| Top new questions this week: | 
| Is there a version of ex. in Chinese, as in the abbreviation of example? I know theres 例子 but anything quicker than that? | 
| 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. | 
| 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 ? | 
| 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…. | 
| 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. | 
| 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 … | 
| 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 … | 
| Greatest hits from previous weeks: | 
| 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 … | 
| 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 … | 
| 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&… | 
| 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/… | 
| 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 … | 
| 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 … | 
| 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 … |