Ni, Wo, Women,

hey everyone i just have a couple of questions; hope the community can be of some help; 1) can ni, wo, and women be used interchangeably without changing anything else in the sentence? -for example in Lesson 1.4 (Ordering Drinks), one of the lines spoken in Mandarin is "Wo yao yibei Zhongguo cha" I was wondering if you could use 'Women' in place of 'Wo' to mean "We would like a cup of XYZ" or would there be another way of ordering drinks for others at your table? 2) I was just confused a little on Chinese sentence structure; is there any set structure that Mandarin follows? xiexie .

Concerning your grammar question see here: http://mandarin.about.com/od/grammar/a/sentencestruct.htm As for your other question you could say 'women' we would like a cup of zhongguo cha, but to me it sounds like you are ordering just one drink for all of you! Instead try "women yao x bei zhongguo cha" OR one new form "qing lai x bei zhongguo cha" with qing meaning please and lai meaning bring (请 and 来).

Well done again Oggiedoggy!

Keep on the good spirit enzo32ferrri.