Thread: Let's practice our Chinese

你好。 我叫Pravit。 我会说俄文。俄文很好。 我学中文。 我是中国的人。 我在北京工作。 我会写中文。“人民画报”很有意思。 共青团很好。 我是共青团的人。 我喜欢共青团。

ni2hao3. wo3jiao4 Pravit. wo3hui4shuo1e2wen2. e2wen2hen2hao3. wo3xue2zhong1wen2. wo3shi4zhong1guo2de1ren2. wo3zai4bei3jing1gong1zuo4. wo3hui4xie3zhong1wen2. "ren2min2hua4bao4" hen2you3yi4si3. gong4qing1tuan2hen2hao3. wo3shi4gong4qing1tuan2de1ren2. wo2xi3huan1gong4qing1tuan2.

Come on, someone talk with me in Chinese. I'm lonely.

Ni hao ma? Wo shi JJ, wo shi rossia(?) guo ren. Xie-xie.
That's almost all I can say in Chinese.

The word for "Russia" is "e guo." The "e" is pronounced with 2nd tone.

Maybe noone responded to me because I used some vocabulary you usually wouldn't learn. Here is vocabulary:

俄文 Russian language -e2 wen2
俄国 Russia -e2 guo2
人民 - people - ren2 min2
人民画报 - The People's Picture Magazine - ren2 min2 hua4 bao4
共青团 - Communist Youth League - gong4 qing1 tuan2

To JJ:
If you want to say your name, you can also say this:
我叫 (name)
wo3 jiao4
My name is....

我姓 (last name)
wo3 xing4
My surname is....(remember, in China, people are usually adressed by their last name)

张先生
Zhang1 xian1 sheng5
Mr. Zhang
This was the title used before Communism. It is now returning to regular use.

张小姐
Zhang1 xiao3 jie3 (xiao2 jie3)
Ms. Zhang
Polite title for women in use now

张同志
Zhang1 tong2 zhi4
Comrade Zhang
This was the title used earlier, but now it is old-fashioned sounding. In Taiwan and Hong Kong, the word "comrade" has now developed a double meaning of "homosexual." "tong" means "the same." "zhi" means "will"(earth and heart). People of the same will are comrades, or...

你好!
Ура! Я нашёл альтернативную программу для печати иероглифов!
http://uk.geocities.com/BabelStone1357/ ... elPad.html

你写你是中国的人.
I thought you were Thai. Or Somali prince.
However, таец, китаец... almost the same in Russian.

你也写 "我是共青团的人".
我想你不知道,共青团这是什么.

As I said before, we are everywhere There is a large population of Chinese in Thailand who speak "Dae Jiu"(dialect of Southern Min).

I'm not really in the Communist Youth League, but it was one of my vocabulary words this week, and I thought I would use it

你们会这儿念“人民画报”
http://www.china-pictorial.com/chpic/htdocs/index.html
也有俄文
人民画报很有意思

我从朋友哪儿来...

By the way, I learned today Russian word "Kitai" is derived from some Mongol word for northern Altaic peoples...

Ni hao, wo jiao Greg ("Tong Zhi.") Wo xue zhuengshung Zhong Wen. Wo xue zuengshung Ewen. Ni jiao shemne mingzi?

How do I type in Chinese?

Tong zhi has been my nickname for a long time b/c I'm Russian, so my friends call me Comrade or Tong Zhi now....

My friend is from China, so we all made each other funny names in Chinese. My one friend is "Shu ma" (water horse) and my other friend is "Mi mao" (honey cat). It's just interesting...
yes my life is that crazy

If you have win XP, it's really easy to enable Chinese support(I'll make a new topic on it). If not, you can still do it, but it gets a little harder.

Most of what you said was understandable but I didn't get "wo xue zhuengshung zhong wen." "xue" is a verb meaning "learn" - "wo xue zhong wen" - I'm learning Chinese. "Xuesheng" is a "learn-being" or a "student." Wo shi zhongwende xuesheng." I'm a student of Chinese.

As for your friend's nicknames, I think they are rather pretty. I don't really think nicknames make life that much crazier, for instance, my nickname(among some) is "White Chocolate" and another guy I know is "Fooles."

Hi,everybody,I am Chinese too
I am a beginner of Russian Learning, so nice to meet you guys!
I speak Mandarin,Cantonese,English,French,and now try to learn Russian.
你们好,我来自中国广州,我是俄语初学者,请多多指教,谢谢!

Originally Posted by maraone

I speak Mandarin,Cantonese,English,French,and now try to learn Russian.
你们好,我来自中国广州,我是俄语初学者,请多多指教,谢谢!

Ni hao and nice to meet you! You're in a right place to learn Russian, I'm native speaker and I can help you. BTW, I'm going to study Mandarin so may be I'll need your help soon.

Originally Posted by JJ

Originally Posted by maraone

I speak Mandarin,Cantonese,English,French,and now try to learn Russian.
你们好,我来自中国广州,我是俄语初学者,请多多指教,谢谢!

Ni hao and nice to meet you! You're in a right place to learn Russian, I'm native speaker and I can help you. BTW, I'm going to study Mandarin so may be I'll need your help soon.

YAYYYY!!!! Now we have a Chinese expert who can help us, and another Chinese learner! Rejoice!

My wordcount has unfortunately been sitting at 222 for quite a while(Jasper's count staying at 130 made me lazy), but I htink I will start picking it up again. If I hadn't been really getting back into guitar playing then I would ahve more time for Chinese...

你们好 again, my 朋友们!
Since we have a true Chinese expert, may be he can help me a little.
Maraone: what's the difference between
下边, 下面, 下头,
上边, 上面, 上头,
里边, 里面, 里头,
前边, 前面, 前头,
后边, 后面, 后头,?
Or are they used in absolutely any cases without any difference?

Hi Propp,
Actually,generally speaking,these words can be used in the same way without causing any confusions, only a little bit difference. Let me take some examples:
他在楼下边/面/头等你. He is waiting for you downstairs.(In this case,"边/面/头" make no difference,but "头" is more informal than first two ones)
好戏在后头. The climax always lies in the latter part.(In this case,people only use "头", because it is a proverb with fixed form)

ok,hope that can help you in your Chinese learning.

Ni hao and nice to meet you! You're in a right place to learn Russian, I'm native speaker and I can help you. BTW, I'm going to study Mandarin so may be I'll need your help soon.

Wow,so good!!! I can help you learn Chinese,and you may give me a hand in Russian learning

Originally Posted by maraone

Hi Propp,
Actually,generally speaking,these words can be used in the same way without causing any confusions, only a little bit difference. Let me take some examples:
他在楼下边/面/头等你. He is waiting for you downstairs.(In this case,"边/面/头" make no difference,but "头" is more informal than first two ones)
好戏在后头. The climax always lies in the latter part.(In this case,people only use "头", because it is a proverb with fixed form)

ok,hope that can help you in your Chinese learning.

Yes, especially the last one.

Правит, вы говорите по-китайски?

Вы правы, сударынья, правильно сказать, что Правит говорит по-китайски. Если Вы интересуетесь китайским языком, Вы можете его выучить в этом приличном форуме. Здесь только пристойные джентельмены.

Кстати, если Вам не трудно, пожалуйста перестаньте называть меня на "Вы." А мне все эта формальность слишком удушлива.

Hey, you shouldn't blame her for saying 'вы', after all, it is very hard to find out how old you are (seeing how secretive you are of your age and how mature you act).