Want to learn Chinese? :)

Want to learn Chinese? :)
 

I am going to teach everyone Chinese.... first, the countries and languages in Chinese!

Spanish especially! :D

xi ban yá yu - Spanish
ying yu - English (more specifically, mei yu is American English)
hàn yu - Chinese
hán yu - Korean

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Good morning: zao shàng hao
Hello/hi: ni hao


Pinyin Pronunciation Guide

Jjajajajaja you are crazy, orale you finish your post now.

What is a common greeting in Chinese? Like "good morning" or "hello"?

I guess yu means language

yes it does :)

Most common greeting is ni hao, which means 'you (are) good'
Wo ai hanyu = I love chinese
Ni shi wode baobei ma? = will you be my sweetheart? :) :) :)

Wow, that last one seems to translate to colloquial English(would you be my baby mama?):D

Yeah, but if it weren't a question, the ma wouldn't be there.

Thank you Jchen! Now, as far as the accents go what is the difference in stress between the forward and backward accents? (Chinese & Korean above)

Thanks again!

Pronunciation, and a different character.
Two more tones:
flat&high (_) over the letter
Rising-falling, quite long (turn > 90 degrees right, over the letter)

¡Muy bien!

Y ahora que estoy totalmente confundida, ¿quién podrá ayudarme?

:confused::thinking::?::banghead::duh::hmm:

Those that speak Chinese will tell you that there are 4 tones. The accents used by jchen and the two other characters described by Planet hopper help identify those tones. I'll let the experts teach you more about the tones.

thanks!

Elaina,
If 4 tones look difficult, try Cantonese (Guangdong hua), it has 7 tones...

yes that's right ^^ wow planet hopper you know some Chinese!!!! ^^

Xi xie, hao pengyou
:)

you mean xie xie.... ;)
And these are the four tones....
*_
*/
*V
*\

Don't you guys drop the -e in spoken chinese, when talking fast?
Chinese is so difficult it is very very interesting :)

no... :P :thinking: