homework in Mandarin

You can remember the meaning of 作业 with this easy mnemonic:

In a library, two students are making (作) little progress in their business (业) homework where they have to write a marketing plan.

Using mnemonics to remember the meaning of Chinese characters like can have an enormous impact on how long to learn Mandarin it takes.

• 业
• 作

• 失业
• 发作
• 作弊
• 作业
• 作用
• 制作
• 作品
• 作家
• 作战
• 操作
• 毕业
• 工作室
• 业余
• 职业
• 事业
• 作出

The reading of 作业 is zuò yè.

You can remember how to say 作业 with this useful mnemonic:

Zzzz…(z) I am so sleepy…, said one of the students to the other. "You won't (uò) finish in time if you doze off! You haven't even finished the first half yet (yè) !"

Using mnemonics to remember the reading of Chinese vocabulary like has a huge impact on how long to learn Mandarin it takes.

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