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, August 14, 2006

Guitar

English word : Guitar
Chinese pronunciation : Ji2ta1


Friday, August 11, 2006

Ton

English word : Ton
Chinese pronunciation : Dun4


Thursday, August 10, 2006

Meter

English word : Meter
Chinese pronunciation : mi3


Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Learning Chinese Is Cool!

English word : Cool
Chinese pronunciation : ku4


Tuesday, August 08, 2006

AIDS was also imported

English word : AIDS
Chinese pronunciation : ai4zi1 (bing4)

bing4 is sickness, illness or disease.


Monday, August 07, 2006

Westerners scared the headache away

English word : Aspirin
Chinese pronunciation : a1si1pi3lin2


Friday, August 04, 2006

Pay the Fei4

English word : Fee
Chinese pronunciation : Fei4


Thursday, August 03, 2006

Coffee

The Chinese are much known for their fabulous green tea! When they learned about coffee, what did they call it? Ka1fei1

English word : Coffee
Chinese pronunciation : Ka1fei1

What would a café be? Or rather; a Coffee bar? Ka1fei1ba1


Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Hysterics

English word : Hysterics
Chinese pronunciation : xie1si1di3li3


Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Internet

English word : Internet
Chinese pronunciation : yin1te4wang3 (wang3 means net)


 
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