Showing posts with label nationalities in Chinese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nationalities in Chinese. Show all posts

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Do all Asians look the same?

I meant to post a list of coolest nationalities in Chinese language but realized that I actually posted a list of nations. However, figuring out how to say the nationalities once you know the nations is not that difficult. You just need to add 人 (rén) at the end and a nation will become a nationality. For example:

巴西 (Bāxī): Brazil

人(rén): people

巴西人 (Bāxī rén): Brazilian


That was easy, wasn’t it? Here are few more:

牙买加人 (Yámǎijiā rén): Jamaican

美国人 (Měiguó rén): American

日本人 (Rìběn rén): Japanese

中国人 (Zhōngguó rén): Chinese

尼泊尔人 (Níbóěr rén): Nepalese

土耳其人 (Tǔěrqí rén): Turk


While it is easy to figure out how to say different nationalities, figuring out someone’s nationality is a completely different story. Yes I am talking about the Asians. Two friends of mine, a Japanese and a Korean, and I took this AllLookSame Exam #1: Faces together and we managed to score only 7 out of 18. Please post how you end up doing.

[Note: Some of you were complaining that you have to register before you can take the test. So I have a username and password for you. Username: looktest, Password: 1234]