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[quote=GUEST39165,368006]Hi, Danny, about your question, if you want to say What's up in Mandarin, the proper translation is Zen(3rd tone) me(no tone) yang(4th tone) Zenmeyang 怎么样. or what's going on lately is zuijin zenmeyang 最近怎么样. this is to use with family and friends same rule as What's up in english. Ni Hao is the regular greeting in common Chinese 普通话, it is the translation of Hello, in Mandarin, you put the ma at the end to show it is a question. As foreigner learning Mandarin, we learned Ni hao ma? but frankly, no body in China say that, only the Laowai老外!! Everybody say ni hao as hi or hello. You can use ni hao ma to know if the other person is OK, for exemple if you bump by accident into another person and they almost fell, you can say i am sorry, are you OK = duibuqi, ni hao ma? 对不起,你好吗? someone mentioned in a previous post: It means "You have eaten?", this is wrong! the translation for that is Ni Chi le ma?你吃了吗? Chibaole is the answer meaning they eat a lot and they were full. I hope this can help Liu Rui Ke (I am not Chinese, I am french Canadian learning English and Mandarin.) [/quote]
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