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Every country has its stereotypes of other nations, and China is no exception. Find out how Chinese people are judging you by your nationality.

Chinese New Year is unlike the ones celebrated abroad. Find out what happens when China shuts down for this important holiday, and the chaos that ensues when an exodus of 1.4 billion people leave major cities to return to their hometowns.

Chinese learners often forget to use measure words when they speak. In this article, you'll learn common measure words and how you should use them.

Students often make this mistake when forming a question in Chinese. Read this article to see how to properly ask two types of questions in Chinese: "yes-or-no" and content questions.

Among many things, "verb+default object" verbs really confuse Chinese learners. Don't even know what that is? Read on to understand this super important language concept.

Forget losing weight, forget trying to be more thrifty. There is only one New Year's resolution you should make this year, and that's learning Chinese! These are some of the reasons why.

Because adjectives in English come right before the noun, English-speakers often make this mistake. Find out what it is and how you can easily fix it.

These reverse cultural shock moments (some of them hilarious, most of them embarrassing), are only too common for people who return to their countries after having stayed in China for too long.

Chinese English learners often copy-'n-paste Mandarin grammar structures to their English speech resulting in some pretty hilarious grammatical errors. See what makes it happen and learn a little about some crucial linguistic differences between English and Chinese.

#8 of the "Top 10 Mistakes Chinese Learners Make" deals with how to express the past tense correctly. See how to emphasize the completedness of an action with this one particle.