Chinese Learn Chinese!

Those who are intrested to learn Chinese, post on this thread!

Shen and I will try to help you with getting along with the worlds second biggest language.

Have fun!

- Teddz

 

Cool! Thanks a lot Teddz and Shen. I've read that Chinese is the most difficult language to learn but I'd like to.

What are the basic greetings and salutations in Chinese?

Thanks

 

You are lucky, Shen speaks Cantonese (Hong Kong area) while I speak Mandarin (Mainland chinese).

The basic greetings are, in mandarin:

你好!Ni hao! - Hello!
再见!Zai Jian! - Good bye!

- Teddz

 

Cantonese have their own pinyin, but very rarely seen (compared to mandarin pinyin anyway). In fact, it is so uncommon that any cantonese user hardly use it. I havn't seen the official spellings to tell the truth. But here is my custom version, and it's much more common for people who speak cantonese to go by their own pinyin.

Incidentally, "pin yin" - 拼音 is pronounced "ping yum" in cantonese:

Note: If you pronounce these English-like symonyms like how I've spelt them you are basically saying it correctly, but even so you really do need to listen to how it's said by a Cantonese speaker otherwise you will never really get the pronounciation 100%. Cantonese is much more guttural than Mandarin - for beginners, far easier

你好! - Hello! - "Lei Hole"

再见! - Goodbye! - "Joy Geen"

- Shen

 

I'm obsessed w/t Chinese stuff, teach ma plz!!!!!

 

It would greatly help if give us a starting point -_- And in future, be more specific, not spamerific.

- Shen

 

wei - hello (telephone usage), hey

 

okay i want to learn Chinese.
Not to be rude but how do you say,"back off" I just want to know.

 

" Ni Gun Yuan dian! " - "You back off!"

- Teddz

 

I am obsessed please leave me alone for your safty..

im just wondering. Im going to use this on the people that are in charge of a china buffet.

 

i could go for some chinese. hit me up with the first lesson.

 

Wo Ai Chinese!
Did not know if I said that right.
But I want to learn to.
I already know a little but not enough to have a conversation.

 

my my, alot of chinese lovers. Sure, we could teach you chinese, but do give us things that you want to learn ^_^;

- Teddz

 

Um...how about basic things like "Hi and Goodbye."

 

Already posted

- Teddz

 

Whoops. My bad. :blush:
Well I'm going to China in the summer for vacation so how do you say bathroom?(Since I'm probably going to be needing it.)
Isn't it something like "seesaw?"

 

In Cantonese it's "Cheesaw", not too sure about the Mandarin

- Shen

 

It's the same pronouciation, " Che So "

- Teddz

 

So if you were asking to go to the bathroom it would be:
"Hibendo Che So?"

 

I think it would be " Qing weng, che so zai na li " - " Excuse me, where is the toilet? "

- Teddz