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What is the difference between 举行 and 举办?
What is the difference between "举行" and "举办"? Both of them have the meaning of 'holding / organizing an event", but do they have any difference?
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What does 有模有样 mean?
Is 模 in this phrase mo2 or mu2? Literally, have mold/model, have appearance/shape. Does it mean something like takes shape?
Context:
Fire TV, which arrives after years of explicit rumors and intense speculation, costs $99.
数年来，关于Fire…
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Can we omit subject or some verbs in Chinese?
Could you tell me if we can omit subjects or some verbs in Conversational Chinese? Like these.
叫什么名字？ jiào shénme míngzì? What is your name?
什么? jiào shénme? What is your name?
叫 A. jiào A. I’m A.
要去哪里？ yào qù nǎlǐ? where are you…
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Meaning of 只 in 只把思念积压在我心头
Ok so firstly I take the sentence as a whole to mean.
The missing is accumulating in my heart (i.e. I'm missing you more and more).
Provided I've got that correct, what function does 只 perform here. Is it superfluous and just added as emphasis?
This…
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What is the best way to learn tones?
I still have difficulty to identify tones when I listen to Chinese. Moreover I have difficulty in saying second tone.
Could you guys advice me some way to improve my tone?
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Is 工作详细情况 similar to work experience?
I´m working with Chinese resumes and I´ve found this expression
工作详细情况"
I´d like to know if it could be translated as work experience. Is it the same thing? Could 工作详细情况 work as a work experience section label inside a resume or does it refer to…
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Say go team in Chinese?
Normally I would say 加油. On my city's news page this morning, they asked 10 people how to say "Go Syracuse (雪城)". There's a video of two men debating what to say, and then they say something like 雪城 __. I'm not sure what the other 2 words are.…
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When you use 在 with a time, where does 在 go in the sentence?
So, if I wanted to say, "Last week I saw my friend in Japan," where would the location (Japan) go in this sentence?
I thought it would go like this:
在日本，我上个星期看朋友。
Is that correct or does the location go after the time?
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In Cantonese, which is correct: 淨係 or 剩係?
Both phrases are listed in CantoDict (http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/words/3497/).
It seems like 剩係 makes more sense, but which is actually correct?
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Chengyu with two numbers
There are chengyu with two numbers in them, for example:
一穷二白 (一, 二)
万众一心 (万, 一)
七上八下 (七, 八)
九五至尊 (九, 五)
But it seems that the selection of numbers is not completely random, and that certain numbers tend to have certain connotations.
My questions…
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What is the meaning of 十三薪?
It has something to do with salary bonuses. Anyone know how to describe this in English? I haven't the slightest clue.
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When to use [time of day]+饭 vs [time of day]+餐?
I see both used seemingly interchangeably, what is curious to me is that the same person will sometimes use one over the other.
Example sentences: "我想吃晚饭" or "我在煮早餐"
Looking into the roots of the words I see that while both have the meaning of a…
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Difference between 坏 and 破
Looking for some concrete answers on the difference between 坏 and 破
From what I have been able to understand:
坏
bad: as in 坏人 (bad person) or 鱼坏了 (rotten food)
broken: as in 手机坏了 (broken mobile phone,) or 腿坏了 (a broken leg)
破
ripped: as in 这张纸破了…
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When do you use 唄 instead of 吧 to end a sentence?
I hear a lot of people in mainland China use the former (never from Taiwanese Mandarin) when saying a phrase as a sort of command, but I'm still not sure about why someone would say it.
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Is it 說 /说 / shuō or 講 / 讲 / jiǎng for "to speak a language"?
I've realized that I still don't know the way to talk about "speaking a language", for instance the Chinese equivalents to sentences like these:
Do you speak English?
I can speak a little Chinese.
Of course there are other senses of "to speak" as…
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