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Sequence of Events in Mandarin - Pǔtōnghuà de shìjiàn shùnxù - 普通话的事件顺序

1. ?先 = shǒu xiān = First ... (Before all others ... )


If this next action is an action that logically must come after action#1, then use
2a.  接? = Jiē zhe = ????


If this next action is an action that sometimes could happen before action#1, just in this particular case it occurs in this order, then use:
2b. zai

3. 然后 = ránhòu = then

3. 然后 = ránhòu = then

3. 然后 = ránhòu = then

repeat as many times as necessary, depending on how many steps are needed before reaching the final step.

4. 最后 =    zuìhòu = finally (lastly)


The question marks (?) are where I either need help generating the Chinese character or don't know exactly if there's a perfect English translation for the Mandarin concept.  In English, I'm not sure we distinguish between 2a and 2b.

Thanks in advance for your corrections! 

28. November 2017
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请纠正我的普通话。- 用普通话说许多不同的方式在卫生间,厕所等等 请纠正我的普通话。- 用普通话说许多不同的方式在卫生间,厕所等等 在台湾经常使用“aaaa”来指厕所(厕所,淋浴或浴缸),而卫生间“bbbb”是中国大陆最常用的卫生间用品。 在公共场所“cccc”只是“洗手间”。 其他中文术语包括:“dddd”,洗澡的浴室,通常没有洗手间,“eeee”,没有洗浴设施的公共洗手间,“ffff”洗手间或卫生间,以及“gggg”洗手间 主要在台湾)。 有时候,一些中国人把厕所婉转地称为“呃”,字面意义上的第一。 Qǐng jiūzhèng wǒ de pǔtōnghuà. - Yòng pǔtōnghuà shuō xǔduō bùtóng de fāngshì zài wèishēngjiān, cèsuǒ děng děng Zài táiwān jīngcháng shǐyòng “aaaa” lái zhǐ cèsuǒ (cèsuǒ, línyù huò yùgāng), ér wèishēngjiān “bbbb” shì zhōngguó dàlù zuì chángyòng de wèishēngjiān yòngpǐn. Zài gōnggòng chǎngsuǒ “cccc” zhǐshì “xǐshǒujiān”. Qítā zhōngwén shùyǔ bāokuò:“Dddd”, xǐzǎo de yùshì, tōngcháng méiyǒu xǐshǒujiān,“eeee”, méiyǒu xǐyù shèshī de gōnggòng xǐshǒujiān,“ffff” xǐ shǒu jiàn huò wèishēngjiān, yǐjí “gggg” xǐshǒujiān zhǔyào zài táiwān). Yǒu shíhòu, yīxiē zhōngguó rén bǎ cèsuǒ wǎnzhuǎn de chēng wèi “è”, zìmiàn yìyì shàng de dì yī.
26. November 2017
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I would like to learn how to talk about real estate in Mandarin Chinese.

If anybody knows both Mandarin Chinese and English, I would like to learn how to talk about real estate in Mandarin Chinese.

The link below is to a blog post that discusses the different Mandarin words for some of the different types of housing:

http://siliconvalleyhouses.blogspot.com/2017/11/blog-post.html

If you have any inputs, feedback, or corrections, then please post a reply or comment.

“方子” 一词 包括    各  种      形式 的  住房.

“Fāng zi”   yī cí   bāokuò     gè  zhǒng    xíngshì  de   zhùfáng.

“Fāng zi” a word includes each species   forms   of housing.
The word “fāng zi”  includes         all           forms   of housing.

“别墅”是一   种   独立的   独  栋   房屋“方子”

“Biéshù” shì yī zhǒng    dúlì  de    dú dòng fángwū “fāng zi”
“Biéshù”       is  one (meas word) independent alone building    house    “fāng zi”
“Biéshù” is a specific type of "fangzi" that is a detached single family house

“公玉”是 公共   公寓的 一个单位,你可以在中国   拥有 长达40年。
 “Gōngyù” shì gōnggòng  gōng yù de  yīgè   dānwèi,  nǐ   kěyǐ      zài zhōngguó  yǒngyǒu   zhǎng dá 40 nián.

24. November 2017
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Here's a blog for Native English speakers to learn Mandarin from Tong Hua 童话 and 那些年 (Those years) Here's a blog for Native English speakers to learn some Mandarin Chinese from Tong Hua 童话 and 那些年 (Those years). Native Mandarin speakers: Please let us know if any of the Mandarin-English translation is wrong or can be improved. Native English speakers: Hopefully, you find these songs helpful to learn some Mandarin and also add two songs to your Mandarin karaoke portfolio. :-) http://siliconvalley408.blogspot.com/2017/09/chinese-song-those-years-lyric-pinyin.html Tong Hua 童话 is a good song to learn Mandarin because the song is nice and slow. The blog posts 3 different versions with 3 different ways of showing the pinyin and corresponding Chinese simplified characters. (The 1st and 3rd videos were sung by Mandarin learners not native speakers, so the pronunciation will sound strange to native Mandarin speakers. The 2nd video has one singer who is a native Mandarin speaker, while the other singer is a beginning Mandarin learner.) Those Years 那些年 is a fast song, but is interesting to learn because the music video has millions of views on YouTube and the movie itself "You Are The Apple Of My Eyes" apparently was a big hit in Asia. The captions were specifically chosen to help Mandarin learners learn as much Chinese vocabulary as possible with help from the movie scenes to provide added context. Furthermore, the heavy use of adjectives in the captions helps provide clues to which words in the Google translated sentence correspond to which English words in the original sentence. The adjectives help us identify the nouns because in Chinese grammar, the adjective and noun are connected by the word "de", which means if we know either the adjective or the noun, then we can figure out which pair of Chinese words corresponds to which pair of English words. Tying words together like this doubles our chances of knowing at least one of the words. Once again, the Mandarin-English translation in the blog was performed using Google Translate, so thank you in advance to the native Mandarin speakers if you find anything strange about how Google Translate translated anything. Mandarin learners, I hope the blog in the link http://siliconvalley408.blogspot.com/2017/09/chinese-song-those-years-lyric-pinyin.html helps you. I think it helped me a little bit. At the very least, I learned two songs I can sing in Mandarin. :-)
24. November 2017
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