http://osche.org Learn Mandarin for Beginner Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:12:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The character for peace and contentment is made up of women and roof. Man conceived the idea that to attain peace he should have only one woman under the root or confine here within the house. Example of use: 安定 an(1) ding(4) mean stable 安静 an(1) jing(4) mean quiet or peaceful 安乐 an(1) le(4) ... http://osche.org/%e5%ae%89-an1-means-peace-contentment/2010/06/28/ Man combined 女 (girl or daughter) with 子 (child or son) to form a character for goodness and excellence. From experience he must have found his greatest good in the possession of a wife and a child or a son and a daughter. It is also good that his wife ... http://osche.org/%e5%a5%bd-hao3-means-good-right-excellent/2010/06/11/ This character for child originated from a representation of an infant with outstrected arms and legs. Eventually it was modified to one with legs swalddled in cloth bands. Evidently, to the chinese parent, the secret of infant carelies in keeping one end wet and the other end dry. Sample for this ... http://osche.org/%e5%ad%90-zi3-character-means-infand-child-son/2010/06/11/ Now we will to talk about this "Woman" character using in Mandarin. The original pictograph for woman depicted her in a bowing position. Apparently, for ease in writing, man reduced this to a humbler form - a woman kneeling down, but not for long. The modern version nv(3) - 女 ... http://osche.org/woman-girl-daughter-in-mandarin/2008/06/26/ As I promise at the last post about Commercial Terms, Now I will continue with same topic with other words for you. Right, see this below words: 发票 ‘fa(1) piao(4)’ means ‘invoice’ 损失 ‘sun(3) shi(1)’ means ‘loss’ 经理 ‘jing(1) li(3)’ means ‘manager’ 市价 ‘mai(4) jia(4) means ‘market price’ 迷 http://osche.org/commercial-terms-part-ii/2007/07/18/ Long time no see, I think about more than a month I didn’t post anything. Sorry for that. Ok now we continue with another topic ‘Commercial Terms’ see the following words with related with it. 广告 ‘guang(3) gao(4)’ in English ‘advertisement’ 恕不退换 ‘shu(4) bu(4) tui(4) huan(4)’ means ‘all sales final’ 公债 ‘gong(1) zhai(4)’ ... http://osche.org/commercial-terms-part-i/2007/07/12/ As I mention as the last post about mandarin prepositions, this prepositions topic will continue, today I will finish it. But it doesn’t mean, that already contain all the prepositions word in chinese, but this is the resources I got. 在 ‘zai(4)’ means ‘at’ http://osche.org/prepositions-in-mandarin-part-ii/2007/04/25/ Sorry for the long time not update this blog, coz some busy things to do lately. In this post, we will learn about the propositions use in chinese vocabulary. I think this lesson is quick easy to learn…Ok, let’s start this mandarin lesson. 从 ‘cong(2)’ means ‘from’ 怎 http://osche.org/prepositions-in-mandarin-part-i/2007/04/22/ At the last two post, I haven’t finished the geography name yet. Now I will post it all of it I got. But those maybe still some that’s not here. Ok, we continue our lessons… 沙地阿拉伯 ‘sha(1) di(4) a(1) la(1) bo(2)’ this means ‘Saudi Arabia’ 西雅图 ‘xi(1) ya(3) tu(2)’ means ‘Seattle’ 上海 ‘shang(4) ... http://osche.org/about-geography-name-in-chinese-part-iii/2007/03/25/ In the last post about geography, we have list some country or city name, and how to say it in mandarin. Now, we still continue to tell these names for you. 印尼 ‘yin(4) ni(2)’ means ‘Indonesia’ 伊朗 ‘yi(1) lang(3)’ means ‘Iran’ 爱尔兰 ‘ai(4) er(3) lan(2)’ means ‘Ireland’ 以色列 ‘yi(3) se(4) lie(4)’ means ‘Israel’ 意大利 ‘yi(4) ... http://osche.org/more-about-countries-name-in-mandarin/2007/03/23/