Purposive without Foresight

Ningning’s Chinese Tutorial index page Once Dirk’s father G�nter was going to meet a researcher group from Beijing and he asked me how to greet them in Chinese. We’ve learnt the Ni3 Hao3 in Lesson One and Ni3 Men2 Hao3 in Lesson Two. But I taught G�nter another sentence, which brought him warm applause from [...]

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Introduction to this tutorial Lesson 0: Chinese is Simple Lesson 1: Say Hello and Introduce Yourself in Chinese Lesson 2: Plural and Interrogative Sentence Further Lessons Comprehensive information for Pinyin on Wikipedia. Copyright Ning Zhao. All rights reserved. If you want to reproduce the tutorial in any form, please ask for my permission first. My [...]

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Ningning’s Chinese tutorial Lesson 0 and Lesson 1 Copyright by Ellen Ning Zhao, 2007. Please ask for permission if you want to do anything other than reading by yourself and/or printing a copy for your own. Thanks! Lesson 2: Plural and Questions In this lesson we are going to learn two magic words which both [...]

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Introduction Before Dirk knew me, he already got a few books about/on the Chinese language from Singapore, just for fun. I read the Chinese language books he collected and didn’t really feel comfortable with them. They are either overwhelmingly difficult for foreigners from lesson one or not really efficient enough. Since my job is not [...]

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