标签存档：嗯

If you want to truly sound like a CHINESE Chinese, there’s no getting around it, sooner or later you are going to have to learn to grunt. The truth is, rather than using 是, 对 or the verb of the question, one of the most common ways to respond to a statement or question is to simply say (though I think ‘say’ is pushing it) 嗯 ng or 啊 a (the latter with varying intonations, depending upon the circumstance). To Anglos, this can feel a little too ‘primitive’ or ‘impolite’,…