Chinese languages

And I thought things were complicated enough! In 2008, I and eleven other students from my High School are going on a month-long expedition to China. I am the supposed "language expert" (i.e. I can say hello, how are you, thankyou and please in Mandarin!), and since we are landing in Hong...

Nimen hao! I'm a student of sinology our professor told us to explore 214 radicaks... But I have a problem with 月 because I don't know why in some cases 肉 is written like 月? The only thing I know that it doesn't have any etymological ground. Could anybody answer me? Thank You for your help! Aga chi...

I do not know much about Chinese languages. But in order to analyse character speech in a novel I need some help. I read that people from Shanghai speak Shanghainese. My question: Is there really something like a Shanghainese dialect? If not, what do people in Shanghai speak? Mandarin? Yes, local s...

miriamlee wrote:How to say "You are great a person but unfortunately you are not my type" in Chinese?

你是一个好人,但是你不是我喜欢的类型!