Greetings — Hello, how are you?
Phase 1 · target HSK 1 · 6 lines · 6 drills · Meeting a neighbour in the lift at a Bangsar Baru condo.
Dialect bridges (2) — Cantonese / Hokkien / Hakka cognates
你好nǐ hǎo
Cant: nei5 hou2 — lei hou — same morphemes
Hokk: lí-hó — same morphemes, Min reflex
Tone-3 sandhi makes nǐ → ní before another tone 3.
谢谢xièxie
Cant: ze6 ze6 — ze ze — same characters, different reading
Hokk: siā-siā — siā siā
Dialogue — listen, shadow, record
A
你好。
Nǐ hǎo.
Hello.
B
你好,你好吗?
Nǐ hǎo, nǐ hǎo ma?
Hello, how are you?
A
我很好,谢谢。你呢?
Wǒ hěn hǎo, xièxie. Nǐ ne?
I'm well, thanks. And you?
B
我也很好。
Wǒ yě hěn hǎo.
I'm well too.
A
再见。
Zàijiàn.
Goodbye.
B
再见。
Zàijiàn.
Goodbye.