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indigostudies · 3 months

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very silly post but i wanted to unwind a bit so i thought i would rate chinese endearments!

宝贝：classic, casual endearment. i call my cats this, has a similar feel to "babe" for me. 4/5, one point deducted because it's pretty basic.

宝宝：like a cutesier version of 宝贝, i would never call a romantic partner this, but it's great for pets and children. 3.5/5, points deducted because it can sound kind of trite or cringey.

亲爱的：much more formal, has a similar feel to "beloved" or "darling" to me. arguably my favourite endearment because it literally means "[one] who is an intimate love". 5/5 if an s/o called me this i would melt.

老[姓名]：this can come off as overtly lovey-dovey at times but it's also really common among married or long-term couples. it doesn't really have an english comparison but personally i think it's very sweet. it can also be used teasingly which i enjoy. 4.5/5 with 0.5 points taken off because it can sound kind of old-fashioned.

老婆/老公：an even more married version of the above; this feels much more teasing to me, though. 4/5 with one point deducted because unfortunately 老公 can also mean eunuch (oops).

(老)狐狸(精)：i've only ever heard this in dramas as a reference to a man, but it's meant to call someone sly or cunning. can be admonishing, but can also be an affectionate reproval. can also be used for women, but then to me it comes off as a bit more judgemental, so 4/5.

小哥：technically a descriptor of a young man, but i'm personally attached to this as a term of endearment, and if someone called me this i would be smitten. i think it has been gaining some popularity among chinese sapphics, especially butch lesbians/T's? but unfortunately i don't.............really use social media so i can't confirm this.

姐姐/哥哥：these are technically originally terms for older brothers/sisters, but they're also used for people of the same generation who are older than you, and can be used in a flirty way. 4/5 only because non-chinese english speakers can get kind of weird about them.

阿-/小-：personally i prefer the 阿- suffix over 小- because 小- sounds like you're talking to a child to me, but i'm aware this is very regional. not overly romantic, but can be very sweet, so i'm giving it a 3.5/5.

those are all the ones i can think of off the top of my head, but if you have any others you can think of, let me know!

#汉语 #very silly post but i hope it's interesting at least #indigo ink

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xuexishijian · 13 days

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Super long character practice: biáng and huáng

The first is often considered the character with the most strokes and refers to a type of noodle (biangbiang mian).

The second has more strokes but isn’t really a word. It’s considered an artistic representation of heaven, in character form.

I feel like biáng was actually possible to get somewhat decent, but huáng was just incredibly difficult to get the spacing right 😂

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chineseffect · 1 year

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Speak DECENT CHINESE in 4 months - 8 easy tips

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1. Have someone to guide you to get good pronunciation habits. It is almost impossible to re-learn bad habits later so make sure you get your pronunciation right from the beginning. I mean the pronunciation of the sounds, not the tones. Tones take more time to get used to and you can't rush it - but try the best you can. Some tutors don't bother too much about the pronunciation so make sure you find someone who is strict about that, you will be grateful later. Also get confident in pinyin, you will need it.

2. Understand the composition of the sentences. The word order is super easy and it stays the same all the time (the question and informative sentences have the same word order). I have a formula for the word order but I won't reveal it here, it is one of the secrets I keep for my students and people who use my materials.

3. Understand that there are no tenses in the sense we think about them in English and other languages. Learn to express future, potential future, finished action, change of state, experience in the past and circumstances of the event. See the difference between action verbs and verbs of state.

4. Learn to use modal verbs and conjuctions.

5. Build usable vocabulary based on the fact that everything in Chinese is interconnected.

6. Understand 就，才，的 and 得

7. Don't learn grammar rules and words separately. Learn functional practical sentences that will serve you as examples of the grammar structures (then you just need to change the words in these sentences).

8. Develop your listening skills - that is very important. For that there are Youtube channels and podcasts on Spotify (and in my materials the audio part also plays an important role). You can listen to Chinese radio stations just to get the feeling of the language.

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After 3-4 months you should feel pretty confident in normal conversations if you study regularly under competent guidance.

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slavic-roots-western-mind · 6 months

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Class shenanigans #2

We went a bit off-topic in class talking about how so many characters still look like their original pictographs, and someone mentioned"噩梦"(èmèng) meaning nightmare. I mean, just look at this first character.

噩

Enough said.

Maybe its just me lacking sleep and being over-caffeinated (the coffee drinks here are no joke, I can't drink them after 10 am or else I have trouble falling asleep), but this character looks so ominous, like a scary creature with 4 eyes just staring blankly into my soul.

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softchinese · 2 years

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Online Mandarin Tests！♡

hello sweeties, what's up? i found a site with chinese tests to improve your study. check the list:

Pinyin: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

Numbers: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Animals: 1 | 2 | 3

Body: 1 | 2

Family: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

On and Under: 1 | 2

Colours: 1 | 2

Clothes: 1 | 2 | 3

if you want more, just search here ! hope it can be useful for your study and any questions you have don't hesitate to talk with me. 加油！♡

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chioneexo-blog · 5 months

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today's vocabulary : 洗衣粉 [xǐ yī fěn]

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ksmaggie · 2 years

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#Hamtaro #ham ham heartbreak #Rainbow rescue #veganfanartAZ #chinese #english #汉语 #中文 #美语

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saranghandagom · 8 months

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aug 23, 2023

artist: yu xiaodong

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hi-i-am-a-sock · 6 months

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learning simplified chinese after learning japanese is fun because i find traditional chinese characters easier than simplified ones even though they're much more complicated just because i already know them

#langblr #languages #language learning #polyglot #studyblr #memes #chinese #汉语 #japanese #日本語

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oodlenoodleroodle · 2 years

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Yesterday I learnt about one of the handiest resources for learning Chinese ever:

Wiktionary category pages that list all nouns that use a given measure word!

First you find the measure word you want to look up, for example 本 . In the Chinese section find the definitions, and among the definitions find the one that mentions it being a classifier (here number 8). There is a small link to "all nouns using this classifier" which in this case is

Like how many times have I said that there needs to exist a list of all words using a given measure word? Most of the time you google it you get like lists of a lot of different measure words with one or two examples each, and that is the opposite of what I have always wanted.

And of course it being Wiktionary is, like at the same time amazing and obvious. Of course crowdsourcing this is perfect, people really are amazing and want to create good resources like this, the entire Wikimedia project is proof of this.

#langblr #chinese #mandarin #hanyu #zhongwen #汉语 #中文

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indigostudies · 10 months

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i haven't seen anyone talk about it before, but there's a site called 21st Century Chinese Poetry that has a massive collection of contemporary chinese poetry, including english translations thereof, for anyone who, like me, is interested in poetry but may feel a bit intimidated by the more literary nature of classical poetry. currently, they have poetry from between 2000-2021, and i, personally, have rather enjoyed poking around the site.

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xuexishijian · 14 days

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音系学，音位学 - Phonology

音位学分析 yīnwèixué fēnxī - phonological analysis

音系表征 yīnxì biǎozhēng - phonological representation

心里表征 xīnlǐ biǎozhēng - mental representation

抽象表征 chōuxiàng biǎozhēng - abstract representation

单位 dānwèi - units

音段 yīnduàn - segment

音节 yīnjié - syllable

音节首 yīnjiéshǒu - onset

音节核 yīnjiéhé - nucleus

音节尾 yīnjiéwěi - coda

音拍 yīnpāi, 莫拉 mòlā - mora

音步 yīnbù - foot

莫拉理论 mòlā lǐlùn - moraic theory

音节长度 - syllable length

音位 yīnwèi - phoneme

最小对立体 zuìxiǎo duìlì tǐ - minimal pair

区别意义 qūbié yìyì - distinguish meaning

对立的 duìlì de - contrastive

边缘对立 biānyuán duìlì - marginal contrast

音位中和 yīnwèi zhōnghé - phonemic neutralization

音位变体 yīnwèi biàntǐ - allophone

环境 huánjìng - environment

条件变体 tiáojiàn biàntǐ - conditioned variant

自由变体 zìyóu biàntǐ - free variation (无条件变体）

预测 yùcè - predict

互补分布 hùbǔ fēnbù - complementary distribution

自然类 zìrán lèi - natural class

在一定条件下产生 "produced under certain conditions" (产生 chǎnshēng "give rise to, produce")

在其他实词中都呈现互补分布。"They all present complementary distributions in other content words."

如果有一群语音共享一个或多个发音或听觉特征，而且同一个语言的其他音没有，这群语音就组成一个自然类。"If a group of sounds shares one or more articulatory or auditory features, which are not shared by the other sounds of that language, then that group of sounds is a natural class."

音位配列 yīnwèi pèiliè, 语音组合法 yǔyīn zǔhé fǎ - phonotactics

规则 guīzé - rule

替换 tìhuàn - substitute, replace

语音同化 yǔyīn tónghuà - assimilation

语音异化 yŭyīn yìhuà - dissimilation

语音省略 yǔyīn shěnglüè - deletion, elision

插音 chāyīn - epenthesis, insertion

语音变换 yǔyīn biànhuàn - metathesis

补偿延长 bǔcháng yáncháng - compensatory lengthening

连音 liányīn- sandhi, liaison

变调 biàndiào - tone sandhi

底层表达 dǐcéng biǎodá - underlying representation (底层形式 dǐcéng xíngshì, 底层表现 dǐcéng biǎoxiàn)

表层表现 biǎocéng biǎoxiàn - surface form

自主音段音系学 zìzhǔ yīnduàn yīnxìxué - autosegmental phonology

特征 tèzhēng - feature

音层 yīncéng - tier, level (as used in phonological context)

自主音段音系学理论把不同的区别性特征放在不同的音层上。

超音段 chāoyīnduàn - suprasegmentals

韵律 yùnlǜ - prosody

语调 yǔdiào - intonation

音高 yīngāo - pitch

响度 xiǎngdù - loudness

重音 zhòngyīn - stress, accent

节奏 jiézòu - rhythm, timing

重音节奏 zhòngyīn jiézòu - stress-timed

音节节奏 yīnjié jiézòu - syllable-timed

音拍节奏 yīnpāi jiézòu - mora-timed

表征的模型 biǎozhēng de móxíng - representation models

样本理论 yàngběn lǐlùn - exemplar theory

自下而上的过程 zìxià'érshàng de guòchéng - bottom-up process

自上而下的过程 zìshàngérxià de guòchéng - top-down process

优选论 yōuxuǎn lùn - Optimality Theory

制约排列 zhìyuē páiliè - constraint ranking

忠实性制约 zhōngshí xìng zhìyuē - faithfulness constraint

标志性制约 biāozhì xìng zhìyuē - markedness constraint

候选项目 hòuxuǎn xiàngmù - candidate

其他啊啊啊 (other)

范畴性的 fànchóu xìng de - categorical

阶层性的 jiēcéng xìng de - gradient

感知 gǎnzhī - perceive

发音 fāyīn - produce (sound), pronounce, enunciate

#中文 #汉语 #mandarin #mandarin studyblr #langblr #chinese langblr #词汇 #chinese vocab #mandarin vocab #vocab #I’ve been sitting on this post for like a year now cuz I couldn’t find translations of a few more terms I wanted #alas #idk I just wanted to post it finally and probably make another one for vocab abt syntax lol #since apparently that’s what my thesis is #and I’ve been talking a lot w a classmate who’s doing hers on Chinese syntax #fun stuff #linguistics #语言学

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mors-certissima · 28 days

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因为我学习汉语，我就在这儿发我的日记。我还学习呢，所以我知道可能日记里有些错误。请热情地帮助我把错误改善更好。你也可以给我发一条短信所以我们练习中文或者我们可以就随便谈谈。好啦，我去睡觉呢。晚安~

#汉语 #中文 #langblr #studyblr #mandarin langblr #chinese langblr #p

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chineseffect · 5 months

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山很高，海很深 /shān hěn gāo, hǎi hěn shēn/

MOUNTAINS ARE HIGH, SEAS ARE DEEP

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slavic-roots-western-mind · 15 days

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O- Verbs in Chinese

Here are some of the most commonly used O-verbs in Chinese!

Obey - 服从 (Fúcóng)

Object - 反对 (Fǎnduì)

Observe - 观察 (Guānchá)

Obtain - 获得 (Huòdé)

Occur - 发生 (Fāshēng)

Offer - 提供 (Tígōng)

Open - 打开 (Dǎkāi)

Optimize - 优化 (Yōuhuà)

Order - 命令 (Mìnglìng)

Order (at a restaurant) 点 (Diǎn)

Organize - 组织 (Zǔzhī)

Originate - 起源 (Qǐyuán）

Overcome - 克服 (Kèfú)

Overflow - 溢出 (Yìchū)

Overhaul - 检修 (Jiǎnxiū)

Overheat - 过热 (Guòrè)

Overlook - 忽视 (Hūshì)

Oversee - 监督 (Jiāndū）

Overthrow - 推翻 (Tuīfān)

Owe - 欠 (Qiàn)

Own - 拥有 (Yōngyǒu)

Outline - 概述 (Gàishù)

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mandarinmoon · 2 months

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curious if anyone learning chinese has used Clozemaster - and if so, how are you finding it?

as soon as i saw the chatgpt generated explainations, alarm bells went off! I don't know if I'm letting my chatgpt/AI sceptic mindset cloud my judgement but not super convinced by the accuracy of it...

like 睡觉??!? somehow I don't think we're talking about 睡觉 here... 😭

#clozemaster beating duolingo in the unhinged sentence category #中文 #language learning #汉语 #chinese langblr #mandarinmoon

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