Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Learn Chinese Conversation - Part 1

If you want to learn Chinese, I can help! I'm going to post a few articles covering the subject "Chinese conversation".

This is the first post, covering some common forms of salutation.

In every post you'll find links to very helpful mp3 audio recordings. Please listen carefully and try to repeat with the same intonation.

Greetings 1


Meeting Someone...
How do you do?
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hǎo ! MP3

(when you meet one person)
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nǐmen hǎo ! MP3
你们

(when you meet two or more persons)
How do you do?
(in reply)
-
hǎo ! MP3

(toward one person)
-
nǐmen hǎo ! MP3
你们

(toward two or more persons)
NOTE: 你好!(nǐhǎo!) or 你们好!(nǐmenhǎo!) can be translated also "Hello!" or "Hi!"
Hello, Mary!
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mǎlì , hǎo ! MP3
玛丽
Hi, David!
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hǎo , dàwèi ! MP3
大卫


When You Leave...
Good-bye.
-
zài jiàn ! MP3
Good-bye.
(in reply)
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zài jiàn ! MP3


With my next post I'm going to add some more useful Chinese conversational sentences.