I am doing a speech soon

We needed to do a skit (school activity) and choose a language of our liking. I wanted to do Mandarin because my great grandfather was chinese. My mother supposedly spoke mandarin first but sadly my great grandfather passed away and no one was able to teach her anymore. Anyways, I want to learn to learn and understand not only it's language but also it's culture.

And I want to understand listening and to introduce myself in Chinese language I want to be a Chinese teacher

I have a girlfriend in Chengdu, Schiuan Provence online dating. Can we learn conversational lessons? How do ebooks work? I only have a 32 G smartphone and a tablet. Is that enough for ebooks? I must wait to update my new phone on WIFI at the food store today godwillimg. Skype or WeChat recommended? Unfamiliar with both. Thanks, Stephen Horton

I am having a hard time to find how to say songwriter and music producer in chinese... If someone can help me, I will feel very grateful.

My daughter will be 12 years old this July. She is in P6 now.

Looking to get a tattoo and the Chinese symbol for relax would be perfect. Everyone is always so stressed out. Relax and enjoy life.

This question is for those who have used the new Practical Chinese Reader Book....I want to join this review contest but I'm not quite sure what to say.

i want to fool my friend into thinking that i speak fluently hehe how can i say this paragraph in mandarin? (you don't have to include pinyin, i can read the hanzi ^^) "I think the best way to learn a language is to speak it with other people, rather than learning it with books. But it's kind of hard to learn here because there are a lot of Cantonese speakers. Every time I go to a Chinese restaurant, I just hear Cantonese... I don't understand them. I was actually going to try and learn Canto, but there weren't enough resources online..." Please translate that like you are having a conversation with someone lol thanks in advance

I've read several questions and answers about Chinese v. Russian, but I'm still unsure. I'd like to learn Russian in particular because I love to read, and some of my favorite books were originally Russian. But I also know that Chinese is the bigger business language, and if you're going to do that, Mandarin is the way to go. Trying to exclude China's advantage in that area, which is the better choice?

I'm actually looking for the title of Joseph Heller's novel "Catch 22" and haven't had any luck. I'd like to get a hold of this book. I'm thinking it's something along the lines of “诡计二十二” (gui-3 ji-4). (Catch in this case is not as in "to catch a ball", but rather, when something seems to good to be true or too easy, often there is a "catch". This catch is an unseen detail that makes the situation much less appealing than it initially seemed. For example: someone offers to sell you his new Mercedes for $500....that sounds too good to be true....what's the catch? The catch is that it's down at the bottom of this lake....just give me the money and it's yours!!)

I recently started to attempt to teach myself Mandarin Chinese. I found a good website that is really helpful, but I still have a few questions. I am also trying to also learn how to write and read SOME of Chinese. So my questions are: -Can someone explain the whole "Radicals" thing to me? -And is there a way to pronounce a Chinese character, without know how to pronounce it? For example, like I could make up a word in English, and pronounce it without having to study the word.

I know 2007 is 二〇〇七年 - I understand the character for the 1, - , but I also know that when spoken ,depending on the preceding tone, the tone for 1 changes? Help?

婶婶 or 叔母 姨夫 or 姨丈 pls help me again.

I saw your post online and it looks very helpful but I would be grateful if you could do me this very small favor - how would your pronounce this - 美丽心灵 I mean I need the Chinese pronunciation for this word.