Month: April 2011

I need a useful website where you can learn mandarin chinese fluently/really good.. A website with a person who is pronouncing the chinese words/sentences.

I’m thinking abut going on exchange to HKUST for a semester during my degree. Not just because I want to learn mandarin, but because I like Hong Kong and they have an engineering agreement with my university. However, I have learned some mandarin and would like to keep learning when …

I can speak spanish and english obviously. I am going to taiwan for a year to learn mandarin. BTW can someone recommend me a book or dvd to learn meanwhile? Thanks

This just be my opinion, but I’m a Cantonese speaker and people say that Vietnamese sounds like Cantonese (vice versa) all the time because of the "Ng" sound in a lot of words. I can understand and speak Mandarin to a certain extent but I’ve been listening to people speak …

please can you translate me this in pinyin please? thanks for your time, no internet traducer please, the paragraph will lose sense. Fengyu qiao, usually called a "roofed bridge," is a special kind of bridge that contains cultural characteristics specific to China’s Dong People. Sanjiang Fengyu Qiao across Xunjiang River …

TRADITIONAL MANDARIN CHINESE with pinyin and characters? xie xie!

Both my parents are filo, but i was born in Australia. (pic of me: https://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs467.ash1/25652_1395668613364_1281678514_31136191_1316514_n.jpg I’m not very filo looking >_<). Lately i feel ‘insuperior’ to other Asians, because some often categorize us as pacific islanders. We are pretty Asian. But i don’t feel that proud of being a filo. …

I had trouble talking to this lady on the phone. I only knew how to say "I can’t speak Mandarin" I can’t read Chinese.