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ÄãºÃis a popular greeting. It means ¡°Hi¡±, ¡°Hello¡±, ¡°How are you?¡± in English. The response would be ¡°ÄãºÃ¡±also.

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½Ð means ¡° be called¡±. You may say ¡° ÎÒÊÇ¡*¡*¡± also, which means ¡° I am ¡*¡±
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May I have your name ? ʲô means ¡° what¡±.

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The answer to it would be ¡° ²»ÓÃл¡± or ¡°²»¿ÍÆø¡±.

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See you/ Byebye

How much do you know about the Chinese language ?
May I make a brief introduction to you ?

Firstly, I¡¯d like to talk something about ¡°ÆÕͨ»°¡±¡£ P¨³t¨*nghu¨¤
ÆÕͨ»°£¬literally ¡° common speech¡±, is the standard form of the Chinese language and is known as Mandarin Chinese. It is based on the Northern dialect. ÆÕͨ»° is taught in schools and spoken by TV and radio presenters in China. The Northern dialect has many sub-divisions which are spoken by the majority of the population. The differences between northern sub-divisions are not huge, but the differences between southern dialects are enormous. The major southern dialects are Cantonese, Shanghai dialect, Fujian dialect and Zhejiang dialect. All these dialects share the same script.

Secondly, I¡¯d like to introduce Æ´Òô to you. £¨ P¨©ny¨©n£©
Many foreigners may think that it¡¯s difficult to learn Chinese characters while it¡¯s much easier to learn Æ´Òô only. Chinese characters give no indication of how they are pronounced. Æ´Òô is the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet System which was devised in 1958 and has since been adopted as a standard form to represent Chinese sounds. It will be helpful to learn Æ´Òô well.

Last but not the least, let¡¯s talk about the tones£¨Éùµ÷£©.
In Mandarin Chinese, there are four tones. Each syllable in isolation has its tone, and the same syllables with different tones can mean different things. For example, m¨¡ with the first tone means ¡° mum¡±, m¨¢ with the second tone ¡°linen¡±, m¨£ with the third tone means ¡° horse¡± and m¨¤ with the fourth tone ¡° to swear¡±.

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