Month: June 2010

besides taking a community college class? I’m sort of agoraphobic. I already have Rosetta Stone levels 1 and 2.

My name is Kieran. I would like to know how to pronounce and write my name in Chinese 🙂 In English, it is spoken: Kih-run or kɪərən Can you help?

I am still in high school but I would love to teach English as a second language in Asia (China, Japan, Korea…) The thing, with all this talk about Mandarin becoming the international language, will English teachers still be important to have? Let’s say by the year 2020 I get …

Because, I want to intern at a pharmacy store but most of their customers are mandarin. My mandarin itself is elementary so I want to prepare as best I can. I just need the most common phrases/words in english. My parents speak mandarin so I can ask them for translation.

I am a private employee who needs to learn Mandarin and or Cantonese as secondary language. How long do you think would it take me before I learn how to speak and understand these languages? specific time frame please.

一月 一日 Jan 1 八日 8 一月 十五日 15 二十二日 22 二十九日 29 Could someone translate this in English?

Why ?

I took a semester of Mandarin in my senior year of college, and I was fairly conversational at Japanese at one point (I realize that the spoken language is completely different than Chinese. Considering that I’m going on 31 in January, how well can I expect to be able to …