jmnixon95
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Lol, yeah. I forgot all about this thread.
I didn't really know any Mandarin at that point, hence the translator; I know some basic Mandarin now. I can type what I know with the hanzi, but my computer isn't letting me at the moment. I know stuff like, "Ni hao, ni hao ma?" "Wo hen hao. Ni ne?" "Wo hen hao." Or something. Then "Wo shi mei guo ren. Wo bu shi zhongguo ren." Stuff like that; really basic. And I'm learning to read/write Simplified. |
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jamieevren1210
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| Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 1:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Sometimes you ought to learn a bit of trad Chinese to understand ancient texts. Right here it's all in trad, but it's nice to take shortcuts and write in simplified once in a while, especially when taking notes. |
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jmnixon95
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| Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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| jamieevren1210 wrote: | | Sometimes you ought to learn a bit of trad Chinese to understand ancient texts. Right here it's all in trad, but it's nice to take shortcuts and write in simplified once in a while, especially when taking notes. |
I know mainland China uses Simplified in everyday life, but in Taiwan do they teach both Simplified and Traditional, or just Traditional? Whenever I see people from Taiwan writing in Chinese, it's always Traditional. I find all this so interesting for some reason. |
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jamieevren1210
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| Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 1:52 pm Post subject: |
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Just traditional. We are able to read most simplified characters without extra instruction though. The look similar, basically.
And we type using 注音，which is a set of phonetic letters, not alphabets. |
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ECJ
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我也會寫普通話。我大喜歡學習傳統漢字。來年11月我去雲南，學習國際發展。
我會寫漢字必會說漢語好。我朋友教給了我一點廣東話。我喜歡聼中國的流行歌。
認識您們，我很高興。 |
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JustinBieber2
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| Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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你们好
我也学习汉语。
俺中意学习汉字。
也喜欢流行歌。
特别是FIR。
不过我的汉语语法不太好。 |
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jamieevren1210
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| JustinBieber2 wrote: | 你们好
我也学习汉语。
俺中意学习汉字。
也喜欢流行歌。
特别是FIR。
不过我的汉语语法不太好。 |
looks like your typing with simplified. do you know that fir are from taiwan?? 
i like fir too. whats your favorite song?
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Gazelle
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| Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 11:06 pm Post subject: Chinese |
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I do really like learning different foreign languages and the only thing I know how to say in Chinese is "Khong Hee Fatt Choy" (Happy New Year).
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jamieevren1210
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| Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 12:12 am Post subject: Re: Chinese |
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| Gazelle wrote: | | I do really like learning different foreign languages and the only thing I know how to say in Chinese is "Khong Hee Fatt Choy" (Happy New Year). |
Well, FYI that's Cantonese, a dialect used in the pearl river delta. It means may good fortunes and riches come to you
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Gazelle
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| Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 9:52 am Post subject: Chinese |
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Cool and I am glad to know the literal translation of "khong hee fat choy" and in the past have learned that the two main dialects in China are Mandarin and Cantonese. I cannot recall which one of these is more prevalent and need to google it. 
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 1:20 pm Post subject: Re: Chinese .... |
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| ablomov wrote: | | .. anyone fascinated with written Mandarin?? |
Very!
Had the choice between learning many languages but I chose Chinese. I'm learning it for the next 3 years now.
I only know basic stuff but hopefully I'll learn more =) |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 4:21 pm Post subject: Mandarin |
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DeXo, thanks fr yr input, will you be studying full time or in addition to other subjects??
For someone like myself ie with very little language ability and mediocre IQ it still has a very powerful attraction for me, I've been learning ie self taught for a few years now and just playing around with a few simple words is very satisfying. writing characters I find very relaxing, enjoyable. I get a real thrill when the right movements seems to sort of automatically, for instance duo1 ... many.
I also greatly enjoy learning a few simple tang poems, i have about five to memory from years back, a great ice-breaker when I very occasionally get the opportunity.
zhu ni hao yunqi !! |
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我學了六年中文；目前是在大學學習（是我的專業）。
我也很就對中文有了很大興趣。雖然我沒有很多從中國來的朋友，我還有的時候跟《留學美國》的學生用中文說話。
找到了《中文》題目讓我很高興。
我很常用中文來寫詩和歌；我卻沒有很高的聊天能力。誰可以吧我寫的訊息看地懂，我會是很愉悅對跟誰有會話。
（好歹知道我高中學的中文老師是從台灣來的，然後我只用繁體字）
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| Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 6:47 am Post subject: aids to study, to keep going. |
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I find google translate to be very useful, in my brief study sessions I get sentences that are relevant to me and the font they use is attractive, big and clear, excellent for improving my written work. By means of creating my own relevant dialogue it therefore holds my interest. To niggly purists i couldn't care less, at my beginner stage we need to build on memorised characters and for me it works .... and i prefer simplified characters.
Another hint.... for any beginner or intermediate i recommend the excellent 'Oxford Starter Dictionary' .... by far the best I have ever encountered.
ISBN 0-19-860258-8
Its this relevance and 'holding of interest' that is vital in learning any language or subject; to keep going at it and not drop out. |
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jamieevren1210
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Really,folks. One word of advice. Don't use google translate to write mandarin Chinese. It's not authentic looking....no offense just a tip from a person with Chinese as mother tongue.
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