Showing posts with label Phrases. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Phrases. Show all posts

7.17.2008

"I don't eat meat" and other useful phrases...


I'm sure Amy's relying on my amazing Mandarin language skills, but after neglecting them for 5 years, I'm going to provide her with a few choice phrases. You too can learn Mandarin :)

I don't eat meat.

Do you have a knife and fork?


• Thank you —— xiè xiè
[pronounced: shea-shea]

• I don’t understand —— wo bù míng bái
[pronounced: whoa - boo - ming - by]

• Help —— jiù mìng
[pronounced: jew ming]

• How much it is —— duō shao qián
[pronounced: doe-show (as in the beginning of 'shower') kwan]

• Goodbye —— zài jiàn
[pronounced: Zie (rhymes with die) Gin]

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