Chinese dog commands

[Yamazama]

Hi there,

I am new to the forum and I was wondering if anybody could help me out. I just adopted a 2 year old dog that was raised by a Chinese family from puppyhood.

The dog knows how to sit, stay, lie down, etc, but it doesn't know the English commands as they would have spoken to it in Chinese.

I am not sure what dialect they used or if that even makes a difference but does anybody know the Chinese words for:

Sit

Lie down

Stay

Come

Praise (good boy etc)

Heel

Also, if you could type the words phonetically so I can get the pronunciation right that would be very helpful!

All the best.

[studentyoung]

I am not sure what dialect they used or if that even makes a difference but does anybody know the Chinese words for:

Well, different dialects make great differences to dogs. Anyway, I will try to tell you how the words below pronounce according to the pronunciation of Chinese mandarin.

Sit

坐下

Zuo4 xia4 (pinyin)

/zo: / /xia: / (International Phonetic Alphabet)

Lie down

躺下

Tang3 xia4 (pinyin)

/ta: ŋ/ /xia:/ (International Phonetic Alphabet)

Stay

别动

Bie2 dong4 (pinyin)

/bie/ / do ŋ / (International Phonetic Alphabet)

Come

来

lai2 (pinyin)

/lai/ (International Phonetic Alphabet)

Praise (good boy etc)

乖

Guai1 (pinyin)

/guai/ (International Phonetic Alphabet)

Heel

过来

Guo4 lai2 (pinyin)

/go/ /lai/ (International Phonetic Alphabet)

Cheers!

[Yamazama]

Student Young

Thank you. I knew the little guy was smarter than he was letting on. Even with my feeble attempt at proper pronunciation he responded correctly to the various commands.

Many thanks.

Yamazama

[Hofmann]

Dude...No offense...that is not IPA (or not Standard Mandarin). Take it down or correct it please.