Learning Chinese is very interesting and I love learning all of the similarities between certain words, how some words are different, what makes them different and similar, etc. My Chinese learning is coming along nicely (for those of you who are interested in an update)and I can now converse with people for up to 40 minutes (I haven't tried for longer) depending on how patient they are and how slow they speak with me. If they speak too fast, then it is difficult to understand them. If they speak too slow, though, then I get bored. One of the security guards at the school speaks at a very good pace (I think he gets bored standing by the gate for hours on end) so we often talk and it was with him that I had the 40 minute conversation.
But, as usual, I am a bit off topic. My topic for this blog is the many words that one can put before "hao" (which means good). I am only dealing with the words that keep "hao" meaning good and not words that change it to bad, such as adding "bu" to make it "bu hao". In my Chinese class we learned a few words to put before "hao", but being here I have heard and learned many more, each with their own slightly different meanings, intricacies, (some of which I am still trying to figure out), and of course, their own tones and pronunciations.
Here is my list so far:
hen hao
fei chang hao
ting hao
hai hao
man hao
mei hao
I'm sure there are more, and the next time I hear another one I will add it to the list. Enjoy (and maybe learn). If you already know all these and you can explain all the intricacies to the many "hao"s, then feel free to leave a comment and explain!
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