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.

I'm not interested in the "biggest population", "fast developing country" or any economic reasons. I've been studying Mandarin Chinese in Beijing for 3 months and I find myself asking, "Why do I care? Why do I want to study this language?" If china were a slum with no future today, I want some ideas about why I would still want to study the language.

What is the difference between Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese? I'm a teacher trainer in several schools where we have an intake of both Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese speakers. If I put bilingual signs up do I need to find both?

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.

I know it starts with "xiè xiè nǐ "

My house is very big. I have 12 rooms in my house. 5 people live in my house they are: father, mother, older brother, younger sister and myself. My room is not big but it isnt small either. In my room i have a bed, a desk and window. My room isnt colourful. It is empty and a boring. My dog lives in my room. Out side my house is a street, on the other side there is my back yard which is very small. There arnt any trees in my back yard. My car is usually parked in my garage but is also parked outside sometimes. I live in a western style house. Other rooms that my house has are: laundry, 4 bedrooms, 2 living rooms, 1 kitchen, 3 bathrooms, and 3 toilets. My laundry has a washing machine. This room is very small. My house has 2 refrigerators. And there is a phone in every-room in my house except for bathrooms. translation would be very helpful and into mandarin chinese would be very helpful to me thank you so much also the grammar is in english if you know enough chinese to put it in the correct format that would be awesome

So here is how it stands. My parents bug me about the fact that good colleges (ivy league good) want 4 years of foreign language. Currently I am a freshman in high school in Spanish 2. Personally Spanish is hard for me and the reason I get good test grades are because my teacher literally shows us the test before it starts. But she didn't do that for finals and the a's and b's students (including me) got d's and f's. The classes my school has are French, German, Italian, Mandarin Chinese (2 years only), and Spanish. I am not in Spanish honors and I'm not recommended for 3 honors but if I take another language I might be able to get into honors in the first year. So my big question is should I stick with Spanish regular or take another language with a chance for honors?

Thank you!

Only do what you can, I really appreciate it!!! And if you could do it in Chinese characters it would be awesome! 1. It takes two and a half hours to get to Guanzhou from Hong Kong by train. 2. It takes 12 hours to get to Paris from Guanzhou by plane. 3. It took 40 minutes to get there. 4. How long did you work yesterday? 5. What is the date today? 6. What day is today? 7. I was very busy last weekend.

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.....

When the Map is Unrolled, the Dagger is Revealed 图穷匕首见 - tu qiong bi shou xian The word 穷 means poor, why is it translated as unrolled? Can it mean that too?

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.

The way I understand it leaves me confused. Wo yao tang = I want soup Wo xiang tang = I would like soup Wo xiang yao tang = I would like want soup <-- This I don't understand. Isn't this redundant? This is mandarin Chinese pinyin, by the way. Additional Details So, in the case of "wo xiang yao tang", the "xiang" has absolutely nothing to do with "would like to"? The "xiang" is put before the "yao" to make "wo yao tang" sound more polite? If so, then what is the actual definition of "xiang" in "xiang yao" or should "xiangyao" just be seen as one word basically meaning "politely want"?

I want to learn Chinese but I don't know how to learn Chinese. I am looking for advice from others about how to learn Chinese; I do not have a great amount of time to inject to learning it.

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.

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