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Ni Hao
Wo *** Li
Hello and Welcome to Learn Basic Mandarin
My name is Li
and I will be your host and teacher for this class.
Whether you will be traveling to China
or just want to fool your friends into thinking you are a language genius,
this is the right class for you.
Now let's get started.
Let's start with one of the most commonly used phrases in Chinese.
Since Udemy will not allow me to upload videos with curse words,
Let's start with one of the second most popular phrases in Chinese
and that is hello
Hello in Chinese is Ni Hao.
Ni Hao
So next time you see an Asian looking person
Ni Hao
So next time you see an Asian looking person
and if you want to ask them if they are Chinese, you can skip that and use this litmus test.
You can say to them ni hao
and if they are Chinese and decide to be polite that day, they will say back to you
so let's review
You've learned how to say hello in Chinese which is ni hao,
and you learned how to respond to that phrase
which is saying ni hao back.
and you learned how to respond to that phrase
which is saying ni hao back.
Congratulations, you just learned your first word in Mandarin. I'll see you in the next lesson.