections from the search box top right on this page; browse in Lucky Dip (random sampling of images from over 22,000 images on this site) and through the left-hand column in All Collections. More search tips are on the All Collections page. Click/tap on an image to enlarge it.

This project locates, digitalizes, archives, and disseminates online photographs from the substantial holdings of images of modern China held mostly in private hands outside that country. These are often of even greater historic interest than might ordinarily be the case, as the destruction of materials in China through war and revolution in the twentieth century, and especially during the 1966-69 Cultural Revolution, means that there is a relative dearth today of accessible photographic records in China itself. Turmoil in China, and emigration from the country, also led to the development of a large Chinese diaspora. Moreover, tens of thousands of foreign nationals lived and worked in China between the 1840s and the 1950s, and many thousands more visited for longer or shorter periods. Chinese emigrants, foreign residents and visitors alike took, bought or otherwise acquired photographs. Many of these are in libraries and collections overseas, and in addition our research in modern Chinese history has led us to many interesting private collections. Images from both private and public collections are available here, but mostly this site holds photographs of China taken by private individuals, and the greater part have never been shown outside family circles before.

The photographs presented here cover over a century of modern China's history, and a very wide range of places, communities and themes. Some of the collections are quite large, and others tiny: but we have found through experience that even the smallest set of images usually has something quite special within it. There are detailed introductions to the larger collections on dedicated pages, and concise information about others here. We have provided what information came to us with the collection, and we have added metadata to facilitate searching, but in general we have not undertaken much research into the photographs. We would of course be delighted to hear from you, if you have corrections, clarifications, identifications etc to offer us about our holdings. The images are made available with the agreement of their owners to support teaching and learning, and research. There are some restrictions on use, identified with each image, but in general they are presented here for routine use in classroom or home. We ask that you always acknowledge their provenance, if you use them, and identify them appropriately. We would also be happy to hear from you if you use them in teaching, for example: please let us know what you do with them.

Robert Bickers, University of Bristol

Project Director

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Home - iMandarinPod 爱汉语播客 Learn Chinese with Experts Whenever and Wherever

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Mandarin Chinese Online Lessons - Learn Chinese

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Learn Mandarin Chinese Online with Situational, Practical and Easy Lessons. Download PDF Transcripts, Worksheets, Audio Dialogues and Video Tutorials. Best for Beginners-Intermediate Level

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Once you are finished with the video lesson, there is so much extra content waiting on our lesson's page, including vocabulary, sentence reviews, and expansions, where we give further examples of the lesson's grammatical structure and vocabulary in different context.

Once you are finished with the video lesson, there is so much extra content waiting on our lesson's page, including vocabulary, sentence reviews, and expansions, where we give further examples of the lesson's grammatical structure and vocabulary in different context.

Once you are finished with the video lesson, there is so much extra content waiting on our lesson's page, including vocabulary, sentence reviews, and expansions, where we give further examples of the lesson's grammatical structure and vocabulary in different context.

"ChinesePod has such a vast scope of topics and diversity in levels, which makes it extremely convenient to progress, never-mind the entertaining hosts, great top-down approach and super useful additional content!"
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"ChinesePod is an incredible resource for mastering spoken Chinese - a vast library of entertaining lessons from a great collection of teachers, all short and friendly enough to squeeze into a busy schedule."
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Dialogue

The Dialogue section provides an interactive transcript of the lesson. The Chinese characters are provided along with the English translation and pinyin to ease with pronunciation. It's better to learn the target language in context but we provide a function to study each word separately too. Scrutinize each Chinese character by mousing over it to see the literal translation. You also have the option of toggling between Simplified and Traditional characters.

Vocabulary

Rote memorization is boring and not the most effective method, but we suggest using the supplementary vocabulary lists in conjunction with the audio or video to accelerate your rate of achieving language competency.

Expansion

Our expansion gives you the opportunity to learn target vocabulary taught in the lesson in other meaningful situations.

Exercises

Learn aurally then reinforce further with online worksheets and exercises. These include:

Matching: Choose a word on the left side, then match it to the closest meaning on the right side

Sentence Reordering: sentences are in the wrong order; move them into the correct order by clicking and dragging

Dictation: Listen to the audio and type out what you hear

Multiple Choice

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Read the 300 Tang poems collection, in Chinese and with Witter Bynner's translation. Characters are linked to dictionnaries. / Lire la compilation des trois cents po鋗es Tang, en version originale et avec la traduction anglaise de Witter Bynner.

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In China, there are four famous books of Chinese literature. Known collectively as the Four Great Classical Novels (四大名著 sì dà míng zhù), the influence of these four stories has spawned countless plays, movies, legends, and permeated the culture in so many ways.

To better understand Chinese civilization, a good grasp of the stories in these novels is essential. All of the novels are based on historical events, or take place during periods of China's dynastic history. All have the philosophical, spiritual, and religious underpinnings characteristic of Chinese civilization.

Romance of the Three Kingdoms (三國演義 or 三国演义 S ān Guó Yǎn Yì), was written by Luo Guanzhong (羅貫中 L uó Quàn Zhōng). The story takes place during the fall of the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220), when heroes arose to take control of the fate of the empire.

The historical ending of the Han Dynasty and transition into the Three Kingdoms period is illustrated with such forceful suspense and epic heroism that you will not easily want to put down this hefty, 100 chapter novel.

The author drew on the tales of this turbulent period with sophisticated narratives of loyalty and treachery, triumph and defeat. The story has come to epitomize all that was the best and worst of life in China.

The Water Margin (水滸傳 or 水浒传 S huǐ Hǔ Zhuàn), also known as Outlaws of the Marsh, was written in the 14th century by Shi Nai'an (施耐庵 S hī Nài Ān). It is a loose account of the exploits of righteous fugitives living during the Song Dynasty.

The story explores how fate brought them together, and the moral challenges that confront bandits with values. The story of these 108 men and women is enhanced by their striking characterizations. The way the author fleshes in the personalities of these multi-dimensional and extremely complex characters while they struggle with right and wrong is unmatched.

Journey to the West (西遊記 or 西游记 X ī Yóu Jì) was written by Wu Cheng'en (吳承恩 W ú Chéng' Ēn) in the 16th century. It is a mythological novel that is based on the true journey taken by a monk during the Tang Dynasty to retrieve Buddhist scriptures from India and bring them back to China. But this is no ordinary journey.

Along the way, he is joined by an invincible monkey king, a lovably naive pig-man, a marsh dwelling sand monster, and a dragon-horse. The story of how these five memorable creatures manage to complete an impossible journey has led to one of the most beloved novels in Chinese history.

Dream of the Red Chamber (紅樓夢 or 红楼梦 Hóng Lóu Mèng), also known as The Story of the Stone, was written by Cao Xueqin (曹雪芹 Cáo Xuě Qín) in the middle of the 18th century. It is a masterpiece of realism.

The story explores the romances, fates, and fortunes of dynastic life in painstaking detail. Currently, there are entire fields of study focused around this book. No other book describes so vividly the daily way of life of people at various levels of society during ancient times.

What has led to the enduring love for the "Four Classics" throughout the ages? And why are these stories still used as the basis of countless other works of art and cultural phenomena? It is because they embody the Chinese way of thought throughout history.

They act as a source of cultural transmission for a Chinese outlook on life. They also provide concrete illustrations of the Chinese moral system. The books contain characters who think and act with Buddhist, Daoist, and Confucian principles to solve their dilemmas. These abstract ethical-moral systems are given concrete expression in many cultural forms.

So these novels have delivered one such great expression.
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The 4 Greatest Classical Novels of Chinese Literature - Vision Times

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Xu Zhimo: Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet who strove to loosen Chinese poetry from its traditional forms and to reshape it under the influences of Western poetry and the vernacular Chinese language. After graduating from Peking University, Xu went to the United States in 1918 to study economics and political science.

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If you're new to Hacking Chinese, you probably want to check out the introductory article to your particular level. Each article contains some basic information along with a number of important articles:

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"Hacking" is about understanding how language learning works and using that knowledge to your advantage. It's about the constant search for a better way of learning. Language hacking is related to computer hacking in the shared values of resourcefulness, experimentation and optimisation, but of course involves nothing illegal or bad. Language hacking is good for everyone and completely safe, even if it might bring you into conflict with conservative teachers.

To the outsider, "Chinese" might look like a straightforward term. It isn't. However, what I mean here is simple enough: I mean all aspects of Chinese as it's spoken, written, used, studied or otherwise exists in the world today. As for spoken Chinese, I focus mostly on Mandarin, but if you for some reason want to learn another dialect, I can assure you that almost all articles here are still relevant. In fact, most of what I share here can be used for learning any language!
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So you've been learning Chinese. And you've come to the conclusion that, wow, this language is so easy! Nouns never change gender, there are no plurals and no declensions. Verbs never change conjugation or tense, and I just add the same handful of particles to change the meaning of all verbs.

But why then when you speak to Chinese people they give you the strangest looks, as if you're speaking an alien language? You're pretty sure you got your pronunciation and tones right, but they still have no idea what you want to say?

Chinese is easy - up to a limit. Since Chinese has very little that changes at the word level, like European languages, it makes syntax that much more important. In other words, all the grammar of Chinese happens at the phrase level!

The reason why you're getting strange looks is probably because you're putting the words in the wrong order. Not only that but sometimes English (along with other European languages) require a lot more words to describe what can be said with very few syllables in Chinese. Always try to deconstruct what you want to say into the fundamental units, then reconstruct these into a Chinese way of saying them.

How Adding Different Elements Affects Word Order

Chinese is classified as an SVO (subject + verb + object) language. This is a very common word order found in many languages such as English and the Romance languages. Because of this, you might think word order rules are similar in Chinese and English. That's correct to some extent, however, when you start adding elements such as time, place, and manner words into the sentences, the word order can change drastically.

General Rule 1: in a series of items, always state the largest item or container first: year > month > day, country > region > town. English tends to do the opposite.

General Rule 2: always think of time as progressing vertically from top to bottom: last month (up/上), next month (down/下). English tends to think of time as progressing horizontally or forward.

Placement of Time (Subject + Time Word + Verb + Object): In Chinese, time words are placed at the beginning of a sentence, before or right after the subject. NEVER put them at the end of a sentence.

我一月去夏威夷。

wǒ yíyuè qù xiàwēiyí.

I January go Hawaii.

I went to Hawaii in January.

一月我去夏威夷。

yíyuè wǒ qù xiàwēiyí.

January I go Hawaii.

In January, I went to Hawaii.

Alternatively:

Placement of duration phrases (Subject + Place Word + Verb + Duration Phrase): Three years, a month , or four hours are not time words but phrases that indicate duration. When you are talking about duration, it has its own word order rules. The phrase is complementary to what has just been stated.

Alternatively:

Placement of Location (Subject + Time + Location + Verb) : Usually, Location is placed between Time and the verb. Note: this requires a good deal of practice to get used to it.

Alternatively:

Exceptions: Some verbs encode Location as a bound complement due to the meaning of the verb. What these verbs share in common is that they are single syllable verbs: 留 (stay +Loc), 放 (put +Loc), 住 (live +Loc), 裝 (pack +Loc), 關 (be enclosed +Loc), 坐 (sit +Loc), 站 (stand +Loc), 躺 (lie +Loc). If you add a resulting complement to these verbs (下/到/著/了/過/起來/...), then you need to move the Location and Object before the verb.

Here is an example of a single syllable verb 住 followed by the Location. At the end of this article, we'll show you how to move things when a verb like this has a resulting complement.

Alternatively:

Placement of manner: Manner deals with HOW you do something, as in quickly, happily, silently, secretly, etc. It's good to remember that "manner" is usually an adverbial (an adverb or even a whole adverb clause) and is not necessary for the core meaning of the sentence. These are optional, but they have their appropriate slot for insertion in a sentence:

Alternatively:

If you delete this adverbial, you should fill this empty slot with 就:

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Placement of instrument: Instrument refers to USING WHAT to do something. It's usually placed before the verb and is preceded by 用 (to use) in Chinese, whereas, in English, it's often seen at the end of the sentence and preceded by 'with'.

她用刀子切菜。
她用刀子切菜。

Tā yòng dāozi qiē cài.

She INSTR knife cut veggies.

She cuts veggies with a knife.
(Literally: She uses a knife to cut veggies.)

Alternative:

Chinese isn't the easiest language to classify when it comes to word order. As a topic-prominent language, sentences around topics are emphasized rather than subjects and objects, which can sometimes make it hard to identify the subject in a sentence. For example:

Alternatively:

If you directly translate from English but switch the first two words, it would be:

which is grammatically correct, but this is not as natural as the example we gave you above.

Linguists say that sentences like "There is [something]..." has neither a subject nor object; neither doing an action nor receiving an action. Instead, the something here is called the theme of the sentence.

Common Mistakes Made By Chinese Learners

Many Chinese learners have the tendency to make mistakes with Time and Location by translating the word order from their native language. For example:

(The * asterisk means an unacceptable sentence to native speakers)
Alternatively:

The example above is a common mistake made by non native Chinese speakers as they directly translate the sentence from their native language. The correct way to form this sentence should be:

Alternatively:

Another common mistake:

Alternatively:

As you can see, the learner has put the Location after the single-syllable verb (看) which already has a complement (電視). Move the Location before the verb:

Alternatively:

What should I do when I'm not sure where to put the Location?
It's always safest to put it before the verb.

Where to Put Things When Verbs Have Complements

As you may have noticed, verbs that are longer than one syllable or that have complements do not like to have other pieces of information following. This is quite similar to German word order where the first helping verb occurs early in the sentence, but everything else will then precede the rest of the participles and modal verbs.

If we start with a simple verb-object complement such as 關門 (close the door), and then add a complement to 關 (close) -起來 (up), it results in 關起來 ( close up or close shut), but there is no longer a slot to put the door. If we want to still indicate door, we need to put it in front of this complex verb and indicate that the action is happening to the door with 把 (have/make/let).

Alternatively:

Interrogative Sentences with Quantity

In Chinese, the interrogatives 幾 and 多少 represent quantity meaning "how many" and "how much". In English, question words move to the front of the sentence but no such movement occurs in Chinese. In other words, the question word remains where you would normally state the quantity in a normal (declarative) sentence. To help make the transition easier, think about substituting x-amount-of before the word money. It is obvious by this example that the English word order is the one that becomes complex.

你有多少錢?
你有几块钱?

nǐ yǒu duō shǎo qián?
nǐ yǒu jǐ kuài qián?

You have how much money?
You have how many dollars?

How much money do you have?
How many dollars do you have?

Alternatively:

A frequent question that we get:
Is there any difference between China and Taiwan Chinese?
There is no difference in grammar, vocabulary, or pronunciation in the examples provided in this article. Pronunciation and nuances of some vocabulary will differ slightly when you encounter more of the language. We provide Chinese characters in both traditional and simplified for each example.

If you intend to learn more of the language to an intermediate or advanced level, it's important to choose one accent and stick with it, rather than mixing, which may confuse people you speak to. We provide training by native speakers in both accents on the Glossika platform.

The Glossika team, based in Taipei Taiwan, takes syntax and word order seriously. We believe that expression is unique in each language and translating sentences literally or verbatim leads to errors and miscommunication.

We provide bilingual training of sentence structures in more than 50 languages, including half a dozen Chinese languages and dialects. We analyze the syntactic-semantic relationship of each sentence at a deep level, then translate back to the surface using the most natural word choice and word order in each language. We do not encourage students to guess or translate into a target language on their own in order to minimize early bad habits. We believe that the correct structures can only be learned through enough exposure and repetitive practice (reps) from native speakers.

With the bilingual sentences, this helps the learner notice differences in structure and word choice. It's possible to learn everything you need to know in sentence formation through training the thousands of sentences on Glossika. Since Glossika is an audio-based training platform, you will boost your listening and speaking in many Chinese languages faster than any other method.

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