Simple Mandarin-Chinese phrases for Firefly fans
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queensmessenger wrote:
Saturday, September 16, 2006 17:18
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"
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Actually, that was English.
INARA
So no show. Let's just enjoy ourselves.
Ying
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Quote:
Originally posted by mysticotala:
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
speaking about tongue twisters there is this one I learned in school it's actually very famous:
i got this tongue twister off http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/zh.htm they have english meanings and pinyin.
this is a book that is good to show you why the characters are the way they are (I think it's traditional though. I used it before, it's fun, it is actually in english)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1932457003?v=glance
Chinese poems can be good to learn with too, such as from the author 李白 very famous.
I kind of teach beginner chinese, but my chinese (in my school) is consider regular 1 (beginner - intermediate).
"Dear Buddha, please bring me a pony and a plastic rocket..."
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I'm currently stuck in a warehouse job I hate... I've recently taken to writing 吃屎 (eat shit) in dust around the place...
Just wondering, how many regs to this website have their browser set up to displace Chinese?
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Haha. I'm learning chinese and we never do those tongue twisters. Different techniques I guess. Although they would help, my tone is terrible. Tone is one of the biggest things that prevents Chinese speakers from understanding non-native speakers.
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