Month: May 2011

1. Hope we can chat again. 2. Can I write you again? 3. You should know…I chose you because I like you. 4. It is difficult to explain dou xie.

I am Chinese myself. But I never learned how to read & write Chinese because I never went to Chinese school (I live in an English speaking country). I speak rudimentary Cantonese (but my parents also speak fluent Hakkanese and a bit of Mandarin). I’d like to learn how to …

I have a few questions about Mandarin; try to answer as many as you can… Thanks! Ok, whenever I speak to my friend in Mandarin, he pronounces the "zh" sound like a regular "z" and the "sh" found like an "s" sound. Is this correct? He is a native speaker …

This is for a work of fiction; I want to get my details correct. I understand Cantonese and Mandarin are the two languages, Mandarin being the newer one. Could a Chinese character be one of these, perhaps Cantonese? Or is there another terminology that describes Chinese characters, and the word …

Sources in Linyi City and its surrounding counties claimed that up to 120,000 women had been coerced into submitting to the procedures. I want to communicate this news in Mandarin language. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-admits-women-were-forced-to-have-abortions-507688.html