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    • Babs
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      Hello! I've been studying Chinese for 3 months, so I'm brand new, living in the US where I have very little access to Chinese speakers (Vermont). I am starting online classes with a teacher in China. I have the Integrated Chinese 1 Edition 4 and I am considering getting the Fluency Link account. Has anyone used this? Is it worth the extra money for the subscription? Thanks!  
    • AndersM
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      Hi there guys! I am looking for a construction company in Shenzhen that offers competitive pricing for building my coffee shop. It's important that the cost is reasonable, reflecting good value for the quality and services provided. I'm seeking a balance between affordability and the realization of a high-quality, innovative design for my café. Thx in advance!
    • Susi12
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      Dear Forum,   AI is just emerging all over the place and there are already some very serious applications for learning and studying Chinese. For example, my native language is German and I literally use DeepL Translator all the time because I think it is by far the most advanced and precise translator. ChatGPT is also not bad for translating text, but with the smartphone app etc. DeepL is just a step above and beyond that.   Now DeepL has another extremely handy feature called DeepL Write, which unfortunately only works for English and German, that will correct text written in these languages and put it more eloquently. I use it every day, even for forum posts like this one - because they just sound so much better. The corrected sentences sound very natural and grammatically correct - better than my English.   Is there anything like this available in the Chinese language? I would LOVE to see this because my problems with Chinese are far greater. For example, I have a lot of trouble with sentence order and could really use a tool where I could just type a sentence on the phone - and get a corrected sentence back. I asked ChatGPT if it knew of anything similar and it pointed to Baidu Wenku. So I downloaded the app and looked around a bit, but could not find anything similar to the DeepL Write feature. While I am impressed by how creative Baidu's AI is in generating text from basically nothing, I could not find a feature to simply correct sentences or rewrite them into nicer sounding words.   But then again, I still have to use on-screen translation, etc. to navigate around the Baidu website and app. Has anyone here come across anything useful for a Chinese learner?
    • Carmel
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      I've lost track of a really good learning Chinese website. On this website, there were lots of videos where 6 people from all over China and Taiwan asked the same question. This was followed by six more people giving their answer. In this way, we could compare accents, and even different ways of saying the same thing. These videos were followed by a quiz which made you listen, even more carefully to what they were saying. Each set of videos and quizzes was a lesson, and there were hundreds of lessons divided into four categories from beginner to intermediate. I had paid for a lifetime membership because I knew I would always want to come back to it. But I've got a new computer and lost the address of this website. Does anyone recognise what I'm talking about? I really want to go back and listen to it again.
    • chinesbueasy
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      Hi everyone - I built an app to help with speaking and learning numbers:   Here is a 2 minute demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Df8eIR_c84   The app currently has two features: Shadowing: Type in any sentence, then hear it spoken on loop. Adjust the speed and say it alongside the audio, so you can mimic the tones and the cadence. Play individual phrases or the whole sentence Number quizzing: Listen to numbers (big or small) generated at random, and type in what you hear.   Is anyone interesting trying it? I'm keen for feedback and feature suggestions. If its useful, I will open it up to the public.  
    • becky82
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      To prepare for the HSK6 (again), I began revising the HSK6 Standard Course textbooks, spending around 8 hours studying in depth each chapter (making YouTube videos while doing so).  After finishing chapter 13 (out of 40), I felt I wasn't learning much (I already knew most of the words) and it was rather time-consuming, so I stopped.  Then I started doing the HSK6 Standard Course Workbook exercises instead; these are the marks I got per chapter (there are 36 questions in each chapter, ignoring the writing section):   1. 83% 2. 75% 3. 75% 4. 83% 5. 89% 6. 86% 7. 78% 8. 89% 9. 95% 10. 86% 11. 92% 12. 95% 13. 75% 14: 56%   I was feeling confident after section 12 when I got my second 95% (on the 5th March, 2024), but then my marks took a tremendous dive at chapter 14 where I got 56% (on the 7th March, i.e., two days later).   I'm feeling like this is not a coincidence.   (As a side note, two years ago, I thought the HSK6 Standard Course Workbook was too hard, rating it "Difficulty: 9/10".)
    • TheWayfarer
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      I came across some new videos of New Practical Chinese Reader. I'm sure many of us have used NPCR and are familiar with the old videos (Volume 1; Volume 2; Volume 3; Volume 4). I've only found a few of the new videos. They're a bit silly and awkward (I like the way a second mug appeared on her desk so she could hand it to 力波 in the example I linked). The dialogues differ from the editions I have, so I can't speak to content.   The new videos seem fine, but I prefer the older ones. They're cheesy but I like them a lot, and they bring back good memories. Also, for me at least, 穆爱华 ( Charlotte MacInnis) will always be 林娜.
    • zhongguojiayou
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      I don't know if I will mess it up by applying for all these scholarships but I'm in a very special situation.  I first applied for a CSC Type A scholarship for undergrad in 北大 through my embassy, but I don't know if I will get the scholarship. However, I will apply for the Confucius Institute Scholarship as well, and, since the chances of obtaining it are higher I'm thinking of applying to 北大, too, but I don't know if they will realize I applied for both scholarships and get both of them cancelled or I don't know. Perhaps I'm overthinking but I can't overthink too much since I have to send all of my application materials PHYSICALLY all the way to Beijing as stated in the 北大 call for applications for the CI scholarship. Is the CI Scholarship for 北大 as competitive as a degree one?
    • Pegasus
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      Can anyone please help me understand: 世上只有媽媽好  shì shàng zhǐ yǒu māma hǎo   This is the title and the first line of lyrics from a well-known children's song.    When I first encountered this sentence, I (as a beginning–intermediate Chinese language learner) understood it to mean, “In the world, only Mom is good,” which is wrong. That's not what it means. But that's what it sounded like to me, and yes, I was scratching my head because, of course, it would be very strange to tell a child that only Mom is good in the world.    It actually means, “Mom is the best in the world,” which makes more sense.    Can someone explain (help me understand) why this sentence means what it means? Is there a grammatical point or sentence pattern that can help me understand it more generally?    Why does this combination of words in this order not mean “In the world, only Mom is good.”   Because I don't really understand why this sentence means what it means, I think there may be other sentences that could be constructed with this same (or similar) pattern that I'll probably misunderstand initially.    Can anyone come up with examples of other sentences that follow this type of word pattern along with their correct translations to help me better “grok” this type of sentence?     Side note: This reminds me of another type of sentence in Chinese that I found quite confusing when I first encountered it. (And I guess I still find it confusing.) My mother-in-law would have me try some food/dessert she was preparing in the kitchen and ask me something like “X 甜 嗎?” And my simple brain thought she was asking me, “Is it sweet?”. I answered “yes” because I thought it was delicious and sweet. But what she was really asking me was, “Is it too sweet?”. So, what I should have said was, “No, it's not too sweet. It's just the right amount of sweet.”   Like, in my brain, I'm thinking, why doesn't she say "X 太甜嗎?" Then I would immediately understand that she was asking me, "Is it too sweet." But I just had to learn that in Chinese you can omit 太 in a sentence like this and still have the meaning "too".    I wonder if my misunderstanding of this type of sentence is related at all to my misunderstanding of the sentence from the children's song “世上只有媽媽好”, or is it is completely unrelated?    Thank you in advance for your help.
    • realmayo
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      Had this conversation with ChatGPT just now:   You translate fencing (the sport) into chinese ChatGPT Fencing (the sport) translates into Traditional Chinese as "擊劍" (jí jiàn). You how confident are you that you have the correct tones for that word? ChatGPT I am confident that the tones provided for "擊劍" (jí jiàn) are correct. In Mandarin Chinese, "擊" is pronounced with the second tone, and "劍" is also pronounced with the fourth tone, accurately represented as "jí jiàn." These tones are essential for the correct pronunciation and meaning of the words in Mandarin. You out of 100%, how confident are you that "擊" is pronounced with the second tone ChatGPT I am 100% confident that "擊" is pronounced with the fourth tone, not the second, as "jí". My previous response contained an error in tone description. The correct pronunciation is "jì jiàn" (擊劍), where "擊" is indeed pronounced with the fourth tone. I apologize for the mistake in my previous message. You check again, I think you're wrong ChatGPT It seems I made an error in attempting to verify the tone using a method that's not available in this environment. However, based on standard Mandarin pronunciation rules and my training data, "擊" is indeed pronounced with the fourth tone, "jì". If there was any confusion or error in my previous responses, I appreciate your patience and understanding. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ModuleNotFoundError Traceback (most recent call last) Cell In[1], line 2 1 # Let's verify the tone for the character "擊" to ensure accuracy. ----> 2 import pinyin 4 # Get the pinyin with tone for the character "擊" 5 pinyin.get('擊', format="numerical") ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pinyin'
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