Newbie - Intro 1: Good morning

the program really works guys!!! hen hao!!!!

I have been living in Shanghai now some 4 months now and even though my wife is chinese, she speaks good English, so we tend to speak English all the time. So I am not learning a thing from her. She gets inpatient, I get frustrated and we end up arguing!....So - after 4 months of trawling the net looking for Chinese lessons, thankfully, I have found this site...and what makes it better, it's fun to learn and there is no arguing.....Many thanks.

Hi yorkiepaul2000

It's great to hear from you. If you make full use of CPod, your wife is sure to be impressed with your progress.

Good luck!

this is so cool now i can be able to talk chinesse.

Very nice! My english isn't good, because i'm portuguese, but now, i think i can learn both at same time. Why only now i discovered ChinesePod? I love it!

Thank you! Jenny, Ken and your team.

i've mastered this greeting several moths ago without chinesepod but still is useful because my tones are not perfect..

and i miss amber :)

is there a way i can subscribe here for 2 months only? coz i'd be traveling by july..  jenny? ken? pete? how can i get that 2 motnhs subscription? and i don't have a credit card, can i pay thru china bank?

Hi demee,

Please contact us at :

support@praxislanguage.com

i am chinese , want to learn morn english for my future ,haha ... here , you can learn chinese and english , that's good

Hi, I have a problem doing the exercises.  It looks like this on my screen ta1 hao3 ma5？ I'm not sure how to read this!

it is pin-yin for 他好吗

ta first tone hao third tone and ma 5th or neutral tone.

oic, thank you.  I thought the numbers meant my system doesn't support some fancy font!    This is an interesting site!

早上好。 中文很美。我爱中国和中文。谢谢你

Rebeca123 tiene razón yo hablo español y estoy practicando ingles y chino a la vez....

Rebeca123 have right. I speak spanish and I`m pratice english and chinese at the same time....

3 in 1 = oh yea !!!!!

Cpod, a slight error. In the expansion sentences (simplified characters) your second heading (嗎) is the traditional character for 吗. Its probably not good to have an error in what is nominally the very first lesson.

Hi desluo949

Thank you for pointing that out.

It's fixed now.

我也一样！可能我英文没有你的好，所以搞不太明白这个网站，如果你明白的话，教教我好吧。

ni hao? I'm just learning chinese but i'm looking for a chinese girlfriend so it's a very easy to learn language.ok bye see you

@seriously

That post really DESERVES an answer.  Good luck, seriously.  :-)

@seriously. After googling your email, looks like you also have an affinity for japanese, american, spanish, bulgarian, south american, polish, danish, english, thai, russian, hungarian, and ukranian ladies too! :)

wow,there can be such dynamic website to study Chinese....but the pronounciations in the record appear to be a little weird to me...aha.as for the casual talks....but anyway,interesting.....

Just a quick question about the (possible?) tone changes of 上. It seems that when you say 早上好, the tone for 上 is a neutral tone but then if you go on to say 晚上好, the tone for 上 appears to change to a fourth tone. So which tone is 上 or does it all depend in which context it's being used?

Emma

Actually, 上 is the fourth tone. But in 早上 and 晚上， 上 should be neutral tone.

Oh I see, 谢谢 lujiaojie ^.^ So you're saying that by itself, 上 is the fourth tone but when combined with other characters such as in 早上 and  晚上, it becomes neutral? So does this 'rule' apply to all other combinations with 上? 

doodlemonster,

It is not a "rule", you can say both neutral tone and fourth tone when 上 after other characters.

In 早上 and 晚上, neutral tone is common, however fourth tone are aslo acceptable.

Ah ok, I get it now, thank you! ^.^ Still a Newbie so having to get used to idea of Chinese not having many "rules" like European languages... hehe ^.^ 谢谢 for your help ^.^

I'm  Chinese . I'm studying English very hard recently . I think we could teach each other . If some one interest it ,PM me.

Good day ,everyone, I'm chinese too, I live in Beijing(Peking) China, I am beijinger, If U wanna learn chinese, I wish I would help U.

 If U have any question and need any help about chinese, Please PM me.

Cool site. I do want a similar site to learn other languages.

I am also native Chinese.

It seems to me "zao shang hao", "xia wu hao", "wan shang hao", "ni hao" and all these greetings are initially translated from English. Especially "ni hao ma?" is directly from "How are you?". As we know, China has a long history, and before the 20th century the Chinese did not greet each other with “早上好” and such words. So those greetings were coming from western countries(but all are common now). I suppose even 谢谢(thanks), 再见, 明天见 are also from other countries. And 爸爸(baba) is from papa in English.

See you!

Hey, so for "ma" and "ne". When the question is started by "what, when, why, how", you should use "ne". Otherwise, when the question can be answered by "yes" or "no", you should use "ma".

For the case of "你呢?", it's a short form, just like "and you?". If you extend that, it should be "how about you?". Then "ne" is appropriate.

BTW, native speakers aren't even aware of these "rules". My suggestion is to listen/speak more, you will know when to use these words natrually, rather than to recite these rules :)

Hello,

Good lession!  The review mp3 cuts many of the sentences short.  I tried listening on multiple computers with the same result.  There must be some issue with the file or the way it was recorded. Good lession though!

Thanks

Hi duffyhaha

Thank you for pointing that out. We'll fix it soon.

wow, 谢谢 ! i've been searching for a good site to learn chinese, and ChinesePod is really perfect! 谢谢! 谢谢!!

wow, 谢谢 ! i've been searching for a good site to learn chinese, and ChinesePod is really perfect! 谢谢! 谢谢!!

wow, 谢谢 ! i've been searching for a good site to learn chinese, and ChinesePod is really perfect! 谢谢! 谢谢!!

I've just started my first lesson and am still getting to know how to use chinesepod. Question how do you practice writing the chinese characters?