Chinese speaker?
31-03-2010, 12:24 PM
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Chinese speaker?
Need a quit bit of help with chinese(cantonese i think?)
Got a few mates who are as scottish as me but chinese parents etc, so for a bit of banter i always get them to teach me daft words so i can slag the other chinese fellas... thats how i get my kicks.
Anyway, what im trying to say is "batty boy/bum boy" or whatever...
I've been taught to pronounce it; "see-view-kwaaai" but don't know how to spell it so a chinese guy would know wtf im trying to say to him?
Got a few mates who are as scottish as me but chinese parents etc, so for a bit of banter i always get them to teach me daft words so i can slag the other chinese fellas... thats how i get my kicks.
Anyway, what im trying to say is "batty boy/bum boy" or whatever...
I've been taught to pronounce it; "see-view-kwaaai" but don't know how to spell it so a chinese guy would know wtf im trying to say to him?
31-03-2010, 12:47 PM
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iirc "chinese" has over 4000 symbols, to our 26 letters but they dont have an alphabet as such, a symbol means a word.
its a very hard language to learn, someone i met when traveling was in china for abit and she had her name translated, she tried to write it down but was told it looked nothing like what it should. Where the pen joins and leaves the page etc also plays a part.
Good luck!
but they dont have an alphabet as such, a symbol means a word. its a very hard language to learn, someone i met when traveling was in china for abit and she had her name translated, she tried to write it down but was told it looked nothing like what it should. Where the pen joins and leaves the page etc also plays a part.
Good luck!
31-03-2010, 12:50 PM
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iirc "chinese" has over 4000 symbols, to our 26 letters but they dont have an alphabet as such, a symbol means a word.
its a very hard language to learn, someone i met when traveling was in china for abit and she had her name translated, she tried to write it down but was told it looked nothing like what it should. Where the pen joins and leaves the page etc also plays a part.
Good luck!
but they dont have an alphabet as such, a symbol means a word. its a very hard language to learn, someone i met when traveling was in china for abit and she had her name translated, she tried to write it down but was told it looked nothing like what it should. Where the pen joins and leaves the page etc also plays a part.
Good luck!
Hah, tell me about it, ive known these guys for years, some of them still ask each other how to say things in chinese cos they don't have a clue!
I think ive got it now though... "see fut gwai" is apparently close enough!
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