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Oh, this is wonderful! I'm learning Chinese right now - conversationally capable, but I have no grasp on jargon (especially electronics). This is a great guide.
by nneonneo 7y ago
Oh, this is wonderful! I'm learning Chinese right now - conversationally capable, but I have no grasp on jargon (especially electronics). This is a great guide.
There are some issues with the pinyin transliterations - they seem to be machine-generated rather than human-generated: there's some errors, like mixups between chang/zhang for 长, and weirdness like "yao yao ling" for 110 where we'd usually use "yi bai yi shi". But technically these wouldn't matter much in a point-and-translate context because neither party would be paying attention to the pinyin.
Anyway, aside from that nit - I suspect I will be using part of it as a study guide for my Mandarin learning. Thanks, Bunnie!
- georgebaily 7y agoYao yao ling is just what everyone says - it's a phone number. You don't read it as "one hundred and ten"
- nneonneo 7y agoAh, I’m sorry. I should have clarified further - I was referring to the transliteration of “110V” as “yao yao ling dian ya” - “one one zero volts”. In that instance the transliteration is incorrect as one would usually use “one hundred and ten” (yi bai yi shi).
- xster 7y agoThat's like saying 911 (US equivalent of 110) should be "nine hundred and eleven" instead of "nine one one".