Chinese for Dummies

[wombakage]

As China is becoming more of a world power; more and more schools are offering chinese. Now at first chinese is hard as hell to learn, but with my help, you can work through it.



Here are some examples of the tones in basic words.


Tone #1 一 Shi 1st tone
Tone #2 十 Shi 2nd tone
Tone #3 五 Wu 3rd tone
Tone #4 四 Si 4th tone
Tone #5 (Nature tone) 了Le 5th tone


again this is for those who have some basic chinese training.


There are also (in case you didn't know) differences between traditional and simplified.


Traditional 誰
Simplified 谁

As you can see traditional is much more complicated


A hint for remembering phrases is to make flashcards with the English on the front, and the Ping Yi on the back. I've made well over a thousand cards in my journey through chinese classes.

WILL BE UPDATED

 

[Travis]

dont know if you plan to but mabey you should add audio files to help

 

[wombakage]

dont know if you plan to but mabey you should add audio files to help

That would be a good idea, except I don't have a way to host them. Provide me with a site and I'll do that.

 

[b1b]

That would be a good idea, except I don't have a way to host them. Provide me with a site and I'll do that.

http://www.vocaroo.com

 

[wombakage]

http://www.vocaroo.com

Vocaroo isn't working for me; I will try to find out why. In the meantime I will try and update this.

 

[Travis]

lol i couldnt get the recorder itself to appear on sythe but you can link it lol

 

[Vanmaster5]

tehe good job but thats just the really really basics. I know how to speak cantonese fluently and read simplified

 

[wombakage]

tehe good job but thats just the really really basics. I know how to speak cantonese fluently and read simplified

贞德吗？ 很好！我们应该说哈用中文！

lol i couldnt get the recorder itself to appear on sythe but you can link it lol

Yeah I think that'll work, Ill check it out

 

[TheHacker]

Its hard without voice clips :/