Foreign words in Chinese. I believe all languages uses foreign words when their own vocabulary is insufficient.
For instance French. They have adopted a Danish combined expression meaning something like "mess in a kitchen", which is what cooking always results in.
In this blog I will post the foreign words used in Mandarin Chinese. You are most welcome to add some, just make a comment to any post you like.
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Model
English word : Model (a person) Chinese pronunciation : mo2te4
As an opening comment, I would have to say that I will not trouble myself writing the chinese characters for these Chinese foreign words. But I will of course add the correct pinyin - in its simplest form though. Which is with traditional letters and each syllable followed by a number indicating the tone.