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💡 Learning Mandarin

I recently moved to Taiwan and started taking Mandarin Chinese classes. This is my ’Today I learned’ page.

我們的國家

TIL 4/4

In Mandarin, we should use first-person plural possessive determiners when discussing a country.

Emphasizing with 是...的

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In Chinese you can emphasize an action, location, or time by using the 是...的 structure.

Classifier for rooms

TIL 2/4

The classifier for rooms is 間 jiān.

Modifiers precede modified

TIL 1/4

In Mandarin, modifier words always come before the word they modify.

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