Learn Chinese - Mandarin

[~*Suzi*~]

I thought i borrow this idea from the japanese chat thread!! lol for all the chinese here or those that want to learn!

Here it goes


你好嗎?
nǐ hǎo ma?
How are you?

我是張素懷
wǒ shì zhāng sù huái
I am Suzi

[cool]

wo how! (I am fine)

ni che fan mah? (have you eaten?)

ni shi pen than (you're silly)

[tofubabii]

adding on to this

ni de ming zhi shi se me? - what is your name?
wo yao... - i want...[object]
wo bu yao... - i don't want...[object]

[~*Suzi*~]

I love saying this dunno why!!!!

Ni hao Ke ai
你好可愛


(you are quite cute!)

[Rochelle]

Interesting, I just learned how to say cute in mandarin! It's pretty similar to japanese.

Japanese:
可愛い
kawaii
(cute)


The japanese did borrow language from the chinese, so it's not totally odd.

[~ b l u s h]

D: Yeah, yet Japanese is so much more popular than Chinese. ]:

Mehh. wo hun ai jiro wang <3333 ta hun ke ai. wo hun shi wan ta de tao fa. !

ahaha.. my pinyin sucks. ><; Oh, I also speak Cantonese so I sometimes get the languages confused [since it sounds the same to me] so haha.. forgive me ;__;

[katzluva]

Aww, I know mandarin but cant write PinYin :\ But I can read it heh.

[jeniousx4]

i'm cantonese but i went to mandarin school for a couple years. strange. i guess mandarin isn't my language.. (i was a drop out xD) so i guess cantonese is more of mine... so any who since this is a mandarin thread.. here i go =D

wo shi huan he jun xiang. ta hun ke ai. LMAO! ming tian wo hun wo de peng you cher gai mai yi fu. yay! (sorry if it doesn't make sense..... since i am a drop out. xD)

[~*Suzi*~]

yeah my first language is canto, but i wouldnt say i was great at it! and currently learning mandarin lol also to learn to read and write cos mine is appaling lol

今天我很累
Jin tian wo hen lei
(Today i am very tired)

因為我有好多考試
Yin wei wo yao hao duo kao shi
(Because I have a lot of exams)

[elepop]

I studied Mandarin for like... 5 years and I didn't learn much. It's so dumb learning a language when the teacher only speaks that language you're currently trying to learn. XD

Ummm, all I see is either Madarin or Cantonese. What about Szechuan? : P

[CookieGirl]

I learned chinese for 6 years, and I would say that my language isn't very great :s, I understand a little but I have to relearn it, because it will be important for my future career

[azn_babyxoxo]

Ohh...i like mandarin however i can only understand some of it..

I speak cantonese ~`

Da jia hao ma?
^ is this right?? ><;;

[ecoice]

Originally Posted by azn_babyxoxo

Ohh...i like mandarin however i can only understand some of it..

I speak cantonese ~`

Da jia hao ma?
^ is this right?? ><;;

Yes that is right =D written it is : 大家好嗎﹖

大家好﹐我是張婕華~
da jia hao, wo shi zhang jie hua~
Hello everyone, I am Sarah ;D

and rochelle, the Japanese did borrow from Chinese. I think the most cool resemblances are:

電話
dian hua [chinese]
den wa [japanese]
telephone

and

圖書館
tu shu guan [chinese]
to sho kan [japanese]
Bibliotech

Of course, they are the same for both languages in terms of the characters.

Originally Posted by ~ b l u s h

D: Yeah, yet Japanese is so much more popular than Chinese. ]:

It is strange isn't it. However, it's not so much that it bothers me, but sometimes I get angry when people refer to the chinese characters as "Kanji" which isn't necessarily wrong, but it irks me a lot. [though I do realize some 'kanji', the Japanese have made up and do not exist in Chinese]

[azn_babyxoxo]

^^ yay~! .-- I cant seem to make my computer be able to type those chinese characters, or ANY characters in fact x_x;;

[~*Suzi*~]

yeah i think some japanese sounds chinesy, also i was watching this japanese scary movie and both me and my mum swore that we heard them speak something that sounded so cantonesy as we could both understand it

[~ b l u s h]

Originally Posted by azn_babyxoxo

^^ yay~! .-- I cant seem to make my computer be able to type those chinese characters, or ANY characters in fact x_x;;

>_> Try NJStar. Hehe.

Originally Posted by ecoice

It is strange isn't it. However, it's not so much that it bothers me, but sometimes I get angry when people refer to the chinese characters as "Kanji" which isn't necessarily wrong, but it irks me a lot. [though I do realize some 'kanji', the Japanese have made up and do not exist in Chinese]

Lol. It only bugs me when people go, "Oh? You're Chinese? *Mistakenly thought you were Japanese* Sorry, but I'm not interested in Chinese things. Only Japanese." *walks away*
And wow, the chinese and Japanese resemblance are very resemblal-y.. haha.

Do you know how to say pre-school in Japanese? I was watching Aishiteruze baby and it sounded awfully like the cantonese word for pre-school. I was like "what?! Did I just hear her speak some chinese?!"

Originally Posted by ~*Suzi*~

yeah i think some japanese sounds chinesy, also i was watching this japanese scary movie and both me and my mum swore that we heard them speak something that sounded so cantonesy as we could both understand it

OH I know what you mean.
Especially how "hai" is yes and stuff. XD

[f_r_E_a_K]

^about the Japanese - Cantonese thing..

I'm going to try to make this as least unoffensive as possible, because this kinda touches on some racial issues with the Chinese Han population and Mandarin and such...

There are some words in Cantonese that closely resemble Japanese words, such as the word for "Yes" is "Hai" in both Cantonese AND Japanese...I can't think of any else right now...but some people believe that the Japanese originally migrated from Southern China, and that's why they're so similar.

Or perhaps the Japanese migrated from the Korean peninsula. Or maybe the Okinawans migrated from Southern China and Taiwan.

I could really branch off into many different beliefs and arguements here. But I won't. So there.

[Himek0]

china is obviously the founder of chinese.
there is a lot languages contain similar words as chinese.
either they used to be belongs to china, or they are once a chinese.
aniway im half china blood mixed.
can ask me any question about chinese if u wan =)

[the123girl]

God. I know nothing about chinese or the sort. xD What do they speak in the chinese food places? I go to this one daily. I wanna walk in while ordering my food and tell them Hello and stuff in their own language. Haha...

[Himek0]

hmm, im sorry its very hard to help u.
u have to tell me which type of resturant u go to.
as in , traditional or modern or just coffee shop?
because there is too many variety already.
im not very sure also, its quite complicated.
cos there is different pictching in each word, if u pronounce the pitch wrongly, nobody can understand u, or maybe worst, u may get into trouble.