01-16-2004, 07:54 PM | #841 |
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Don't know yet. Maybe I'll give a round of beer in the Teacup thread. Or perhaps I'll spend the day spamming in Swedish in this thread
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I also share appartment with a girl from Salzburg, and when we speak german together she has as many grammarmistakes as I do. |
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01-17-2004, 04:29 AM | #844 | |
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Lalaith, whoa, that's a LOT of tenses! And I thought the 4 German cases would be hard! All the more reason for you to learn Chinese, you don't have to do anything to verbs or nouns, either for tense or plural of anything. Same with Cambodian and Indonesian, re the verb inflections. Jon, is today the day for our Swedish spamming? |
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01-17-2004, 05:38 AM | #845 | |
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As for patting me on the head - you really need to rethink that one there. Just a warning. I may take back my permitting you to use yankee and yank. But I shouldn't be too upset. We're the most powerful country in the world and we all know that Europeans just call us Yank and Yankee out of jealousy. Oh - and how is the EU Constitution doing?
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01-17-2004, 06:14 AM | #847 | |
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Translation: But I can use it, right? Damnit, my dictionary's not working. Well, hopefully these don't need to be checked. |
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01-17-2004, 06:29 AM | #848 | |
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Jon, first TACK. Happy Anniversary!
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I will be busy today, going skating in the afternoon and studying in the evening. So there will probably not be much Swedish spamming today I'm afraid.
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Though I noticed you wrote 'John' there at first
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Stackars John. Another nickname you don't like. Last edited by Linaewen : 01-17-2004 at 06:52 AM. |
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01-17-2004, 06:34 AM | #852 | |
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Yah, I seriously got to think about learning Chinese lately. I would love to do that. And more people speak Chinese than Swedish. Hahaha.
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01-17-2004, 06:57 AM | #853 |
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Ok, let's see if this works.
Literally, it means 'You good', and it's the most common greeting. Pronounced 'Ni Hao' (I don't know how to show you the correct tone for that, but it sounds very odd if you get the tone wrong). Oh, and Jag älskar New Jersey! NJ! NJ! Last edited by Linaewen : 01-17-2004 at 07:00 AM. |
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01-17-2004, 07:28 AM | #855 | |
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Just ignore my spelling mistake. I am not able to write correctly before I had lunch. Hush. Lin, ni hao ma? I love the letters.
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If 'älskar' is followed by an object (in this case NJ), it almost exclusively means 'love'. Otherwise, without any object after the verb, it can mean 'make love'.
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Yeah, it's too bad you refused to change the spelling back to 'John'.
Ok, next part. First line: Ni jiao shi me ming? = What's your name? (You call what name?) 2nd: Wo jiao Chen Mei Lian = My name is Lin Chen. (I call(ed) Chen Mei Lian) 3rd: Ni hao ma? Wo hen hao. = How are you? Good, thanks. (You good ah? I very good) Direct translation is funny, even for easy sentences like this. By the way, this is Mandarin, though I'd much rather teach you De Jieu. Also, this is Pu Tong Hua (Universal Chinese), which has simplified writing. I learned the traditional way of writing words. Mei Lian is my first name, and Chen my second. The Chinese place the family name in front. Last edited by Linaewen : 01-17-2004 at 07:49 AM. |
01-17-2004, 07:51 AM | #858 |
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Hmmm, can't we stop talking about my morning spelling errors.
I love that language. It all sounds so cute. I definitely want to learn it. If you don't mind: I want more!
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Were I somebody else, I would have made a comment whether you wanted to be patted somewhere else then. But I won't. [insert Ruinel's little angel smiley] Ni hao ma, Lin? Chinese has such pretty characters.
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Wo hen hao, xie xie. Ni ne? (I'm good, thanks, and you?) Lai, ni zai zuo shi me? = (You now do what?) (Those last two characters mean - 'what'. [First sentence] [2nd sentence] - Wo zai wan dian nau. (I now play computer). Computer literally means 'electronic brain'. Last edited by Linaewen : 01-17-2004 at 08:03 PM. |
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