CHALLENGE: Mandarin spoken by an unsuspecting Beijing local... Part 2: The Answer
Posted by Jonah Lopin on Tue, Feb 10, 2009 @ 08:45 PM
This sentence was part of a phone conversation. it's a little hard to translate things out of context, but with some help, here's the sentence.
In English, is means "All day he's had nothing but free time. Quickly beep him for me."
The pinyin is: Ta1 zhe4 yi4 tian1 jing4 xian2 zhe0 mei2 shi4r. Ni3 gan2 jin3 gei3 wo3 hu1 ba.
The characters are: 他这一天净闲着没事儿。你赶紧给我呼吧。
Note that xian2 means "free" as in "free time".
Next challenge coming soon...