mandarin chinese

[bigtombowski]

hey!

i was thinking of taking up mandarin chinese again coz i took 2 years of classes but i'm not that good!

does anyone in here know mandarin and they can give me a few pointers?

t

[somebody]

I know of the mandrin but i prefer the waterplace does some lovely dishes.

Tom wouldn't it be better to put all your engeries into being Mars and learning her native tongue?

Geez i bet when you were young they never let you near the coke cola at parties you is wwwway to hyper hyper.

[bigtombowski]

hehe

i like to challenge myself
i am a dork

i am learning Bisaya, and doing well ... new bit every day ... in a few years i will be floooooeeeent! :D great

now. my obsessive mind won't let me stop at that! ...

so back to the topic :D

who here knows mandarin???

t

[somebody]

hehe

i like to challenge myself
i am a dork

i am learning Bisaya, and doing well ... new bit every day ... in a few years i will be floooooeeeent! :D great

now. my obsessive mind won't let me stop at that! ...

so back to the topic :D

who here knows mandarin???

t

In a few years your be effulent!!! i thought it was 5 billion years the great leader admin has given us before its game over.

Do you intend to just learn converse init or in its written form as well?

[bigtombowski]

u are so london
u said "init" lol :D

///

just to converse, in PINYIN ...

u said i will be effluent?

lol hahahaahaaaaaaa

when i have kids i'll have the "fingernail experience"

SO ... DOES anyone on here know mandarin????
t

[somebody]

i know 训练海豚的人

which i belive is dolphin trainer a very handy word if you need a dolphin training i guess:Erm:

棘手的问题

[bigtombowski]

i am on PC at the mo, so i can't see the characters,
but when i get my laptop, i'll see the heck out of those bad boys! :D

[somebody]

Does this pc your on mind, must be far friendlier the plod in your area? In london you would have a change of address imposed on you methinks.

[somebody]

ni hao.

ni jaio shenme

wo jiao somebody

[bigtombowski]

HAO HAO

ni de putonghua shi tai liao bu qi le! :D

good work dude! :D

[somebody]

zaijian

[gracia143]

:Erm:

[somebody]

i am on PC at the mo, so i can't see the characters,
but when i get my laptop, i'll see the heck out of those bad boys! :D


you need to translate the 2nd one but hopefully someone out there can :Help1: you obtain the knowledge.

[somebody]

:Erm:

zenme yang?

[gracia143]

Unsa na?

[bigtombowski]

haha! lol it's nice for people who don't actually speak these languages to confuse each other with filipino languages and chinese :D

i'll wait till u 2 are done

de dum de dum de dum heheehe


t

[somebody]

Unsa na?

Natulog ang iring kay gikapoy

to much non english speaking for me speaking japanese to some of our customers at work is bad enough im off to watch ghosbusters

[gracia143]

Ambot Tom, maayong gabii na lang diha ninyo! Keith don't like translating I know hehe...

[gracia143]

[QUOTE=somebody;43154]Natulog ang iring kay gikapoy

Hahaha very funny! Karon ang ilaga nagdagan-dagan na kay ang iring gikapoy diay!

[bigtombowski]

hehe
i like cebuano :D

hehehe

unsa balita Ate Gracia ha?

[somebody]

beannacht gach

[bigtombowski]

ni hao

[gracia143]

hehe
i like cebuano :D

hehehe

unsa balita Ate Gracia ha?

Hay Tom mao ra gihapon, stressed-out...kapoy magpakasal sa?

[mhynne]

i studied in a chinese school when i was in grade school and high school.. im not really good with mandarin though but im pretty ok with fookien.. which is the chinese dialect widely spoken here in the Philippines.. chinese is the hardest language ever!!! and mandarin is the hardest dialect in chinese... not all chinese people know how to speak it.. only my dad in our family is the one really good at it.. you have to be really precise with your pronunciation or else it would mean something else..
im not really good with reading the chinese words in english letters though.. makes it hard for me to understand :Brick:

[bigtombowski]

i have a lot of really REALLY good friends who are fookien :D

for example, my friend Gar Ling :D

[Bridget]

Chao san Tommmi.

[mhynne]

i have a lot of really REALLY good friends who are fookien :D

for example, my friend Gar Ling :D

COOL!!! fookien is really easy to understand and speak...
argh one of my regrets in life.. i didnt really take it seriously before... im still not fluent til now.. although i am forced to speak it when im in divisoria and trying to haggle with chinese merchants there... you be surprised how much discount i get when i talk to them in chinese hehehe
why dont you also try to learn tagalog? be nice to converse with marivic in tagalog.. hehe i bet she be impressed.. :D my andy has this dream that we be doing the grocery in the uk and we be speaking in tagalog both him and i.. hehehe and im really proud of him bec he can sometimes understand now when i am talking to other people in tagalog... and hes really cute when he mispronounces the words :D

[Yossarian]

chinese is the hardest language ever!!! and mandarin is the hardest dialect in chinese... not all chinese people know how to speak it.. only my dad in our family is the one really good at it.. you have to be really precise with your pronunciation or else it would mean something else..

Hmm... interesting thread you started here, Tom :rolleyes:

Mandarin is not a dialect - it's the official language of China, so tends to be rather widely spoken :BouncyHappy: The proper name for it is Putonghua - "The Common Language".

Yeah, you need to be precise when speaking it: Mandarin has 5 tones, and word-meanings change depending on the tone. But it's a beautiful language to hear, to speak, to read.

Cantonese, on the other hand... 9 tones? That scares me!

[vbkelly]

hey!

i was thinking of taking up mandarin chinese again coz i took 2 years of classes but i'm not that good!

does anyone in here know mandarin and they can give me a few pointers?

t

here's some chinese tom BUTSEKIK IK IK

[Ping]

Gung Xi Fai Chai, Mee Pok, Pak Choi, Chu Pai Chai, Mee rebus

[bigtombowski]

hahaha! food ha! i love Pak chioi!

[Bridget]

I love pak choi, too. I love sho mai and sho pao....hehehehe

[kentish]

Gung Xi Fai Chai,

Hong Bao Na lai.....

[bigtombowski]

short of having the actual chinese characters in our responses, i think this thread is beginning to be conducted in chinese! lol

that's as annoying as the one that was in bisaya a while ago or the many that are in tagalog! hehehehe!!!

tom (or Wu Xian in mandarin ... or Mo Han in cantonese :D)

[graceylacey]

Hello Bigtombowski! You might want to include these in your study. :)

Chinese born during the night - Andy Lim
born blind - Kenneth Sy
born being swindled - Lino Co
born while cooking - Nilo Toh
born as 10th child - Sam Po
born while being courted - Lily Gaw
born fat - Bob Uy
born cannot walk - Kent Go
born little - Kathy Ting
born with real estate - Lot Te
born different - Eva Yan
born with porridge - Lino Gaw
born looking for someone - Allen Sia
born while counterfeiting - Faye King
born during Sunday - Lyn Go
born with malice - Mali Sia
born angry with someone - Ally Tan
born with picture - Lara Huan
born with sweets - Kent Dy
born undefined - Sam Ting
born while taking a bath - Lily Go
born while buying - Bill Li
born secretly - Tina Go
born ugly - Shiela Yan

Are you havin' a bubble?

[Bridget]

hahahaha thats cool graceylacey..

[bigtombowski]

yep, half past two - china man goes to the dentist! "too-thurty"

[pennybarry]

Tom,
I know how to speak Mandarin. But I am not fluent. Anything I can help you? We had free lessons in Taiwan before where I worked 5 years, studied Japanese Hiragana and Spanish:D too.
Looking forward to meet you and Kimmi.:Hellooo:

[bigtombowski]

thanks penny