Lesson 11:
Writing Chinese Characters -
Radicals - Part 2
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Lesson 11 Grammar – Introduction – “I love
China!”
Lesson 1 to 10
should give you a fundamental framework of learning Chinese
characters and it is about time to put characters and words
together into sentences.
Let’s start by
the first sentence you should learn:
我爱中国!
I love China!
我
wo3
I, me
爱
ai4
love
中国
zhong1 guo2
China
Explanation:
This sentence is
of a typical structure: noun (subject) + verb + noun (object)
Since Chinese
does not have different forms of nouns serving as a subject or
object, the order of words has to be in this particular order.
Reversing ‘I’ and ‘China’ will mean “China loves me”.
Here is another
example using similar words of the same structure:
