Help me self-introduce in Mandarin: 帮我自我介绍 ：）

[lius_w86]

Hi, I would like to introduce myself in Chinese just before a speech. Although I am no beginner of Chinese myself, it has been a few years now since I have talked regularly in Mandarin. I am glad I have found this forum, I hope I can make new friends all over the world. I am an Indonesian of Chinese descent and have studied abroad in Singapore and Malaysia so I am fluent in 3 languages (Indonesian, Mandarin, English). Anyway, below is what I would like to say, and I hope you guys can help me correct any flaws you may find

大家好! 我叫温柳松. 我今年二十二岁.我喜欢玩电脑游戏, 上网, XBOX360, 健身, 足球,羽球还有读英语小说. 我是个大学生 (I am a semester 5 university student <-- 华语怎么说?).

六岁时候,爸爸送我和我弟弟去新加坡读书. *My father really wanted me to be trilingual (fluent in Mandarin and English as well as Indonesian)* <-- translate this to 华语 please? 在新加坡读了6年以后,爸爸妈妈发现我的华语不像我的英语这么好 (<-- not as good as my English, 这样说对不对？)，　所以又把我送去巴生，马来西亚，送我在一个华校 to deepen my Mandarin (?)．　四年以后，我回到印尼继续学业（I came back to Indonesia to further my studies (?) ).

I think that's about it. Anything else I should add?

oh, and please translate this for me:

"On paper, the results would be obvious, Team 1 would definitely crush Team 2! But in reality it's a different story."

Thanks!

[pigdog]

基本ok.

大家好！我叫温柳松。 我今年二十二岁，是个大学生。我的爱好是玩电脑游戏、 上网、 XBOX360、 健身、 足球、羽毛球还有读英语小说。

六岁时候，爸爸送我和我弟弟去新加坡读书。他希望我同时精通华语、印尼语和英语三种语言。然而在新加坡学习了6年以后，爸爸妈妈发现我的华语不像我的英语这么好 ，所以又把我送去马来西亚的巴生，在一个华校深造华语。四年以后，我再回到印尼继续学业。

主要有个基本错误，华语里面地点描述：是从"大"地方到"小"地方，这是和英语反过来的。

Klang,Malaysia就应该写成 马来西亚巴生。

[Scoobyqueen]

Lius_w86

Welcome to the forums here. Great language skills you have been endowed with.

Since you are an Indonesian of Chinese decent I was wondering if you minded letting me know which word you would relate to most in the following contexts "Sino-US event" or "Chinese-US event". I think that using "Chinese" would be better if I am trying to reach Indonesian, Malaysians, Philippinos etc of Chinese decent. Is this a correct assumption?

Sino might just sound like it was for people in Mainland China.

Thanks in advance for your response.

[lius_w86]

pigdog: 谢谢你的帮助! 读了你的回信, 我已经brushed up a few Chinese language skills that have gone rusty over the last few years (<--这个又怎么用华语说?).

ScoobyQueen: Thank you, I am glad I have joined this forum. You are correct, we don't usually use 'Sino - (some other country)' to describe an event because it would imply that event has something to do with mainland China.

Chinese descent of Indonesia: 印尼华侨, Malaysian Chinese: 马来西亚华侨, and so on. 华侨 Hua2 Qiao2 means Chinese descent.

Chinese descent outside of China: 海外华侨 or 海外华人.

as for Sino-US events, you can put 中美 in front of the name of the event. For .e.g.: 中美羽球大赛 --> Sino-USA Badminton championship/competition.

This can also be used to describe wars. For e.g.: 中日大战 = The great Sino-Japanese war.

Hope this helps Where do you guys live btw?