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Learn Chinese 7 : Is Chinese difficult?
| Click on the speaker icon of each sentence and listen to the recording. Each sentence follows this pattern : Pinyin (that's Chinese written in Latin characters), Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and the English translation of the sentence.
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| John, nǐ Zhōngguó huà shuō de hén hǎo. |
| John,你中国话说得很好。 |
| John, 你中國話說得很好。
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| John, you speak Chinese very well. |
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| Nálǐ, bù xíng, bù xíng. |
| 哪里﹐不行不行。 |
| 哪裡﹐不行不行。
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| Oh, no, not well yet. |
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| Wǒ xiànzài zài xué Zhōngwén. |
| 我现在在学中文。 |
| 我現在在學中文。
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| I am learning Chinese now. |
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| Nǐ juéde Zhōngwén nán bu nán? |
| 你觉得中文难不难﹖ |
| 你覺得中文難不難﹖
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| Do you think that Chinese is difficult or not? |
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| Wǒ juéde kóuyǔ bú tài nán, xiě zì bǐjiào nán. |
| 我觉得中文口语不太难﹐写字比较难。 |
| 我覺得中文口語不太難﹐寫字比較難。
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| I feel that spoken Chinese is not that difficult. Writing charcaters is relatively difficult. |
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| Nǐ hái huì shuō shénme wàiyǔ? |
| 你还会说什么外语﹖ |
| 你還會說什麼外語﹖
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| What other foreign language can you speak? |
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| Wǒ hái huì shuō Fáyǔ. |
| 我还会说法语。 |
| 我還會說法語。
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| I can also speak French. |
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| Fáyǔ nán bu nán? |
| 法语难不难﹖ |
| 法語難不難﹖
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| Is French difficult? |
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| Bú tài nán, méiyou Zhōngwén nán. |
| 不太难﹐没有中文难。 |
| 不太難﹐沒有中文難。
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| Not really, not as difficult as Chinese. |
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| Notes |
- 'bù xíng' is a response to the compliment. It means 'no, it doesn't work' literally. Actually it is a humble response to 'shuō de hén hǎo'.
- 'méiyou Zhōngwén nán' means 'not that difficult compared to Chinese'.
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