Summary of Pronoun

If you just started learning Chinese and you are not very familiar with the pronouns, this article should be an easy step by step learning progress for you. It's also good for beginners to do a nice review of what you've learned.

Compared to English, the pronouns in Chinese are much simpler. There are only three different sounds and five different characters that cover all the pronouns we need. Furthermore, they stay the same no matter the pronouns are the subject or object.

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Before we do more sentence practice, let's learn several verbs. 

Now let's try to say the following sentences:   :)

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How about the pronouns that represent a group of people? In English, we have "we, us, you, they, them".  But in Chinese, we only need to add a magic suffix们(men) behind the pronouns we've just learned above to get the pronouns that represent a group.

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Let's try to say more sentences.  First, we will need a very important verb, that is 是(shì). 是 (shì)equals to all the forms of ' to be' in English. In English, we have " is, are, was, were". In Chinese, the 是(shì) covers all of them.

Then we need the following words to do the sentence practice:

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As for the last sentence ' we are teachers', you maybe want to emphasize that 'we are ALL teachers.'  How to say that in Chinese?  'All', in Chinese will be ' 都, 全部' .  So is it correct to say, 我们是都 老师？ No, that's not. That really sounds awkward.  When the sentence gets more complicated, the words sequence will be different in Chinese. First, let me say that in English, but in the Chinese way. That will be:

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Now it's your turn.  Please do some substitutional practice with the different new words we've just learned above.  

I am a student | doctor | nurse.

You are a student | doctor | nurse.

She is a student | doctor | nurse.

We are all students | doctors | nurses.

They are all students | doctors | nurses.

Other articles that you may be interested:
Greetings in Chinese One
Greetings in Chinese Two 
Greetings in Chinese Three 
Greetings in Chinese Four 
Greetings in Chinese Five 
Self-introduction
Summary of Pronoun  (this one)
Asking name in Chinese

新电影《中国合伙人》（About a new movie《American dreams in China》）

《锵锵三人行》是我最喜爱的谈话节目之一。主持人窦文涛。
《锵锵三人行》is one of my favorite talk show. The host is Dou Wentao.  The English name of this show is Behind the Headlines.

锵锵 literally means the clang, tinkle;  三人 means three people; 行 means posture in walking. I am guessing the name comes from the words “三人行，必有我师焉。” in the book 《论语》（the Analects of Confucius）.  

三人行，必有我师焉。
Among any three people walking, I will find something to learn for sure.


这期节目谈论的是一部新近上演的电影《中国合伙人》。《中国合伙人》的英文译名为《American Dreams in China》，意为"中国的美国梦"。影片讲述的­是从上世纪80年代至今，30多年间大变革背景下，三个小人物为改变自身命运，最终实­现"中国式梦想"的故事。首周三天成功破亿，超越《钢铁侠3》成为周票房冠军。

This episode is about a newly released movie 《中国合伙人》, which is translated into English as American Dreams in China. On the background of 30-year reform since 1980s in China,  the movie talks about the story of how three ordinary people make their dream come true. Its first three day tally of more than 0.1 billion RMB is the best opening in this week, beating Iron Man 3.

虽然，该影片在国内很火爆，但是嘉宾们对其的评价并不好。请看下面这段视频中嘉宾的评论很有意思。
The guests in this show don't think highly of this movie, although it is very popular recently in China mainland.  Click the following link, you'll see how the guests critics it.

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