Chinese Lesson #1

I stumbled across this Chinese Lesson #1 on Sara's blog. Her DTC group is going to be doing Chinese Lesson's weekly. Hopefully I will be able to learn some basic Chinese before I head over to get Channing.


Here is lesson #1
Hello (simple, basic greeting): "Ni hau"
Pronounced: "Knee How"
"Ni" (knee) - said just like that body part, it means 'you
'"hau" ("how") - simple, eh?, Hau means "good", so the literal
translation of "ni hau" is "you good"
Add the word "ma" (pronounced just like it is spelled) to turn the
phrase into "How are you?" ("Ni Hau ma?")
You can respond by saying: "hau" or if you are really good "hen hau"
(pronounce the "hen" like the 'hon' in honey)

Mom/Mother: "ma ma"

So when they hand your sweet little one to you, you can say to him
or her: "I am your mother" = "Wo shi nide ma ma"
Pronounced "whoa sure knee duh ma ma" :
"wo" (whoa) -just like what you say to stop a horse, it means "I"
"shi" (sure)- say it like the first part of the name Shirley but
don't put a strong "r" on the end
"ni" (knee) - just like that part of your leg, it means "you"
"de" (duh) - its a very short 'duh', it turns something into a
possessive, make 'you' into 'your'("ma ma" (mama) - just the same as in English.)


I do think I will need this book!!!!

My mom knows this Chinese lady from one of the Chinese restaurants here and she has offered to teach me some Chinese. So maybe after the holidays and once I have a better idea of when I will be going to China I can start to learn some. I cant learn it too early, becuase knowing me I will forget everything by time I get to China. I will have to convince Cory and Jeff to come with me!!!!