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sassou
Date : 2009-09-17 / 08:46AM
hi a monthe ago i found a book his name was learn chinese i opened it the book said hello or hi meens ni khao but i saw when you spaeking you say ni hao not khao i want to know which word is corect.
note:in arabic there is a big difrence between khao and hao so i need to know which is correct
anthor note : iam not so good at english so exicuse me if there any mistace at writing but i really want to learn chinese wright.thanks
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| | Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com
2009-09-17 / 09:58AM | | Hi sassou,
The correct or the standard is “nǐ hǎo”.
But I think the reason to use “khao” in this book is just to help westerners to pronounce in a phonetic way.
Because for the first timers, it’s hard to know how to say “hao” correctly, that’s probably why they put “k” before.
Benny
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| | sassou yahoo.com
2009-09-18 / 05:22AM | | To : Benny the Mandarin Teacher
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Hi sassou,
The correct or the standard is “nǐ hǎo”.
But I think the reason to use “khao” in this book is just to help westerners to pronounce in a phonetic way.
Because for the first timers, it’s hard to know how to say “hao” correctly, that’s probably why they put “k” before.
Benny | |
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