Homework Study Helpers! =P discussion

Well, I know Chinese so I could offer some help:)

LOL, shouldn't you, like, make the title more Specific? There are two main Chinese languages: Cantonese and Mandarin. It'd be a bit confusing if people post about Mandarin but someone needs help with Canto... Just saying...

I'd love to learn Chinese though... my friends talk to each other in canto in front of me just to make me frustrated since I don't get it. xD

Yeah, I know Mandarin is the main lang. but Canto kinda is too. Well, most of the people I know say that those two are basically the main languages.

i heard Chinese is really difficult.. I want to learn Korean

Chinese is not that hard though, and Sorry, I meant Mandarin, though I speak Canto too. Do any of you know Hokkien? It's a dialect as well.

Of course! Where would you like to start?

My brother did Chinese and hated it... never tried it though... i do Japanese

你好， 我是 Eirian xD
我以先住在中国的。 :p

Thats so cool

I want to learn Chinese because all my friend start talking in it and I'm sitting there completely bored. But I guess that's what happens when most of your friends are Asian

Abby wrote: "I want to learn Chinese because all my friend start talking in it and I'm sitting there completely bored. But I guess that's what happens when most of your friends are Asian"

I can promise you it's so much easier to learn just to speak it without the reading and writing :p

I'm fluent in mandarin (and Shanghai-nese) but I fail at writing and reading. I mean, I can read but it takes me a while. And writing... I can write essays (with the help of Word Reference) so yeah.

Can someone teach me Mandarin? All my friends know it so when I turn to listen to what they say,they switch.

Oh that's funny, I love doing that to people. Sorry. :D

Um... Mandarin is a rather difficult language to learn... I mean, if you're not dedicated, it will take ages. Not saying that I was dedicated, I grew surrounded by Chinese so...yeah. The basics should be easy to teach. But it'd be easier if you understood pinyin... ok, I'll stop now. :D

What is pinyin? Oh I know never mind. But if not Mandarin than can someone teach me Chinese

Haha, pin yin is the spelling or the pronounciation of a word.

Okay, hmm...maybe start from basics.

Zao an - Good morning.
Wan an - Good night
Da jia hao! - Hi Everybody!

Mandarin is chinese... XD

Pin yin's sort of the phonetic spelling with accents that Chinese people use.

Natshane, maybe you should write the phonetic English spelling.

i used to do mandarin...i had to quit coz i moved 8C
how long have you guy's done it for??

Ages. As long as I can remember really.

I've actually never heard anyone say Zao an ever :o

It's typically Zao shang hao in pin yin for Good Morning :)

Eirian wrote: "I've actually never heard anyone say Zao an ever :o

It's typically Zao shang hao in pin yin for Good Morning :)"

Oh, I say it all the time, LOL.

704zoe wrote: "nihow"

Ni hao:)

The actual one would be ni hao :)

:)

I do Japanese but they don't offer chinese at my school :(