Newbie - Intro 1: Good morning

nihao

I really enjoyed the exercises.  While the corrected answers are somewhat self evident, it would be nice to have short explanations available for each error (also maybe a link to the corresponding audio clip).

Regards!

I don't know about the rest of you, but even this intro good morning is pretty rough for me

Hi,Everybody

I am new I just started today. I am 8 years old.

Anad my mom is a chinese author (mandarin)

And she wants me to learn chinese.

OK just want to say hello!

e-mail:michelle_xu2010@yahoo.ca

搞笑，搞笑！

喜欢上王小姐后，决定要给她写一封情书，这封情书一定要不落俗套。苦思之下，触发了灵感，现在卖饼干说是卖克力架，做网站的想办法上纳斯达克，那我也走国际路线，写封英文情书，扯着虎皮拉大旗，显示一下自己的才华吧。

dear wang litte girl：

亲爱的王小姐：

(翻译这句，我可费了不少心思，中文直接用“亲爱的”未免显得肉中有肉，麻中有麻，还是老外开放，一般朋友也可以用dear，这样自己的贼心可以得到满足而又不唐突。姐想译成sister吧，怕她理解成小妹，一开始就叫人小妹，我好意思开口，人家还不一定好意思应呢，把小姐译成little girl吧，又怕她理解成小丫头，这样“wang little girl”变成了王小丫，上天作证，我可没有喜欢这个漂亮的主持人，其实主要知道喜欢了也白搭，就像明知是垃圾股又何必再投资进去呢？最后采用考试时常用的方法———丢硬币决定还是译成litte girl。)

from see you one eye，i shit love you。

(本想写“自从见你第一眼，我便对你魂牵梦绕”，可魂牵梦绕我实在译不出，只好写成“我便爱上你”，“便”译成shit是邻居小孩告诉我的，他说vcd里老有人说：“shit”，这个shit就是“便”。)

your eyes close，i die；your eyes open，i come back to live.your eyes close and open again and again，i die again and again.

你的眼睛闭上，我就死了，你的眼睛睁开，我又活过来了，你眼睛眨呀眨，我就死去活来。

(“哈哈，不禁有些佩服自己了，居然用这么简单的单词表达了这么深邃的意思。)

maybe you do not know me，no matter.one see clock emtion is pop.

(“也许你还不认识我，没有关系，一见钟情很流行。”译“一见钟情”颇费了一番功夫，“一”、“见”、“情”都会，但“钟”字怎么译呢，一抬头，见闹钟上写着呢：clock，pop这个词是从电视中学来的，最流行的音乐唱片就是top of the pops，呵呵，处处留心皆学问呀。)

i think i should introduce myself to you.

我想应该介绍一下自己。

(事实证明我的英文启蒙老师很有远见，她说要是哪天你到了国外，要找外国mm套磁，就要用这句。不过，不知她有没有想到我现在是用这句话来唬中国mm。)

i call li old big. toyear 25.

我叫李老大，今年25。

(今天是today，那么今年是toyear，没有错的吧。)

my home four mouth people：papa，mama，i and dd.

我家有四口人：爸爸、妈妈、我和弟弟。

(还好，幸亏在网上混了这么多年，知道gg，jj，mm，dd怎么写的。)

i beat letter very fast，because i am a computer high hand. i even act as black guest.

我打字很快，因为我是电脑高手，我甚至还当过黑客呢。

i do early fuck every day，so that i can have strong body to protect you.

我每天都做早操，这样我会有强壮的身体来保护你。

(“操”译成fuck也是邻居小孩告诉我的，他还说vcd里就是这么译的，人家外国电影不会用错的。)

please come to eat and sleep with me，or i will cut my hair to be a monk，and find a place where many monks live in to over my life.

请嫁给我吧，否则我将削发为僧，找个庙来了此一生。

(实在想不起嫁字怎么译了，好在我脑袋灵光，嫁过来不就是和我吃住在一起吗？祸不单行，庙字我又忘记怎么译了，不过这也难不倒我，好多和尚住的地方不就是庙吗？为自己的聪明鼓掌！至于了此一生，打游戏时最后不是game over吧，over当然就是结束啦。)

your old big

你的老大

(为了表示亲切，署名时我省去了姓，不过你的老大听起来有点像黑社会的感觉，算了，不管它啦。)

好了，我的第一封英文情书就这样隆重诞生了，看见了吧，知识就是力量，这肯定是一发攻克mm心城的重型炮弹，为我的好运祝福吧！

see that

If you laugh,your chinese is very good .

Hi, :)

1. How do you type the Pinyin characters? (with the accents showing)

2. Can you search on the discussion thread?

thanks,

BB

gege, I think that others will have a better method, but since I am online right now I will tell you mine. I found this program Pinyinput when I first started studying Chinese. All you do is download it and install it, and if you have Chinese language installed on your computer, it will show up as an option in the language bar.

Just do a search for Pinyinput. It is free and straightforward - if the other methods you may learn about on this forum don't work for you. I'd find the link but my own PC is messed up right now and doesn't display Chinese in search results.

To add a note from my own personal experience, I learned to type Chinese right from my very first CHI 101 class, and it has been invaluable in reinforcing the tones, which are so easy to forget in my situation where I don't have speaking/conversational practice. (I just study with books and computer now.) If you don't type the right tone, you don't get the right character as an option.

Hello every one. Good morning.

Hello, I´m Rüdiger from Germany 48 years old.

I started learning mandarin 6 months ago with a book which is used at german universities .this programm is fantastic but I've a little problem ,perhaps anyone can help me. When I trie to do the exercises I dont know how to enter the chinese characters in point 4 -dictation ,when I enter pinyin even with the correct number for the tones  the programm tells me I'm wrong

thank you for your help and sorry for my bad english

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nǐ hǎo

A new student from France !

Hello Chinesepod.com team,

I am a new student

I tried the first lesson which is very promising. However, I did not see where I can find "how" to write a character. I have seen the exercice "practice writing" however I did not see where you teach how to draw a character (which sequence...)

Can you help me?

Thanks

how to say apple  Mandarin

Hi,everybody,I am a new student,and I am very fond of these courses.

Nǐ hǎo, everyone! 

I am Nik from Germany and I've just started learning Mandarin. After two days only I feel ChinesePod is worth every penny!

However, I was wondering whether, as a total newbie, I should focus on the spoken language first and learn the written signs later or learn both at the same time. I'm afraid that learning the signs may take a very long time thus holding me up. Any advice from more experienced users is appreciated!

Xièxie! :)

Ni hao!

Im new.

I tried the exercises but I do not how to type the tones over the words so all my answers are deemed incorrect!

Can somebody tell me how to type the tones?

Xie xie!