小信 xiao xin

你怎么样 Ana!
现在 我 在 北京 里 ，住在我 朋友 的 房子里.。（when speaking of a city, usually we don't use “里” in the end; but when speaking of a house/room/building, usually we use "里"）
她 非常 热心.。
真巧, ，她在 学习 西文.。
天每天 我 给跟 她 一起 说 一点儿 汉语， 还有 一点儿 美语.。
她 告诉 我学习 美语 很 难,， 不 容易.。 （when you use “告诉”, it should be followed by a person like 你/我/ana/patrick）
我 告诉 她学习 汉语 还有 写 汉字 非常 难, 不 容易.。

上个月 我们 房租 了 一间 方便 和 合适 的 小 家房子. 。
房间 租 不 贵 和，并且包括 水电费. 。

可是 下个月, ，我们住 在 她 的 家.。

我 朋友 的 房子 不 新, ，真 很老 和 很漂亮.。
它 有 二 层. 。
一第一 层 有 一间 大 厨房 和 一间小 厕所. 。 （We say 第一/第二/第三 instead of 一第/二第/三第）
两第二层 有 两 间 大 厕所，一间 大客厅， 一 间书房 和 五间 卧室.。

上海 怎么样 Ana?
我等你的回信 !

你的朋友,
Patricia

Your Chinese is so good that I can completely understand what you mean. Keep learning:)

1) I know that in colloquial chinese the third tone is not pronounced entirely, so you go down but you kind not really raise again, that is, you make it shorter. Can you please give me other examples, depending also on regionalism, like, just for instance "in Beijing they say this tone differently" "In Shanghai this other way" ect. if there are indeed such differences; Answer: About the third tone, maybe we go down 100 steps and raise 60-80 steps. I'm not sure what do you mean by "other examples", like what? because the standard Mandarin sounds quite similar, usually we pronounce the third tone same in Shanghai or Beijing. However, different regions say different dialects, for example, even a person with perfect Mandarin will not understand most of the southern dialects if he is a northerner. It used to be a problem but now we build Mandarin as a standard and use it all over the country. 2) could you understand something with enough context even with all the tones wrong? (sorry for the naive question) Answer: It depends whether there exists any misunderstanding words or phrase in the sentence cause there are quite a few words with same pronunciation but different meanings in Chinese.With all pronunciation correct and all the tones wrong, I guess you have a around 70% chance to let a Chinese understand what you say. 3) this is me speaking a sentence without paying too much attention to the tones, please tell me if you can understand me and how much difficult/bad it was: http://vocaroo.com/i/s0JWeXkuGpHB Answer: quite agree with Hung-Chien, It's easy for me to understand "na jiu tai hao le, fei chang gan xie ni". For the rest of the record, I think there might be some grammar mistakes or pronunciation mistakes. You have to check that first. PS: If there is some mistakes in my English, I would be grateful if someone can correct it. Thanks.

The belief that life will be better.

这本书我越看[月]爱看 - the more I read this book the more I enjoy reading it :it's correct except “月” should be“ 越” 越无聊越吃东西 - the more bored I get the more I eat：it's correct. But I think it will be complete 越（觉得）无聊越吃东西 越A越B - the more A the more B：for logic, it‘s correct Usually A is a verb like the 1st example above. eg 越走越远，越跑越快，越飞越高 PS: there is another phrase: 越来越C-just means more and more C for eg, 月亮越来越圆 means moon gets round and rounder