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QUOTE(darran @ Nov 23 2006, 11:07 AM) The last time I learnt Chinese was 3 years ago, after I graduated from high school, I no longer learn the Chinese. So anything new would have to be learn by myselfYou're from Singapore, right? I thought if you're finding a job there, you'll need to be an excellent mandarin speaker. If I've not mistaken anything, this was a recent polic... read more.
So, yeah, I'm learning Chinese and thought I would share a bit of my knowledge with everyone else...
Note that some things may not appear unless you have the Chinese language pack on your computer.
Anyways, in chinese everything's written in Chinese Characters, (like this: 你好) so you have to learn all the characters, along with how to say each word. 你好 is an expression that means hello.
So, anyways, I'll use it as an example...
The first part is the 你. This is pronounced Nǐ. It means "You" and the little thing above the "I" is the tone mark. The hardest part of chinese is the tones. Basically, You have to make the tone of your voice follow the mark. Here's a website which has a spiffy little applet that pronounces tones: http://www.newconceptmandarin.com/support/...CFTFjDgodCQ5TLg
The second part of the word, 好, is pronounced Hǎo, and means good. The "a" has the same accent mark as the "i" in Nǐ. This accent mark means pronounce with a falling, then rising tone... But anyways, that can be kinda confusing... Here's the shorthand version:
你好 = Nǐ Hǎo = Hello
And one last thing... The pronunciation written in roman characters (the "Nǐ Hǎo") is called pinyin. The rest of the words I have are written in Pinyin.
So, here are some more phrases.
Chinese Classroom Expressions
QUOTE
Nǐ Hǎo – Hello, or literally “You Good” Lǎo Shī Hǎo – Hello, teacher, or literally “Old Teacher Good” Shàng Kè – Class begins Xià Kè – Class ends Dǎ Kāi Shū – Open your Books Wǒ Shuō, Nǐ měn Tīng – I say, you listen Kàn Hēi Bǎn – look at the blackboard Duì bu Dui – right or wrong? Duì – right Hěn Hǎo – very good Qǐng Gēn wǒ shuō – please repeat what I say Zài shuō yí cì – say that again Dǒng bù Dǒng – do you understand? Dǒng Le – I understand Zài jiàn – Goodbye (see you again)
Survival Chinese
QUOTE
Duì bú qǐ – Excuse me, pardon me, sorry! Qǐng wèn – may I ask Xiè xie – thank you Zhè shi shénme – what is this? Wǒ bù Dǒng – I don’t understand Qǐng zài shuō yí biàn – please repeat that … Zhōng guó huà zěnme shuō – how do you say … in Chinese? … shī shènme yì si – What does “…” mean? Qǐng nǐ gěi wǒ … - Please give me… Qǐng nǐ gaò su wǒ … - Please tell me… Duì bú qǐ, nín shi shuō…? – Sorry, are you saying…? (nín = you polite)
QUOTE
v These are all the possible vowel characters in pinyin. Chinese Pinyin Vowels Chinese Numerals AĀÀÁǍaāàáǎ One 一 - yī Seven 七 - qī EĒĚÈÉeēèéě Two 二 - èr Eight 八 - bā IĪǏÌÍiīìíǐ Three 三 - sān Nine 九 - jiǔ OŌǑÒÓōòóǒ Four 四 - sì Ten 十 - shí UŪǓÙÚūùúǔ Five 五 - wǔ ÜǕǗǛǙüǖǜǘǚ Six 六 - liù
Uh, since this is really complicated, please ask any questions...
Oh, and since a lot of characters might not show up in the forums, I attached a file with the stuff in it.
Notice from jlhaslip:
edit to add quote tags. Lists should be quoted, regardless of the language
i can't seem to read most of the characters that you typed (it only shows questionmarks in my monitor), but just as the same i think learning the language is cool. i know someone (who was a contestant in one of the known reality shows in US) who can speak fluent mandarin because he grew up in vietnam i think and then his family transferred to america when he was a kid.
my mom encourages me to study it "just in case" i go work in china or something to that effect.
My mother language is chinese so I guess I can provide some helpful tips for you guys. But I figured a lot of Americans learning chinese so that they can appreciate mandopop
LOL, I'm a chinese... The hardest part is actually the words, because they don't have abc or nothing, they only have the 部首 A.K.A "hands" lol...also, every word is not same... Pinyin is so easy, as well as the tone...mostly because i was born in a hakka(speech only language, no words) family, but my mom is cantonese(also speech only) so does my sisters, that's why I speak cantonese, chinese and english at home. I know and also speak chinese(a.k.a mandrin but also part of hakka and cantonese, but this one has words) at school because i learn chinese at school, and also learn Malay and English. They are all chinese people's languages P.S. tell you something funny: I forgot how to talk hakka!!! I only remembered some...lol
EDIT: I'm not from China but Malaysia, also an asian
I am sure it must be a challenge going from more of an alphabet to symbol like writing. I have always thought about learning a language like Chinese or Japanese but don't really have the time, or money right now. I'm learning spanish but that's easy to learn once you get the hang of all the verb tenses and pronunciating is pretty simple as well. Good luck on your Chinese studies. It can be really handy to know a second language like that, you can make a lot of money as a translator.
Well, I know: French, English, Spanish (been studying it for 2 years now) and a bit of German.
I don't think I'd be able to learn a language such as Japanase or Chinese as it is harder (I think) to learn symbols than to learn an alphabet. Also, as I've heard, it looks pretty hard to pronounce words in Chinese
The first character in the second one means hero or heroic... Other than that, I can't really read much. I recognize some of the radicals but I don't know what the words mean.
On the 1st word (Ao Qi Ding), not really sure what it means
On the 2nd word (Jie Da), basically I have not seen this combination before
But the first character means something out of the ordinary and the second means reaching. So I can only deduce, it means reaching to something out of the ordinary.
The last time I learnt Chinese was 3 years ago, after I graduated from high school, I no longer learn the Chinese. So anything new would have to be learn by myself
You're from Singapore, right? I thought if you're finding a job there, you'll need to be an excellent mandarin speaker. If I've not mistaken anything, this was a recent policy implemented by the Singapore government.
hei I'm a Chinese too. Maybe there are so many people are Chinese. I think Learning Chinese is difficult. Do not give up. If u have some problems , we ll help u
The last time I learnt Chinese was 3 years ago, after I graduated from high school, I no longer learn the Chinese. So anything new would have to be learn by myself
Good to hear some people are learning chinese. I was born speaking in chinese but i stopped.
There are over 5000 chinese words and over 1000 proverbs, if i'm not mistaken.. It's easy to learn chinese at first, but as u approach to higher level, things wont be as easy as u think...
Anyways, JIA YOU!!! (direct translation is 'add oil', but the actual meaning is 'keep up the good work')
Well, good luck. I just finished first quarter with an A, but that's mostly because our teacher is nice. He makes us work our @$$es off, but he grades easily. I got a 117% on the last test.
The tones are really hard to remember, I think. I prefer to learn the characters, but that may only be because of how our teacher teaches.
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