The Travel Linguist – Mandarin 101
Posted on March 9, 2010
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Learn 10 Mandarin survival words compliments of The Travel Linguist. For a full list of instructional language dvds, phrasebooks, audio cds and downloads, visit www.travellinguist.com
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Yes, that was what I learnt too.
the female doesnt sound like an ethnic chinese….seems a little fake to me
@hoangdai061 “nin” is a formal way of saying hello to someone you dont personally know
wow, it’s complicated. Is this okay if i say ” ni hao “. I start to learn chinese fom last week, so i don kno
I think Hello is “ni hao”, not “nin hao”.
@hoangdai061 : instead of “formal”, I’d like to say “nin hao” is a politer or more respectable way of speaking, normally you can use them for elders or someone you respect, usually use “ni” is quite ok, doesn’t matter and good luck for your chinese learning.
Its okay but saying “nin hao” is the more formal, than saying “ni hao”. But they both basically mean the same. Haha its okay your just learning ;P
@66korean it depends on the context, “hao de” could mean OK, no problem.
Hao de means excuse me.
I think its a bad way to learn it, cuz they don’t show what the individual word means, just give you a phrase..
@paddlepopkid
The key is to live in a country where you hear it on a daily basis or at least have someone to talk to in mandarin daily,like a language exchange partner
They should put the pin yin notation on the on the vowels
It’s okay, it’s actually not that bad after you get used to it. Watching chinese news or chinese dramas help too =)
i wonder if i record chinese news and just listen to it over and over again as im falling asleep will help my prounounciation
Omg its so hard… i want to start learning mandarin chinese… so i can visit china for a few years… its just so hard from an english speaking tongue..! why can’t i learn Mandarin, how i learnt english in kindergarden with abc and a is apple and b is ball c is for cat ewwkk HELP!
4:03 what is “hao de”?
Woah, this is a really polite version, I learn Mandarin at school and the way we say what’s your name is [you have what name character I believe xD] 你有什么名字?
With the reply I am [literally I'm called] 我叫 。。。So the example on here is really different to what I learn, maybe it’s a reallllyy polite way o__o
ya, nin is generally more polite.
How is the chinese wrong? Taking less than 1 year of chinese doesn’t give you the right to insult this video.
Plus, the pinyin for goodbye perfectly alright.
This is mandarin, but they use nin instead of ni. nin is generally more polite.
haha they start you off with nin. i would be very happy if you said nin hao.
oooh. thanx =]
对了 it is correct, there is nothing wrong with this Hanyu, it is correct Mandarin (Putonghua).
Chinese people are beautiful.
nin hao is respective
is this mandarin? cuz it doesnt seem like it…..(nin hao kinda gave it away since mandarin is ni hao)