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He's my boy friend, not my boyfriend!

July 27, 2010 at 05:35 AM

The above is a quote from an arguement I had with my older sister when I was 5 years old. In order to avoid having this argument again, I would like to know what to... Read more

What is the difference between 受到, 收到, 得到, 获得 and 取得?

July 17, 2010 at 06:00 AM

The way I see it, all of these words mean 'receive' or 'got' to some degree. This is how I gander they are generally used: 受到 - for bad receiving bad things, e.g. "H... Read more

Saw this on a car bumper

July 08, 2010 at 08:15 AM

I have seen a car around with some hanzi on its bumper and today I saw it long enough to write it down. 無畏賤人  Putting this in MDBG gave me a meaning I'm not sur... Read more

what is this character?

July 07, 2010 at 06:57 PM

hello folks.  i was hoping someone could help me with identifying what this character is in this picture above. pinyin and meaning would help greatly. This is a... Read more

Hand radical/ soil radical

July 05, 2010 at 08:35 PM

I have noticed the hand radical is called 提手旁 ti2shou3pang2 when it is placed on the right or left side in a character. ti2 means to carry in the hand and ti2shou3 m... Read more

Use of 過 in sentences with multiple verbs

July 02, 2010 at 11:15 AM

大家好 I have a grammar question. The experiential marker guo 過 is added after the verb as we have all learned... But what if a sentence contains more than one verb. To... Read more

Standard transliteration

June 30, 2010 at 08:29 PM

Okay so here is something interesting I noticed the other day. If I put my name into translate.google.com it gives me back a transliterated version of my name. If I... Read more

Ways of saying I

June 29, 2010 at 06:37 PM

Okay so reading up on the Google thing I followed a reference look at baidu and in their About Baidu found this quote "we believe there are at least 38 ways of sayin... Read more

I have just started to learn Chinese。－> 我刚一开始学汉语。

June 26, 2010 at 11:33 AM

I'm completely new here (as you can see fromm the titlle:-) and I hope this is the group for asking such questions. Did I correctly translated the sentence "I have j... Read more

Spouse-seeking notice

June 17, 2010 at 04:06 AM

It's not a Advertisement!I saw it in a blog,I think she is a lovely lady,if you know someone who fits this description, please e-mail her.thanks! Hi, My name is Judy... Read more

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