I need to take a a language class for college and have many friends that speak Cantonese Chinese, but the school only offers mandarin Chinese. I am wondering how easy, or hard, it’ll be to communicate with these friends if I learn mandarin.
We are already importing too much junk from China.
Like, if your teacher is talking to you and you do not understand a particular word or phrase, how do you say, "What does [x] mean?" or "I did not understand [x]"? What is a simple way to say this? I tried saying "[x] shi shenme?" But I am not …
If I learn Mandarin will i be able to communicate with cantonese speakers?
Mandarin for Chinese Students I’ve got that Mandarin = Putonghua Chinese = Hanyu Students = xuesheng So can you tell me the words, characters, tones for the word "for" in this context? Thanks!
Hello everyone. How’s it going? I wanted to try something fun with my cell phone voicemail and possibly have one of you make a voicemail for me : ) The plan would be this: If you speak French, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, or Italian then please send me an email at …
hey all just wondering if someone can translate a few things for me in mandarin 1. where are you? 2. where are you/we going? 3. why? 4. ok thanks!!!
How much can one expect to learn in a few months? Is it expensive? Where do I find more information? Sean M, I’ll be graduating next year. I’m not an American.
I am going to be taking intro classes and studying very hard! I live in an area where there are lots of Mandarin speakers to practice on. About how long till I can practice speaking with them? I mean simple small talk like about school and what or where I …