Fans of Chinese and Mandarin
chinesespeaking I took the liberty and checked out your profile. Looks like you live in the US, and work in the hospitality industry. You are providing face-to-face services to a lot of customers, many of those you’ll not meet again or have any personal relationship beyond being your customers. Here’s what I learned living in the … Read more
Yes, you can. Yu Yimi, or 余怡蜜 in Chinese, is a great Chinese name choice for you. The surname 余 could mean extra and surplus. And there are lots of people sharing this commonly seen Chinese surname, for instance, Yu Nan, or 余男 in Chinese, an actress from mainland China and Yu Yue, or 余玥 … Read more
My kids start to learning Chinese characters from a classic book<<画说汉字>>. As the bellow image, you can easily understand what this Chinese characters meaning, and why it must write in this way. Every Chinese character has a long history and specific meaning. However, foreign learners don’t need to worry about this task. Actually you just … Read more
Chinese kids learn Chinese characters in their own ways.You can’t tell. But,here is how the Chinese kids were taught in school. Day_01 They were taught to recognize the very basic Chinese characters as shown on the picture of my kid’s first Chinese lesson’s book. It’s some basic cognition just like what the kids recognized at … Read more
Well,it depends… For example,this one: This is my kid’s homework. See the Chinese character in the red-line box? He wanted to write this character “奶”，so the word is “奶牛”.(means “the cow” in English). But he didn’t memorize this character by “奶”, after thinking very hardly he wrote this one ”乃” instead which has the exactly … Read more
It isn’t. Let’s play a numbers game. For every synonym I can think of each language gets one point. “Die” English: die pass away left us snuff it decreased it is no more shuffled off this mortal coil gone to join the choir invisible e’d be pushing up the daisys ‘es metabolic processes are now … Read more
Yes. Also, no. “The Chinese language” can really only refer to the written form, which is the same all over China. Mandarin is a Chinese language. Many languages are spoken in China; the ones related to Mandarin are collectively known as Hanyu. They can be grouped in 7–12 different branches; the best-known in Western countries is probably the Yue branch, … Read more
Coincidentally, I haven’t written a long paragraph of Chinese characters for a long time. Because of the daily use of computer input Chinese characters. However, I took an online course on Chinese cooking, and the teacher tried to prevent students from searching for answers on the internet, then pasting and submitting them. Handwriting was required. … Read more
Because people try to read it like modern Chinese. Modern Chinese is written to be read quickly: read it as quickly as you can and go on to the next article. Classical is written to be read slowly, out loud, sung, chanted (and not recited). Words were chosen with great care. You have to slow … Read more
The spoken Mandarin used today is based on the official pronunciation used in imperial court of the Qing dynasty during the 17th-19th century and sounds very different from those spoken in ancient China. In 1953, the PRC government dispatched a group of linguists to locations nationwide to record speech patterns, trying to identify dialects that … Read more