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