"你好！好久不见！"
Translation:Hello! Long time no see!
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Does this sentence literally translate to the same idiom (minus the 好, good)?
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Quite literally! It's even likey (though not provable) that the English idiom came from the Chinese since the English syntax here is nonsensical. "Hao" can be used as a modifier and in this sense literally means "long" (time).
Funny. As a non-native English speaker I first learned about the phrase "Long time no see" in anime subtitles and took it for a crude literal translation from Japanese. Turns out I wasn't so far from the truth.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_time_no_see
In summary: Chinese may be where the English idiom CAME from.
Why is "it's been a long time" incorrect, when "it's been a while" is the "right" translation?
For those who come to the comment section because they doubt that "long time no see" is something that native English speakers say, please check out these YouTube videos which feature native English speakers saying "long time no see" https://youglish.com/pronounce/long%20time%20no%20see/english?
Why do people wote-down questions or the answer no? The question is still valid.
你好， 好久不见 was not accepted because it didn't have the exclamation marks, but the voice dictating the sentence does not express much surprise, so should be accepted imo
I remember moving to the countryside in England in the 1980s and hearing "Laaang toime, no seeee...", for the first time. It was so quaint and countryfied! It was like stepping into a Thomas Hardy novel. Is this now acceptable grammar for English lessons?!
