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.

I know there's a name for it, but I can't remember. Yes, I meant "exercise"....it was a typo. Also, thanks for the answer

What does the Chinese Symbol(s) for Day look like?

Chinese words are represented not by an alphabet but by little word pictures right? how do Chinese look up stuff in a dictionary?

Mandarin or Cantonese? I've heard that Cantonese is more often used than Mandarin in countries in Europe (i.e. supermarkets, shops,..) I know that Mandarin is more "important" but I want to be able to put my Chinese to use. I don't really travel to mainland China nor to Hong Kong. I just want to speak with people here and maybe in USA as well. Help!

I want to write some documents in Chinese pinyin (not Chinese characters), but it's hard to find good fonts for it. The one I use looks rubbish; I want a clean font for Chinese pinyin that shows the tones. A choice of fonts would be even better. Are there any programs out there for me? Thanks

This is important that it is correct, please write in Chinese characters. I need to know how to say (it doesn't need to be a word for word translation) these two phrases: 1. Please ship to this address 2. Please give me the tracking number for the package Help, it is important! Thanks! I don't need the pronunciations just the written words. I said this was important, thanks for using my question as an opportunity to slur Chinese people who speak English. Besides, those are Japanese characters.

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?

I love Cultures and I am fluent in Spanish and English. I am a college Freshmen majoring in Public Relations I recently became interested in Chinese but I've heard that its really not necessary because the Chinese already know English. I am wondering If I should even bother getting a minor in it. Is it worth it? Will I use it? Will it give me an edge over my competitors?

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.

It goes like year of the dog year of the pig. im not sure the order can antone help?!!!

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