mandarin listening, two characters and a greeting
two characters sit beside a single english hello. the mandarin foundations opening gives that familiar greeting a voice, before the longer lines elsewhere on the shelf.
你好。
Hello.
in this greeting
the written greeting has two characters and no space between them. the english gloss belongs to the greeting as a whole. it does not give a separate english word for each character, so the voice is the place to hear how this short line sounds.
this opening holds one greeting. it cannot show the range of mandarin speech or how a longer exchange unfolds. the linked listening note looks at what exposure can and cannot tell us; it makes no promise for this sample.
a place to listen
for the listener who recognises the greeting on the page and wants to hear it before choosing a longer mandarin recording.
this is original spoken bilingual audio, without a song or film recording. the shelf includes longer original work alongside this foundations opening. one hello cannot stand in for a conversation or a guide to pronunciation.