Mandarin Weekly (每周中文)

Issue #28 of Mandarin Weekly, with links and resources for people learning Mandarin Chinese, is available at http://archive.aweber.com/awlist3707181/PFrcD/h/Mandarin_Weekly_28_.htm.

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This week’s topics:

• Ways to understand
• Heated up
• Listening practice
• Why is it so hard to understand strangers?
• 10 top posts for beginners
• Hao… what?
• Basic conversational phrases
• Saying “Sunday”
• “It turns out”
• Two basic translations
• Improving fluency before a trip to China
• Same sound, different tone

Issue #27 of Mandarin Weekly, with links and resources for people learning Mandarin Chinese, is available at http://archive.aweber.com/awlist3707181/KkKTT/h/Mandarin_Weekly_27_.htm.

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This week’s topics:

• Learn to read Chinese using bigrams
• Finishing what you started
• Sentence order matters!
• How learned are you?
• Yet more Internet slang
• Writing down Mandarin
• Oddities of Yunnan
• Learning strategies
• Directions in Chinese
• Review of HelloChinese
• 好像 vs. 像
• Can you learn Chinese without living in China?
• How do you say “Mandarin” in Chinese?
• “Come here”
• Pinyin inputs
• Where can you practice listening?
• Uses for 对
• The difference between 长 and 涨

Issue #26 of Mandarin Weekly, with links and resources for people learning Mandarin Chinese, is available at http://archive.aweber.com/awlist3707181/OYerT/h/Mandarin_Weekly_26_.htm.

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This week’s topics:

• Way to go!
• Being polite in Chinese
• The many uses of 是
• Tongue twisters
• Ordering delicious food in Chinese
• Phrases for travelers
• Forgetting, with one or two characters
• It is (was?) raining
• When should you use 的 ?
• Where people lived
• Advantages of knowing Chinese
• How do you say “strangle”?
• Stood up
• Improving your tones
• The two pronunciations of 粘

Issue #25 of Mandarin Weekly, with links and resources for people learning Mandarin Chinese, is available at http://archive.aweber.com/awlist3707181/OMc6j/h/Mandarin_Weekly_25_.htm.

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This week’s topics:

• Words with multiple meanings
• When to use the particle 呢 (ne)
• What do you do?
• “Let me think about it”
• Remembering characters
• Online buzzwords
• Android apps
• Useful questions, part 2
• Hearing the differences
• Percentages and discounts
• Where is the negative?
• Undermining, or short selling?
• Is HSK 6 worthwhile?
• Just now?
• I want, I want
• Six months? Or the sixth month?
• Wearing vs. putting on

Issue #24 of Mandarin Weekly, with links and resources for people learning Mandarin Chinese, is available at http://archive.aweber.com/awlist3707181/OTUaz/h/Mandarin_Weekly_24.htm.

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• More Internet slang!
• Intermediate Chinese grammar
• Advanced Chinese conversation
• Say 啊!
• Carefully slide
• Five basic phrases
• Ninchinese
• Using too much 会 (huì)
• The relationship between 两 and 辆
• Days and weeks
• Using 可以 (kě yǐ) and 行 (xíng)
• Ordering from Web sites
• Different words for otherwise
• Overused English words
• So funny, I forgot to laugh

• Walking and chewing gum
• Structural differences between Chinese and English
• 30 characters, more than 30 sounds
• When a verb becomes a noun
• School’s out for the summer
• I know, I know
• Hobbies
• Common business expressions
• Weights and measures
• Chinese food traditions
• Face song
• Where does the “why” go?
• Using 是 and adjectives
• Difference between 非常 and 很
• Pronouncing two third tones
• Talking about accounts
• The best ever

Issue #22 of Mandarin Weekly, with links and resources for people learning Mandarin Chinese, is available at http://archive.aweber.com/awlist3707181/COP9T/h/Mandarin_Weekly_22.htm.

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This week’s topics:

• Most common characters
• Strategies for improving your Chinese
• Strategies and tools for improving your Chinese
• Slang: Zhai Nan
• Sneaking around
• Oversimplified characters
• Insults!
• Ack! Dinosaurs!
• Japanese vs. Chinese fonts
• This kind… like this
• How about you?
• For example…
• Announcing!
• It’s possible

The latest edition of Mandarin Weekly, with links and resources for people learning Mandarin Chinese, is available at http://archive.aweber.com/awlist3707181/Gq27P/h/Mandarin_Weekly_21.htm.

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• Riding the Taipei subway
• Got fired? At least you know how to say it!
• Can, can, and can
• Complement sentences
• Taking a test
• Helpful character components
• Counting in Chinese
• How many times?
• Practicing tones
• Saying “Oh!” in chat
• When did 乐 get two different pronunciations?
• Excuse me
• Homophones
• There is a park…

Mandarin Weekly #20, with links to resources for people learning Mandarin Chinese, is now available at http://archive.aweber.com/awlist3707181/BZHNP/h/Mandarin_Weekly_20.htm.

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Please share Mandarin Weekly with your friends and colleagues who are learning Chinese.  Any and all feedback you might have is also welcome!

• Confusing characters
• Character components you should learn
• Everything is relative
• le vs. guo
• Chinese cooking
• When should you use 了?
• In what order should I learn radicals?
• Pronouncing “er”, with and without tones
• Someone or something
• Street food
• Expressing the future

 

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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Please share Mandarin Weekly with your friends and colleagues who are learning Chinese.  Any and all feedback you might have is also welcome!

• 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