Chinese Linkwords

Mine or My - water

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Imagine if all that was mine, was water (wo3 de).

English word : My / Mine
Chinese pronunciation : wo3 de

a Chair - That Is Eating

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Imagine a chair that is eating(yi3zi) anything put on it!

English word : Chair
Chinese pronunciation : Yi3zi

Sickness - Bingo!

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Imagine if everytime you have a sickness, your doctor would go "Bingo!" (bing4)

English word : Sickness / Illness
Chinese pronunciation : Bing4

Age in Years - Sweeter?

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Imagine if your years of age where measured in how swee[t] you are!

English word : Years of age
Chinese pronunciation : sui4

Hello - And Your Knee?

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Imagine if instead of "Hello", one would inquire about your knee like "Knee, How?" (ni3hao3)

English word : Hello
Chinese pronunciation : Ni3hao3

Shoe - A Shared One

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Imagine a shoe that has been shared (xie2) a lot!

English word : Shoe
Chinese pronunciation : Xie2

Usually the "xie2" would be following by a "zi"

Night - life, Yeah!

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Imagine if when it becomes night, everyone you know shouts "Yeah!" (ye4)

English word : night
Chinese pronunciation : ye4

Meat - Eating Contest

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Imagine eating lots of meat while sitting in a row (rou4) with a lot of people

English word : Meat
Chinese pronunciation : rou4

Thanks to Sandra for this one

Calorie - driven car!

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Imagine if you could use calories in your car (ka3) instead of gas!

English word : Calorie
Chinese pronunciation : ka3

Outside - Why?

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Imagine a lot of people outside The White House screaming "Why?" (wai4)

English word : Outside
Chinese pronunciation : wai4

Kettle - Speaking

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Imagine if your kettle would ask "Who (hu2) is using me?"

English word : Kettle, pot
Chinese pronunciation : hu2

Smile - Ok, Enough!

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Imagine if everytime you smile, people would ask you to take a shower! (What a breath) (xiao4)

English word : Smile, to
Chinese pronunciation : xiao4

Repair - of Cars

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Imagine if everytime you repair your car, it would show another problem! (xiu1)

English word : Repair, to
Chinese pronunciation : xiu1

I'm sorry, maybe this one is too realistic :o)

Several - G!

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Imagine if you several times would exceed the G-force limit! (ji3)

English word : Several
Chinese pronunciation : ji3

Chicken - Speeding Up

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Imagine a chicken that were so fast, that it had problems with the G-force! (ji1)

English word : Chicken
Chinese pronunciation : ji1

When refering to chicken meat in a meal. You would always add the word for meat, which is pronounced rou4. Making the entire word ji1rou4.

Hoe - You Know?

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Imagine if everytime you ask for a hoe, the only answer would be "I don't know"! (nou4)

English word : Hoe
Chinese pronunciation : nou4

Come - A Lie

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Imagine if your best friend said he would come, but it was a lie! (lai2)

English word : Come, to
Chinese pronunciation : lai2

to Give - Only For Gay Men?

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Imagine if everyone that would you give you gifts, were all gay! (gei3)

English word : Give, to
Chinese pronunciation : gei3

Nearby - A Golden Gin

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Imagine if nearby you, there would always be gin! (jin4)

English word : Nearby
Chinese pronunciation : Jin4

You - Get Down On One Knee

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Imagine that you get down on one knee(ni3) for her (/him)!

English word : You
Chinese pronunciation : ni3

Damaged - How Poor You Would Be

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Imagine if all your belongings were damaged or in ruins, how poor you would be!

English word : damaged / in ruins
Chinese pronunciation : po4

Tired - Then Lay Down.

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Maybe you don't even need to imagine this one! :o)

When you get tired, you should lay down.

English word : tired
Chinese pronunciation : lei4

Accompany sb., to - Expensive?

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Imagine if someone said that if you accompany him to his destination, you will have to pay!

English word : accompany sb., to
Chinese pronunciation : pei2

Kick - Tea

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Imagine if you would be kicked for drinking tea (ti2)!

English word : Kick, to
Chinese pronunciation : ti2

Have, to - Yo!

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Imagine that everytime you ask somebody whether they have a certain thing, they reply "yo!"

English word : have, to
Chinese pronunciation : you3

That is actually how the chinese would often respond in Chinese. When you ask a question like:
"ni3 you3 qi4che1 ma?"
A valid reply-sentence could then be:
"you3"
Which literally means "have".

Stars - That Make You Sing

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Imagine if everytime you see a star you hear also someone sing!

English word : Star
Chinese pronunciation : xing1

Seat - In Your Way

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Imagine if everytime you want to find your seat, someone come in your way!

English word : seat
Chinese pronunciation : wei4

Wrap Up And Bow Down

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Imagine if every package you wrap up, makes people bow down!

English word : wrap, to / a package, bag
Chinese pronunciation : bao1

Compare - Bees!

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Imagine that everytime you would compare things, you would be attacked by a bee (bi3)!

English word : Compare, to
Chinese pronunciation : bi3

Note: The English word "compare" would often be translated "bi3jiao4", but in a sentence like "this is better than that" one would use "bi3".

When - Is The Question

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Imagine if the only thing you could ask was when (wen4)!

English word : When
Chinese pronunciation : Wen4

White - Let Me Have It!

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Imagine that everytime you see something white, you just have to buy (bai2) it!

English word : White
Chinese pronunciation : bai2.

Please, don't ignore the tones! The second tone should be applied on this word.

Cup - Containing a Bay

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Imagine a cup so large that it could contain a whole bay (bei1)!

English Word : Cup
Mandarin Pronunciation : Bei1

Bathe - For All To See

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Image that everytime you bathe, people come to see (xi3) you!

English word : to bathe
Chinese pronunciation : xi3 (somewhat like "see")

Note: The word xi3 also has the meaning of to wash sth.

Every - Every Day Is May-Day

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Imagine how it would be if every-day was may-day!

English word : Every
Chinese pronunciation : Mei3 (like "may")

Acid - Stolen Link Word

2006-06-28T19:56:00.000+02:00

I must admit that this first example is stolen.. But I believe my friend who came up with it will forgive me, so I'll post it anyway. I start out with this one, as it is kind of humoristic :o)

Again, if you don't know what this is all about - visit Chinese Linkwords to read more.

Into a lake of Acid went an ugly swan.

The Chinese word for acid is suan1.

What "Linkwords" Is All About

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What are these Linkwords all about?

Well, to make it short, it is about remembering new words in another language extremely fast. That's it, it is that simple.

How effective is it?

If you do it the right way, you will be able to learn a hundred new words a day. And it will cost you nothing but 20 seconds per word!

How does it work?

Of course there are a few tricks you need to know for it to work. Actually there are several things you need to do. These things are very simple though. Check out Mandarin Chinese Pronunciation Linkwords, read about how to do it, and get back here to try out the examples in the blog.

Please Note

For my own selfish convenience, I will not post the Chinese characters here on this blog. I just don't know any easy way of inputting chinese characters that will be readable to everyone. So when I write a "Chinese word" I will only write it in the simplest form of pinyin - which is the letters without the tone mark, but with a number (1-5) representing the tone.

I personally pay a lot of attention to the tones, and do not want any of my website visitors to blame me for having wrong tones or pronunciation. What I will do to avoid it, is to encourage you to get your hands on some kind of pronunciation learning tool. Of course my heaviest suggestion is the Standard Mandarin software, developed by Yours Truly.

At least I am honest :o)

Opening Welcome!

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It is my pleasure to welcome you on my brand new blog! This is actually my very first time to write such a post.

This blog is devoted to remembering Chinese words, and how to pronounce Mandarin. Though there may appear a few related links or posts at times. Consider it a bonus! :o)

I will close this first post of mine and get on with the second one, containing my first really valuable content... At least I believe it is of value to any students of Chinese language.