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Few people would argue that 小孩儿 is "standard", but the standard was established in Beijing, and it seems, quite arbitrarily, not at all based on predominant usage by speakers in the country. And by the way, sounding like a japanese girl does not seem all that bad... especially if you are a japanese girl. When you say "people from the South", do you mean "south of Beijing"? Because that would mean most of China...]]> http://www.chinesetesting.cn/userfiles/file/HSK-zhongji.pdf If you familiarise yourself with the format you will go well. You can easily get full marks in section 1 - by practising imitating radio, TV and lesson dialogues. I did not study for this and passed...but was certainly not happy with the result. Good luck!]]> http://www.popupchinese.com/lessons/ktv-wednesday/wang-fei-nothing-remains --Echo echo@popupchinese.com ]]> http://www.blcu.edu.cn/blcuweb/english/index-en.asp#]]> HSK test. There are links to the individual lesson series on that page, along with the official vocabulary lists and more. ]]>