In the sentence for example "ji ge xiaoshi" -- how many hours? Or "Ni jia li you jige erzi" -- how many sons does your family have? Why do we use "ji" with the measure word "ge"? What is the rule?

您想借什么书？What can I do for you？” How do you understand?

Okay to keep a long story short I had learned Chinese for 7 years from a Taiwanese teacher. He taught me Mandarin and used traditional characters. Then my parents didn't have any money for more lessons because I had to go to college and well it's expensive. Anyway, I've been self learning mainly from the internet and it was very difficult with almost everything in simplified so I stuck with traditional ones first but there wasn't much material. I soon found a lot of Chinese dramas and movies to watch, and even the Taiwanese ones had subs in simplified Chinese. I can't understand everything just by listening, especially with so many words with the same pronunciation and the audio quality isn't the best. Oh and Hong Kong ones normally had traditional subs but the audio was in Cantonese - which I never learned - so those only helped me read Chinese but didn't help at all with my listening. Well it's been 5 years since and I'm still having trouble with the simplified and haven't yet fully got a hang of it yet. Besides I read simplified slower than I would read traditional. Is there anything that I can do so I can read simplified at ease just like traditional? I don't get why it's so hard.

My parents were born in Taiwan, and so, I am Taiwanese. Whenever someone asks me what I am, I say Taiwanese. However, this Chinese person said to me.. you mean Chinese? She said it's the same thing so don't say Taiwanese, just say Chinese. I am not very informed on my background at all and am not sure if she is correct or not. So, my question is, are the two backgrounds the same or different? Thanks!

Use the word in brackets to create a sentence. 1.我听说这部电影很好看，我明天果然去看看。 （果然） 2.医生说这种新药很有效果， 我果然吃这种药。（果然） 3.我走出房间， 天气突然下雨。（突然） 4.他正在看电视， 突然我朋友给我打电话。（突然） 5.每次我看见他， 我总是很害怕！（总是） 6.他减过好几次肥总是没成功。（总是） 7.彩都端上来了，于是你慢慢吃！（于是） 8.客人都走了，于是我现在可以吃晚饭！（于是） 9.原来教室里很热闹，可是老师说： “请安静！” （原来） 10.今天大家都很高兴， 原来大家都很失望！（原来）

I know that I wrote it in Japanese. It is just to save me the trouble of looking up the pinyin. I know the characters (hanzi) from Japanese. But, I learned another method of transliterating Chinese (not pinyin) Oh now I am more confused than I was before. I did an exercise and the person who graded it worte 不錯 on it.

I want the symbols because i want them tatooed on my forearm.

I'm looking to learn Spanish and Arabic mostly, but also interested in Chinese/Mandarin. Is there any tricks to how to learn a language besides actually speaking with someone who also speaks that particular language?

Could u please find out the easiest home page to study Chinese online?

Women jia li bu you hen duo ren

In: Japanese Chinese Korean Russian French Italian Latin Afrikaans Arabic Catalan Greek etc. English words too if you want.

I need to ask a question in Chinese but don't know how. The question is: Does the item include the beading thread? Please help with Chinese translation. Thanks.

I live in Taiwan. I've mastered more or less the top 900 Chinese characters. I'm able to read between 85% and 90% of the Chinese characters in the newspaper, but with street signs, I'd say I'm only at 60%. Why are street signs so much harder?

Hello! How would this be written in Mandarin Chinese? I am not a fluent Mandarin speaker, but I am still learning Chinese. I have been learning Mandarin Chinese for one year now. What are your hobbies?

我和你无缘但是我真觉得你非常可爱也有点喜欢你。只可惜我们真无缘吧。

你觉得运气是可以“碰”的吗？