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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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 mrvictormsp youtube.com 
2008-07-15 / 03:18PM

Benny, is it true that “ma” just indicates that is a question? by the way, I am mexican and I am dating a beautiful chinese girl, she’s always impressed with the phrases and sentences I learned fro…

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 poetswolf1985 youtube.com 
2008-07-15 / 03:09PM

what is the difference between xiang and yuan yi?

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 barry4929 youtube.com 
2008-07-15 / 03:04PM

great as always,send me your address Benny and look for that post card! I am on vacation the week of 20 July,I am going to try some of my chinese in Las Vegas, thier are always hot looking chinese …

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 poetswolf1985 youtube.com 
2008-07-15 / 03:03PM

How does tan differ from shuo in terms of ‘to speak’?

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 AxlsRocketQueen32 youtube.com 
2008-07-15 / 03:02PM

Ni hao Benny,
I would like to know the difference between Chinese and Mandarin..
Next year i’m going to study Chinese and I see all this video’s who call them selfs Chinese learning,but some peop…

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 poetswolf1985 youtube.com 
2008-07-15 / 02:54PM

How do you say ‘although’ or ‘even though’? What are the tones?

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nara2nad

Chinese Mandarin :Chinese Mandarin Level
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 nadeen sofia yahoo.com 
2008-07-15 / 01:12AM

hye!

i jus wan to ask about the changing of names when u speak or write in mandarin..if " siti = xidi" dui ma?
n…rahman= laman,salina=shalina…sofia=shu fei ya,correct me if im wrong…
and…

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love

Chinese Mandarin :Chinese Mandarin Level
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 elchhang yahoo.com 
2008-07-11 / 07:21AM

i love you

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dannyslodan

Chinese Mandarin :Chinese Mandarin Level
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 daniel atkins gmail.com 
2008-07-14 / 05:25AM

Hello- Great website! I am going to teach English in China in a few months and this has been very helpful. Is there any way to get the audio into mp3 so I can listen to your lessons while driving? …

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 daisydanca youtube.com 
2008-07-14 / 10:03AM

Xie Xie Benny! That is so nice of you. I guess my parents are hiring a guide for me being that I have to fly to the Shanghai Airport by myself because my university is starting class while my famil…

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 PrincessShiya youtube.com 
2008-07-14 / 10:02AM

hao, xie xie. I went to the link and that cleared things up. I first wanted to learn chinese because there are alot of people in my community that speak . . . . well, I believe to be chinese. And I…

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 barrybadranath youtube.com 
2008-07-14 / 10:01AM

Ninhao Laoshi Benny,

It has been a while since I have looked at your videos, I am back into practice and still find your lessons to be the best. You are a talented instructor. Flattery aside, I …

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kamy

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 Amy hotmail.com 
2008-07-13 / 04:48AM

Ni hao, I come from Greece and I’m planning to travel to Shanghai for ten days, in August. I would love to meet people from ‘bennyland’ who live in Shanghai. Do you think that is possible???

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 gerlyn yahoo.com 
2008-07-13 / 06:33AM

ahhm..hello i want to ask if do you have available mandarin-english books in canada?i want to learn mandarin

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Roberto

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 Roberto Villegas Silva hotmail.com 
2008-07-13 / 03:11AM

Hola =)
I’m from México and I have serious problems pronouncing zhi, chi, shi and qi. My problem is that I as a spanish speaker can make a real difference between those phonemes.

Send you …

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nickjs

Chinese Mandarin :Chinese Mandarin Level
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 nicholas student.monash.edu 
2008-07-13 / 12:38PM

how to say ‘crawling under’ ? e.g: he is crawling under the table

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love

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 elchhang yahoo.com 
2008-07-13 / 02:59AM

i love you

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telsky

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 Chulaluck hotmail.com 
2008-07-08 / 11:29PM

Benny, I see you at www.youtube.com. You teach very well. I want to see you teach full version, how I can get. Please answer me, thank you.

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love

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 elchhang yahoo.com 
2008-07-11 / 07:21AM

i love you

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zyqlxy

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 Joy99qiqi live.cn 
2008-07-11 / 05:56PM

我不小心来到了这个网站,貌似都是学习中文的人们。。。很不错的地方~你们要加油哦~!

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zyqlxy

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 Joy99qiqi live.cn 
2008-07-10 / 04:15PM

对不起。。。我纠结了。。。

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 girlsweet22 youtube.com 
2008-07-10 / 04:48PM

Hi benny thanks for listening to my suggestions. I have learnt so much from you. I work in a sports centre where we have alot of manderin speakers, i have been testing my new learnt skills and peop…

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 wildsphere04 youtube.com 
2008-07-10 / 11:17AM

hi gud day. i just want to ask.. how will i able to download this video on my celphone? I’m using LGKU250. tnx.. pls reply!!

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 dpay02 youtube.com 
2008-07-10 / 10:53AM

你常去酒吧吗? 哈哈

教我们一点上海话吧:) 交个朋友:)

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 tyconius1248 youtube.com 
2008-07-10 / 01:04PM

Congratulations, Benny. I just have a few questions: 1) Which is a more common term to refer to Mandarin: putonghua or gou-yu or any other term
2) ying-yu or ying-wen to refer to English

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 a2b4c6d8 youtube.com 
2008-07-10 / 12:56PM

How to write Chinese, Benny? The speaking component of Mandarin doesn’t look too hard, but writing??? Man, it seems nearly impossible:( You’re an absolute genius, Benny.

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 EIChino855 youtube.com 
2008-07-10 / 12:54PM

How different are Chinnese,Korean, and Japanese.Because I heard that Japanese borrowed alot from Chinnese.

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 rupaal youtube.com 
2008-07-10 / 11:20AM

Benny you are awesome, you are a perfect example of Knowledge Management and Development, thats great (Babel`s Tower is not be more a wall).
how can i say, i`m mexican, or i`m from mexico??
thank…

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 a2b4c6d8 youtube.com 
2008-07-10 / 11:18AM

I was just wondering: is Mandarin suppose to be spoken fast or slow (relative to how people speak in English)?

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jaime

Chinese Mandarin :Chinese Mandarin Level
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 jaime quijano yahoo.com 
2008-07-10 / 08:04AM

Nin hao Benny!, zenmeyang de yang he zhe zhong de zhong you shenme de qubie?

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