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How to learn Mandarin Chinese for free? This collection features lessons in many websites ,Download audio lessons to your computer or mp3 player and you’re good to go.

Hanban will publicize at the end of each year the schedule of Chinese test centers all over the world, and the test date of each center may be slightly different. Before the registration, please access to www.chinesetest.cn to see the schedule of each test center or consult the test center you are to choose. The beginning date of registration for each test shall be at least one month prior to the test date, and the registration shall be ended 20 days prior to the test.

As Swales (1990) defined , “Genre is a class of communicative events, the members of which share some set of communicative purposes.” His definition states that there are conventions in a certain style of genre. Every genre has a set of communicative purposes under social situations and each genre has its own structural features. Therefore, the communicative purposes and the structural features should be introduced when genres are used in writing classes. Genre-based approach was developed out of Halliday’s systemic functional theory and Martin’s work on Appraisal. Research in genre studies in Australia has been extensive from middle of 1980s, having considerable impact on language and literacy education. The genre-based approach played a great role in language teaching reforming in Australia and has profound influence in language teaching and researches throughout other countries and regions. This approach aims to help learners understand the lexical and grammatical features of different rhetoric contexts being aware of communicative purposes, social interactions. It is believed that explicit attention to genre in teaching provides learners a concrete opportunity to acquire conceptual and cultural frameworks to undertaking writing tasks. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning has defined the genre approach as “a framework for language instruction” based on examples of a particular genre. The genre framework supports students’ writing with generalized, systematic guiding principles about how to produce meaningful passages. The structural features that genres are made up of include both standards of organization structure and linguistic features.

Today we are going to learn a micro blogging buzzwords in China " I and My Little Good Buddies are shocked.”
我和我的小伙伴们都惊呆了

“Quietly I leave, as quietly as I came here.”
Each year thousands of Chinese tourists visit Cambridge, not to see the usual sites, but to pay homage to a poem they all had to learn by heart in school – Xu Zhimo’s ‘Saying Goodbye to Cambridge Again’. Few non-Chinese speakers will have heard of it.

Chinese is very different from English and other IndoEuropean languages. First, while English questions often have ‘inverted’ word order from statements, Chinese questions have the same word order as statements. The particle ‘吗 (ma)’ can be added to any statement and convert it into a yes-no question. There is also a special type of question called the A-not-A question [9], which is formed with the main verb followed by negation ‘不 (bu)’ or ‘没 (mei)’ and the reduplicated verb. Listed below are examples of common types of questions in Mandarin Chinese:

Guangzhou (Canton), a prosperous metropolis full of vigor, is the capital city of Guangdong Province located along the south coastline of China. Being an excellent port on the Pearl River navigable to the South China Sea, and with fast accessibility to Hong Kong and Macau, the city serves as the political, economic, scientific, educational and cultural center in Guangdong area.

Here are the Five good reasons to learn Chinese:
1.China has the biggest population in the world—1.3 billion people.
2.If you speak English and Mandarin you can communicate with over half the world's population.
3.China is becoming an economic superpower.
4.The Chinese language is fascinating.
5.You get much more out of a visit to China if you can speak some Chinese.