Great, you can speak some sentences. Guess it something like my english but easy to understand. '今天我要去围棋会' sounds better. It's right to use '将' describle something happens in the future, but we always skip it when have used a definite date.
今天 jin1 tian1 Today
我 wo3 I
要 yao4 will be going to
去 qu4 to go
围棋 wei2 qi2 go
会 hui4 club
Nobi:
长 is a polyphonic character and has different meanings. Though '长zhang3' means 'grow/to develop' when it's a verb, but it's spelled 长chang2 when it's used as a Go term. In fact 长chang2 means 'length' when it's a noun and also means 'long' when it is a adj.. It reall make no sense but i don't know why.
There have many polyphonic characters in chinese and on the other hand they can be combined to words. So 3000 characters is enough for chinese while american have to remember 12000 english one.
I finally got back to listening to chinese lesson podcasts last night. All this go / chinese studying is motivating me to work harder at things :)
I visited Chinese Lessons with Serge Melnyk , a site I hadn't seen before. Looks like a good resource for beginners.
LOL, we chinese call it '国骂 ma4' means the abuse word of nation. We call something traditional which is really good such as Calligraphy, Peiking opera and Go etc. as '国粹 cui4', and it means the best old thing of the nation.
Ha, you sought complicating first, then i have to cut(我不得不断). '我得断' means i would cut. '不得不' is very useful when you want to say 'have to do something'. For example, i want to be Shodan, so i have to do more L&D problems. Then you may say:
'我想成为初段，所以我不得不做更多的死活题'.
想 xiang3: want
成 cheng2 为 wei2: a word means 'become'.
所 suo3 以 yi3: it's a conj. means 'so'.
更 geng4 多 duo1:m ore.
死 si3 活 huo2:death and life.
题 ti2: problem.
Yes, 一间跳 means "one space jump". 间 is something means room. if you wanted to say a single room you could say 单(dan1)间. Sometimes 间 is also a counting word. For example, a house=一间房(fang2)子. 间 also can mean space, like 间隔(ge2)(the distance between two things) or 一间跳.
一 yi1 one
间 jian1
跳 tiao4 jump
