Montythemoth
Australia
Jimba
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Last time I checked Putonghua was now an official word used by the oxford dictionary, so thats why they joined the three characters to make one noun.
Peace out. You’re doing great too.
nyc326
New York City
Impressive. You are doing pretty good already. But however, the more accurate way to simply express should be:
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Please switch all ?? to (Mandarin) because Chinese don’t use ?? in their daily life. The only time they will use is ?? but not ?? ?: Chinese Pinyin). On the other hand, if you can’t have a correct tone when you pronounce ?? in Mandarin it will sound the same as ??. ?? which is Korean.
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I saw many people confusing among these two words. I guess it has something to do with your tutor.
In Mandarin, ?? means an answer to a difficulty or problem. ?? is a way or manner of doing something. Such as, the way I put “pu tong hua” seperated as three words was the same way as yours before.
??&??use interchangeable in Mandarin sometimes, it really depends on when you are using it.
In Shanghai dialect, in most circumstances we use & as the same. But if you speak in Mandarin that will make a big difference.
In this sentence, it will be more accurate to use ?? instead of ??.
*Regarding about Putonghua, I believe they put it together for people to understand it as one word conveniently. They shouldn’t have done that because people could make a wrong pronunciation without checking a dictionary. Obviously, these three words have different meaning.
?means universal
?means popular
?means language
So now you know why we call it ??? is because we’d like to have one universal language throughout the country to make it very popular so that everyone can communicate well. They are three words, not one.
Please don’t mind me correcting you. Now you learned something from me, good for you :-) I’m not perfect at English, you could find something wrong one or two. Free to speak.
Jimba
0 places
Yeah, thanks for pointing that out, I often mix up the two.. easy to make. You say Pu Tong Hua, we say Putonghua, you say Oa Lin Pi Ke we say Olympics, you say potato I say potato. Wow, you are the little teacher, arn’t you? Ever thought about teaching?
nyc326
New York City
Hey, I’d say it’s not teaching but sharing so that you guys can be more advanced. Isn’t it funny that one day I go back to China and see many foreigners speaking Mandarin? Haha, I love teaching in the matter of fact but man I have to obtain a certificate for that.
Can you tell me where did you learn your Mandarin? For how long by now? Do you practice it often? Keep going coz you’ve really impressed me. I wish you could learn more stuffs in 2008 – year of Ao Lin Pi Ke. See ya around!