Category Archives: Chinese Language

Posts on the Chinese language(s) and my experience learning Mandarin Chinese

Feeling Discouraged

Posted on March 20, 2011 by

One thing about learning Chinese is that, for me anyway, it often throws me for a loop. Just when I start to feel like I am making some progress – perhaps even getting pretty good at it – something happens … Continue reading →

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你的脑子有问题吗？

Posted on March 1, 2011 by

So, in my Chinese class last night, our teacher had us role-play as shopkeeper and customer to practice speaking Chinese.  Two of my classmates took their turn, so the one playing the customer pretended she wanted to buy a skirt … Continue reading →

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买东西

Posted on February 27, 2011 by

Shopping! Tomorrow night, I have my Chinese language class, so I am studying and finishing my homework today. This chapter in the textbook (Integrated Chinese, Level 1 Part 1 – yeah, I’m a beginner) is titled “Shopping”（买东西 – pinyin: măi dōng xi, literally … Continue reading →

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大家好！

Posted on February 26, 2011 by

认识你们很高兴！Or in English, “Hello everyone! Happy to meet you all!” I wanted to see how well WordPress handles Chinese. It seems to do just fine. I can use the Microsoft Chinese Pinyin ABC IME (Input Method Editor) in the WordPress … Continue reading →

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