Yes, This Absolutely Is Yet Another Back To Basics Study Session Post From The Start Of My Mandarin Chinese

Yes, this absolutely is yet another back to basics study session post from the start of my Mandarin Chinese journey. Hope you find this useful, I love you all <3<3<3

Hey guys, look at this chinese poem I found!

Hanzi:

施氏食狮史

石室诗士施氏, 嗜狮, 誓食十狮。

氏时时适市视狮。

十时, 适十狮适市。

是时,适施氏适市。

氏视是十狮, 恃失势,使是十狮逝世。

氏拾是十狮尸, 适石室。

石室湿,氏使侍拭石室。

石室拭, 氏始试食是十狮。

食时, 始识是十狮, 实十石狮尸。

试释是事。

Pinyin :

Shīshì shíshī shǐ

shíshì shī shì shī shì, shì shī, shì shíshí shī.

Shì shí shíshìshì shì shī.

Shí shí, shì shí shī shì shì.

Shì shí, shì shī shì shì shì.

Shì shì shì shí shī, shì shī shì, shǐ shì shí shī shì shì.

Shì shíshì shí shī shī, shì shíshì.

Shíshì shī, shì shǐ shì shì shí shì.

Shí shì shì, shì shǐ shì shí shì shí shī.

Shí shí, shǐ shí shì shí shī, shí shí shí shī shī.

Shì shì shì shì.

English translation:

Shi's history of eating lions

Shi Shishi, a poet in the stone room, was fond of lions and swore to eat ten lions.

It is always appropriate to see the lion in the city.

At ten o'clock, the ten lions are suitable for the city.

It's time for Shishi's market.

Shi regarded the ten lions as ten lions, and lost his power, so that the ten lions died.

Shi Shi is ten lion corpses, suitable for stone chambers.

The stone room was wet, so the clergyman wiped the stone room.

The stone room was wiped, and Shi Shi first tried to eat ten lions.

When eating, the first consciousness is ten lions, which are actually ten stone lion corpses.

Explanation is a thing.

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I am not ok-

i’m technically a mandarin chinese native speaker (general grasp of the language/characters and such but mandarin needs frequent practice 😅)

seeing people interested and happy to learn is so great! :) the way it contrasts to how i learnt mandarin is really interesting to! i wish you luck 🍀

Thank you, lovely 🥰

Mandarin resources (free) Beginner.

Index for this post:

HSK word list

Tones

Pinyin

Web courses

Flashcards

Dictionaries

Sentences

Extensions (Chrome-Firefox)

Book recs

Input (Reading/Videos/TV shows and Films)

Other

Last edited/updated:  19 / Feb / 2022 = (edit 16)

HSK word list

HSK 1 Hsk.Academy Simplified and Traditional (with pinyin), exercises and sentences examples.

HSK 2-6

1500 Most Common Chinese Characters (edit 17): Definitions and audio pronunciations + search in the dictionary link.

TONES

Digmandarin *Tone explanation (but with words with more than 1 syllable, which is great because the hard part is when a word has 2 o more syllables) 

Sinosplice More tones! (pair drills)

*Youtube vid explaining tones and exceptions (like tone modification and the half 3 and 4 tones) Link Link2  (edit 1)

** Tone pairs youtube vid by Yoyo Chinese (Individual tones 0:00-8:30 // Tone pairs 8:30-27) Link (edit 10)

Tone pairs chart + Exercises from said chart (edit 9)

Tone pairs + audio for all the tone combinations  Link (Edit 11)

*Exercises: (edit 7)

which tones do you hear (tone pairs)

another which tones do you hear (single syllab or tone pairs) 

match pinyin + tone to the sound

match the sound to the pinyin + tone

differenciate between tones

tone speaking practice (listen and repeat recording yourself)

Seguir leyendo

Oh the many ways to say the most basic phrases in Mandarin Chinese.

(So sorry I haven't posted in a bit, exams are killing me slowly.)

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"Do not disturb" is a cool status and all but they should make a "Not interested" option. Like, it's not that I'm busy or anything I just think you talk too much.

(Does anyone actually acknowledge "Do not disturb"?)