But, I don't know which self study book is the best to help me learn beginner Mandarin language or which is really suitable for a learner like me.

It is more like I want to say that I don't have a living room for my (non existent) sofa to be in. (Before I wrote about having a sofa and big white cat that slept on it. But, I don't have the sofa. I don't have a cat.). I don’t know whether the Chinese grammar in this sentence is right or not. I need someone who is really good at Chinese grammar to answer my question.

Just give me the Chinese pinyin or Chinese characters for it

I want my boyfriend and my name tattooed on me somewhere but I want it in Chinese letters. My name is Nani, his name is Irving. Throughout our relationship we created Nanirving as our special thing. I can't find this anywhere in Chinese, so I tried combining NaniIrving to make this 纳尼欧文boyfriend . It's disappointing how I can't literally combine them, but this will do. Is this a good idea or no? Also, I would like the Chinese letters to "Inner Strength" such as making yourself the strength to keep you moving. Thanks a bunch!

Hi, I have a number of questions about Chinese pinyin pronunciation: 1. How do you know when "i" in Chinese pinyin should be pronounced "uh" or "ee" or "er" as in the English word "fur" (examples of usage in chi and shi)? I've heard it as all these ways and am very confused as to which is correct, keeping in mind I am aiming for the Beijing accent. 2. In the Chinese pinyin "e", how does one know if it is to be pronounced as the English sound "uh" or "eh"? I have heard "ye" as both "yeh" and "yuh". 3. Does it really make a huge difference if you give your "ch" and "zh" different forces of air, like I know some of the sounds have more air than others, like "p" and "b"...?

I'm learning Chinese soon (Mandarin) but for now I’m focusing most of my attention on the Chinese characters. I'll be taking notes and using flash cards, but does anyone have any other tips for memorizing the Chinese characters? I need some good ways to learn Chinese. 谢谢 thank you

Chinese, Japanese, I don't really care about exact dialects or anything, i don't really know much about it, I just wanna see what they look like.

Thank you!

I am studying how to connect two sentences that are relative with a pronoun to make one sentence. I wrote some sample sentences and I wan wondering if anyone can translate them into Mandarin Chinese. Thank you. 1. Bats are the only mammals that can fly. 2. That is the hospital where I was born. 3. Those are the siamese twins that are conjoined at the head 4. That is the car which is designed by Mitsubishi, not Honda. 5. Use the bathroom that's on the second floor, not the third floor. 6. Who is the man that is in the restaurant? 7. Read the license plate that is on the car.

Hello, can someone tell me what these mean? Thanks so much. 你什么都不做，不用说，我心上的那朵花便朝你开了..... 讨厌你那什么都不在乎的样子，其实心里清楚得很 这个决定，万水千山也拦不住我.....

1. What's the difference between "fangjian" and "wuzi" -- both mean room? Any difference in usage? 2. Difference between qu and zou? "Let's go" is "Women zou ba" can I say "Women qu ba" instead? 3. Difference between to clean "qingli" and to clean "shoushi"???

I am currently listening to audio lessons to learn Mandarin, and I will start to go to Chinese school tomorrow. I live in Vancouver and all my friends are Asian, if I talk to them in mandarin everyday and they correct me how long do you think it will take me to learn Mandarin pretty fluently.

I want to know how to write: "All the Chinese I know, I learned from fortune cookies"

I'm trying to memorize a whole lot of Chinese characters in one night and getting really stressed out. What's a good technique to memorize Chinese characters?

I want to get a tattoo with this sentence in Chinese language. Thank you. Please respond.

One of my family members wants to get a tattoo of the phrase "Trust No Man." in Chinese language. We've of course been looking online, but it seems each translator is different.

when asking someone in mandarin if they want to go somewhere?

What does 太超過了 mean? I heard its slang. Can someone give an example of how to use it?