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I lived in Beijing for over 6 years and moved to Shanghai 2 years ago. I work for a high-tech US company headquartered in San Diego. What I need most at the moment is practicing listening and speaking as much as possible. In return I'm willing to help others learn Mandarin in any ways as they wish. I've been to many cities in China. So maybe you will have your questions about China answered here. If you ever see me active on skype, I'm free to talk.
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    July 23, 2013
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    下个月我快就要去中国了

    大家好，我好久没用italki因为我忙得没有时间。我把签证办好了。我在中国要继续我的学习。读研究生，还有继续学普通话。其实我有两个选择。北京或者广州。许多朋友告诉我，最好我去北京学习汉语因为在广州有些人用粤语说话。到底最后，我决定了我去北京。下个月之内可能我已经在北京。说真的我从来没去过中国大陆所以我很兴奋。我是陌生人(I'm a stranger there? Maybe you can say 我没去过北京, but since you've already said 我从没去过中国大陆，I prefer to delete this sentence)。我对北京不熟悉。哈哈。我怎么办？我有一半中国血统。我爸是中国人可是而我妈是菲律宾人。但是我中文说得不太好。我听力也不好。我希望在中国我认识很多好朋友帮帮我练习说中文。: )

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    July 22, 2013
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    “鸡毛蒜皮”用来形容（原本不值一提的）琐碎的小事。

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    July 8, 2013
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    枕头里填充的东西各式各样：荞麦劈、绿豆（皮）、棉花、干菊花、决明子、茶叶、艾叶... 当然还有很多我没见过的...

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    July 8, 2013
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    Good question and wonderful answers! I 'wanna' note them down. Haha
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    July 5, 2013
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    '难道' is similar with 'doesn't' or 'isn't' in English. For instance, '你的汉语很好，难道不是吗？' = 'Your Chinese is very good, isn't it?' Or '难道你不懂吗？'='Don't you understand?' In a word, it's used to strengthen the speaker's tone and the speaker has already got a positive answer itself when he/she is asking the question.
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    July 4, 2013
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    Hi Sarina. If we are talking about the meaning related with money/price. 'Free' would be ‘免费的’ in Mandarin and its antonym would be '收费的' or ‘有价的’
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    July 4, 2013
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    What's the antonym of 'free'? on the meaning related with money
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    Thank you very much!

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    July 3, 2013
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    I partly agree with Casper. It's not perfect in grammar. However as a matter of fact, I did hear native speakers spoke something similar with "对我来说学习中文很重要的" from time to time.  Some people (usually young ladies or teenagers) use "的" at the end of a sentence to strengthen their tone. Anyway, Casper's examples are more frequently used.

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    July 3, 2013
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