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    14/11/2009 15:54   THREAD: GREETING    Written by: Kou Xin
do you want to know how to geet your family and friends in china?

learn a short greeting for your mutual geeting

hi or hello
nǐ hǎo
你 好
    18/11/2009 14:53   reply by: Kou Xin
Good morning
zǎo shàng hǎo
早 上 好！

Good afternoon!
xià wǔ hǎo
下 午 好！

Good night!
wǎn shàng hǎo
晚 上 好
    21/11/2009 13:56   reply by: Dong Yu
Are you familared with this?

How are you?
nǐ hǎo ma
你 好 吗？

.Fine, thanks. And you?
hěn hǎo xiè xiè nǐ ne
很 好， 谢 谢，你 呢 ？

I'm fine, too.
wǒ yě hěn hǎo
我也很好。
    26/11/2009 14:28   reply by: Dong Yu
This is too small for me. Do you have a bigger one?
zhè gè tài xiǎo lè , yǒu dà diǎn de má
这 个 太 小 了，有 大 点 的 吗？

too--tài 太
small----xiǎo 小
big-----dà 大

大 and 太 are so similar .

do you know this character "天"？
    01/12/2009 07:27   reply by: Grace
en,,,
I have learned chinese for a short period ,but I comfirm that the characters are too hard to understand.
    03/12/2009 14:39   reply by: Kou Xin
you are right ,Grace.
I think chinese and english own different thinking ways.
I could take an instance.
when you want to express some ideas ,you may say directly,but according to chinese habits,we will state something (maybe concerning the topic maybe not) first.

“天” means sky.
“大”means big.
“太”means so much .
    12/12/2009 15:44   reply by: 李明
haha

perhaps chinese is the hardest language to learn.
it shows its meaning by horizontal and perpendicular lines,which is the biggest difference among the others.

from 天 大 太，you can see directly,just a little disparity,but totally having nothing with each others .
    23/12/2009 16:25   reply by: Grace
How to say "How are you"?

from my angle, it is made use of greeting each other.
    31/12/2009 04:12   reply by: Kou Xin
from chinese viewpoint

How are you represents two meaning
the first is "hello",
nǐ hǎo
你 好

the second is "how do you feel recently?"
zuì jìn zěn mè yàng
最 近 怎 么 样？

which one do you prefer?
    19/01/2010 08:58   reply by: Suzanne
Hello, I'm new on this website, I'm french and I've been learning chinese by myself fortow years now.

Is it also possible to say "ni hao ma?" in order to say How are you?
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