tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9381087776624069992011-04-21T14:01:19.895-07:00Mandarin is one of the major languages in the world. It is spoken by more than 1.3 million people in the world. Around 53% of the world population utilises Mandarin as the medium of communication.shahrirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16178454809949078190noreply@blogger.comBlogger41100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-938108777662406999.post-50176709614662043452007-09-27T10:10:00.001-07:002007-09-27T10:10:57.906-07:00<script language="javascript" src="http://www.apsense.com/widget.js?uid=ssshjah&amp;photo=1&amp;subject=1&amp;blog=1&amp;type=0"></script><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/938108777662406999-5017670961466204345?l=mandarinforme.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>shahrirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16178454809949078190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-938108777662406999.post-7698801086449664032007-09-08T00:13:00.000-07:002007-09-08T00:19:27.121-07:00Watch this video. It teaches you how to speak Mandarin within the shortest period. Why not spend some time on the video?<br /><br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oexvM3bpoNE"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oexvM3bpoNE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/938108777662406999-769880108644966403?l=mandarinforme.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>shahrirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16178454809949078190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-938108777662406999.post-73920530890199454182007-09-08T00:01:00.000-07:002007-09-08T00:02:57.429-07:00Look at the video below. Learn some basic Mandarin. It can help you............<br /><br /><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZDyY8NzFcW4"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZDyY8NzFcW4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/938108777662406999-7392053089019945418?l=mandarinforme.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>shahrirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16178454809949078190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-938108777662406999.post-79092343082253762812007-09-07T23:27:00.000-07:002007-09-08T00:01:29.116-07:00I just took up a course in Mandarin. It is a 10 week course. I hope to acquire the language within that period. I feel that by acquiring the language, I may expand my range of language. There were 15 of us in the class just now. All of us have not had any basic Mandarin before.<br />We spent the whole morning learning the phonetics of Mandarin. We were taught about consonant, vocal and the convention of writing Mandarin characters. Quite interesting too.<br /><br />There are 8 basic strokes namely dian, heng, shu, pie, na, ti, zhe and gou. When applying the strokes, you should start from top to bottom, from left to right, from outside then to inside.<br /><br />There are websites that you can learn about Mandarin too such as <a href="http://www.hello-han.com/">http://www.hello-han.com</a>, <a href="http://www.esulb.edu/">http://www.esulb.edu</a> and <a href="http://www.cchar.com/">http://www.cchar.com</a>.<br /><br />Well, that's for now.<br /><br />Xie xie. Zai Xian.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/938108777662406999-7909234308225376281?l=mandarinforme.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>shahrirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16178454809949078190noreply@blogger.com0