Issue #6 of Mandarin Weekly is out. You can read it here.

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This week’s topics:

Year of the …

Beginner’s guide to the Spring Festival

More Spring Festival vocabulary and traditions

Resources for improving your Mandarin pronunciation

All about the 目 (mù) character and radical:

Blessings in disguise

Five Chinese sentence structures

Animals in Chinese

A new song: JJ Lin’s “If only” （可惜没如果）

Are Chinese characters really based on pictures?

Difference between 别人 and 人家

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