Monthly Archives: September 2017


Photo by Marcelo Vaz on Unsplash   Have you heard of this expression?   你吃先,我不饿。(Literally: You eat first. I’m not hungry.)   Do you think this Chinese sentence is grammatical?   The fact is, it isn’t.   Here’s the correct way of expressing it:   你先吃,我不饿。(Please go ahead. I’m not hungry.)   In […]

Help! My Chinese Sentences Are Ungrammatical!