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Old Dec 13, 2008 | 1:42 pm
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anacapamalibu
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Originally Posted by PTravel
"Doo a boo chi, ching juan: [Name of destination] t'sigh nahr?" (The "a" is a long a, as in "day")

This means, "Excuse me, please: Where is [Name of destination]?"
Originally Posted by Peter_N-H
i have to admit that as a fairly fluent Mandarin speaker I had absolutely no clue what that was supposed to mean until I read the explanation.
China
Excuse me.. dui bu qi

sound byte:

http://www.transparent.com/languagep...inese/cte07.au

Where is? Zai Na-Li

The Mandarin question word for "where” is zài nǎli. It is made up of three characters: 在 (zài) which means "located at," and the two characters 哪裡 (nǎli) are the question “where?” Zài nǎli literally means, “Where is it located?”

Sound Byte example: Where is a restroom?

http://ecis.seattleu.edu/rao/china20...20restroom.wav

Thanks : xiexie

Sound Byte:

http://www.standardmandarin.com/chin...ases/Thank_you
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