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ending particles

murrayjames - Today, 03:41 PM in Grammar, Sentence Structures and Patterns

What are the rules or guidelines to ending particles like these? Different particles are used depending on the final of the word before it, right? 啊嘛哪啦呀哇
Latest of 1 replies by 陳德聰 at Today, 05:19 PM.

What's the best way for me to block websites to enforce self-discipline?

drungood - Today, 02:12 PM in Computing and Electronics

My vulnerable self is too tempted to visit Hulu or Reddit, "just for a few minutes," but then several hours pass by. I need some method that will take me at least 15 minutes to circumvent, because that's the approximate time frame for me to say "**** it" and return to my Chinese learning environment. I've tried LeechBlock but it's ineffective, because when Firefox isn't giving me what I want, I'm shameless enough to engage in an adulterous affair even with the likes of Intern...
Latest of 2 replies by imron at Today, 03:27 PM.

Hanzi mobile scanner

rav - Today, 03:29 AM in Resources for Studying Chinese

Hi Everyone! I am looking for mobile app to help me find the hanzi without opening book doctioonary. Does anyone of you know or can recommend mobile application that allows scanning hanzi e.g. from newspaper and translate it into pinyin? It`s very similar to QR codes scanner. I was searching net, but can not find it. Looking for your early reply Regards Rafal
Latest of 8 replies by rav at Today, 05:32 PM.

SRS flashcard amounts

insighter - Today, 01:13 AM in General Study Advice and Discussion

I have a general question about SRS flashcards; how many cards is too many? Well, maybe it's more complex, how many cards over a certain amount of time is too many? I already am working through a character frequency list and a textbook series vocabulary list. I am only testing on maybe 1500+ cards right now but I already have to do 100+ daily to keep from falling behind. That amount is now manageable, especially because they are mostly review and I could add a little more, but now I am wanting to add all the...
Latest of 11 replies by imron at Today, 03:59 PM.

Where should i start?

Anders Furset - Yesterday, 11:21 PM in Resources for Studying Chinese

Nǐ Hǎo, wǒ jiào Anders! Haha, did i get that right? My name is Anders, im a 17 year old highschool student from Norway, and as one of the very few schools in Norway >5 my school offer Chinese as second language. I switched to the class i'm in at the moment for about 2,5 months ago so i haven't learned so much yet. I have gotten very interessted in learning chinese so i can catch up with the class and do something fun, i want to start study chinese at my freetime too. Up to now, we have just le...
Latest of 1 replies by Shelley at Today, 06:07 AM.

Identify this song >.<

zero-chan - Yesterday, 10:16 PM in Music

hi ^^ I have been trying to find out what the name of this song is.. or the artist but all my erffort didn't bring any results so I hope that someone can help me here. I uploaded the song on youtube: http://www.youtube.c...b2fAUAAAAAAAAAA and mediafire: http://www.mediafire...wem17s611uahh68 the thing is..my mother took some songs she liked fromvarious CDs at home and burned them onto one CD..now I can hear the songs but when I open them they are all called track 01...etc -.- if someone would help me it w...
Latest of 2 replies by zero-chan at Today, 03:58 PM.

Mandarin study plan?

Cats - Yesterday, 03:01 AM in General Study Advice and Discussion

Hello people! : ) I'm new here so I might have not posted this topic in the right category, so please excuse me! I've had a love for Asia (East and Southeast) since I was five or six. Time passes and that interest has gotten even stronger. I'm totally in love with the culture of China and Japan - language, history, cuisine, martial arts, philosophy, poetry, architecture and just everything about those two countries! I've decided to learn either Chinese or Japanese. I first decided t...
Latest of 1 replies by abcdefg at Today, 11:48 AM.

I need help with my Chinese class (Integrated Chinese)

needhelp - Yesterday, 12:49 AM in General Study Advice and Discussion

I'm taking Integrated Chinese Level 1 part 2 right now. I think it's extremely hard because on the quiz you have to know the order of the words and also on the homework the listening comprehension is very hard because they speak very fast and I have lots of words I don't know in between. Perhaps if I memorize the textbook dialogue I might not have as much trouble. I think I need brushing up on the Part 1 of the textbook as well. Will somebody be available for helping me by Skype free?
Latest of 4 replies by needhelp at Yesterday, 10:32 PM.

Hunan University, the College of Foreign Languages and its English major

tooironic - Feb 03 2012 10:23 PM in Life, Work and Study in China in General

Hi everyone. I'm doing some research about Hunan University and was hoping some members here who have experience with this uni might be able to answer some specific questions: 1) What kind of stuff is taught in the college of foreign languages in the English major and its English language and literature disciplines? Basically I'd like to know more about the content that is covered and how it is delivered (lecture and tutorial styles, etc). 2) What is the campus itself like? Convenient to reach by publi...
Latest of 0 replies by tooironic at Feb 03 2012 10:23 PM.

ChinesePod acquired!

icebear - Feb 03 2012 09:50 PM in Studying Chinese outside of China

From their most recent newsletter: Quote There's also some very exciting news to report: ChinesePod has been acquired by Bigfoot Ventures, a Hong Kong-based communications, technology, education, entertainment and new media company. This move will allow us to offer you, our beloved Poddies, a more entertaining, comprehensive and beneficial ChinesePod experience down the road - we're psyched about it! Good for the owners, who I think cultivated a good service and good brand over the years and deserv...
Latest of 2 replies by simplet at Yesterday, 09:49 AM.