I think I invented an amusing Chinese tongue-twister but I’m not 100% sure it actually makes sense, because I know only a very limited amount of Mandarin.
The sentence is: 你今年几年级？
It’s supposed to mean What grade are you in this year? but does it?
Yes, the last 2 words mean grade. Something like “year level”
Thanks for responding! Yeah, I know the meaning of the individual words. I guess my question is whether it makes sense as a complete sentence.
It makes sense to me as a complete sentence. I’m not a native speaker though.
If you’re the China Guy I’ll take your word for it, native speaker or no. 
Anyway, thanks! Glad to hear it!
My friend Huang Wei just happened by and he said it’s a good tongue twister and makes perfect sense and means exactly what’s in the spoiler box.
Score! air punch
Electric Warrior, could you or one of the other posters in this thread show us, in English, approximately how this phrase would sound?
nin jin nian ji nian ji (I don’t know how to show the tone marks)
with tones: nin2 jin1 nian2 ji3 nian2 ji2
If you plug the mandarin into one of the translator tools (google, bing, etc) there should be an option for the computer to “sound out” the phrase. You might have to translate from simplified to traditional mandarin
You can use Google translate to listen to it in Chinese , just copy and paste the phrase.
My first time to hear a tongue twister in Chinese, it sounds cute.
I can’t get the audio to work, but I did at least get the transliteration with the tonal markings: Nǐ jīnnián jǐ niánjí
There’s a speaker icon that you click on.
Where did you find the transliteration? If it’s easy, please post a link as that’s much better than putting numbers in…
Google Translate does that too. Copy in the characters, translate from English to Chinese, and then click on the Ä.
Thanks! That was easy. Wish that existed a few decades ago…