val1

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From :   val

Date : 2010-01-28 / 03:20PM

at the beginning of your sessions you say: Da jia how…… what is the meaning of this?

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phoebe

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 Phoebe Sun [سون جينغ] gmail.com 
2010-01-28 / 03:37PM

‘Dà jiā hǎo’ means ‘Hello, everyone’



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 Val googlemail.com 
2010-01-28 / 06:18PM
To : Phoebe Sun [سون جينغ]

Hi Phoebe
thanks for that…. i gathered it was something like that but what do the individual words mean?…. I know “how” is good….. and i know quite a few greetings but i would like the literal translation of the other 2 words so i can see how phrases are constructed.

thanks for your reply

Val

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joey

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 Joey askbenny.net 
2010-01-28 / 11:07PM
To : Val

Hi Val

In Chinese language, ‘Dà’(大) and ‘jiā’(家) have many meaning, but when we put them together,
‘Dà jiā’ means everybody.

Joey



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RobertVicencio

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 RobertVicencio askbenny.net 
2010-01-29 / 04:18PM

Hey Val!

Where are you from?

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 Benny the Mandarin Teacher askbenny.net 
2010-01-29 / 05:19PM

ni hao val,

Welcome to AskBenny, “dà jiāhǎo” in Chinese means “hello, everyone”

How’s your learning going?

Benny



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val1

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 val googlemail.com 
2010-01-30 / 12:53AM
To : RobertVicencio

Hi Robert
I’m from England…. I live near windsor….. I just started learning Mandarin this month.

Val

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val1

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 val googlemail.com 
2010-01-30 / 12:55AM
To : Benny the Mandarin Teacher

Hi Benny

my learning is going great thanks!…. I only found I needed to start learning Mandarin in December……. I never wanted to before….. but I’m enjoying the experience and now i have found your site I am enjoying learning even more.

All the best

Val

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 Roland Parijs yahoo.com 
2010-01-30 / 02:39PM
To : val

Dear Val,

I guess that dà jiā hǎo 大 家 好 litteraly means big [大] family [家] good [好].
Big family then is humanity in its entirerty so everyone! Hence 大 家 is translated as
everyone! 大家 can also mean master like a master in painting guó huà dà jiā
国 画 大 家.

Example:

dà jiā dōu xǐ huān dá fēn qí mēng nuó lì shā tā
shì yì dà lì zuì yǒu míng wén yì fù xìng shí qī de
dà jiā

大家都喜 欢达芬 的 奇蒙娜丽莎,他是 意大利 最有名 文艺复兴时期的大家 .

Everyone [dà jiā] loves Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, he was Italy’s
most famous renaisance master [dà jiā].

(我希望我写这句句子写的标准本霓!)

Succes in your study! 学习顺利

Roland

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RobertVicencio

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 RobertVicencio askbenny.net 
2010-01-31 / 04:24PM
To : val

I used to live in England! For 8 years!

I lived in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol and Southampton!

;o)

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 val1 googlemail.com 
2010-01-31 / 05:36PM
To : RobertVicencio

It looks like you are a “big city person”!……I’m a “burb”!….so….. do you just live in china or were you born there?…..what do you do?

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