Create a Family Tree
Describing family relationships in English is usually pretty straightforward and light on the details. There are only eight sets of words (a total of 15). You’ve got mother and father, uncle and aunt, cousin, brother and sister, niece and nephew, husband and wife, daughter and son, and grandmother and grandfather. Even in a family with baby…
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Go Shopping Online
Tip in Practice Much of TOCFL’s charm lies in the fact that it uses materials from the real world as illustrations for the reading comprehension portion of the exam. Thus, it just seems to make a lot of sense that one of the most effective study methods would be to absorb as much information out…
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Catch Up on the News
Statistics about Chinese Newspapers Are Kind of Silly Reading the news in Mandarin is a new daily habit that my teacher insists that I take up, and I’m grateful that I have. Like most people, one of the first pieces of information that I heard about Chinese learning was the often-cited statistic of needing to know 3000…
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