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From :   Alissia Jackson

Date : 2008-03-24 / 08:25AM

Ni hao ma, What do you say if someone sneeze? Would you still say “Bless You”
Xie xie ni! :)

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 Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com 
2008-03-24 / 06:47PM

hi, In Chinese you can say: bǎo yòu nǐ

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 Benny the Mandarin Teacher bennysland.com 
2008-03-24 / 06:49PM

In China, we don’t really acknowledge when someone sneezes… something most foreigners find hard to get used to.

But if we do say something, we say “bǎi suì” means literally “100 years”



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 lansili youtube.com 
2008-03-26 / 03:36PM

Ni hao Alissia, Nice to see you!

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