{"id":14202,"date":"2018-02-23T14:27:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T18:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=14202"},"modified":"2018-02-23T14:27:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T18:27:39","slug":"a-guide-to-telling-time-in-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/a-guide-to-telling-time-in-chinese\/","title":{"rendered":"A Guide to Telling Time in Chinese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An important skill to master when learning a language is how to tell the time. In addition, you&#8217;ll also want to learn how to talk about days, weeks, months, and years. We&#8217;ve had several great posts on how to do this in Chinese over the years. If you&#8217;re new here, chances are you&#8217;ve missed them. Here&#8217;s a guide to telling time in Chinese to help you get started.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/telling-time-in-chinese\/\">Telling Time in Chinese<\/a><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_11967\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/02\/07-DSC02712.jpg\" aria-label=\"07 DSC02712\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11967\" class=\"wp-image-11967 size-full\"  alt=\"A Guide to Telling Time in Chinese\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/02\/07-DSC02712.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/02\/07-DSC02712.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/02\/07-DSC02712-350x233.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11967\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u65e9\u4e0a\u597d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In this post, you&#8217;ll learn all the basic Chinese vocabulary you&#8217;ll need for telling the time. We also go over how to ask for and give the time of day, the different parts of the day, and asking\/answering about <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/daily-activities\/\">daily activities<\/a>. There&#8217;s an activity at the end for you to give it a try and practice as well. While you&#8217;re at it, go ahead and follow along with this short video for some extra practice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Telling Time in Chinese\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N7JqVE2QGIE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/advanced-time-telling\/\">Advanced Time Telling<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve gotten the basics down, it&#8217;s time to challenge yourself a bit. This post begins with the answers to the practice activity from the first one. It then goes on to teach how to use &#8220;from&#8230; to&#8221; with a variety of examples. Finally, you&#8217;ll learn about two useful Chinese characters that can be used to mean &#8220;early&#8221; and &#8220;late&#8221; and how to put them to use. See if you can translate the examples at the end to practice what you learn in the post.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/days-weeks-months-and-years-in-chinese\/\">Days, Weeks, Months and Years<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>After learning how to tell the time, you can move on to learning how to talk about days, weeks, months, and years in Chinese. This post will give you tons of vocabulary, such as how to say &#8220;the day before yesterday&#8221; or &#8220;2 months from now.&#8221; You&#8217;ll also learn all the days of the week and months of the year. Spoiler alert &#8211; they&#8217;re super easy in Chinese!<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/your-weekly-schedule-in-chinese\/\">Your Weekly Schedule<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>This post takes a lot of what we&#8217;ve learned up to now and challenges you to make a weekly schedule. See if you can use the days of the week and parts of the day plus the daily activities you&#8217;ve learned to fill out a chart and make sentences about your week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-09-at-3.08.36-PM.png\" aria-label=\"Screen Shot 2015 12 09 At 3.08.36 PM\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11826\"  alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"429\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-09-at-3.08.36-PM.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-09-at-3.08.36-PM.png 585w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/12\/Screen-Shot-2015-12-09-at-3.08.36-PM-350x257.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/a-day-in-the-chinese-life\/\">A Day in the (Chinese) Life<\/a><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_8618\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/03\/DSC_0221.jpg\" aria-label=\"DSC 0221\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8618\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8618\"  alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/03\/DSC_0221.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/03\/DSC_0221.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/03\/DSC_0221-350x234.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8618\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">With a group of my students.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This post is a short reading in Chinese that goes over my typical day as an English teacher in Beijing. I break it down into shorter sections with translations to help you understand it. You can also watch this short video, where my colleague provided his great native-speaker voice to narrate the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Day in the (Chinese) Life\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8ZPrJcrAMws?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All of those posts and videos should keep you busy for a while. They&#8217;ll give you a good foundation for how to tell the time in Chinese. If you have any other questions or any other topics related to time-telling that you&#8217;d like to see covered here, feel free to leave a comment and let us know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"233\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/02\/07-DSC02712-350x233.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"A Guide to Telling the Time in Chinese\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/02\/07-DSC02712-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/02\/07-DSC02712.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>An important skill to master when learning a language is how to tell the time. In addition, you&#8217;ll also want to learn how to talk about days, weeks, months, and years. 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