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2/04/2009

How to say 'I LOVE You' in Chinese?

Do not recognize Chinese characters? That's fine! Let's blurt out Chinese first!

From now on, 'Daily Bite' will introduce a series of useful sentences denoted by Pinyin. I hope in this way you can gradually accumulate more Chinese in the sense that you can actually speak!


Even Valentine's day will only come in about 2 weeks, but I guess it might take a longer time to speak this correctly, so I just post this at this 'early' stage. So do you want to know how to say 'I LOVE YOU!' in Chinese?





In case that you may forget how to follow Pinyin to pronounce them, try the 'Pinyin Pronunciation' under the 'Useful Link' to practise.

As you may already see, the 3 characters just match the 3 English letters perfectly and their mearning is just obvious.

Below is a video of a Chinese song 'Say Love Me' (shuō ài wǒ) with Pinyin subtitle. Thus, even you don't know what it actually means, you can follow the singer (Jolin ) to sing this song with the help of Pinyin! Want to try that out?

CC's Note:

1. There are some typos in the lyrics of the video at (0:31/3:44), where the last one should be 'jing' instead of 'jiang'. At (0:38/3:44) 'gon' should be 'gan'. One minute later(1:30,2:46/3:44), the 'ning' is 'ming'.

2. The singer is Jolin Tsai. Well, in Pinyin, this 'Tsai' is 'cài'.


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2/02/2009

Pinyin-summary

I think it is useful to collect those posts about Pinyin in a single post and put it under the 'useful posts'.
It is reasonable to know why you may want to study Pinyin, when there are alternative solutions to the phonetic system of Mandarin. This brief introduction may give you some feeling.
You can go over the 3 components of Pinyin in more detail with our hints and audio file.
Initials:
b p m f
d t n l
g k h
g q x
z c s
zh ch sh r y w
Finals:
All finals are integrated in this post.
Tones:
In standard Mandarin, there are only 4 of them, so not that hard.
Be a bit careful that the following may sound a little beyond your expectation when they are combined together:
zhi chi shi ri zi ci si
Now all you have to do is just to link them together, and practice, practice and practice! I will post the pinyin for dialogues and words soon, you just try your best to mimic. This tool is useful and you can listen to the standard pronunciation of those characters that you are not sure about.
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2/01/2009

Chinese New Year celebrations around the world

A collection of pictures about how people celebrate this festival:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2009/jan/26/1?picture=342327786
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