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hello, can anyone Please tell me that what its written in Chinese in the given image I want to know how to spell it , meaning of it. i guess its traditional Chinese, please tell me also how its read left to right or right to left ? 1st pic is centre, then from the left and right Thank you!
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Hi everyone, I've created a youtube channel collating similar vocabulary in Mandarin, Japanese and Korean. I hope people learning any of these languages would find it easy to pick up the other languages as well. You can check out the latest video on my channel here: https://youtu.be/LjuWeyLnHiA
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Hi Does anyone know of any discord servers for language learning where people actually use the voice chat rooms to speak? I have joined a few but the voicechat features are almost never used. I'm a woman who is learning French, Esperanto and just starting Mandarin. English is my native language. Thanks in advance J
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大家好！I wanted to share my free pop-up dictionary that allows you to learn Chinese while watching your favorite shows on Netflix and reading on the web. You can bookmark new words and export them to flashcard decks. Both ‘s’ and ‘b’ will save/bookmark words. You can download the extension for free here: https://www.inkah.co/ Here’s also a short video tutorial on how to use it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7srrvsXi2k I hope you all find this helpful! 加油！ -
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Hi guys, I just want to tell you about my project which makes learning Chinese characters much more fun! You will find it here: https://www.instagram.com/chineseffect_daily/
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I am experimentally trying to acquire oral comprehension of Mandarin exclusively by watching 1,200 hours of videos, especially movies and children's shows, using no other methods of study. I have watched over 500 hours and made slow progress, but I am enjoying the project and plan to complete it. I write regularly about my experiment at www.mandarinexperiment.org
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Hey there! I'm a 20-year-old English guy and I'd like to practice any of these languages: French (Intermediate) Italian (Intermediate) Spanish (Intermediate) Portuguese (Beginner) Irish (Beginner) Mandarin (Beginner) I find it useful doing a penpal thing through emails but I'd be up for other things like Skype etc. Let me know -
I am Joey. Currently I am living in Sydney and this will be the second year I live in Australia. I do want to improve my verbal English skill to the next level. So it would be great if someone happens to live in Sydney as well and wants to learn mandarin. It does not matter if you are a beginner or an intermediate speaker, cos I have plenty of patience. We could talk about every aspect of life and have some fun together. If you use Wechat, add me at seegerjiang0522 . Or you can send me an email at [email protected]. THX FOR YOUR ATTENTION. JOEY
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Hello, looking for a pen pal to help me with my Chinese writing and grammar. I would like to send short essays and have them corrected, and I would be willing to do the same for my pen pal. Of course, if you are not looking for writing and grammar help with English, I would be willing to help you with speaking as well. I would like someone who has good standard mandarin grammar. About me- I'm an American English teacher living in Beijing. I watch the news obsessively and I want to get a masters in International Relations (particularly US-China relations). I love reading, watching cartoons, and cats. If you'd like to be my pen pal, please send me a message or reply in the feed. 你好，我想找到笔友，为了提高我写作和语法能力。（我的语法很不好）我要发给你一个小文章，然后让你改写。你当然也可以发给我英语文章，但是要是你不想写作，我们也可以用英语聊天。笔友应该有很好的语法。 我是一个美国的英语老师。我现在住在北京。我喜欢看新闻，而且我想读研究生（外交）。我喜欢读书，看动画片，养猫。如果你想跟我一起练习，请发给我信还是回复在这里。 -
Anybody have tried these two exercises before? Exercise #1: Mirror Learning Pinyin will help lay the foundation for pronunciation. Chinese Pinyin consists of initial consonants (b, p, m, f, d, t, n, l, g, k, h, j, q, x, z, c, s, r, zh, ch, sh) and finals or compound vowels (a, o, e, i, u etc). How can we make sure that we are pronouncing them accurately? Watch ourself in the mirror! When we try to imitate the pronunciation of the written Pinyin, check our mouth’s appearance, along with our lip and tongue positions as we make the sounds. Here is an example of what to look for in the mirror: For initial consonants: n, m ● When you pronounce the “n” sound, your lip needs to be kept slightly open, exposing your bottom teeth. ● While you pronounce the “m” sound, you need to keep your lips closed. Check your lips in the mirror to make sure your pronunciation is correct. Finals: a, o, e ● When we pronounce the “a” sound, open our mouth wide, put our tongue in a centered position and slightly raise the middle of the tongue blade (just behind the tip). ● When we pronounce the “o” sound, push our lips forward into a small circle, with our tongue at the bottom of our mouth, leaving a hollow space just above it. ● To produce the vowel “e” sound, first pronounce “o”, and then change the shape of our mouth from rounded to unrounded. At the same time, spread our lips apart, as if we were smiling. Maybe we can do this in the privacy of home, so that we don’t have to feel silly in front of others! Exercise #2: Paper Prepare some small and thin papers in a plate, and pronounce “b” and “p” initial consonants toward the plate. Of course, make sure our mouth is close to the plate, as the following image shows. If we pronounce “p” correctly, small papers will be blown away. On the contrary, the papers will be kept stable if we pronounce “b” correctly towards the plate. It’s as simple as that! A good way to imitate and distinguish aspirated consonants and unaspirated consonants is an exercise that I call “paper game”. -
Hey! I'm a native English speaker who's very new to German and Mandarin, and would like to find someone I can skype with regularly to practice. I also speak intermediate level Spanish, and am near fluent in French, and would love to skype with people who are fluent/native in those languages. Cheneil -
For anyone is thinking about having their child learn Chinese then I would highly recommend Lingobus. They specialize in Children's education ages 5-12. Lingo Bus uses the immersion method which works best for children of this age range, and conducts classes 1 on 1 online with native Chinese tutors. Likewise Lingo Bus has resources on Chinese learning at Chinese.LingoBus.com Feel free to follow us on Twitter at @lingo_bus or on Facebook for even more resources and cultural insights!
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Hello there! I have a question about Mandarin Chinese grammar. Which of the following sentences are acceptable: 1) 他是在公共汽车里的前面 2) 他是在公共汽车的前面里 3) 他是在公共汽车里的前面里 Also, would you be able to say something like "他是在前面的公共汽车(里)? Thanks in advance!
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Asian Language School will be launching Mandarin and Japanese online group training this October. Read here for the Press Release. To sign up for the course, click here for Chinese Lessons or here for Japanese Lessons. Timetable: U.S. Tuesdays 7pm EDT Australia Thursdays 7pm AEST
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So, I recently started learning Chinese for work. Since, I have to do it in a short time, I want to document my journey and perhaps obtain a learning framework for learning languages. Hopefully, my journey will help everyone else as well. I generally am able to learn things within 24 hours (if you count the actual hours). And so I have a bunch of techniques I use to learn things. I am not sure if they'll work for Mandarin, but I will try them nonetheless. Also, I would like to mention that speed learning is a real thing. If you want to learn the framework, look up the video or book "How to Get Good At Anything in 20 Hours". Learning objective: I should be able to converse in Mandarin fluently so as to conduct business meetings and communicate with people from the mainland. Scouting learning resources So, I went through a bunch of resources to see which one fits the bill. My goal was to find something that A) I am comfortable yet fast. Is easily accessible for continuous learning. C) Is free. So, with Mr. Google by my side, I started searching. I went to the bbc learning center online. I went through various other websites that claimed to teach Chinese. But, when I tried them out, I found them to be either too academic or too detailed (remember, I just want to converse and people will understand if I can't read literature). Finally, I googled "learn mandarin for business" and found this article and many like it about Zuckerberg. He's been learning Mandarin for 5 years now and he practices it everyday! Then, I went through a bunch of forums and reddits about it. Finally, I found a list of good android apps for learning Chinese. And I downloaded all the apps on the list and gave them a try. Out of all of those, I found Hello Chinese to be really helpful. So, that is the app that I am using right now. Low-Hanging Learning Objective: Learn Mandarin within 24 hours and then converse with someone in a real setting. Yesterday, I met someone who's agreed to show me how to learn Mandarin within 24 hours, which as you know is what I like to do when it comes to learning something. So, I may be letting go of the aforementioned app or using it simultaneously. I have already ordered a fresh batch of index/flash cards numbering about 300. Hopefully, they'll help me learn faster. I also read this article in the Guardian about this journalist learning Mandarin in 2 days and testing himself in an actual setting. So, I know it can be done. Here's the plan for the next few days: Stage 1. Find resources that claim to teach Chinese in 24 hours or less. Already found this site and this app. Stage 2. Try them out one by one. Create flashcards for memorizing things. Practice speaking and reading the language for about 10 hours. Stage 3. Practice listening to the language for 10 hours. Stage 4. Test listening skills by watching Chinese content online. Stage 5. Test conversation skills by going to a Chinese restaurant and striking a real life conversation. Stage 6. Come back. Take note of gaps. Improve. Rinse and Repeat until fluent. So, wish me luck guys. I will let you know how things go.
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Hoping this post doesn't violate the ToS of this forum, I'd like to introduce you to something exclusive and available for any French speakers who desire to understand Chinese the way I do. I have been intensively learning Chinese in China for the last 5 years in order to get ready to become a CH-FR interpreter. If you are learning Chinese and want to have a text translated into French, go on this website www.fiverr.com/shyre2kin/translate-200-chinese-characters-into-french/ and do not forget to say you want to know why I translated it that way. Along with your translated file, you will get a text file which contains the explanation and reasons of such translation. Believe me, it will change your way of learning Chinese -
Hi all, I'd like to introduce a new app called MemoLingo. It's an addictive game but whilst playing we hope you will also learn new words in a new language. (or test out a language you vaguely know). Please give it a go and provide some feedback. We are actively looking to improve based on the responses we are getting. We think our app is less boring that the other language apps out there and are on a mission to make the most fun and effective language learning app! There are 10 language to choose from Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Russian, Spanish and more will be added soon. Please help us out. You can find more information here: http://www.memolingoapp.com available for IPad, IPhone, iPod: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1055010946 available on Android play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trianglecarrot.memolingo actually free on Android Amazon app store: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Triangle-Carrot-Ltd-MemoLingo-Languages/dp/B018BTCHGQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=mobile-apps&ie=UTF8&qid=1449827244&sr=1-1&keywords=memolingo -
Recently I went through my old power points from high school and this year of college and compiled most of the Chinese sentence structures I learned into a mini book. It's only about 35 pages long but i'm selling it for 5$ if anyone is interested. I also have a ton of old power points and pdfs I'm trying to turn into one huge review, but I've been working on that for while with no end in sight. I'm on page 112 and it's not even halfway done. Sighs Link for it is here -
DucroZi Free Chinese Learning APP to Improve Vocabulary
Alexis posted a topic in Language Study Apps
Learning Chinese requires a very good memory and hard work. When I started learning Chinese, I met new words in many situation, and the next day, once a new Chinese word showed up, and I asked a friend or teacher to explain it to me. The day after, I forgot it. Did it happen to you? Or when I went a trip in China, I met some Chinese and got some new words or phrases, but when I came back from trip, I forgot almost all the new words or phrases. Did it happen to you too? If yes, DucroZi is helpful for you. With DucroZi, if a new word shows up, you can search it and add it to your personal list in one click. Later you can improve your Chinese vocabulary with reviewing or drawing all added Chinese words in your lists. What's DucroZi? DucroZi is an offline dictionary APP for Mandarin learners to improve Chinese, and it's totally free. The dictionary APP is based on CC-CEDICT dictionary. But it’s not only a dictionary APP to search words, but also a Chinese learning APP which enables you save words to your personal word list for later study and practice. DucroZi Chinese Learning APP Main Features 1. Flexible search: search words in Chinese, Pinyin and English, CC-CEDICT based dictionary. 2. Words lists: create your personal words lists, then save or add words to list for later review or training 3. HSK word lists are pre-installed. You can learn and memorize HSK vocabulary offline with DucroZi Chinese learning app on your Android phone or tablet anytime, anywhere. 4. Notes: add your personal notes to words 5. Audios: listen Chinese pronunciation with google Text-To-Speech 6. Training: train on your lists with Chinese handwriting function 7. Share: share your word lists with other users … Browser All Features of DucroZi Chinese Learning APP @ http://www.ducrozi.com/features/ Download DucroZi Chinese Learning APK @ http://www.ducrozi.com official website. Or Install DucroZi Chinese learning APP in Google Play Store @ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ducrozi -
I had been using Duolingo app to learn French and Spanish. Recently I thought I would like to learn Mandarin. I did not know that Duolingo do not have those languages that uses special characters like Chinese, Japanese and so on. Anyone here who has an idea when they will be coming up with Chinese Mandarin or do you have a suggestion which is somewhat similar to Duolingo?
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Hello, my name is Andreas, my mother tongue is German and I studied English, French, Latin and Italian at highschool. I was never very good at languages but love different cultures and traveling so I started to learn them regardless. I first went to China in 2002 to study Mandarin and today run a Chinese language school (LTL Mandarin School) there and recently started to learn Spanish. Anyone who has any questions about China, learning Chinese or living in Beijing, let me know. Andreas
