Month: August 2011

Mandarin Chinese,Korean,Japanese,Hebrew,Spanish,French & German. What would be the best one to learn first ?

Im learning mandarin, does anybody know if its worth investing my time into ChinesePod (chinesepod.com) ? Also Whats the fastest way of Learning Chinese mandarin (talking only) ?

If not, will you give me an example of two characters that mean the same thing in both letters but is written differently? I mean Cantonese. Sorry, typo. 😛

Although Rosetta Stone teaching methods are very good, the material there is not useful unless you can talk about, your black dog that eats bread. Therefore I’d like to once again emphasize USEFUL resources.

I am Chinese but I don’t speak mandarin. I speak a dialect called Hainanese. Whenever I hear people speaking ‘chinese’ I can always tell whether it is mandarin or Cantonese or whether they are speaking some other dialect which I am not rounded in. But I’ve always wondered when I …

我性别男 (wo xingbie nan) OR 我的姓别男(wo de xingbie nan) Which is correct?

Surely, from a business perspective, Cantonese is more useful? Yes, Mandarin is spoken by (way) more people, but you can’t deny that the most economically-booming places in China speak Cantonese (Hong Kong, Guangdong and Macau just to name a few). So why are foreigners being told time after time that …

Hi, I’ve been learning chinese from rosetta stone for almost a year and can speak it very well but not totally fluent. I have an ability to learn very fast but I’m a lazy person. I am almost to advance in Chinese, but I’ve learned Japanese for four months, by …

I know it is not always the best way to learn-but it helps with my pronunciation.