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Beatrice Started conversation Jun 15, 2010
I found that negatvising using "bu" to be one of the most straighforward aspects of learning Mandarin, but in my mind it was always "not" rather then "no":
So, "Wo bu shi meigwarein, wo shi irlanren" - I'm not American, I'm Irish
or
"Wo shoo de bu hao" I speak it not well.
It reminded me a bit of the Irish Gaelic language, where there's no yes and no, so people will say "I am, you do, it will, he isn't" and so forth.
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