How to say New Zealand in chinese?

[totoseow]

Re: How to say New Zealand in chinese?

what about 丢你妈过海？

what country is that?

 

[hitmee]

Re: How to say New Zealand in chinese?

Anyway, to you Cantonese speakers out there... How do you pronounce Singapore? Is it Xing as in "New" or "Xing as in "Star"?

U write as NEW
Read as StAr

 

[hitmee]

Re: How to say New Zealand in chinese?

what about 丢你妈过海？

what country is that?

Very wrong. That is malaysian

Hk Should be low mow not ma

 

[kenntona]

Re: How to say New Zealand in chinese?

What about the time when STB outsourced their promo material chinese translation to some Chinese guy, and all the Chinatown when translated into chinese became zong guo cheng. I think someone's AWS must have kena docked that year man.

Incidentally, Zhong Guo Cheng was a huge KTV in the 80s, in HK, with Da Fu Hao. Bobby say one.

Anyway, to you Cantonese speakers out there... How do you pronounce Singapore? Is it Xing as in "New" or "Xing as in "Star"?

In HK, there are two ways to write Singapore's Chinese characters - XIN JIA BO or XING JIA BO. XIN as in STAR and SING as in NEW.......

XIN will be pronounced SENG in Cantonese and XING will be pronounced SUN in Cantonese.

 

[totoseow]

Re: How to say New Zealand in chinese?

i only know 八步新

 

[hitmee]

Re: How to say New Zealand in chinese?

i only know 八步新

Some say
巴姨星

 

[MW]

Re: How to say New Zealand in chinese?

In China, airconditioner is called 空调 but we call it 冷气机 and they will look at you like you are some nut if you ask them how to adjust the 冷气机 during Winter.

Then, you go restaurent and ask for a spoon as 汤匙 and they will say you never order soup you want 汤匙 for what. It should be 调羹.

But KTV is same as Singapore. 出街 is applied everywhere. My friend say one

 

[BlackCookie]

Re: How to say New Zealand in chinese?

Incidentally, Zhong Guo Cheng was a huge KTV in the 80s, in HK, with Da Fu Hao. Bobby say one.


In HK, there are two ways to write Singapore's Chinese characters - XIN JIA BO or XING JIA BO. XIN as in STAR and SING as in NEW.......

XIN will be pronounced SENG in Cantonese and XING will be pronounced SUN in Cantonese.

I know so is it Seng or Sun. In Hong Kong, they still say Seng but in Singapore, I hear all variations!

 

[BlackCookie]

Re: How to say New Zealand in chinese?

In China, airconditioner is called 空调 but we call it 冷气机 and they will look at you like you are some nut if you ask them how to adjust the 冷气机 during Winter.

Then, you go restaurent and ask for a spoon as 汤匙 and they will say you never order soup you want 汤匙 for what. It should be 调羹.

But KTV is same as Singapore. 出街 is applied everywhere. My friend say one

I remembered my last trip to Shanghai, I went "wo yao.... spoon..."

 

[R335]

Re: How to say New Zealand in chinese?

In China, airconditioner is called 空调 but we call it 冷气机 and they will look at you like you are some nut if you ask them how to adjust the 冷气机 during Winter.

Then, you go restaurent and ask for a spoon as 汤匙 and they will say you never order soup you want 汤匙 for what. It should be 调羹.

But KTV is same as Singapore. 出街 is applied everywhere. My friend say one

Ya that is very true... there is another to ensure is to call waitress "服务员" not 小姐. they will think u wan call chicken ....

 

[C3P0]

Re: How to say New Zealand in chinese?

The one that really got me baffled for years is "Ji4 Suan4 Ji1".

I keep wondering how come the Chinese use calculators for everything. Then one day I realised it means computer.

 

[hoks]

Re: How to say New Zealand in chinese?

In HK its all along 星instead of 新

 

[The Guardian]

Re: How to say New Zealand in chinese?

what about 丢你妈过海？

what country is that?

can't stop laughing when i saw this.... cantonese vulgarity....hahaha....

 

[The Guardian]

Re: How to say New Zealand in chinese?

incidentally, zhong guo cheng was a huge ktv in the 80s, in hk, with da fu hao. Bobby say one.


In hk, there are two ways to write singapore's chinese characters - xin jia bo or xing jia bo. Xin as in star and sing as in new.......

Xin will be pronounced seng in cantonese and xing will be pronounced sun in cantonese.

xin jia po?

Xing jia bo??

 

[july_08]

Re: How to say New Zealand in chinese?

I think there are just tooo many CHINA IMPORTS here thats y our chinese is changing to china...

 

[zag]

Re: How to say New Zealand in chinese?

I think there are just tooo many CHINA IMPORTS here thats y our chinese is changing to china...

kids in pre school and primary school..when they speak chinese.. they start to sound like china mei mei or di di already... all chinese language teachers are from mainland china..so ..what to do.?

 

[Ahbengdriver]

Re: How to say New Zealand in chinese?

Lan4 Pa1 = Pa4 Lan2

 

[july_08]

Re: How to say New Zealand in chinese?

kids in pre school and primary school..when they speak chinese.. they start to sound like china mei mei or di di already... all chinese language teachers are from mainland china..so ..what to do.?

Haha... I am looking for a Childcare for my son that's y the first thing I do is to make sure they do not hire any china teachers!!!!

 

[jawzsg]

Re: How to say New Zealand in chinese?

:thinking: ... with all this influence going on...maybe we need to change our forum name to "Precious Horse-SG" liao.... :screwedu:

 

[july_08]

Re: How to say New Zealand in chinese?

:thinking: ... with all this influence going on...maybe we need to change our forum name to "Precious Horse-SG" liao.... :screwedu:

Yea man... Bao Ma rite...