Top new questions this week:
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Is there a version of ex. in Chinese, as in the abbreviation of example? I know theres 例子 but anything quicker than that?
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It seems people always use these words to war up. They have same prenunciations, are they antonyms? I can’t find them in any dictionary.
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isn’t 又 used in the past tense? I can’t understand the meaning here 该,了,又. I found two more sentences that are unclear to me: 1) 她是不是又在发神经了 2) 她又发神经了 which shows 在 in the first sentence ?
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I let ChatGPT tell me some proverbs related to “你要教人家一杯水,你自己就要有一桶水的储备” and it tells me that one. Although I have searched on Baidu and Google, I have been unable to find any relevant sources….
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我 对 欧洲 历史 很 熟悉 or 我 很 熟悉 欧洲 历史 Which one is correct? Can I use both forms of the sentence or not? I mean with or without prepositions.
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Google translates, ‘挑起满满的一担粮食’ [tiǎoqǐ mǎnmǎn de yī dān liángshi] as, ‘…pick up a full load of…’, but when I attempt to translate this phrase manually, using the pinyin given in the source …
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I’m learning Mandarin from the New Practical Chinese textbook series by Taipei Language Institute Press, and there are a few mentions of “FVs” as follows: 你去過台中沒有? – Explanation: 過 is …
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Greatest hits from previous weeks:
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My Chinese friends often say, Haiya followed by something. It’s usually done in correcting a person. It’s like, Haiya, don’t do this lah, you should do that instead. What does Haiya mean? In this …
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I am studying classical Chinese and when I try to type in any words that require the ü it just randomly chooses a character. How do I use the Traditional pinyin entry method on a Mac and get the the …
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Reading the comments to the news article 巴西女排变性球星将竞选国会议员 已瞄准东京奥运 about a Brazilian volleyballer who is transgender and wants to play in the Olympics, we have two comments: Both use this term “JJ&…
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中学 seems to be both terms for middle school (junior high school) and high school (senior high school). how does 高中 and 初中 relate to these words also? www.linedict.com/dict.html#/cnen/entry/…
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When I moved to my current place, I registered my residence at the local police station (giving them a copy of my contract; I think this is called 登记). At the time, I ended up befriending a local …
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I work in a group where I am the only person that does not speak Chinese, thus I hear Chinese conversations all day every day. I’ve noticed that there’s a word which is used extremely frequently, in …
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I was writing a card to a friend and wanted to finish with “Hope you’ll have a great day” but realised what I could think of wasn’t quite the same meaning, or just sounded odd/weird. What I wrote in …
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