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
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
Posted by admin on September 2, 2010, filed in Vacation and tagged Linguist, Mandarin, travel. You can leave a response via the comment form below and follow any responses via the RSS feed.
@MrNinecrimes It’s like saying “vous” instead of “tu” in French. Simply put its a respectful way to address someone.
?-ni-you
?-nin-you+heart
ohh my gosh…every word sounds the same ahh!!
this chinese boy is fuckin nerd
@cttn101 Are you comparing Australian aborigines to Chinese civilization? Keep trying. Eventually you will say something that makes sense.
Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, New Zealand, USA and Australia are heavily populated by Celtics that were forced to speak English. The Brithonic languages were outlawed by the English, and Brithonic books were burned.
@cttn101 You educating me??? I speak four languages, and you can’t even express yourself clearly in your own mother tongue. LOL
@cttn101 The 19th century British Empire, and the 20th century American empire led the world in bloodletting and theft, nothing more. The English didn’t even bathe until 100 years ago. They wore flea powdered wigs, to ward off plagues and their women lead the world in child bed fever deaths. They were still burning women at the stake only a century or so ago. China was the leading civilization in the world for thousands of years, until it was invaded by the British Army and it’s drug dealers.
@elouwen and Mandarin does have the exact some laws of langauge, that you are describing….. every language has these….. like your saying… Saw and Sore… spelt differently… said the same… or Principal and Principle… or words that are spelt the same, and have several meanings…. many languages have these laws…. i don’t even know why im wasting my time and educating you.. douche bag
@elouwen people haven learnt English at their own free will, because Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United State of America and Great Britian are all developed sophisicated countries, and our culture is desirable to every other race….. when the British cam to Australia in the 1700′s… they didn’t force native abo’s to learn, the natives, went out of their way to learn English, becaue the English were more Sophisicated in every way… they dressed elegant.. they had technology. etc etc
@elouwen not at all… you toss wank…it is dominant because between the 18th and 20th century… up until now, the start of the 21st century… English and countries with English power, have lead the world in Science, Culture, Engineering, Architecture, Performaning Arts…. our culture has been more desirable than Arab Culture, or Indian Culture or Any other Asian or African Culture…. you cretin…. the English didn’t put a sword to people’s throat and say learn english… you fool!!
xie xie!!!!!
what does anyone know what “nin” means?
@tmrbras Mandarin is a simple, straight forward and economic language. English is overloaded with overly complex verb conjugations, an inconsistent and inexact alphabet, words written alike but pronounced differently, words pronounced alike but written differently, words in foreign language alphabets, and worst of all, thousands of elitist words with duplicate meanings. English is dominant only because it was forced upon us at the point of English swords, and British Army guns.
The video is very good, but it misses the accentuation. It’s completely necessary to learn the pronunciantion.
Mandarin should be more simple. It is 800 years behind actual English.
@husohome Never meant to imply that abandoning the etymology or history of a language is a good thing. If that were true then Latin should discarded too!
I just mean from a communicatory view point – complex writing systems and traditionally difficult to pick up tonal languages aren’t necessarily the OPTIMUM way to convey meaning.
Which language is more beautiful or has the richer history is not the argument I was positing.
@Sablicious I’m from Taiwan and speak Madarin. I totally agree that complexity has nothing to do with superiority. However, I am a bit offended by your former discourse that simplification of Chinese charaters is a kind of progress. In Taiwan we use traditional Chinese characters rather than simplified ones, largely because the former are more beautiful and meaningful in terms of etymology. There are pros and cons. Oh, and yes Chinese lagnuages are difficult especially when it comes to writing.
does cesuo means bathroom??
i love chinese
@bubblebaboon11 I brought it from Dell. ^_-
@Sablicious how the hek did u get the computer to type in watev this language is? THT IS SOOO COOL!
@ApocalypsPlz Who’s complaining? o_0
I was merely pointing out a fact of linguistics – complexity =/= superiority.
As far as Mandarin (eg.) is concerned, compared to English, the former is harder to learn for the average Westerner than English is for Asians. As pronunciation in English is nowhere near as critical to the meaning as it is in Chinese, a tonal language. But to master, English is more difficult in light of its grammar & the myriad ways of conveying the same meaning.
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@Sablicious
You can also say this to Arabic, Russian people: their languages are unnecessarily complicated. Oh and in order to make foreign languages easier to learn for you, all languages on earth should be written only in Latin Alphabets .
I’m tired of hearing people complain about Chinese is difficult. In fact, the difficulties of one language is depending on your mother tongue. For a native Chinese speaker, most of European languages are also hard to learn and use.
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Unnecessary complexity doesn’t make a language ‘better’ or ‘superior’. In fact, it shows a lack of evolution. Even Chinese script has a modern form in order to make the language more accessible and less cumbersome to use/learn. Though it’s still far too finicky a form of communication to ever become world standard.
The only thing that makes the Chinese language more relevant now is the country’s overwhelming population and the resultant economics offshoots of this.
Where are the showed tones? Horrible. Schlecht.
Oh my. This is so hard!! x_X