Issue #28 of Mandarin Weekly, with links and resources for people learning Mandarin Chinese, is available at http://archive.aweber.com/awlist3707181/PFrcD/h/Mandarin_Weekly_28_.htm.

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This week’s topics:

Ways to understand

Heated up

Listening practice

Why is it so hard to understand strangers?

10 top posts for beginners

Hao… what?

Basic conversational phrases

Saying “Sunday”

“It turns out”

Two basic translations

Improving fluency before a trip to China

Same sound, different tone