[Chinese] Want to learn Chinese? :)

[Jessica]

yeah it is complicated but if you know what the thing is, and what it looks like, and which measure word it goes to, it isn't that bad. ^_^

[Jessica]

for the date, it is the year first, then the month then the day. So that means for Chinese, large >>>>> small. For English small >>>>>> large.
Take today's date for example.
2008 年 11 月 28 日
nian is year, yue is month (and also means moon), and ri is day. Day can also be 天, but that's really meaning the "sky" or 今天 (today - jin tian), 明天 (ming tian - tomorrow) and 昨天 (yesterday, zuo tian). ri would be the correct one to use in the dates
Another ex.:
If you want to send mail to someone in China:
First you put the country, then the province, then the city or town, then the street, then the building #, then the room # (if it's an apartment), and finally the person's name.
And of course, for the U.S., it's the person's name, house #, the street name, the city/town, then the state, the zip code, then finally the country, the United States.

[NiaR]

uffff realy complicated!
we have a Chinese shop here , where I go shopping sometimes.They are very sweet & kind people
jchen can you help me ? I want to know just how to say to them in Chinese the classics when i go shopping like
Hello
Thank you
good bye
nice or beautiful (for the clothes they sale)

thank you!

[Jessica]

ok no problem
Hello is ni hao
thank you is xie xie ni
good bye is zai jian
nice/beautiful - zheng hao kan! or zheng mei li! or hen piao liang!
good luck with your Chinese (speaking to them)! It's nice that you go to a Chinese store!

[NiaR]

Originally Posted by jchen

ok no problem
Hello is ni hao
thank you is xie xie ni
good bye is zai jian
nice/beautiful - zheng hao kan! or zheng mei li! or hen piao liang!
good luck with your Chinese (speaking to them)! It's nice that you go to a Chinese store!

tnaks a lot!!!
yes the woman is going to born a baby in a few weeks and I think is good to support her by buying clothes from her... and as I sad they are both very kind and smiley and good people...

[Jessica]

you're welcome!

[Jessica]

Here's more Chinese:
basketball: lan qiú 篮球
tennis: wang qiú 网球 see the 网? does it almost look like a tennis racket?
ping pong: ping pang qiu 乒乓 These two characters look almost alike, except for one small difference. it is like this because you need two people to play ping pong; ong at the left, one at the right.

[Jessica]

sorry for the consecutive posts... :P
Dui bu qi...
zhe - this
na - that

Zhe shi shui de shu bao?
Whose backpack/book bag is this?

Na shi wo de shu bao.
That is my backpack/book bag.

Sorry again if you don't know how to pronounce it....you will have to figure it out yourself, because I don't know how to explain...


duo shao
how many/much
for #10 +

*duo - more, many
*shao - less, few

ji
how many/much
for #1-10

if you do not know how many/much of something there are, you can use both. However, if you are asking how many students are in my school (Xue xiao li you duo shao xue sheng?) it would be best to use duo shao because there are more than 10 students in the school, of course. ji wouldn't make sense here.

[CrOtALiTo]

I feel that is hard learn the Chinese, but I can try to learn the language.

[Jessica]

it is pretty hard...but of course you can try first master English (I know you can do that! ) then try French (right?) and then Chinese....for that you can always ask me...it might be hard for me to explain the pronunciation though

[NiaR]

I think that the hart part is the pronunciation...

but certainly is an interesting language

[Jessica]

yes of course ^_^ and the culture is interesting too....

[CrOtALiTo]

It might be hard to learn but, you must remind that nothing is impossible in this live.

Less learn a language new.

[Jessica]

Originally Posted by CrOtALiTo

It might be hard to learn but, you must remind that nothing is impossible in this live.

Less learn a language new.

Correction: It might be hard to learn, but you must remember that nothing is impossible in this life

[CrOtALiTo]

Thank you very much. I'm grateful for your help toward me.

[Jessica]

you're welcome !

[lee ying]

thank you jessica for teach us chinese, i woul like to learn it. follow doing it. please. but i haven´t had for reading it. please.. i can say this: zhe shi jessica: she is jessica am i right?

[Jessica]

you are close. Zhe shi Jessica is This is Jessica. If you want to say She is Jessica say Ta shi Jessica.

[lee ying]

yes , I know it.. lol
thank you. lol
i´m going to learn more and more and then i´ll ask you ok.....
merci beaucoup

[Jessica]

you're welcome good luck