Issue #5 of Mandarin Weekly is out. You can read it here. Subscribe to our e-mail list via the form on the left, and/or to our Twitter feed.

Among the topics covered this week, gathered from blogs and Q&A forums from around the Web:

Spring Festival phrases

Hacking Chinese monthly challenge: Pronunciation

Working Hard — listening practice

Six ways to say “thank you”

“Separable verbs” — a misleading and unnecessary concept

Funny words in Chinese

Phrases for Valentine’s Day

Company names in China

How do you ask, “What day of the week is that?”

How do new characters get added to the language?

Knowing your left from your right

Starbucks sizes in China

What does 马马虎虎 mean?