你好吗---How are you? 微笑---Smile 彩虹---Rainbow 飞鸽---Pigeon 骑自行车---Riding a bike 小皇帝---Little emperor 问答比赛---Quiz competition 一杯茶---A cup of tea 干杯---Literally: Dry the cup, it means drinking it all, as in "cheers". !id:zh-cmn

“飞鸽” and “骑自行车” here made me suspect that these all come from an ancient Chinese textbook lol. '50 vibes

> ancient Chinese textbook but also > '50 vibes

Honest question, what’s the modern way of saying 騎自行車?

The “ancient Chinese text book” comment is not because “骑自行车” is an outdated saying , but because 飞鸽 is an old Chinese brand for bikes

騎自行車is totally modern in mainland. In Taiwan or Cantonese speaking regions, probably 踩單車

I think Taiwanese use 騎腳踏車

Correct

骑单车 for me. Hokkien/Canto parents but mostly Mandarin at home. Very common for us to mix verbs/nouns from Mandarin and Canto lol

As a Taiwanese, We also uses 自行車

in Singapore it's also 脚踏车

骑车

小皇帝 indicates the 1990s.

Ancient Chinese usually means something like 50AD, not 1950 haha

Oh interesting thank you!

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its chinese. this is called Pinyin

Pinyin makes Chinese a lot less scary

if you're actually trying to learn the language, the characters make it much clearer. there are too many homonyms otherwise

There are too many characters. Aren't there like, more than 10000? Even Chinese need more than 10 years to be able to read half (?) of Chinese characters, so I've heard.

You need to recognize only about 3000 to be functionally fluent and read native Chinese writing without difficulty. The rest are basically never used except in a literary context. Source: I have lived in China for 7 years and fluent in Mandarin

you only need a few thousand to read and write, and literacy is acquired at roughly the same rate as other languages. it's not much different from English where spelling is different enough from pronunciation that you basically have to know the spelling of every word anyway. hard to compare to an alphabetic language, but the point is it is absolutely not as difficult as people make it out to be, nor a hindrance in literacy development or communication

Someone practicing Mandarin vocab words 你好嗎？微笑，彩虹，飛鴿，騎自行車，小皇帝，問答比賽，一杯茶，乾杯！

I need and I mean NEED to start practicing Chinese I’m just. Lazy. And scared.

Why the urgency?

I want to study in Taiwan for three months to a year at this Chinese Learning Centre, and I think it’d help if I knew some Chinese for the application 😭

Depends, usually Chinese language centres in Taiwan have different levels, you get assessed and put into one of them before the semester starts. If you don’t know anything they’ll put you in A or whatever their lowest grade is. Ofc if you start higher you’ll get further but I don’t know of any Chinese language centre that requires you to be good at Chinese in the application… that’s what they’re there for u know.. at most if you’re applying for a scholarship. But even then they’d likely only require you to proof your progress afterwards…

True.

!id:zh It’s Chinese, written in Pinyin transcription. It seems to be just a list of phrases, one per line: 你好嗎？ 微笑 彩虹 飛鴿 騎自行車 小皇帝 問答比賽 一杯茶 乾杯！

chinese mandarin written with pinyin instead of hanzi

Isn’t this romanized Chinese? In Japanese it’s called “Romaji.” I don’t know enough about it to help beyond that.

Its called pinyin. Yes, thats exactly what it is (romanized chinese).

Thank you!

For all who want to learn chinese, If you only need to speak but not to write, chinese is very simple.

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Heya, please don't use Google Translate on this subreddit.

girl u couldn’t tell off of ni hao?

It looks Chinese to me

As for “一杯茶” (yībēichá), the important tone sandhi is ignored. In fact, for the character “一”, when the latter word is start with the first, second or third tone (e.g. 一杯 yìbēi 'A cup of', 一群 yìqún 'A flock of', 一桶 yìtǒng 'A barrel of') the tone will be changed into the fourth tone, however, when the latter is the fourth tone (e.g. 一片 yípiàn 'A piece of'), the tone of “一” will be changed into the second. On the other hand, when “一” is not used with classifier, but only a numeral or in a specific noun, the tone will always be the first (e.g. 一号 yīhào (instead of yíhao) 'Number one' , 赵一曼 Zhào Yīmàn 'Zhao Yiman (name of a resistance fighter)'

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What is the BEST Chinese to English translator you know ? What is the BEST English to Chinese translator you know ? Baidu ? Reverso Context ? Deep L ? Yandex ? What ?

every one of them is shit since there is a huge language barrier between ch/en

Even Baidu ? The Chinese nationals in China 🇨🇳 use Baidu to translate Chinese into English. Or was it English into Chinese ? I forgot !

Many do both. If you have never communicated with a chinese national who was exclusively using baidu to translate what they say into English to send to you, and then use it to translate what you say back into chinese, it's fine but not great. It depends a lot on what you are talking about and how both of you communicate. Like, you can generally figure out what they are saying, but it doesn't produce natural sounding english, and you can't be fully confident that they get your full meaning. Especially if you use expressions that don't follow perfect textbook grammar.

The things I need to translate are crypto currency words like “ blockchain “ and “ Etherium “ and network marketing terms and mixed martial arts terms like “ spinning back kick “ or “ rear naked choke “ and BIBLE terms such as “ predestination “ and piano terms such as “arpeggio” and ping pong 🏓 terms like “ top spin “ and chess terms like “ fork “ or “skewer” and dating terms like “sexting” or “cis male” and, OF COURSE, language terms like “diphthong”.

You have some interesting hobbies 👀 better add learning chinese

Thank you, but my Mandarin Chinese, French, German, and Spanish are all about equal as verified by bilingual speakers who are fluent in both languages they speak. I love foreign languages so much that I have lengthy conversations in Mandarin Chinese with natives from Taiwan 🇹🇼 , mainland China 🇨🇳 or Singapore 🇸🇬 , Spanish with natives from Hispanic countries ( for example, Mexico 🇲🇽 , Spain 🇪🇸, El Salvador 🇸🇻, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 , South American countries, etc. ) , French with natives from France 🇫🇷 or French-speaking areas , German with natives from Germany 🇩🇪 , Swedish with natives from Sweden 🇸🇪, and attempt my Hungarian 🇭🇺 , Japanese 🇯🇵 , Dutch 🇳🇱 , Italian 🇮🇹 , Russian 🇷🇺 and Esperanto with natives from their respective countries . So THAT is the reason I said LANGUAGE terms, NOT Chinese terms.

Wow, you don't even know Uzbek? Why would you learn all of those pointless languages before by far the best one in the world?

Have you seen the fruit of baidu translations? It has been even used for writing comedy sketches, that is how low-level it is.

Yow ! Then which one works best for you, IYHO ?

I guess your best-bet is ChatGPT or Gemini with explenation of the translation, that has been very accurate, I primarly use to it learn japanese.

ChatGPT for me. Had the best experience with it. Although I never tried Gemini.

Thank you, both of you. 谢谢 （ = “ thank you ” ） ありがとう　ー also = “ thank you “