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artmaniac

Chinese Mandarin :Chinese Mandarin Level
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 Hannah Artmaniac yahoo.co.uk 
2010-10-29 / 02:07AM

Benny, I always learnt “because” as yīnwéi. Not yīnwèi. what is the difference? Please help me!

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momoii

Chinese Mandarin :Chinese Mandarin Level
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Language : English, Tagalog
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 momoii yahoo.com 
2010-09-17 / 10:57AM

benny ? can you help me translate this ?
i love him , but he doesn’t feel the same way :(

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lulanke

Chinese Mandarin :Chinese Mandarin Level
Registered on : 2007-11-08
Language : English
Posts : 111
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 Roland Parijs yahoo.com 
2010-11-16 / 07:32PM

你好本霓我尊敬汉语老师

我把中国故事翻译成英文,有的句子我不太明白。
1:更别说
2:用期盼的目光看着缓缓巡视的国王
3: 没想到国王的 脸上却露出了最开心的笑容

中国故事
=====从前有一
位贤明而受人爱戴的国王,把国家治理得井井有条,人民安居乐业。
国王的年纪已经逐渐大了,但膝下扛7d无子女,这件事让国王很伤心。终于他决定,
在全国 …

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 wanjun hotmail.com 
2010-11-12 / 09:05AM

dear Benny,

你好啊, 最近好吗?

我估计你很忙 呵呵, 我想问一下,benny 你觉 西班牙语 翻译 中文 有什么技巧吗》?
最近对翻译很刚兴趣,希望你可以 给我一些意见,

take care

wanjun shui

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lulanke

Chinese Mandarin :Chinese Mandarin Level
Registered on : 2007-11-08
Language : English
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 Roland Parijs yahoo.com 
2010-11-16 / 07:34PM

你好本霓我尊敬汉语老师

我把中国故事翻译成英文,有的句子我不太明白。
1:更别说
2:用期盼的目光看着缓缓巡视的国王
3: 没想到国王的 脸上却露出了最开心的笑容

中国故事-Translation
=====Once up
on a time there was a wise and beloved emperor, who governed…

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boy19xx

Chinese Mandarin :Chinese Mandarin Level
Registered on : 2007-12-02
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 Harrion Woo 126.com 
2010-11-15 / 10:08PM

好久不来这里了 感觉变了很多

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Experience
Learning Type : Experience
Learning Level : Chinese Mandarin Level
Rating : rating
Bookmarks : 47
2007-05-03 / 12:00AM
Chinese Mandarin Learning : I Caught A Cold   Learn

Abstract : Need some Vitamin C or perhaps some Vitamin B – that’s “B” for Benny! Sooner or later the dreaded germs are going to win and our best defense and ammunition is to be able to find a Pharmacy and communicate our illness!

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leuken

Chinese Mandarin :Chinese Mandarin Level
Registered on : 2010-08-18
Language : English
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 leuken hotmail.com 
2010-11-02 / 11:09PM

Hello Benny. Your site is very helpful and well done. I have a couple of questions. First, how do I say “I don’t understand” and “I only know a little Chinese?”
Second, are there any children…

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booklet

Chinese Mandarin :Chinese Mandarin Level
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 raymond alfred lopez yahoo.com 
2010-11-08 / 08:00PM

benny……………………………….. plz…reponse.. :’(

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booklet

Chinese Mandarin :Chinese Mandarin Level
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 raymond alfred lopez yahoo.com 
2010-11-06 / 08:49PM

hi..benny i’d like to know how to use this site..i created an account here a long time ago.. but i forgot how to use it..so can u help me?

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 kevin yahoo.com 
2010-11-01 / 06:10PM

Hello benny,

Nong ho le va? How can I say “I have to live in shanghai for 3 more years. I have to work for 4 more hours” “Please don’t do this! I’m begging you!.”

Xie xie benny.

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huanhuan

Chinese Mandarin :Chinese Mandarin Level
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 huanhuan yahoo.co.uk 
2010-11-06 / 10:14PM

你好吗?
我是很好!
你的website很好看!
谢谢你!再见!

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 wanjun hotmail.com 
2010-11-06 / 01:42PM

benny 你好。

我刚从中国回来两个月, facebook 的事我知道, 可是我还以为你在美国呢,呵呵
好的, 我有你的邮件了, 有什么事我们就发邮件, 希望你有一天真的能来,期待。

婉君

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wanjun

Chinese Mandarin :Chinese Mandarin Level
Registered on : 2010-11-05
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 wanjun hotmail.com 
2010-11-05 / 12:52PM

dear benny!

benny 你好, 你真的很可爱, 跟我说了那么多 谢谢你, 希望没有耽误你的时间,
我随时欢迎你到墨西哥来旅游 呵呵, 我目前住在墨西哥的北边, 一个城市叫做 monterrey nuevo leon。我从七岁就来到墨西哥了,在这已经有14年了 呵呵, 我觉得教中文很有意思,尤其是给墨西哥人, 他们对中国的文化非常感兴趣,对于你的意见我觉得要是按照你说的去做…

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 婉君 hotmail.com 
2010-11-05 / 07:30AM

benny你好, 你怎么样? 希望你一切都好。

我在墨西哥教书才是第二个礼拜, 我看了你的建议, 我觉得对我非常有用, 谢谢你。
这里的墨西哥学生学中文 还算是比较快的, 所以我希望在上课的时间能让他们感觉到学中文很有意思, 有时候也想不出怎么样他们才不会觉得学中文很无聊。你有什么idea 可以告诉我吗》?

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 wanjun hotmail.com 
2010-11-03 / 03:12AM

你好 benny 我目前在一个中文公司上班教中文,应为我很早就来到了墨西哥,所以的中国文化,语言 还不是完全了解, 我是想问问你,给外国人教汉语,有什么技巧吗, 让他们懂的快一点,学的轻松一点

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artmaniac

Chinese Mandarin :Chinese Mandarin Level
Registered on : 2008-10-17
Language : English
Posts : 23
Responses : 6
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 Hannah Elizabeth yahoo.co.uk 
2010-10-25 / 11:00PM

你好 Benny,
Is there any way for a user like me to view all of the yellow belt content, just like the white belt content, because I am not paying :(

Xiexie

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lulanke

Chinese Mandarin :Chinese Mandarin Level
Registered on : 2007-11-08
Language : English
Posts : 111
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 Roland Parijs yahoo.com 
2010-10-17 / 04:02AM

你好本霓我尊敬汉语老师

我真的非常喜欢中文!一天你校我们一个新的字‘仚’。
我没有看到之首字但是马上猜测这笔字的意思!
我看一个人飞过一坐山,所以‘□‘我想意思是跳或是飞。如果一个人下来和站起来在这座山旁边
他成仙,因为他的年龄比这坐山的年龄一样!
汉语要很多意思,汉语是仙语他的话是仚话

□的意思比非的意思一样不一样?
□话翻译成荷兰话有(gevleugelde woo…

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prestari

Chinese Mandarin :Chinese Mandarin Level
Registered on : 2010-07-15
Language : English, Indonesian
Posts : 6
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 loetji yahoo.com 
2010-10-31 / 10:05PM

Ni hao Benny,

are these two sentences correct?
1. wo gen ben jiu bang bu le ni.
2. wo gen ben jiu bu bang le ni.

xiexie.

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Sumara

Chinese Mandarin :Chinese Mandarin Level
Registered on : 2010-10-18
Language : English
Posts : 1
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 Sumara hotmail.ca 
2010-10-22 / 05:42AM

Hello,拼音just saying Hi and thanks for the fantastic website. I’ve been using this site much lately each day and obserbing each word. All though I need to work on my sentence rearraging because It…

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Stephen

Chinese Mandarin :Chinese Mandarin Level
Registered on : 2009-12-11
Language : None
Posts : 7
Responses : 1
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 Stephen W hotmail.com 
2010-10-29 / 06:42AM

Hi Benny; I want to say, “You are young enough to be my (younger) brother”? My guess is, “Nǐ gòu niánqīng zuò wǒde dìdi”. Am I even close? Thanks

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artmaniac

Chinese Mandarin :Chinese Mandarin Level
Registered on : 2008-10-17
Language : English
Posts : 23
Responses : 6
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 Hannah Elizabeth yahoo.co.uk 
2010-10-25 / 10:57PM

Benny,
Thank you for your videos and the whole website,
could you please tell me the characters and pinyin for these phrases:

Asia
Africa
Australasia
South America
Artic
Antarctica
No…

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artmaniac

Chinese Mandarin :Chinese Mandarin Level
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Language : English
Posts : 23
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 Hannah Elizabeth yahoo.co.uk 
2010-10-23 / 10:52PM

Benny, I would like to say these sentences, please help! They are to do with school subjects:

I don’t like geography because the teacher is odd.

I really like art because it is my passion.

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Learning Type : Micro-class Video
Learning Level : Chinese Mandarin Level
Rating : rating
Bookmarks : 60
2007-05-10 / 12:00AM
Chinese Mandarin Learning : This One And That One   Learn

Abstract : If you're like me, and always eating from small stores or shopping in the lanes here in Shanghai, then this can prove to be a useful phrase to make sure you get exactly what you want (or need!)

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 claudia tiscali.it 
2010-10-18 / 03:13PM

Dear Benny:
is it correct to say:
wo3 xi huan wode muqin bi3 wode fuqin.
I want to say: I like more my mother than my father.
Is it correct this use of BI3 in this kind of sentcences?
thanks!

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dramore

Chinese Mandarin :Chinese Mandarin Level
Registered on : 2010-04-15
Language : English, Amharic, Esperanto, Sanskrit, Swahili, Uzbek
Posts : 5
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 Dr Amore fastmail.fm 
2010-05-04 / 04:42PM

what’s the difference between:
累lei and 困kun?

Thanks in advance

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Ilovedramaseries

Chinese Mandarin :Chinese Mandarin Level
Registered on : 2009-10-07
Language : English
Posts : 7
Responses : 1
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 Mooisme yahoo.com 
2009-10-25 / 07:25AM

Pinyin xiaojie! ni hao ma? wo yao zhidao zenme do i convert Chinese Pinyin into my computer where i can type and Change Mark tones or do you know where i can go to download it? xie xie ni, zai jian.

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 sarah hotmail.com 
2010-10-08 / 10:25PM

can u help me how to learn chinese please

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Jenlara25

Chinese Mandarin :Chinese Mandarin Level
Registered on : 2010-09-08
Language : English
Posts : 1
Responses : 0
Comments : 1
 洛珍妮 hotmail.com 
2010-10-08 / 06:53PM

Hi Benny,

I love your Chinese learning site, and I have one suggestion to help make it better. One thing I would love to see is a section focusing on pronunciation. I’m finding it very difficul…

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rosa

Chinese Mandarin :Chinese Mandarin Level
Registered on : 2010-09-18
Language : None
Posts : 2
Responses : 0
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 Rosario hbschennai.com 
2010-10-02 / 04:33PM

How do say in mandarin " Is it faraway from here?"

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