Chinese languages

hi,
I'm from australia im 14 and My schools orchestra is going to the Wangfujing internation music festival in august and i would like to know if these words are correct. I got these from a hand out my school gave me and it said that i need to know these, do you know any other words that i might need to know when i go to china?
Yes: Dwee
No: Boo dwee
Okay: Shing
Please: Ching
Thankyou: Shie-shie
Thankyou very much: Fay-charng gang-shie
do you know any other words i might need to know?

Thankyou very much: Fay-charng gan-shie

(gan not gang)

jyow ming ahhhhhh == help! (in case of danger)

Dyl

Melissa, I hope you have lots of fun in China.

I am also a Mandarin student so others online will probably give you better
advice but I'll take a crack at a few words I learned.

First, you were probably given a list of phonetics (sounds like the word...)
This is easier at first but your ear needs to be adjusted because they will
speak much faster than you or I could understand. So here are a few
tricks that you could practice.

English : Mandarin : sounds like

YES: DUI : DOOEEE

NO : BU : BOO

OK : (stick to DUI otherwise your pronounciation may come out like XING which can mean SEX)

PLEASE : QING : CHING (as in KA-CHING) and WEN : when
or May I ask : QING WEN
or excuse me please :QING WEN

just QING means please or ask but saying "May I ask" is much more appreciated. Pause two seconds after saying QUIG WEN to make sure they look at you before you ask your question in English.

Other nice words to use include:

HELLO : NI HAO : think of your knee and how

HOW ARE YOU : NI HAO MA? : MA is pronounced like MAMA (MA turns any sentence into a question).

HELLO EVERYONE : da jia hao : DA (DAH) JIA (GIA) HAO (how)

and my favorite

I DON'T UNDERSTAND : WO BU DONG : WO (whoa) BU (boo) DONG (as in ding 'DONG').

SORRY : DUIBUQI : Dui ( DOOEEE) BU (BOO) QI (CHEE as in 'chee'se)

note: Put Sorry and I don't understand together and watch the chinese people smile (DUIBUQI, WO BUDONG!)

WHERE ARE YOU FROM? : NI CONG NA LI LAI : Knee KONG (like King Kong) na ( nah!) li (lee) lai ('lie' as in you 'lie')


MY NAME IS MELISSA : WO DE MING ZI JIAO MELISSA :

by now, the only words you may have a problem with is ZI which sounds like DZE and JIAO which sounds like GEE A-OU


GOOD BYE : Zai Jian : zai jan

and have a good trip,


P.S. some nice gifts you could bring to give to someone special you meet is a painted boomerang or something native. Small Australian flags and pins are greatly appreciated by people of your age you will meet (your member of parliament should have a bunch just for the asking).

Paul.

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Thankyou very much for that.

It helps to know what I'm saying to them... I'LL STUDY UP

Thankyou again.


Melissa

Melissa......are those words u posted in Chinese?

The most important thing if you go to any shopping places or touristy places (Great wall, Terra Cotta Warriors, etc) is Boo Yao, Shie Shie. It means I don't want it, thank you...Very useful.

Yes, some store assistants can be a little pushy.
Dyl.

I am a Chinese girl.
many people in beijing speak good English,if you need help ,go to young people .And many TAXI drivers can speak a little English,too.