Home and town in Mandarin

MFL, Mandarin vocabulary. Usually met in years 7 to 11.

Learn Mandarin words for the home, rooms and the local area, written in simplified characters with pinyin.

What you practise

Reading the meaning of characters
Choosing the characters for an English word
Words with and without the pinyin shown

Starts with everyday words shown with pinyin and moves to characters on their own. Practice moves up a level when a round goes well and down when it does not.

Sample questions

Each sample comes with the method and the reason every wrong option is wrong. Real practice rounds are ten questions at your level.

Sample question, level 2 of 5

What does 房间 (fáng jiān) mean?

home (family)
room
garden
hospital
railway station

Show the answer and method

Answer: B, room

The method: 房间 (fáng jiān) means ‘room’.

Why the other options are wrong:

A, home (family): ‘home (family)’ is 家 (jiā).
C, garden: ‘garden’ is 花园 (huā yuán).
D, hospital: ‘hospital’ is 医院 (yī yuàn).
E, railway station: ‘railway station’ is 火车站 (huǒ chē zhàn).

Sample question, level 4 of 5

Which characters mean ‘nearby’?

火车站
干净
花园
附近
住

Show the answer and method

Answer: D, 附近

The method: 附近 (fù jìn) means ‘nearby’.

Why the other options are wrong:

A, 火车站: 火车站 (huǒ chē zhàn) means ‘railway station’.
B, 干净: 干净 (gān jìng) means ‘clean’.
C, 花园: 花园 (huā yuán) means ‘garden’.
E, 住: 住 (zhù) means ‘to live (somewhere)’.

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