Lesson11: Chatting

Chatting with friends can be a fun activity to do everywhere. You may talk about politics, entertainment, games, or anything interesting. BUT you need to notice that small talks always take part.

When you meet your friend, you will say:

good morning = 早安 (zao an | ㄗㄠˇ ㄢ)

good afternoon = 午安 ( wu an | ㄨˇ ㄢ)

good night = 晚安 (wan an | ㄨㄢˇ ㄢ)

Note. For saying greetings good morning = 早安 (zao an | ㄗㄠˇ ㄢ), mention only 早 (zao | ㄗㄠˇ) is fine.

Then you may add some more like:

where are you going? = 你去哪裡? (ni qu na li? | ㄋㄧˇ ㄑㄩˋ ㄋㄚˇ ㄌㄧˇ?)

what are you doing? = 你在做什麼? (ni zai zuo sheme? | ㄋㄧˇ ㄗㄞˋ ㄗㄨㄛˋ ㄕㄜˊ ㄇㄜ?

)

have you had your ___? = 你吃 ___ 了嗎? (ni chi ___ le ma? | ㄋㄧˇ ㄔ ___ ㄌㄜ ㄇㄚ?)

*吃 = eat

breakfast = 早餐 (zao can | ㄗㄠˇ ㄘㄢ)

lunch = 午餐 (wu can | ㄨˇ ㄘㄢ)

dinner = 晚餐 (wan can | ㄨㄢˇ ㄘㄢ)

midnight snack = 消夜 (xiao yie | ㄒㄧㄠ 一ㄝˋ)

Chatting on a social networking application or website can be another fun activity to do. Here is some uniqueness that you can find, like typing some Taiwanese language. As we may know that Taiwanese language uses Chinese character while pronounced in a different way.

Taiwanese language

yes = 黑ㄚ (hei a | ㄏㄟ ㄚ)

hungry = 八豆邀 (ba dou yao | ㄅㄚ ㄉㄡˋ 一ㄠ)

[explicit meaning] = 凸

*the original meaning of this character is raised and is pronounced tu | ㄊㄨ but because the character looks like some that contain explicit meaning, it becomes a joke.

bye bye = 88 OR 881

*88 (ba ba ) OR 881 (baba yi) is to replace bye bye because both of them have similar pronunciation.

haha (laughter) = 哈哈 (ha ha | ㄏㄚ ㄏㄚ) OR ㄏㄏㄏㄏㄏ

*ㄏ is pronounced as h sound.