First notebook entry: Introducing myself

你们好！

我找 个汉语 老师 或者语伴。

我想找个汉语老师或者语伴。（I want to find a Chinese teacher or language partner）or 我正在找汉语老师或者语伴。（I am finding Chinese taacher or language partner）. Your sentence literally means "I find a Chinese teacher or language partner". Chinese and English can not be translate one word by one, but most of time, you can use this mathod with some other small rules.

我会说法语和 英语。

我 对 中国 的问话 非常 干 兴趣！！！

我对中国的文化非常感兴趣。

我 已经去过中国可是我想回去学习中文。

我的汉语水平不太高性格耐心！；）

我的汉语水平不高，需要耐心的老师！ ：） In Chinese, you can omit subject in subordinate sentence only when it is the same one as that in main sentence. I am not sure what meaning you want to express, and we may understnad it as "My Chinese is not very good. I am patient." I guess you want to say "I need patient teacher".  In this sentence, I means 我, need means 需要，patient means 耐心的，teacher means 老师。But here is a rule that in Chinese, when subject is "I", most of time we omit the second one. So we wouldn't say "我的汉语水平不高，我需要耐心的老师" but use "我的汉语水平不高，需要耐心的老师" instead.

If you need help in Chinese, please feel free to check my schedule. I am a Chinese teacher on italki also in my university. You can try to have fun in your study. Don't worry about ur Chinese level. It would be a funny experience learning a new language.

大家好！！

你们好， 我叫Victor，或者胜利，我的中文的名字。

你们好，我叫Victor。我的中文名字是胜利。or 你们好！你们可以叫我Victor，或者胜利。胜利是我的中文名字。 Your sentence literally means "I am Victor, or 胜利, my Chinese name." You should change it to "I am Victor. My Chinese name is 胜利。" or "You can call me Victor, or 胜利, which is my Chinese name." Futhermore, when there are many "的" in the same sentence, and they are closed to each other, we will omit one or two of them. It depends on how closed those words are. For example, 我的中文的名字 should be writen as 我的中文名字. In this phrase, the part you want to put emphasis on is "中文的名字", so comparing to "我的中文", "中文的名字" is a whole part. So we omit "的" between 中文 and 名字。

我希望认识说汉语的人 （如果你们住在西班牙的话更！）为了练习口语。

我希望认识（会）说汉语的人。（如果你们住在西班牙的话更好！）我想练习口语。 or  为了练习口语，我希望认识说汉语的人（如果你们住在西班牙的话更好！）。In Chinese, adverbial phrase about your goal or purpose is always put at the beginning of the sentence, so you can put 为了练习口语 at the beginning. Or you can change it to a independent sentence as "我想联系口语".  better=更好。

我想我们马上聊天儿！

我希望我们可以马上聊天儿！ I hope we can chat soon! 我想...is always used in the situation that there is something you want to do and you can kind of control it. 我希望 is always used when you hope something to happen, which is out of your control but you can fight for.

拜拜

今天我们吃饭 呵呵

你好。

今天我哥哥来我的家。 她跟他的女朋友来的。 然后我们一起吃晚饭。

今天我哥哥和她的女朋友来我家吃晚饭。Sometimes, it is really easy for you to translate English to Chinese. This sentence can be built as "My elder brother and his girlfriend came to my house for dinner today." In Chinese, we often put words which describe place or time at the beginning of the sentence or right after subject and before verb, so you should put "today" at the beginning. "My elder brother and his girlfriend" or "my elder broher .....with his girlfriend" can be translated as "我哥哥和他的女朋友". Most of time, we don't say "我的家" but use "我家" instead. "来我家吃晚饭" is the typical structure. For example, we can say "去游乐场玩游戏", "去学校上学"，"来中国旅游" and s on.    

后来他弹他的吉他。 他很会弹吉他.

后来他弹了（他的）吉他，弹得很好。It is something happened before, so you should use past tense. In Chinese, past tense can be showed by using "了", "刚", and "过". You don't have to put empharsis on "his" guitar, and also most of time we don't add other words into whose fixed structures. For example, in English we just say "go fishing", "go shopping", "play guitar" and so on. In Chinese, we say "去钓鱼", “去上街”. “弹吉他”instead.  In those two sentences, you used 他 three times. We rarely repeat the same pronoun or names of people for several times. Instead, we can change the second short sentence into a clause by omitting subject, because those two sentences have the same subject. Also, when you try to describe a quality or character of an action, you can use "verb+得+adjective". For example: 吃得很饱，睡得很好，跑得很快，长得很高.
我明天要去银行。

明天我要去银行。Most of time, we put word about time at the beginning of sentence. Only when there are more than one "time" in sentence, or we want to put empharsis on time, we put it right after subject and before verb. Sometime, if this time is not about the whole sentence but limite certain part of sentence, we shuld make its position just closed to the goal part. For example, 现在我要吃饭了 （Now I am going to eat）. 我现在就要吃饭！（I want to eat, right now!） 我正在选下周的课（I am booking the course for next week ）

我想讲中国普通话

我的母语是西班牙语，我正在自学中文，

我的母语是西班牙语。(现在)我正在自学中文。They are two whole sentences, so you shouldn't have used "," between them. Instead, you have to use "。" between two sentences when there is no conjunction between them.

我觉得中文是一门很难学习的语言。
尤其是它的发音很难，

我觉得中文是一种很难学习的语言，尤其是它的发音（很难）。

1 “一门”mostly is used before "subject(学科)".

2 Because you used "尤其" in "尤其是它的发音很难", it is not a whole sentence, and "我也正在学习写中文" is not proper to be used behind it to structure a whole sentence, so you cannot use "。" between it and the last sentence.

3 When we use adjective to describe something, and use "尤其" right behind that sentence to further empharsis that a part of it is "adjective", we can omit the adjective in the clause.

我也正在学习写中文，

另外我也正在学习中文写作。When the topic is different but similar with the last topic, we should use 另外 to make it sounds natural. It is just like that in English we often use "Moreover", "Furthermore" and so on in these situations. 中文写作 means Chinese writing.

我想努力学习中文，以后应该可以说的很流利。

我想，只要我努力学习中文，以后应该可以说得很流利。or 我会努力学习中文，以后应该可以说得很流利。The first sentence means that "I think I will speak Chinese fluently in future as long as I study it hard". The second sentence means that "I will study Chinese hard, and I may speak it fluently in future."

1 只要 means "as long as".

2 "我会努力学习中文" is to describe your willing or your decision (It is something you will do), but "我想努力学中文" is just a thought (It is something you may do).

3 We often use structure as "说得流利" in sentence. It is "verb+得+adjective". In this structure, the adjective is the complement of the verb. When "的" and adjective are put together, 的 can only be put after adjective to complete the adjective or make it a noun. For example: 美丽---》美丽的。  我有一条美丽的裙子。 比起丑的，我喜欢美丽的。   

My first note in Chinese

你好！我叫密林大（milinda）。

我是俄罗斯人。我有儿子和女儿。我驻西班牙。

我是俄罗斯人，(家里)有儿子和女儿，(现在)住在西班牙。Chinese people rarely repear several "我" in continuely simple sentences, so you can make short sentences into clauses. The way to do it is omitting subjects in those sentences when they are same as the first one. In my sentence, 家里 and 现在 can be omitted, but we are used to add some adverbial modifier before verb to describe the space, time or location about verb.

我开始学中文。

我刚开始学中文 or 我开始学中文了。 Because "开始学中文" happened before you wrote this article, so you should use past tense. Most of time, we use "了" and "过" as past tense of perfect past tense, and use "着" and “正在”to express that something is happening right now. So in the second sentence, we use 了 to describe that you already began to learn Chinese. In the first sentence, 刚 means "just (now)". So it is traslated as "I just started to learn Chinese".

First notebook entry: Introducing myself

大家好。 我叫Ciaran. 我从爱儿蓝来的。我学习汉语。

大家好，我叫Ciaran。我从爱尔兰来，在学习汉语。“大家好，我......”is a common used prologue in Chinese, and we often use "," after "大家好", and add a whole sentence after it. Moreover, "," can not be used between two whole sentences. In "我叫Ciaran", 我, 叫, Ciaran are the subject, verb and object. It is a whole sentence. In "我从爱尔兰来", 我，从爱尔兰，来 are the subject, adverbial modifier and verb. It is a whole sentence too. So you should use "。" between them. Futhermore, if you make up sentence like "我从爱尔兰来的", it lacks of verb, but 从爱尔兰 can only be adverbial modifier, so this sentence is wrong. You can say "我从爱尔兰来" or "我是从爱尔兰来的". In the second sentence, 是 is the verb, and 从爱尔兰来的 exists as object. In Chinese, you can add 的 after some verb to make it a noun or a noun phrase. For example, 在这些书中，有些是我读过的，也有些是我没读过的。读过的 means 读过的书。

我住过在中国两年了。现在我会爱尔兰了。

我在中国住过两年，但现在我回爱尔兰了。or 我在中国住了两年，现在回到了爱尔兰。

1 Words which are used to describe places always are put in front of the main verbs in sentences.

2 Although Chinese people don't like using long sentences in oral speaking, but we also rarely repeat 我 several times in continuely simple sentences. So we choose to use conjunction to make the second sentence a clause, or omit the subject in the second sentence if they have the same subject.

3 会 means "may" or "will". It used in present tense or future tense. Sometimes it is speculated tone. 回 means "come back".

我希望我会找一个汉语老师。

我希望能找到一个汉语老师。Your sentence literally means "I hope I will find a Chinese teacher". "I will find a Chinese teacher" is something you can decide to do or not. It is a subjective thing that depends on yourself, so you cannot use "会". Because things after "我希望" should be something that kind of out of your control or you can not make sure. You should use "can" instead. 

 谢谢你们。 再见。

介绍我自己

你好，我是Mike，我现在住在华盛顿。

你好，我是Mike，现在住在华盛顿。 or   你好，我是Mike。我现在住在华盛顿。

“。”is used between two whole sentences. "你好，我是Mike。" and "我现在住在华盛顿。" are two whole sentences, so you shouldn't use "，".  

Ps.  我 is the subject  现在 is the adverbial modifier 住在 is verb  华盛顿 is object. So it is a whole sentence.

我的家乡是在美国的西北边，

我的家乡在美国的西北边。When you translate"be verb" to Chinese, only when a noun is behind it, you can use 是. Or else we don't translate it into Chinese.

所以我觉得华盛顿的天气太热了！

我觉得华盛顿的天气太热了！This sentence has no cause-and-effect relationship with the sentence "我的家乡在美国的西北边". That is only your feeling instead, so you shouldn't have used 所以.

 我的爱好是玩儿游戏机，看电影，看书，特别历史或者政治的书，听音乐什么的。当然我也喜欢学中文！

特别是关于历史或者政治的书. 历史和政治 is the content of books, so you should use "关于历史和政治的书". "历史和政治的书" literally means"history's and politic's book".

第一个 NOTEBOOK

我的第一个小作文

大家好！

这个我的第一个NOTEBOOK。

这个是我的第一个小作文。 这个 this  是 is 我的 my 第一个 first 小作文 notebook 

今天我用  iTalki 很多。我觉的天气不好，所以我用我的电脑。

今天我在italki上花了很多时间。 在...上花时间  spend time on    很多时间 long time 

我觉得外面天气不好，所以我玩电脑。 Staying inside is the result of bed weather, so you should add 外面 to be more logical. Using computer is something you did at home to spend your boring time, so most of time we use 玩电脑 to express that we have fun on computer instead of work or study.

晚上的时候我想回家还有看书。

晚上我想回家看书。 晚上 is a word about time, so you don't have to add "的时候" after that. Or else it would be "When this evening....". "When" means "（在）...的时候". If you use 还有, two words before and after it have to be the same classification. For example, they can both be some activities. You can say 今天我想看书，逛街，还有看电影。

OK！