Learn Chinese Yu Qing, CCN

English: What's your name?
Pingying: Ni Jiao Shenme Mingzi?
Characters: 你叫什麽名字？
Anglicized: Nee Juow shun-ma ming zi?

English: My name is Liu Hong.
Pingying: Wo Jiao LIU Hong
Characters: 我叫刘红
Anglicized: Woe juow liu hong

English: How about you?
Pingying: Ni ne?
Characters: 你呢？
Anglicized: Nee nur-?

Vocabulary:
Wo (Woe) = I, me
Ni (nee) = you
Jiao (Juow) = call or be called
Shenme (shun-ma) = what
Mingzi = name
Ne (nur-) = turn statement into question

Note: Chinese surname comes first. "LIU" is the surname, for example.

Before we go further with speaking Chinese, it is time to introduce further about the pronunciation basics. We talked about “tones” in L2. Today, I’ll give you a few more basics about Chinese pronunciation.

Pinyin
Pinyin is a phonetic system of Mandarin pronunciation, which was introduced in the mainland China around mid-1950s. It adopts the Roman alphabet to represent phonetic sounds. For example, China’s capital was once called “Peking” in English, which is pronounced in Mandarin as “Beijing”. It (Beijing) has been adopted by English speakers in recent years.

Sentence for this week:
English: Do you like Chinese food?
Pinyin: Ni xi huan zhong can ma?
Anglicized: Nee shee huan jong tsan ma?
Characters: 你喜欢中餐吗？

Vocabulary:
Ni: you (nee)
Xi huan: like (shee huan)
Zhong can: Chinese food
(jong tsan)

Xia Zhou Jian!
(See you next week!)