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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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 Mary free.fr 
2008-08-08 / 04:52PM

Ni hao Benny,
I ’ve been studying Chinese for one year and have just discovered your site which is pretty informative. Now about the Chinese language, one question though, because I am puzzled to …

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 Pinkpankadu youtube.com 
2008-08-04 / 10:15AM

Hello Benny
your chinese lessons are great. they are funny and informative at the same time. it is helping me a lot. to learn the chinese language.
i have a question: maybe if you could take a lo…

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 hedaiki youtube.com 
2008-08-06 / 12:56PM

“Wo kan kan” means I just look? am I right? or look at? im a bit confused.

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 Mikazo654 youtube.com 
2008-08-04 / 10:17AM

你好Benny. 你的最喜欢的菜是什么? 我很喜欢吃越南菜,日本菜,和中国菜。

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 joshuahg youtube.com 
2008-08-06 / 03:40PM

thanks for posting this! i’m half chinese and my grandma and mom speak madarin to me all the time but sadly im not fluent…for the most part, i understand normal conversation but im struggling wit…

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 BabayneTan youtube.com 
2008-08-05 / 03:00PM

may i ask if this sentence is correct..

‘wo de zui xi huan peng you shi ni’

it sound so funny..so i don’t think my sentence is correct..it’s supposed to mean ‘my favorite friend is you’.

h…

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 maelstrom1710 youtube.com 
2008-08-05 / 03:09PM

I thought I was talented for languages, but I’m really stupid for chinese:(
I just cannot remember these several simple phrases, I can repeat them, but I forget them immediately. I’ll have to see …

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 bunearylove1 youtube.com 
2008-08-04 / 03:48PM

What’s they different between mandarin and Chinese?

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DzenLi

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 Marta Chan o2.pl 
2008-08-05 / 03:41PM

Wǒ yào cí zhí!
Benny, can U translate this for me and send me that in chinese sign…
Xie Xie

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 nicholas student.monash.edu 
2008-08-05 / 10:49PM

how to say ‘serve you right’ ?

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 Janet Evans gmail.com 
2008-08-04 / 10:41AM

sumtyms i hear “ke xin” thoo….is that ryt?? does it also mean but…(im not sure if thats the ryt pinyin)

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 girliciouspcd youtube.com 
2008-08-04 / 03:41PM

Thanks ask benny! Your the best. I love chinese. Could I ask you to translate english statements to chinese statements? Thanks. I’m actually Filipino and I pass by Hong Kong everytime I go to the P…

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 Janet Evans gmail.com 
2008-08-04 / 03:22PM

Will benny go to the olympics?

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 Jersangg youtube.com 
2008-08-04 / 10:06AM

Hello Benny. I’ve watched many of your videos, they are great. It is really easy to learn from you.
Just recently, a Chinese guy helped me out at work and I want to thank him for his help and to s…

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syedfast

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 ALI HUSSNAIN gmail.com 
2008-08-04 / 03:59AM

hi benny ,while giving answers i experienced word BATH ROOM , THINK ITS PINYIN IS “WEI SHENG JIANBUT ITS FALSE WHY?

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nickjs

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 nicholas student.monash.edu 
2008-08-04 / 12:36AM

benny, is there other way to say ‘last time’ besides shang4 ci4?

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ledonum

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 Leslie Estreller lycos.com 
2008-08-03 / 07:26PM

Laoshi, I also have trouble pronouncing words beginning with the following: z, zh, j, q, c. Hope you will also have a video on how to pronounce them.

By the way, I am enjoying learning my les…

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herminator

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 hermann doebner hotmail.de 
2008-08-03 / 12:33AM

hi benny,
nice to be here :-)
As i told i am interested about chinese metaphysics. So are there any special mandarin and perhaps kantonese lessons for me to learn??

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daianynhadecampos

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 Daiane de Campos hotmail.com 
2008-08-03 / 01:32PM

Você possui uma página em português? eu falo apenas português…

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 jaime yahoo.com 
2008-07-28 / 07:07AM

Benny, “对” 和 “为” 用的怎么样? 多谢!

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Ducky2

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 Chris swbell.net 
2008-08-01 / 10:57PM

Ni Hao Benny!!! I was wondering, how and why are there two different words that mean the same thing instead of just one word? Xie Xie Ni!!!

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 shy yahoo.com 
2008-08-01 / 07:38PM

hehe.. i googled it and found out that it means"I think you are extremely beautiful"..

hehe.. i googled it and found out that it means"I think you are extremely beautiful"..tnx for ur help…

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 shy yahoo.com 
2008-08-01 / 07:25PM

good day to you… what do you mean by “Wo jue de ni fei chang piao liang”?

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 white1soul youtube.com 
2008-07-31 / 05:44PM

Ni hao Benny,
I’m a person who are very interested in learning chinese language. I’m from middle east. my mother language is Arabic. I tried actually to learn chinese. Not only just speaking. I wa…

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maornelas

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 Antonieta Ornelas hotmail.com 
2008-07-20 / 01:08PM

ni hao miss. word… I’m just starting, how can I add learning to my stats?

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 Wongy20861 youtube.com 
2008-08-01 / 10:27AM

Your lessons seem really good being chinese myself, brought up in England i never studyed the chinese language because of school. i want to learn it to speak to my other family members.

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Henry

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 Henry yahoo.com 
2008-07-04 / 09:31PM

thx benny for your reply, i have 2 questions i would like to ask:

1) from one of the sheng4 yu2 examples that you gave in my previous post, can i say something like "wo3 men de qian2 sheng4 yu2 …

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Tiasmokey

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 Shiya Burkes yahoo.com 
2008-08-01 / 01:41AM

Thanks benny for helping me to say the mandarin word “half”. I thought it was “Bam” but I just wasn’t sure!

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45024

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 Kalvin Chan gmail.com 
2008-07-31 / 07:30AM

Benny, 我有一个问题。“但是” 和 “可是” 有什么不同? 我问完我好了,但是(可是)他们不清楚。你可以帮我吗? 谢谢你!

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smohdasif

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 Mohammad Asif hotmail.com 
2008-07-31 / 06:21PM

Hi Benny,
Today i join www.askbennychinese.com and found the way to learn mandarin is very easy and intresting,I hope i could speak mandarin one day.Thank you very much for your effort. Best regards

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