Im looking for a free way through the internet to learn some conversational Mandarin Chinese. Anyone know of any websites?

Mao had the Chinese learn English saying,"it is important to learn the language of the people you plan to conquer"

Obama could use the same theory and say, it is important to learn the language of the people that are conquering you.

I know the chinese language is 10 times more complicated & expansive than english so does that mean you can explain things clearer and more descriptively?

Option question: If not, then why doesn't the language get abandoned and replaced with english ASAP?

If it is true, then the potential for making great poems must be amazing.

I would like someone to translate the following words into Chinese Pinyin.

Rabid
Wolf
General
Howling
Twilight
Fang

Most specifically "Howling" and "Fang" which I cannot find a translation for myself; much appreciated.

People from Hong Kong speak Cantonese, but so do people from other parts of China. BUt what makes the Cantonese dialect from Hong Kong so different from the common Cantonese language?

PLease include slangs if available/posssible.

What three countries have mandarin as the official language?

My operating system is Windows vista. When I receive emails in chinese, I'm unable to read it. Simply I would like to read my emails that I receive that is in the chinese language and also be able to type my response in chinese if I need to.

I've tried to convince some Chinese students that reading aloud every morning to improve their pronunciation/oral English is actually a mistake. The reason is, I believe it will only form bad habits. Surely they are repeating the same pronunciation errors again and again until forms a habit. Am I right? If their pronunciation was perfect to start with, the method might have a little merit. I'm trying to get them to copy the voices of native speakers using mp3's instead. I think it will be much more beneficial because it will help their pronunciation and fluency which is what they want. My gut and experience tell me I am right but I'd still like to hear the opinion of some experienced English teachers. Am I right to try to get the students to stop reading aloud every morning? Is the mp3 alternative better? Thanks.

Oh, I nearly forgot. Just one more question. Reading quietly is better than reading aloud for improving reading skills, isn't it?

Hello, Which provinces/cities speak mandarin as a first language besides Beijing and Shenzhen?

Thanks.

I got a laptop ( a used one) with chinese language and i need to change it back to English language which is what i understand. How do i do this.

When are people predicting that Mandarin will be the language two foreigners speak with each other to communicate, rather than now with English?

I'm asking this because If Mandarin becomes that language, then non-English countries won't want English teachers and I really want to teach English in Asia

Is there a particular website that you can download chinese language? I mean I want to type in chinese characters but I don't know where to get the installer.

i used to be able to do this on Word languages on my Mac but it broke down...i don't have this function (where you type in like "ni hao" and it comes out with the character choices for you to pick) on my PC. i need to type things out for Chinese class and right now i'm unable to. if you know anything about this, please please help!

i'm 30 years old and wanna to learn mandarin in macau, i'm looking for the class/school to learn mandarin. can you assist me?

I'm a beginning student of Mandarin Chinese and am running into a disagreement with a friend over proper pronunciation. I always thought the word hen3 很 rhymes with the English word "fun," with the e pronounced like a deep "uh" in the throat. However my buddy thinks it sounds like the English word "hen." What is the correct way? I'm mainly interested in how it would be properly said in Beijing. Thanks in advance.

I do not know how to speak Chinese. My daughter is beginning her senior year of high school, my son is starting the 3rd grade. Their school does not offer Chinese, which I think is foolish.

I am thinking of setting aside a couple of nights a week where all three of us can learn Chinese together. I am looking for a good program that will assist us in becoming fluent speakers. I am sure that homeschoolers must know of some good programs.

I am sure it will be suggested, but we cannot afford a tutor at this time. We want to pay for one thing now that will take us far.

I am not concerned with written Chinese at this time (will be later, though). I am concerned with spoken fluency, just the way all kids learn to speak before they ever see a school book.

How can I make friends with the people who want learn Chinese language? where to get this friend who English language is their first language and they want learn Chinese language.
I can speak Chinese and I want have some friends who are speaking English.

So how do they deal with the digital fonts? Isnt it way to much work just for one more typeface?

i just keep on wondering about it.. how does Chinese (mandarin) is being spoken and the Taiwanese language, too.. how would you know or figure out if the person talking is a Chinese or a Taiwanese?

I recently got a computer with Vista installed on it. I want to type traditional Chinese characters (Taiwan) using pinyin as the input method, however, pinyin is not one of the options listed. I can type simplified Chinese using pinyin (Microsoft IME pinyin). When I had XP, this option was also provided for traditional characters, but I don't see it for Vista.

Do I need a download of somekind so I can type traditional characters using pinyin? Is there something that I should do that I am not doing?

I'm currently doing my thesis and this question is one of my survey questions. Your answers will be a great help. Thank you so much!

I have a Nokia E61 and when I go to change the language, I can only change it to Spanish, Portuguese, and French. Not to mention the obvious, English. That's all that's in the phone. How do I get Chinese and Vietnamese in there? I'd like to change the phone language so it is much easier for me to understand. Do I have to download something off the internet? If so, where and how much?

I know how to read a handful of Chinese words, but don't know how to speak in Chinese at all. Then today I tried to look a little bit into pronuciation and I got stuck pretty quickly because I couldn't hear the difference between 机上面 and 机下面. It seems kind of important too, being that they are oppisites of each other.

I would like to learn chinese (cantonese) sign language, i have tried the internet searches but with no good results. If anyone has any website, much apprenciated

I have a Dell Dimension 3000 running Windows XP Home Edition, can I make it translate the Chinese language and the little boxes they use to English to where I can understand it? Please help.

One of Malaysia's 9th plan is to teach Mandarin Language in 150 National schools and Tamil language in 70 national schools. Does the government made the right move by doing so?

I am new to the New Orleans area and would like to start a meeting group for a adults (junior/high school students with their parents okay too) who would like to practice Mandarin Chinese on a beginner/intermediate level. Lived in China for a year and want to maintain and improve my language proficiency.

I want to learn Chinese, Mandarin. Is there a good method to speed up and improve my learning ability?

Can someone help me with these sentences? I have to translate them into Chinese Pinyin.

5.I have many friends. She is the prettiest.
6.Have you seen Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?
7.His Kung Fu is the best.
8.I have never played Ping Pong.

after 12th, now im planning to learn the chinese language.
is there anyone out there who has done their UG course in chinese or something similiar?

Because i want to take mandarin language as a double major in addition to my biological science major.............so plz help mee!!!

thx alot guys
ten points best answer!

The name is something like YiJun (could be a little off). What does it mean? And how is it pronounced (what English words does it sound like?)

Thanks!

Since Chinese (or Korean or Japanese, etc.) is not an alphabetic language and has so many ideographic characters, how is the keyboard structured to include all those characters?