grammar - How is 就 (jiù) used? - Chinese Language Stack Exchange
Pimsleur's Mandarin course teaches "I'm leaving very early tomorrow morning" as: 我明天早上很早就走 (wŏ míngtiān zăoshàng hĕn zăo jiù zŏu) It says that 就 (jiù) doesn't have a corresponding meaning in …
verbs - Differences between 喜欢, 要, and 想? - Chinese Language …
Could someone explain to explain me the difference between the three verbs 喜欢 (xihuan), 要 (yao), and 想 (xiang)? 我喜欢喝一杯啤酒。 (wo xihuan he yi bei pi jiu) 我要喝一杯啤酒。 (wo yao he yi bei …
Is there a word for Chinese songs that rhyme like Jay Chou's 迷迭香 …
Oct 4, 2020 · Every single line in Jay Chou's song "Rosemary" ends with the "ao" sound: ni de zui jiao wei wei shang qiao xing gan de wu ke jiu yao xiang xiang bu dao ru ci xin tiao ni …
Why is it written LIU in Pinyin, when there's clearly an O sound?
Jan 20, 2012 · Edit: some arbitrary decision seems to have been made by choosing you instead of yu, but with other initials, the choice was: liu, niu, jiu, etc. when the phoneme /ou/ in all cases is the …
grammar - Why 了 in 走+time+就到了？ - Chinese Language Stack …
Jun 11, 2020 · I came across the following sentence: 她的家很近，走五分钟就到了。 Tā de jiā hěn jìn, zǒu wǔ fēnzhōnɡ jiù dào le. Her house is very close, only need to walk for five minutes to arrive. …
mandarin - Pinyin "jiu" / "you" final pronunciation difference ...
In Mandarin should there be any difference between the pronunciation of the pinyin final in "jiu" and the pronunciation of the pinyin whole word "you"?
tones - jiu3 pronounced as jiu4 ; linked speech feature or slip of the ...
Oct 9, 2022 · Here is the intonation that is recorded in an instructional video for the clause 我已经很久都不过中秋节了 (wǒ yǐjīng hěn jiǔ dōu bú guò ...
translation - Rendering 招子庸‘s name into English? - Chinese …
Nov 6, 2024 · 招子庸 链接中提到： 1992年，学者Peter T. Morris亦再将招子庸的《粤讴》译为英文，收录97首粤讴，在香港大学出版社出版了《Cantonese Love Songs: An English translation of Jiu Ji …
Ideas for Chinese leetspeak/computerized speech?
Feb 5, 2023 · Leetspeak is the idea of replacing letters with characters that resemble them. For instance replacing "o"s with "0"s: n00b. This sort of text can also seem like …
grammar - Tense and use of 了 - Chinese Language Stack Exchange
I struggle a bit to get my head around tenses in Mandarin, and in particular when I need to use 了 (le). Do you have any tips, examples or resources to help me out with this?