Hello! Not sure if this is the right community but I hope it is :) As a 1995 Piggy I heard this might be a hard year for us. I already bought myself a little red bracelet so that I will always be wearing red, but is there anything else I can do to help mitigate any bad juju this year?

For the past year, I've been studying Mandarin Chinese and now i finally want to learn Cantonese. Given that both languages share similarities, i want to ask which point i should start from so I don't waste too much time on some aspects. Feel free to suggest some approaches and experiences. I am also considering watching YouTube videos on studying cantonese made for Mandarin speakers

Hello, im writing my bachelor's thesis about Chinese humour and translating it into polish language, but i have a problem with accessing many usefull books, which are avaliable only on CNKI. This website needs wechat account to login. Could someone please help me with qr code verification, so i get access to those books? Thank you in advance.

Hello everyone, I am doing a calligraphy project and was wondering how to correctly write my dad’s name, Jao, in Chinese.

Would it be either of these 饶 / 饒 ?

I need someone to help me on the message thing I made a friend on Rednote and now I can’t talk to them because it keeps giving me a message “you are not allowed to send messages to her/him due…”

My English name means "Pure" so after some searching I found some characters that convey a similar meaning, but as a non-native speaker I'm not sure if together they create a suitable Chinese name. If not then what else conveys a similar meaning?

I'm looking for a language-learning app that lets me have conversations in Chinese while showing me the transcript as I go.

Here's what I'm looking for:

• Lets me speak in Chinese

• Shows Chinese characters and Pinyin as I speak and as the app responds

• Keeps replies short

• Ends each response with a question

• Uses a physical headset button to signal it's their turn instead of guessing when I'm done talking

• Can handle hour-long conversations without losing context

• Uses standard pronunciation

• Responds in under 10 seconds

• Costs less than $1 per hour of conversation

• Works on iOS

OpenAI's Advanced Voice Mode is close but doesn't show Chinese characters and pinyin in real-time, has annoying silence detection instead of button controls, and is unreliable even with the $200/month plan.

The idea is to practice Chinese while seeing the transcript and picking up new vocab. It'd be so immersive, it'd feel like you're actually living in China. You can't complain.

Have you come across anything like this?

Hi all,

I got removed on r/China for no reason so please excuse the post here

I am a second gen Chinese (mainland) Canadian, I am fluent in speaking and listening but I want to reconnect by learning to read and write Chinese characters. This is obviously a lot easier given my listening/speaking proficiency, but a lot harder given I have been surrounded by English my whole life. I'm trying to pick up my Chinese writing and reading by starting with traditional but it's honestly been so darn difficult and I have to start from square 1 again.

I'm sure this sub gets this question all the time but would it be better for me to START with Traditional or Simplified? I already know a few hundred or so simplified but traditional has been soooooo challenging for me. As for my intent, I like old Taiwan/Hong Kong music (Teresa Teng, XiaoHuDui, Leslie Cheung, etc.) and want to better connect with that as well as travel someday (and maybe learn Japanese?), I know traditional would be preferable in my case but it's honestly so difficult so I wonder if it's better to just master simplified or keep trucking through with traditional? Does studying simplified eventually make it much easier to learn/master traditional?

https://preview.redd.it/921hm7dwydge1.jpg?width=2024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6b753b206781d4f7b2cf6dc771b7c91f0ed908a6

https://youtube.com/shorts/UVAvBCW4DzQ?si=gq6wbXtBUi6IDKMd

I was wondering of any of you zodiac enthusiasts could tell me what the year might entail for a water horse? I was told by a classmate its going to be a good year for me because its a wood snake and apparently its good for water animals? But if so, why?

老梁 was one of my favorites interesting solopodcaster you can listen to while working and I like his takes on US politics from the Chinese perspective

I've recently found some interesting podcasters when searching the Ke Jie LG cup controversy (look lets just take the generalizations and possibly false accusations about Koreans as a laugh)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYk19C0uV_c&list=WL&index=3 (I know he's generalizing and trying to paint a narrative but it's a nice nonserious narrative to listen in the background)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LV-MmNzyGI&list=WL&index=6 idk if the generalizations about koreans have any merit but it's juicy gossip.

Looking for something interesting but light I can listen to while working. Preferably if their politics isn't anti-democracy.
I can understand but not read Chinese.

Hello Dear all Chinese friends, Actually my all room mates & friends stopped playing Global Pubg mobile, and started to play Chinese version, i’m leaving in UAE, and couldn’t create apple account because of the verification, they bought from agents for 10$ and 15$ an accounts with one time verification For me I don’t have that expenses to pay.

Can Chinese friend support me in this by creating any Apple account and share it with me just to download the game! I will really appreciate it.

Thank you all

hi, i recently found my chinese id with my chinese name, and was wondering if someone could clarify the meaning? the name is:

洪贝

my 奶奶 told my parents my name meant "precious rainbow", but none of the translations i could find point to this. my 奶奶 is the one who translated my adoption paperwork so it is unlikely she only heard my name and didn't read it

when i looked up the characters, i found that 洪 translates to flood and 贝 translates to precious (when used in 贝贝)

does 洪贝 have another meaning?

谢谢!

edit: wrong character used, i apologize!

Happy Lunar New year everyone! I got invited to a Lunar New Year celebration by my Chinese friends and I was wondering what to bring and what to wear? This is my first experience with the celebration and I’m curious if I need to bring something (money, food, gifts, etc.). If you could also give me some advice on what to wear as well, it would be greatly appreciated!

I’m planning on giving red envelopes to my work colleagues, but a few will not be in when I am there. Is giving red envelopes all-or-nothing (no one or everyone)? Is it also rude not to give a red envelope to someone in front of a person who I do not plan to give one to?

Anyone know like a website for free or pay download you can buy art or things to frame that looks like it could be in a traditional asian drama or wuxia or so on it doesnt have to be accurate style. I still dont want The house to look dated cause of The pic which is Hard with traditional ones but ive seen some refreshing stuff in dramas.

Hi! I've created a website where you can read daily world news, adjusted to match your Chinese language level. It works very simply:

1. Go to hanziflow.com and create an account
2. Choose a news story that interests you and select which HSK level the text should be adjusted to.
3. Read 🙂

https://preview.redd.it/e94id6n7t2ge1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=8c95a0ceb35712559102f55d0a49485a18bb837d

Feel free to try it out and let me know what you think!