Month: May 2011

Which should I learn? I mean fluently. I have a lot of friends who speak Mandarin.. but only 1 that speaks Korean.. I know that I’m going to learn at least a bit of each..

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Okay, so I would really like to go to Southeast Asia one day (Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, etc) And all that jazz. In college then what language should I learn? Mandarin is too JUST China, right? And Tagalog is pretty much only the Philippines, and others are too country-specific (Korean, …

Does anyone know CHINESE language? mandarin? please help! help! help! urgent!? Can anyone speak mandarin? Chinese? please help!? errmm.. I have a friend and she’s a beginner in chinese language,… she gave me these pharagraph and wants me to understand it.. can anyone please transcribe this?…she said that there is …

I speak Mandarin so I know 气 (qi) means energy and 功 (gong) means activity. But is it a martial art? Or is it like 太极拳 (Tai Chi)? Anybody know?

please give me the characters unless you can be very specific about which ones you’re talking about. I want to know how to say something like ‘it won’t happen again’. (I’m telling my teacher why I didn’t study for a test, but that it won’t happen again.) I was thinking …

I am a long time mandarin learner (simplified Chinese, or "putonghua") and I am at the stage of starting to read from books. I would like to buy one online but I can’t find the chinese translations of titles or the right websites (I can’t write chinese with the computer). …

I have been learning mandarin part time on saturdays, and have recently started looking into courses in China. Has anyone had any experiences with learning to speak mandarin abroad? There seems to be alot of uni’s/study academies offering courses. I was thinking of saving for a while and hopefully doing …

Everyone seems to be crazy learning Chinese as China’s economy’s growing but which one to learn Mandarin or Cantonese? Can I read Cantonese if I know Mandarin? Can I learn both? (This is just a question of curiosity as I’m learning Japanese right now and I don’t know when will …