Syntax

  I haven't noticed anything difficult about Chinese grammar yet. I've yet to make a word order mistake.

Subject verb object.  

Subject adverb (not / often ) / verb object. 

Possessor / possessive particle / thing possessed 

Adjective or adjectival noun / noun 

My son does not eat Korean food. 

You would have the word for I, then the particle de, then the word for son, a negating particle bu, then the verb, and then Korea food.  Nouns can modify other nouns like "music class," the way we do in English. 

We have a word and the works like English and, connecting two things.  It made me wonder whether all languages have and.  

Nouns don't inflect for case or number. Verbs do not conjugate.  I'm guessing there will be a particle before the verb to indicate a time marker.