Indonesia Pronunciation vs Chinese Pronunciation

When an Indonesian learn Chinese, specifically, learn how to write in Chinese using the Pinyin (拼音) method, the most commonly encountered difficulties is the pronunciation part, since there are some differences in the way Indonesian and Chinese pronounce words. Here are the...

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Cannot vs can not

I undeliberately found out that "cannot" is different from "can not", though I thought they were the same. There's a slight difference between "cannot" and "can not".The difference is that, "cannot" is used to show that it's impossible to do the thing specified in the sentence. While, "can not" means, the thing specified is still possible.e.g.I cannot...

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Mandarin Phonetic (國語注音)

Don't know where to start when learning Chinese (mandarin)? In my opinion, you should start from the basic.These are mandarin phonetic which is a basic knowledge needed when first learning mandarin. Each represents the phonetic used in mandar...

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