The mega monster Chinese phrase thread (impress the ladies!!)

[Neil]

Could someone tell me how to say "Happy Birthday" in Mandarin?

[Martin]

Could someone tell me how to say "Happy Birthday" in Mandarin?

I found this on Wiki Answers...? (sh?ng rì kuài lè)

This another page I like to use...although it does not have Happy Birthday on it.  There is a request form there, and if you ask, the person will post it on the page.  I have done this in the past.

http://www.standardmandarin.com/chinesephrases/

[Brian Mc]

Greetings all,
I think this is right if not please correct...
Ni hao mei li nv peng you = Hello beautiful girlfriend

Nan peng you = boyfriend
Nv peng you = girlfriend

Great thread guys love it,  also while we are on this thought how about a thread for nice romantic chinese songs.  I searched utube last night and found a couple that were really nice.  Even though the words are in chinese ( or maybe another asian language depending on teh song) it might be nice to hve some nice romantic music to help us along.

Here are the ones I found  .....
1 Ci she pen by Kelly Chen, not sure if its mandarin cantonese or other but it has the ktv subtitles with it in pinyin and chinese characrers.
2 I love you  (wo ai ni) by S.H.E.  wonderful song  really touching

3 South of the clouds  not sure the artist but she sure is pretty

ANyway just a thought for another usefull thread in our quest for love.

Regards,

Brian Mc

Ps  with the Kelly Chen song that has the KTV subtitles it may help some of us more linguistically challenged members to get the pronunciations right if we can see the chinese character and the pinyin and here the sound also.

[MLM]

I also like the 12 girl band

[Bob]

here goes, I do not know if I spelled the pinyin right,,...
(some of this may be the dialect of the city my wife lives in / Wuhan)

Ni eurla ma? = are you hungry?

Ni quoi-la ma? = are you happy

Wo lay-la. =  I'm tired.

Ni lay-la ma? = are you tired?

chi chi ni = thank you

fhaze zhong hao = very good

tcee-tcee = (name of the male parts...., lol) :icon_eek:  (slang )

e tien-tien = a little/ small   (no, do not add this with the one above! and NO, she did not say this to me, ha ha)  so behave! :icon_cheesygrin:

pizdsa = nose

sway paa = mouth

toe faa = hair

sooooo = hand

chaow = feet (do not pronounce the word as "chow" , more like when you hurt yourself you say "aow", just add the CH sound in front.)

r-toe = ear

yang ting = eye(s)

shingsan = heart

hen how =  I'm good ( I'm fine )

if I made any mistakes please correct me,

Brian, if you like to hear nice Chinese music I would suggest "the peacock dance" song , and the " 1000 hands" I think that is what it is called, perhaps some of the other members know this better, the song and show made by the 10 mute women of China, very beautiful and nice in my opinion.

[Danny]

here goes, I do not know if I spelled the pinyin right,,...

I am going to be as grumpy as hell if this list works for anyone. I've been studying Mandarin for seven months now and all I've learnt so far is that it's a bloody difficult language to learn *laughs*

[Willy The Londoner]

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My girl does not read ping ying  sorry

If I have written it correctly it says 'my life with you is perfect.'

Willy

here goes, I do not know if I spelled the pinyin right,,...

I am going to be as grumpy as hell if this list works for anyone. I've been studying Mandarin for seven months now and all I've learnt so far is that it's a bloody difficult language to learn *laughs*

No Problem Danny - it becomes a lot easier when you are hearing it every day.

Willy

[Arnold]

My Wife is throwing sentences in Character's at me .. by the handful .  Waaah , anybody can tell me what this means ?

.******

And this was not at the end of the Letter .

[MLM]

here goes, I do not know if I spelled the pinyin right,,...
(some of this may be the dialect of the city my wife lives in / Wuhan)

Ni eurla ma? = are you hungry?

Ni quoi-la ma? = are you happy

Wo lay-la. =  I'm tired.

Ni lay-la ma? = are you tired?

chi chi ni = thank you

fhaze zhong hao = very good

tcee-tcee = (name of the male parts...., lol) :icon_eek:  (slang )

e tien-tien = a little/ small   (no, do not add this with the one above! and NO, she did not say this to me, ha ha)  so behave! :icon_cheesygrin:

pizdsa = nose

sway paa = mouth

toe faa = hair

sooooo = hand

chaow = feet (do not pronounce the word as "chow" , more like when you hurt yourself you say "aow", just add the CH sound in front.)

r-toe = ear

yang ting = eye(s)

shingsan = heart

hen how =  I'm good ( I'm fine )

if I made any mistakes please correct me,

Brian, if you like to hear nice Chinese music I would suggest "the peacock dance" song , and the " 1000 hands" I think that is what it is called, perhaps some of the other members know this better, the song and show made by the 10 mute women of China, very beautiful and nice in my opinion.

Just a quick post here Bob,
Thank you is Xie xie ni
Small/little = Xiao
I am tired = Wo shi juan
very good = Hen hao
Hand = Ba zhang
nose = Bi zi
mouth = Zui ba
Hair = Fa
I'm good = Wo hao
There might be dialect differances that you are hearing, good luck and best wishes.

[Arnold]

I also like the 12 girl band

I love the 12 Girl Band ... all 13 of them .:icon_cheesygrin:

[Joshua Smith]

Arnold, no idea what your characters mean....I typed them into my translation program and got this: "How do??Huan??key??"

lol

The Google translation is usually pretty good depending on the Chinese you translate. Simple stuff, it's usually perfect. The longer the sentences you translate, the more mixed up it gets.

Here's a link to it if you or anyone else doesn't know about it.

http://www.google.ca/language_tools?hl=en

[wilsbrough]

My Wife is throwing sentences in Character's at me .. by the handful .  Waaah , anybody can tell me what this means ?

.******


Hi Arnold, Have you got your translation for this yet?
I put it through a couple of translation sites and it came back the same on both, It could not seem to recognize some of the characters but this was the replies i got, How do??Huan??key??. Seems pretty random to me, but it may mean something to you, maybe you can work it out with the context of the letter she wrote to you. You know, i swear that post was not there before i added to it... It looks like Joshua got there before me...! Oh well.  :icon_cheesygrin:

[Joshua Smith]

:angel:

[Sylvain D]

zhen ai : true love
(a chinese friend told me it)