Chinese English

[Jacqui]

It would be very helpful if you could let me have the Chinese translation (in Chinese characters) and some English explanations of the following five phrases:

1. Good good study, day day up.
2. Don't old three old four.
3. Look and look, see and see.
4. People mountain people sea.
5. You really have two down sons.

Thank you very much for your help.

Jacqui

[FIO]

1。好好学习，天天向上
2。不要朝三暮四
3？
4。人山人海
5。你真有两下子

[FIO]

1。HAOHAO XUEXI ，TIANTIAN XIANGSHANG
2。BUYAO ZHAOSAN MUSI
3。？？？？（ZUO GU YOU PAN）左顾右盼
4。REN SHAN REN HAI
5。NI ZHEN YOU LIANG XIA ZI~~
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[Jacqui]

Hi, Fio

Thanks so much. You are great!

The information is indeed very useful. I hope 'look and look, see and see' really means 'zuo gu you pan 左顾右盼'. As I need to be sure that the data is accurate, do you have any source (or other friends) that can confirm with this particular phrase?

By the way, could I also have the tone number side by side with the Hanyu Pinyin.

I look forward to hearing from you. And, many thanks.

Jacqui

[fio]

1.hao3 hao3 xue1 xi2,tian1 tian1 xiang4 shang4,
2.bu2 yao4 zhao1 san1 mu4 si4.
3.wang4 wang4 kan4 kan4(望望看看)
4.ren2 san1 ren2 hai3
5.ni3 zhen1 you3 liang3 xia4 zi1.
'look and look, see and see' Literal translation,means"wang4 wang4 kan4 kan4(望望看看)" ,'zuo gu you pan 左顾右盼'way of Idiom.
Don`t worry,it`s right~~

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[mae santos]

i would like to learn chinese translate in english like

1. i love you
2. how are you
3. thank you very much
4. Your my bestfriends
5. I miss you
6. goodbye
7. I'm sorry

[WingYan]

1.我愛你　　　　　　　　wo ai ni
2.你好嗎　　　　　　　　ni hao ma
3.謝謝(非常感謝)　　　　 xie xie
4.你是我最好的朋友　　　ni shi wo zui ho de peng you
5.我想(念)你　　　　　　 wo xiang (nian) ni
6.再見　　　　　　　　　zai jian
7.對不起　　　　　　　　dui bu qi

[rocky]

i will be thankful if u help me to learn chinese.the question of mine is that

IS THERE IS MORE THEN ONE KIND OF CHINESE?

their diffrences?why more than one,reasons?
and also recommend if there is any site by withthe help i can learn chinese easily,dictionaries,etc......
i 'll ope u will help me....

[Linda]

Yeah, there are more kinds of chinese. Of course you have all kind of dialects but in writing there are two different ways to spel. One is the traditional way, who was usual until the twenties. At that moment there was revolution going on in China and the new rulers of the nation wanted to make the language more easer, also for the normal farmers, so they could learn how to write. An that easy way is the regulair way of Chinese... I believe

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[Dylan Sung]

If you want to learn Chinese, learn standard Chinese first. Treat other Chinese dialects as completely different languages altogether, even though both may share similar characters in an overlap of use, you get the odd word and character phrase differing, along with the whole pronunciation business.

Dyl.