I'm having a hard time understanding when to use 了 as a modal particle (instead of as an aspect pa…
I'm thinking along the lines of NPR - has both (audio) news and talk radio that can be accessed on…
What words should we use when we want to say "a webpage is loading"? In Gmail, when I change my set…
I was requested by a friend to find out what this stamp is. Do you know what it says on the stamp? …
I understand that it is used at the end of a sentence to indicate suggestion, but I want to know wha…
I am translating the user manual to Russian. It is in English but translated from Chinese and about …
Scientists and philosophers have at various times been quoted as saying: "There's nothing of which …
I know that 通风 means to ventilate, but how does one say circulation? Two specific sentences I'm …
For female waiters, my dad taught me to use the phrase "小姐 ". But for male waiters, my dad doe…
Chairman Mao addressed Soong Ching-ling as 宋庆龄先生. Yang Jiang was also addressed as 杨绛…
I apologize if this question is not appropriate for here, but I think it is more probably to find pe…
The character 球 means ball and is composed of 王 meaning king and 求 meaning demand. Where…
A famous Chinese writer whose pen name is Bingxin once remarked, "读书好 好读书 读好书", wh…
I'm trying to figure out when the title 先生 is used. Is it used for Mr., husband, honorary person…
Should I learn Mandarin basics first through pinyin and worry about the characters later, or should …
I like to say please sometimes when I want to be polite to someone when asking them for something. …
I've been using this site to get my basic foothold in Mandarin. If you scroll down you'll see a sect…
Here's an English example: Learner: Wait, how is cow pronounced? Native: COW, like a K sound, …
Is there a word for "sophisticated" in Chinese? "Sophisticated" here will mean of a person or their…
To elaborate, although ni3 hao3 has a double third tone, when I hear native speakers say it, it's sa…
中国的风景都真不错。 A native speaker told me that the above sentence was wrong, so t…
I'm looking for a way of adding tone marks above characters. It's fairly easy to add Pinyin with ton…
Now, we have original number array: a_1 > a_2 > a_3 > ... > a_(m*n) > 0, I wonder whether the follow…
I heard that it is not appropriate to call women or girls "小姐" in northen China. It is considere…
灰太狼 灰太狼 (A character in a TV show) is translated in English as "Grey Wolf". What h…
Many times I will know all the characters in a name but one & I'll ask what that one character m…
饭店 and 餐馆 can both mean restaurant. My Chinese friend here in Dongguan tells me 饭店 is no…
Check out the references below, we see that Japanese has the same problem as Chinese: Does "以X" in…
When I first came across the phrase "head starts spinning", I thought it meant 大脑迅速转动起…
What I would like to know is the proper way to say "I am behind schedule" in the general sense simil…
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