Comments on: Dict.cn’s daily classroom

By: Istel

Istel — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:32:28 +0000

However, you don’t have to worry about eat, ate, eaten, etc right? Just just a single 吃 will do. I’m cheating but you get the drift ;p

By: taekk

taekk — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:48:21 +0000

Ha ha, I think all grammar in every language can be described as “just placing of words in the correct place”

By: Istel

Istel — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:03:55 +0000

You’re doing pretty well actually
Chinese is hard to learn I guess… Most of my country’s kids can’t handle it and it’s supposed to be our mother tongue lol… I guess we just hate Chinese characters.

I think Chinese grammar is pretty straight-forward though once you’ve catch the gist. It’s just placing of words in the correct place after all lol… :p

By: taekk

taekk — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:55:26 +0000

Ah I see, ha ha. No worries! Thanks.

Actually, I was pleasantly surprised there weren’t more mistakes with that simple and short sentence. I have no confidence in my Chinese, yet.

By: Istel

Istel — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:48:52 +0000

No worries, I’m just nitpicking while procrastinating at work. Hope you didn’t take it as I was saying that your blog entries are boring. In fact, they’re pretty interesting tidbits and I was complaining about boredom at work.

I’ve downloaded your Japanese study guide and am still trying to summon up the courage to start it lol…

Kudos for your blog and the guide. It’s great work.

Cheers

By: taekk

taekk — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:42:53 +0000

Thanks, I always mix those two up.

Try the Highlights page (if you’re interested in Japanese, that is)
http://www.guidetojapanese.org.....ighlights/

By: Istel

Istel — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:37:13 +0000

You know I’m bored when I’m actually reading through your blog archives lol…

Just a minor correction here.

It’s 少 for less and not 小 for small.

I really enjoyed reading the blog entries here.

Cheers

By: Ramses

Ramses — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:25:42 +0000

Like said, I’m a n00b when it comes to Chinese, just gathering stuff and possible sentence sources. Thanks!

By: taekk

taekk — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:47:36 +0000

繁体字 dictionary I mention above is the traditional version. Its features are much more limited, though.

http://dict.cn/big5/

By: Ramses

Ramses — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:31:00 +0000

Thank you for the dictionary, very useful! I’m not yet studying Mandarin, but I’m gathering materials and such. Now, this dictionary seems to be in Simplified (I’m only guessing, I only know a handful of characters so far). Is there also a Traditional version, or do you know a good Traditional dictionary (I’m planning on learning both systems, but tackling Traditional first).