Thread: Let's practice our Chinese

要是想买好书, 就二十块钱多半儿会不够
if you wanna buy good books, these twenty yuan will not possibly be enough.

我们星期六晚上六点钟在"东南"酒楼外头见
we will meet outside "Southeast" restaurant at 6 o'clock saturday night.

Jasper, je Chinees is heel goed

Someone posted in the Chinese forum!
He can speak Dutch?

哪儿的话! 我的中文真不太好, 因为我学了就一个月的汉语. 可是我感谢你检查.

哪儿的话! 我的中文真不太好, 因为我学了就一个月的汉语. 可是我感谢你检查.

wow,你说的中文蛮有味道的嘛,才学一个月就有这样的效果,可喜可贺! ：）

如果你有什么关于中文学习的问题,我很乐意提供帮助.也希望你能帮助我学习俄语

I am so glad to help you guys with Chinese Learning problems.

谢谢! (or is it considered impolite to acknowledge compliments?) 我很希望学了一年的二千字 in order to sit the HSK-exam. Maybe just wishful thinking.

Btw, 你怎么会说荷兰话? 你在荷兰住吗?

用"谢谢"回应别人对你的称赞是很合适的. 只要你下了功夫去学习,相信你一定会顺利通过HSK考试的,先预祝你成功!
我只会一点点荷兰语, 不过我以前学过德语,两者之间还是有不少相通之处
我住在中国南方的广州市(Guangzhou or Canton),你知道这个城市吗?广州是广东省的省会城市,人口超过600万,而广东全省人口超过600 0万.广州人在生活中一般讲当地方言-粤语,但是在正式场合都说普通话.

希望以上的资料能帮助你学习中文,就当作小短文来阅读吧.

@Димон: Пожалуй, тебя больше не будет, а я хотел бы сказать что давеча я снова постарался читать твоё сочинение, и мне удалось. Спасибо! Было очень интересно.

@maraone: 虽然我看不懂十分你小小的正文, 可是谢谢. Maybe in a couple of months.

Haven't bothered to read most of your conversation. I'm still in learning Chinese, it's just that at present I'm at a lack for good books. My new book, "Teach Yourself Chinese", reached the point where they give you pictures of a house and then give translations of various household objects. Boring! There's no way I'm going to remember 200 or so words for "toaster", "toaster oven", "microwave", "DVD Player"... From then on they have such interesting chapters as "Exchanging Money" and "At the train station." Blech. I think I'll just have to order something good online.

I've also looked through that book, and I've noticed it doesn't even teach you characters... Well, what's the point in that? As if I'm ever going to meet a Chinese in person. I just want to be able to read and write.

Hope you start again soon, Pravit. I've also been very busy and banned from doing my Chinese, but now I'm back!

Try this one: http://www.chinawestexchange.com/

Thanks for the link, Roderick. It always surprised me that there were so many good courses on the net ready to teach people basics of Chinese, whereas for other languages you'd be hard-pressed to find something similar. For instance, there is almost nothing like that for Arabic.

我也学中文。我喜欢学中文。 Pravit，你学中文和俄文。你很慧。你学也语言？我也学日本文。

Hi Sean,
I've been lazy and can't be bothered to pick up my Chinese books. But I understood what you said. In high school I learned German and French for four years. I don't plan to do anything with French but I'm going to continue studying German in university and get a double major, perhaps. There's Chinese courses being offered next year at my uni but the time always conflicts, I'll try again in the spring semester. I'm still really interseted in learning Chinese and I might go somewhere else to study it.

Ah, my kingdom for some spare time...

我是中国的人。
(I) (am) (China) ('s) (person).
I am China's person.

One usually says:

我是中国人。
(I) (am) (Chinese).
I am Chinese.

中国人 -Chinese is one unit by itself.

意思 yi4si3
It's actually:
意思 yi4si5

si5 is a neutral tone.
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My list:

Chinese (Simplified/Beijing Guan): Native
English (American Heritage): 10 years
French (Larousse): 9 years
Arabic (Modern Standard/Riyadh Najdi): 1year and continuing next school year

Self-study:
Esperanto: understand, working on speaking
toki pona: fluent

-Shibo

Originally Posted by JJ

Ni hao ma? Wo shi JJ, wo shi rossia(?) guo ren. Xie-xie.
That's almost all I can say in Chinese.

wow ,, same with me *LOL*

ni hao!!! wo shi camiLa *read my nickname as camila*

wo shi yi shi jiu sui le .. *again ,, am i correct??*

wo shi yindunisia guo ren ..

wo shi ba ... o god , what should i say for college student??

xie xie .. zai jien .. hohohohohohohoho .. that's all d simple words i can remember

Originally Posted by JJ

Ni hao ma? Wo shi JJ, wo shi rossia(?) guo ren. Xie-xie.
That's almost all I can say in Chinese.

Originally Posted by Pravit

Come on, someone talk with me in Chinese. I'm lonely.

I want learn chinese too, Wo shi brasilian,26....help me!!

Just curious, are you guys chinese want improve your chinese, or you guys are foreigners need to learn chinese?

I'm learning chinese. Are you from China? And you are learning Russian do many Chinese people want to learn Russian? Actually I think not many Asians learn Russian in my class I am the only Asian now. And it is a very big uni( but only a small Russian class).

I'm Chinese-American with parents born in Thailand who don't speak Chinese as a mother language. So I have a bit of difficulty in learning it There's a beginning class at my uni but it's all filled up this semester, unfortunately.

Hey, I wonder what happened to Jasper? And Lindzi? And all those funny people I admired.