Click ‘Read More' you will see the full transcription. But I suggest you listen and try the answer the questions first. Question: 1. 这个女孩子多大了？How old is this girl? 2. 她家有几口人？How many people are there in her family? 3. 她的爸爸妈妈做什么工作？What are her parernts’ job? Transcription Nǐ hǎo! Nǐ jiào shénme míngzi? 你好！你叫什么名字？ Wǒ jiào Wáng Jìnghé(r)*. 我叫王静和（儿）。 Nǐ jǐ suì lā? 你几岁啦？ Wǒ sì suì. 我四岁。 Nǐ jiā dōu yǒu shéi? 你家都有谁？ Yǒu bàba、māma、nǎinai、gūgu、hái yǒu wǒ. 有爸爸、妈妈、奶奶、姑姑、还有我。 Nǐ māma zuò shénme gōngzuò? 你妈妈做什么工作？ Wǒ māma shì lǎoshī. 我妈妈是老师。 Nǐ bàba ne? 你爸爸呢？ Bù zhīdào. 不知道。 Hǎo de, xièxie. 好的，谢谢。 Bú kèqi. 不客气。

外国人对哪些中国的名人感兴趣？Which Chinese celebrities are more popular among foreigners?

这只是一个调查，请留言告诉我，外国人对哪些中国的名人感兴趣？不管是影视、体育还是科技方面。

This is just a survey. Please tell me, Which Chinese celebrities are more popular among foreigners?

Learning Article : When Do We Not Say 了 When Talking About The Past

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Expressing past tenses in Chinese can take some figuring out. Learn here why the reliable 了 (le) particle isn't always the right way to indicate you are talking about things that have happened before the present.

Which Tools Do You Use to Practice Your Chinese Listening? To all the Chinese learners or teachers, do you know any good tool to practice listening skill? Like a website or app on the phone? Let's share here! Thanks!

Composition Correction in 12 hours

Many students are using notebook function of italki and find it very helpful.  But have you met these kind of situations: you have been waiting for the correction for many days but still no response or no satisfying response; you need to make your writing right, but you got many different answers and don't which one you should use; or, you want to learn from the correction but all the answers just show you the right way without enplaning why you are wrong?

 

If you don't want things like these things happen and don't mind a little pay for the teacher's work,  you can come to me. I will do it seriously and send it back to you as soon as possible. You can find more details about it on my course page

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Resouces that Chinese Learners can Use

As a Chinese teacher, I heard my students telling me which resources they are using and finding useful. I want to organize them and post on italki as an article, so that other learners can find what they need more easily. All the descriptions are written by myself after trying, but there might be something wrong, since I'm not real user. So I post my list here first. If you find anything not proper or anything that I missed, please just tell me!  

1.Dictionaries 

1) Popup Chinese Dictionary

This is a plug-in of google chrome, which can translate any Chinese words on the webpage to English when you put your mouse over them. 

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/zhongwen-a-chinese-englis/kkmlkkjojmombglmlpbpapmhcaljjkde

2)Yellow Bridge

This is an online dictionary which gives you an abundance of relative information of a words or character, such as the HSK level, examples sentences, strokes, related words as well as etymology.

http://www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/dictionary.php

3) Pleco

This is a very popular dictionary on mobile phone for Chinese learners.  You can search a character not only by the pronunciation, but also by writing with your fingers on the screen. 

2.Exercises for Classic Textbooks

If you are learning some popular Chinese textbooks, such as New Practical Chinese Reader, Integrated Chinese, Huan Ying, Easy Steps to Chinese or others, the following websites might be helpful for you.

1) Quizlet and Memrise

These two websites provide flash cards and exercises such as matching or spelling made by their community. The exercises could help you practice when you are by yourself, but they only focus on the words or phrases.

https://quizlet.com/  

http://www.memrise.com/ 

2) Skritter

This is an app for practicing writing characters which needs you to write on the screen with your fingers. There are lists of characters for different textbooks .

 

3.Paid Learning Resources

some websites make their own learning materials for Chinese learners. Some resources are free, but most are  charged.

1) www.YoyoChinese.com

This website is made by Chinese teacher YangYang Cheng and her team. You will find different series of  teaching videos and YangYang hosts the lectures by herself. She speaks good English and could explain every single grammar clearly enough for the learners. 

2) www.Chinesepod.com

ChinesePod is making  vivid and interesting videos to explains some phrases or language points in Chinese. Also, they provides mobile and online review tools, and live speaking practice with Mandarin Chinese teachers.

3) www.pimsleur.com

Pimsleur is an audio based course that presents phrases in the target language first, and then in your mother tongue for you to translate into that language. The words and phrases are said in isolation or in a suggested context. There is then a pause for you to repeat the phrase, or to recall a previously learned one from memory. 

4) www.hackingchinese.com

it is a blog owned by a linguistic who mastered Chinese. You can find articles and resource of learning Chinese on it.

Are there any apps for Chinese learner to dub for movie clips? In China, we have a popular app for people to dub for English movies clips which I find very interesting and also helping. And I want to know, are there any apps like this but for English speaker to dub for Chinese movie? Here is how the Chinese app works. In the app, there are many movie clips which last less than 2 min. When a user wants to dub for a clip, the clip will be separated sentence by sentence. The user will listen to one sentence for many times, and then recording his own voice. In the end, the app will combine all the recordings together and add background sound for it. Then the user will watch the movie clip with original screen and the voice that made by him, which looks very cool. When you making the recording for each sentence, you will compare your sound with the original sound for many times, and you can found the difference easily by yourself. I'm thinking that maybe this will help a lot for the Chinese learners to correct their tone problem.

Learning Article : 10 Commonly Used Phrases In Chinese Daily Life

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Studying Chinese? Have a look at this article to learn ten phrases that are used in everyday situations in China. For each one, you will find explanations of vocabulary, grammar, and their proper use.