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