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I'm from Hong Kong, and we started bilingual education quite early.
Cantonese (廣東話) is our mother language, yet we start English education as early as in kindergarten. The bilingual education is compulsory in primary until secondary, and in fact you need both languages in university.
Mandarin (普通話) starts in primary (when I was young), yet many of the youth nowadays also start that in kindergarten. Many believed that it is more similar to the writing format of Chinese, especially for sentence structure, so they believed also that learning Mandarin would help kids in writing Chinese. However, the fact is the similarity does not necessarily assist the learning of written Chinese. Many of the terms are different in the two languages because of their history and development.
Learning a "third" (should be officially fourth, yet many just consider Cantonese and Mandarin are just Chinese) language is quite common nowadays because of foreign cultural input. Japanese, Korean, French, Spanish, and many other languages are not compulsory in education, yet many people learn a "third" language at around teenage from school or tutor centres. Universities also offer foreign language courses to undergraduates, that also gave me an opportunity to get a taste of what French and Italian were like back then.
0 votedJanuary 2, 20170我中文的練習
大家好！我的名字是羅常羲。我十九歲了，和我是紐約大學校的學生。Subject repeated in the sentence. and university is 大學 not 大學校我學習中文十個月了。了 here is a suffix means it has been, so "it has been 10 months" for 我學習中文
我寫字寫得好，可是我說的不好。that's the best :)
我想更經常練習，put adverbs before verbs here would be more suitable (it's sometimes before, sometimes after depending the word)
可是我沒有奪得機會，Subject repeated (can be omitted as well after , if didn't change) 我沒有機會 i didn't have a chance 奪得機會 would mean you actually have to seize an opportunity when the opportunity is there
{因為我的中文還不好，和我在學習和國語也和印地語也。} what did you mean?
雖然很有一點難，我希望學會更的中文。you can either say 很難 (very difficult) or 有一點難 (a little bit difficult)
feel free to ask!
0 votedMay 4, 20164幾年前, 我睇咗一本叫“點解斑馬冇潰瘍“嘅書 。個作家(個生物學家)解釋壓力嘅科學。基本上，係古代，當幾時最大嘅食肉獸就嚟要食咗Joe, Joe 嘅生物進程生理作用會產生腎上腺素同埋咩任何可以幫佢即時走佬的激素都會幫佢即刻走路. 呢啲激素都會令到產生長期嘅問題，但係短期解決咗佢嘅問題 (即係肉食動物）。 喺有現代科技同嘅社會,比較小啲條命凍過水少咗好多生命威脅。不過呢啲搶救咗Joe的相同長期有害嘅生理作用，都可以由（肉食動物 / 食肉獸）任何壓力都會發動。（譬如人際關係問題、錢件事財，期末考試學溫習等等）
設想試諗下個一對老夫婦.一個伴侶死咗．個監仍在生悼念嘅伴侶感受巨大俾壓力壓倒．咁犀利的, 個壓力響應都會壓倒佢嘅又老同埋減力又弱雞嘅身體/免疫系統.佢死埋添．呢個係比較常見嘅現象: 老夫婦一個喺短期兩個都死咗．如果以前有人講俾自己話我知傷心可以致命令到你死，我可能都會講呢啲係扯淡話佢亂UP．有時人哋唔知所有嘅科學．或者科學未先進咗到俾可以解識呢件事．所以剩返只有有剩直覺．我諗住估喺會有侖邏輯嘅答案，不過暫時, 我就選擇順其自然．
呢個係我點樣相信我嘅直覺又唔使犧牲邏輯.
0 votedMay 4, 20162- verb+过: have done, had that experience verb+了: 1. finished 2. about to do that, here 了 is more of an exclaimation or a 助語詞 (that only assist and doesnt hv much meaning) this is only available for 了 but not 过 adj+了：became that adj 过了: over, had done the meaning really changes depending on context. 吃过飯: i ate a meal 吃了飯: i ate a meal 吃飯了: time to have a meal 飯沒了: no more rice 吃过了: i had eaten0 votedApril 10, 20160
- 자기소개 하겠습니다 ^^ 안녕하세요 저는 피비라고 합니다. 여기 쓰는것 처음이라서 앞으로 잘 부탁하겠습니다. 저는 홍콩사람이고 중국어와 영어또 할 수 있다. 우리 홍콩에서 말 하면 중국어로 아니라고 광동어로 하다. 그래서 중국에서 하는말 달라다. 영어는 우리 유치원부터 공부시작이라서 잘 할 수 있다. 둘 다 잘 하는것 진짜 고마운 생각 이다. 2년전에 대학교에 신문방송학으로 졸업했다. 그런데 지금 기자 아니고 자페성 아이한테 행동치료사 이다. 왜냐하면 기자 하는것 너무 힘들고 잘 할 수 있는 자신 없다. 지금 행동치료사 이고 매일 아이랑 놀아는 것 너무 좋다. 우리 놀아 것 중에 중요한 기능도 가르치고 다른 사람랑 어떻게 지난 방법도 가르칠거다. 일은 재미와 의미 다 있어서 너무 좋아하다. 저는 언어 배우는 것 너무 좋아하다. 4년전 한국어 공부 시작했다. 수업을 들은것 2 학기 밖에 없지만 드라마와 예능 포로그램에서 한국어 많이 배웠다. 저 재일 좋아하는 포로그램은 "슈퍼맨 들어왔다" 이다. 아이 어떻게 말을 배우는 것 보고 저도 아이들에서 한국어 배웠다. 자기 책에서 공부 하는 것도 많지만 쓰는 것 진짜 연습 하는 때 없어서 잘 못 쓴 것 같다. 그래서 여러분 잘 부탁할겠습니다. ^^April 10, 201630
Cantonese isn't mandarin dear. Cantonese is a dialect in Chinese, as well as mandarin. They differ in the way they are spoken. To be clear,
- Differs in the way of talking: Mandarin (official dialect in mainland China), Cantonese, Shanghainese, Taiwanese, etc. There are many as China is quite big and different tribes in the past have different way of saying things.
- Differs in the way of writing: Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese. Traditional Chinese is the original way of writing words since thousands of years ago, which was kept in Taiwan, Macau and Hong Kong mainly as the official way of writing Chinese.The parts of the words may be more complicated, but since Chinese is a language that each part of the word has a meaning, so actually it is easier to understand.
Simplified Chinese is an easier way of writing Chinese, which parts of the words would be simplified and they have an official standard for it. It is used in mainland China now, starting after the end of the Qing Dynasty (if I remember correctly).
Hope it helps!
0 votedApril 10, 20160Cantonese draft (Jyutping)
Ha1 Lou3. Ngo5 hai6 Grace. Ngo5 hok6 Guong2 Dong1 waa2. Ngo5 dei6 jiu3 jat1 cai4 hok6 Guong2 Dong1 Waa2. Ngo5 zung1 ji2 hok6 Guong2 Dong1 Waa2. Nei5 jau5 mou5? Ngo5 zung1 ji2 jam2 caa4!!
Overall it makes sense and I can understand! (Although I usually read Chinese haha)The highlighted sentence did you mean "Do you like it as well?" or "Do you also learn Cantonese?"? Just asking "Do you have？" here sounds a little bit weird.
"Do you like it as well?"-> Nei5 zung1 ng4 zung1 ji2? 你鍾唔鍾意？
"Do you also learn Cantonese?"-> Nei5 jau5 mou5 hok6? 你有無學？
Hope it helps!
0 votedApril 10, 20160
