Pimsleur's Mandarin course teaches "I'm leaving very early tomorrow morning" as: 我明天早上很早就走 (wŏ míngtiān zăoshàng hĕn zăo jiù zŏu) It says that 就 (jiù) doesn't have a corresponding meaning in …

Jan 20, 2012 · Edit: some arbitrary decision seems to have been made by choosing you instead of yu, but with other initials, the choice was: liu, niu, jiu, etc. when the phoneme /ou/ in all cases is the …

Oct 9, 2022 · Here is the intonation that is recorded in an instructional video for the clause 我已经很久都不过中秋节了 (wǒ yǐjīng hěn jiǔ dōu bú guò ...

Jun 29, 2021 · We know that years like 2021 are read as "er ling er yi nian". But Google Translate reads 2000年 as :liang qian nian. Possibly because "er ling ling ling nian" would …

Oct 4, 2020 · Every single line in Jay Chou's song "Rosemary" ends with the "ao" sound: ni de zui jiao wei wei shang qiao xing gan de wu ke jiu yao xiang xiang bu dao ru ci xin tiao ni …

In the Pimsleur Mandarin course it uses 如果 (rúguǒ) to mean 'if', but the dictionary shows 要是 (yàoshì) to have a similar meaning: 如果: if; in case; in the event that 要是: if Are there any differen...

Jun 28, 2016 · It seems 就 is a very frequently used word. I'm just confused about its use. Anyone can help to explain how to use it?

Feb 5, 2023 · For the Chinese leetspeak ideas, recently I’ve been trying by using combining diacritical marks with Unicode that could show on iphones properly to create Chinese characters. Like: Ф Ẋ=中 …

Sep 22, 2025 · You know that pinyin is just a learning aid to help learners know the sound of a character more quickly, right? Nobody writes articles or essays or newspapers in pinyin. It is not a language. …

一下 is a little (time.) This makes it mostly after a verb. I believe the two most common uses are: 等一下 (děng yíxià) Wait a bit 休息一下 (xiūxi yíxià) Rest a little while It is also used as a numeral classifier …