Mandarin Weekly #19

Mandarin Weekly #19, with links to resources for people learning Mandarin Chinese, is now available at http://archive.aweber.com/awlist3707181/4ovMf/h/Mandarin_Weekly_19.htm.

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  • Radicals and dictionaries
  • Learning the most frequent characters
  • Learning Chinese on a busy schedule
  • The importance of Pinyin
  • Starting Chinese from scratch, only when commuting
  • Can you do something? Or can you?
  • Comparing people
  • Dialects vs. languages
  • Physical education vs. sports
  • Different types of “now”
  • In the middle

Mandarin Weekly #18

Mandarin Weekly #18, with links to resources for people learning Mandarin Chinese, is now available at http://www.aweber.com/t/5eAIb.

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  • Investment words in Chinese
  • Keeping track of your tones
  • Mother’s Day
  • Backgrounds to some Chinese characters
  • Chinese fonts
  • How do order meat dishes in Chinese
  • Cat surprise!
  • 9 Chinese-learning Twitter feeds
  • Chinese house tour
  • When you swap characters, what happens to the meaning?
  • Do different nationalities have different accents?
  • When should you use 是吗 and when should you use 是不是?
  • When can I omit 个 (ge) ?
  • Asking for another room key
  • In 有所 (yǒu suǒ), what does 所 (suǒ) mean?

Mandarin Weekly #17

Mandarin Weekly #17, with links to resources for people learning Mandarin Chinese, is now available at http://archive.aweber.com/awlist3707181/BMq89/h/Mandarin_Weekly_17.htm.

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This week’s topics:

  • Negotiating over prices
  • Internet slang
  • Looking to improve your writing? Join the Chinese writing challenge
  • A Chinese song: “Take care of her for me”
  • 给 (gěi) vs. 替 (tì)
  • Is 以后 an adverb?
  • What characters have the same radical and main component?
  • Analyzing characters beyond their radicals
  • When do we use 出来?
  • I’ve now realized
  • Long time no see
  • The top n

Mandarin Weekly #16

Mandarin Weekly #16, with links to resources for people learning Mandarin Chinese, is now available at http://archive.aweber.com/awlist3707181/6vkVP/h/Mandarin_Weekly_16.htm.

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This week’s topics:

  • Tone changes for 一 (yī)
  • Chemical elements in Chinese
  • Approximately
  • Kitchen Chinese
  • Greetings other than 你好
  • Apartment hunting
  • Migrant workers and foreign workers
  • Types of teas
  • Mammals in Chinese
  • Modern catchphrases
  • Saying “I thought”
  • Typing onomatopoeia
  • What is 不起 (bù qǐ) doing in this sentence?
  • Almost new cars!
  • Why are Chinese mice and tigers old?