Learning Chinese!

TheWolf

ok ... this thread is here so we can learn some Chinese phrases and words!! yumenohime is gracious enuff to teach us, so post your requests here [and please keep it nice ...]!!

i hope if we don't phrase our requests correctly for the Chinese language, yume will correct us with how the phrase is worded in Chinese [please yume???] :please2:

thank you very much for offering to teach me and put the teaching in this post for ALL FTPers to benefit from!!!:bow:

to start off with i'd like to know how to say:

Hello :onion07:
and
How are you today? :am:

and maybe
I'm good or I'm doing welll [something like that]. :shy:
thanx yume!!!!! :bow:

rjd22

awww keep visiting us from time to time.

Mich

this was a cool thread now i can learn and speak chinese with my friends :D but what kind of chinese is it? cantonese? or just chinese?

I can some words: Chat = out, (cant spell it), and lei hou leng = you are beautiful? :P haha i hope its correct :blush2:

thanks for this thread btw :D

Mich

kiwi2590;55029 wrote
im pretty sure its cantonese Mich, partly cuz im chinese......-.-
LOL chinese or chinese??:notes:

oh okey thanks :P

Kyaah!;55030 wrote
I know 'lei hou leng' is cantonese...'you are very pretty'. Very important sentence,this. haha!

But dunno what is 'chat'...is it 'choot/chuut'? ..that one means 'out'.

oh yeh its cantonese :P are you chinese? my friend learned me some cantonese and thats just what i know :P
yeh i meant choot/chuut, didnt know how to spell it but yeh its correct that :D thanks! :P

jae

hmm i have taken mandarin level 2 and this is a useful posts:socute: teach us more!:blush2:
'bu yong ke qi' also can be describe as don't mention it :relieved: right?

TheWolf

THANK YOU THANK YOU yume!!!:bow:

would another way to type "xie xie" be "tsie tsie" or "ksie ksie"?? i want to pronounce it right!

TheWolf

yumenohime;48781 wrote
Lol :m-bata: I still not qualified to be a teacher :blush2:

you're qualified as our teacher at FTP-Anime yume-girl!!!! [especially mine!]

could you tell me how to say "The food was GREAT today!" [or the correct sentence structure in Chinese.]

and

i think "Thank You" is "shie shie" - right? how do you say "Please"?

thanx again for your time and generosity helping out an old wolf like me!

TheWolf

shie shie yume!! [did i say that right?]

good to see you back! [me too!]

TheWolf

thank you, THANK YOU THANK YOU, yume!!!!! for the assist you've given to us chinese-deficient pplses!!!

i'm sorry i haven't been here for a while - but wolf is back and ready to learn more!
!

yumenohime;50891 wrote
By the way, I'll be absent from this forum until my exam is finished. Maybe around Dec I'll be back to this forum again. So, have fun :romance:

awww ... wolf will miss yume!!! maybe by then i'll be back full time to FTP-Anime by the time you get back ...

good luck with your exams yum ... thanx AGAIN for your teaching us!!

kiwi2590

[FONT=Times New Roman]Hi Yume!! :cracker:[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman]Nice work!!!:v: Translation were very good :humming:[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman]u do better than my teachers here o.o[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman]lol, i actually wish you were my teacher here :blush2:teachers here are not very good -.-[/FONT]

kiwi2590

Mich;55020 wrote
this was a cool thread now i can learn and speak chinese with my friends :D but what kind of chinese is it? cantonese? or just chinese?

I can some words: Chat = out, (cant spell it), and lei hou leng = you are beautiful? :P haha i hope its correct :blush2:

im pretty sure its cantonese Mich, partly cuz im chinese......-.-
LOL chinese or chinese??:notes:

kiwi2590

tomdawes;55244 wrote
i'm sorry i haven't been here for a while - but wolf is back and ready to learn more!

Wolf!! where have u been??<.<?its been like a month?:football:anyways....bye 4 now YumeT.T

yumenohime

For Hello, usually we just use 你好 (ni hao) or 您好 (nin hao) (more polite)

How are you? - 你好吗? (ni hao ma) (Usually we use this)

您好吗? (nin hao ma) (This is more polite)

today - 今天 (jin tian)

So, for how are you today? - 今天你好吗? (jin tian ni hao ma)
But, in our speech, we usually will omit the 'today' , so just simply 你好吗 is enough already.

I'm good / i'm doing well / i'm fine - 我很好 (wo hen hao)

And sometimes, we will include thanks to be polite

我很好,谢谢 (wo hen hao, xie xie) means I'm good / I'm fine / I'm doing well, thanks

Hope this helps

yumenohime

tomdawes;48730 wrote
THANK YOU THANK YOU yume!!!:bow:

would another way to type "xie xie" be "tsie tsie" or "ksie ksie"?? i want to pronounce it right!

No, 谢谢 should be typed as 'xie xie'. I think you can pronounce as 'shie shie' (I'm not very good at comparing the sound). Try listen to this :nihonjin:

Ilasir;48733 wrote
This is cool, yume. Our accents will be terrible, though.:worried:

It's ok. The same goes with me when I try to say something in foreign language.:relieved:

yumenohime

kiwi2590;48779 wrote
[FONT=Times New Roman]Hi Yume!! :cracker:[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman]Nice work!!!:v: Translation were very good :humming:[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman]u do better than my teachers here o.o[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman]lol, i actually wish you were my teacher here :blush2:teachers here are not very good -.-[/FONT]

Lol :m-bata: I still not qualified to be a teacher :blush2:

yumenohime

The food was great/delicious -- 这食物真好吃！ (zhe shi wu zhen hao chi)

Please -- 请 (qing)

yumenohime

yes, wolf, you got that correct :cracker:

Now, another phrase..

When people thanked you, you'll reply 'welcome' right?
In mandarin, we say 不用客气 - 'bu yong ke qi'

When someone visit you, you'll say 'welcome' to them, right?
In mandarin, we say 欢迎 - 'huan ying'

yumenohime

jae;50203 wrote
hmm i have taken mandarin level 2 and this is a useful posts:socute: teach us more!:blush2:
'bu yong ke qi' also can be describe as don't mention it :relieved: right?

yes, you can say so.

Ilasir;50303 wrote
This thread is pretty cool, yumen. My school has mandarin, and now I really wish I had the time to take the class. Maybe in the future.

it's good to learn another language, so go for it!

By the way, I'll be absent from this forum until my exam is finished. Maybe around Dec I'll be back to this forum again. So, have fun :romance:

yumenohime

Kyaah!;54893 wrote
I find Mandarin really difficult! Kudos to all those who have mastered it.

Cos of anime, I have learnt a little bit of Japanese...if there had been excellent Chinese anime with Eng subs, I would know some Mandarin as well:)

Yea, me too ^^ I learnt some japanese from anime and drama too..
Maybe there are some chinese anime out there but never come across it... Most are in japanese... and english-dubbed, chinese-dubbed..
You can try to watch taiwanese drama. It's pretty much the same.

kiwi2590;55354 wrote
Wolf!! where have u been??<.<?its been like a month?:football:anyways....bye 4 now YumeT.T

I'm back!!!

Anyway, Merry X'mas (although late by one day) :disco:

Ilasir

This is cool, yume. Our accents will be terrible, though.:worried: