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.

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

posted by Joel Hansen at 1:38 PM

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