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Compare the following sentences: 妈妈昨天喝茶，今天喝咖啡。 妈妈不喝茶，她喝咖啡。 Sentence (1) seems quite straightforward: the pronoun is omitted because it is clear who is being talked about and there is no need to …
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What are the exact rules for choosing between 二 and 两 for writing large numbers (larger than 11)? What I understood was: For things like serial numbers, codes, where the number is written or read …
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Is 东鄙 something like, ” the barbaric East”? More generally, not a place a gentleman would choose to visit? Or was it actually the name of a city or town or region? 1. 齐侯阳虎，将**东**之。《左传·定公九年》 …
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For context, this is from lesson eight of Integrated Chinese. I know 李友的 means “Li You’s” and 一篇日记 is “a/one dictionary”, but 李友的一篇日记 together doesn’t make sense to me. Is it just …
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I’m Chinese and I can’t understand 深入推进新时代党的建设新的伟大工程。 which parses as something like 党的建设，这一新的伟大工程 Because that’s different from how similar structures would parse, e.g.: 中国生命科学研究新突破（=…
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I’m trying to build a program to help me study Chinese, and one way that helps me remember characters is dividing them into components. I’m using a website called dictionary.writechinese.com to do …
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This is taken from a song lyrics by AccuseFive. 我們都在愛裡面找答案 是非成敗謊言面對糾纏 時晴時雨 靈魂的一半 擁抱自我還容易簡單 Song lyrics are always vague, but in the second line I can’t even identify what part of speech function …
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I am now used to typing Chinese using a pinyin IME from my time in mainland China. But as far as I know the pinyin IMEs usually generate simplified characters. I’m now in Taiwan and having trouble …
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Anybody knows where to get this Chinese font type?
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I know the phrase “你给我” means “you give me something”, but when people say “你给我出去”, do they mean “You cannot keep me here and let me out”? It looks like there are many variations …
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I tried to type 什么, but I got 什麽! It was working just a minute ago. What happened?
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Are there any resources / how-to sources about how to write Chinese characters faster than normal while still being readable? It took me forever to take notes while in class.
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What’s the difference between all these five words? They mean all “to do”, they’re driving me crazy! I write some example sentences with some of them (hoping that’s the right one), just to understand …
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When someone has grasped the basic concepts of writing Chinese, there comes a point where handwriting starts to look plain or mechanical. From what I have seen, the lines look very straight and like …
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