When visiting China, interacting with new people is inevitable. It’s extremely important to know how to tactfully communicate with natives, to help you find your way around, or prevent you from getting lost. Here are 10 phrases that will help you successfully greet someone you already know, or someone new.
Chinese Spoken By Nick Yum
English Spoken by Avery Porges
I loved your video. It will really help me next time I visit China. I love learning Chinese and I’m glad I can learn more from watching your video. I know many greetings now. As well as ways of saying goodbye and just overall manners, Keep up the good work.
I found this video to be very informative and useful. My family and I are planning to go to China for vacation soon and hopefully, these phrases will come in handy there. Although I have been taking Chinese for 4 years so far I still do not know some of these phrases. I was also surprised that although I didn’t learn how to say these exact phrases I could predict some of them through my prior Chinese knowledge. I also really liked the scenes in the background of the words, it kept the video from getting boring.
Wow this video was really well made. This looks really useful for when I travel to china. I hope this will help me in my vocabulary when speaking to a native speaker. I have been learning Chinese for a while now and it is a great refresher when planning on traveling to china. Keep up the great work and wanted to say that the video was really interesting,
Wow! Great video! I never knew that 幸会 means nice to meet you. In fact, I didn’t know that there were so many ways to greet people. I have always used the basic “你好！“ This video was helpful in refreshing my memory. 晚安！
This is a great video. It shows people who need to learn common terms so that they could get their way around china. These terms are very useful because in china nobody really knows english that well. this video is great for someone if they are visiting china. If I go to china I will always remember to learn these terms because they are very useful
This video was very entertaining and well edited. I go to China almost every year, so I need to try remembering these phrases. Although, most people in China understand the meaning of “Hello” in English. There are many phrases on this list that are new to me such as xing hui. Great Article.
This video was super short which was nice but also contained a decent amount of information. I thought I knew greeting terms in Chinese pretty well but a few terms such as xing hui or zai hui took me by surprise. It’s always nice to know more than one way of greeting someone. I found this extremely helpful. Hopefully, I will be able to memorize these terms in hopes of visiting China someday.
I loved this video and I am really excited of when I go to china again as a class. It taught me a lot of things like hello, hello again and way more. This video did a really good job with teaching me greetings and manners. I really want to go their when I saw the cool places they went to good video guys.
Good job on the video! Despite speaking Chinese at home every day, I found your video very interesting since there are many phrases that I’ve never heard of. I also like how the video was short yet filled with a lot of information. It also helped remind me of some vocabulary such as 晚安 and 晚上好. This will also be very useful when I visit China in the future. Thanks for sharing this video!
What a beautifully put together video! I loved the blending of the clips together showing some of the beautiful scenery. I definitely learned a few new phrases that I am now happy to have in mind. I’ll be sure to use them on my friends from China! This video actually made me miss my 2016 trip quite a bit!
This is a very cool video! I never knew there were so many way to greet someone. This video helped me increase my vocabulary. Some words that took me by surprise we’re zai hui and Xing hui. I never heard these phrases before. Some day, when I go to China, I’ll use these phrases to greet people.
这个视频做得很棒， 见到了各种中国的景色，大家都好热情，有时间也想去这些景点玩，这个视频最好的就是中文后面还有拼音，更容易把词读出来，做这个视频的人，可以看出来很用心。
Nice video, Avery! I’ve heard most of the greetings, but there is one that I’ve never heard of which is 再回. Thanks to the video, now I learned what 再回 means. There are a lot of cool places in the video that I really wanted to visit. If I have a chance, I’ll definitely visit all those places.
Great video, Avery and Nick! I love the B-roll that you put over your narration. I didn’t know that xinghui meant nice to meet you, but now I do! Great guide on some basic Chinese phrases you need to know when in China! I think there was room for more practical phrases, like “Where is the bathroom” or “Where is the exit,” but this is still a wonderful guide and great video!
This video was so amazing and well made. I love how you taught us about so many greetings. I think I learned a lot about the Chinese culture and basic phrases. Also, the scenes in this video were very nice and cool. I want to go visit there one say. Thank you for putting your time into making this video to share with us!
This video is very entertaining. There are so many useful greetings. I learned more about how to start an easy conversation in Chinese. The video captured authentic life in China. I am more appreciative and welcoming people from different ethnicity. Thank You
This video was so helpful and fun to watch. Never knew there were that many greetings possible in chinese. This video helped me quite a bit with Chinese phrases. The places you went to were very amazing too. Great article and keep up the good work.
What an entertaining video, Avery. I know how much you like making these videos on your YouTube channel. I think if I were to go to China, or even a Chinese friend’s house, I would struggle and feel pressured. This video can probably help me with this. Keep up the great work Avery.
I didn’t know that xinghui meant nice to meet you, but now I do! Great guide on some basic Chinese phrases you need to know when in China! I think there was room for more practical phrases, like “Where is the bathroom” or “Where is the exit,” but this is still a wonderful guide and great video!
I didn’t know that xinghui meant nice to meet you, but now I do! Great guide on some basic Chinese phrases you need to know when in China! I think there was room for more practical phrases, like “Where is the bathroom” or “Where is the exit,” but this is still a wonderful guide and great video!
This video was amazing and taught me a lot about China and how different it is compared to where I lived. This is great and I want to go to China again. This is a wonderful video.
This video is amazing. Seeing all the new lifestyles and just how different it is compared to our lifestyle. With all these greeting I’ve never realized that there were so many different types of ways to greet someone. there are some amazing places that you’ve visited that one day I would like to visit as well.
This video was edited so nicely! The scenes from China are so cool; the show at 1:01 seems super interesting! I like how both the Chinese and English versions of each phrase were provided. I also really like the background music! I’d love to visit China now.
This was really informative. As someone who is far from a native speaker, I found this extremely useful, especially since I don’t know the nuances of spoken Chinese that well. I also liked how smooth the video was, as it let me focus more on its contents rather than its imperfections. But even knowing that there is so much that I don’t know, I was still surprised by how many different ways that someone can greet another in Chinese.