CLO_002: Greetings

In this lesson you will learn:

Dā high tone
Dá rising tone
Dǎ falling rising tone
Dà falling tone

Nǐ hǎo
Hǎo
Nǐ hǎo ma?
Wǒ hěn hǎo

Nǐ
Wǒ
Tā
Tā hǎo ma?
Tā hěn hǎo

Xièxie
Xièxie nǐ
Zàijiàn

 

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8 Responses to “CLO_002: Greetings”

1. slick Says:
   September 20th, 2006 at 4:21 pm

   What font are you using to produce your tones?

   i.e. nǐ hǎo
   hǎo
   nǐ hǎo ma?
   wǒ hěn hǎo

   nǐ
   wǒ
   tā
   tā hǎo ma?
   tā hěn hǎo

2. admin Says:
   September 20th, 2006 at 4:58 pm

   The font is normal Times New Roman, but your browser needs to support Unicode UTF-8 to see the accents. On your browser menu if you click on the View menu, under (Character) Encoding you should see some other choices there too.

3. haakn Says:
   February 3rd, 2007 at 7:57 pm

   ni hao

   Do you have fallig and rising tone on both ni & hao, it does not sounds like that. perhaps it should be rising and then falling and risigng. Could you please advise me

4. admin Says:
   February 3rd, 2007 at 8:54 pm

   Hey, you’re absolutely right (good ears!). When you have two falling rising tones together, the first one usually changes to a rising tone. By convention, when writing we leave the original tones where they are. Thanks for pointing this out!

5. Fernanda Says:
   March 6th, 2008 at 8:41 am

   Ni hao

   i have a question for you
   wo hen hao- have a change convention to?
   it’s seems like a rising, rising and folling rising tone.
   i think when there is more than one follin rising tone
   always and just the last one sounds like that, and the other
   are always rising, can be that ?

   I hope you undertand my english(i speech spanish)

   …and could answer me please…

   Xiexie ni…and…Zaijian

6. Adam Says:
   March 6th, 2008 at 9:13 pm

   Hi Fernanda,

   You have good ears! When two falling rising tones are placed together, the first one usually becomes a rising tone to make it easier to say them together. So Ni3 hao3 becomes Ni2 hao3 and Wo3 hen3 hao3 becomes Wo3 hen2 hao3.

   Hope that helps!

7. Fernando Miranda Says:
   March 10th, 2008 at 7:05 am

   Ni3 Hao3!

   When I need to ask someone about how I am after my haircut, for exemple, can I say just

   Wo3 hao3 ma?

   Xie4xie Ni3.

   Zai4jian4.

8. Adam Says:
   March 10th, 2008 at 10:50 pm

   Hi Fernanda,

   You could say Wo3 hao3 kan4 ma? (Do I look good?) The verb kan4 (mentioned in lesson 1 and taught in lesson 27) means “to look.”

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