喀斯斯持續滯留曼谷ing...

是的，我認識了不少外國朋友，他們都希望我可以教他們中文

或是有些已經有一點底子，希望有人可以陪他們聊天打訊息

可是他們都是拼音系統，所以我們有時候打的東西最後會變成 "what was that mean?"

拼音PIN-YIN是以前外國人到中國時，為了方便他們學習而使用的方式

但是中文裡頭有些發音是拼音系統無法顯示出來的，所以建議還是學注音ㄅㄆㄇ開始吧!

I want to tell you......don't learn Chinese, because it's really difficult. I think Chinese is the most hardest language in the world.

I've learnt some languages...

English, 26 alphabets

Korean, 40 alphabets

Japanese, 50 characters

Thai, 65 alphabets, with 5 tones

Traditional Chinese words are very beautiful, but f**king hard. We even don't know how many words we have. According to our dictionary, there are more 106,230 words, excluded old characters. (now our ministry of education still working hard to put new words into our dictionary)

But don't worry, you no need to learn 106,230 words.... bcz normally we just use about 20,000 words.

If you still can't help yourself then open this page even I told you not to........

Then, I will teach you ㄅㄆㄇ. k k k k k .....

Yeah~~~ I've met a lot of friends during my travel. 

Most foreigners start their Chinese learning from PIN-YIN system. But I think it's hard to tell you some words' pronunciation. Especially Chinese is tonal language, it is very important to add the tones with words you type.

For foreigners, I strongly recommend you start from ㄅㄆㄇ

If you know how to say, then you can type!!!

We call this system as 注音

ㄅㄆㄇ... just symbols. The professors, who think up ㄅㄆㄇ system, broke down a letter into parts, then took one as the symbol, we call 注音符號

The typing system use with ㄅㄆㄇ marks, we call 注音輸入法 (install it immediately~~~)

In ㄅㄆㄇ system, we have 21 consonants and 16 vowels, with 5 tones

consonants: ㄅㄆㄇㄈㄉㄊㄋㄌㄍㄎㄏㄐㄑㄒㄓㄔㄕㄖㄗㄘㄙ

special vowels: ㄧㄨㄩ (they can both be consonant and vowel)

vowels: ㄚㄛㄜㄝㄞㄟㄠㄡㄢㄣㄤㄥㄦ

tones: (no mark for mid tone) ˊ ˇ ˋ ˙

watch this for ㄅㄆㄇ pronunciation

watch this for tones

I've written this ㄅㄆㄇ chart to my friends for many times...but I used to make same as keyboard position, to help my friends learn typing as well.

I also put some notes in these charts, but that just for REFERENCE.

My friends feel so desperate because they can't pronounce some sounds. no teeth in Chinese, no far in Korean, no call in Japanese.

But it's not a big problem, I can't speak ร either. T_____T

Basically, ㄓ/ㄗ, ㄔ/ㄘ and ㄕ/ㄙ just like twins.

they use same method, but position of tooth is different, and ㄓㄔㄕ need to roll your tongue a little bit.

Our vowels are simple, but ㄩ is a nightmare to foreigners.

hahahahaha, don't give up.

Let's try some simple sentences:

Hi! How are you!

こんにちは

สวัสดี

안녕하세요

> 你 ㄋ一ˇ= you, both male or female can use 你

妳 ㄋ一ˇ= you, for females

您 ㄋ一ㄣˊ= you, use 您 with elders, or people you respect

> 好 ㄏㄠˇ= fine, good 

in some case, it can be "so~", like 好ㄏㄠˇ多ㄉㄨㄛso many, 好ㄏㄠˇ便ㄆ一ㄢˊ宜一ˊso cheap

When we meet our friends, we usually say "Hey~ 你吃飯了嗎?"

This is really important, we just can't let people who we care stay in hungry~

Have you eaten yet?

กินข้าวหรือยัง?

> 吃ㄔ= eat

飯ㄈㄢˋ= meal

in some situation, 飯 means "rice", like 吃ㄔ炒ㄔㄠˇ飯ㄈㄢˋ或ㄏㄨㄛˋ炒ㄔㄠˇ麵ㄇ一ㄢˋ? eat fired rice or fired noodle?

了ㄌㄜ˙= already

嗎ㄇㄚ˙= no meaning, for asking question

I will share more "USEFUL" sentences and FAQ from my friends next time.