Month: June 2015

Mandarin Weekly #23

Issue #23 of Mandarin Weekly, with links and resources for people learning Mandarin Chinese, is available at http://archive.aweber.com/awlist3707181/O3rXD/h/Mandarin_Weekly_23.htm.

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  • 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

Mandarin Weekly #22

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

Mandarin Weekly #21

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

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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  • 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