Conversational (Lesson 3)

[Qinai de Jerry]

English: Hi!
Mandarin: Ni3 hao3!

English: How are you?
Chinese: Ni3 hao3 ma5?

English: I am fine, and you?
Chinese: Wo3 hen3 hao3, ni3 ne5?

English: I am also fine.
Chinese: Wo3 ye3 hen3 hao3.

English: Thank you.
Chinese : Xie4xie.

English: Goodbye!
Chinese: Zai4jian4!

Vocabulary Build-up:
ni3 - you (informal) (nin2 - formal of you)
hao3 - fine, good, well
ma - question particle
ye3 - also, too
hen3 - very
ni3 ne5 - how about you?
xie4xie5 - thank you
zai4jian4 - goodbye, bye

Note: Don't forget to pronounce it with the right tones.

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ni 3


hao3


ma5


wo3


hen3


ne5


ye3


xie4


zai4


jian4

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Note: This characters are all in simplified forms. Traditonal characters were no longer in use in china.

Follow the strokes accordingly as this is the right way in learning to write the chinese characters (hanzi).

Try to follow the simple steps of each characters in the picture and convert the conversations in chinese writing.

Tips:
Write the chinese characters several times (one character per day) for easy memorization. Guess what? That's what I did and it worked!!!

[babesjerry]

Sandy ni hao ma?
xiexie and jia yu!

[Qinai de Jerry]

babesjerry,

wo ye hen hao, ni ne?

[admin]

sandy how about the


what is ur name?

[Qinai de Jerry]

What is your name?
Ni jiao shenme mingzi?

mingzi

i am sorry, i couldn't find the characters for "mingz." can we enable chinese characters in this website. it would be better and much easier for me. thanks!

ni3 - you (informal)
jiao4 - called, to be called
shen2me5 - what
ming2zi4 - name