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I have a little bit confusion on when to put the location of which the action is taking place, which is before or after the verb. From what I know, if for example we want to say “I want to eat …
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The recent news shows that the name of a high-ranking official 谌贻琴 is pronounced Shen4 Yi2 Qin2, but as far as I know, a famous writer 谌容 and a famous badminton player 谌龙 are called Chen2 Rong2 and …
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So I’ve noticed that for 謝謝 and 歡迎, it is common to put 你 or another 2nd person pronoun afterwards, though it’s not required. 謝謝 vs 謝謝妳 歡迎到佛蒙特 vs 歡迎你們到佛蒙特 I’m assuming that because these expressions …
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One of the weirdest things about Chinese is the classifier. It’s 一栋楼, not 一个楼, and 一只鱼, not 一个鱼. My question is: how (and why) did Chinese develop so many different classifiers? It makes sense to me …
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That’s the mean have 了 here? I’ve heard it can be index for changing, like before he could came bit now he can’t, but I’m not sure. Does it work here? Have it any other meaning(exept the index of past …
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I’ve been looking at some questions and I found in some of the answers that 你吃了吗 was identified as slang. I would have translated it as “have you eaten?”, but I’m not sure since it’s slang. I’m …
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For example, let’s examine the character 天 (heaven). It has a 人 radical (men). And then we add a strip to become 大 (big). And then we add another strip to get 天 (heaven). Now, is there a site to do …
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I’m just reading a book about China and Chinese customs from Heike Barai. She says that Chinese only has around 300 different syllables, whereas modern German has about 10 000 and I suppose English is …
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Anybody knows where to get this Chinese font type?
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I’ve asked some of my Chinese friends what the difference was. Most couldn’t explain. Some said that you 了解 people but you 理解 things. What’s the difference?
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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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I tried to type 什么, but I got 什麽! It was working just a minute ago. What happened?
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