recent in Mandarin

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

The most (最) recent trauma that I had was a near (近) death experience when a truck almost hit me.

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

• 近
• 最

• 最佳
• 最高
• 最好
• 靠近
• 附近
• 亲近
• 最初
• 接近
• 最新
• 最终
• 最近
• 最后

The reading of 最近 is zuì jìn.

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

It turned out that the truck driver, Zoey (zuì), had a bottle of gin (jìn) from the night before and was still drunk.

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

Learning vocabulary like recent and the rest of the Mandarin written language can take as little as one year, or as long as a lifetime. Our Mandarin language learners find that using helpful mnemonics can aid retention of Chinese Mandarin vocabulary and characters.

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