{"id":5981,"date":"2026-03-17T13:19:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/2026\/03\/17\/inquiry-4\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T13:19:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:19:23","slug":"inquiry-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/2026\/03\/17\/inquiry-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Inquiry #4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I am including a few new phrases that I have learned in Mandarin. But before I share those, I am going to share something I learned about <a href=\"https:\/\/migaku.com\/blog\/chinese\/chinese-verbs\">verb conjugation in Mandarin.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mandarin has no verb changes for conjugation or tense changes. Let me provide some examples of what I mean.<\/p>\n<p>In English, the verb \u201cTo Be\u201d conjugates likes this:<br \/><em>I am<br \/>You are<br \/>(S)He is<br \/>We are<br \/>They are<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In Chinese, it conjugates like this:<br \/><em>I am<br \/>You am<br \/>(S)He am<br \/>We am<br \/>They am<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This make learning verbs in Chinese much easier than learning verbs in many other languages.<\/p>\n<p>Here is one of the phrases that I have learned:<\/p>\n<p>Here is a video of me saying \u201cMy name is Nathan\u201d \/ \u6211\u662f\u5185\u68ee \/ W\u01d2 sh\u00ec n\u00e8i s\u0113n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/nathanclark.opened.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10111\/2026\/03\/Movie-on-2026-03-16-at-5.16%E2%80%AFPM.mov\" preload=\"none\"><\/video><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I am including a few new phrases that I have learned in Mandarin. But before I share those, I am going to share something I learned about verb conjugation in Mandarin. Mandarin has no verb changes for conjugation or&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/2026\/03\/17\/inquiry-4\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edtechuvic.ca\/edci336\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}