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pasco

Chinese Mandarin :Chinese Mandarin Level
Registered on : 2007-11-04
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 pasko yahoo.com 
2007-11-10 / 12:06AM

Everything was going great until you said that “guang lin” was a formal/polite way of saying “coming”.

How formal? Would our co-workers/classmates laugh at us if we used it with them?

PS Benny, ni de fa yin fei chang qing chu!!

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editorbenny

Chinese Mandarin :Chinese Mandarin Level
Registered on : 2007-07-25
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 Benny bennysland.com 
2007-11-10 / 10:22AM

Ni hao Pasko!

It would be a bit weird when you say “guang lin” to your co-workers or classmates, :)

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superkoko09

Chinese Mandarin :Chinese Mandarin Level
Registered on : 2009-10-12
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 superkoko gmail.com 
2009-10-12 / 11:40AM

oh my gosh this is so complicated cause im very fluent in english and hmong. now learning a third language is harder. but i’ll get it.. i love chines. by the way is chinese, taiwanese and madarin the same? reply back please..

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benny

Chinese Mandarin :Chinese Mandarin Level
Registered on : 2007-01-01
Language : English, Mandarin Chinese
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 Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com 
2009-10-12 / 05:03PM
To : superkoko

Hi,

Mandarin is mainly for the oral version. And Chinese includes writing reading and listening and speaking. While Taiwanese is almost same as Chinese, just with some different local sayings and traditional characters. In China, we only have simplified except for HongKong.

Benny



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