We visited China in sept 2009 and now I am trying to learn the chinese characters. Your site is very helpful. Thanks for your efforts! Harry / in the Netherlands.

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Min Min Reply:
October 6th, 2009 at 9:38 pm

Hi Harry,
Thanks for visiting my site. Please do come back always to learn Chinese.
谢谢。

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Hi Min min, love your site. I have a small suggestion. If you could email subscribers a new chinese character everyday to learn that would be great! Kind of like dictionary.com…
榭 榭！！

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Min Min Reply:
October 13th, 2009 at 9:43 pm

Hi 古曉 櫻,
Thanks for you suggestion. Currently I have only RSS feed. I will try to find if there are any Wordpress plugins out there that email a post to subscribers.

By the way, you can try to subscribe to my RSS feed at
http://feeds2.feedburner.com/LearnChineseEveryday/

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Hi Min Min , your site is very interesting. I’m very interested in Chinese and I try to learn Chinese by myself and your site helps me a lot. Thanhks for your efforts. Now I live in Moscow and I know many people here like to learn Chinese, I’ll introduce your site with them . I hope that they will love it , like me.

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Min Min Reply:
October 21st, 2009 at 10:44 am

Hi Trang Tu,
Thanks for visiting my website.
Yes, please spread the words and let your friends know about my website. Help me to market and promote my website, so I can concentrate more in providing quality content. I hope more people will find that this website is useful.
Thanks again.

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Your site is really amazing. I love it! Thank you!

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Min Min Reply:
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:25 am

Hi shurix,
Thanks. I hope you enjoy learning Chinese.

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Min Min.
I’m currently living in Taiwan, and new to Chinese! I’m wondering if your site has traditional or simplified characters? Thanks,

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Min Min Reply:
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:24 am

Hi Jessica,
This site is mainly simplified characters. But I do include traditional character in each day character posting. I hope this will help for people who are learning traditional Chinese as well.

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Hi, nice site! I have a suggestion, which you could consider…
Being a lazy learner, if I see a translation for something I sort of persuade myself that I’ve understood something, even if I haven’t. I would appreciate it if the english translations were hidden by default, and appeared when you hover over them. If you think thats a good idea but don’t know how to do it you can send me an email.

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Min Min Reply:
October 28th, 2009 at 9:44 pm

Hi Alex,
Thanks for your suggestion. It is a good idea. I will consider about it.
For showing the translation when hover over, do you mean by providing “tooltip” for each individual word?
However, thanks for visiting my website. I hope you will continue to come to my website to learn Chinese.

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Alex Reply:
October 29th, 2009 at 12:35 am

Hi, thanks for the reply.
Actually, I don’t mean every character, just your example sentences. And thinking about it, it about it, it might be good to hide the chinese not the english (as “recognition” is easier than “production”). I’ll give you an example of what I mean from your current front page (打):
In box one you have the english title “You mustn’t beat him”. In the space underneath, you have the chinese “不许打他”. I suggest that instead you have “hover to reveal chinese”, and when a user hovers, they get “不许打他” (and the pinyin) as before. This would encourage the thought process “how would I use that character to make that sentence?”, before finding the answer, which reinforces learning much more effectively, I think. The bonus is that this would require basically no extra time input from your side, especially as your already using jQuery which would make it really easy to implement.
Alex

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Min Min Reply:
October 29th, 2009 at 11:28 am

Hi Alex,
I got what you meant. I will take serious consideration about that.
Thanks again for you suggestion.

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Nice site MinMin, thanks……

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Min Min Reply:
November 14th, 2009 at 1:24 am

Hi mohan,
Hope you enjoy learning Chinese.

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Hi min min I studied ur languge one week ago I think it better to learning chinese cus now M in china,shijiazhaung from cambodia

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Min Min Reply:
November 17th, 2009 at 2:24 am

Hi vuth,
Chinese is one of the most important language in the world. I hope you will find this website useful and use it as your main learning materials.

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你好敏敏 -
thank you so much for all your efforts toward teaching us 老外 more of your language. Last year I was in China for the first time – alone – and I managed
to get by, but realized I need to learn to read and write in order to have more
fun when I return next year.
Also, I just now accepted your friendship on Livemocha and hope, I can be of help to you as well.

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Min Min Reply:
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:00 am

Hi Harro,
你好。Thanks for visiting my website. I hope you like this website.

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Hi Mi Mi, I’m from Pakistan and studying medicine in China.Besides,I’m also trying to learn Chinese language.I found your website really amazing.I hope it will help me a lot.Thank you so much.

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Min Min Reply:
November 23rd, 2009 at 9:58 pm

Hi Ziad,
谢谢。Hope you enjoy learning Chinese.

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Min Min 谢谢你！Greetings from 波兰：） I found your site yesterday and that’s exactly what I was looking for. Committing to my memory a new hanzi everyday! Very appreciated.
祝福

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Min Min Reply:
November 24th, 2009 at 2:16 pm

Hi paradox,
谢谢。

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i love this website….!!!!!!!!!!

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Min Min Reply:
November 25th, 2009 at 9:42 pm

Hi albert,
Thanks.

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I don’t know how I found you….
Here you are… YOU’RE GREAT..

Only one weakness: Please have ALL THE CHARACTER [especially MANDARIN characters] B I G G E R.
More people wear glasses
And I’m thinking that more adults will use your site…. and those adults wear GLASSES

Thanks for caring to IMPROVE SIZE OF CHARACTERS… easier reading … easier learning

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Min Min Reply:
November 26th, 2009 at 10:34 pm

Hi Marg Coh,
谢谢。
Thanks for your suggestion. For all the example sentences, I have the font-size of 16px which I think should be quite big enough. For the right-hand-side explanation panel, smaller font size is used so that the characters can be fitted into the limited space.

However, I will try to improve all the font size of Chinese characters for the weekly activities.

By the way, if your screen support bigger resolution, you can try to ZOOM the page by pressing “Ctrl + +”.
Hope this will help. Let me know if you still have problems reading the Chinese characters.

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I saw your post on Problogger. I like your site very much. I am actually learning to write Japanese and am interested to see how the two languages compare.
Thank you very much.

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Min Min Reply:
November 30th, 2009 at 11:24 am

Hi JBVadeboncoeur,
Thanks for visiting my website. If you have free time, I hope you will learn Chinese as wells. 谢谢。

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“love this site ”
more power to you Min Min

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Min Min Reply:
December 3rd, 2009 at 10:05 am

Hi Yang’yang,
Thanks.

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Thanks for introducing your site to me. I am trying to learn characters, and this site will be a big help. Thanks Min Min.

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Min Min Reply:
December 4th, 2009 at 12:10 pm

Hi Kelin,
Nice to hear that my website is helpful for you to learn Chinese. Thanks.

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Hi Min Min,
Discover your Great site today. It is very informative & useful,especially for people who are just starting to learn Chinese. It is also very handy for those, who know some Chinese to further raise their knowledge & fluency.

I wish to congratulate you for setting up this wonderful site & say “Jia You”

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Min Min Reply:
December 9th, 2009 at 9:31 pm

Hi Sanchee,
谢谢你的“加油”。 I hope you do come back always.

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MIM MIM, YOUR WEBSITE IS SO GREAT.
AND HELP ME SO MUCH .
I HAVE MANY PROBLEMS IN THE CHINESES TONES.
BUT I LIKE CHINESE LANGUAGE A LOT.
THANK YOU MY DEAR FRIEND

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Min Min Reply:
December 14th, 2009 at 9:54 am

Hi Wanderley,
It is glad to hear that my website helps you a lot. If you would like to learn more about tones, please check out the Pinyin section.

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Hi Min Min!

I came across your blog after hours of browsing through the internet, and when I saw the quality of your work I had to subscribe to your feed. Keep up with the good job, you’re helping a lot those who are studying chinese by themselves.

Cheers!

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Min Min Reply:
December 16th, 2009 at 12:18 pm

Hi Enric,
Thanks for dropping a few lines in this comment section. I will try my best to provide more quality content for learning Chinese.
Again, thanks for your “鼓励” (encouragement).

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Min Min,
wow..i really like your website….
thank you for sharing..xiexie ni..

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Min Min Reply:
December 19th, 2009 at 1:08 am

Hi eunsuh,
Thanks also for visiting my website. 谢谢。

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eunsuh Reply:
December 23rd, 2009 at 10:00 am

very useful to learn Chinese..
i will prefer your website as my second reference….
can you add more Chinese songs…^_^..
xiexie ni…

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You have a great site!

I only wish i’ve learn of this site a lot sooner…like 5 years sooner..
been working in China for quite a while. And still can hardly speak Chinese other than
the rudimentary yes and no…

But better late than never.

I will definitely stick around your site.

THANK YOU!

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Min Min Reply:
January 6th, 2010 at 11:15 am

Hi Cyrus Borromeo,
Thanks. I hope my website will help you learn more Chinese.

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Cyrus Borromeo Reply:
January 9th, 2010 at 11:32 pm

yeah i am learning…btw… do you know were i can get the lyrics of the opening
theme for the popular chinese cartoon pleasant goat and big big wolf…my kids
specially my little is crazy about that show and he wants to learn the song.

thank you!

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Min Min Reply:
January 11th, 2010 at 10:43 am

Hi Cyrus Borromeo,
Do you mean 喜羊羊与灰太狼? I never watch the cartoon before. But you can search youtube or google video.
Try this:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8038598207532288681#
and lyrics:
http://www.ailrc.com/NXOCYDP.html

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你好, min min
fantastic site. helpful, easy to follow, clean design. the pinyin chart is especially useful.. did you build that yourself? a big ‘谢谢’ to you! just got to china three days ago and am studying non-stop!

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Min Min Reply:
January 15th, 2010 at 1:06 pm

Hi Max,
Thanks for visit my website. I hope you will learn some Chinese from this site.
I didn’t create the flash pinyin chart myself, but I get it somewhere from the net.
Do come back always.

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Hi Min Min,
I just found your site through the First Web-Impression site. I’ve only had a few minutes to browse, but it looks wonderful. I wish I had had this a few years ago before we went to China to adopt our beautiful daughter. I am bookmarking this site and will come back often. Thank you for sharing this great website.

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Min Min Reply:
January 17th, 2010 at 2:08 pm

Hi Jeanette,
Thanks. Please come back always to learn Chinese.

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Min Min,

I just found your site today, and it’s AMAZING!! I’ve been trying to teach myself Chinese for about 2 months, and your site makes it lots of fun and sooooo much easier!!! I love how your sentences use simple but useful words that could really help me communicate in Chinese, my dream is to go to China or Taiwan soon.

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Min Min Reply:
February 13th, 2010 at 10:59 am

Hi Susan,
I hope you like my website, and you can learn some Chinese from this website.
Thanks.

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I’ve been looking for a website that will teach me chinese, but all of them are not free, or bad quality. This one is perfect. I love it.

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Min Min Reply:
February 16th, 2010 at 3:41 am

Hi Rainie,
Thanks. Hope you can find this website useful.

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Rainie Reply:
February 16th, 2010 at 9:03 pm

im going to recommend this website on my web site’s blog. my web site is http://rawrandstuff.moonfruit.com/#

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Wow, this site is awesome! I’m so glad I found it. We recently got back from China, where we traveled to adopt our little girl. I’m so excited about learning Chinese.

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Min Min Reply:
February 19th, 2010 at 5:41 am

Hi freeindeed,
I hope you will learn some Chinese from this website, and you could teach Chinese to your little girl as well..

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我是华人， 住在印尼， 我学了汉语好多久了但是我的华语还是mamafufu, 我希望你能教我汉语。 谢谢。

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Min Min Reply:
February 26th, 2010 at 11:09 am

文贵，
你好。其实你的汉语很不错。希望你能继续学习！

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你好，敏敏。
冒昧问一下，您现在住在哪里？
我来这里，其实是想找个英文很好的朋友。我们可以互相帮助。我是一中国人。
本来也想在国外建个中文站点的。
呵呵，贵站不错。继续加油。

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Min Min Reply:
March 7th, 2010 at 8:01 am

你好。
谢谢你来我的网站。

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Hi Min Min,

Your site is so cool! I’ve been learning Chinese for about 2 months now
and really enjoying it. It’s such a beautiful language.

Thank you so much!

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Min Min Reply:
March 11th, 2010 at 10:28 am

Hi Richard,
It is great to hear that you enjoy learning Chinese.
I hope my website will be helpful to you in learning Chinese.

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Hola Min Min
Me alegra que ma hayas invitado a tu curso de chino, de verdad te felicito, es un gran trabajo el que has hecho para ayudarnos a los que estamos interesados en aprender tu idioma. Yo estudio medicina tradicional china y voy a difundir tu curso entre mis compañeros para que disfruten también de ésta maravilla.
Gracias

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Min Min Reply:
March 25th, 2010 at 12:08 pm

谢谢。

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Hi Min Min ni shenti hao ma??my name is Abdurashid I like your site it is wonderful i start to learn chinese 2 month ago i think your site very help me to learn language if you want write to me pls write in pin-yin because i want improved my chinise.thank your site….

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Min Min Reply:
April 29th, 2010 at 11:20 am

Hi Abdurashid,
Thanks for visiting my website. I hope you will enjoy learning Chinese from my website.

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Hi, I’m taking Mandarin lessons right now. How do you generate the writing worksheets that you post on this website? Is there a website/program that can do this? I’d like to generate my own worksheets corresponding to the lessons I’m having. Your worksheets are great but I’d like to follow the sequence of characters that my teacher uses. Thanks for your help!! =)

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Min Min Reply:
June 13th, 2010 at 10:52 pm

Hi AL,
Yes. I bought a software to generate the worksheet. If you are interested, send me an email and I could give you the more details about the software.
Thanks.

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你好！I’m Thai. I’m studying Chinese. I found your website, I like your website very much. Thank you very much for teaching. 你心很好！！ 谢谢！！

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Min Min Reply:
June 17th, 2010 at 1:17 am

Hi mayfly,
你好。谢谢你来我的网站。Hope you enjoy learning Chinese.

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Hi,
My name is Maisie and i am 12 years old.
At school we have just had two days where we didn’t do any lessons we just did things all to do with china eg. we learnt a chinese song, we made a big chinese dragon, we made chinese lanterns, we cooked chinese food, we designed chinese dresses, we did chinese dancing, we did chinese art, we learnt lots of stuff about china and we had a little lesson learning mandarin. It was realy fun and i enjoyed it so much that i want to carry on learning chinese and learning about chinese culture and hopefully i will get to go to china! Please will you tell me abit about what its like in china and please can you show me how to write Maisie Bennett in chinese characters?
Thank you,
Bye:)

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Min Min Reply:
July 1st, 2010 at 10:12 pm

Hi Maisie,
It is great to hear that you can learn things to do with China at school. I hope my site will be useful to you to learn Mandarin.
Maisie Bennett, what a nice name! Your name in Chinese is ” 梅西本尼特 “. If you want to learn how to write and pronounce your name, let me know. I can send you 5 animated gif pictures for each character along with mp3 audio.

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Hi Min Min,
I am greatful I found your website I was browsing the net finding the right website for me to learn chinese Mandarin. Please do let me know what to start. I don’t have any background in Chinese Language, can you help me somehow? What I must learn first, when should I learn writing the Alphabet, when should I learn grammarisation, when should I lear writing phrase, when can i learn reading Chinese Mandarin? I would be very much happy if you can help me on this. I’m very interested to learn chinese. Thanks in advance

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Min Min Reply:
July 12th, 2010 at 8:27 am

Hi Zeny,
First of all, thanks for coming to website to learn Chinese.

I think most of the people who just started to learn Chinese share the same questions that you asked.
Here are my suggestions that I hope would help you in learning Chinese:

What I must learn first?
Well, learning Pinyin should be the first step of learning Chinese language. Pinyin let you grasp the way to speak Chinese.
Here are some of the Pinyin posts that I have posted in this website:
http://www.learnchineseeveryday.com/category/weekly-activities/han-yu-pinyin/
(I am in the mid of creating an audio Pinyin ebook. Please do come back always to check for update.)

Then, try to learn and understand the basic Chinese grammar.
Chinese grammar is quite different from English. In Chinese, grammar is mainly concerned with how words are arranged to form meaningful sentences.
Here are some of the posts that I have written for Chinese grammar:
http://www.learnchineseeveryday.com/category/weekly-activities/grammar/

Build your vocabulary.
As mentioned in one of my post, to understand 90% of the content in Chinese publications, you have to learn about 900 Chinese characters and 11,000 phrases/words.
You can use the daily post in this website to learn a Chinese character a day. For intensive learning, you can try to learn the most commonly used characters.
I have compiled a list of 100 Most Common Chinese Characters here:
http://www.learnchineseeveryday.com/2010/02/27/100-most-common-chinese-characters/

This is just brief guide. I will try to write a more complete guide to learning Chinese during this weekend. Stay tuned.

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Thanks, this is a great site for practicing. I really like the animation for writing Chinese characters. I’ve just re-started learning Chinese again after studying about 12 years ago. Your site is a great resource that isn’t too overwhelming. Thanks again.

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Min Min Reply:
July 25th, 2010 at 6:30 am

Hi Neil Barker,
Thanks. I hope my site would help you to revise the Chinese characters that you learned 12 years ago.

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This website is great. The site’s format is clear and well organized. It’s just the way I want! I have one question though. I’m left-handed. When I use my left hand to write Chinese, the characters are quite not the same; the curves are kinda in the opposite directions… Do you have any guideline for writing for left-handed people?

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Min Min Reply:
September 2nd, 2010 at 3:32 am

Hi Hihihoho,
My husband is left handed but he writes Chinese characters with his right hand. He was trained to do so when he was a kid.
Chinese was developed for right-handed writing. It is advisable to write Chinese with right hand because of the stroke order. However, personally, I don’t see any problems with left-handed, as long as you follow the proper stroke order.
加油！

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