Teach Me To Swear In Chinese!
POSTED BY: DarkHood
UPDATED: Thursday, August 23, 2007 23:45
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These are all great stuff... but I often have a hard time pronouncing these things. Is there a site out there with audio of how to pronounce them ocrrectly?
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Chinesepod.com is a Chinese learning site that has said it would like to produce some audio podcasts for Firefly fans, but aren't sure what we'd like to know. Go post there and they'll make a podcast for you!
http://www.chinesepod.com/blog/2006/01/06/open-thread-2/#comments
-B
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Originally posted by engineangel:
I looked "I Love You" up and i might be wrong because i didn't direct it towards anybody, just did the words as they are, but it is better than nothing.
I Love You = Wah I Ni
(Ni is pronounced Knee)
Keep flyin'
EngineAngel
That is the correct way to say it.
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You might want to try to listen to the podcast "The Signal Season 1. They had a learn Chinese section of the Show. The site is http://signal.serenityfirefly.com/season1/ and it's a really cool podwave. There is also The Firefly talk Podcast. That site is http://fireflytalk.libsyn.com/ both of these podcast can be Downloaded from Itunes. Enjoy.
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Go here to learn how to swear in Chinese.
http://www.baianed.com
I have been recording My Chinese Friends' voices, and writing my own software to help me study. I am now providing these programs on-line to help others.
Have fun!!!
ZimCrusher RULES!!!!1
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Originally posted by Gunhand:Quote:
Originally posted by annik:Quote:
Originally posted by Gunhand:
I've gotten quite a bit of use, and laughs out of my Chinese. And it's all Firefly's fault.
Then again I can swear in about 14 languages so it comes easlylike to me. I guess I just swear a lot...hmmm.
I'm a lot more comfortable using swear words that no one would really catch on to ... and around here, *lots* of folks would get the Chinese ones clear as a bell! I've considered committing some of the Shakespearean ones to memory (don't ask ... I can't remember any offhand!)
Cheers,
Annik
... my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.
Pretty much the same thing here, knowing curses in foreign languages, especially obscure ones, allows me to truely express my feelings in social situations where just coming out and saying,"Okay you're a real" would get me strange looks at best.
When I'm not sure which ones I can get away with I always fall back on Farsi, the chances of little old ladies at the mall knowing what I'm saying is one in a very large number that way.
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"Oh hey, I got an idea. Instead of us hanging
around playing art critic till I get pinched by
the Man, how's about we move away from this
eerie-ass piece of work and get on with our
increasingly eerie-ass day, how's that?"
My eerie-ass website:
http://gunhandsfirefly.homestead.com/Index.html]
I can swear in Mandalorian.
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/llama.php
-try it out, I dare you
98% of teens have smoked pot, if you are one of the 2% that haven't, copy this into your signature
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Quote:
Originally posted by Jazaf:
How would I say
No way in the nine spheres of hell
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Do you know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with till you
understand who's in rutting command here.
Well, the Chinese don't have nine hells, that's the Greeks. With that in mind, you should shift the idiom to the eight million hells of Chinese mythology.
I can't help you with the translation, though.
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http://fireflychinese.home.att.net/ <- not all correct
zhun tai duh guay (Like hell)[direct - really like a monster/ghost]
yun dahn (Bastard)
Aieeyah! [damn! or Oh no!]
Diu ne lao mahng (Sonofabitch)[also means f*** your mother... do not use this in Hong Kong or you will be beaten up. SERIOUSLY]
Bee-jway or sho pi (Shut up)[shut mouth]
Ne men bee-jway (You guys shut up)
luh-suh [Garbage - Taiwanese][mandarin - la ji - trash]
Fei-oo (Junk)
Gao se (Crap)[seriously means dog poo, so i would say it means shit]
Niu-se (Cow poop)
Tian-sah [world]
Guay [monster]
Lao Tian yeh (Jesus usually not used as a swear word)
Wuo de Ma (My mother)
Fei hwa (Nonsense)
Hwai leh! [broken or screwed up]
Tian-sha suo-yo de ren doh gai si. [direct - Earth everyone is killed]
Hwai [bad]
Fay-fay duh Pee-yen (a babboon's ass-crack)
Wuo de tian! Oh My God!
bai poh [bitch or direct translation white granny]
[Pok Guy/PK][cantonese - direct translation - fall down and die - used for like "f***ed up"]
DiNg [cantonese for damn it - the N is held longer]
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Swear words, but some of these are in cantonese and i tired to put real pinyin but i think it might be said wrong so i have the english pinyin.
I do use most of these, but since my school speaks cantonese and mandrain I do get in trouble... hehe..
Mandrain & Cantonese are my second language.
"Dear Buddha, please bring me a pony and a plastic rocket..."
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I'm actually in Chinese 1, so I have a handy-dandy pinyang thingie! With this, you can find out how to say qingwao cao de liumang (something I'm sure is quite offensive to frog enthusiasts).
Commonly Mispronounced Consonants (the rest are quite self explanatory):
Zhi: Jur
Shi: Shur
Si: Suh (ssssuh)
Ji: Gee
Qi: Ch
Xi: Shee (as in sheet)
Zi: Tzuh
Ci: Tsuh
U (with the dots on top): Eueww
De: Duh
Chi: Chur
Ri: Rur
Vowels:
A: ah
Er
Eng: ung
Ang: ahng
En: n
An: Ahn
Ei: Ey (As in Hey)
Ao: Ow
U: Ooh
Ou: Oh..
Ie: Yeah
Yi: Ee
Ai: Ah-ee (quickly)
O: O! (Like in God!)
E: Uh
Qingwe cao de liumang (roughly and hesitantly): Ch-uhng-wuh tsao duh leeuh-mahng
Zaijin: Tzai-jin
I'm sure every single Mandarin speaker looks down on me now. xD
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She was over the top
And out of control
She ran away
At thirteen years old
But she had her feet on the ground
And nobody pushed her around
- Storm Large, Beautiful
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well i would just like to say that latin would have worked but not in this premise.
for example if it had been lating on a place were no one was able to comunicat for some time it would make sence to use latin because and only because latin is a dead language and it wont be changed easely
the only real antisocialist
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