Basic Chinese Conversation Ally: Wǒ zhù zài Mabalacat City, nǐ ne?

April Alyssa Segarra

Angelene R. Cruz (I live in Mabalacat City, How about
FL 101-Mandarin C2 you?)
Ally: Nǐ hǎo!
Angie: Wǒ yě zhù zài Mabalacat City.
(Hello!)
(I also live in Mabalacat City)
Angie: Nǐ hǎo!
Ally: Wa! Bùshì hěn hǎo
(Hello!)
(wow! Isn’t it great.)
Ally: Nǐ hǎo ma?
Angie: Laoshi hǎo. Nín máng bù máng?
(How are you? )
(Hello teacher, are you busy?)
Angie: Wǒ hěn hǎo, nǐ ne?
Ally: Hěn máng. Nǐ ne?
(I am very good, and you?)
(Very busy, and you?)
Ally: Yě hěn hǎo
Angie: Wǒ yě hěn máng?
(I am also very good)
(I am also very busy.)
Angie: Nǐ māmā hǎo ma?.
Ally: Na, yī huĭr jiàn le
(How is your mother?)
(In that case, I’ll see you later.)
Ally: Wǒ māmā hěn hǎo, nǐ ne?
Angie: Huí tóu jiàn.
(my mom is very well, how about
(See you later.)
you?)
Ally: Jīntiān nǐ yào zuò shénme?
Angie: Wǒ māmā yě hěn hǎo.
(What do you want to do today?)
(My mom is very well too)
Angie: Lǎoshī gěi wǒ tài duō zuòyè! Wǒ jīntiān
Ally: Nǐ bàba hǎo ma?
hěn máng. Nǐ ne?
(How is your father?)
(The teacher gave me too much
Angie: Wǒ bàba hěn hǎo, nǐ ne? homework! I will be busy today. What about
you?)
(my dad is very well, how about you?)
Ally: Wǒ yěyǒu hěnduō zuòyè. Nà wǒmen yīqǐ
Ally: Wǒ bàba yě hěn hǎo, Xièxiè zuò zuo yè ba.

(My dad is very well too, thank you) (II also have a lot of homework. In
that case, let's do homework together then.)
Angie: Nǐ zhù zài nǎlǐ?
Angie: nǐ Zhōngguó huà shuō de hén hǎo.
(Where do you live?)
(you speak Chinese very well.)
Ally: Nálǐ, bù xíng, bù xíng. Ally: wǒ xiànzài zài xué Zhōngwén.

(Oh, no, not well yet.) (I am learning Chinese now.)

Angie: Wǒ xiànzài zài xué Zhōngwén.? Angie: Nǐ néng bu néng bāng wǒ xué
Zhōngwén?
(I am learning Chinese now.)
(Can you help me study
Ally: nǐ Yīngyǔ shuō de hén hǎo. Chinese?)
(you speak English very well.) Ally: Hǎo a, méiyou wèntí.
Angie: Nálǐ, mámahūhū. (Great! No problem.)
(No, just so-so.) Ally: Xiànzài jǐ diǎnzhōng?
Ally: Nǐ Yīngyǔ shì zài nálǐ xué de? (What time is it now?)
(Where did you learn English?) Angie: Xiànzài shì sì diǎn.
Angie: Wǒ shì zài Fēilǜbīn xué de. (its four o’clock now.)
(I learned it in Philippines.) Ally: Nǐ shénme shíhòu huí jiā??
Angie: nǐ xiànzài Zhōngwén shuō de hén hǎo. (when do you go home?)
(you speak Chinese very well now.) Angie: Wǒ liù diǎn bàn huí jiā
Ally: Nálǐ, hái bù xíng, wǒ zhǐ huì shuō yìdiǎr (I go home at half past six)
Zhōngwén.
Ally: Wǒ yě yīqǐ huí jiā ba
(No, not good yet. I can speak a little
Chinese.) (me, too. Lets go home together.)

Angie: Rènshi bu rènshi Zhōngguó zì? Angie: Hǎo méi wèntí

(Do you recognize Chinese (Sure, no problem)

characters?)
Ally: Na, yī huĭr jiàn le
Ally: Bú rènshi, wǒ zhǐ huì shuō.?
(In that case, I’ll see you later.)
(No, I don't. I can speak only.)
Angie: Huí tóu jiàn.
Angie: Wǒ shì zài Fēilǜbīn xué de.
(See you later.)
(I learned it in Philippines.)

Ally: Nǐ huì shuō Zhōngwén ma?

(Can you speak Chinese?)

Angie: Huì shuō yìdiàr, bú tài hǎo.

(I can speak a little, not very well.)