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- Do I need to match the tenses in a complex sentence? When I organize a complex sentence, should I always keep the main clause and the subordinate clause in the same tense? For example, when I am talking about some report that I read before, while the report is about some constant situation of China, which one is the correct expression? I. The report said that China was an Asian country. II. The report said that China is an Asian country. The former one seems accord with the grammar, but a little bit wired, for China is always an Asian country, when I use the past tense, it seems like I'm saying that China was an Asian in the past but no longer now.June 12, 201721
That dialogue is correct, while it's too polite that it can only happen between too strangers at a very formal situation.
And in real world, that kind of conversation may be more like this.
你好！
你好！
請問，您貴姓？（While in a formal conversation, we usually use "您" rather than "你"）
免贵，姓張。您呢？（“问：您贵姓。答：免贵，姓X” is conventional greetings）
我姓劉。劉先生，幸会。
幸会，張小姐。（This kind of conversation usually ends up with "nice to meet you", and we seldom ask each other's full name, I don't know why, maybe surname is enough for two strangers.）
0 votedMay 31, 20170My plan after reaching the Intermediate plateau in Chinese
到现在为止，我已经正式学习中文11个月了。我觉得现在我遇到了一个瓶颈。（当名词表抽象概念的时候，一般不用数量词）
一段时间前，我感觉到就要放弃了。但是现在我已经到高中级的水品，迟早我一定会突破这个瓶颈。这只是时间的事情问题（只是XX的问题，一个很地道的中文习惯表述）。
为了突破这个瓶颈，我需要调整我的策略。每天我花了时间学习中文至少四个小时。以前大部分时间我做了听力和读书练习。
这两个活动非常重要对提高词汇量非常重要。我在学习语言时很重视觉得这些活动在学习语言里就是很重视。我知道得很多词汇量可以加快学习语言的过程。（逻辑上是“很多词汇量可以加快学习语言的过程”，但一般我们会省略“很多”）
但是现在我发现，突破瓶颈，我应该做不同的活动，比如在网上写作文在上网，也开始更多做交流练习。我也应该开始花得时间做复习。我应该开始用我知道学过的词汇，不然我会忘记这些词汇。
从现在开始，每个星期，我打算在上网至少写三次写作文，两次交流练习。
我希望在三个月内后，以前来中国时，我已经达到高级的水品了。可以交流跟本地人交流各种的题目话题。
这样在中国的时候，我可以在中国找兼职工作。（在中文里，同一句话中，地点、时间状语一般都是可以承前省略的，这主要是为了句子更简洁）从这篇习作看，其实你的中文水平已经达到“可以跟本地人交流各种话题”的程度了，一是需要注意中文句子中动词的位置，二是需要注意辨别意思相近的名词意义上细微的差异，以便在句子中用词更加准确。
希望你学习中文愉快。
0 votedMay 31, 20171- My first little essay on italki This is my first essay on italki, and honestly speaking. I don't know what to write about. Maybe I should make some introduction about me and English learning? Just like most Chinese, I took English as a compulsory course since middle school, and continuously learned it for many years. For those years, I just found English necessary for my diploma but didn't get any fun through it. Also like most Chinese, I learned too much grammar, reading and listening, but seldom open up my mouth or do writing. Things have changed when I began to work, and met some situations that I must speak English in real world. That forced me to improve my English speaking skill, and by which I found the essence of learning a language is communication, and it's really interesting. That's why I re-start my English learning long after my graduation. I hope I can improve my speaking and writing on italki, and I would like to make friends here.May 26, 201700
I noticed the revises above, and they are great! While, here are some additional suggestions, hopefully they will be helpful.
新生词练习（When you say 练习新生词 in Chinese, that seems like to say "practice new vocabularies". It's a sentence rather than a title, so I suggest you use the expression 新生词练习, here the word 练习 plays like a noun.In Chinese, we usually use noun as a title so as to keep the simplicity.）
影响: 我爸爸的想法影响了我，我不和我女朋友结婚（1. Unlike English ,or maybe German as well, which likes to organize sentence in a complex while logical structure. Chinese usually cut the sentence into small units, we keep each unit short and simple which usually just contain a single information, and then put every units together. 2. I guess you probably misunderstood the verb 结婚, it's intransitive in Chinese, so you should say "和XX结婚", like "marry with sb" in English. Btw, is there “transitive marry" in Chinese? Sure, they are "嫁" and "娶", the former one means a girl marry to a guy, and the latter one means a guy marry with a girl.）
左右: 我同屋买了三个左右的香蕉（Certainly it's a right sentence, but a little bit weird. No one will use approximation when taking about just three bananas, we can count them, right?）
学期: 我现在在八年级 （学期 means semester in Chinese, while talking about grade we use the word 年级, please try to distinguish the difference in the following sentence: 我这学期已经八年级了）
小姐, 校长: 李小姐当校长（Another right but weird sentence, be very careful when using “小姐”, because nowadays this word usually means a prostitute, try to use 女士 instead）Have fun with your Chinese learning!
0 votedMay 26, 20171
