I'm learning Chinese from a Singaporean (who is of the age where hanyu pinyin was not taught in school). And I'm confused about "sh" and "x". It doesn’t seem that the pinyin is consistent with how it sounds. Lets go into examples ... ' xie xie - is - shie shie, but gao xing(happy) - is - gao sing, shou(hand) can either be so or sho? shenti(body) should sound like senti, does this mean shenme sounds like senma? Because shi(it/to be) is definitely sounding like sh. Any clarification on why "sh" and "x" can both be either closer to S or SH english sounds depending on word would be great! Maybe you can go to have a look.

Can someone provide the Chinese characters and the mandarin pinyin please and if you can also provide the Cantonese pinyin if not then the characters and the mandarin pinyin will be fine and please specify which phrase it is whether its made everything worst, or made the whole situation worst thanks :)

Hi, I have recently started learning Chinese, and while I find the characters and writing it very simple, the Chinese tones are quite difficult for me, which is odd because I am a musician so I am supposed to have some sort of an advantage. I think I am saying the Chinese tones correctly it's just that whenever I listen to the Chinese tones being said I always confuse the 4 falling tone for the 1 or 2 tone but never Viceversa. Is it just something that comes with time...?

The thing is that I already know how to speak Chinese because my parents are both Chinese so I have no problem with the pronouncing. I ONLY want to know how to read and remember the Chinese characters.

My Choir teacher is making people try out for this play called "Salute to America," we have to try out for all of these and then she will pick the best. Obviously I can't do any of these very well but I REALLY need some help. Please give me all the information you can!

Can you please tell me how to pronounce the words hospital and surgery in mandarin Chinese? Thanks.

Annoyingly, Wikipedia seems to have all the numbers I want EXCEPT for number two! Give me the link to the as many sites as you can find, and I will award you 10 points and 5 stars! (No Java Applets though, sorry.)

hi.. kindly translate this sentence even if its only in its ping im form Ni yuan yi pei wo guo wo de xia ban bei zi ma? I only know the first words meaning.."Are you willing...???"then i dont know the next more lines please translate! thank you :)

Any help is appreciated! Thank you.

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Ok. So I want to get a tattoo in Chinese but I don't want it to look wrong or be the wrong symbols. I really want "Never Again" In Chinese on my back. But I just want to make sure I have the right Chinese words. Please tell me what they are and the pronunciation if you know it. Thanks :)

I'm planning to live in Taiwan for a year, and I've signed up to take Mandarin Chinese at my university, but I want to make sure this will be beneficial to me? How vast are the differences in speech and writing?

How do you tell what occupation your parents have in Chinese? My dad is a ship builder and my mom is a stay at home mom. How would I say this in Chinese?

I'm mainly interested in French, Spanish, Chinese, and maybe Japanese. PLEASE don't give me links to download something or watch videos. My bandwidth on my internet is ridiculous, and can hardly go to text-based sites without going over. I'm mostly looking into Rosetta Stone, and they look very good, but cheaper is obviously better. ^^; Unless, of course, you could link me to a reliable site that sells them a bit cheaper would be great. Anything helps!

I have already begun taking Spanish (in college) and have signed up to enter Spanish II. I love spanish, but I also want to get the basics of Chinese. I already know basic spanish from high school, but I'm definitely not fluent. My major in International Business (with finance or marketing, I havent decided yet) Would it be okay to just take 2 years of spanish and 2 years of Chinese? Or would future employers be discouraged that I didnt take 4 years of the same language. I really want to take both. I know for sure that I can keep my GPA up with Spanish because I tend to catch on quickly with it, but Chinese is going to be so much harder. Any advice?

I put the 3 after "shi" to indicate that the sound is said in the third tine (down then up) im talking about the same word with the same exact tone meaning different things

My Chinese teacher wants me to email her in Chinese (pin yin) and find an app for word or another thing that i can write in Chinese with. FREE???

Chinese pinyin is the chinese for beginners to get used to the tones and vocals etc then I can learn either mandarin simplified or traditional. does anyone know the colors in Chinese pinyin or where I can find them? Please write the translation of them (etc. in english and pinyin) or the URL to find them. I have searched in google bing and all but nothing comes up, or nothing useful anyway - because its not in pinyin!