I’m planning to produce a series of podcasts introducing the various accents found in China and in other Chinese-speaking countries/areas. So if you are a native speaker and would like to be featured or if you know somebody (friends, tutors, co-workers, students, relatives…) with a distinct accent, please send me an email/ post a comment. [...]
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Accents – Your help required!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged accent, podcast on July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Character 112-140
Posted in Uncategorized on July 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
To make up for yesterday’s absence, 28 new characters for today. They are among the more common ones.
去
qu4
WALK, GO. The earth 土(tu3) and two strokes that look like the tip of a foot, so you tread the floor, hence WALK.
罢
ba4
STOP, CEASE. When you’re entangled in a net 罒 (wang3), you’ll have to [...]
欢迎你们! Welcome everybody!
Posted in Uncategorized on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Aims:
This weblog has been designed to help learners of Mandarin Chinese, providing them with a powerful memorization tool for Hanzi, the intricate characters the Chinese writing system comprises of. Despite their elegance, they are very difficult to keep in mind, especially if you also want to be able to write them instead of “merely” [...]
