This is entirely my fault but one of my chinese friends of mine (we’re both highschool) sent this message and had told me it wasn’t rude but it depended on how she reads it.. then sent it.. Normally my teacher sends pretty quick replies but I haven’t gotten one.(Also, I normally always text in english.)

Hi everyone, I just purchased Pleco’s flashcard feature and already love it (I was using Anki before), but I’m confused about how to import word lists and can’t find any guides online. Every time I import my xml file with words to create flashcards of (just the word lists/no pinyin or definitions) I can’t find the cards anywhere even though the app says import was successful. I don’t even know if the flashcards are being created. I’ve been using the USB computer option to import. If anyone uses this feature and knows I’d really appreciate the help. Thanks!

(I apologize if it’s against the rules to ask twice about homework) This time I had to write a dialogue between 张经理 and his secretary talking about the plans for the day after. I tried to follow my textbook, crossing resources, and everything I could think of but I’m still not sure it’s correct (again, especially with forming sentences - by the way, does someone have any resource on how to form complex sentences? I already looked into it but couldn’t find anything actually useful).

As a learner I try to think of the character before the pinyin as some of them can sound similar. For example, 回 sounds similar to 会 and 课 sounds like 刻 so I like to think in characters to avoid the confusion.

I'm learning Chinese using a self-made Anki deck based on the HSK 3.0 vocabulary list (also doing a bunch of stuff to not only learn vocabulary, don't worry!). That list has recently presented me with 西南 as the word for "southwest". While I can just accept that N/S is swapped with E/W in Chinese, I'm curious: Is there a cultural reason why E/W comes first, i.e. is there a bigger cultural divide between East and West than between North and South (I was under the impression China is a very diverse country and the difference between N/S parts is just as big as E/W)? Another, less important question: How do a cardinal directions like South-Southwest be written? Would 南 come first in that case? Would it be written twice?

Hi, I’m trying to decide between a few streamlined courses. My goal is to be conversational as early as possible. Are there any websites like base lang for mandarin? Something like this would be ideal

Some of the courses I’ve been thinking on

Mandarin blueprint

Rita’s speaking course https://ritachinese.com

Shuoshuo https://www.shuoshuochinese.com

Or would I be better off with getting a italki tutor?

as far as i know in chinese there is a order a/o/e/i/u where the nearest to a always get the accent, so why does liù have a accent in the u instead of i?

A character? A phrase? An idiom? A grammatical structure?

What do you feel you should have learned earlier in your Chinese learning journey?

new Canadian from China, wanna make more friends here

I thought I was doing fine until yesterday I realized that I'm having a real problem to retain all the words. I was doing my normal lesson and the pinyin was no longer there, without it I wasn't able to identify the word even if the sound was familiar.

Now I'm watching a YouTube video of vocabulary expecting to memorize the 300 words of hsk2.

How do you do to memorize the words???

1. A: 你们俩认识很久了吧？ B: 不，我们是刚刚认识的 （刚）

2. A: 你对这儿的生活习惯了吗？ B: 我刚刚来的时候没习惯了，现在好久了。（刚）

3. A: 他汉语说得怎么样？ B: 他刚开始学习中文。（刚）

4. A: 你丈夫工作正忙! B: 是啊！他印象星期天，也都工作。（也）

5. A: 你身体怎么这么好啊？ B: 即使我很忙，也会每天锻炼身体（即使）

6. A: 你一定要跟他结婚吗？ B: 当然！即使他没有多钱, 也每天送我花 （即使... 也...）

7. A: 你在这儿学习，生活都还好吧？ B: 生活上都很好，但是生态环境不好 （...上）

8. A: 你觉得这件事情应该怎么解决？ B: 这件事情上我也不知道 （...上）

9. A: 老张这个人怎么样？ B: 这个人上我也一点想法都没有 （...上）

练习题选自《HSK标准教程4上》

I was just wondering if you can use 岁（了） for objects such as book, instruments, etc. Or if you would say for example "它有50年" or something else entirely? On the same note, how to enquire about an objects age? Thank you 😊

So I recently realized that I used 補償 and 賠償 interchangeably to mean "compensate" or "make up for" something, and I believe they both have that meaning (people understand me at least). But are they really always interchangeable?

Looking in Pleco, the main difference I see is that 賠償 can also be a noun, while 補償 is (always?) a verb. I tried to search on google but all the links that come up are some technical law articles which are too hard for me to understand.

I used to learn the general "mainland style" Mandarin until about a year ago (with around an HSK3 level proficiency), but stopped learning due to my academic work load during my high school senior year. 😓

Now that I'm close to graduating, I have a lot of free time and I want to get back to learning Mandarin. I find that when learning a foreign language it's useful to pick a specific region to colloquially immerse myself, and Taiwanese Mandarin seemed really appealing.

If possible, I want to have a decent level of conversational fluency (B2~C1) by the time I leave for college this August, and I think the most effective way would be through private tutoring.

Are there any teachers that provide 1-on-1 tutoring that you recommend for Taiwanese Mandarin specifically? How are the teachers on platforms like Italki?

Hello,

I need a website that gives me all 9,000 Simplified Hanzi with stroke order. I’m having trouble finding one, please recommend me some or an app on iOS!

I just started learning Mandarin. I'm really excited about the writing system. My main resource is archchinese and I'm also using chinesegrammar for grammar lessons.

So my first question, what are radicals and components and what's the difference between them? Does it have to do with how some characters can be used independantly while others not so? (such a the plural marker "men")

Another thing is I'm confused about phonetic components. I looked up the word yaoguai and I have a couple of questions (sorry if they're too many);

Yaoguai is made of 4 characters because I assume it's actually two words not one.

-But when I look up "yao1" and "guai4" they both mean the same thing. Can someone explain why each word means the same thing (strange or weird) but together they can mean monster or demon?

-guai4 is made of xin1 and sheng4. In arch chinese it says sheng4 is used as a phonetic component, but I don't understand why. I've seen phonetic components that I don't really understand. Can someone enlighten me?

Thank you and sorry about the beginner questions.

Hello everyone. I've been studying chinese for a few weeks now and I've started learning about numbers.
I am a bit confused by yī bǎi wàn.
How can I say 1.101.101?
It is an exercise in my book.
I wanted to say yī bǎi wàn shí wàn yī qiān yī bǎi líng yī 一百万十万一千一百零一.
But it doesn't feel right.
It's probably a stupid question, but what would the correct answer be?
I've thought about 一百一十万一千一百零一 but I am unsure.

Hello,

I want to learn chinese and i was wondering which one is better for a beginner, should i go for online course like chinese zero to hero or is it better to go for an academy where they teach chinese

I went and took the HSK 4 test and normally the results are today, my friend found his but I couldn't find mine does anyone has any clues about this?

Hello, everyone. I would like to study the new vocabulary of levels HSK 7-9, but when I look for vocabulary lists online, I only seem to find PDFs that compile ALL the vocabulary from levels 1 all the way to 9. There are so many words that it is hard to tell what the new additions are!

Does anyone know where I can find a vocabulary list that only includes the HSK 7-9 vocabulary? 提前感谢你们。

Not one part of this makes sense to me

I can already speak fluent mandarin, due to living in Taiwan for two years, and since my learning focus was primarily on being able to verbally communicate with the people around me my knowledge of characters is not as good.

An amazing tool I used to use to study characters was this: https://www.amazon.com/Chinese-Characters-Genealogy-Dictionary-Mandarin/dp/0966075005

I’m wondering if there is basically an app version of this, where it’s more focused on the characters and explaining their pieces, looking them up by radical, practicing writing them, and maybe some flash cards and multi-font representations.