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Resources for Chinese grammar have been scattered, incomprehensible, and hidden behind paywalls for way too long. Wikipedia has shown us a better way, and this wiki has taken up the challenge of making Chinese grammar accessible to all. We've already got 2,125 articles online, and we're growing! If you'd like to contribute, please get in touch.

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The Chinese Grammar Wiki likes to break things down by difficulty level. Here are some pages from the first four levels which you might like to read up on:

Then, of course, there are the "big topics" visited and revisited by learners, which can't just be broken down into one or two grammar points:

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What you see here is the beta version of the new AllSet Learning Grammar Wiki. We are slowly adding content and filling out the grammar information and sample sentences. We will prioritize the content which is most relevant to your study needs.

In the meantime, you can make use of the AllSet Learning Grammar Standards, which are complete through Level B2 (Upper Intermediate).

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+Resources for Chinese grammar have been scattered, incomprehensible, and hidden behind paywalls for way too long.  Wikipedia has shown us a better way, and this wiki has taken up the challenge of making Chinese grammar accessible to all.  We've already got [[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]] articles online, and we're growing! If you'd like to contribute, [[Contact|please get in touch]].
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-This grammar wiki is designed to be browsable and user-friendly, accessible to beginners while still possessing the depth that more advanced users will find useful.  The best way to get started is to just jump right in and start clicking around.  Not everything is finished yet, but content is continually being added.  (If you'd like to contribute content, by all means, [[Contact|get in touch]]!)
+New to learning Chinese? Head over to our '''[[Learner FAQ]]'''.
-Note that this wiki does make extensive use of Chinese characters.  In order to save the time of the editors and direct it toward real content additions, we do not provide pinyin for characters.  We realize that this makes the content far less accessible to beginners, but there is a solution: '''students of Chinese should [[Tools|install free browser extensions]] to handle the character issue'''.  In this way, the burden is taken off of our editors' shoulders, and the wheel need not be reinvented with regards to this particular issue.
+The Chinese Grammar Wiki likes to break things down by [[Grammar points by level|difficulty level]].  Here are some pages from the first four levels which you might like to read up on:
+* '''Beginner ([[A1 grammar points|Level A1]])'''
+** [[Basic sentence order]]
+** [[Suggestions with ba]]
+** [[Negation of past actions]]
+* '''Elementary ([[A2 grammar points|Level A2]])'''
+** [["Zai" following verbs]]
+** [[Expressing duration]]
+** [[Expressing "a little too" with "you dian"]]
+* '''Intermediate ([[B1 grammar points|Level B1]])'''
+** [[Expressing actions in progress (full form)]]
+** [[Expressing the Self-Evident with "ma"]]
+** [[Ba sentence]]
+* '''Upper Intermediate ([[B2 grammar points|Level B2]])'''
+** [[Emphatic adverb "ke"]]
+** [[Expressing Fractions with "fenzhi"]]
+** [[Emphasizing the Doer of an Action with "you"]]
+Then, of course, there are the "big topics" visited and revisited by learners, which can't just be broken down into one or two grammar points:
+* [[Uses of le]]
+* [[Complements]]
+* [[Word Order]]
+* [[Shi... de construction]]
+* [[Bei sentence]]
+* [[Ba sentence]]
+* [[Aspectual Particle "zhe"]]
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