Chapter 2 - konichiwa or Nihao

Narrator :Sakura a well known Linguist in Japan. She used to travel all over the
globe to do research about the languages.
Now, she planned to do research about chinese language. She seeking help from Wong,
her college buddy.

Sakura : Hey! Wong How are you doing?

Wong : Doing good. It's been long time taking to you. How about you ?

Sakura : I'm absolutely fine. Wong Do me a favour. By next week I will be

travelling to china for my research work.
I want your company to finish it up.

Wong : It's glad to hear. Yeah sure will do

Sakura : alright then. see you there.

SOMEWHERE IN BEIJING

Wong : Here you see. In China,

Standandard Chinese- is also known as Mandarin and it's Official and
widely speaking language in the country.70 percent of people speaking this
language.
This Language orginated in the North China.

There is an another language that has official status- Cantonese

The origin of this Language is from the port city of Guangzhou.
Guangzhou is also known as Canton that's why it got this name.
Cantonese is used as the official language in Hong Kong.

There are some other regional language exists in China - Wu chinese

Wu Chinese is a dialect of Chinese that is predominantly spoken in the eastern
region of China.
This Language includes Six sub groups :

Taihu
Taizhou
Oujiang
Wuzhou
Chu-Qu
and Xuanzhou

English is one of the most critical foreign languages in China. Over 10 million
people speaking this language all
over the country.Majority English speakers are lives in the urban areas of the
country.
In Hong kong, English is established as an official language.

In addition to I like to tell you one more language- Sign language.

Over 20 million deaf people lives in China especially for them they come up with
this Language.

Let me tell you a some interesting greetings and phrases of chinese.

Nĭ hăo - it's means hello. This is how we used to greet people.

Nín hăo - which means same Hello in a polite way.

Hĕn gāoxìng rènshi nĭ- Nice to meet you

Zăoshàng hăo - Good morning

Nĭ chī fàn le ma? - Have you eaten?

Furthermore, there are some slangs that quite popular in Internet.

guāng xiǎng qīngnián -refers to young people who proclaim to have many ideas and or
many intentions to do things

zhái- to refer to someone who is a bit antisocial.

xiǎo xiān ròu which literally means little fresh meat to describe young, cute,
handsome and innocent looking male celebrities

bǐxīn - This slang means to form a finger heart. Put simply "Korean heart"

Besides, There is quite famous Chinese number slang. Here you go.

Out of curiousity, I love to know about Japanese language.

Sakura: very well then. People in Japan speak languages from two main language
families:
the Japonic languages and the Ainu.

Japan’s dominant language is, unsurprisingly, Japanese.

As in many countries, more than one language is spoken in Japan.
In here, There are 98%, is of ethnic Japanese origin.

Ryukyuan Languages- The second sub-family in the Japonic language group.

This languages are spoken in the Ryukyu islands of the country.
Recently, UNESCO has identified eight minority languages as being endangered in
Japan, and six of them are Ryukyuan.

Like some of the Ryukyuan languages, Ainu Languages are also getting endangered.

This Language is a most important part of a country’s culture and keeping it alive
in all its diverse forms.
Sadly it almost got extinct.

Let me tell you some interesting greetings and phrases among Japanese people.

Ohayō gozaimasu- Good morning Usually, This is how we greet the people

Konnichi wa- which means Good afternoon

Arigatō gozaimasu- Thank you

Ittekimasu - I’ll go now and will be back

Itterasshai- Please go and come back/Take care
Response when someone leaves the house

Oyasuminasai - Good night

and one more thing I will tell you some slangs that's how we used to express our
feelings.
Dasai- to describe someone or something that is lame or uncool.
Darui - it means you feel super lazy
Saiko- the best
The word used to express excitement or happiness

Kuso -something goes wrong - used to express same way crap

Chikusho is the same as ¨kuso¨ and is used to curse.
Baka or Boke- This means ¨idiot¨ or ¨dumb¨. This word used to Insult people or
sometimes joke around.

Wong :Super amazing. You are really resoureful.

Sakura : all right then.