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Cait Sith
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Aug 27, 2012 10:34AM
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Yep, and you post right after I left for dinner. Great.
Hehe hold on I'll sign up for your class wren *giggles*
Guess who's awesome?!? Well me. BUT, Jada has now reached awesome status too!
Lol! Thanks I'm awesome! Whohoooo
Alright, now who's ready for some mandarin?
Alright then. Any beforehand knowledge of Mandarin?
I like the chicken *giggles* but seriously no not a word of mandirin do I know
Okay then, let's start simple. First you need a basic knowledge of how Mandarin works. Everyone knows Mandarin is written with characters right? Well Mandarin also has an English friendly way to read and write it. That's called Pinyin. Ni Hao would be the way to write 你好 In pinyin.
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mmmm yummy.
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how do we get that symbol on our computers?
Thad be PC. Okay then-Go to the windows button
-Click "Control Panel"
-Click "Clock, Language, and Region
-Click "Region and Language"
-At the top click "Keyboards and Languages" then click "Change keyboards..."
-Click "Add"
-Scroll down and find "Chinese (Simplified, PCR)" and click the tiny plus next to it.
-Click the plus next to "keyboard"
-Click "Chinese (Simplified)- Microsoft Pinyin ABC Input Style" until there is a check in the box next to it
-Click "Okay"
-Click "Apply"
-You may then close all the extra windows that were opened.
-At the bottom (near the time) you will either see an "EN" or a "CH" English and Chinese, simple right?
-click on the abbreviations to change the language.
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Hmmm I had to sop myself from saying Meow bad Kitty and hmmmnm
Alright then. Next thing you should know is that Chinese is a tonal language. The tone that you say a word can change its meaning. so saying Lu Cha (green tea) with the wrong tones means you could be asking for donkey tea.
So confused how do people learn this!?!?
Ha, really? 我明白 is better fit for the situation.我明白= Wo ming bai= I understand.
There are four tones and a fifth no tone. fifth tone is hard to explain and since I can't hear you speak, tones are irrelevant. Alright let's start with something simple. How bout numbers?1= 一
6= 六
11= 十一
4= 四
9= 九
2= 二
7= 七
12= 十二
5= 五
10= 十
3= 三
8= 八
20= 二十
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Idk why but they remind me of Roman numeral
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Another thing, qi is pronounced chee
chi is pronounced chir
shi is pronounced shir
xi is pronounced she
gei is pronounced gay
and so on. pronunciation takes a while, but once you understand it, it's easy
gei means give.你给我你的帽子。 ni gei wo ni de mao zi. Give me your hat.
put it into google translate if you want to hear the pronunciation.
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gei is pronounced "gay"
Nǐ gěi wǒ nǐ de màozi.That's what it looks like with the tonal markings.
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Little Johnny ~Go Timmy~ wrote: "Ok I was being funny you know,gei is pronounced "gay""
Yea, When I first started learning Chinese I thought it was funny too.
Little Johnny ~Go Timmy~ wrote: "premission to shoot myself ma'am?"yea... no. Then I would have to clean up the blood.
Lol nice one Johnny and Bah I feel like a bouncy ball has more point then this
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Little Johnny ~Go Timmy~ wrote: "Hey guys, Kris sent me a message about one of his groups that died. So I told him it went to big goodreads in the sky."Lol wow Johnny lol I cant shop laughing you know ahem a friend tells a joke that's so stupidly funny its hilarious? Lol
Jada (twi-hard fan lol =D)) wrote: "Lol nice one Johnny and Bah I feel like a bouncy ball has more point then this"Mandarin is the second most spoken language in the world. Glad you don't want to learn the language of the country that owns half of us. we owe them like 4 trillion in debt. SO either we learn Chinese or try to understand their terrible English. emphasis on try.
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Mandarin is the second most spoken language in the world. Glad you don't want ..."
Well to y'all it's the second most spoken language. But to us, We mostly speak, ancient Norse, Ancient Roman, Ancient Greek, etc...
