Mandarin Weekly #15

Mandarin Weekly #15, with links to resources for people learning Mandarin Chinese, is now available at http://www.aweber.com/t/P2IK9.

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This week’s topics:

  • Functional components of Chinese characters
  • Vegetarians in China
  • Organic food in Chinese
  • Chinese brainteaser
  • Most popular resources for learning Chinese
  • Smaller than 小
  • LOL
  • You don’t need to do that
  • Saying “Internet” in Chinese
  • Below-zero temperatures
  • Eventually vs. finally

Mandarin Weekly #14

Mandarin Weekly #14 is out, and available at http://archive.aweber.com/awlist3707181/DD2Xf/h/Mandarin_Weekly_14_April.htm.  You can subscribe via the form on the left, or follow us on Twitter at @MandarinWeekly.

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This week’s topics:

  • Different Chinese verbs for the English word “make”
  • Using 一下 (yī xià) to soften your requests
  • Near and far
  • Choosing translation software
  • Colleagues
  • Sentence structure
  • Organic
  • Adding that final “a”
  • How important is stroke order when writing Chinese characters by hand?
  • Clients
  • Delivery
  • Quotation Marks (“”) and Angle Quotation Marks (《》)

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Mandarin Weekly #13 (13 April 2015)

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This week’s topics:

  • Thinking about tone pairs
  • How does that taste?
  • Reading challenge
  • Tough characters
  • Two chengyu
  • East is east, west is west
  • Learning to read Chinese in the digital age
  • What is 跟 (gan)?
  • But but but
  • Uses of 要 (yao)
  • Schools
  • Close phrases (看来,看起来,and 看出来)
  • Are you full?
  • Being bashful
  • Different types of beauty
  • Can

Mandarin Weekly #12 (6 April 2015) is available

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This week’s topics:

  • The Chinese Pronunciation Wiki
  • 所以 (suǒ yǐ)  vs. 于是 (yú shì)
  • Using and understanding 把 (bǎ)
  • Sentence structure
  • Staying at home
  • Tomb Sweeping Day
  • Learning Chinese characters, through childrens’ eyes
  • Spring is in the air
  • What is the difference between 参加 (cān jiā) and 参与 (cān yù)?
  • Reversible bigrams
  • Why is zero represented by 零 (líng)?
  • 作 vs 做
  • Not bad!
  • Here’s the deal

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