知道一门语言是一回事,教这门语言又是另一回事。

To know a language is one thing, and to teach it is another.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 知道 zhīdào
  1. to know; to become aware of
  2. also pr. zhīdao
2 一门 mén
  1. (dialectal) continuously; constantly
  2. (literary) a door
  3. (literary) a single source; a single origin
  4. (literary) a way; a means
  5. a cannon
  6. a door
  7. a family; a clan
  8. a kind; the same kind
  9. a single source; a single origin
  10. a skill
  11. a style; a faction; a denomination
  12. a subject of study
  13. a way; a means
  14. an event or occurrence
  15. continuously; constantly
  16. the same school or teacher
=3 语言 yán language

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=3 语言 yán
  1. (literary) to tell
  2. to tell
=4 shì
  1. to be (followed by substantives only)
  2. correct; right; true
  3. (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well
  4. (adverb for emphatic assertion)
=4 shì variant of shì
5 一回事 huíshì
  1. one and the same (thing)
  2. one thing (as distinct from another)
=6 Jiào surname Jiao
=6 jiāo to teach; to instruct
=6 jiào
  1. (bound form) to teach; to instruct
  2. a religion
  3. to cause (sb to do sth); to tell (sb to do sth)
=7 zhè
  1. (pronoun) this; these
  2. (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun)
  3. (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. zhèi, esp. in Beijing)
=7 zhèi (coll.) this
=8 Mén surname Men
=8 mén
  1. gate
  2. door
  3. gateway
  4. doorway
  5. opening
  6. valve
  7. switch
  8. way to do something
  9. knack
  10. family
  11. house
  12. (religious) sect
  13. school (of thought)
  14. class
  15. category
  16. phylum or division (taxonomy)
  17. classifier for large guns
  18. classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology
  19. (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)

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=9 语言 yán language

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=9 语言 yán
  1. (literary) to tell
  2. to tell
10 yòu
  1. (once) again
  2. also
  3. both... and...
  4. and yet
  5. (used for emphasis) anyway
=11 shì
  1. to be (followed by substantives only)
  2. correct; right; true
  3. (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well
  4. (adverb for emphatic assertion)
=11 shì variant of shì
12 另一 lìng
  1. another
  2. the other
13 回事 huíshì (old) to report to one's master