Archive for January, 2007



Yeah, that’s right. It is about another pronouncing for uu, but it’s represented by vocal u only. We can see in English that use latin character. The character j and z have similar pronouncing, that’s like for the s and x character. In mandarin language, if the word beginning in j or x, then with […]

If in English, we just use a, i, u, e, o and the combination for vocal. But in Mandarin there is some character can’t be represented by them, like女. This character not spell in ‘ni’ or ‘nu’ but ‘nuu(3)’ (I found from some mandarin language software), how can to spell it right? I don’t know […]

The love words 爱 is a sample for this topic, that’s spell ‘ai(4)’. It is a verb if uses itself, in mandarin, this word have a many different kind of use. We can combinate this word with other to become another meaning. Ok let’s see some sample:
可爱 these words spell ‘khe(3) ai(4)’ have a meaning […]

Yeah, still talk about how to call the people in mandarin, like your uncle, auntie, cousin, granpa, grandma and other. Ok let’s see the sample below.
爷爷 it’s spell ‘ye(2) ye(4)’
奶奶 it’s spell ‘nai(3) nai(1)’
Two above words mean granpa and granma, but that’s another word we can use like 公公 spell ‘gong(1) gong(1)’ and 婆婆 spell […]

Mandarin become more important today, now I will talk some vocabulary related with people. This is some example:
我 spell ‘wo(3)’ with means ‘I/me’
你 spell ‘ni(3)’ with means ‘you (singular)’
他  spell ‘ta(1)’ with means ‘she/he’
我们 spell ‘wo(3) men(2)’ with means ‘we’
你们 spell ‘ni(3) men(3)’ with means ‘you (plural)’
他们 spell ‘ta(1) men(3)’ with means ‘they’
爸爸 spell ‘ba(4) […]

Hallo everybody, I write this blog about mandarin tutorial, with a simple method, some vocabulary basic, sentences, grammar maybe. I am not an expert in mandarin, just learn little when I was a child from the television.
Ok let’s beginning, first I want to introduce some number basic in mandarin, how to spell it (I use […]