大家好， I'd say I'm around HSK 3 level, and by now I think I know around 700 characters. In the past, what I did to study Hanzi was use a website called "HanziHero", which approaches learning characters by teaching components first, giving them a memorizable name, next teaching single characters by using mnemonics that also teach the pronunciation of a character, and then teaching words by combining individual characters. I have found this method to be quite useful at learning the initial characters. I feel like because they use components, I now have a much better understanding of how the Hanzi ..read more

I'm going through HelloChinese and I stumbled in this. My question is: shouldn't it be "我的家" with the "de" particle? Or is it "normal" to drop the possession particle? I just started so I'm not really sure about that. submitted by /u/nakuaga [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Hello fellow Redditors! Here recently I landed my first international job as a field support engineer. Technical troubleshooting both online and in person. The job will occasionally require me to explain difficult concepts, potentially to someone who doesn't speak fluent English or isn't super duper tech savvy. Although the client site map seems to stretch all around the globe, majority of my clients will be in the South Eastern region of China. I'm still very much so a beginner to Chinese, the most impressive thing I can do is buy / sell things in a market but with broken speech. What are so ..read more

I asked a guy if he was gay or bisexual and he just said “tago” or “t”. What does that mean? submitted by /u/WitheringRiser [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

曲 came up in an online conversation class today. Lmao, how did we go from #3 to #4. Where it doesn't really visualize the "bent" meaning anymore https://preview.redd.it/kqgyjfyltjzc1.png?width=1043&format=png&auto=webp&s=fdaa6e3c1c990a59960040b3ba51949f425ce234 submitted by /u/stateofkinesis [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

I'm thinking about studying Mandarin but I don't want people to respond to me in English once I get to a conversational level. I'm conversational in Spanish and people still occasionally switch to English the moment they notice my accent or someone tells them that I'm from the US. I understand people preferring to speak in English if the other person can barely speak the language and I don't expect someone to spend their time listening to me trying to string together a sentence when we could easily converse in English but if I'm at the point where I can talk at a reasonable speed and I don't ..read more

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I'm Mandarin learner who listen the song is covered by Mandarin. Not spacial, I have got some sentence that coudn't understand easy. 就不用害怕靠不到岸的大海 Some words that I coudn't understand is 靠 and 不到. How can I interprete words 靠 and 不到 in this sentence? This sentence is written on traditional chinese, And I've been learning traditional used in Taiwan. submitted by /u/fankykiss3333 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

I’m just newly getting into Mandarin, and I hope this isn’t one of those questions that gets asked every other day; I didn’t see it in the new posts so I’m giving it a shot. I get the general feeling Duolingo isn’t going to be that helpful, so where do I even start? How do I build a framework and then build on that with more resources? For extra info, I’m fluent in English and semi-fluent in Swedish and Spanish. Thanks for the help :) submitted by /u/fartmaster0001 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more