Questions tagged [asking-questions]
The asking-questions tag has no usage guidance.
17
questions
3
votes
3answers
136 views
How can higher-level Chinese learners utilize Chinese.SE?
Nowadays, I'm late-HSK5/early-HSK6 level (which is not that proficient) and I'm finding it increasingly difficult to ask questions here. Why? Because nowadays for most questions I would ordinarily ...
3
votes
2answers
73 views
How can I use Chinese.SE to practice constructing sentences?
I've been putting much effort into studying Chinese recently, and its been improving rapidly. However, while I am nowadays far more capable of reading Chinese and writing hanzi, I struggle to ...
3
votes
2answers
84 views
Is idiom puzzle game on-topic?
I posted 2 idiom puzzle games and asked for suggestions on improving the hints because I am a native Chinese speaker, some hints I feel are obvious may be too hard for non-native speakers. A user ...
3
votes
2answers
69 views
What can we do about the useless titles of “what does this say?” translation questions?
A lot of translation tagged questions have useless titles:
Can someone translate what these say?
Translate this sentence for me
Is this translation good?
Could you please confirm or provide a better ...
3
votes
1answer
43 views
Are requests for resources on-topic?
It seems there is mixed guidance about this.
Current situation
On meta, it's possible to find a few, very old threads about this:
Questions about resources for learning chinese
FAQ: What is On topic ...
3
votes
0answers
107 views
Let's edit away “this sentence” from titles
Examples of "this sentence" in titles:
Help in this sentence
Is this sentence ambiguous?
What does this sentence mean
Does this sentence sound awkward?
Help me translate this sentence
...
2
votes
2answers
66 views
How should I go about writing “review my writing” requests?
My Chinese is now at the stage where I'm able to write short stories (maybe a few paragraphs). I like to Google "writing prompts" and find one that interests me, and write about that.
I'd like to ...
2
votes
1answer
36 views
Why such a title does not meet the “quality standards”?
I tried posting a question about understanding a word from a passage in 《左传》 on the site today, but encountered the following problem with the title not meeting the "quality standards." The title was "...
1
vote
1answer
42 views
If someone asks a question in Chinese, is the whole post “fair game” for feedback?
Continuing from Is it a problem if a learner asks/answers wholly in broken Chinese?
Question: If someone asks a question in Chinese, is the whole post "fair game" for feedback?
A ...
1
vote
1answer
34 views
Is it a problem if a learner asks/answers wholly in broken Chinese?
There was this post Asking questions completely in Chinese (~8 years ago), where there was a conclusion that asking and answering questions in Chinese is fine. It was subsequently affirmed Your input:...
1
vote
1answer
85 views
Why am I blocked for posting question?
When I want to post a question, I faced this page. I went through deeper, I recommended that I should edit my previous questions by checking all of them and make them better. I was shocked. My ...
1
vote
1answer
112 views
CC-CEDICT: candidate terms for new definition-request questions
I intend for this to be a "sandbox" or "review space" to keep track of Chinese terms we might consider proposing to add to CC-CEDICT. My frequent thought process:
That's not in CC-CEDICT; maybe ...
1
vote
0answers
75 views
Should questions with Chinese-only titles be precluded from the Hot Network Questions?
My question hit the Hot Network Questions list for all to enjoy (hopefully there's no horrible mistakes):
That's cool and all, but maybe this shouldn't happen. Proof-of-concept:
Going forward, ...
1
vote
1answer
32 views
The new ask page “Step 1: Draft your question” has a few problems: what should we change it to?
When asking questions, we now have this message:
The community is here to help you with questions about Chinese language. Provide details and share research with your question.
See The new ask ...
1
vote
0answers
29 views
How Physics.SE handles “resource recommendation question”
This post is just a reference, and food for thought. Maybe we can adapt some of these ideas.
Their policy is described here:
See my answer here for the
rationale behind this policy
Note that this ...
1
vote
0answers
56 views
We need some work!
This is not a question, close it if you need to.
I would like to remind everyone that we really need to ask more questions every day.
We have no hope to get past beta if we continue like this.
...
0
votes
2answers
156 views
Besides Chinese Stackexchange, what other sites are a good source of Q&A on Mainland Mandarin? And how can we bring those users to Stackexchange?
I found Chinese Stackexchange not as vibrant or active as other Stackexchange communities e.g. tech-related ones. I don't know if it's because it might be blocked in China or another reason.
So:
...
