#hsk6

[zakuwatorka]

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Books for kids in other languages will humble you 😩 so many words to learn!

Thank God there are holidays, I can visit my Chinese family and borrow some books from kids 📚

Content of Chinese books for kids is quite… HSK5/6 level, especially so many science words show up in these books! 🧬

[nonsansavoir]

2022年6月24日的一篇日記

拍謝辣~

Sorry in taiwanese

你們看到這邊都很挫對吧。/ 你们看到这边都很挫对吧。

挫 : [cuò] frustrated - HSK6

我自己也不置信。

置信 : [zhì xìn] to believe what somebody claims

[warmstudies]

a new HSK system got announced! instead of levels HSK 1 - HSK 6, the system now goes up to HSK 9.

there’s a lot of new changes, so i’ll try to summarize a bit below:

in order to counteract the “unbalance” in the system - namely, that HSK 1 and 2 were relatively easy to pass due to them having 150 words each whereas HSK 5 (2500 words) and HSK 6 (5000 words) were a lot more difficult - the new system tries to spread out learning more gradually. specifically, each level has a set number of 300 characters in each level and a varying number of words which are made using the 300 characters you must learn for that level. in effect, this makes levels 1 - 4 harder, but 5 and 6 easier.

word lists have also been revised to remove outdated words (such as “fax”)

levels 7 - 9 have been added as well! they are more advanced than HSK 6 and supposedly supposed to be for academic purposes. however, from what i understand is that these levels share a word list and once you take the test you will be put in level 7, 8, or 9 depending on your score.

also, HSK levels are now subcategorized by level of proficiency. HSK 1 - 3 is beginner, HSK 4 - 6 is intermediate, and HSK 7 - 9 is advanced. it is now considered to have “3 levels” (beginner, intermediate, advanced) and “9 bands” (1-9).

these new changes will go into effect on july 1, 2021

there’s a lot more information, but this is just a quick overview! i would highly recommend reading more here if you are interested.

i was just studying HSK 5 on the old system, so i’m really curious to see how that translates to the new system. regardless, i’m super excited to dig into the new material!

[hanzillion]

九 = jiǔ = nine

A gorgeous neon 九 from a restaurant in Taipei!

There's not much to say about the character... 9 is 9. But we can take a detour here to talk about discounts in Chinese, which work the opposite way than the western world and are thus a bit confusing at first: instead of telling you how much the discount is, they tell you how much percentage of the original price you have to pay.

So for instance, if something has a 10% discount, you'd say 九折 (jiǔ zhé), as in, you only paying 90% of the price. The lower the number before the 折 character, the higher the discount. Takes a bit of time to get used to!

There are a few expressions that say "most likely" using 9, like 十之八九 (shí zhī bā jiǔ) or 十有八九 (shí yǒu bā jiǔ). Both of these hint at something happening 8 or 9 times out of 10, so it's quite likely it'll happen.

And lastly, 九死一生 (jiǔ sǐ yī shēng) literally translates into "something who died nine times and is still alive"... so you'd use it if you'd just had a narrow escape. 😅

[exce-lsior]

I PASSED THE HSK6 Y'ALLLLLLLL I CAN'T FUCKING BELIEVE IT

[learnchinese-superchinese]

成语！ (Chinese idioms)  Once you get to HSK level 5 and 6, you’ll learn a lot of them! 

[soleillei]

studying chinese ^^

[tomoryoshka]

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