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To: Tainan

Buenas dias = Zao! Good day.
Como esta? = Ni(nee) Hao(how) Ma?(ma) How are you?
No lo se = May wen ti(tee) I don’t know it.


31 posted on 06/01/2011 12:30:23 PM PDT by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: JimRed
No lo se = May wen ti(tee) I don’t know it.

May wen ti is the Mandarin informal equivalent for "No problem"...thus my correction in #17.

Informally, wo bu ji dao is close to no lo se...I don't know.

Me being a mai gua(American) I get by with a lot of really bad Mandarin...but my Tai yu (Taiwanese) is coming along.

33 posted on 06/01/2011 4:54:08 PM PDT by Tainan (Cogito Ergo Conservitus.)
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