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Lessons 1-10	Mandarin Lesson 35 你为什么不喜欢朱小姐? Why don’t you like Ms. Zhu? 你为什么不喜欢朱小姐? Why don’t you like Ms. Zhu? Nĭ wéishénme bù xĭhuān Zhū xiăojiĕ? You why not like Zhu little-big-sister? 你为什么不喜欢美国? Why don’t you like the United States? Nĭ wéishénme bù xĭhuān Mĕiguó? You why not like Beautiful-country? 你为什么不喜欢韩国人? Why don’t you like South Korean people? Nĭ wéishénme bù xĭhuān Hánguórén? You why not like Han-country-people? 刘先生为为什么今天要回苏州。 Why is Mr. Liu going back to Suzhou today? Liú xiānshēng wéishénme jīntiān yào huí Sūzhōu? Liu first-born why today-sky want return Suzhou? 他们为什么那么做？ Why did they do that? Tāmen wéishénme nàme zuò? He-plural why that do? 他们为什么要去火车站? Why are they going to the train station? Tāmen wéishénme yào qù huŏchēzhàn? He-plural why want-will go fire-car-stand? 你为什么要买汉语课本? Why will you buy a Mandarin textbook? Nĭ wéishénme yào măi Hànyŭ kèbĕn? You why want-will buy Han-language lesson-source? Back
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Links to some of our favorite sites: Instant Speak Chinese Zhongwen Red Mandarin Top List Chinese-Forums Raoul's China Saloon	Mandarin is a tone language--that is, different pitch patterns actually distinguish one word from another. Mandarin has no irregular verbs or noun plurals to learn, because words have only a single form. Because Mandarin is completely unrelated to any European language, you may think it might be difficult to develop your vocabulary. However, it really is not that difficult. Why? The reason is that the meanings of many words consisting of two or more characters can be inferred from the meanings of the characters or even the roots of individual characters. So, your vocabulary can rapidly expand when you have grasped the basic characters and character roots.