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Posted on: Good Morning!
May 29, 2009, 02:37 AM

it is pin-yin for 他好吗

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

Posted on: The Second Tone
May 15, 2009, 01:05 PM

Your attempt at speaking in all first tones reminds me of the English of my Nepalese friend Raj.  It also sounds a bit like Norweigian. Swedish has this sing song character about it, Norweigian has many words that end in rising tones. They seem clipped, like they were growing and cut off.

Posted on: Awesome Promotion and Monks to Japan
May 04, 2009, 02:17 PM

Ahhhh,

Sadly I chose my handle, cobre (copper in spanish), and then weeks into my study I discovered it was mainly used in the verb form of pay and pay and pay....

My year ended and I took a month off to do taxes and stuff and then re-upped to get my "fix" (Lili is a controlled substance*) and to get  started over here.

Now here we are, weeks in, cobre.  Who knew procrastination could have almost doubled my fun, mǐfěn,  米粉.

Just noodling you, ChinesePod is such a rice place to be.

xie4xie 谢谢 for the great lessons.

* vs - JP who obviously is not controlled.

Posted on: Kungpao Chicken
April 28, 2009, 11:48 PM

@bodawei

Menus in Minneapolis, had mi fun or mai fun, and Singapore mai fun on them (I really like the latter at the Seafood Palace) When I put noodles into translators, I came up with wheat noodles. when I  searched on fun I came up dry.

so 米粉 it is.

and I assume 新加坡 米粉 Xīnjiāpō mǐfěn

would then be my favorite rice noodle dish?

 

Posted on: Kungpao Chicken
April 28, 2009, 06:44 PM

OOOOH, the entire first podcast in the series was an answer to my unanswered post on another thread.

粉 fěn

谢谢！

cobre

Posted on: Ordering Noodles
April 28, 2009, 06:42 PM

OOOOH, the entire first podcast in the menu stealer series was an answer to my unanswered post on another thread.

粉 fěn

谢谢！

cobre

Posted on: Kungpao Chicken
April 28, 2009, 06:23 PM

Ok, a newbie begs assistance.

Noodles?

I see all the references for 面

The restaurant here has noodles  and we often get the , Chou fun or the Singapore mai fun.

What is the "fun"? and how is that written?

 

Posted on: Ordering Noodles
March 02, 2009, 09:52 PM

Noodles?

I see all the references for 面

The restaurant here has noodles  and we often get the , Chou fun or the Singapore mai fun.

What is the "fun"?

Posted on: Happy Birthday
October 02, 2008, 06:29 PM

日 compare to Swedish ö and add tones.