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Forum: Speaking and Listening 9th April 2004, 05:03 AM

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Chinese roots in other languages

Posted By eric

ala, that's really cool and it seems to make a...

ala, that's really cool and it seems to make a lot of sense.

36degN:
i dont mean Korean came from Chinese directly, or that Korean people came from Chinese people,
just that the Korean language was...

Forum: Speaking and Listening 9th April 2004, 01:40 AM

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Chinese roots in other languages

Posted By eric

Well the main reason I'm willing to come to this...

Well the main reason I'm willing to come to this conclusion is that I heard:

1) mandarin is new (500 yrs old?)
2) cantonese is spoken by more people, and was to an even greater degree in the...

Forum: Speaking and Listening 9th April 2004, 01:14 AM

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Chinese roots in other languages

Posted By eric

I noticed that some of the old poems in Chinese...

I noticed that some of the old poems in Chinese sound better in Cantonese too :)

Forum: Speaking and Listening 8th April 2004, 02:09 PM

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Chinese roots in other languages

Posted By eric

Quest: perfect example! :) I think similar...

Quest: perfect example! :)

I think similar things occur in Japanese too, but I have even less knowledge of that. Anyway, this
is all the more reason for me to learn Cantonese now hehe.

So since...

Forum: Speaking and Listening 7th April 2004, 02:12 PM

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Chinese roots in other languages

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Chinese roots in other languages

It has come to my attention that Mandarin is a failry young dialect perhaps. Cantonese might have
been the more prevalent dialect long ago right?

With this in mind, when noting the similarities...

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Forum: Speaking and Listening 13th June 2007, 01:46 PM

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Chinesepod.com-Does it really work?

Posted By mirgcire

Re: Chinesepod.com-Does it really work?

Great question. But a little vague. What do you mean by "work"?

Maybe a good question to ask is: If someone started with no knowledge of chinese, and studied
chinesepod exclusively for one year...

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Forum: Speaking and Listening 3rd May 2007, 05:41 PM

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Steve Kaufmann - How good is he?

Posted By flameproof

Re: Steve Kaufmann - How good is he?

No. But it looks like "other" languages (French, plus a few more) start soon, or have already a
soft opening. Steve said Chinese will "come some time later". I wouldn't be surprised if it's...

Forum: Speaking and Listening 2nd May 2007, 10:56 AM

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Steve Kaufmann - How good is he?

Posted By flameproof

Re: Steve Kaufmann - How good is he?

Steves blog is still active and his new website (lingq or so) has a soft opening too.

Forum: Speaking and Listening 26th February 2007, 11:51 AM

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Steve Kaufmann - How good is he?

Posted By flameproof

Re: Steve Kaufmann - How good is he?

I find it interesting that Steve doesn't want to speak until he is fluent. On this page
http://effortlessacquisition.blogspot.com I found this:

I still do not speak Russian with anyone and...

Forum: Speaking and Listening 10th February 2007, 09:54 AM

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Steve Kaufmann - How good is he?

Posted By flameproof

Re: Steve Kaufmann - How good is he?

I wasn't really serious. His book is really good reading (I planed already to buy it a few weeks
ago, seeing him here was only the final push).

I actually fully agree, there are plenty of very good...

Forum: Speaking and Listening 10th February 2007, 07:50 AM

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Steve Kaufmann - How good is he?

Posted By flameproof

Re: Steve Kaufmann - How good is he?

What Steve also explains is ways that DON'T work for him. Like formal language learning in school,
grammar, interactive CDs.

It's sort of an eye opener. That somebody learns a language does not...

Forum: Speaking and Listening 9th February 2007, 09:29 PM

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Steve Kaufmann - How good is he?

Posted By flameproof

Re: Steve Kaufmann - How good is he?

Absolutely! Such commercial activities are not welcome. (entered later: just joking, actually I
Iike to see more - and I know where to find it)

However, I am not associated with Steve or "The...

Forum: Speaking and Listening 8th February 2007, 08:03 AM

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Steve Kaufmann - How good is he?

Posted By flameproof

Re: Steve Kaufmann - How good is he?

Sorry, I am on StevenK's side and also think grammar is no use. Here is why:

I build up vocab via text and stories, that includes always sentence structure. That means, I do
learn words, plus, I...

Forum: Speaking and Listening 7th February 2007, 08:28 PM

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Steve Kaufmann - How good is he?

Posted By flameproof

Re: Steve Kaufmann - How good is he?

I presume you refer to the reading. I think it depends how you start. I read my learning material,
then again, and again, and again. I know maybe just 200 or so characters. Not enough to read...

Forum: Speaking and Listening 3rd February 2007, 09:49 AM

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Steve Kaufmann - How good is he?

Posted By flameproof

Re: Steve Kaufmann - How good is he?

But since Steve is listening, I would like to find out if he has any Chinese specific advise for
the learners.

IMHO Mandarin is a bit of a special language since the script is harder to learn then,...

Forum: Speaking and Listening 2nd February 2007, 08:34 PM

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Steve Kaufmann - How good is he?

Posted By flameproof

Re: Steve Kaufmann - How good is he?

Fair question!

Partly in...

Forum: Speaking and Listening 2nd February 2007, 09:06 AM

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Steve Kaufmann - How good is he?

Posted By flameproof

Re: Steve Kaufmann - How good is he?

Seems it's very different from many others, which talk first, and then may think later. And BTW, a
famous HK person was also doing long pauses and then speaking very slowly in English. That was
Chris...

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Forum: Speaking and Listening 1st May 2007, 10:27 AM

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which chinese dialect(s) do you like most?

Posted By Mark Yong

Re: which chinese dialect(s) do you like most?

Haha... it seems mine is the reverse of yours:

1. Cantonese (on the basis of its conservatism in terms of endings and tones)
2. Hokkien (on the basis of its preservation of many archaic terms)
3....

Forum: Speaking and Listening 1st May 2007, 10:23 AM

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which chinese dialect(s) do you like most?

Posted By Mark Yong

Re: which chinese dialect(s) do you like most?

I would not say it would sound better. Actually, it is the z-/zh-, c-/ch- and s-/sh- initials in
Mandarin that makes it unique. The problem for a native Cantonese speaker like me, making these...

Forum: Speaking and Listening 29th April 2007, 07:43 PM

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which chinese dialect(s) do you like most?

Posted By Mark Yong

Re: which chinese dialect(s) do you like most?

Coming back to the original question in this thread... :)

I generally have a preference for the Southern dialects, on the basis of their conservatism. To
cite some examples:

Shanghainese 上海話 has...

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Forum: Reading and Writing 17th June 2007, 12:11 AM

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Translation please

Posted By HashiriKata

Re: Translation please

Strictly speaking, there are no such things as correct translations of Western names into Chinese
(there are only approximate transcriptions; and as such, they are based primarily on familiarity
and...

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Forum: Reading and Writing 25th December 2004, 02:45 PM

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"The Lady in the Painting"

Posted By xuechengfeng

For some reason I can't get my parents computer...

For some reason I can't get my parents computer to encode the characters, but NJ star lets me type
characters.. so, I'll try to guess what fragment you don't understand.. and here is the context
it...

Forum: Reading and Writing 25th December 2004, 10:35 AM

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"The Lady in the Painting"

Posted By xuechengfeng

Well, depends on what your aim is. I think that...

Well, depends on what your aim is. I think that I'm trying to understand sentence structures
better and how they translate into English, so I feel that by translating each sentence and asking
about...

Forum: Reading and Writing 25th December 2004, 08:31 AM

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"The Lady in the Painting"

Posted By xuechengfeng

Why shouldn't I write it out in English? It helps...

Why shouldn't I write it out in English? It helps me attempt to translate, and it helps me
remember the story better.

Forum: Reading and Writing 25th December 2004, 07:34 AM

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"The Lady in the Painting"

Posted By xuechengfeng

pages 21-40 他跟大明兩個人不是也得上很多錢的稅嗎﹖ "Don't her...

pages 21-40

他跟大明兩個人不是也得上很多錢的稅嗎﹖
"Don't her (Mei Zhen) and Da Ming also have to pay a lot of taxes?"

不早了﹐我們去逮鴿子去吧。老在這兒說話辦不了事。
"It's become late, I suppose we should catch pigeons. We're always...

Forum: Reading and Writing 22nd December 2004, 03:06 PM

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"The Lady in the Painting"

Posted By xuechengfeng

:mrgreen: This wasn't meant to be a joke, but it...

:mrgreen: This wasn't meant to be a joke, but it sure ended up as one. :evil:

No, it's the normal version, but I stay up too late and I don't check to make sure I'm typing the
write character,...

Forum: Reading and Writing 22nd December 2004, 03:04 PM

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"The Lady in the Painting"

Posted By xuechengfeng

This book is making me :x . I am just horrible...

This book is making me :x . I am just horrible with grammar. I've been writing every sentence out
into English and some make ZERO sense.

This is what happens when your school uses a textbook so...

Forum: Reading and Writing 21st December 2004, 09:52 PM

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"The Lady in the Painting"

Posted By xuechengfeng

Thanks for your help, yikes, I surely did miss a...

Thanks for your help, yikes, I surely did miss a lot of characters or write them incorrectly.. it
was 3 am, sorry :oops:

Forum: Reading and Writing 21st December 2004, 03:12 PM

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"The Lady in the Painting"

Posted By xuechengfeng

Ok, back again :oops: :oops: pages 1-20...

Ok, back again :oops: :oops:

pages 1-20 help

I'll try to translate these so it doesn't seem I'm asking for homework to be done.

他畫那張畫兒的時候很想﹐張大明的屋子裡有這樣一張畫兒
--When he painted that painting he...

Forum: Reading and Writing 17th December 2004, 02:44 PM

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"The Lady in the Painting"

Posted By xuechengfeng

可是到了晚上﹐別人都回家了﹐張大明也回家了。 Would this just...

可是到了晚上﹐別人都回家了﹐張大明也回家了。

Would this just be,

"but when the night came, the others all returned home, and Zhang Daming also returned home?"

Forum: Reading and Writing 31st August 2004, 07:35 AM

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"The Lady in the Painting"

Posted By xuechengfeng

你已經回來了嗎﹖中國怎麼樣﹖

Forum: Reading and Writing 29th August 2004, 03:22 AM

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"The Lady in the Painting"

Posted By xuechengfeng

crap too bad i can't buy just the cassettes.

Forum: Reading and Writing 24th August 2004, 03:22 AM

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"The Lady in the Painting"

Posted By xuechengfeng

http://news.xinhuanet.com/olympic/2004-08/22/xinsr...

http://news.xinhuanet.com/olympic/2004-08/22/xinsrc_55080122001587591738.jpg

I suppose if this were the main character, however, the confusion could be understood in the
sentence 她沒有太太 :mrgreen:

Forum: Reading and Writing 24th August 2004, 03:19 AM

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"The Lady in the Painting"

Posted By xuechengfeng

不好意思 :mrgreen: Actually, for some reason I...

不好意思 :mrgreen:

Actually, for some reason I automatically assumed when they titled it "Lady in the Painting," the
lady was the actual character. :oops:

I guess I should have figured it out on...

Forum: Reading and Writing 23rd August 2004, 01:29 PM

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"The Lady in the Painting"

Posted By xuechengfeng

Ok, maybe a little :help on these :mrgreen:...

Ok, maybe a little :help on these :mrgreen:

他每天早上﹐在路上看看山﹐看看水﹐也有時候唱唱歌兒。

Would this be..

"Every morning, on route (to work) she sees mountains, water, and also has time to sing."

then...

Forum: Reading and Writing 22nd August 2004, 12:30 PM

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"The Lady in the Painting"

Posted By xuechengfeng

hmm that's what seemed to fit, i know jiao4, but...

hmm that's what seemed to fit, i know jiao4, but only as 叫, i wasn't aware there is a variation
of it.

thanks :mrgreen:

Forum: Reading and Writing 22nd August 2004, 09:50 AM

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"The Lady in the Painting"

Posted By xuechengfeng

I believe it is “畫兒上的美人” by the way, what is...

I believe it is “畫兒上的美人”

by the way, what is the following character, i can't find it anywhere..

it's radical is the "mouth" radical + "dipper" radical (according to terms at www.unicode.org)

in...

Forum: Reading and Writing 22nd August 2004, 08:36 AM

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"The Lady in the Painting"

Posted By xuechengfeng

ahhhhhhhhhhh thank you, i'm sure i'll be back...

ahhhhhhhhhhh thank you, i'm sure i'll be back with more.

Forum: Reading and Writing 22nd August 2004, 01:10 AM

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"The Lady in the Painting"

Posted By xuechengfeng

"The Lady in the Painting"

Has anybody read this? I'll just keep a running thread of some translations I may need help with
because some sound funny to me, or I don't know the combinations yet. Hopefully you fine people
can...

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Forum: Reading and Writing 6th April 2008, 09:02 AM

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What do the words in the attached picture mean?

Posted By monto

Re: What do the words in the attached picture mean?

I agree with Skylee.

Forum: Reading and Writing 6th April 2008, 08:23 AM

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What do the words in the attached picture mean?

Posted By monto

Re: What do the words in the attached picture mean?

I see it is “吉星出租”。there is a car made by Changcheng (Great Wall) auto company
called “金吉星”。

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Forum: Reading and Writing 10th April 2008, 04:28 PM

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Foreigners: Participate in research on learning Chinese script (BNU)

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Foreigners: Participate in research on learning Chinese script (BNU)

I am a research scientist from Boston University here on sabbatical to study Chinese script
learning. Together with a Chinese doctoral student, I have designed a set of tasks that will
assess what...

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Forum: Reading and Writing 26th April 2008, 08:22 AM

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Authoritative classification and names of Chinese character strokes?

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回复: Authoritative classification and names of Chinese character strokes?

Wenlin software has nice lists. 2 list of the lists included in the program have 1. radicals by
stroke count and 2. radicals by number 1-214. I find them quite comprehensive and useful. The work
one...

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Forum: Reading and Writing 18th February 2008, 04:38 AM

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World's greatest polyglot say's Mandarin is the hardest language in the world

Posted By leosmith

Re: World's greatest polyglot say's Mandarin is the hardest language in the world

Wow, I totally messed up that las post. I guess I need to avoid posting too close to bed
time.:oops:

Not at all - it was meant for flameproof. I edited the entire post, and made it clear this...

Forum: Reading and Writing 17th February 2008, 03:12 PM

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World's greatest polyglot say's Mandarin is the hardest language in the world

Posted By leosmith

Re: World's greatest polyglot say's Mandarin is the hardest language in the world

flameproof:

Apparently you disagree with my posts on this. It took me a few hours to learn Japanese kana. It
took me several months to learn to read Thai.

adrianlondon:

Written Thai doesn't use...

Forum: Reading and Writing 15th February 2008, 07:27 AM

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World's greatest polyglot say's Mandarin is the hardest language in the world

Posted By leosmith

Re: World's greatest polyglot say's Mandarin is the hardest language in the world

Chiangmai is nice - wish I was there. Are you on vacation, or business?

I agree that what can be considered the 3rd tone in Thai is closest to the 2nd tone in Mandarin.
Some comments:
(a) it's...

Forum: Reading and Writing 11th February 2008, 11:19 AM

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World's greatest polyglot say's Mandarin is the hardest language in the world

Posted By leosmith

Re: World's greatest polyglot say's Mandarin is the hardest language in the world

I think one can learn to read at a basic level in a few months. It would be just about impossible
to learn to read without speaking, and having a good handle on pronunciation. Thai may be about
the...

Forum: Reading and Writing 11th February 2008, 03:55 AM

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World's greatest polyglot say's Mandarin is the hardest language in the world

Posted By leosmith

Re: World's greatest polyglot say's Mandarin is the hardest language in the world

If the learners' backgrounds are different, if they have different motivations, etc, etc, I agree.
For westerners with similar backgrounds though, Thai script is much harder than the other
scripts...

Forum: Reading and Writing 11th February 2008, 01:32 AM

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World's greatest polyglot say's Mandarin is the hardest language in the world

Posted By leosmith

Re: World's greatest polyglot say's Mandarin is the hardest language in the world

Thai script is much more difficult than the others you mention. I can't think of a phonetic script
that comes close to it in difficulty. Perhapse Arabic, but I'm not sure. It's a major hurdle for...

Forum: Reading and Writing 10th February 2008, 06:34 AM

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World's greatest polyglot say's Mandarin is the hardest language in the world

Posted By leosmith

Re: World's greatest polyglot say's Mandarin is the hardest language in the world

To europeans with no exposure to romanized script perhaps. Thai script is much harder than
Vietnamese (romanized) script for most westerners. If you're just talking about the spoken
language, I agree...

Forum: Reading and Writing 7th February 2008, 01:49 PM

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World's greatest polyglot say's Mandarin is the hardest language in the world

Posted By leosmith

Re: World's greatest polyglot say's Mandarin is the hardest language in the world

Poll - World's most Difficult Language
(http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7587&PN=0&TPN=1&RN=1)
I voted for Japanese. :D

Forum: Reading and Writing 1st February 2008, 09:19 AM

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World's greatest polyglot say's Mandarin is the hardest language in the world

Posted By leosmith

Re: World's greatest polyglot say's Mandarin is the hardest language in the world

He's not the world's greatest polyglot, according to this
(http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=8798&KW=ziad).

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Forum: ZDT Flashcards Forum 8th February 2008, 10:58 AM

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ZDT: Most annoying things about the ZDT

Posted By simon_w

Re: ZDT: Most annoying things about the ZDT

Hi jbradfor,

Thanks for your advice/clarifications.

(一) Fair enough - I made an inappropriate inductive step! :lol: I have a list of half-a-dozen or
more already, and I not an advanced student of...

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ZDT: Most annoying things about the ZDT

Posted By simon_w

Re: ZDT: Most annoying things about the ZDT

Okay - I have a couple more...

(一) It seems that when I try to import vocab from a text file, ZDT won't add anything it can't
find it the dictionary, even if "use definitions from imported file" is...

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ZDT: Most annoying things about the ZDT

Posted By simon_w

Re: ZDT: Most annoying things about the ZDT

Hi - just begun using this program, but I think I'll be continuing. Looks great, thanks. :)

I'd like to make a suggestion which I think is raised in an old thread, but I don't think it'd be
too big...

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Distribution - November 2006

Posted By trevelyan

Re: Distribution - January 2007

Latest release up at the usual place. Thanks as always to everyone who has contributed or
corrected entries over the last two months. It is appreciated, and we are slowly making progress.

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Distribution - November 2006

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Distribution - November 2006

Just a ping to let people know that the latest database release has been uploaded to the site.
This brings us to somewhere around 182,000 entries in the backend Adso database and comes with the
last...

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Chinese Text-Processing + Learning Tools

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Re: Chinese Text-Processing + Learning Tools

Wow, this is really cool. Thanks geek_frappa for all the work you've done and continue to do for
the world :clap

And not that you asked for any (technical) feedback...just FYI
It works great on my...

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Why Do You Learn Chinese?(ple help me with the survey)

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last year I was in China and felt terrible for...

last year I was in China and felt terrible for not being able to communicate properly. I speak
several languages and thought I should try to pick up one more.
My partner is Chinese but we speak...

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dashan 大山, Igor(from taiwan) and any others who have disgustingly good chinese

Posted By lylestyle

Yeah, the host of "Happy China" on...

Yeah, the host of "Happy China" on CCTV, I think his name is Daniel. His Chinese is the best, and
most natural, of any foreigner I've come across, better than Dashan's I think. Anyone know the...

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how is wu pronounced?

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huh? ok for example like wu as in the number 5. ...

huh?

ok for example like wu as in the number 5. like some said, i hear more "oo" than the "w" sound.

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how is wu pronounced?

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how is wu pronounced?

is it "woo" or "ooo"?

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为什么很多的汉语学习者在这里不用汉语?

Posted By elina

HashiriKata...

HashiriKata 说得好。

也许用不着向他们解释中文语法，只需告诉他们：
如果我是你，我会这样说：……

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为什么很多的汉语学习者在这里不用汉语?

Posted By elina

我推荐skylee，因为她：
1．中文很好，英文也很好，同时又会不只一种外语，尽管Roddy说过：I...

我推荐skylee，因为她：
1．中文很好，英文也很好，同时又会不只一种外语，尽管Roddy说过：I'm not
looking for a native speaker of Chinese (sorry, but it needs to be designed for Chinese...

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为什么很多的汉语学习者在这里不用汉语?

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Roddy, I think what other people’s saying is...

Roddy, I think what other people’s saying is reasonable, because:

1. Please remember guests on this forum cannot access the part of “Chat and Language
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为什么很多的汉语学习者在这里不用汉语?

Posted By elina

HashiriKata...

HashiriKata 说得好。

也许用不着向他们解释中文语法，只需告诉他们：
如果我是你，我会这样说：……

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为什么很多的汉语学习者在这里不用汉语?

Posted By elina

我推荐skylee，因为她：
1．中文很好，英文也很好，同时又会不只一种外语，尽管Roddy说过：I...

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为什么很多的汉语学习者在这里不用汉语?

Posted By elina

Roddy, I think what other people’s saying is...

Roddy, I think what other people’s saying is reasonable, because:

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most embarrassing moment while learning Chinese

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I've had plenty of embarrassing moments myself...

I've had plenty of embarrassing moments myself but one of the funniest happened to a friend of
mine. We were newly arrived in Taiwan. He wanted to say to this Chinese man, "Wo3 xiang3 wen4 ni3.
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Chinese roots in other languages

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Eric, I think you're guessing, I don't know but...

Eric,
I think you're guessing, I don't know but perhaps someone with real knowledge of Chinese
historical lingusics could enlighten us.
However what I do know is, there are a few Chinese words in...

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Chinesepod.com-Does it really work?

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Re: Chinesepod.com-Does it really work?

I wouldn't bother about cpod or any course whatsoever if I had a native Mandarin speaking wife
:mrgreen:

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Chinesepod.com-Does it really work?

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I think it does work, personally I've covered newbie section and half way through elementary now.
I am planning it'll take me another 1-2 months to cover the whole elementary section and get all
the...

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