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Today was a rough day! I went out and shot a really fun video at a famous Taipei landmark and when I got home I realized that the lighting was too dark! If anybody has good advice on what kinds of cameras to buy and how to shoot good YouTube videos in poorly lit places please let me know. Thanks!

To say, "How are you?" in Mandarin take the characters for hello, nǐhǎo (你好) and attach them to the character ma (吗). Ni and hao are pronounced with the third tone and ma is pronounced with a fifth  neutral tone. Ma is the question mark particle in Chinese and makes a question when found at the end of a phrase or sentence. Notice that ma doesn't have any tone mark? There is no inflection in the voice when saying ma. So, put it all together and say nǐhǎoma (你好吗)? How are you?

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