Fans of Chinese and Mandarin
Conversational scenarios, expression techniques, and pronunciation correction exercises—focused on practical Chinese speaking skills
Row 1: Characters + Bopomofo* (Ruby text). Row 2: GR Tonal Spelling* (Gwoyeu Romatzyh, Bopomofo’s romanized companion; ), with Hanyu Pinyin** below. Row 3: English uses Latin (PETR “rock” + OLEUM “oil”) or Greek (CHAOS → GAS), roots that clearly indicate what’s what. Bote: OLine and OLeum are variants of the same root = “oil” … Read more
I felt that learning any language is useful. If nothing else, learning a new language keeps your mind sharp, opens you up to new cultures and ideas, allows you to experience the world from a different perspective. As for learning Chinese, well, I’m not aware that there is hype for learning Chinese. I don’t recommend … Read more
It’s not completely awful. If I can read it, then it’s good enough for me. My handwriting when I started learning the language, about two years ago: Big, clunky characters, unevenly spaced out. Too much use of the correction fluid because I made a lot of mistakes. English words littered here and there to indicate … Read more
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