Mandarin Weekly #11 (30 March 2015) is available

Direct link to the newsletter is here: http://www.aweber.com/t/KruvJ

This week’s topics:

  • What Are 形容词? Are They “Adjectives” or “Adjectival Stative Verbs”?
  • Uses and abuses of Chinese homophones
  • Saying “no”
  • Sound more fluent
  • Post-office words
  • Traditional vs. simplified characters
  • Present progressive
  • Fixing tones
  • What are the literal translations of country names?
  • The first five minutes
  • What does “x Shi x” mean?

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Mandarin Weekly #10: March 23rd, 2015

Issue #10 of Mandarin Weekly is out.  You can read it here.

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This week’s topics:

  • Teacher-student phrasebook
  • Radicals vs. character components
  • Children’s songs
  • Be afraid. Be very afraid.
  • Improving your Chinese listening level
  • From east to west
  • Yes!
  • Pronouncing the “d” sound
  • Just a bit
  • Vocabulary building through tongue twisters
  • Common conjunctions
  • Is it rude to ask Chinese people to repeat themselves or speak slowly?

Mandarin Weekly #9: March 16th, 2015

Issue #9 of Mandarin Weekly is out.  You can read it here.

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This week’s topics:

  • Three steps to more and better Chinese listening practice
  • Want vs. need
  • If English were written like Chinese
  • Feeling well?
  • Wind expressions
  • Seemingly repeated meanings
  • Children’s videos for learning Chinese
  • Formal vs. informal characters
  • How to incorporate chengyu within your writing and speaking without disrupting the cohesiveness?
  • And and and

 

Mandarin Weekly #8: March 9th, 2015

Issue #8 of Mandarin Weekly is out.  You can read it here.

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This week’s topics:

  • Mandarin listening challenge
  • HSK thoughts
  • Blue, black, green, or 青
  • Simple story
  • Mirror words
  • Chinese TV shows
  • Faster, stronger, better
  • Doctor, doctor
  • Similar looking
  • Saying “probably”
  • Suggestions? Complaints?

 

Mandarin Weekly #7: March 2nd, 2015

Issue #7 of Mandarin Weekly is out.  You can read it here.

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This week’s topics:

  • Kickstarter for OS X Pinyin input
  • Tone theory
  • Big to small
  • Making telephone calls in Chinese
  • Differences between 优点 (yōudiǎn) and 好处 (hǎochù).
  • “Correction brother”
  • How old are you?
  • When do you use 两, and when do you use 二?
  • Getting organized
  • Tom, Dick, and Harry
  • What does 非常 (in such phrases as 非常好) come from?

Suggestions and submissions are warmly welcome, via e-mail at reuven@lerner.co.il or on Twitter at @MandarinWeekly.