Chinese Foreign Words

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.

Monday, July 31, 2006

Chocolate!

English word : Chocolate
Chinese pronunciation : Qiao3ke4li4


Friday, July 28, 2006

Sofa

English word : Sofa
Chinese pronunciation : sha1fa1


Thursday, July 27, 2006

Microphone

English word : Microphone
Chinese pronunciation : Mai4ke4feng1


Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Salad

English word : Salat
Chinese pronunciation : sa1la1


Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Ice Cream

English word : Ice Cream
Chinese pronunciation : bing1(means ice) qi2lin2 (should sound like cream)


Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Ever tasted a Chinese pizza?

English word : Pizza
Chinese pronunciation : Bi3sa1


Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Do Chinese have humor?

For some reason there was a need to adopt a certain word when the lao3wai4 (old outsider or foreigner) came to China.

English word : Humor
Chinese pronunciation : you1mo4


Saturday, July 15, 2006

Where To Start Logically?

The first Chinese foreign word I would add to this blog, would be logic.

English word : Logic
Chinese pronunciation : luo2ji4


Friday, July 14, 2006

Opening Apology

Hello any reader I may have!

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.


 
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