Monday, September 1, 2008

(Part 2) Learn Chinese: Greetings

-嘿,你好!(pinyin: hei, ni hao!) Hey, hello!
-你好!Hello.
-好久不见了。(pinyin: hao jiu bu jian le.) Long time no see.
-是啊。(pinyin: shi a.) Yeah.
-最近你都干嘛呢?(pinyin: zui jin ni dou gan ma ne?) What are you doing these days?
-没干嘛,挺无聊的。(pinyin: mei gan ma, ting wu liao de.) Nothing, just bored.

These is the dialogue I used in the dining hall to greet one of my friend happen to meet today.

3 comments:

Stu 陶明瀚 said...

very cool, much better to talk like a real person than a robot. I noticed that if you get the tone slightly wrong it changes the word. To bad you couldn't embed a recording of the conversation.

By the way I appreciated your advice about learning Chinese first, makes since to me. Time to enroll in Mandarin class.

FlyingRabbit said...

Maybe I can embed a recording of the conversation, though I haven't tried once. OK, if the recording is really helpful with your Chinese, I think I'll find methods to do it. Just give me some time.

FlyingRabbit said...

That's my voice!