We are looking at hiring Angela to help Victor Wiebe, John Banman, and myself learn around 30 Mandarin phrases so we can do some street preaching on the Chinese New Years day (Feb 14th) in Toronto.
We hope to get the Mandarin New Testaments from the Gideons.
Here is some samples of her translation she provided us. We plan on coming up with about 30 phrases and we plan on putting them all up here. I recommend you consider learning these phrases also and then going out and street preaching on Chinese New Years.
Tone Chart:
1. Life is short and you will soon die.
Ren2 de sheng1 ming4 hen2 duan3 zan4, bai3 nian2 zhi1 hou4, zong2 you3 yi4 si3.
Mandarin: 人的生命很短暂， 百年之后，总有一死。
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2. Where will you spend eternity?
Ren2 si3 le yi3 hou4 hui4 qu4 na2 li ne1?
Mandarin: 人死了以后，会去哪里呢？
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3. The Bible tells us the will of God.
Sheng4 jing1 jiao1 dao3 wo3 men2 sheng2 de yi4 yuan4.
Mandarin: 圣经教导我们神的意愿。
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January 8th, 2010 at 10:58 pm
Some Americans say the sound of Mandarin is poetic.
Japanese adopts a lot of Chinese characters, so, some Japanese know the advantages of the Chinese language. A learned Japanese states that Chinese language is very systematic and logic. He looks at Mandarin from a different angle.
I’d say the writing of Chinese characters is beautiful.
It’s also very interesting to know that every Chinese character and pronunciation has a reason or logic behind. That means we can learn Mandarin much easier if we understand the reasons or logic behind.
Learning Mandarin can be entertaining and fun!
I am a published author of 5 books on amazon.com.
If you sat a popular Chinese rhyme frin among the above Mandarin phrases, people will respond with a big smile and claps!
I’d like to recommend the following entertaining book to you.
The book, Learn Chinese Through Song!: The Popular Chinese Nursery Rhyme: Two Tigers is about one of the most popular Chinese rhyme for parents and child.
* Almost everyone knows the song Frère Jacques (Brother John) — There are probably 50 versions of the song, in many languages. This song’s Chinese version is “Two Tigers,” which is very easy to learn. It’s interesting to know that almost everyone in China and Taiwan sang “Two Tigers” when she/he was a child, because it’s very easy to learn.
Two tigers Chinese song is a lovely song song by children.
You will be able to sing the rhyme in minutes and remember it forever!
More and more people will come to your people, after they hear your rhyme, loud laugh, and claps!