Simple Mandarin-Chinese phrases for Firefly fans

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FLAMETREE

Saturday, April 30, 2005 2:29 AM

Thanks for this thread.

I was inspired to study mandarin by the firefly show. It nice to know others are just as interested.

It has paid off because I can read many of your characters and that really made my day!

xie xie ni

CMONEY

Wednesday, May 4, 2005 10:08 PM

媽媽罵馬嗎? (mama ma ma ma?)

Chinese words are nothing without tones...

Also, zhongwen.com is a great resource. It's probably the best Chinese language resource I've ever seen.

LITHI

Friday, May 6, 2005 3:35 PM

We should start a new thread on chinese tongue twisters

Lithi@EstateSerenity.net

FLAMETREE

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 3:50 AM

I'd like to see that, more chinese tougue twisters please

:)

MYSTICOTALA

Monday, October 17, 2005 9:18 AM

Old thread...but I thougt I would add to it. I'm in Beijing studying chinese, so we learn a lot of them. This is probably the most well known after the 'ma' one :P

四是四，十是十，十四是十四，四十是四十。你不要把十四说成四十，四十说成十四。

si4 shi4 si4
shi2 shi4 shi2
shi2 si4 shi4 shi2 si4
si4 shi2 shi4 si4 shi2
si4 shi2 si4 zhi1 shi2 shi1 zi3 shi4 si3 de.

4 is 4, 10 is 10, 14 is 14, 40 is 40, 44 stone lions are dead

RAISTLIN

Sunday, October 23, 2005 1:47 AM

Can someone teach me to swear in mandarin.
plz and thank you
Xie Xie

ITSAWASH

Saturday, October 29, 2005 8:20 AM

That was so helpful. Thank you for taking the time to post it all.

DEEPKEY

Wednesday, January 11, 2006 12:47 AM

My wife and I really got into Firefly when we saw Serenity at the Cinema, went out and bought the box set.

Being from China, she said she liked the Chinese influence on it.

I asked her a couple of times on the more complex insults the crew traded "What did they just say?"

I always got the reply "I don't know!"

Eventually she turned and asked "Why are you asking me?" - The Pronounciation was often so bad she never realised they were speaking Mandarin.

Fortunately, My Chinese is so bad I can get half of what they say.

Here's one of my favourites:

"Ni Shi yi zhe Houzhe pigou"
-You are a monkey's bottom.

Superb.

Lets' send a cargo ship to BBC, Channel four or even Channel five and threaten them with it until they show it on UK tv.

-Deepkey.

(...something that's not been quoted before...)

MOSTSKILLZ

Wednesday, January 11, 2006 1:02 AM

This site ought to be helpful to everybody:
http://fireflychinese.home.att.net/

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QUEENSMESSENGER

Sunday, September 17, 2006 3:18 AM

does anyone know what the word and (how to pronounce it)Inara uses in Mandarin in the scene just before she and her female client make love. They say: let's just forget about ? today and enjoy ourselves"

Also are there any other mandarin words that pertain to Inara's calling?

Thanks

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