#mandarin help

[celandineitsaflowerdickward]

Anyone fluent in Mandarin? (Possibly also Inuktitut?)

Im making a sukki piece and wanted to translate their names, and a sweet little poem, and just don’t wanna fuck it up lol

(The OG idea was to do it half and half - half of the poem in Inuktitut and the other in mandarin - but honestly 💯 in mandarin would still be very cool). The poem:

And then

my soul saw you

and it kind of went,

“Oh, there you are.

I’ve been looking

for you,”

[woaihanyu]

Hi! I'm starting to study mandarin, do you have any tips of recommend any workbooks to start?? Thankss♥️🧸

Hey! Sorry for late reply, I'll put my five top tips down below!

1. I would say expose yourself to lots of different learning formats. So, watch programmes, listen to music, if you go to a Mandarin class do attend that also! You find that sometimes a 'eureka' moment will happen where a word or sentence finally clicks for you and you really learn it! I've had that happen after I've seen a word and then been like 'ah i remember this! '

2. Practice regularly! - when I go to my Mandarin class, I do all the homework and go to every lesson for example.

3. Try to get a language friend! Not everyone can travel abroad, so a language friend is best to practice with!

4. For lots of different unofficial resources, you can follow blogs on Tumblr too! It's why I set up my langblog, also to keep me motivated. You can find excellent vocabulary lists and grammar explanations on here.

5. Tones, tones and tones! Make sure you nail those down, then you'll sound like a pro! (I got many compliments from Chinese locals, even though I think I'm not that great)

Hope this helps a little!

[remade-graystudie]

hey quick language learning tip! i watch a lot of asmr videos and if youre into those they can be a great way to practice listening if youre not that great at it bc they usually talk slower! i usually watch "latte asmr" for korean (she also does english and japanese and shes actually my favorite! she puts time stamps in the description of what she does when and most of her stuff is gender neutral once u get past the titles bc she usually says "you" instead of pronouns! i love her videos so much!!!) for spanish i usually watch "murmullo latina asmr"! she does some nice stuff in english as well on the channel "whisper latina asmr" and if youre learning mandarin chinese "tingting asmr" has asmr videos that help you learn chinese while you sleep! she also has a few on chinese culture! i personally prefer korean asmr videos over english ones bc the ppl i watch hit the consonants (especially ㅋ/ㄲ, ㄷ/ㄸ, and ㅌ) a little bit harder (i especially love words like 축축하다 and 딱딱하다 because of the repeated sounds!). some other korean asmr youtubers i watch are "babzi asmr" and "asmr thomwhat"! babzi has subs in lots of languages and thomwhat has eng subs on most vids!

[remade-graystudie]

can someone please check this sentence? i am trying to say "i can't speak chinese very well" so would it be “我会说中国很好” or maybe ”我的中国不是很好”? please help!!

[tamago-m]

有谁要与我练习中文吗？我不介意呢。闷得慌。。。

If there is anyone who would like to practise Mandarin with me, I don’t mind helping. When I’m not working or on my primary blog, I’m pretty free. And bored to tears. 

[toastology]

IF ANY OF YOU KNOW MANDARIN CHINESE AND CAN HELP ME WITH MY CHINESE WORK THEN PLEASE PLEASE DROP ME AN ASK? pls pls pls ive done tons of tags to try and find the one who can help