In an earlier blog we had just seen ( Learning Mandarin ) how being an early bird is going to benefit enormously.
Leave aside all of nitty and gritty of learning The Mandarin Language the proper way . Assume you are suddenly thrown in a crowd of Chinese persons. One can very well understand the predicament one faces in such a situation, not to speak of embarrassing moments you may have to endure.
Well to make things more comfortable and cast some favourable impressions on your Chinese audience/ circle you may try to learn some very basic greetings and introductions.
Given below are some expressions in Chinese . You may kindly memorise them but it does not mean that you can speak Chinese . Therefore all the expressions given here under ( you can listen a native audios. The steps are given under,
First of all download “Pleco “ Chinese/ English/Chinese dictionary in your mobile. This is a free download . The method of using this Pleco is explained later:
Before proceeding further please remember the following. Chinese is a tonal language . There are 4 tones and a neutral tone.
1st tone is marked by a straight line over the vowel –
2nd tone is marked by a raising line towards the right ( above the vowel )
3rd tone is marked by a “ v “ over the vowel “ “ “ “
4th tone is marked by downward stroke over the vowel in the syllable
The neutral tone does not carry any mark on the vowel in the syllable.
Here are some of the greetings and other expressions
