Learning : I Want To Drink
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 NickWaters hotmail.com 
2007-07-12 / 09:22PM

LOVE IT! This is sooo cool! Will definitely tell me friends about it!

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Wordhewer

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 Bai Chi-Ming gmail.com 
2007-07-24 / 06:34AM

This is excellent. You’re a good teacher, Benny! I especially like your clear use of tones. That’s one of the hardest things for an English-speaking person to learn.

Xie-xie!

Steve White

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 benny bennysland.com 
2007-07-24 / 01:16PM

Hi, Bai Chi-Ming,

Xie xie ni, and Bu ke qi,

I firmly believe this is the correct way to teach chinese, and I’de love to have your comments , thoughts and feedback

see you next time

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eric

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 Eric Roberson hotmail.com 
2007-07-24 / 01:17PM

I agree. Benny’s speaking is very clear, which makes me feel much easier to follow.

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JUANPA

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 juan pablo benavente hotmail.com 
2007-07-26 / 10:37AM

this its great you know, because one of the most important things that you have to know in any country its
!! I WANT A BEER!!! Jajaajaj
zaijian

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eric

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 Eric Roberson hotmail.com 
2007-07-26 / 11:05AM

That’s right! Juan, I like Beer too!!!

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Meike

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 Meike Veenstra gmail.com 
2007-08-08 / 12:21AM

very useful….

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 frank hotmail.com 
2007-08-13 / 11:35AM

xie xie ni, benny. Zhe ge fei chang hao.

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 Mehmet OZTOPRAK hotmail.com 
2007-08-30 / 01:28AM

xie xie for your clear speaking Benny

But I recognized one thing , When you teach the lesson , you said us " he" means is drink, but when you meet the waitress you used “mai” .

is both of them in same mean?

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superuser

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 Benny bennysland.com 
2007-08-30 / 09:25AM

Xie xie ni, Mehmet! You are a really good learner!

Yes I’ve noticed what you mentioned. It should be “he”, to drink. “mai” means to buy. They are different, but both we can tell the waitress.

Many thanks for your comment. Hope seeing more of you here!

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Pooshybooshy

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 Pooshybooshy hotmail.com 
2007-10-09 / 04:45AM

Xie xie ni, Benny! This one I couldn’t do without. I drink quite a lot of ka fei. I also like your clear pronunciation of the words and tones, it really helps. Also, how would you say “I’m going to get a coffee” – that would be useful for me online.

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editorbenny

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 Benny bennysland.com 
2007-10-09 / 09:59AM

Xie xie ni !Pooshybooshy. Sometimes I drink a lot of ka fei too, but I also drink tea. What about you?

I’m going to get a coffee, in Mandarin, we say “wo yao qu he yi bei ka fei”.

wo = I

yao = be going to

he = drink (for “get”, if you mean “to buy”, you can say “mai”; if you mean “to make”, you can say “nong”; if you mean “to get a coffee here”, you can say “na”)

yi bei kai fei = a cup of coffee (in Mandarin, we usually use measure word)

Ok, wo yao qu he yi bei ka fei!

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Pooshybooshy

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2007-10-10 / 07:43AM

Xie xie ni, Benny. I do drink tea, yes, even moreso than coffee nowadays. I heard it gave a lot of people heartburn and made them sick, though that wasn’t so with me, despite the fact I drank more coffee than most – but that’s probably because they suffered from a caffeeine withdrawal, and I was always drinking it! So now I drink more cha.

Well, thank you again. Wo yao qu he yi bei cha. Xia ci jian!

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 geo yahoo.com 
2008-01-13 / 03:35PM

Ni hao, Benny!

Wo yao gei ni yi ping pi jiou!

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2008-04-10 / 03:19AM

Hi Benny. I am from Venezuela. wo jiao Caterina. I am started to learn Mandarín at the University since two months ago. I am discovering you web, and i like it very, very much.. IS EXCELLENT!!!!; you are really,really, GOOD TEACHER!!!. I hope you to make more Micro-classes
HEN XIÈXIE NI!!!!!

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 Chris yahoo.com 
2008-05-18 / 10:30AM

Benny, xiè xiè!
This is such a fun way to learn Chinese!
Thank you so much!

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 sam googlemail.com 
2008-06-19 / 11:07PM

Thanks for this benny. But just a quick question when you are getting your drink you reply by saying
wǒ yào mǎi kā fēi , what does mǎi mean and why is hē not used instead.

Thanks

what does

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 manya ya africamail.com 
2008-07-13 / 02:06PM

what does “mai” mean?

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 Bean yahoo.com 
2008-07-19 / 03:35PM

mai means to buy

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 Quinnie yahoo.com 
2008-09-24 / 05:41PM

Ni hao Benny!

If Ke le is Coke, what is Sprite? Xie xie

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 Silects hotmail.com 
2008-11-03 / 03:09AM

From my time on the chinese international flights I do believe it was ‘shui ba’. That’s what they were saying anyway. My chinese friend told me it is just a translation by the sound of the word.

A quick look at Wikipedia tells me its:
雪碧 (Pinyin: xuĕ bì, roughly pronounced as “shawy bee”)

They’ve got a different logo and bottle too, enjoy!

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 claudia calisti(claudita) tiscali.it 
2009-06-19 / 08:38AM
To : Silects

sorry but I have not understood: you want to say in China they drink Schweps in a different bottle with different logo and they call it shui ba? explain me, please!

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 Silects hotmail.com 
2009-06-19 / 12:30PM
To : claudia calisti(claudita)

Hey Claudia!

I was just responding to the previous post about what ‘Sprite’ is called in China.

Here’s some links!
Chinese Sprite Commercial (can hear pronounciation at the end)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TssBhZI9Bp8

Picture
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chinese_Sprite_1.25L.jpg

More info (under variations)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(soft_drink)#Variations

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benny

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2009-06-19 / 03:55PM
To : claudia calisti(claudita)

Are you guys talking about sprite?

Benny



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 lovelee yahoo.com 
2009-07-11 / 11:21PM
To : Benny the Mandarin Teacher

laoshi
sprite is xuebi…
am i right?

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2009-07-12 / 12:26PM
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Yes, that’s right



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 Toshimi Kira msn.jp 
2009-08-08 / 12:55AM

Xue bi – But Kele is Coke right? -

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 Gorsian hotmail.com 
2009-11-08 / 04:28AM

可乐 = kě lè Is COKACOOOOOOOOOOOOLA HA HA HA

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2010-01-18 / 11:39AM

What does hao de mean?

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2010-01-18 / 01:54PM
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hǎo de = ok



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