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Tips and Strategies for Learning to Speak Mandarin Chinese
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Laowai Chinese 老外中文
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Every time I use the China Construction Bank ATM, the lady inside the speaker shouts instructions to me. If youre hearing the same thing, we might as well understand what shes saying. Listen Now [See original post to listen to audio] Download the MP3 Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Transcript 1. qǐng qǔ xiànjīn 请取现金. Please take (your) ...
11-10
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Laowai Chinese 老外中文
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I just found out about a blogish list of hip, new Chinese words that the ShanghaiDaily puts out called Buzzword. Heres the editors purpose statement: Frequently, readers ask us for help when new Chinese phrases or terms pop up in the press or daily conversations. In an attempt to improve the rendering of such terms in English, we have decided to introduce the weekly “Buzzwords” column starting fro...
11-08
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Laowai Chinese 老外中文
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My humble home recording studio has gotten quite a workout this past week as I finished up (finally) my second Chinese pop song: Àimèi de Guānxi 暧昧的关系. Inspirational Story The idea for this song came from one week of class when the topic for my English major students was romance and relationships. Invariably, in every class, someone would ask me how to say àimèi 暧昧 in English. I told them just to ...
11-02
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Laowai Chinese 老外中文
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First of all, thanks to everyone who has written something nice about my book at Amazon or your own blog or the Facebook page (currently banned in China) or even here. Its been nice to hear some feedback and its mostly positive (what a bonus)! A few people have contacted me saying they wanted to write a review of Chinese 24/7 on Amazon.com but couldnt because they didnt have an Amazon account. I t...
10-11
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Laowai Chinese 老外中文
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I just got back from China Telecom trying to get an ADSL (broadband) internet connection installed. My end goal is to get a wireless router so I can have wireless internet and blog from the balcony as well as my desk. But I didnt tell the lady that, which is why I was so surprised when she said the 130 yuan per month included: wúxiàn shí shàngwǎng She rattled off some more stats and info that was ...
10-09
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