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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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 Neil0410 youtube.com 
2008-04-21 / 04:18PM

Hi Benny
Thanks a lot for uploading this video. I am trying to pronounce Mandarin words in the right way. But I find it difficult to pronounce the words which have q,x,z in them. It would be great…

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 Jose263 youtube.com 
2008-04-21 / 03:58PM

Can you teach me how you said “you have a beautiful smile”?

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 Sinfuldavy0 youtube.com 
2008-04-21 / 03:52PM

Chinese have many dialects. e.g Mandarin is one dialect. Cantonese is another dialect

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 theGlbt youtube.com 
2008-04-21 / 03:45PM

China is a large country with different ethnic minorities, so it should be no suprised there are different dialects in different parts of China.

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 Diajoeng youtube.com 
2008-04-21 / 02:41PM

i really like your videos, your better than my college professor. We mostly just learn the characters and read out of the book.

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steven

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 Steven Gilmore gmail.com 
2008-04-21 / 01:45PM

Enjoys your video very much! learning much from it.

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 KoumoriGaikotsu youtube.com 
2008-04-21 / 12:04PM

I love chinese…..i just love it! the words run together so smoothly! beautiful!

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 Rickykun723 youtube.com 
2008-04-21 / 11:36AM

Hello Benny, I love your videos, they’re very informative!! I’m currently learning Mandarin in school, so your videos are helping me to further my understanding of the language.

Anyway, I was wa…

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Henry

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 Henry yahoo.com 
2008-04-20 / 05:19PM

Hi, what is dai1 huir4 and how do i use it?

And what is the diff. between xuan3 and tiao1 ? thank you

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 Yangqinks youtube.com 
2008-04-21 / 11:34AM

Have u been to malaysia before?
I really hope to improve my Mandarin… I always feel my Mandarin is not good enough and my pronuniciation is horrible… hahaha though it is understandable..Do u h…

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DAGSTER

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 Harmeet hotmail.co.uk 
2008-04-20 / 09:17PM

Hi Benny i hope you are well. Thank you ever so much Benny without you i dont know what would have happened. I have received your mail:)
Thanks in a million Benny:)

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DAGSTER

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 Harmeet hotmail.co.uk 
2008-04-20 / 03:26PM

The mail is not urgent you can take a week dont worry:) thank you ever so much Benny

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DAGSTER

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 Harmeet hotmail.co.uk 
2008-04-20 / 01:17AM

Benny have you recieved the mail?

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DAGSTER

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 Harmeet hotmail.co.uk 
2008-04-20 / 12:26AM

Hello Benny her birthday is in 2 weeks time is it ok if i send you something for you to translate and this time you can take your time ?
Is that ok? Her mother loves me:)

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stefanderschnelle

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 kessler stefan web.de 
2008-04-19 / 09:56PM

hao de ming tian jian

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 Pooshybooshy hotmail.com 
2008-04-19 / 07:44AM

Ni hao Benny,

I’m good, thank you. Nothing new over here – I’m boring. ;) Ni3 zui4 jin4 hao3 ma?

Xia ci jian.

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Kelly24

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 Kelly yahoo.com 
2008-02-26 / 01:32AM

I joined this site, but is it free? If not, then I have to cancel this account, thank you.

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jaco

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 jacob tse hotmail.com 
2008-04-18 / 07:38AM

can you please give me the alphabet in mandarin..

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 freeringtones gmail.com 
2008-04-20 / 12:29AM

я вам пишу, чего же боле?

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Henry

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 Henry yahoo.com 
2008-04-19 / 02:04PM

hello, i wanna if there is diff between shen2 me/shen2 mo and zen3 me/zen3 yang4?

my friend sometimes use shen2 me sometimes shen2 mo.. so i am confused here :S

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nique

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 Monique yahoo.com 
2008-04-17 / 10:56AM

haha. i have another question. if i want to use “very”, what will i use, “hen” or “fei chang”? when am i going to use the word “hen” and “fei chang”?? thanks!

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 (Passing By) hotmail.co.uk 
2008-04-19 / 06:17AM

ni hao~
please could you tell me , how would I say
" nice to meet you. my name is Megan and I am English. I hope we can be friends "
xie xie~
keep up the good work! I love your videos !

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nico

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 Nicolas Vanegas hotmail.com 
2008-04-18 / 12:40PM

你好 benny hey i need to ask you something when or in which ocassions we use the (zai na li) by example ni zai na li=where are you? i can’t understand when you add the zai well i wait your answer ok 再见

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 Paddyenglishman91 youtube.com 
2008-04-18 / 11:24AM

Hi, thank you for teaching me the basics in Mandarin, I have a friend who used to live in China and I think I’ll learn more in depth from her.I’m from Ireland, how do I write it and pronounce it?

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 Charinacampos youtube.com 
2008-04-18 / 11:12AM

Henep ka Sir benny! marunong ka din magtagalog?! nice to know that! sikat ka na talaga! (you are so famous!) Im really interested to learn the mandarin laguage even just the basics. xie xie!

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 Annemarie youtube.com 
2008-04-18 / 10:45AM

謝謝你!
我現在學習漢語在大學。 ( I’m not quite sure that’s correct. Maybe I rather mangled the chinese grammar, Sorry in advance)

我覺得你是特別好的老師。

再見!Annemarie

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 Raymasaki youtube.com 
2008-04-18 / 10:35AM

Ni hao Benny i was wondering
about Chinese dialects ive looked on line & found some good info
& a Map of the dialects, i Love that map, But
shanghai is Not in Brown – Mandarin
i know that peopl…

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 Jorge youtube.com 
2008-04-18 / 10:31AM

Hi Benny,

Thank you for you great chinese lessons. In addition to my starting to learn chinese, I have also studied some Japanese and found a polished (but old) series called "Let’s learn Japane…

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thatchinagirl

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 Lindi Jane Fogarty yahoo.com 
2008-04-18 / 07:50AM

Hi Benny – I teach Chinese at an International School and sometimes use your videos as part of my lessons. Can you do a video that teaches “What are you doing?” (using the word, “gan” and "zuo)

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 Croatia youtube.com 
2008-04-18 / 10:43AM

hello Benny tsar, i wanna ask you a question, i am starter and i wanna ask you from withch video should i start? And my second question is how to say “franka you are my best pall?” on mandarin plz,…

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