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Have you ever come across "Difference between ...... and ...... in Mandarin Chinese." "How to say ...... in Mandarin Chinese" "What does ...... mean in Chinese?" Whether it's asking a question or answering the other, this is the place to share your Mandarin Chinese knowledge together.

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 bob bob.com 
2008-07-09 / 09:30PM

How do I ask for Marriage in chinese :D ?

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love

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 elchhang yahoo.com 
2008-07-10 / 07:19AM

how you say you in chinese

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love

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 elchhang yahoo.com 
2008-07-10 / 07:16AM

what is i love you mean in chinese

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 PrincessShiya youtube.com 
2008-07-09 / 05:55PM

I have been learning Mandarin Chinese from your videos and it’s been so helpful, but I have been youtubing around and I notice different chinese languages. (Pinyin Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Sim…

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 daisydanca youtube.com 
2008-07-09 / 05:54PM

Nihao Benny!
Wo Jiao Allissa. Wo shi mei guo ren. I am trying to learn Chinese for August, because my family and I are going to Shanghai, Fuzhou, then to Guanghzou then taking the train to Guilin!…

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 nakuaso youtube.com 
2008-07-09 / 05:53PM

xie xie for the turtor in your website it really helps me alot!but i cannot understand the other words coz it represents the letter as a square?what happend??but ill try to undertsand!!xie xie!…

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 Satanickus youtube.com 
2008-07-09 / 05:19PM

I actually learned to say that instead of “xi shou zai na li”. I guess both are understood. So use them both from time to time for variation ^^

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 bud21s youtube.com 
2008-07-09 / 04:55PM

Really? You must be very happy. She seems very nice. Oh! And I thank you for putting these lessons on here. Fei chang gan xie! They are very simple to follow and learn and the music makes it fun! I…

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 barry4929 youtube.com 
2008-07-09 / 04:58PM

great job as always benny thanxs! Benny I’m going on vacation the week of 20 July; send me your PO Box and I will send you a post card! Tell Bobo hello I still think she is Cute!

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 musician8591 youtube.com 
2008-07-09 / 05:24PM

what about cesuo? I’ve heard bathroom called that. Is there any special use for either word?

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 NorthwesternerGuy youtube.com 
2008-07-09 / 05:21PM

Awesome classes for Westerners with Latin characters and diacritics marking tones! To learn Mandarin that way is easier for Westerners I think.

I noticed that you also refer to you language usin…

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 Vicki hotmail.com 
2008-07-08 / 09:30AM

acewill8 used the expression “tongren lu girl” can someone explain please?

xie xie ni

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nickjs

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 nicholas student.monash.edu 
2008-07-07 / 09:19PM

whats the diff. between bì (闭) and guān (关) ? since they both mean ‘to close’.. when do i use one or the other word?

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 allison anne grana yahoo.com 
2008-07-07 / 08:39PM

ni hao benny..
really like your site
i never thought that mandarin is kinda
easy…..

uhm can i ask?!
is the language in china and
the language in taiwan the same?!

xie xie..

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 musician8591 youtube.com 
2008-07-07 / 07:15PM

Benny!!! Nice to talk to you again… I have a question about… MANDARIN!!!
I noticed that on one of your older lessons, you taught about using “where.” You used “na li.” I am not familiar with t…

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 Henry yahoo.com 
2008-07-07 / 01:22AM

thx for your reply, if thats the case, how do i say ‘on/open back’ in chinese?

e,g: please on back the TV ?

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 Domnic yahoo.com 
2008-07-06 / 12:55PM

Help me lear n Chinese Mandarin, Please . I am in Love with a girl , I want to impress her. please help me

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Henry

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 Henry yahoo.com 
2008-07-05 / 11:45PM

thx benny for your reply again, but i am curious as to why ‘gei3 hui2’ doesnt make sense.. i mean if i wanna say ‘call back’, i would say ‘da3 hui2’ right? if i wanna say ‘please on back the tv’, i…

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 Emilie Wong OPTonline.com 
2008-07-06 / 08:55AM

Hi Miss. Tones I love this wesite. I know cantanese but i want to learn mandarin. This is really helping me out I know a few things now.

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 fireworksdude youtube.com 
2008-07-04 / 10:25AM

thanx for this..i would really love to learn chinese because I love watching chinese films and tv series,i want to be able to understand them not just by reading subtitles…

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 Alissia Jackson mail.com 
2008-07-01 / 09:05AM

Ni hao,
I was wondering what are the themes for a Peking house opera!!
xie xie ni :)

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Henry

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 Henry yahoo.com 
2008-07-03 / 08:52PM

hi benny, i just reviewed one of the lessons in the purple belt course and i found one interesting word which is sheng4 yu2. Can you give me more examples on its usage besides the time example? xie…

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 nicholas student.monash.edu 
2008-07-03 / 08:04PM

whats the diff. between bì (闭) and guān (关) ? since they both mean ‘to close’.. when do i use one or the other word?

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 Tmitsuo youtube.com 
2008-07-03 / 06:44PM

Hi Benny, thanks for answering my question. I appreciate for taking time to help my Chinese problems. I checked how “fan yi” is written in Chinese Character, han zi in the dictionary, and understoo…

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 raech gonzal yahoo.com 
2008-07-03 / 04:10PM

how do you translate words for family members, relatives…ex: mother, father, auntie, uncle, grandma, etc.

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 afudeflufy1992 youtube.com 
2008-07-03 / 10:58AM

u know mate i"ve been learning chinese in china,fuchou for 8 months and i still got nothing….. chinese language is depressing but chalenging..

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 greendragon111 youtube.com 
2008-07-03 / 10:51AM

hi, i am trying to learn mandarin,i been watching your videos and they help to a point but it is still pretty hard… i am getting my friend to help me, just wondering if u have any tips :)

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 Zac gmail.com 
2008-07-02 / 02:52AM

Ni hao Benny,
I’m going to China for a 22 day trip in January with my school. I know this is a long time from now, but do you think you could show my group around the city?

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nickjs

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 nicholas student.monash.edu 
2008-07-02 / 08:33PM

if i wanna say ‘car accident’ is it zhang4 che1 ?

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 acewill88 youtube.com 
2008-06-30 / 04:30PM

thank you, i think I manuaged to go out on a date due to your videos i say this because i asked and got accpet went out but my chinese is poor and her english weak so conversation was pretty dry lo…

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