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Tuesday, 19 June 2007
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Learning Basic Mandarin Chinese 3: Basic Conversation
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It is appropriate to start off the introduction to Chinese with the common greeting: 你好。 Below is a dialogue between two people meeting each other for the first time.

Dialogues

Dialogue 1


Simplified Characters

Traditional Characters
金妮: 你好。   金妮: 你好。
欧文: 你好。   歐文: 妳好。
金妮: 我叫金妮。你叫什么名字?   金妮: 我叫金妮。你叫什麽名字?
欧文: 我叫欧文。   歐文: 我叫歐文。

Pīnyīn

English
Jīnní: Nǐ hǎo.   Ginny: Hello.
Ōuwén: Nǐ hǎo.   Owen: Hello.
Jīnní: Wǒ jiào Jīnní. Nǐ jiào shénme míngzi?   Ginny: I'm Ginny. What's your name?
Ōuwén: Wǒ jiào Ōuwén.   Owen: I'm Owen.

 

Dialogue 2


Simplified Characters

Traditional Characters
金妮: 他们是谁?   金妮: 他們是誰?
欧文: 她是艾美,她是中国人。他是东尼,他是美国人。   歐文: 她是艾美,她是中國人。他是東尼,他是美國人。
金妮: 你也是美国人吗?   金妮: 你也是美國人嗎?
欧文: 不是,我是英国人。你呢?你是哪国人?   歐文: 不是,我是英國人。妳呢?妳是哪國人?
金妮: 我是法国人。   金妮: 我是法國人。

 


Pīnyīn

English
Jīnní: Tāmen shì shéi?   Ginny: Who are they?
Ōuwén: Tā shì Àiměi, tā shì Zhōngguórén. Tā shì Dōngní, tā shì Měiguórén.   Owen: She is Amy. She's Chinese. He's Tony, an American.
Jīnní: Nĭ yě shì Měiguórén ma?   Ginny: Are you also American?
Ōuwén: Bú shì. Wǒ shì Yīngguórén. Nǐ ne? Nǐ shì nǎ guó rén?   Owen: No, I'm British. How about you? Which nationality are you?
Jīnní: Wǒ shì Fǎguórén.   Ginny: I'm French.



 
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