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From :   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

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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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huaweiwang1981

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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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