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  1. 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 …

  2. 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 …

  3. Is there a word for Chinese songs that rhyme like Jay Chou's 迷迭 …

    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 …

  4. 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 …

  5. grammar - Why 了 in 走+time+就到了? - Chinese Language …

    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 …

  6. 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"?

  7. tones - jiu3 pronounced as jiu4 ; linked speech feature or slip of …

    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 ...

  8. 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 …

  9. 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 …

  10. 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?