"Ni hao" for foreigners
A video titled "The Chinese tourists accused of bad behaviour in Thailand | Channel 4 News" was posted to YouTube on 2/22/15, but it has been recirculated in this article by Didi Kirsten Tatlow about Chinese travel abroad during the recent National Day holiday: "With Its Tourists Behaving Badly, China Embarks on Some Soul-Searching" (NYT, 10/10/16).
I do not wish to analyze the behavior of Chinese tourists at home and overseas. What struck me powerfully about this video is the peculiar pronunciation of what is arguably the most widely known Mandarin expression in the world, viz., Nǐ hǎo 你好 ("hello; hi!"). You can hear it at 0:23 and 0:37 of this 4:04 video.
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