Originally posted by putturani
When I hear just the word a couple of times I remember it but if I hear
words in a sentence I can't pick them up so easily. I;ve watched three
dramas so far and not much improvement (considering I used to study
Mandarin before)
Mandarin Words:
btw these may be wrong and these are not traditional Pinyin spellings.
Forgive me!
wo - me
ni - you
ta - him/her
women - us
nimen - you all
tamen - them
yenzing - eyes
erdwo - ears
bize - nose
zweiba - mouth
nan - boy
niu - girl
nan pengyo - boyfriend
niu pengyo - girlfriend
hao - ok
ho - good
pengyo - friend
hao pengyo - good friend
yue - moon
obaasan - middle aged matron (learnt this from WWL 😆 )
shwe - water
Ingue - because
Sawyi - so --->I learnt both of these from romantic scenes in DBY 😆
da - big
xiao - small
zhong - medium/middle
Zhonghua - China
Putonqhua - Mandarin
Chakali - chocolate (remember Mei Di anyone?)
xiao/da shwye - primary school/university
shaan - mountain
ban - something to do with percentage
I know all the numbers up to 100
bu hao - bad
women zho ba? - shall we go?
wo ai ni - I love you 😳 😳
ah yi - aunty
buo buo -uncle
mei mei - little sis
jie jie - big sis
ge ge - big bro
di di - little bro
ye ye - grandpa
ke ai - cute
wo zhi dao/wo bu zhi dao - I know/I don;t know
Meiyo - no
bu que yi/que yi - can't/can
ai - love 😳
hmm I'll add to this later. And welcoem to this forum Henna. Nice to see
KS crowd here.
xiang - believe (I THINK)
I only know wo ai ne from that list 😆 thats really impressive i think that mandrin is hard to learn with the way the words sound... with Korean the words arent so close together in pronounciation sa with mandrin - well thats what i feel lol
