Month: November 2010

Henceforth Bu Shi will be a constant in my vocabulary. Memo to Bride: BS!

Hey can you check this paragraph I wrote for homework? I just want to see if grammar and such is correct. 我喜欢坐飞机。 飞机很快，很容易。 不过我就在匹兹堡家，所以我坐车。 我没有车，所以我的妈妈和爸爸开车送我去大学。 我这个寒假去fóluólǐdá 了。 我跟我的朋友坐飞机。 我们坐公共汽车回家了。 Thanks!

For someone wanting to go into business, what language would be useful to learn? Currently i have no background in mandarin or japanese. I was wondering, which one would be easier to learn? I watch anime and japanese dramas, so i thought it would be fun to learn japanese. I’m …

"Practice? We’re talking about practice!"

能够认识你这样一个朋友，是我三生有幸? one of my friends wrote this to me and I thought it was so nice and I would like to say it to a guy friend I have that has made all the difference in my life. We are not a couple….just good friends… I would like to be …

I don’t know the name of the song. He sings in Mandarin, and speaks in Cantonese. Please help! Pinyin, Chinese characters, or English translation are all fine.

I am in my young 30ies and want to learn mandarin. Having a full time job and not too much time I wonder if this is an realistic goal and if anybody of you readers succeeded doing that. If yes I’d be thankful about some advice how to go ahead, …

Can u give me the pinyin translation for this?It would be nice if it had tongue marks to..thx 我今天早上七点起床，喜乐早已后就吃早饭。八点零取学校桑科。 第几届可视中文，老师教我们身次核对话。 爹日俄可是数学，很难 第二节课是科学，它是乐趣。 在中午我观看了一部电影与我的朋友。 我吃了可口晚餐在我 开始做我的家庭作业在七点的五点三十五分。 在我完成了之后，我去睡。 /

Hi, I’m planning on going to Beijing to learn Mandarin; but there are just so many options of schools out there. Does anyone have any suggestion? Thanks a lot beforehand!

I learned that if a mandarin speaking guy spoke to a cantonese guy, they wouldn’t understand each other. Is it just the accent that’s different or are there some particular words that are different? What about their writing? Is it also different? And aside from mandarin and cantonese, are there …