You write well,but I would like to tell you one important thing~
Adverbials (especially of time and place)
This is the common mistake.
Foreign learners of Chinese often have difficulty in dealing with the position of adverbials in a sentence. Influenced by their mother tongues, learners often place adverbials at the end of a sentence. For example, they translate the English sentence :
“I found a wallet in the park.” into
我发现了一个钱包在公园里。But, this is incorrect.
Another example is, “My mother goes shopping every Sunday morning” into
“我妈妈去购物每个星期天早上。 This is also incorrect.
These two Chinese sentences are incorrect; they are not what Chinese people say in their everyday life, although they can understand them if you say the sentences to them in that way. Native Chinese speakers can immediately tell the speaker is not a native speaker even if his or her pronunciation and intonation are perfect.
The right way is to place adverbials, especially adverbials of time or place, is immediately before the verb of the predicate. So, the correct ways to say the above sentences are:
我在公园里发现了一个钱包。 and
我妈妈每个星期天早上去购物。 These are correct!
Order of time and place adverbials
When there is both an adverbial of place and an adverbial of time in one Chinese sentence, foreigners tend to put them in a wrong order. They put the adverbial of place before the adverbial of time, but Chinese people do the reverse. For example, I heard someone say:
我在中国去年夏天学习汉语了。 The correct sentence should be:
我去年夏天在中国学习汉语了。
Chinese people place the adverbial of time before that of place.
So take the sentences you wrote before,
I started leaning Chinese last year. =我去年开始学中文。
I'm studying electronic engineering at the University of Bristol =我在Bristol大学学习电子工程。
Hope It works~
Amanda
Q&A - Written in English and Chinese
Below are some questions and answers written in both English and Chinese. Could you check/correct/improve my Chinese - 谢谢
(以下有一些都采用了英语和汉语两种语言写的问题与答案。你们能帮忙检查/更正/提高我的汉语吗?)
Where do you live?
你住在哪里?
(或者 “你家住哪儿”)
I live in Bristol, southwest of the UK (or even better: "... it is located in the southwest of the UK")
我住在Bristol, 这是西南UK
我住在布里斯托,英国的西南部/英国的西南地区(它位于英国的西南部/它位于英国的西南地区)
How long have you been learning Chinese?
你有多久在学习中文?
你学习汉语多久了/你学习汉语多长时间了
I started leaning Chinese last year.
我开始在学习中文一年前
我是从去年开始学习汉语的
What are you studying at university?
在大学你在学习什么?
你在大学学习什么专业
I'm studying electronic engineering at the University of Bristol
我在学习电子工程在大学Bristol
我在布里斯托大学学习电子工程
Q&A - Written in English and Chinese
Below are some questions and answers written in both English and Chinese. Could you check/correct/improve my Chinese - 谢谢
Where do you live?
你住在哪里住?
I live in Bristol, southwest of the UK (or even better: "... it is located in the southwest of the UK")
我住在Bristol, 这是在西南UK 英国的西南部
How long have you been learning Chinese?
你有多久在学习中文有多久呢?
I started leaning Chinese last year.
是在前年我开始在学的习中文一年前
What are you studying at university?
在大学裡你在学/读/专业/习什么啊?。
I'm studying electronic engineering at the University of Bristol
我在学习电子工程在大学在Bristol大学念电子工程.
Q&A - Written in English and Chinese
Below are some questions and answers written in both English and Chinese. Could you check/correct/improve my Chinese - 谢谢
Where do you live?
你住在哪里?
I live in Bristol, southwest of the UK (or even better: "... it is located in the southwest of the UK")
我住在Bristol, 英国的西南部
How long have you been learning Chinese?
你学习中文多久了?
I started leaning Chinese last year.
一年前我开始学习中文
What are you studying at university?
在大学里你在学习什么?
I'm studying electronic engineering at the University of Bristol
在Bristol的大学里 我学习电子工程
Q&A - Written in English and Chinese
Below are some questions and answers written in both English and Chinese. Could you check/correct/improve my Chinese - 谢谢
Where do you live?
你住在哪里?
I live in Bristol, southwest of the UK (or even better: "... it is located in the southwest of the UK")
我住在Bristol, 这是西南UK 我住在英国西南方的布里斯托尔
How long have you been learning Chinese?
你有多久在学习中文? 你学习中文多久了
I started leaning Chinese last year.
我开始在学习中文一年前 我一年前开始学习中文
What are you studying at university?
在大学你在学习什么?。 你在大学学什么
I'm studying electronic engineering at the University of Bristol
我在学习电子工程在大学Bristol 我现在,在布里斯托尔的大学学习电子工程