Chinese languages

Hey there folks, So, I live and work as an English teacher here in Zhengzhou. I've been learning Mandarin for five years now and have gotten a bunch of questions from coworkers and western friends here about how to dive into learning Chinese. I started a website and created an ebook (I'm so incredib...

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Hey Adamcross, I'm pretty sure what you're hearing isn't an exception, but just people being more free with their speaking. It can often be difficult to pick the second and third tones apart from each other, so that might be what you're experiencing. Also, there will be many times where people don't...

I'm a fan of Remembr.it, personally.
Organizes things by confusability and they're about to get a list with the most common 3,500 up

I've found there is very little standardization when it comes to romanizing peoples' names. Not all Chinese people, especially those that are older, will use pinyin to transliterate their names. Hong in pinyin should become hung in wade-giles, though. Hum might have been a typo or simply just a tran...