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WARNNING : You must download chinese encoding, goto google.com and search it. Then continue.

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Okey this means hello:
你好
since you do not know how that is pronounced I must show you the PinYin we talked about in the "Learn Chinese 1" section. ALWAYS THINK OF IT AS A REFERENCE!
Okey so now that you remember or see the pinyin section these characters should be easy to pronounce, well...easier, just do not mess up on pronouncing . Chinese is  TONAL! also, it may have a number after the pinyin.

Greetings
你ni3(nee) 好hao3(how) : hi , hello,
literally. means "you good"
你ni3(nee) 好hao3(how)ma? :  How are you ?
Now I will keep using these symbols. 你ni3(nee) ,好hao3(how), and,吗ma.
好吗? : How is (it)?
So in conclusion,  :
the new chinese characters you learned are:
你ni3(nee) 好hao3(how)ma
YAY, you have learned 3 out of  60,000 Chinese characters! we are going so fast!

Greetings 2, Yes...it gets harder!
So you know three characters, that is not enough.
很好
haha! you do not know what that means! You know that means "you" and means "good" and together,好, "you good" some how is hello or hi. So, it is "____ good" until you know the 很 character.
You must think in this way to read in chinese because you can not learn
60,000 Chinese characters, no one , and I mean no one, not even the chinese can learn them all.很 is hen3. 很好 means "very well". now for speed learning ,不 bu4 (boo).错 is cuo4(???).不错 means "Ok, not bad".谢xie4(sheii).
谢 means "thank you".拜 拜 is bai4 bai4 meaning "bye bye!".再zai4见jian4 means "see you".
new chinese characters learned
很hen3 好hao3 不bu4 错cuo4 谢xie4 拜bai4

Asking the name
Did you survive the last chapter without quiting? good, because this chapter is easy! Yes, it is.
你 ni3 叫 jiao4 什 shen2 么 me 名 ming2  字zi* ?What is your name?(What are you called?)
你ni3 贵gui4 姓 xing1 What is your (honorable) surname?

oh,no! Grammer Lessons!
personal pronouns
I 我 wo3
you 你 ni3
he/she/it 他 ta1 
one self 自zi4 己 ji3
(plural) 们 men
to like 喜 xi3 欢 huan1
pronoun + plural = plural pronoun
我们 we   你们 you (plural) 他们 they
我们喜欢你! : we like you!
他们喜欢自己 : they like themselves.
我自己喜欢 : I ,myself, like it.

Including Gender

Even though there is one pronunciation for "he", "she" and "it", there are multiple characters. is for males or when used in the plural with mixed genders,is for females, andis for animals or objects.  There is also a female version of "you"- .

Formal Characters

In addition to the standard pronouns, there are also some formal versions.  The most common of these is , which is a more respectful form of "you".  Other such pronouns are used for God or gods.  To form these special characters the "person" () or "woman" () radical is replaced by the one used in a word for "god" ().

 Equative Verb
是shi4 = is, 不bu4 = not, 人ren2 = person,車che1 = car, 朋peng2 友you3 = friend,书shu1 = book,
老lao3 师shi1 = teacher , 學 xue2 生sheng1 = student

我是人 = I am a person
书是书 = a book is a book
pronoun=noun
noun=noun
pronoun!=noun
noun!=noun

Chinese uses two different verbs, one to link nouns to nouns (是) and a second verb to link nouns to adjectives (
很).  The pattern given in this lesson is only used to link a noun to another noun.To form the negative of most sentences the prefix 不 is added before the verb or adjective being negated.In Chinese, subjects and verbs automatically agree.  They do not need to be adjusted for first person, second person, third person, or singular/plural considerations.  English has "am, are, is" plus different forms for each tense.  Mandarin uses "是" for all these cases.

我是人 = I is a person, I am a person
我不是人 = I not is a person,  I am not a person
的 de = "possessive", 很hen3 = very, 太tai4 = too, 非 = fei1常 = chang2 = extremely, 真zhen1= truly, 那 = na4 麼 = me, that much,好hao3 = good/well , 忙mang2 = busy, 快kuai4 乐le4 = happy, 高gao1 = tall, 漂piao4亮 liang4 = pretty
Chinese uses two different forms, one to link nouns to nouns and a second form to link nouns to adjectives.  The second form is generally
NOUN + (ADVERB) + ADJECTIVE.  These adjectives function in this form both as descriptors and as the "to be" verb as needed.  In fact, these adjectives behave as verbs in many ways, including how they are negated and form choice-type questions.
我太漂亮  = I am too pretty
The word 
is a notable exception.  It often acts as the default adverb.  While it can modify the adjective, adding the idea of "very" to the meaning, it can also simply act as a link between noun and adjective without acting as a modifier.it was explained that the equative verb 是  is used only to link a noun to another noun.  While this is true, it can be used in a special structure to link a noun to an adjective.  This structure can serve to give rhetorical emphasis to the speaker's statement.The basic form is:NOUN+ "是" +ADJECTIVE PHRASE+ "的".
他很好 = I am very good, can also be said as 他是很好的.
subjectlinking verbadjective phraseattributive(understood)

  

很好 (

An equivalent English way of saying this would be "He is one who is tall."  In this way, the equative verb is still linking two nouns together and the adjective is modifying the understood noun.




在zai4 = "at", "is at", 家jia1 = house, 公gong1 园yuan2 = public park,醫yi1 院yuan4 = hospital,
學xue2 校xiao4 = school,  餐can1 厅ting1 = restaurant ,市shi2 场chang3 = market.
"在" is one of the few words in Chinese that corresponds to an English preposition.  It takes the places of all the English prepositions describing location: "at, above, below, in, on, out, around, etc."  "在" always requires an object corresponding to a location.  (This can be a place like a country or a building, or an object.)
我在家 = I am at home
我不在家 = I am not at home
The location following "在" gives the description ranging from General to Specific.  Descriptive phrases do not need any conjunction between them.  This can be as simple as Country-City such as "Zhong1 guo2 Bei3 jing1" to as exact and specific as needed (like "on the bottom of a seat a man going to a seminar in Florida is sitting on, 15 feet above the ground").
課ke4本ben3 = text book, 家jia1 = family, 紅hong2色se4 = red,綠lv4色 = green, 藍lan2色 = blue
Adjective phrases are used to give more detail about a noun.  An example of an adjective phrase in English would be "three very big, blue" in the sentence "I have three very big, blue books."As in English, Mandarin descriptors come right before the thing they describe.  There are a few differences between Chinese and English adjective phrases, though.  For one, Mandarin uses a special particle (的) to separate the descriptions from the thing being described.
很好的人 = a very good person
紅色的書 = a red book

Note that some adjectives do not require the 的 particle, although it is still grammatically correct to use it even in these cases.  It just won't sound like native speech.  Colors in particular are often used without the 的.
Chinese adjective phrases can be very complex, combining long series of descriptions and varying types of modifiers.  In English, words change form to show possession
(thief's painting), ownership (collector's painting), and relationship (thief's mother).  Most words add a form of (-'s).  Some words, like many pronouns, undergo more drastic changes, like "my" becomes "mine."  Additionally, some words have different possessive forms depending on whether they are the subject or object of the sentence.Chinese words do not change form.  Instead, possession is treated the same way as any adjective phrase.  The possessive noun or pronoun goes on the left, the particle 的 goes in the middle, and the object goes on the right.  This is true whether the possessive is acting as the subject or object of the sentence.

的書在家 = my book is at home.





Numbers and Counting

零ling2 = 0, 一yi = 1, 二er4 = 2, 三san1 = 3, 四si4 = 4, 五 wu3 = 5, 六liu4 = 6, 七qi1 = 7, 八ba1 = 8, 九,
jiu3 = 9,十shi2 = 10 , 百bai3 = 100, 千qian1 = 1000, 万wan4 = 10000.

两liang3 = a couple, 个ge = [mv],第di4 = [ordinal]. 点dian3 = decimal, 半ban4 = decimal.
Whole Numbers
The Chinese number system and the Western number system are very similar, but differ early on.  While the English number words from 11-100 undergo sound changes, the Chinese numbers remain predictable.
In Chinese, whole numbers follow the format: 

  • number + place (ten thousands, thousands, hundreds, tens, ones)

  • If there are one or more places in a row with a zero between non-zero digits, a single 零 fills the places.  Try 101, 1001, 1010, 10001, 10101 below.

  • Numbers ending in zeros omit the final zero place holders.  Try 100, 1000, etc.

  • 11-19 are exceptions in that they omit the initial "一", instead of " 一 十  一" it is just "十  一"

Ordinalizing numbers is accomplished by simply adding 第 to the front of a number.  To make "one" become "the first", "一" becomes "第一"Decimal numbers are read with the whole number read first, the word 点 (to denote the decimal point), and then each each decimal place read.  Zeros are treated the same as other digits.  If the whole number is zero the initial zero can be read or omitted.
一 点 五 = 1.5

Counting in Chinese is somewhat different than in English.  Chinese requires the use of a special class of words called "measure words."  These serve to give units for counting and classifying nouns.  Some words in English perform similar functions, but the difference is that in Mandarin all words require a measure word when being counted.

This section will only explain what is needed to know in order to count.  There will be a grammar lesson dedicated to using measure words.

  • When counting objects, Chinese uses the following formula:
    Number + Measure Word + (Object)

  • The most common measure word is "个,個"- which is used to count many different things or when the classification is unknown.

  • When counting fractions of a thing, Chinese uses the following formula:
    Whole Number + Measure Word + Fractional Number + (Object)

  • When the number of objects is 2 or 2 and a fraction, it is always counted as "a couple of objects" 两. instead of "two objects" 二

一個人 = 1 person
兩 個 人 = 2 people
二十二個 人 = 22 people
一個 半 = 1 and a half
兩 個 半 = 2 and a half
三個 半 = 3 and a half


 

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