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          Stine
        
      
      Date : 2009-07-04 / 09:39AM
      
        Hi Benny! Thank you for this awsome way of learning, but I am a bit confused. Does shí mean both yes and am?
       
      
      
        
        
          
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        Chinese Mandarin : Registered on : 2007-01-01 Language : English, Mandarin Chinese Posts : 0 Responses : 2359 Comments : 75   |  
  |  |  Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com  2009-07-04 / 11:47AM |   |  Hi Stine, yes. it is. 
it should be “shì” (the fourth tone). 
Benny 
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        Chinese Mandarin : Registered on : 2007-07-09 Language : English Posts : 32 Responses : 193 Comments : 7   |  
  |  |  RobertVicencio bennysland.com  2009-07-06 / 02:55AM |   |  Where you from Stine? ;o) 
Let’s be BUDDIES!  |   |  
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        Chinese Mandarin : Registered on : 2009-06-18 Language : Mandarin Chinese Posts : 3 Responses : 66 Comments : 4   |  
  |  |  wei hotmail.com  2009-07-06 / 08:54AM |   |  yup ,as our teacher benny say ,shì is fourth tone . for example : wo shi xue sheng  ,i am a student . 
ni shi xue sheng ma ? are you a student ? shi de .wo shi xue sheng . yes , i am a student .  |   |  
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        Chinese Mandarin : Registered on : 2009-07-04 Language : English Posts : 4 Responses : 2 Comments : 3   |  
  |  |  Stine live.no  2009-07-07 / 08:30PM |   |  Xiexie =D I think I understand now. I guess a lot of words are a like, I just have to study hard to recognize them.  |   |  
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