Hi, my name is Niel, otherwise known as Confused Laowai. I blog about my exciting, yet often confusing adventure learning Chinese.

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Mandarin Blog Roundup

I’ve decided to sporadically blog on all the great Mandarin learning posts I come across recently. First up is Albert from Laowai Chinese. He posted a blog post on 你好 being a misleading greeting. In my experience, many of my Chinese 朋友 and 老师 use 你好 often, but that’s probably ’cause of the Western environment. Today, I heard an older Chinese women greet one of my friends like this: 你现在上课了吗？ Meaning do you have class [...]