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Sunday, November 11th, 2007
Here is a list of 10 helpful, yet very basic Chinese expressions.
你好。Nǐ hǎo. - Hi, Hello (lit.: You good)
你好吗? Nǐ hǎo ma? - How are You? (lit. You good, or not?)
我很好。Wǒ hěn hǎo. - I'm fine.
谢谢。Xiè Xiè. - Thanks
多少钱? Duō shao qián? - How much is it (Asking for the ...
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Sunday, November 11th, 2007
Hello fellow Chinese learners. There is a nice Firefox plugin named ChinesePera-Kun that enhances Your learning speed by helping You translate characters. While browsing just move Your mouse over a character and You will see a nice translation. Very convenient. It seems to me, that they use the same dictionary ...
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
When I started learning Chinese my teacher gave me a list of the most 40 common Chinese radicals. Might be helpful for anyone.
人 rén - man, person
刀 dāo - knife
力 lì - power
又 yòu - right hand side
口kǒu - mouth
囗 wéi - enclosure Used as a radical only, not as ...
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
The Chinese language is useful and difficult at the same time. Especially their characters can make You feel lost in this language like You can get lost in a big City. The Chinese use two different systems of characters, traditional and simplified. Actually these are not the only ones, there ...
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
吗 ma - Question particle to indicate a question.
Above is the way You can read it in almost any Chinese learning textbook. Yet many newbie learners of Chinese face the same problem. A speaker is saying something, You are slowly deciphering it and then at the end of the sentence ...
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
This is for all the newbie learners of Chinese. Those who still have to learn their first words of Chinese want to know how to approach the language. And yes, learning Chinese is different from learning most European languages (I assume You are a native English speaker).
What are the problems?
When ...
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