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Resources for learning Chinese dialects: Should we centralize this like we did mandarin chinese
This is a question in the same light as Resources for learning Mandarin Chinese: should we have it at all?
Most of these questions are scattered and not formatted or maintained to the same standard ...
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Vote Early, Vote Often!
Voting is a very important part of Stack Exchange sites.
It's important to vote for the following reasons:
It draws attention to good quality questions and removes attention from poor ones
It ...
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Asking questions completely in Chinese
Prior to site launch I asked this question during the sites definition:
Will the Chinese Language site allow for questions to be asked completely in Chinese?
Which over time received 20 upvotes.
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Low Quality Score on Chinese
Some time ago, a question has been asked on JL&U stating that Writing a question in Japanese does not pass quality standards.
Well, I think we might have the same situation on this site, so I'd ...
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Should we include pinyin?
I know it's a bit "long" and massive to put Pinyin for every sentence, but the question remains to be asked: should we include it?
Share your opinion and if you want, propose alternatives/rules for ...
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2 Character names?
Currently the site requires the "display name" to be > 2 characters.
For example, my chinese name is 马泰,
but if I try to set this as my name, I get the error
Oops! There was a problem updating your ...
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Should we edit to provide both 简体字 and 繁体字?
Answers (and some questions) currently use a mix of simplified and traditional characters. Should they be edited to provide both, and if so should we adopt a uniform convention for doing so (e.g., ...
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It's almost impossible to Sign Up at SE at China
It's very hard to Sign Up at SE in China, for example, I want to sign up for Mathematica.SE, no matter how many times I try, I just can't use my SE Community account to sign up(The Open ID does not ...
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Why is the main site entitled "Chinese Language" rather than "Chinese Languages"?
As there are so many different spoken Chinese languages (i.e. topolects, e.g. Mandarin, Min, Cantonese etc.) and a few written Chinese languages (e.g. classical Chinese and various dialects of written ...
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Weekly chatroom discussions/talk session(s)
The chat room has been quite ronery these days.
I was wondering if anyone would be interested in organizing a weekly discussions/talk sessions about things related to the Chinese language and ...
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Should we add the enhancement from japanese.SE for furigana/ruby text here for adding Pinyin to hanzi?
Early in the history of japanese.SE one user created an enhancement that made it easy for editors to include phonetic spelling with Han characters. It was so popular that Stack Exchange took it and ...
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Are questions on specific topolects on topic?
I am thinking about researching some various Chinese topolects (方言).
Are questions on the grammars and vocabularies of Wu, Hakka, Cantonese etc on topic here?
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Congratulations, you're no longer in Beta!
This site started private beta before July 2012, so it is no longer "beta", it is a full site by our definition. We've removed the word "beta" from your site banner because we believe that you aren't ...
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Resources for learning Mandarin Chinese: should we have it at all?
This topic is a sort of survey to see if the community likes the thought of having a single CW question to keep all of the resources in one place.
I must say that regardless of the votes, questions ...
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What is the purpose, mission, or goal of Chinese Language SE?
I am a fairly new user of this stack exchange (active for only 1 week) and wish to ask a few re-occurring questions.
What is the purpose of this Stack Exchange?
What is this SE used for? Is it to be a ...
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