Month: January 2011

Whenever I hear some Chinese person speaking, I can’t understand a single word!!! How can I get better at listening???

I’m 20 years old Chinese-born. I can speak Chinese (but not very well, only simple words). I can read VERY little and I can NOT write at all. I need to study in Taiwan/ China but the course I’m doing is only offered in Mandarin. I would need to take …

I’ll be going on a study-abroad summer program in Nanjing, China and I would like to know a little Mandarin when I get there. We’ll be learning during the program but i don’t want to sound like an idiot. My high school doesn’t offer Mandarin as a language. All I …

Can someone help with the pronunciation? This is a song in CHinese. I know how to pronounce it in MANDARIN, but not in HOKKIEN (which is the local dialect in Taiwan.) Can someone please write down using English letters the Hokkien pronunciation of this song? First to do so gets …

Can you please check this for any grammatical errors? Thanks! 我想家在香格里拉。 香格里拉 没有冬天，只有夏天，春天， 和秋天。香格里拉的天气真舒服。 香格里拉的人不得工作， 只完儿。 香格里拉的人不但有多钱而且太漂亮了。 大家说中问说得很好。学生们给他们的老师考试。香格里拉好是好，可是我家匹兹堡.

Does anyone know of any research on language immersion programs and Montessori? I ask because our daughter attends a new pre-school Montessori program that was originally planned to have a language immersion component. There are three teachers in the school: one who speaks to the kids only in English, one …

My college major deals with science, and I want a language that I could use with international colleagues in the future. While Mandarin has numerous speakers worldwide, Germany has always excelled in the sciences. But I hear Germans speak excellent English so is there really a point? Any suggestions? I …

Can someone please translation: "Look what I found! Why do I have this? Anyway Nice video project. Now I’m hungry."