Alenanno

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I'm a student majoring in Languages (branch: Linguistics), currently working as a freelance translator. I've recently discovered Dropbox and I'm going to use it for my needs! :)

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Languages List ^{Languages with * = learning on my own}

Mother Tongue: Italian, Sardinian;
Fluent: English, Spanish;
Less Fluent: French, German, Russian;
Learning: Japanese*, Chinese*, Swedish*, Greek*, Finnish*;
Willing to learn: Welsh, Korean, Dutch, Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi [to be continued]

Me gusta el Español.
J'aime le Français.
Deutsch gefällt mir.
Мне нравится Русский язык.
私は日本語が好きです。
我爱中文。
Jag älskar Svenska.

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Mar 3	revised	Resources for learning Mandarin Chinese deleted 115 characters in body
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Mar 1	revised	Resources for learning Mandarin Chinese deleted 345 characters in body
Mar 1	comment	Where can I find Chinese IPA transcriptions? @StumpyJoePete Well, if you say it's universal you're claiming that. But OK, if you're saying Pinyin works well for Chinese, I agree, it's a very valid tool that I have used and continue to use myself. But it can't really be compared to IPA. They are two different things: Pinyin is a romanization system for Chinese only, IPA represents sounds (phones) across languages.
Mar 1	comment	Where can I find Chinese IPA transcriptions? @StumpyJoePete Just because an IPA symbol happens to be similar to a language letter doesn't prove anything. The IPA [e] is [e], not the English e, not the Russian e, just [e]. So your comparison doesn't work here. IPA symbols do not change like letters change when pronounced. If a sound changes, the IPA symbol changes. Pinyin is universal in the same way Romaji is, which means it's not, because universal means "valid for any language" and my examples have shown that this is not true for Pinyin. This doesn't make it a less valid tool, of course, but it has nothing to do with universality.
Mar 1	comment	Where can I find Chinese IPA transcriptions? The letter Q in Italian has always a [k] sound. In Pinyin, it has a [tʃ] sound. This proves it's not universal, it changes if you change language (not always maybe but one instance is enough). Instead, [tʃ] represents always the same sound. Why? Because you're not relying on a usual alphabet, but rather on an alphabet that refers to sounds and sounds are the same across languages, they won't change. I could go on, but I hope it's clearer now.
Mar 1	comment	Where can I find Chinese IPA transcriptions? @BertR That's impossible, you don't pronounce IPA according to your language, because it's universal. All symbols represent certain sounds, regardless of your language, so what you're saying doesn't hold the point. Pinyin, on the contrary, is not universal, it's been developed for Chinese only. For example, "Qing" is read differently if I used the Italian rules, Chinese, etc... But take any IPA transcription: that won't change because IPA is not dependent on single languages. After all it's the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Feb 28	revised	Where can I find Chinese IPA transcriptions? deleted 1 characters in body
Feb 28	comment	Where can I find Chinese IPA transcriptions? By the way: IPA and Pinyin do not have the same role. Pinyin is simply a romanization system and is not universal (Q is pronounced as "tch" in English, while Italian pronounces it as K), while IPA displays the actual sounds being uttered universally (a certain symbol always and unequivocally represents a certain sound).
Feb 25	revised	How can I pronounce 绿 (lü4 - green)? added 200 characters in body
Feb 25	comment	How can I pronounce 绿 (lü4 - green)? @dainichi Yes I knew, I just meant a general sound in this case. But I'll replace it with IPA to be sure. Thanks for letting me know.
Feb 23	comment	Which fonts show the stroke order of all characters? @NannuoLei Oh ok... I'll delete the comments soon, they're obsolete anyways. :)
Feb 23	comment	Which fonts show the stroke order of all characters? @NannuoLei This site is about Chinese mainly, though, not Taiwanese. If Taiwanese was the language being treated, we'd have that tag.
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Feb 19	reviewed	Approve suggested edit on How will translate “谁让你” into English?
Feb 13	comment	What is the meaning of 真是的 Welcome to Chinese Language and Usage Beta! Usually we prefer longer and more elaborated answers on short answers. If you can improve your answer by adding detail, context, examples, and backing up with references, this would increase your answer's quality. Poor answers risk being down-voted and subsequently removed.
Feb 8	comment	What is the meaning of 真是的 As per the FAQ, we do not forbid translation requests but note that this is not a translation service, so we will close any translation request that does not show research effort. You must make sure you clearly show it in your question if you want to avoid the closure. Note that you can edit your question and improve it by using the "edit" button below it. When you're done, flag it for moderator attention and we'll reopen it.
Feb 7	revised	When to use 家 vs 师 vs 员 vs 者 deleted 11 characters in body