If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

“了”的基本用法很多人可能都知道，比如说，直接位于动词后表示动作的实现或完成；放在句末表示新情况或者事态的变化，也起成句作用。事实上，当动词带宾语时，“了”就会有一些特殊用法。

This article is a translation of a Sinosplice article by John Pasden (潘吉), founder of AllSet Learning, translated to Chinese for the benefit of Chinese teachers. The original article is in English: Chinese Grammar Points Used by a 2-year-old .

当你遇到很一些无聊的谈话时，那就把这当成他在说：“嗨，我们来聊天吧，虽然我现在还想不出一些好的话题，但是我可能会抛出一些无聊的话题直到你有勇气开始真正的谈话。或者我俩一起被这些话题无聊死。”

在生活中，你有可能会遇到一些这样的人，比如说，喝醉了的人，口齿不清的老人或小孩，先天口吃或者爱咕哝的人。在这些情况下你听不懂其实很正常，并不是你的原因，但你必须想办法去解决这类问题。

Michael Moore has joined the ranks of our legendary IT interns!

学习汉语难吗？究竟学汉语的难点在哪呢？

一个外国人在中国餐厅点餐一共分几步?

We originally launched the Chinese Grammar Wiki in 2012. We honestly didn't think it would be this long before we launched our next free resource, but it turns out fleshing out the Chinese Grammar Wiki was a ton of work (who would have guessed, right?).

中日文学习有哪些不同？

学习者需要学习声调，而是在他们的思想深处有10000个蹩脚的声调需要“扔掉”，只有这样才能达到真正流利的程度。

学习声调，两句话：心急吃不了热豆腐，一口吃不了大胖子。

蔡清扬 (Phyllis Cai)是一个喜欢中国传统戏剧的江苏姑娘，也是我们来自NYU的一位实习生。

Jack Du (杜佳东) is from Shaanxi, China, and was one of our first NYU Shanghai interns, and part of a small but elite group of AllSet Learning IT interns.

Natalie Kuan is a Chinese American sophomore in the NYU Shanghai program, and was one of our first NYU interns.

Salomé is another example of a brave intern that took on AllSet Learning's myriad of marketing internship tasks while simultaneously learning the basics of Mandarin Chinese.

让你的学生用一些发音简单的英文名称呼你，对他们丝毫没有帮助。但很多老师并没有意识到这点，因此，强调使用中文名字的重要性还是很有必要的。

Jazlyn Akaka is one of very few IT interns that we've had in the AllSet Learning office over the years, and she did an amazing job.

Zach Herzog was one of the braver interns we've every had, because he took on a summer internship where he had to learn Chinese (he started the internship not speaking any), and he also had to complete his other duties with almost non-existent Chinese. He blew us away with what he learned in 6 short weeks