There are plenty of differences between English and Chinese. First of all, the Chinese don’t use any different words for past, present, and future events. For past events, they simply add a 了(le). In the Chinese languages, you can also find plenty of words that are spelled, or even pronounced the same. You would need to see the words formulated in sentences to understand the meaning. Another difference is the way we count numbers. In Chinese, they divide numbers into 1,000 (千，qian), 10,000 (万， wan), and 100,000,000 (亿, yi).