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I am learning to speak Mandarin, I am about 2 weeks into learning.

According to google I keep mispronounciating these 2 words, it tells me I said Go when I try to say Eat.

So what is going on? Should I keep trying to get Google to understand me? Or should I just rely on my own ears?

I'm not really learning Chinese but this is for a shirt design and I wanna make sure it says what Google is telling me it says (I get overly paranoid about that sort of thing)

These two characters are way too alike. Do people make mistakes when reading or writing them?

Hey all,

I’m Dutch but my great grandfather was Chinese from Guangdong, from my mother’s side. I would love to get a tattoo in Chinese characters but since I don’t speak any Chinese I was wondering if you could help me with the correct writing and reading.

I did some research and apparently tradiontal chinese characters can be read by mandarin or cantonese but have difference pronunciation (I might be wrong). I lean more towards Cantonese since my great grandfather was from that area. Correct me if I’m mistaken. I’d love to have a tattoo saying something like “my beloved family”. But it’s might be hard to directly translate this into correct chinese.

I really like these two as well on the picture but I need to know if this is 100% correct writing.

Lastly, I also like year of birth, such as 1990 or 2026. What would be the correct spelling for that?

Thank you very much!

All 100 animate at once — simplified, with pinyin.

Ranking is Jun Da's Modern Chinese Character Frequency List (MO corpus, 193.5 million characters). These 100 account for 41.8% of every character occurrence in it. It takes about 168 characters to pass half, 500 to reach 76%, and 1,000 to reach 89%.

Stroke order data from Make Me a Hanzi.

Hi! I'm currently studying Japanese, but still, Chinese variations (or dialects) always have been an interesting topic for me, and I even plan to start learning Mandarin after finishing some JLPT exams.

Btw, a topic that really stands out are the Overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia, especially those in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore, with the latter having Mandarin as one of its official languages. While reading some articles, I've noticed a very big diversity within it, with groups such as the Hokkien, Hakka and Cantonese (please correct any mistakes) having a greater influence. So, after considering all the historical processes and cultural factors, I'd like to know what differences between the Southeast Asian variations and its "original" Mainland counterparts are worthy sharing.

Disclaimer: I apologise for any mistake or imprecision in the previous texts. Also, anyone can feel welcome to contribute.

Hello everyone this is a follow up from my last post ! I have rewritten the characters on some block paper which is the only thing I have access to rn, I just wanna say thanks to everyone for the honest criticism and critiques I think 90% of the comments were actually helpful aside from the ones that just said it looks bad. Anyways the characters might be a BIT hard to read so I’d zoom in a bit to make it easier to read and please don’t be shy to write more criticism as I’m still learning ! Thank you all sm !!!

Chinese Pronunciation & Conversation | Hiking a Difficult Trail in Chinese

How do you talk about hiking a difficult trail in Chinese?

In this Pronunciation & Conversation lesson, practice useful Mandarin pronunciation and natural conversation through a real hiking situation.

Listen to each word and sentence, pay attention to the pronunciation and tones, and then see how the same Chinese can be used in a short conversation.

Key Chinese

难走 — nán zǒu — difficult to walk

小心 — xiǎoxīn — be careful

石头 — shítou — rock / stone

爬 — pá — to climb

累 — lèi — tired

休息 — xiūxi — to rest / take a break

前面 — qiánmiàn — ahead / in front

慢一点 — màn yìdiǎn — a little slower

Useful Sentences

这条路很难走。

Zhè tiáo lù hěn nán zǒu.

This trail is difficult to walk.

小心，这里有很多石头。

Xiǎoxīn, zhèlǐ yǒu hěn duō shítou.

Be careful. There are a lot of rocks here.

我们休息一下吧。

Wǒmen xiūxi yíxià ba.

Let’s take a short break.

前面的路更难走。

Qiánmiàn de lù gèng nán zǒu.

The trail ahead is even more difficult.

Practice listening, pronunciation, and conversation with Chinese you can actually use in real life.

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Hi guys ! I’ve been learning Chinese for about 2 weeks now and have learnt 110 characters, please rate my handwriting and also tell me if my sentences make sense !

I saw this really cool pattern and I am fairly new to this craft but the pattern is in chinese can someone translate the pattern in english for me? It will actually be a great help