is it? i’m studying mandarin at my local school and i asked my chinese teacher about this… but she didn’t understand my question very well and started talking about something different and she kept going for like 5 minutes and i felt kind of embarrased to ask her again the …
I currently attend a huge university, one of the biggest in the US, and roughly 15% of our students are international students, most from East Asia, the majority of whom are Chinese international students who usually are there for a semester/year. While I am American born-n-raised Asian, something I’m not …
I want to visit some real buddhist temples in the far future, and want to start studying either Korean (Lots of temples there…) or Mandarin Chinese (A few temples as well… and most popular language in the world…) So which one should I learn to visit/speak with monks? Which place …
can anyone translate this and write it in pinyin? it’d be much appreciated! 我什么都不会，最会玩！又有点爱哭，但也很容易笑。一些同学都讲我幼稚，一些朋友都讲我野蛮，我爸爸妈咪觉得我很任性，我妹妹觉得我总让人担心。 我用中文写的就是要你們全都讀不出来。哈哈！
Tones 1, 4 and the neutral one are easily differentiated. When I hear tones 2 and 3 as someone explains them is also easy, however when I hear mandarin being spoken "regularly" meaning in a faster pace, tones 2 and 3 seems identical to me.
Hi, well I am half Chinese. My mom is from Hong Kong and so I never have been exposed to the Mandarin language. I only have some knowledge of Cantonese, but I cannot speak it, I only understand it and that’s it. I want to learn Mandarin, but what is …
Hey guys, i just found out that you can write weekdays in 2 ways in mandarin. For an example monday: You can say 星期一/xingqiyi or you can say 周一/zhouyi. So which one is better to use? Are they both correct? Thank you. So it doesn’t matter which one of them …
I’m currently teaching myself Mandarin Chinese. I have an electronic dictionary and it’s very useful, i’m just not sure that using the "common words" section of the dictionary is going to produce the results I need to learn this language. So, what is the best way to learn vocabulary? Should …
While I was there I saw a lot of signs, advertisements, and television shows in English or at least with English subtitles. How many people there speak English out of the 54 million population? I was under the impression it was all either Bahasa Malay or Chinese Mandarin…
I’m looking for an online website to help me start learning Mandarin that is free. Completely free – no free trials, no learn a lesson but buy a book – just something free. I use a website called talktomeinkorean.com & that is how I learned Korean – but now I’m …