Newbie - What’s up?

(A)

A: 你好！好久不見 ！
nı̌hǎo! hǎojiǔbùjiàn!
Hey! Long time no see!

B: 你好！最近怎麼樣？
nı̌hǎo! zuı̀jı̀n zěnmeyàng?
Hi! How have you been lately?

A: 還好。你怎麼樣？
hái hǎo. nı̌ zěnmeyàng?
OK. How have you been?

B: 不錯！
bùcuò!
Not bad.

Key Vocabulary

你好 nı̌hǎo hello

好久不見 hǎojiǔbùjiàn long time no see

最近 zuı̀jı̀n recently

怎麼樣 zěnmeyàng how are things

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 還好 hái hǎo passable

不錯 bùcuò not bad

Supplementary Vocabulary

還可以 hái kěyı̌ not bad

還行 háixı́ng not bad

馬馬虎虎 mǎmǎhūhū so-so

也 yě also

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