stefanpn Posted August 25, 2008 at 10:14 AM Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 at 10:14 AM I meet a girl, the proud owner of this tattoo and she wanted to drop me a challenge... I have to read this tattoo, but unfortunately I do not speak or read/write a word of Chinese language. So I would be really grateful if somebody can tell me what is the meaning of this, for me unknown symbols, I 've realized that Chinese script have very different system of writing and reading it has too many letters comparing to western scripts although Chinese symbols look very pretty. My mother language is Serbian (Serbo-Croatian), but I also speak and understand English, Bulgarian, Macedonian and some other Slavic languages so if anybody need to translate something form those can be free to contact me and I would be glad to help. http://217.26.67.168/uploads/2/0/2034471/tattoo.gif Please help... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted August 25, 2008 at 10:24 AM Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 at 10:24 AM File can't be viewed - try attaching it or putting it on a different server. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stefanpn Posted August 25, 2008 at 10:30 AM Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 at 10:30 AM My bad: Here: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stefanpn Posted August 25, 2008 at 10:33 AM Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 at 10:33 AM here: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HashiriKata Posted August 25, 2008 at 11:05 AM Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 at 11:05 AM It means chasing, pursuing, wooing, courting, etc. Very interesting challenge you've got! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stefanpn Posted August 25, 2008 at 11:06 AM Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 at 11:06 AM Thanks a lot!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted August 25, 2008 at 12:16 PM Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 at 12:16 PM But I really hope her tattoo doesn't look like that. The writing is shockingly poor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stefanpn Posted August 25, 2008 at 12:20 PM Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 at 12:20 PM No it does not, this is just what I have remeber from last night, and I drawed it in a Paint. And it look much prettier on her body... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skylee Posted August 25, 2008 at 12:20 PM Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 at 12:20 PM The writing is shockingly poor. I agree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renzhe Posted August 25, 2008 at 01:00 PM Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 at 01:00 PM If you actually remembered that well enough to write it out in Paint the next day, then you may have a talent for Chinese I do agree that it looks terrible, but memorising all those strokes is not easy, respect! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stefanpn Posted August 25, 2008 at 01:19 PM Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 at 01:19 PM Well, I would like to know to speak and write Chinese, it would be a great way to communicate with over 1. billion people, but unfortunately in Serbia (and whole ex Yugoslavia) we do not have many schools where I could learn that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
renzhe Posted August 25, 2008 at 02:23 PM Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 at 02:23 PM There is a sizeable Chinese community in Serbia, and there are excellent textbooks available through online sites, and also excellent online resources like Chinesepod and TV series downloads. You could do the crazy thing like many of us on this forum and try learning on your own Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnmck Posted August 25, 2008 at 02:34 PM Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 at 02:34 PM (edited) If you want to learn Chinese by yourself you have came to the right place. A large number of us are learning via self-study. There are plenty of free resources on the internet, click on the "Wikis" button on the tool bar above. Currently I am following a free course for speaking that I would recommend. You can download it from: http://www.fsi-language-courses.com/Chinese.aspx It is a course that is purely aimed at speaking in Chinese and not writing or reading. Nevertheless it is a good quality course (was developed for the US diplomatic core) and is also a very long course (300+ tapes). If you spend one hour a day you can expect it to take a year to complete, I am currently two months into the course. Once you have finished a few modules and want to practise you can look at sites such as: http://www.polyglot-learn-language.com/index_polyglot.php I would advise that you be careful how you go about learning Chinese, when doing self-study it is easy to waste a lot of time on short courses or by being too ambitious. Edited August 25, 2008 at 02:50 PM by johnmck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbradfor Posted August 25, 2008 at 03:02 PM Report Share Posted August 25, 2008 at 03:02 PM The characters are 追求. So you're really close! [Very interesting choice of tattoo....] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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