"我也喝水。"
Translation:I also drink water.
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"The famous person wears the same size water skis as me. She's got 3 cars; as many years I've lived in this city. Her hair is blonde, and mine is brown; they both start with a 'B.' But when the phone inside her ribcage rings, it's not for me; but when the phone inside her ribcage rings, it's not for me. Hey!" (They Might Be Giants, "The Famous Polka").
Could this be used at a restaurant while taking orders? That's the only context I can come up with.
Ａ：我喝水。 (I will have water.)
Ｂ：我也喝水。 (I'll also have water.)
In PinYin, 喝 , meaning "to drink," is rendered as "he1;" so, that's a strong, initial "h" sound followed by a vowel that sounds like the "u" of "put" (as in "put the groceries away), pronounced at a steady, high pitch (that's what the number 1 indicates: first tone, the "flat, high" tone). When I say a "strong h," I mean, some speakers pronounce the "h" of he1 (喝) in a more throaty way, "more obviously an h," almost like the "ch" of the name "Chaim" or at the end of the word "loch."
If you follow this link, and click on the character itself, an audio box should open up and play you a recording of that character being pronounced:
http://www.mandarintools.com/cgi-bin/wordlook.pl?word=%E5%96%9D&searchtype=simp&where=whole&audio=on
I mean it's necessary for survival, I don't know what other options there are.
I do not recognize the tones when hearing the sentence as a whole, seems as if they were all pronounced the same, is it just me?
Can a person say this in a restaurant when they are ordering? - If someone else just before them ordered water? (I know it doesn't make sense in English. But, would it make sense in Chinese?)
