Chinese language(off topic)

Hey Im basically asking to people who know chinese, Im so lost with mandarin that I dont even know how it works, I wonder how many simbols you can make? how many words does the chinese have?, is it more difficult to read chinese compared to other languages? I sometimes see alink writing here chinese with our typing letters (even more lost). Maybe you can enlighten me and teach me something about the ping-pong language, wait... maybe thats the secret, you learn chinese then some part of your brain is developed your eyes get different and youre done

Thanks

interesting, but can you answer my other questions?

Yikes, Alink your pinyin is horrible......  there are mistakes in your translation.

In Madarin (aka PuTonHua aka Common Lanaguage) which is the official dialect of China has:

21 consonants, 15 vowels and 21 compound vowels.

The letter "q" in pinyin is equivalent to "ch" sound in english.  So Wang Li Qin

sounds like "WUANG LI CHING" in english.

for example�F

counter loop = fan (counter/opposite) la (pull) hu quan (spinning) qiu (ball)

loop drive = kuai (fast) dai (bring) hu quan (spinning) qiu (ball)

penhold = zhi (straight) ban (board)

shakehand = heng (horizontal) ban (board)

so reverse penhold backhand loop is

zhi (straight) ban (board) heng (horizontal) la (pull)

Hehe, straight word for word translation from chinese to english is very funny sometimes.

When commentator talk about a good shot they would say:

hao (good) qiu (ball) or piao liang (beautiful)

In China they use PingPong or Guo (national) qiu (ball) for table tennis.  In Taiwan they use PingPong or zhuo (table) qiu (ball) for table tennis.

In China people use zhong (middle) guo (nation/country) to say China

When the crowd cheers for a player they would yell:

Player Name "Jia (plus/add) You (oil/gas)"

So for Wang Hao, they would say �wang hao jia you" equivalent to "let's go wang hao" in english.

Some European names translated in chinese sounds so when you hear them in some of the videos you can connect them to the player.

Waldner == Wa Err Der Nei Err

Kreanga == Ka lin Ka

Schlager == Sher La Ger

Boll == Bo Err

Samsonov == Sa Mer So Na Fu

Saive == Sai Fu

Maze == Mei Zhir

tony7190 wrote: yea, i think alink is right, cept sa mu so NA fu is supposed to be sa mu so nuo fu. I dun kno if that pinyin is correct, but it sounds the the "nuo" in "nuo" mi (sticky rice)

Hehe, my intent for the names was to not use pinyin but to use something equivalent in English because not everyone here knows how to enunciate the pinyin characters properly.  So to english speakers, it would sound like "sa mu so na fu" even though the real pinyin is as you stated. 

Example in pinyin

de sounds like "der" in english

nuo is sounds like "nor" in english

Cheers.

faux123 wrote: tony7190 wrote: yea, i think alink is right, cept sa mu so NA fu is supposed to be sa mu so nuo fu. I dun kno if that pinyin is correct, but it sounds the the "nuo" in "nuo" mi (sticky rice) Hehe, my intent for the names was to not use pinyin but to use something equivalent in English because not everyone here knows how to enunciate the pinyin characters properly.  So to english speakers, it would sound like "sa mu so na fu" even though the real pinyin is as you stated.  Example in pinyin de sounds like "der" in english nuo is sounds like "nor" in english Cheers.

Same with chi and shi. Chi sounds more like chur and shi more like shur, but I think that's just how it sounds when it blends together in speech