When I was living in Mianwali in 2013, I had ever invited my neighbors in our university colony for a tea party. All the guests are wives of my husband’s colleagues, female faculty member and staffs where my husband works.
We did baking pizza and cake together, and -not to forget-off course our main activity; “gupssup”. We discussed many issues, randomly talking including culinary, kids schooling, campus life, movie review, novel review of “Peer-e-Kameel” which was booming at that time. We had also disccussed one of the book in my small corner library, “Culture Shock! Pakistan” by Karin Mittmann, a Germany married with Pakistan and has been living in Pakistan for more then 50 years. There was one interesting part of the book we discussed, that’s about linguistic things. How and in which context Pakistani using the word “ACHA”. At that time I asked my friends to give me demonstration how to pronounce “ACHA” with its variety of meaning and circumstances. Here are the expression of using ACHA.
2013年，当我住在Mianwali（巴基斯坦的一个城市，米亚瓦里，超级热的地方）的时候，我曾邀请过我们大学的邻居参加一个茶话会。所有的客人都是我丈夫同事的妻子、女教职工以及我丈夫工作单位的员工。
我们一起烤披萨和蛋糕，我们讨论了许多问题，当然最主要的主题还是各种八卦，包括烹饪、孩子上学、校园生活、电影评论，以及当时在巴基斯坦风靡一时的“Peer-e-Kameel”小说书评。我们还在我的小角落里图书馆里讨论了一本书，书名是Karin Mittmann写的《文化冲击！巴基斯坦》(Culture Shock ！Pakistan)。Mittmann是德国人，与巴基斯坦人结婚后在巴基斯坦已经生活了50多年。在我们讨论的这本书中，有一个有趣的部分，那就是语言问题。如何以及在何种情况下使用“ACHA”一词。当时，我请我的朋友们给我示范如何发音“ACHA”及其各种含义和情况。
Ach’ha” (That’s fine with me)
简单的语气，说acha的时候简短快捷，意思就是没问题
- “Ach’haa-ách’ha” (I understand)
两个acha连着说，前一个acha的语气稍微重一点，意思就是我明白，我懂了。
- “Ach’hha?” (really?)
疑问的语气说acha，意思是真的吗？
- “”Ach’haa!” (how wonderful)
Behot acha，巴基斯坦人常说的一句话，意思就是非常好，很棒，acha就用在这一句中。
- “Aachch’h!” (well!)
好，说cha的时候比a口音重一点。比如去买东西的时候，店员拿了错误的东西，你告诉他不是那一个，他会说acha，就在这个地方用到。
- “Ach’hhaah!” (I am shocked)
说a的时候低，cha的时候提高音调，意思是惊讶，就好像中文的啊？哇！
- “Ach’ha ách’haa” (don’t say anymore—I know it any well)
语气急速，连着说acha acha，跟中文说好了好了类似，意思是好了，别说了，我知道了。
- “Ach’hah!” (OK)
简单的语气，收到命令的时候这么回复，是，Okay的意思。
- “Ach’hha?” (that’s all?)
疑问的口气，意思是这就可以了，就这样？
- “Aach’ha!” (nothing more to tell, OK then, bye!)
