Let’s Learn: Chinese 中文 (Mandarin 普通话)

[Shotokan_Karate]

السلام على من اتبع الهدى
& Hi,

大家好！

As the title suggests, this thread is for learning Standard Chinese, also known as Standard Mandarin, or just simply Mandarin (普通话 Pǔtōnghuà).

To start-off, here's a very useful website:

nciku.com

[mohovitch]

Why would you learn mandarin when you can just eat it ?

[BACK2MYROOTS]

Hahahahaha mohovitch, you son of a gun !!!

[Shotokan_Karate]

haha very funny Mohovitch OK then why eat mandarin when you can eat china Actually, China - the country - happens to be the biggest producer of mandarin apparently! Funny that!

Also, interestingly, according to the Online Etymology Dictionary:

"mandarin
"Chinese official," 1589, via Port. mandarim or Du. mandorijn from Malay mantri, from Hindi mantri "councilor, minister of state," from Skt. mantri, nom. of mantrin- "advisor," from mantra "counsel," from PIE base *men- "to think" (see mind). Form infl. in Port. by mandar "to command, order." Used generically for the several grades of Chinese officials; sense of "chief dialect of Chinese" (spoken by officials and educated people) is from 1604. The type of small, deep-colored orange so called from 1771, from resemblance of its color to that of robes worn by mandarins."

So the connection between Mandarin the language, and mandarin the fruit is closer than you think

On the topic of oranges, phew! There are many names for orange and mandarin in Chinese it's confusing. Among them I'm choosing:

Orange: 橙子, 橘子 (can also mean: tangerine; mandarin orange)
Mandarin orange: 瓯柑

[sisab0616]

i can teach chinese for u
i live in taiwan
but we use Traditional Chinese
china use Simplified Chinese
i guess here is leran Simplified Chinese
just word looks different

i feel Simplified Chinese is easy for u

i try help them

[Shotokan_Karate]

Hi Sherry!

Yes, I noticed that you use Traditional Chinese as you did here:

我們使用英語
如果他dont理解一些單詞，所以我將使用谷歌翻譯法文或阿拉伯文他
他也可以為我翻譯中國

But I can easily convert it to simplified using Google So it becomes:

我们使用英语
如果他dont理解一些单词，所以我将使用谷歌翻译法文或阿拉伯文他
他也可以为我翻译中国

[sisab0616]

okok
: )
u can ask me any thing

here was Introduction mandarin
i very like mandarin

algeria have mandarin?!?