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.

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

posted by Joel Hansen at 1:43 PM

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