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Hello, my name is Cole, I am a highschool student interested in learn Mandarin Chinese. I want to learn Mandarin because I love the Chinese culture and China itself. I would like to meet as many people as possible, even though my Chinese is not very good right now.
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    Why is 他妈的 a bad word? I heard it used in that context and it translated to "damn it" or "Hell" or so on, why does it mean a bad word if 他 means 'he' or 'boy'; 妈 means "mom" and 的 means possessive. I am asking, what does it mean; and what is the LITERAL translation of it, like the literal translation of January (yi yue) means 'first moon'.
    December 8, 2014
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    A positive experience:

    Life is like a journey, in this journey, one would have many positive changes. Today, I am talking about one of mine three years ago.

    It was a sweltering summer afternoon, I went to a gym to swim, then a new yoga room grabbed my attention.
    And an Indian instructor invited me to have a try, after that trial class, I fell in love with yoga.
    After three years of working out,my body has gradually become more flexible and I often feel energetic. At the same time, my mind has been calmer.

    Now , I'd like to describe what I got from this change.
    Firstly,I met many new friends who are also into this exercise, we share a common interest and encourage each other to keep practicing.

    Secondly, I learned some Indian culture and Indian songs. I know about if someone puts their hands together, that is to say hello to you; and those Indian melodies help me they sounds really peaceful and listening to them is really a great way to wind down.

    Yoga really opens my door to health and it is definitely a positive in my journey.

     

    <em>I would add that this was amazing! You did a really good job of writing and using proper word order and things like that. So good job on that! I would say the few things you should take away is that 1) you use punctuation without a space and then space after. For example, it would be: Life is like a journey,_ in this journey... the "_' is used to indicate where the space should be. You do not space before the punctuation, you space after. That is just some weird thing about English, I don't know why it is like that. 2) Tenses are hard... even native speakers mess this up a lot. but you have to decide if you are using past or present and make the entire sentence past or present, you cannot skip between the two. Learn is preseant, but LearnED is past. The "ed" in this case stresses that the learning was done in the past. Something to just keep in mind, you did a very good job about it and I just wanted to encourage that because I mess that up ALL the time. I am a native English speaker at that. Lastly, it's just a weird thing with English, you are technichally not supposed to use the word "and" to start a new sentence. A lot of writers actually ignore this rule and you see it a lot in novels, but I think it is the current rule that proper grammar does not start a sentence with the word and. Just something to keep in mind. (I break that rule all the time, by the way. I disagree and think you should be able to, but I am not in charge of the rules... I just have to obey them)</em>

     

    Amazing work!

    ~Cole

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    September 5, 2014
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    Based on the two possible answers. The second one is more correct. However, you could also say it like this I think that in the far future only English and Chinese will remain. In this instance, "will remain" makes the most sense if it is after "English and Chinese" I hope that helps
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    September 5, 2014
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    What does each part of 想 mean? Hello! I am learning Mandarin and I have a question. The character 想 means to think, desire, want. Correct? Well I noticed there are several parts of this character. It looks like there is the following: 木 - I think means tree, wood lumber 目 - Means head... I think 心 - Means Heart I understand the last two, your head and your heart make up your thoughts, desires and needs. That all makes sense. Like the connection of your head and your heart creates who you are, it creates what you think. but where does mu4; 木 come into play on this character?
    September 5, 2014
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    What is the difference between 名字 and 叫 I see people say something like 我的名字。。。but it means 'my name is...' However, when you ask a name, you say something like 你叫神马名字?Is this literal translation like ‘You are called by what name?' and why can you respond like 我名字Cole AND 我叫Cole Which is more correct?
    April 10, 2014
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    my family

    I love my family. there are five members in my family : my father, my mother, my younger sister, my younger brother. they always care for me very much. everyday, my mother gets up at 4.30 a.m. she brushes her teeth,washes her face and cooks some rice. next she goes to market and begin the work of a shopkeeper at 5.15 a.m. at 5a.m my father gets up. he does the excise and then,he takes the forage for chikens,a cow, two buffalos. at 6 a.m he calls me to get up. I and my younger sister,my younger brother get up. then, we eat breakfast with some foot by my father cooked. at 6.30 a.m we go to school. my father is a teacher. he teaches in a primary school,so he is very patienty. He looks after my family very good. from time to time, he gets up late and that time, I understand that he is sick. so, i and my sister must take a meal for my family cattle.that is very difficult while the person to do it everyday is my father... he is very important in our life... i love my family very much, love all the member ...! I hope everyone has a good life...

     

     

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    Can I just say, great job! You did great and you did not make many mistakes or errors and you know a lot of words in English! Plus, the errors you did make were not big ones, they were little ones like leaving out 'the' or something like that. You did a really good job!

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    April 9, 2014
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    How do you say 'I want' and 'I need' I want to learn how to say want need
    April 9, 2014
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    How do Chinese Children learn Mandarin Characters?. I want to learn more Mandarin Characters. I know how to type in the language, but do not know many characters. That is why I am not typing in Chinese, well, I also do not know how to say most of this O_O.
    July 15, 2013
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    June 1, 2013
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    Getting started. I am getting started learning Mandarin Chinese, I am very basic and cannot read or write very well. I am excited to learn anything and would love to make world-wide friends!
    June 1, 2013
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