三人行，必有我师(焉)

恭喜！咱们每天都学过了三年了！万分感谢大家一起来！

Today marks the beginning of Year Four (hopefully not a bad omen, knock wood) of this community! Thank you, subscribers and commenters and lurkers and people who drop by every now and then, for being around.

As usual, we face the problem of: what next? There are still many many vocabulary words to go, no problem, but we're starting to near the end of the Mandarin Bean grammar page (maybe another couple months' worth left). Go back and review the Grammar Wiki pages? Look for a different grammar site to work through? Something else, grammar-related or otherwise? Suggestions and requests are called for. Likewise, is there anything different/new you'd like to see here in general? Let me know.

祝大家有结果的一学年！

语法
在…(上/下/里/旁边 etc.) for “in/on/at etc.”
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_location_with_%22zai..._shang_/_xia_/_li%22
别 V 了， "stop doing X"
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_%22stop_doing%22_with_%22bie%E2%80%A6_le%22
不 for negating present, future, habits, and adjectives
不 in questions
Three uses of 没： 1） past negative, 2) negative with 有, 3) negative comparison (X 没有 Y adjective, X is not as [adjective] as Y)
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Comparing_%22bu%22_and_%22mei%22
要 vs 想
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Comparing_%22yao%22_and_%22xiang%22

词汇
拿, take
哪, which; also 哪里/哪儿, where, and 哪些, which plural
那, that; also 那边, over there, 那里/那儿, there, 那些, those
奶 or 牛奶, milk; also 奶奶, grandma (strictly, paternal grandmother)
男, male; also 男孩(儿)/男生, boy, 男人, man, 男朋友, boyfriend
南, south, 南边, south side
( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-1-word-list/

玩玩
你是我的风景 sung by 何洁; I was looking for songs written by 彭青 and this one came up. Also a delightfully obsolete word gleaned from drama watching, the phonetic transcription 德律风. Three guesses what it stands for ;)

事务
As of yesterday we’ve been through the whole A2 grammar list on the Chinese Grammar Wiki, so based on previous polls, as of tomorrow we’ll start on the B1 list. I will also start adding a link per day to older posts starting from A1, so that anyone who wants to work on/review more introductory grammar can do so (if commenting, do please comment on the new posts, not the linked old ones). Let me know if this seems likely to work and/or with any other suggestions.

Weekly review

语法
刻 for quarter hours
差 for minutes until the hour
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Structure_of_times_(advanced)
几 + measure word to mean “several”
几 + numbers: a few dozen/tens, a few hundred, etc.
好几, "quite a few"
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Using_%22ji%22_to_mean_%22several%22
了 to indicate change of state: having-become-X
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Change_of_state_with_%22le%22

词汇
饭, rice/meal (also 吃饭, to eat a meal, 饭店, a restaurant, 米饭, (cooked) rice, 早饭, breakfast, 午饭, lunch, 晚饭, dinner)
房间, room, and 房子, house
放, to let out/discharge/put (also 放假, have a holiday, and 放学, holiday from school)
飞, to fly (also 飞机, airplane)
非常, extremely/very (literally "unusual, emergency")
分, minute (or point/part/etc.)
( pinyin )
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-1-word-list/

玩玩
Kind of a random song today--I don't know how I arrived at it and I don't recognize either the song or the singer, but I like it: 如燕 covered by 朱兴东.

事务
I've updated the sticky post a bit to include a list of links sourced from various helpful suggestions, let me know if you have anything to add/change/etc.

周末或者周一愉快！

Unmistakably a 第七天 even to my dubious arithmetic skills.

语法 This week's grammar:
总是, always, with verbs
总是, always, with adjectives
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_%22always%22_with_%22zongshi%22
还，also, connecting two verbs under one subject
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_%22and_also%22_with_%22hai%22
刚 + verb, just (as in "it just happened"), also 刚刚
刚, just (happened), again, with the time it happened (~~ ago) added
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Expressing_%22just%22_with_%22gang%22
adjective + 死了 for emphasis (not actually dying).
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/chinese/grammar/Negative_adjectives_with_%22-si_le%22

词汇 This week's vocabulary
北, north (also 北边, north side, and 北京, Beijing)
本, measure word for books, as in 一本书 (also 本子, book (really??) and 课本, textbook)
别, don't (also 别的, other, and 别人, other people)
病, illness (depressing but useful; also 病人, patient; 看病, to see a doctor; 生病, to get sick)
不, no or not ~ (also 不大, not big; 不对, wrong; 不客气, you're welcome; 不用, no need; 对不起, sorry; 是不是, is it?)
菜, a dish, as in a serving of food
https://mandarinbean.com/new-hsk-1-word-list/

玩玩
Post something you like! Songs, questions, new words, etc. etc. Playlist from past days 🎵❤️
Mine: Liu Chang and his friend Wa'er take their four-year-old work!niece to a farm. Chinese hardsubs and just soothingly cute.

事务
Re: pinyin. People have suggested the Zhongwen browser extension (Firefox and Chrome links below) which allows hovering over hanzi characters to see the pinyin. This seems like the best compromise between people who would like to see it and people who would rather not? That said, if you would like to see pinyin here but can't easily deal with this extension for various reasons, comment/message/etc. and we'll see what other options there are.
https://addons.mozilla.org/ja/firefox/addon/zhongwen/
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/zhongwen-chinese-english/kkmlkkjojmombglmlpbpapmhcaljjkde

Re: tags, pinyin issues included. People have kindly volunteered to help deal with tags; let me know what you think the ideal format would be...

Re: other: I think there should probably be a masterpost/masterpage somewhere that covers all the content posted in one big list/table/etc., but I'm not immediately envisioning what it would look like (or whether this can be handled by tagging, etc.). Tell me what would work for you.

周末或者周一愉快！

Hello, 你还好吗！Thank you for coming to take a look at guardian_learning, which is a community for shared Chinese language practice.

What we do and how it works:
I post once a day with a grammar point from the HSK/Chinese Grammar Wiki list and a beginner HSK vocabulary word, along with some sample sentences from Guardian (see below) and some practice of my own.
Anyone who would also like to practice writing is invited to come by and add a comment at any time, using the grammar point of the day and/or the vocabulary word of the day, or not as preferred (basically anything related to writing in Chinese is fine!). You can also post separately to the community any time you want to raise Chinese-language-related questions, thoughts, or discussion points.

Is knowledge of Guardian a requirement for taking part?
No, not at all! This community started as the idea of using the Chinese drama Guardian (镇魂) to study Chinese. Its purpose is no longer focused on the drama (although I still use the Guardian script for sample sentences for my own amusement), so being involved here is possible and encouraged whether or not you’re interested in Guardian in particular or cdramas in general.

What level is it for?
Please feel free to comment and/or make your own posts without hesitation, regardless of what level you are at. Beginning-level sentences and questions are excellent review/practice for everybody and often bring up really interesting points and references (and even if they didn’t, so what; if they’re useful for the person writing them, that’s good enough for this community). That said, if you are not comfortable commenting, or would rather post quotations rather than practice sentences, or would rather stick to 第七天 days, any and all ways to interact/follow along are fine. No stress.

So what’s a 第七天 day?
Once a week we review the grammar and vocabulary from the week instead of adding anything new; this review day is also a chance to share songs, sayings, study tools and other Chinese-related stuff we like.

Other general notes
・There are basically only two rules as far as I’m concerned: a) have some interest in Chinese study in some format, and b) treat other people cordially. So far we’re doing just fine on both counts.
・“Chinese” here generally refers to Mandarin/普通话, but we have a few people with interest/experience in Cantonese, Hokkien etc., and if people want to talk in/about other Chinese dialects etc. etc. please feel free!
・The basic grammar points are covered in the tags; I will try to come up with a more accessible way to search for grammar and vocabulary points covered, but I’m not there yet. (The 一天一橘 tag is just me liking dumb puns; 句子 (sentence) and 橘子 (tangerine) are both juzi, although with different tones, so it's an orange a day.)
・I am very far from advanced and I don't guarantee correctness in my own Chinese, so bear that in mind.

Links
I've assembled various useful links proposed by the community under the cut here, and will try to update this regularly as more come up. Let me know if anything doesn't work!
( Masterlist of links )

加油吧！