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          claudia calisti(claudita)
        
      
      Date : 2009-07-10 / 07:15AM
      
        Hi Benny! these words are for you!!
sheng ming bi  hao ru guo  ni sheng huo le yici.
LIFE IS BETTER LIVED TOGHETER.
wo gei ni zhe  xie ci men yin wen ni wode pengyou.
And now two questions. 
1may I write “ci men”  to say  “words”?(plural)
2 why in the dictionary mandarin words are written without space when  in pin yin ? ex: life is written shengming and not shang ming(as in mandarin characters, hanzi). May be ’cause writing with space is more similar mandarin writing?
Anyway: to me is much easy to remember words without space.
Thanks a lot!
       
      
      
        
        
          
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  |  |  Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com  2009-07-10 / 09:22AM |   |  Hi Claudia, 
Thanks so much for your sentence: 
1. you don’t need to say “ci men”. just “ci” is ok. because “zhe xie = those” is already indicate “plural” 
2. It is written without space in dictionary, but in order to make it clear, that’s why I write separately, it is ok to write without space 
Benny 
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  |  |  wei hotmail.com  2009-07-11 / 10:56PM |   |  some spelling mistakes . 
yin wei ni wo shi peng you . ni shi wo de peng you . 
in our Chinese ,1 ci , 2 ci ,3 ci . 1 ge ,2 ge ,3 ge  
1 zhang ,2 zhang ,3 zhang . there is no plural .so lots of Chinese students learning English often forget the “s” which end of the words .  |   |  
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