How to describe the common flavors in Chinese?

Chinese food, like the Chinese skype lessons, are becoming more and more popular. With its plethora of cuisines and diversity of flavors, people gain a new appreciation for food. Furthermore, it will help you a lot when you want to try some Chinese food one day.

As for those who are preparing for the SAT Chinese test, knowing how to describe the basic flavors in Chinese will enable you to earn higher scores on the exam. Sometimes the flavors will appear on a section but not as a question, and other times they will be used as questions to test your Chinese. So, I hope that you take some time to learn about these key elements of Chinese cuisine.

In China, we always divide food into four basic flavors. They are酸（suan），甜（tian），苦（ku），辣（la）. If you have ever taken any online Chinese lessons, you may have heard of these flavors before. In English, they refer to sour, sweet, bitter and spicy. The people in the Southern part like Guangdong like to eat sweet food more than others; while in Sichuan and Chongqing, people like to eat spicy foods, especially the spicy hotpot.

The four tastes combined together are always used by Chinese people to describe the joys and sorrows of life. In my opinion, it is because the flavors to some extent represent our experience of daily lives. For example, people may say :”经历了酸甜苦辣的人生才是人生”。It can be translated as “Life is the joys and sorrows we have experienced, or it cannot be called life.”

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If you want to apply for a super Chinese university, taking the hsk test level 6 is necessary, the HSK certificate can increase your chance. Or you are planning to develop your career in China, and then settle down here. In this situation you had better take the examination so that you can communicate fluently with native Chinese.

Well, what should you do to pass the examination? You should prepare for hsk test from the following three parts.

At first, listening Chinese records every day. What’s more, you had better practice with native Chinese, in addition to this, listening the tape is a necessary method. You can download the records relate to HSK level 6 from internet.

Second, reading Chinese books, you can calculate the words when reading books, and mark the word that you don’t understand the meaning.

The last but not least, keep a dairy in Chinese every day, no matter how long is it. Your writing level can be improved in this way. Learning Chinese is a long-term program, you have to insist.

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If you are preparing for hsk test level, you have to master more than 2500 words and expressions; this number is more than twice of level 4.

HSK test level 5 includes three parts, namely listening, reading, and writing. There are 100 questions in hsk test level 5. You should practice usually in the following parts.

At first, listening. In this part, you had better practice with native Chinese, in addition to this, listening the tape is a necessary method. You can download the records from internet. The number of questions in this part is more than HSK level 4.

Second, reading Chinese books. You can calculate the words when reading books, and mark the word that you don’t understand the meaning.

The last but not least, keep a dairy in Chinese every day, no matter how long is it. Your writing level can be improved in this way. Learning Chinese is a long-term program, you have to insist.

Sign up to get more materials about HSK, and take a free test now!

May be you think HSK level 1 to level 3 is easy to past, well hsk test level ask for more vocabularies and expressions.

HSK test level 4 is aim to test your Chinese application ability in daily life. It includes four parts, namely listening, reading, and writing. There are 100 questions in hsk test level 4. Here are some examples from Chinese lessons.

Part1. Listening

我想去办个信用卡，今天下午你有时间吗？陪我去一趟银行？

★ 他打算下午去银行。 （ √ ）

Part2. Reading

A 禁止 B 海洋 C 推迟 D 坚持 E 顺便 F 估计

例如：她每天都（ D ）走路上下班，所以身体一直很不错。

Prat3. Writing

例如.那座桥 800年的 历史 有 了

那座桥有800年的历史了。

Do you think these questions are interesting? Well, learning Chinese is an interesting and challenging process. You have to master more than 1200 words if you want to past hsk test level 4. Otherwise, you had better learn the words with native Chinese or Chinese teachers. Get more information about HSK and take free test now!

After HSK level 1 and level 2, here comes level 3. Are you prepared well to learn more words and impressions? Don’t worry too much; I will present you two examples about hsk test level 3.

1.

A七个小矮人的故事，你听说过吗？

B这双运动鞋是新买的？多少钱买的？

C这位就是我的新男朋友。

D一般吧，我们上个月才认识，只是普通朋友。

E当然。我们先坐公共汽车，然后换地铁。

F去洗洗手，准备碗筷，吃饭了，你妈妈呢？

例如：

你知道怎么去那儿吗？（E）

2. A其实B疼C地方D爱好E 要求F教

例如：A:你有什么（D）

B:我喜欢体育。

Do you know the meaning and the answers of these questions? If you still don’t know how to prepare for HSK, join Chinese lessons, and the native Chinese teachers will design a customized learning Chinese plan according to your Chinese level.

Chinese is one of the most difficult languages to learn in the world. if you are preparing for hsk test, you had better have native Chinese friends or native Chinese teachers who can talk to you, so that they can point the errors on grammar or pronunciation.

There are some HSK examples.

1.Tīng le Xiǎomíng de huà, LìLi zhōngyú xiào le qǐlái.
听   了     小明     的  话，莉莉    终于   笑   了 起来。

Do you know the meaning of the word “笑” in this sentence?

A. Move

B. Speak

C. Cry

D. Smile

2. HSK Sample Test Question:

商务汉语课程____有趣。

A. 再

B. 都

C. 又

D. 很

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