Mandarin Weekly #28: Resources for students of #Mandarin #Chinese

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

Mandarin Weekly #27: Resources for students of Mandarin #Chinese

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

Mandarin Weekly #26: Resources for students of Mandarin #Chinese

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

Mandarin Weekly #25: Resources for students of Mandarin #Chinese

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

Mandarin Weekly #24

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