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!

can someone translate this paragraph for me into Chinese traditional characters? I really don't know how. In China, Red is an important color for the New Year and they use firecrackers to celebrate. Western New Year is celebrated also with firecrackers. In China, Valentine's Day is celebrated different also. In China, Lanterns are very popular for Valentine's Day. It is celebrated usually by being with the family and having a nice dinner. Finally, people go outside and play.

I'm learning Chinese but for some reason I am having difficulties, even though it is my third year having the class, it has seemed to have gotten much harder. Please and thank you. Remembering the Chinese characters I can't build relations from the characters to their meanings.

你觉得运气是可以“碰”的吗？

7,090 70,090 700,090 I just want to know do you have to say zero (ling) in between the numbers in Mandarin language! Thanks so much!

If i send an item hand written in Mandarin Chinese, would it reach the buyer? I sell on eBay, and for the first time ever, someone brought an item from me from china. The problem is that the order details is in Mandarin Chinese so i was wondering if i had written back the address in Mandarin Chinese, would the buyer receive the item... i don't have any printer to print out the writings so i don't really know what to do, but i was thinking of copying the address by rewriting it in Mandarin Chinese, which is something i have never done before. I tried to make contact with the buyer, but he hasn’t been responding to my mails, which means he probably doesn't understand English. I can easily cancel the transaction, but the item is worth $1 and think it’s worth the risk shipping it, plus its a great experience, just in-case someone buy something from me in eastern Asia. if there are any person with profound Mandarin Chinese knowledge who can translate the address, this is the address below 李洪均 义乌市新南乡水印新村九组13号 义乌市 浙江省 322000 China thanks for your answers

Is there anyone who will tutor me Mandarin lessons via email and instant messenger? I am trying to learn Mandarin Chinese, and I think I need to take Mandarin lessons. Is there anyone who can provide Mandarin courses online? Thanks

think it's great if my kid could start to learn Chinese at an early age. I really want her to get started on it but I'm not sure what Chinese learning materials I should get for her. She's only 5 yrs.old.

I want to go to China and learn about the law.

I am a native English-speaker studying Mandarin Chinese. I am interested in getting feedback from native English-speakers who have successfully become fluent in Mandarin Chinese: 1) From the time you began studying Mandarin Chinese, approximately how long did it take you to actually become fluent in the language? (i.e. able to communicate all of your ideas and interests to a native Mandarin-speaker, and also able to understand 80% of what they say) 2) Approximately how much time did you spend studying Mandarin Chinese each day in order to reach fluency? What type of schooling/classes did you take, if any? 3) Which books, online resources, audio books, ect. Do you recommended to facilitate learning Mandarin Chinese? 4) What did you find to be the most beneficial and helpful things that you did as you progressed toward Mandarin Chinese fluency? 5) How important do you think it is to study simplified/traditional Chinese characters concurrently while learning the spoken language?

Doing a mandarin project, in which I have to describe my house.

any proverbs about family for a Christmas card for grandparents.

I'm kind of confused about these terms. So please help me understand them well enough. What is Mandarin/Mandarin Chinese or Chinese Mandarin? (Are they any different at all?) Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese Cantonese Han Chinese Hanyu(or is it Han Yu?) that's all. I just need some simple explanations for each. Thanks so much in advance.

My roommate's older sister is visiting our small New York apartment from China tomorrow. I'm already going to say "很高兴再次见到您" but I also want to say, "Welcome to our humble home!" Can I say, "huan ying ni lai wo men de peng bi (蓬筚; péng bì)"? Any other tips on how to make her feel welcome in our home? This is her first time in America. She is from Beijing.

It is good/nice to hear your voice. What is your schedule for the week like? (or something that would lead them to tell me what they do during the week, ex- i have a class from x-x and i work from y-y and study from z-z...) When would you be able to set aside 30 minutes to have just a friendly conversation. Thanks.