Mandarin Learning Basic

Today we talk about the simple greeting in mandarin, what is the first word when we meet to each other? In the English, maybe we can just say ‘hi’ or ‘how are you?’, that’s the same in mandarin or Chinese. Now let’s see how to say that’s…

嗨 spelling ‘hai(4)’ in English means ‘hi’
你好 spelling ‘ni(2) hao(3)’ in English means ‘how are you’
你好吗 spelling ‘ni(2) hao(3) ma(1)’ this means ‘how are you’ too.�

That’s right, just so simple…now I want to talk about the word we use to call ‘you’ for the people who older than us, like for our parents or senior

您 spelling ‘nin(2)’ in English means ‘nin’

Why we use it different? In chinese / mandarin language, that’s seem more polite when we use ‘nin(2)’.