Month: May 2015

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, 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, 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, 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?