建议

[wontonsoup]

is a sentence stuctured using 建议 like this correct?

我建议你多参加体育运动, 因为会对你的身体健康.

i recommend you play more sports because it will keep your body healthy.

[skylee]

Suggested minimum correction -

我建议你多参加体育运动, 因为那会令你的身体健康.

[bloove]

Okay,Tanks for your advsing,I will do it once a year.

[muddy]

Yes, the usage of 建议 is right.

And the second part of the sentence sounds not naturally,skylee's suggestion is good.

[madizi]

Could someone explain the difference between 建议 and 劝 or 劝告?

[skylee]

建議 is to suggest / propose something.

勸 / 勸告 is to persuade someone to do something that is considered good, or to disuade someone from doing something that is not good.

[madizi]

I see. In one textbook, I saw the translation of 劝 as "to advise" and Kingsoft Powerword 2007 dictionary also has this meaning. Although it also includes "persuade".

Does that mean that when you want to use "to advise" in Chinese sentence, it is safer to use 建议?

[skylee]

Does that mean that when you want to use "to advise" in Chinese sentence, it is safer to use 建议?

Depending on the context, I would think so. But surely you understand sometimes there is no word-to-word exact match.

I often use the word "advise" at work, which is an English environment. Like we advise the staff to do something, the staff is advised to improve their performance, to issue advisory letter to the staff, etc. I am not sure if I have to say the same things in Chinese what term I should use. It is not really 勸告. It is more like "to instruct" but I say it in a nice way. In such case I think 建議 is much more appropriate.

[madizi]

I see. Thank you Skylee for explanation.

[wontonsoup]

what in world's mnemonics?

[madizi]

He is asking: "What in a world is mnemonics?"

[wontonsoup]

the connection...well they are both read as jian, and they only differ by the left hand side's two strokes.