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Title: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: amaranthineamusement on April 29, 2015, 06:45:37 AM
大家好! 我叫卢道明, 我学普通话在中学生。 认识你很高兴!

(English: Hello everyone! I'm 卢道明, I study mandarin at my high school. It's nice to meet you all!)
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: ruth on April 29, 2015, 10:12:31 AM
卢道明你好!我叫路得。我不会说普通话好,但是我会读中文一点点。
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: amaranthineamusement on April 29, 2015, 10:17:22 AM
卢道明你好!我叫路得。我不会说普通话好,但是我会读中文一点点。
你好路得!你学中文在哪里?

(English: Hello 路得! Where did you learn Chinese?)
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: ruth on April 29, 2015, 10:29:00 AM
:china: 呣,我在大学的时候学中文一点点自己。但是我没修的课。你呢?

:uk: hmm, when i was in university i learned a little on my own. but i didn't take any classes. what about you?
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: amaranthineamusement on April 29, 2015, 01:26:25 PM
我五年学中文在我学生,可是我不太会说中文。你的大学在哪里?你的大学在不在中国?

(English: I've been learning Chinese for five years at school, but I still can't speak it very well. Where was your university, was it in china?)
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: ruth on April 29, 2015, 04:51:24 PM
:china: 不在,大学在加拿大。如果大学在中国我就学普通话多多了! 实话实说,我要会说什么的话得有字典。但我更要练!

:uk: no, it's in canada. if it was in china i would have learned much more! to tell the truth, when i want to say much of anything i really need a dictionary.  :-[ but, i want to practise more!
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: misea on May 28, 2015, 06:53:33 AM
路得和卢道明, 你们好!我叫汤睿婷. 我的父母是中国人所以我是学(还是继续学),可是我读和写的不是特别好 (我没有好的标准所以 :|)。打字是跟我读书擦不多。对不起卢道明,我觉得你是想写 “学校”; “学生” 是 “student” 在英文。

:usa: Hello, 路得 and 卢道明! I'm 汤睿婷. My parents are Chinese so I learned Mandarin, but my reading and writing skills are rudimentary (I don't have a good gauge so :|). Typing is about the same as reading. Sorry 卢道明, I think you meant to type “学校”; “学生” is "student"--

Unless my knowledge of Chinese is rather outdated/formal :I (I'm too tired to write a Chinese translation of this, sorry =__=)
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: videovance on June 11, 2015, 09:11:10 AM
:china: 大家好!我叫柯慧仁。我的父母都讲中文(妈妈是华人、爸爸在大学学习中文)。但是你可以看到,我的中文不流利!
我无聊的问题:你们住在哪儿?(哪里?我忘记了。。。wwwww) 我住在澳洲!

:uk: Hello everyone! My name is 柯慧仁. My parents both speak Chinese (Mum's Chinese, Dad learnt Chinese at university). But you can see, my Chinese is not fluent!
My boring question: Where do you live? (哪里? I forgot... lololol) I live in Australia!

Please tell me if I make mistakes! My Chinese is so bad (sobs)

Oh, and some explanations:
哪里 vs 哪儿: I always say "na'r" when speaking, but I don't actually know if it's okay to write it down :0. It means "where" either way. I guess "na'r" is more colloquial!

华人: I'm 60% certain this is specific terminology for a person who is Chinese, but doesn't live in China. i might be wRONG DON'T QUOTE ME AHAHAHaaaaa

"wwwww": This means "lol", pretty much. (It might be a Japanese thing though? Whoops!)

Other cute online slang:
"233333" : Laughing. Say it out loud, it's like "er san san san ..." which kind of sounds like laughter?
"3q" : Thanks! I'm not sure if people use this much anymore, my friends used to use it all the time. Try saying it out loud as "san" and "q" - it sounds like "thank you"! It is so cute aahhhhhh
"8888888" : Applause! This... might be a Japanese thing too, ehehe;;;
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: misea on June 12, 2015, 08:28:36 PM
:china: 你好,柯慧仁!我住在加州。没关系,我的中文也是很差的。XD 我六岁的时候的中文比现在的中文好。

:usa: Hello, 柯慧仁! I live in California. It's okay, my Chinese is godawful too. XD My Chinese when I was six years old is better than my Chinese now.


I say both "na li" and "na er" when speaking. I think they're both okay written?
Hahaha, I'm about as sure as you on "华人"!
I don't really keep in contact with my family in China so Chinese online slang totally flies over my head.


Fun fact: We call Sacramento "三块馒头".
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: videovance on June 12, 2015, 10:49:26 PM
:china: 我觉得你现在的中文非常好。 ;w;
加州是很酷了!!因为你在加州,你已经在暑假还是做了考试吗?澳洲跟美国的学制不一样,我们依然在学校的时候。( ╯□╰ )

(“三块馒头”呢?真的吗?好可爱!!)

:uk: I think your Chinese is really good now. ;w;
California is so cool!! Since you're in California, have you already gone into summer holidays, or are you still doing exams? Australia's schooling system is different to the US, so we're still in school. ( ╯□╰ )

("Three steamed buns"? Really? That's so cute!!)



That is actually the cutest thing thoughhhhh. [would you say your anaconda always wants some because you got buns //smacked]
Well, most of the slang I learnt was from a buddy a few years ago, so it might be outdated :0 so it's probably best we don't use it ahahaha
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: misea on June 15, 2015, 06:27:52 AM
:china: 谢谢!你的中文也是很好的!:)
哈哈,我觉得澳洲是很酷 (和很可怕 D:), 我已经放假一个月了;我上的大学是挺难的,可是我们也是早放假。你们是什么时候放假呢?

:usa: Thank you! Your Chinese is really good too! :)
Haha, I think that Australia's really cool (and really scary D:). I've been on summer vacation for a month now; the college I go to is really difficult, but we get out early. When do you get out for the summer?

Are you talking about Chinese slang or American slang? I'm gonna go with American. Sorry, it's like 3:30 a.m. here and I'm hella tired but I refuse to go to sleep before sunrise after seeing that update HAHAHA XD no, but where I'm from (Northern California, specifically the Bay Area), we say "hella" a lot. SoCal people make fun of us for it. If you're one of those people who pick up new slang by saying them ironically, you're in for a doozy. "Hella" can apparently be used as any grammatical unit of a sentence, I kid you not--someone from my university made a loooooong post explaining how to use "hella" correctly, and there were like 17 different ways. We mostly use it as another way to say "very" though. It's not exclusive to NorCal; there's parts of Texas and the South and other states that use it. I can't really think of any other slang that comes to mind.
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: videovance on June 15, 2015, 08:46:54 AM
:china: 澳洲不太可怕!我们其实有很多可爱本土的动物。。。可是,我同意你的看法—澳洲的总理很可怕地!!!
你很幸运的,我们的校年在早的十二月结束了。在澳洲,夏天从十二月到二月保持了。 半年去!
("保持"错的吗?不知道)
:uk: Australia isn't scary! We actually have a lot of cute native animals... but I gotta agree with you that there's some scary parts- our prime minister is terrifying!!
You're really lucky, our school year ends in early December. In Australia, summer is from December to February. Half a year to go!
(Is “保持” wrong? I don't know)

Ahahahaha, I actually meant Chinese slang! We use "hella" too- at least, I do (probably exposure to the internet ehehehe) but not as much recently. It's hella rare to hear it, because people use it sparingly and ironically. It's a hella word. I only know how to use it in two ways i'M SORRY @ YOUR UNIVERSITY BUDDY
Though, here's cool Aussie slang to match: We don't say McDonalds, we say Maccas. E.g. "i'm on a maccas run" is pretty much the equivalent to going down for a cheeky nandos for a bite.
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: misea on June 16, 2015, 02:08:06 AM
:china: 哈哈,我可能听人讲澳洲的可怕的动物太多。我同意-你们的总理是很可怕的!
我忘记澳洲的夏天是加州的冬天 XD(我也不知道如果 ”保持“ 是对的,好像不食-如果 Google Translate 食对的 :P)

:usa: Haha, I probably listened to people talking about Australia's scary animals too much. I agree--your Prime Minister is scary!

I don't think we have any particular Chinese slang, just a lot of traditional sayings. My family uses Chinglish/switching between languages between replies a lot though. Hahaha, I've only really heard "hella" used for "very"! It was a shock to me when I saw that post. I don't use a ton of slang though so :B
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: videovance on June 16, 2015, 07:19:08 AM
:china: 我常常忘记了澳洲和美国的夏天的时候不一样 ( • O • )
啊,你的家经常使用成语吗?如果对了,你很了不起!!

(哈哈哈我也从《google translate》找到“保持”,但是我信不过那个网)
eeeuuuggghh,蜘蛛狗很可怕,我不可能睡觉

:uk: I constantly forget summertime in Australia and the US is different :0
Whoa, does your family often use chengyu? If yes, you're really amazing!!
(Hahaha I also found "保持" from Google Translate, but I don't trust that site) (so dodge)

I kind of want to see how else it can be used 0u0!! And, jeez, isn't the spider dog terrifying?? I am so not going to be able to sleep tonight. At least Emil is hilarious to look at ahahahaha
[also i saw your art and it is so pretty oh my goshhh]
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: misea on June 16, 2015, 06:08:10 PM
:china: 我的父母通常用成语,可是我闹忘记 XD 我小时候记得好多;现在我用不了成语 T_T

:usa: My parents use idioms and sayins a lot, but I forget them XD When I was younger I could remember a lot (apparently I spewed them at like four years old???); now I can't use any T_T

Hahaha, I found some of it! Here:
It actually is every part of speech.... :
adverb: This s*** is hella rad.
determiner: I've got hella swag.
adjective: I'm feeling hella today.
interjection: Hella!
noun: Your life needs a little more hella in it.
verb: You wish you could hella like me.
pronoun: Hella's going to the gay pride parade next week.
conjunction: Just relax, hella pass the weed.
preposition: I'm gonna take a nap hella Memorial Glade.

So...

How far did you get before calling bulls***?


And this exchange:
Person 1: apparently you can string hellas together for more emphasis?
               like something is "hella hellllllla crazy"
               ...the people up here talk funny [this person is from Oregon]
Person 2: you mean the people down here... haha
Person 1: they say hella in Oregon too
               and nice response time btw
Person 3: Please censor that word...
Person 4: We're hella _hellllllla_ cool here, which is why we talk that way. Like, 10^27 cool.


And this:
It's so engrained into our lexicon that it's actually a quantitative prefix. It's larger than yotta-. For example, one hellameter is 10^hella meters.

Monday's page was TERRIFYING I had to stay up for a couple of hours trying to calm myself down XD But yesterday's page just had so much offbeat humor that I just laughed and went on with my day. Is that bad

Thank you! I can't believe I busted that out in two and a half days I mean those uniforms were killing me like finding the refs was okay but drawing them? TORTUUUUURE why do I do this to myself I'm sorry I just scream about those uniforms every time someone brings that drawing up lineart is awesome but also THE WORST EVER and I'm rambling aren't I ahahahaa

Also here's these tumblr post that sum up some of the very few things I know about Australia:
http://avollea.tumblr.com/post/121702657945/itsstuckyinmyhead-australian-tumblr-photoset (http://avollea.tumblr.com/post/121702657945/itsstuckyinmyhead-australian-tumblr-photoset)
http://itsstuckyinmyhead.tumblr.com/post/94978581910/australian-photoset-5-more-libertea-photoset (http://itsstuckyinmyhead.tumblr.com/post/94978581910/australian-photoset-5-more-libertea-photoset)

And this is just plain funny:
http://itsstuckyinmyhead.tumblr.com/post/95421649010/american-tumblr-posts-photoset-12-want-see-more (http://itsstuckyinmyhead.tumblr.com/post/95421649010/american-tumblr-posts-photoset-12-want-see-more)
That post with the sharks is accurate
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: videovance on June 17, 2015, 06:22:56 AM
:china: 我的中文老师往往批评我缺少成语的心里词典(可是我其实不知道任何成语)

:uk: My Chinese teacher always criticizes my small chengyu lexicon (but I don't actually know any chengyu) ehehehehe

AHAHAHA oh my god I love the 'hella' examples (got to the verb before I was like "wait a gosh darned second here") (also I am absolutely going to use hellameter as a measurement now)
I can absolutely confirm, 140%, that those Aussie tumblr posts are completely accurate aaahahha (i love the Finding Nemo one too ehehe)

The page was pretty freaky but I feel like I'm becoming more immune to all the beast and troll nightmare fuel (but ceiling-pug still freaks me out ehehehe;;;; )

And wHAT THE HECK, YOU FINISHED IT IN ONLY A FEW DAYS?? goodness gracious that's speedy. That lineart is impeccable and I feel so bad you had to draw those crazy detailed uniforms (how the heck does minna do it every day) but the results for both the coloured and uncoloured ones are spectacular!!
Yeah, finding some solid refs for each character is super difficult. i mean have you seen how reynir's coat changes slightly per page i swear to god
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: Lars_B on June 17, 2015, 10:59:06 AM
Ohh!  A Thread for Mandarin!

I don't speak any and only survived 5 weeks in China by my skills in interpretive dancing (yes I lost a lot of weight)

Anyways! I'm making a list of Sigruns famous "How hard can it be?" http://sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=191 (http://sssscomic.com/comic.php?page=191) in different languages and if anybody would like to give the translation in Mandarin it would be awesome (or most best)
 
Thanks!

/Lars
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: misea on June 17, 2015, 06:09:27 PM
:china: 我是乱学中文。 下时候我的妈妈要我上一个中文学校,可是那个学校很快就没了。

:usa: I just kind of dabble in learning Chinese. When I was a kid my mom had me go to a Chinese school, but it quickly fell apart (it was really small--just me, my sibling, and two sisters, and the sisters moved away so :I).

If you go through the series, the posts about America are absolutely 100% accurate (maybe like 200%). XD

I still can't look at Tooth Scary, that page is a page from nightmares. Whenever I think about that page I just go NOPE and start binging on cheerful webcomics (but NONE OF THEM ARE CHEERFUL I SWEAR EVERYTHING IS GOING DOWN THE DRAIN IN EVERY WEBCOMIC I READ (250+, I kid you not, I've counted) WHY)

I literally just drew when I wasn't eating or sleeping; I have never been so motivated to draw (and finish) something in my life. I don't even remember exactly how long it took me to finish that thing (coloring and linearting); it was probably more like three and a half days. o__0 Hehe, thanks! ;v;

Lalli's mage outfit changed a leeeeeetle too, I noticed it this morning when I was doing some sketches and going through older pages for refs. It's really just the sleeves as far as I can tell.

@Lars Hahaha! I went back for the first time five years ago and in the month I stayed there I lost ten hard-earned pounds *sobs*   As for the translation, it would be "他会有多难呢?" Hope that helps! :)
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: Lars_B on June 18, 2015, 01:00:36 AM
Thank you Misea! and yea Minnas monsters are truly terrifying! but just ask yourself! What Would Sigrun Do?
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: videovance on June 18, 2015, 01:45:49 AM
:china: 我要学习中文的原为是我父母都讲流利的中文,但是他们没有较我。所以我选择在学校较中文----我也不要学习法文,哈哈哈。 我的妈妈也要我去去中文补习班(很可怕!!!)可是我说服她没注册我。( •̀ ω •́ )y

:uk: I wanted to study Chinese because my parents are both fluent, but they didn't teach it to me (or my siblings, for that matter). Because of that, I decided to choose to learn Chinese for school ---- (mostly because) I didn't want to learn French, ahaha.
My mom also wanted me to go to Chinese Buxiban (so scary!!!) but I convinced her not to sign me up. ( •̀ ω •́ )y

oVER 250+ WHAT (is this some kind of bad-things-are-a'brewing time for webcomics??? (also do you have any recommendations)) and yeah I saw that Lalli's uniform (and kind of all of them?) keep changing bit by bit. [s o b s] they're already so difficult to draw, why thisssss

Lars_B: That sounds super cool, good luck!! And 睿婷, do you think it should be 它 rather than 他?
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: videovance on June 18, 2015, 01:52:31 AM
哇,我们就在第两个页!! ( • O • )!
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: misea on June 18, 2015, 03:13:53 AM
:china: 我的妈妈是教我很多,可是通常是夏天的时候。我容易头晕,所以夏天的时候我会很不耐烦的。对不起妈妈 >.<
可是法语是好玩的!和很好听 D: :france: POURQUOI? :c 还是法语老师 和/或学生不好?我的高中那些西班牙语的老师是还可以,可是有很多学生很懒和不想学 (哎,在澳洲你们是需要上别的语文课才毕业吗?在美国很多高中学校是这样子的;在我的,我们至少需要上两年,可是他们说最好上三年。 我上了四年的法语课应为我是疯 我很爱法语。)我爸爸想要我学西班牙语;我赢了。XD

:usa: My mom taught me a lot, but it would usually be in the summer. I get dizzy really easily, so I'm very impatient and easily irritated in the summer. Sorry Mom >.<
BUT FRENCH IS SO MUCH FUN! AND PRETTY SOUNDING D: POURQUOI? :c Unless the French teacher(s) and/or students were bad? At my high school the Spanish teachers were okay, but a lot of the students were lazy and didn't want to learn (by the way, is taking a language mandatory in Australia for graduation? It's a thing in a lot of U.S. high schools; at mine, we had to take at least two years, but three was recommended. I took four years of French 'cause I'm crazy l love French a lot). My dad wanted me to learn Spanish; I won. XD

HAHAHA I just love good stories and good art, and the two together is absolutely lethal for me. SO MANY RECOMMENDATIONS YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO SIT DOWN FOR THIS AND JUST ABSORB HOLD ON LET ME DIG THROUGH MY BOOKMARKS AND TAPASTIC FOR MY FAVES AND SORRY IF I PUT SOME HERE THAT YOU ALREADY READ D: (I might have to make multiple posts if there's a character/word limit for posts)
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: misea on June 18, 2015, 03:58:33 AM
I'm sorry Videovance this is hella long (see what I did there) but THERE'S TOO MANY GOOD COMICS I CAN'T NARROW THIS STUFF DOWN I'm telling you, you've unleashed a monster

Also Tapastic is like a ginormous version of Hiveworks (but not as supportive) in case you didn't know (you might know) and you'll have to make an account to access them but SO MANY TO GO THROUGH I'm following close to 100 comics on there

Webcomic Recommendations:

White Noise: Fantasy, multiverse, updates Sunday

No End: Post-apocalypse, MOGAI/LGBTQIA+, updates w/ multiple pages Sunday

Cucumber Quest: Fantasy, adorable anthropomorphic bunnies, updates 2-3 times a week (usually TuThSat-ish)

Gunnerkrigg Court: Sci-fi/fantasy, updates MWF, WONDERFUL plot, already in like the fifty- or sixtieth-something chapter, art at the beginning might make you cringe a little depending but YOU GOTTA READ THIS

M.F.K.: Fantasy, some PoC cast, uber cool art and story <3, updates M

Fine Sometimes Rain: Slice of life, tackles mental illness (YES REPRESENTATION I NEED MORE), trigger warnings for depression and anxiety and a death not really featured in the comic, manga style, really sweet, updates MW

Harpy Gee (didja see what the author/artist did there): Fantasy, AMAZING STORY AMAZING ART (the author/artist actually worked on Teen Titans for a while), ABSOLUTELY HEARTWARMING 20/10 WOULD RECOMMEND, updates Sunday or Monday

The Black Bull of Norroway (Tapastic): Unique take on an old (German?) fairy tale I love, don't remember when it updates

Blindsprings: Fantasy, PRETTY ART DHSDFF, awesome story, updates TuThSat (Sat updates are new and author/artist is still adjusting)

Namesake: Fantasy/slice of life (ish), MUST REAAAAAD, CUTE ART, CUTE CHARACTERS (AND POC CAST), ADORABLE SHIPS, updates TuThSat (Sat updates currently little minicomics b/c artist has some family stuff that came up)

Witchy: CAN I SAY I LOVE THIS ONE A LOT Fantasy, great storyline, SIX PAGES COMING NEXT WEEK I'M SCREAMING (usually updates Tues with one page)

Saint for Rent: Sci-fi (time-travelling, really), slightly baffling but amazing, updates TuF

Alice and the Nightmare: Fantasy (and obviously based off of Alice in Wonderland, but with a huge twist), updates TuF, recently rebooted so you'll probably catch up in like 30 minutes, CUTE CHARACTERS I CAN'T

Monster Pop!: Fantasy/slice of life, currently on hiatus for con season (something like that)

Far to the North: Another adaptation of one of my favorite fairy tales--have you read East of the Sun and West of the Moon? It's based off of that, updates W, launched like two months ago so plot's just starting to roooooll

Suihira: The City of Water: Fantasy, beautiful worldbuilding, updates W (and Sun? not sure)

Fey Winds: Fantasy, GOOD GOD I LOVE THIS COMIC, an epic/spoof, trigger warnings for some blood and gore (not a ton but just in case), updates Thurs

One-Halfed: Slice of life, OH MY GOD THIS COMIC STABS YOU AND RIPS YOUR HEART OUT AND THEN WRENCHES YOUR GUT AND MAKES YOU CRY YOUR WEIGHT IN TEARS BUT IT'S SO GOOD, tackles a lot of difficult issues in the most beautiful and subtle and heart-wringing way (trigger warning for cutting and depression and a little bullying and anxiety fueled by bullying, but I'd also tag parental/guardian neglect (is that a trigger? Idk)), currently on hiatus (I think the author takes a few months to plan a chapter so idk when/if it'll update again)

balderdash! or, a tale of two witches: Fantasy, CUTE ART CUTE STORY FLAILING, updates F

The House on the Cliff: Fantasy/slice of life-ish, PoC cast, MOGAI, updates F, currently on hiatus for chapter planning

Under the Aegis (LINE Webtoons): Fantasy, cute art, updates Sat

Les Amis de L'ABC: Modern-day adaption of Les Mis with some twists, author is a college student from Melbourne (yes I kid you not), updates whenever possible, beautiful art

Above the Clouds: Historical fiction-y, mostly wordless (and that much more powerful), gorgeous style, currently on hiatus for chapter planning but will be starting Chapter 4 soon

Kings Folly: Fantasy, gorgeous art, updates M but some issues with the author/artist's tablet so updates are kinda sporadic

Miss Abbott and the doctor (Tapastic): Romance/historical fiction, adorable, updates kinda whenever

Tigress Queen (Tapastic): Fantasy, HELL YES, written and drawn by the same person who writes and draws Far to the North, updates F

Cénit (Tapastic): Fantasy, pretty art, updates sporadic (I think the author/artist is in the hospital/sick)

Toxic for You (Tapastic): BL/MOGAI/slice of life-ish, slightly NSFW (but there'll be warnings for those episodes), updates Sat but author/artist is having some trouble with her hands, has promised to resume this Sat

Fisheye Placebo (Tapastic): AMAZING ART, futuristic/dystopian/activist (I know that's not a genre but it seems fitting), hasn't updated in a year but the artist is AMAZING and on dA go check her out

Knite (dA): Activist/slice of life-ish, written and drawn by the same person who does Fisheye Placebo, also hasn't updated in a while

No Need for Bushido: Historical fiction with some not-so-historical stuff, almost completely PoC cast (OF ASIANS I'M SCREAMING), updates Tues

Technicolor London: BL, really not NSFW except for a couple of scenes, updates MWF, trigger warnings for some mentions of abuse in the recent pages

Go Get a Roomie: MOGAI as hell sO MUCH MOGAI REPRESENTATION I'M CRYING, updates MWF

Grey is...: Manga, slice of life, I'VE CRIED BUCKETS READING THIS BUT IT TAKES THE FREAKING PRIZE OF THEM ALL I CAN'T EVEN EXPLAIN HOW MASTERFULLY THE AUTHOR/ARTIST SHAPES THE STORY WITH HER ART AND WRITING, tackles a LOT of tough stuff (like amnesia, and trigger warnings for blood, anxiety, suicidal tendencies, maybe epilepsy (not sure but the transition between some panels might trigger it), abusive relationships, emotional manipulation), updates Sat I WANNA SCREAM ABOUT THIS COMIC FROM THE ROOFTOPS SDHFSDHFDSHFSDHFAKJFLDSJLfj

Also I recounted and I have bookmarked exactly 240 comics, but I'd deleted a lot in March, when I had 280+ (it was terrible) and out of the 240 comics I think about 130-200 of them are active or on-a-hiatus-and-definitely-will-return
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: videovance on June 18, 2015, 09:26:24 AM
:china: 哇,我惋惜你的妈妈!jkjkjk
:france: Desoleé, je ne comprend pas Français!
:china: 我同意你说话,法文听到漂亮了,可是我不要学习法文!法文困难太高!!你需要学性别名词、动词时态、共轭话等等。较法文?没门儿!我的语言基本功很少,法文太难得 ( ̄◇ ̄;) 我也很倔强了,只要学中文。
我学校的法文老师都很好(我希望了!)。在我的学校,第一喜欢学习的外语是法文,第二是西班牙语,第三是汉语,最后是日语。在澳洲学校从幼教到十年级,我们需要上别的语文课,在十一年纪到十二年级,我们不需要任何语文。可是,学生大部分要至少一个外语课学习,因为这边课被我们最终结果提高。

:uk: Wow, I feel sorry for your mum! Jkjkjk you seem like a lovely person
I agree, French is really pretty-sounding, but I still don't want to learn it! French is a super difficult language!! You have to learn gendered nouns, verb tenses, conjugate words, et cetera. There's no way I could learn French! My ability to learn languages is really low, and French is toooooo haaaarrrddddd ( ̄◇ ̄;) I'm also pretty stubborn- I only want to learn Chinese. (I'm crazy stubborn about this)
My school has pretty good French teachers (I hope)! At my school, French is the most popular learnt language, then Spanish, then Chinese, and lastly Japanese. From pre-school to year 10 in Australia, we need to be doing at least one language. From Year 11 to 12, though, we don't have to anymore. However, the majority of students will still take a language, because our final scores are increased by taking a language.

Ohhhhhh lordy, that's a long list of webcomics. I've read a few of those already, like CucuQuest and Gunnerkrigg and Namesake (bc my sister is utterly obsessed with Namesake- I swear, she's probably their literal #1 fan). Yuumei's comics are really pretty too 0u0
Have you ever read Paranatural? It's hilarious and I seriously recommend it. You should add it to the other 240 webcomics pile ahahahaha //sobs
I'm gONNA TRY LOOKING AT ALL OF THESE EVEN IF IT MEANS I DON'T SLEEP EVER AGAIN [gives up almost immediately]
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: misea on June 18, 2015, 03:43:49 PM
:china: 对不起, 我忘记那个远影 :/

:usa: Sorry, I forgot about that reason :/

YES I read Paranatural! I cry laughing like every page, the expressions are the best. XD Do you read Agents of the Realm? It's super cute! AND PLUME. I FORGOT ABOUT PLUME. SHAME ON ME.
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: videovance on June 21, 2015, 06:11:33 AM
:china: 没有关系,回头看我的答案,我发现我讲的说不太明白。我学习中文是很固执的,因为大部分鬼佬的同学们学习法文、中文课大多被中国人注册、所以人们常常问,我为什么不学法文或者西班牙语?你看上去好像一个白人,所以你当然不能学中文,对不对?我同意他们的看法,我不看上去混血儿,因此人们都认为我也是一个鬼佬。我生气不得了,就决定了,“我必须变得流利!”。但是,因为我不要学另外的语言,我的语言基本功很少,而且学法文很难的。成为中文流利的以后,我可能会学法文! ;w;

:uk: (sorry for the long rant, I didn't mean to be so rude and dismissive about French earlier ;A; so like. here is the real reason why I don't learn it? it took me like an entire day to consider if i should actually post this ahahaha //sobs)

Spoiler: show
It's okay, looking back at my answer, I realised I didn't explain myself clearly. The reason why I'm really stubborn about learning Chinese is because, well, all of the gweilos learnt French (or Spanish!) and in Chinese class, it was mostly just Chinese kids learning it, so people always asked me "Hey, why don't you learn French or Spanish instead? You look like a white person, so you obviously can't learn Chinese, right?" (in a kind of round-about way! Though, one girl actually just said to my face "You really should have learnt Spanish instead of Chinese- it's really weird that you're in our class, you know?") I guess I agree with them- I don't look like a halfie, so people thought I was just a gweilo. I got really really angry about it, so I decided, "I must become fluent in Chinese!". But because of the fact that I've never learnt another language from Chinese, my language abilities are pretty shocking, so French is really difficult to me. But who knows, maybe after I become fluent at Chinese, I'll learn French! ;w;

So yeah, a lot of why I learn Chinese is to prove myself? I dunno, it's just really weird to have people assume that I can't know Chinese because I'm a white-lookin' kid, and that people don't believe my mum is my mum (because, you guessed it, she's Chinese! Dang! No way she could be my mum, right?? e u g h) and that I'm generally "not Chinese enough", y'know? pretty nasty stuff. But I really do think French is a beautiful language, and I might learn it when I'm older. ;w;

It's really cool you love learning French though!! And yeah patterns and puzzles are the best, I haven't gotten the hang of the patterns in languages yet ehehehe. Did you do French immersion??? :O dANG THAT'S IMPRESSIVE BRO (even if you don't think it was really good)

Paranatural is great and basically my life goal is to make as many people read it as possible ehEHEHEHE
Oh no I haven't read either of those! I'll add it to the list you have. Oh my god i'm never getting though these (rest in pieces @me)
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: misea on June 22, 2015, 12:58:20 AM
:china: 没关系的!c: 我是觉得你是有一个好的理由不学习法语。AKFHJDSHFSDF MY CHINESE IS SO LIMITED

:usa: It's nothing! c: I figured you had a good reason for not learning French, and I meant it as a joking kind of thing (sorry, my sense of humor tends more towards the sarcastic and deadpan side so it probably didn't really come out well ("7_7) )

EY, DON'T BE SORRY. :) YOU SHOW THEM WHAT YOU'RE MADE OF >:D As tumblr poet inkskinned said, "[You were] born dragon."DESTROY THOSE STEREOTYPES. OR, LIKE SIGRUN SAID, "KILL THEM DEAD." ("Them" being stereotypes.) I think it's ridiculous that people base learning on appearance. Like, skee-use you to those people. There are plenty of white and white-passing people who speak, read, AND write Chinese better than I (who looks Asian) can (WAY BETTER than I can, it's kinda scary but also really cool). And anyone who tells you you're "not Chinese enough" obviously has not met enough full- and part-Chinese kids in non-Chinese countries; we're on a spectrum of appearances and cultural identity and not their ridiculously tiny idea of what being Chinese is and who can identify as Chinese or white or whatever culturally and racially. (insert one of my wat-r-u-doing faces here @ those people) I look Vietnamese even though my parents are from China (I'm pretty sure it's just 'cause of the climate in southern China, but who knows). One of my Chinese friends (who "looks Chinese") acts more American than Chinese. Honestly, I don't feel Chinese or American, because I'm Chinese American (doesn't matter that I have fully Chinese parents). White people assume I'm super Chinese and Chinese people look at me and think I'm super American. Identity is a result of cultural and social exposure as well as ethnicity and idk why people can't get these ideas through their heads -__- Ahahaha that kinda turned into a rant whoops

Haha, thanks! :) I thank my high school French teacher for that. And for having textbooks the first three years, that sped up my learning a lot. XD (I did the whole I'm-bored-let's-look-ahead-in-the-book routine)

Hahaha, I have a bad habit of suddenly wanting to read more webcomics and spending a day just searching for new ones. But I built my pile up slowly, like over three years or so. If you still want to tackle that ginormous list, I would suggest the Tigress Queen and/or Far to the North, Witchy, and Alice and the Nightmare, they're some of the shortest on that list (Tigress Queen has ~50 pages, FttN ~20-30, Witchy ~100, AatN ~37 because reboot). Oh hey, that's a good way to narrow down webcomics. I should've done that when I made that list XD
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: Shihchuan on June 25, 2015, 12:45:15 AM
哇,竟然有中文的討論串!真是太開心了!XD
哇,竟然有中文的讨论串!真是太开心了!XD
Wow, a Chinese thread! I'm thrilled! XD

如大家所見,我來自台灣,所以我平常習慣寫繁體字(但在電腦上轉換很容易),而且我的一些用語可能也跟大家習慣或學過的不太一樣。不論如何,如果大家有需要的話,我很樂意幫忙(回答問題或檢查句子)。:)
如大家所见,我来自台湾,所以我平常习惯写繁体字(但在计算机上转换很容易),而且我的一些用语可能也跟大家习惯或学过的不太一样。不论如何,如果大家有需要的话,我很乐意帮忙(回答问题或检查句子)。:)
As you can see I'm from Taiwan, so I ordinarily write in traditional characters (though on computer it's no problem to convert to simplified characters), and some of my vocabulary might be a little bit different from what you're used to or what you learned. Still, I'd be happy to help (answering questions or checking sentences) that I can if you guys ever need it. :)

@Lars_B: for "How hard can it be?" I would translate it as "那會有多難/那会有多难?" or 那能有多難/那能有多难?" (it seems that we Taiwanese really don't use 呢 that often)

While we're on the subject of webcomics recommendation......

- Mare Internum: relatably angsty characters in a Mars settlement setting
- Next Town Over: steampunk western with gorgeous art
- Stick in the Mud: when life gives you an accidently-bought-after-drunk dungeon bar, you...
- Wilde Life: just a guy, who happens to go live in a town where everyone he meets is a bit...out of the ordinary
- Carbon Dating: pseudoscience debunking slice of life, thought-provoking and fun!
- Demon of the Underground: great art and fun as hell character interaction in an otherwise ruthless underworld
- Yellow Peril: super fun office romance and hijinks with some prominent Asian American protagonists
- Relativity: a relationship du-/complicated by space travel
- Selkie: this one tackles so many delicate human interaction issues so well, I can't even begin
- Easy: about accepting oneself
- Think Before You Think: what happens if you can read others' mind? Literally.
- Muddlers Beat: slice of life comics surrounding ordinary straight, gay and trans people; gives off a heartwarming vibe
- O Human Star: in a world where human and robots coexist, past relationship can return in unexpected ways...
- Daughter of the Lilies: fantasy comic with one of the protagonists being a mage whose specialty is......flowers (and who wears a hood much more concealing than Lalli's)
- The Black Wall: in which every corner of the city is under heavy, state-of-the-art surveillance
- Let's Speak English: First-person stories of an English teacher in Japan.

Some that I haven't caught up/started but seem interesting enough: Judecca, Family Man, Cochlea & Eustachia

Btw, just a quick comment on videovance's word choice of "鬼佬".....yikes, kinda harsh don't you think? :p (it being a Cantonese derogatory slang for foreigners - just ignore me if you already know that)
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: misea on June 25, 2015, 01:49:00 AM
:china: 你好!c: 你是学了繁体和简体?在美国我们用简体很多,所以繁体有的时候对我难练。XD

:usa: Hi! c: Did you learn both traditional and simplified? We mostly use simplified in America, so traditional is sometimes hard for me to read. XD Then again, I still have trouble with simplified. T_T

I read Wilde Life and Daughter of the Lilies too! The suspense! o.o And I used to read Yellow Peril. I've been checking on it every once in a while, but it seems the author/artist has too much on his plate right now for updates.

WAIT DOES ANYONE WANT TO SCREAM ABOUT GUNNERKRIGG COURT AND NAMESAKE WITH ME BECAUSE THE LATEST CHAPTERS ARE JUST NO. I'M UP FOR SCREAMING ABOUT OTHER WEBCOMICS TOO
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: Shihchuan on June 25, 2015, 07:44:40 AM
中文是我的母語,我從小學的是繁體;一開始接觸簡體會不太習慣,不過久了讀起來就沒有太大的困難了。:) 聽說先學簡體再接觸繁體的人會比較辛苦?
中文是我的母语,我从小学的是繁体;一开始接触简体会不太习惯,不过久了读起来就没有太大的困难了。:) 听说先学简体再接触繁体的人会比较辛苦?

Mandarin is my mother tongue, and traditional characters are what I learned as a child; it took some time for me to get accustomed to simplified characters when I first encountered it, but after a while I don't have too much trouble reading it. :) I've heard that it's harder for people who learned simplified characters first to encounter traditional characters later?


I just started Gunnerkrigg Court, so unfortunately I can't scream with you about the latest chapter but I WILL SCREAM WITH YOU ANYWAY WHEN AM I SUPPOSED TO FINALLY CATCH UP
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: videovance on June 25, 2015, 10:17:25 AM
:china: 你好!欢迎给你!你来自台湾吗?!我以前也住在台湾!哈哈哈我读繁体字忘记了。。。
对吧,我知道“鬼佬”的意思,人们经常称我“鬼佬”。如果你想这个字用的很粗,我当然会停!0u0

:uk: Hi, welcome! You're from Taiwan?? I also lived in Taiwan! (for like 7 years but my chinese still sucks wHOOPS) Hahaha I forgot all my traditional chinese...
Yep, I know what "gweilo" means, people often called me that. If you think it's too rude to use, then I will, of course, stop using it! 0u0

Ohhhhhh no, we got all the webcomics here. Goodness gracious. This is going to take seventeen years to finish reading at this rate gOSH
aLSO GUNNERKRIGG COURT IS GREAT AND I HAVE NOT CAUGHT UP I Am so sorry I will go do that this weekend ehehehe [sobs at my grades]
and I'll try catching up w/ namesake because let's be real, Bird is the best (other than Fred and Elaine eeeehehehe)
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: misea on June 25, 2015, 05:52:26 PM
:china: 我爸爸喜欢开玩笑和叫我和我的妹妹 “美国鬼子。” (拿是不是对的字符?我好久没练中文。º~º)

:usa: My dad likes make jokes and call me and my sister "美国鬼子." (Did I get the right characters? It's been a long time since I've read Chinese characters. º~º)

Take it slow with GC, everything's hitting the fan. *sobs*
I LOVE BIRD SO MUCH AND THE LATEST PAGES ARE JUST NO OH NO GOD BIRD NONONONONO
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: Russet on June 25, 2015, 10:59:39 PM
:china: 嗨,我是马来西亚的华侨。你们好吗?华文是个挺难学的语文哦。。 我母语是华文,小时候也是先学华文,但如今可能用英文会比较流利,因为我比较时常读英文书、看英文戏等。

:uk: Hey, I'm from Malaysia, but I'm Chinese in ethnicity. How are you guys? Chinese is pretty difficult to grasp. /: My mother-tongue's Chinese and I learnt Chinese as my native language when I was young, but currently I think I'm probably more fluent in English, since I read more English books and watch English movies, hmm.
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: Shihchuan on June 26, 2015, 01:06:18 AM
:china: 你好!欢迎给你!你来自台湾吗?!我以前也住在台湾!哈哈哈我读繁体字忘记了。。。
对吧,我知道“鬼佬”的意思,人们经常称我“鬼佬”。如果你想这个字用的很粗,我当然会停!0u0

哈哈,我個人是沒有意見啦,我知道你的語氣不是真的在辱罵人。:p 你在台灣的哪裡待過啊?!我是花蓮人,不過大學是在台北讀的。
哈哈,我个人是没有意见啦,我知道你的语气不是真的在辱骂人。:p 你在台湾的哪里待过啊?!我是花莲人,不过大学是在台北读的。
Haha, I don't have a problem with it personally, as I know you're not using it to really insult anyone. :p Where in Taiwan did you stay?! I'm from Hualien, but I studied university in Taipei.


:china: 我爸爸喜欢开玩笑和叫我和我的妹妹 “美国鬼子。” (拿是不是对的字符?我好久没练中文。º~º)

:usa: My dad likes make jokes and call me and my sister "美国鬼子." (Did I get the right characters? It's been a long time since I've read Chinese characters. º~º)

美国鬼子 looks "right" to me. Traditionally 鬼子 was more specifically used to refer to Japanese people, but we all know how common it is for language to evolve all the time :) 拿 (ná) should be 那 (nà) though.
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: misea on June 26, 2015, 06:36:18 AM
:china: 为什么 T_T 那事我打字太快。ALKFDJLKSDJFLKJSDALKJFHHDS 我怎么会那样做 D:我应该睡觉。。。

:usa: Why T_T That was me typing too fast. ALKFDJLKSDJFLKJSDALKJFHHDS I CAN'T BELIEVE I DID THAT D: I should sleep...
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: Russet on June 26, 2015, 07:13:46 AM
:china: 哈哈,我看你还是早点睡觉,晚安!哦,还有,我觉得你可能有打错 “是” 为 “事” ?

:uk: haha, yeah, I think you really need to catch some sleep right now, good night! oh, and I think you may have mistaken 是 for 事?
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: videovance on June 26, 2015, 07:40:30 AM
:china: 嗨,我是马来西亚的华侨。你们好吗?华文是个挺难学的语文哦。。 我母语是华文,小时候也是先学华文,但如今可能用英文会比较流利,因为我比较时常读英文书、看英文戏等。
:china: 马来西亚呢!?很给力!(呃,给力的意思跟酷都一样吗?)你的中文非常好,我必须查字典要了解你,哈哈哈哈哈。你有什么最喜欢的英文电影/戏吗?
:uk: Malaysia!? So cool! (Uh, 给力 and 酷 have the same meaning, right? 0u0;;; ) Your Chinese is realllly good, I had to use a dictionary to understand what you were saying, ahahaha. What's your favourite English movie?

哈哈,我個人是沒有意見啦,我知道你的語氣不是真的在辱罵人。:p 你在台灣的哪裡待過啊?!我是花蓮人,不過大學是在台北讀的。
哈哈,我个人是没有意见啦,我知道你的语气不是真的在辱骂人。:p 你在台湾的哪里待过啊?!我是花莲人,不过大学是在台北读的。
:china: 我以前居住台北(士林区)!我小时候在花莲盘桓了几天,游览了,但是我一切忘记了。。。( •́ A •̀ )
:uk: I used to live in Taipei (Shilin district)! I (think) when I was younger I visited Hualien for a few days, but I completely forgot... ( •́ A •̀ )

aLSO MISEA I CAUGHT UP WITH NAMESAKE AND I'M JUST [sobbing loudly] BIRD DID NOT DESERVE THIS AT ALL
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: Russet on June 26, 2015, 07:57:58 AM
:china: 马来西亚呢!?很给力!(呃,给力的意思跟酷都一样吗?)你的中文非常好,我必须查字典要了解你,哈哈哈哈哈。你有什么最喜欢的英文电影/戏吗?
:uk: Malaysia!? So cool! (Uh, 给力 and 酷 have the same meaning, right? 0u0;;; ) Your Chinese is realllly good, I had to use a dictionary to understand what you were saying, ahahaha. What's your favourite English movie?
:china: 唔,其实我没听过 “给力” 这词,可能是你国家的俚语?哈哈,没有吧,我的华文其实也挺差。。。我最喜欢的英文电影?有几个吧,比如 The Grand Budapest Hotel, etc. 我也喜欢看 the X-Men Series (除了第三个,那个我就很讨厌).

:uk: uh, I've actually never heard of 给力? maybe it's local slang in your country, I'm not too sure. & haha, not really, my Chinese is actually pretty terrible.. My favourite English films would be.. hmm, there are a few? The Grand Budapest Hotel, etc.. Oh, and I like the X-Men Series too. (except the third one. that one was horrible. don't talk to me about the third X-Men film. It should be burnt at the stake.)
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: misea on June 26, 2015, 06:25:39 PM
:china: 我怎么总是打错的字 T_T

:usa: Why do I always type the wrong character T_T That's a sure sign that I need sleep.

videovance I KNOW OH MY GOD BIIIIIIIIIIIRD OH GOD OH GOD
People were talking in the comments about Alice possibly giving Vanessa one of her lives. I HOPE SO *starts bawling and saying "BIRD PLEASE BE OKAY" to the screen and hugging the computer*
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: videovance on July 09, 2015, 02:01:09 AM
:china: 我还没看X-Men Series电影!我应该看吗?
(呃?? 我电脑的中文自动输入的键盘很奇怪。我输入“我是不是”,但是我的电脑写道:“我是不是该安静的走开”和“我是不是你最疼爱的人”!我的电脑想说什么?!)

:uk: I haven't seen the X-Men series movies! Should I watch them?
(Eh?? The automatic input for the Chinese keyboard on my computer is really weird. I typed "我是不是", but my computer wrote out: "Should I or should I not quietly leave" and "Am I or am I not your beloved"! What is my computer trying to say?!)

I'm not 100% sure that's what it said (I was trying to go literally) but thAT'S REALLY FREAKY?? IS MY COMPUTER HAUNTED??? AM I GOING TO DIE?? ?? ?

Misea: WELL I MEAN THEY WERE RIGHT BUT POor bird. please protect this tiny problematic fave. or is she a (sin)namon roll? we just don't know
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: Russet on July 12, 2015, 01:43:05 AM
:china: 我非常提议你看第一和第二个,那两个的故事与人物都特别有趣,但是第三个就。。呃,因为电影的导演换了,把故事搞得乱七八糟。哦,但是它除了那三个原本的 series 以外还有一个前传和续集很有趣,你也应该观看!(p.s. 请把圣水浇在你的电脑上,我自己也有点害怕了)

:uk: I strongly suggest you watch the first and second installment, those two have amazing plot and characters, but the third one.. uhhhh, they changed movie directors, so it's kind of terrible (but it's still a vaguely entertaining movie, I guess, if you're interested in watching). Oh, and aside from the three movies from the original series there's a prequel (First Class) and a sequel (Days of Future Past) that are really good, you should watch those after that too! (p.s. please douse your computer with holy water, you scared the crap out of me)
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: misea on July 12, 2015, 06:44:07 AM
To keep my post sorta on topic...

:china: 现在是快到早成四点和我的猫吐了在我的地板上 (눈_눈)

:usa: It's almost four in the morning and my cat just vomited on my floor (눈_눈)

@videovance:problematic fave who appeared to be a sinnamon roll but deep deeeeep inside is a cinammon roll?? ¯\_( º_o)_/¯
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: videovance on July 12, 2015, 07:46:21 AM
:china: 我会看电影吧!我相信你的影评 ( •̀   ω •́ )y  我看电影以后同你谈谈,好不好?(没关系,我在网上看一看,我发现电脑的demons短信(?)是有名的歌词!(所是的太奇怪。。。)

:uk: I’m gonna watch the movie! ;w; I trust your movie critiques ( •̀   ω •́ )y   After I watch it, is it okay to discuss it with you? (it’s really fun to talk about movies ehehehe) (Also don’t worry, I checked online- I found out that the demon messages were just famous song lyrics! (Which is really weird…)

MISEA I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO SAY “THAT IS SO NASTY, ABSOLUTELY FOUL” IN CHINESE SO IT’S GOING IN ENGLISH BECAUSE EEEEEEEUGH that’s p gross, ahahaha oh no you poor possum ;A;;; that’s just. eeEEUUGHH. Also, congratulations on 100 posts, and therefore, no longer being a newbie! ;w;

I still have to catch up on a few things back in old Namesake (I read through it too quickly to remember everything) but I think we can safely say that Bird is probably a Beautiful Cinnamon Roll Too Good For This World, Too Pure
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: Russet on July 12, 2015, 08:46:37 AM
:china: 啊,当然可以!我自己也很喜欢跟大家谈谈电影的事情,哈哈。(唔,慢慢地想这件事情时,我也发觉到最有逻辑的原因就是歌词,但你说的话也没有错,这真是好奇怪的歌词。。。)

:uk: Ah, of course you can! I myself enjoy discussing movies with other people, haha. (it makes watching movies all the more enjoyable) (and yeah, in retrospect song lyrics are probably the most logical explanation for these demonic suggestions, but it's also true that these are extremely disturbing suspicious peculiar song lyrics.

Congratulations to Misea on becoming a Safe-Zone Citizen as well!  :)
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: misea on July 12, 2015, 03:30:26 PM
:china: 哈哈哈,没关系 Videovance!我也不知道怎么说那句话。 和谢谢你们!我自己没看到 XD

:usa: Hahaha, it's okay Videovance! I don't know how to write that phrase either. And thank you guys! I totally did not see that XD Oh gosh SSSS is sucking up my life...

At least she wasn't like, peeing on the floor or something. :I She did that to the old couch and we had to throw away the cushions, and she also peed in my sibling's closet like a year ago and now their room perpetually smells weird. (Then again, they weren't exactly cleaning her litter box on a regular basis...)

Yes, Bird is most definitely a precious Cinnamon Roll. *sobs*
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: Russet on July 13, 2015, 05:22:51 AM
:china: 哈哈,有一次我家养的狗小便在前院的草坪,几年后那儿还是有一片完全枯燥、草不能生起来的地方。

:uk: ahaha, one time my pet dog peed on our front lawn and a few years later there's still a patch of completely wilted grass that refuses to regrow.
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: misea on July 13, 2015, 06:14:44 AM
:china: o_0 那是奇怪。那一片地完全没什么植物长在那?没杂草?

:usa: o_0 That's strange. There's absolutely no plants growing there at all? Not even weeds?
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: Russet on July 14, 2015, 06:01:18 AM
:china: 对啊!根本一点儿杂草都没有,看来我狗的尿可以拿来当毒药了。。。

:uk: Yeah! haha, there wasn't a single spot of weeds or anything, I think my dog's pee can be used as poison..
Also in reference to your cat because I think we should stop bothering the people on the Introduction thread, cats are magic, they can basically Apparate wherever they want.
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: misea on July 15, 2015, 10:24:58 AM
:china: 可能。:I 真的是太奇怪。。。

:usa: Probably. :I That's really weird...
hahaha yeah probably of course, how did I forget that? *facepalms*
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: Russet on July 24, 2015, 09:05:31 PM
:china: 昨天我找到很多旧的华文作文,全都是满江红的,哈哈。我还记得老师曾经和我说过我作文是最要注意的项目,因为我的语病连篇都是的。。。哦,你的猫怎样了?康复点了吗?

:uk: Yesterday I found a lot of my old Chinese essays and they had so many errors, haha. I still remember my teacher actually told me that I had to pay extra attention to my essays because they were full of grammatical and spelling errors, which is kind of embarassing.... Anyway, how's your cat? Feeling better? (:
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: misea on July 27, 2015, 03:06:59 AM
:china: *拍你的背*
我的猫好了,谢谢 c: 现在的问题只是怎么要他吃普通的猫食物 XD

:usa: awww it's okay *pats your back*
My cat's better, thanks for asking c: Now the problem is getting her to eat the (admittedly not-very-tasty-after-cat-treats) food we'd been feeding her before XD Picky cat
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: Russet on July 31, 2015, 03:01:06 AM
:china: 哈哈,当然,你的猫只会接受最好的招待。哦,还有,你可知道放上一个新的国旗大概需要多久的时间吗?我还在等待马来西亚国旗的到来,哈哈。Videovance 好像最近都没在?

:uk: Ah, of course, nothing but the best for a cat, haha. By the way, any idea how long it takes for a new flag to be put up? Have been waiting on a Malaysian one for a while now. Also, videovance seems to have disappeared as well, hmm.
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: videovance on July 31, 2015, 07:28:42 AM
:china: 哈哈,对不起,我经常忘记回复!我也希望你猫的健康更好 ( • ω • )b
我不知道创造了新的国旗的必要时间。你应该问一下,创造者可能忘记了。 ( ╯□╰ )
我最近还没有时间可以看一看“X-Men”电影,但是我明天早上有空闲时间,我会看到吧!

我有一个问题:你怎么使用“儿”的词?例子:这儿、个儿、小孩儿、点儿,等等。我的老师不说明这个词的意义。。。:(

:uk: Haha, sorry, I kept forgetting to respond to this! I also hope your cat's feeling better ( • ω • )b
I don't know how long it takes for them to make the flag. The creator might have forgotten about it, you should probably ask again ( ╯□╰ ) (I hope they make it soon!!)
I haven't had a lot of time recently to be able to look at the "X-Men" movie, but tomorrow morning I have some free time, so I might watch it then!

I have a question: How do you use "儿"? For example: 这儿、个儿、小孩儿、点儿, et cetera. My teacher wasn't very clear with what it means... :(
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: Russet on August 01, 2015, 07:24:47 AM
:china: 哦,好啊!看了过后跟我说声?我想知道你最喜欢哪个人物!(:
对于“儿”的用法,这我也不太清楚,哈哈,我们的老师通常没有和我们解释这事情。。。就是好像,每个字过后加个“儿”把他变成比较。。。casual? (idk how to say this in chinese, sorry)

:uk: Oh, rad! B) Tell me after you've watched it, I want to know who your favourite character is! (:
And about 儿, I'm not too sure how to use it either, haha, it sort of comes naturally to me since our teachers don't really explain the usage? It's like.. after every word if you tack it on at the end it sounds more.. casual?
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: misea on August 05, 2015, 02:23:48 AM
:china: 哈哈,和她是一直吃一样的东西,所以应该换一下她的食物 XD
Russet,如果你想要个马国旗,这个 thread (https://ssssforum.com/index.php?topic=16.0) 是个好的地方问人做一个,如果你还没看过 c:
Videovance, 我跟 Russet 同意

:usa: Haha, and she's been eating the same things for a long time, so it's about time we changed her food XD
Russet, if you want a Malaysian flag, this thread (https://ssssforum.com/index.php?topic=16.0) would be a good place to ask if someone could make one, if you haven't seen it already c:
Videovance, I agree with Russet, "儿" makes stuff sound more casual. I don't use it a lot (I don't think, and this might just be 'cause my Mandarin is all over the place), but my parents' friends use it all the time
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: Russet on August 07, 2015, 03:43:22 AM
:china: 谢谢!我之前已经在那儿问过了,但可能他们忘记了?我再通知他们一声。哈哈,你的猫儿现在开始吃普通的食物了吗?

:uk: Oh, thanks! I've told them about it before, but maybe they're forgotten? Either way, I'll let them know again. & haha, is your cat back on ordinary cat food, or is it still living the high life?
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: misea on August 07, 2015, 04:44:08 AM
:china: 她完全不捧普通的食物,所以今天我的妈妈和妹妹买了一些好吃的喂她。 可怜的猫, 她是太瘦 :C

:usa: She absolutely refuses to touch the old cat food, so today (actually, yesterday, but I haven't gone to sleep yet) my mom and sister bought some treats for her. Poor cat, she's so thin :C
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: Russet on August 08, 2015, 05:17:47 AM
:china: 啊,我现在明白了你这儿的口号为何是“夜猫子“,哈哈。早睡点吧!你的猫也真可怜哦,它完全不想碰那食物,那不是饿肚子了吗?D: 你可能可以把那些好吃的食物与普通的掺在一起,那么它就可以适应那食物。当然,这只是我个人的意见,我还是觉得问个兽医比较好。 ;)

:uk: Ah, now I understand why your personal text is "perpetually sleepy night owl", haha. Sleep earlier next time! Your poor cat, if she doesn't eat, won't she go hungry? D: Maybe you can mix the deluxe food and the normal one together so she'll adapt better to the normal food. Of course, this is just my personal opinion, perhaps seeking advice from a trained veterinarian would be a wiser decision.  ;)
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: misea on August 09, 2015, 12:47:32 AM
:china: 我会,哈哈!学校也快要开始,所以现在我是早睡一点。:) 她完全不捧她本来会吃的东西-鸡,奶,老的好吃的食物,普通食物 (不知道她还是喜不喜欢奶酪,我们好久没有奶酪在家里),于是我们是给他买了好吃的。如果我不再上大学,我们就可以问一问兽医是怎么回事的。可是谢谢 c:

:usa: I will, haha! School's starting soon, so I'm going to sleep a little earlier. :) She won't eat stuff that she used to--chicken, the moist food she used to love, the "normal" cat food (I'm not sure about cheese though, we haven't had cheese in our house for a long time), so we're buying her the fancy stuff. If I wasn't in college, we could ask a vet what's going on with her. Thanks for the suggestion though, it's much appreciated c:
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: Russet on August 09, 2015, 05:21:37 AM
:china: 原来如此!你现在读什么科啊?还有那真惨啊,你的意思是你现在因为求学所以不得空/找不到兽医,还是因为你现在求学所以金钱不足?你是不是打算喂它好吃的食物先直到你能见一见兽医?D:

:uk: Oh, cool, what're you studying right now? And that sounds terrible, do you mean that you can't get a vet because of location/time problems, or due to financial restraints? So you're going to feed her the deluxe food until you get a hold of a vet? D:
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: misea on August 10, 2015, 02:44:03 AM
:china: 我进大学的时候本来想学 computer science, 可是现在我也是在看如果我也想学 linguistics。:) 我不知道如果我是想换专业,弄两个专业,还是别的。是钱的问题;我的大学费是擦不多一半我爸爸一年赚的钱,和我妈妈觉得如果我们的猫好像不生病,就不看兽医 :/ 我们也从来都没带 Tuxi 去看兽医,所以也会很麻烦

:usa: I was accepted as a computer science major, but I'm also looking at linguistics right now :) I'm not sure if I want to change majors, go for a double major, or something else. It's mostly a money problem; my college fees are almost half of what my dad's annual income, but my mom also thinks that if our cat doesn't seem like she's sick that we shouldn't take her to the vet :/ We've never taken Tuxi to the vet before, so it would also be a hassle with paperwork and stuff
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: Russet on August 14, 2015, 07:18:04 AM
:china: 那两个专业都挺有趣喔!我的表姐有个 linguistics 的 major,可是她现在还在读另一个专业(心理学系),如果你读 linguistics 的话好像挺容易找到做翻译者的工作。你以后有兴趣做怎样的工啊?还有,如果你一直喂你的猫吃那特别好吃的食物,会太贵吗?:-\

:uk: Oh, both of those majors sound really interesting! My cousin majored in linguistics, but she's doing a double major (another in psychology). I think if you major in linguistics it's still quite easy to find a job as a translator? What type of career are you interested in after you graduate? (: Oh, and if you continue feeding your cat the deluxe food, is it going to be expensive? :-\
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: misea on August 17, 2015, 11:56:20 PM
:china: Oooh :O 我不知道我想做什么, 我真天是在想画画 XD 应该不会的

:usa: Oooh :O I don't know what I want to do, all I can think about is art XD It shouldn't be (I hope ._.)

blehhh brain is fried
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: kirvel on September 02, 2015, 08:08:02 AM
你好,我是台湾人,所以我会说中文。(我的英文还是比我的中文好。)很高时认识你 :D
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: videovance on September 02, 2015, 07:58:27 PM
:china: 欢迎你到这个网站!你应该在这个thread (https://ssssforum.com/index.php?topic=131.0)介绍自己,他们很喜欢新的人( • ω • )。
你可以称我慧仁或者videovance,可是我觉得videovance记得更容易,哈哈。(对不起,我的中文非常不好( ̄▽ ̄)")
你为什么不用繁体字吗?我想在台湾,人们学繁体字?
(russet+misea:对不起我常常忘记回复!!囧)

:uk: Welcome to the forums! You should go introduce yourself on this thread (https://ssssforum.com/index.php?topic=131.0)- they love new people (and they can help you out with getting around the forums). ( • ω • )
You can call me 慧仁 or videovance, but I think videovance is probably easier to remember, haha. (sorry, my chinese is really bad ( ̄▽ ̄)" )
Sorry if this sounds rude, but just wondering, why don't you use traditional chinese? I thought people learn traditional in Taiwan?
(russet+misea: i'm so sorry I keep forgetting to reply!! 囧)
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: misea on September 03, 2015, 11:50:04 AM
你好,我是台湾人,所以我会说中文。(我的英文还是比我的中文好。)很高时认识你 :D

:china: 你好!And welcome! 醒了太早(er,太晚 ("7_7) 我应该是在上课) 和我的中文不是很好,所以如果我打错字,你知道为什么 XD
我是叫汤睿婷,或是 misea c:
别单行,video!我们都是很忙,和时间少!

:usa: Hello! And welcome! I woke up too early (er, too late ("7_7) I'm supposed to be in class. Oh, the joys of college) and my Chinese is pretty bad, so if I mistype, you know why XD
I'm 汤睿婷, or misea c:
Don't worry, video! We're all busy, and time is super limited! *pats video*
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: Russet on September 05, 2015, 06:42:14 AM
:china: 欢迎来到这个 forum!我是泽雯,或者 russet, 我是马来西亚人,中文也不太好,哈哈!(虽然我是华人,呵呵。。。)别担忧,videovance,我们真的大家都很忙,我自己也会很少回复,因为考试要到了。

:uk: Welcome to our forum! I'm Russet, I'm Malaysian and my Chinese isn't too spiffy either, haha! (even though I'm chinese, heh). Don't worry, videovance, we're all pretty busy and I reply quite seldomly too, since my exams are coming...
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: Russet on September 09, 2015, 04:26:28 AM
:china: 哦,忘了说,恭喜你升级了,misea! ;) 最近如何?

:uk: Oh, forgot to mention, congrats on ascending to Scout, misea! ;) How's college and the cat?
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: misea on September 10, 2015, 06:22:55 PM
:china: 谢谢, Russet!'v' 大学是还好!我是停忙的,可是我喜欢我的课 c: 我的猫应该是还好。。。("7_7) *觉得因为妈妈没说猫有问题,猫应该是还好* 你呢?你也是停好吗?:D

:usa: Thankee, Russet! 'v' College is going well! I'm busy, but I like my classes a lot c: My cat should be fine... ("7_7) *thinks that since mom hasn't said anything about cat having problems means that cat is okay* And you? How are you doing? :D
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: Russet on September 11, 2015, 04:40:36 AM
:china: 哦,好啊!(虽然关于你的猫的信息有点令人担心)我最近也挺好!我十月时有个大考,还有我一直太懒惰读书,但除了那以外我都很好。:D 我长久没见的姑姑这周末会从美国回来探望我们,好兴奋哦!

:uk: Good to hear! (although the cat news is slightly worrying) I'm doing pretty well! I have an exam coming up in October and I'm procrastinating too much, but apart from that everything's perfect. :D My aunt is visiting from the States and I haven't seen her in a decade or so, so that's nice.
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: misea on September 13, 2015, 06:52:25 PM
:china: 那是好!c: 好好学习哦!D: 希望你们有个好的时间在一起 ^u^

:usa: That's good! c: Study hard! D: Hope you, your family, and aunt have a good time together ^u^
Title: How to learn Chinese Mandarin fast?
Post by: rubyliu on September 17, 2015, 04:46:43 AM
I've been trying for a while now to try and learn new languages, not really knowing how. Mandarin wouldn't be the first language I've been trying to learn. I've grown up around American and I'm currently trying to learn Chinese. People have said that the best way to learn a language is by getting a tutor, so if anyone has a good tutor please say so. If anyone knows a better way to learn Mandarin (http://www.hanbridgemandarin.com/), please feel free to leave any suggestions.
Title: Re: How to learn Chinese Mandarin fast?
Post by: Russet on September 17, 2015, 06:58:36 AM
Hi there! Spoken Mandarin is a pretty easy language to learn since there aren't many weird grammatical structures like in English (for example, in Chinese when you want to say something happened yesterday, you just stick yesterday somewhere into the sentence and it should work fine, whereas in English you have to change all the tenses as well). So you could probably make do with online videos or something?

However, written Mandarin is pretty difficult, since with English even if I made up a word on the spot, say.. "sigulvurner!", you would still have a pretty solid idea of how to pronounce that, whereas with written Mandarin the words give no indication of how they're pronounced, so you need to memorise the pronunciation of every single individual word. If you're trying to learn written Mandarin, maybe getting a tutor would be wise. However, for both spoken and written Mandarin, it might be better to have someone familiar with the language show you the ropes.

Besides, languages take some time to learn, so there's no rush, you should take your time!
Title: Re: How to learn Chinese Mandarin fast?
Post by: Sunflower on September 17, 2015, 11:41:25 AM
I've been trying for a while now to try and learn new languages, not really knowing how. Mandarin wouldn't be the first language I've been trying to learn. I've grown up around American and I'm currently trying to learn Chinese. People have said that the best way to learn a language is by getting a tutor, so if anyone has a good tutor please say so. If anyone knows a better way to learn Mandarin (http://www.hanbridgemandarin.com/), please feel free to leave any suggestions.

Hi, Ruby.  Welcome to the Forum! 
I apologize for making my first response to you a redirection, but do you mind if I merge this thread in with our existing Mandarin thread?  (https://ssssforum.com/index.php?topic=423.0) I'm one of the content moderators here, and we try not to have too many overlapping threads.

Meanwhile, can I persuade you to introduce yourself on the Introduction Thread? (https://ssssforum.com/index.php?topic=131.0)  We're friendly here, and it's a great way to find other people here who share your interests.
Title: Re: How to learn Chinese Mandarin fast?
Post by: misea on September 17, 2015, 02:57:40 PM
Helloooo rubyliu! :D I... I can't really help you (why am I commenting in the first place) but this might be helpful? Maybe?? To be honest I haven't used these links in a year, so I can't verify the accuracy (and even if I did you'd have to take it with a grain of salt as I'm not fluent T_T). I think it was sorta okay?

Chinese Tutor (Flashcards) (https://www.fastchinese.org/flashcards?utm_medium=app&utm_source=chromeflashcards)
Chinese Tutor (Speaking) (https://www.fastchinese.org/speaking?utm_medium=app&utm_source=chromespeaking)
Title: Re: How to learn Chinese Mandarin fast?
Post by: videovance on September 17, 2015, 09:17:23 PM
Hi rubyliu! I am super useless in this conversation! BUT I found a cool app recently that is pretty useful, called HelloChinese, which makes you pronounce things out loud and corrects you, so that's useful! Unfortunately, I'm not sure it will get you to fluency very quickly;;;
Watching videos does help a lot! I looked on the web just now, and this (http://www.fluentu.com/chinese/) seems pretty cool? I haven't tried it yet, but maybe it might work for you!

But yeah, having a tutor's gonna be the best thing- I've had a tutor for the past two years, and my Chinese level has basically skyrocketed (it's still pretty bad though (  •́ ω •̀)a but wayyy better than before) so yeah! Ask around at any schools or colleges + language programs, there should be Chinese tutors in your area!

+ like Russet said, languages take time to learn, so there's no need to rush ;w;
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: Russet on September 18, 2015, 02:01:57 AM
videovance, that HelloChinese app sounds so useful and yet I'm so certain that I would get everything wrong. ;u;
Seriously though, it took me a couple of months just to be able to say anything in English with confidence. Is there any reason you want to learn the language quickly? o:
Title: Re: How to learn Chinese Mandarin fast?
Post by: misea on September 18, 2015, 01:15:54 PM
Watching videos does help a lot! I looked on the web just now, and this (http://www.fluentu.com/chinese/) seems pretty cool?

I wanna check this out now O__O But.... unfinished homework...
*drags themselves away from the thread painfully*
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: kirvel on October 10, 2015, 07:09:26 AM
我等会儿会去看看那些网站,看起来蛮有用的。我的母语本来应该是中文-汉语是我第一个学的语言。可惜现在有点忘了怎么说了,因为我在中国上美国学校,一直都是讲英文的。我现在不是每天上中文课 ,所以语言能力变差了。
(I'll check out those links later, they seem useful. Chinese is my first language as in I learned it first. But now that I'm taking Spanish at school, my speaking skills are getting worse.)
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: Russet on October 19, 2015, 08:32:37 PM
:china: 嗨,我终于考完试了!! kirvel, 你的中文看来很厉害啊,应该不必担心吧? 我总觉得自己的中文就有点退步了,哈哈! 对了,想问问你们,明年我可以选择继续读中文或者放下这个科目;我读了 9 年的中文,明年应该继续学吗? 说真的,我在这科目已经面对不少问题了,不知道可以不可以再对付更高水准的考试。

:uk: Hey, my exams are finally over!! (: kirvel, your Chinese seems to be quite spectacular, you probably shouldn't be concerned? (although i am admittedly not the best judge) I feel like my Chinese has definitely deteriorated though, haha. Oh, right, I wanted to consult you guys, next year I can either choose to continue taking Chinese as a subject or drop it; I've been learning Chinese for about 9 years in school now, do you guys think I should continue on until graduation? To be honest, I'm already facing quite a few problems in Chinese, I'm not sure if I'm able to face exams of even higher standards.
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: loki on October 24, 2015, 05:22:12 PM
你好,大家!我不知道很多中文,可是我要继续薛中文。  我妈妈是中文/台湾人。  i don't know what else to say...or how to.  ugh. sorry for my incompetence.
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: misea on October 24, 2015, 07:53:30 PM
:china:你好 loki! :> 别担心,我的中文也不是很好 XD
Russet, 你担心你的成绩吗?或是喜欢中文课?如果你是喜欢, 我说继续-只要准备好

:usa: Hiya, loki! :> Don't worry, my Chinese is terrible XD
Russet, are you worried about grades? Do you like the class? 'Cause if you like it, I say stick with it--just be prepared to put in more hours. If you think it might be too much, dropping it may be a good idea.
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: Russet on October 28, 2015, 04:19:18 AM
:china: 嗨 ,loki! 欢迎来到! 没关系,这儿大家的中文都不是特别好。misea, 其实成绩并不是问题,我有信心若安排时间去温习,读华文并没有那么多难题了,但我始终不能分辨出自己是否喜欢学华文。 :-\

:uk: Hey, loki! Welcome to the Chinese thread! Don't worry about it, nobody here has especially good command of Mandarin. misea, my results aren't actually the problem, I'm pretty confident that I can ace the exam with not much difficulty, but I still can't tell if I enjoy studying Chinese or not.  :-\
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: elynshi on November 08, 2015, 06:43:49 AM
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嗨,我终于考完试了!! kirvel, 你的中文看来很厉害啊,应该不必担心吧? 我总觉得自己的中文就有点退步了,哈哈! 对了,想问问你们,明年我可以选择继续读中文或者放下这个科目;我读了 9 年的中文,明年应该继续学吗? 说真的,我在这科目已经面对不少问题了,不知道可以不可以再对付更高水准的考试。

:uk: So sorry about the late reply, since my old account (kirvel) somehow got locked! This here is meh new account.
Well, I have no problems with reading and understanding, since my parents speak very very very fluent Mandarin. But when it comes to speaking/writing, my mind is in the state of a potato.
and nOOO don't give up mandarin, it's such a wonderful language! I mean, you've been learning for such a long time! Don't give up, you can do it! *fistpump* *accidentally punches someone in the face*
:china: 我回答得有点晚,真对不起啊。我以前的账户,kirvel, 被锁住了。我也不知道为什么,所以我在注册了一次。
我的理解能力还可以,因为我的父母都和我讲中文。但是我的写作/说话能力就不行了,我的脑袋一片空白!
继续学中文吧,我觉得是个很有趣的语言,也很有用。你都学了这么久了,不要轻易放弃!
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: Russet on November 13, 2015, 07:46:29 PM
:uk: Thanks for the advice! ;u; And maybe you should tell one of the forum people about your locked account? That certainly doesn't seem like a typical occurrence, and we don't want other people to suddenly have their accounts unaccessible.

:china: 感谢你的劝告!;u; 你应该通知别人关于你的账户吧?如果这是个经常发生的事件就可能是网站的问题。
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: loki on February 09, 2016, 01:09:07 AM
(a lil late but here) 祝你们新年快乐!!
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: misea on February 17, 2016, 01:29:49 AM
新年快乐! Like a week and a half late lol, I haven't been on the forum for a while :o
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: Lin on April 16, 2016, 01:27:53 PM
大家好!今天才發現有國語論壇,原來這
Title: Re: 你们会说普通话吗?(Mandarin Thread? Anyone?)
Post by: Lazy8 on October 09, 2016, 11:59:44 AM
Sorry for both the thread necromancy and if I'm repeating a previous question, but does anyone know of any good websites for learning Mandarin? (I do not have a smartphone, I can't use apps.) I tried Duolingo, but it's not there and there's no sign that it will be at any point in the near future.