Month: September 2010

how do you say: let’s learn mandarin chinese! and lesson 1 谢谢~

I dont speak mandarin nor cantonese but am very fluent in English and speak urdu,punjabi and kiswahili well.i would like to know whether it is possible for me, as a qualified doctor (M.B.B.S-bachelors in medicine and surgery) with 3 years experience in clinical work in hospitals in Kenya and Pakistan …

I am using Rosetta Stone to learn Chinese (Mandarin). I am trying to learn characters and PinYin. I have the QuanPin input method for Chinese characters on my computer. I don’t seem to be able to write in Chinese characters on Rosetta Stone. Does Rosetta Stone not allow this, or …

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…in taiwan, coz it seems different from the mandarin spoken in china( i know cantonese is also different)

I have a friend from university whose surname is "Wong" and his parents are from Guangzhou. Which dialect of Chinese does he most likely speak? I want to learn some phrases in that dialect to surprise him.

hey i was wondering if anyone could help, please there is a new student in my school and i tried to talk to her yesterday..the problem is that she speaks chinese, and she only knows how to say some things in english. she says she trying to learn but it’s …

Hi, I’ve just started learning Mandarin, and I notice the characters 这些 can sometimes be, in pinyin, ‘zhe4xie1’ or ‘zhei4xie1’, with the pronunciation apparently being interchangeable. (ie, either zhe4 (‘jeh’ sound) or zhei4 (‘jay’ sound). Does it matter which pronunciation I use?

Which is generally more difficult for people do you think? Of course, I think Russian is easy to speak and read because it’s my native language. So, I need a second opinion please. Thank you.