Chinese languages

You've probably already gone to China and returned three times by the time I found this post and responded, but if you haven't already discovered, Henan province, while probably housing several dialects as one goes to rural areas, has Mandarin as its prominent dialect - its used in schools - one of ...

James - I'm learning about this myself - it has been my experience that as you learn about 'de', consider the thought you want to express - then, see where you might need the attributive 'de' - possibly multiple times - colloquially, i'm hearing native speakers use it perhaps once, sometimes twice, ...