Multilingual and Polyglot Wannabee Thread! MK I

Yeah, Mandarin's one of the 4 official languages of Singapore, alongside English, Malay and Tamil. English and Mandarin are the most widely spoken though.



我说中文 means 'I speak Chinese'. If you want to say 'I can speak Chinese' you'll want to say 我会说汉语



Handwriting keyboards are always good, especially for pleco

What's...

Yes and No

我不会说中文

There are no individual words for yes and no in Mandarin. Often, the positive form of the verb is used to indicate yes, whereas the negated form of the verb is used to indicate no. Most verbs are negated with 不 bù, except for 有 you3 which can never be negated with 不, only ever with 没 méi.

中文 is more the written language, so you're best saying 我（不）会说汉语, as 汉语 is more the spoken form of Mandarin

谢谢

我会学这个 (words)

我会学这些词 wo3 huì xué zhè xiē cí

Aaaah!

I understand

I'm getting better right?

Yeah, just keep practising.

I did give you a link for all the measure words, didn't I? Or am I just dreaming?

You did, although I've not saved it into my Chinese notes folder do you have it at hand?

谢谢

What's

"If"

There are so many

There are two main ways of saying if in Mandarin. The more commonly used one is 如果 rúguo3 which means if, or, in the event of. e.g. 你如果要来，请实现告诉我 rúguo3 ni3 yào lái, qing3 shìxiān gàosu wo3 Let me know in advance if you're coming.

The second way is 要是 which is used to describe more hypothetical situations e.g. 要是下雨怎么办？ yàoshi xiàyu3 zen3me bàn? What if it rains?

Okay, the second one I know the characters

Yay! Recognising characters is the first step to fully learning them

我会 recognise some (do i use the measure word instead of some)中字.

To say 'some' you'll want to use 一些 yīxiē, which replaces the measure word, so you'll want to say 我认识一些（汉）字。

I know I said 中文 was for the written language, but when talking about characters, you always say 汉字。You can never say 中字。

Okay thanks

些 looks hard to write.

我要去中国而且看(Beijing).

It's not that hard Only 8 strokes

我要去中国看北京

我学了它!