Transcendence

Woof......

Quote from: Renny on December 15, 2011, 06:38
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wierd that should have been a character

Next Lesson:

Sentence: Wo xing (your surname), jiao (surname, given name).
Pronunciation: Woah Shing ( surname), Gee-Owww (surname, Given Name),
Meaning:My surname is ________, and I'm called _________.

Like in most asian countries that were influenced by confucianism, the family is more important than the individual, so when introducing yourself, you say your surname first, followed by your given name. John Smith would say I am Smith John.  My name in chinese is Nie Yifan. Family name Nie, given name YiFan:

Quote from: NieYiFan on December 07, 2011, 01:07
Chinese

Sentence: Dui bu qi, wo bu hui shuo putonghua.
Pronunciation: Dway boo chee, woah boo hway shwo poo tohng hwa (tohng has an "Oh" sound"
Meaning: Sorry, I don't speak chinese.

conversely if you just say: "Wo hui shuo putonghua", it means : I speak Mandarin.

Putonghua is the mandarin word for "common tongue", and since mandarin is the official language of the PRC, you can say it to mean chinese. Also you can say hanyu (han -like han solo, yu- like you and me).  THis word refers to the language of the han people, which is the most populous ethnicity in china. They speak mandarin. Finally, there is the word Zhongwen (zhong- the o sounds like the o in dough,  and the zh sound is like the j in just, wen sounds like when). This refers to the language of china in general. Zhong comes from zhongguo (the word for china) the zhong means middle, the guo means country, so zhongguo is the middle kingdom. wen is the word for language so it is zhongguo's wen or china's language: zhongwen.
so ends my brief lecture on the complexities of the chinese language.  

Chinese

Sentence: Dui bu qi, wo bu hui shuo putonghua.
Pronunciation: Dway boo chee, woah boo hway shwo poo tohng hwa (tohng has an "Oh" sound"
Meaning: Sorry, I don't speak chinese.

Quote from: icewing on October 03, 2011, 16:58
NIE!! ARE YOU BACK?! D:

=_= i should watch No.6 some time...soon...>_>

srry, not really.  I'm just checking in. I do that sometimes. 

Ouran is good fun, so is fruits basket since were talking about bishie anime. Gokusen and Gosick are good for other reasons.

Quote from: Furgeson on July 31, 2011, 23:35
My avatar is BL-themed right now in order to make NieNie-oneeeechan uncomfortable.

did you just call me your sister? Im confused.

THis must be one of those threads that never dies.

B-b-b-b-but if I can't spam, I won't know what to do with my free time...

just been working.

Hmmm, i guess marble is kindof expensive... Ah well. As for how I got out, i dont remember, probably got dug up by grave robbers.

I had a grave??? Cool. I hope it was made of marble.

WHAT THE HEL!!!?     You locked  my forum? but it was so much fun!!!!!   Oh, im back btw.