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The Mandarin Thread

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Since I don’t know Italian or Spanish or German or even French, I am going to start a thread with a language I know - Mandarin!  I know there are a lot of people learning Chinese out there so this may be a good opportunity to learn :D

So, let’s start!

大家好！我的名字叫Cynthia！很高興認識你！

其實我的中文能力比我的英文差，我比較容易用英文表達我自己的想法。

Anyways，希望許多人能借此機會多多學習你們的中文能力！祝你好運！


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February 13, 2008 | Filed Under General Forum 

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16 Responses to “The Mandarin Thread”

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    LondonRose Says:
    February 15th, 2008 at 6:52 pm

    你好! 是LondonRose. 你的”post” :) 是不是普通话? 可是,”你們” 是 “traditional” 汉字，对吗？

    这是我的　limited Chinese response :) You’re right, it is a good way to learn. What’s the English translation of what you wrote? 我不知道 enough　汉字 to understand everything. Hope this Englese wasn’t too frustrating to decipher!

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    kristine
    kristine Says:
    February 17th, 2008 at 3:22 pm

    there is no thread here where i can speak the language.. except english LOL

    i have to start a flip thread, but barely any here … gods.

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    Brice
    Brice Says:
    February 17th, 2008 at 3:31 pm

    You never know !

    I should start a lolcat thread… hmm.. maybe some speak it.

    (ok, sorry to hijack the mandarin thread… here’s something in Chinese)

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  4. 4
    Cynthia
    Cynthia Says:
    February 17th, 2008 at 4:42 pm

    I love this comment :D I used to talk like this with my friends back in high school :D We call it “Chinglish” haha!

    Basically what I said was:
    “Hello everyone! My name is Cynthia. Very happy to meet you!

    Actually my Chinese isn’t as good as my English, I can better express my thoughts in English.

    Anyways, I hope many people can use this opportunity to better your Chinese ability (bad Chinese grammar there oops :-O). Good luck!”

    我的post(i don’t know how to say this in Chinese haha)是普通话，但写的是“繁体字”(traditional Chinese). 我也可以用简体字如果这个对许多人来说比较容易看得懂 :D

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    Cynthia
    Cynthia Says:
    February 17th, 2008 at 4:43 pm

    HAHAHA!

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    LondonRose Says:
    February 17th, 2008 at 5:16 pm

    :) I was going to call it Chinglish but then I thought that was more Chinese-English, so that’s why I switched it to Englese, which is more English-Chinese :P I need to look up some of those characters. If you have time to post the pinyin it would make it easier to look up the meanings. I need to enlarge my vocabulary. I’ve used almost all I know already :P 再见！啊，我想蓝色，你呢？。。。 你的家/工作/学习好吗？我学习“TEFL” certificate online… it’s going ok so far. Ok, I’ll save the rest of what I know for another post! 我会说 “Is your bicycle new or old? red or black/green etc.?” :D 你有没有一个?! Ok, I’ll be back after I learn some more vocab.

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    mish.wsl Says:
    June 9th, 2008 at 2:17 am

    I’m pretty much a banana, I’m useless at mandarin/cantonese. Plus I don’t know how to get the characters up on the computer.
    In Malaysia we call it manglish, which can either mean ‘malaysian-english’ or ‘mangled-english’. :P Only in Manglish, it consists of mandarin, english, cantonese, malay and tamil. And possibly hindi and hokkien as well.

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    Marie Says:
    June 9th, 2008 at 5:27 am

    Haha my dad and I used to joke about how we spoke “Franglais” (Franglish?) all the time…I remember once asking him in the car was it weird that I couldn’t stick onto one language and always flipped flopped between the three (”Franglispanol” would be more accurate but i never spoke spanish with my dad)… He said no it wasn’t and that was that…reassuring enough for a 6 year old :)

    by the way i DESPERATELY must start learning mandarin…. I know about 3 words and will be in shanghai in only…. 2 1/2 months!! someone pleaseeee help :)

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    USAFinn
    USAFinn Says:
    June 9th, 2008 at 5:41 am

    你好！先在我学习中文在苏州大学。我的中文不好不过我会一店店！！

    你们怎么了？我很喜欢中文因为我朋友不明白汉字！ha ha!

    Does that make sense? I just started learning Chinese here in China this past March. I’m still amazed that I could even write that much in characters! haha!

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    mmmmmm
    mmmmmm Says:
    July 1st, 2008 at 4:37 pm

    wow laura chan tat’s reli good!
    yah i totally noe wt u mean, cuz u can then say it in front of your friends and they will grind their teeth lol.

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    Cynthia
    Cynthia Says:
    July 1st, 2008 at 6:53 pm

    你们怎么了? Actually means “What is wrong with you?”

    你好吗? Means “How are you?” (I think this is what you meant?)

    一店店 should be “一点点” (店 means shop)

    先在我学习中文在苏州大学. To be grammatically correct should be 现在我在苏州大学学习中文!

    Hope you don’t mind me correcting you!

    And yes quite impressive your Chinese ability :)

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    Jesswill Says:
    July 13th, 2008 at 12:58 pm

    Marie if you want to start learning Chinese try podcasts like www.chinesepod.com (there are others but this one is the one I use). It’s very entertaining and quite useful to start getting used to the language.

    我叫Jessica。 我是法国人。 我的家在伦敦。 我不回说汉语。I can’t speak or write much Chinese :-) but it’s a fantastically fun language to learn!

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    Caitlin
    Caitlin Says:
    July 17th, 2008 at 9:44 pm

    大家好! 我是区凯特跟我在中国四年半了.
    我想北京. 那儿是我的最家.
    我要去奥运, 可是我买不到.

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    Caitlin
    Caitlin Says:
    July 20th, 2008 at 11:38 pm

    Today I was working at my ice rink and a crowd of Chinese people came, so I got really excited, because I could understand a decent portion of their conversation.
    Anyway, on the way out, the kids were dropping off their rental skates, and the mother told the daughter (in Chinese) to give the skates to “jiejie.”
    I got called eldest sister today.
    I feel old.
    And then I went and scared the bejesus out of the girl by saying “Xiexie, meimei.” All the kids were actually scared of me the second I spoke Chinese–all the parents were just fine with it…
    Odd day.

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    Cynthia
    Cynthia Says:
    July 20th, 2008 at 11:45 pm

    Were they scared or did they just stare? Staring is one thing, scared is another LOL

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    Caitlin
    Caitlin Says:
    July 22nd, 2008 at 9:20 pm

    No, the girl actually ran and hid behind her mother…
    Only one kid didn’t duck for cover, because she was asking her father how I knew Chinese.

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