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Agreed. And they are essential for making progress despite sound reproduction shortcomings of electronic devices. Learning on youtube is a huge impediment but these lessons overcome the problem.
I'm learning Chinese for almost 1 year and heard a lot of different explanations about how to pronounce these sounds, This video is the best one! so clear and informative :) 謝謝妳!
This was a superb explanation of a difficult pronunciation topic. Clear, well structured, and presented in a relaxed and engaging manner. You must hear this all the time, but you have a natural talent for explaining and teaching. I have struggled with these sounds for some time and all that three different teachers could do to help me was to keep repeating the sounds instead of explaining their dynamic and physiology as you did. Excellent work!
Your channel is an amazing find for me! First, your great English motivates me to improve English as well! Second, you explain things very clear and exciting. Thank you🙏🏻
This video is super helpful! Very well done, I can't imagine the amount of work you had. Thank you! Fortunately, my native language is Portuguese and we have both of these nasal sounds so it was very easy for me to distinguish them and know how to pronounce.
Thank you for the material. Since you asked to write you about our problems with chinese sounds, I would like to share my problem. It is really hard to me to distinguish -eng and -ang sounds. Most of my errors in phonetic dictations are about these two. Could you make a video devoted to this question, please?
Hey. Grace, thanks for the video!!✌❤ I wanted to ask you if you could do a video about the how to express the conditional tense in Chinese with it's types?
Actually, en/eng is the only pair that can only be told apart by their final nasal sounds. For an/ang, their vowel are different as mentioned in the video, as front/back /a/, and for in/ing, there's technically a schwa in /ing/, making it actually /ieng/, but shortened as /ing/ in spelling. There are other omissions in Pinyin system, e.g., /un/ is actually /uen/, /iu/ is /iou/, /ui/ is /uei/, etc..
Thank you for that info. I've been confused as to why the actual pronunciation differs from the pinyin, and Chinese speakers themselves do not seem to be aware of the discrepancy. Now it makes sense.
Trying to remember tongue positions are a killer while looking at the words lol I've never even thought about the position of my tongue whole speaking English 😢😅
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I have watched all your videos concerning Chinese pronunciation, thank you a lot, they are very helpful! I have a few questions, I hope you will have time to help me with them. 1) uan-uang sounds, is the -u sound in these finals also pronounced with the back of the tongue and then should add sound an-ang? 2)ong sound - is it alsoo -u sound (with back of the tongue)+ng sound? 3)ueng: -u(with back of tongue) + eng? 4)un/iong are quitw confusing, how to pronounce u/io in them? (I mean the position of the tongue) Will be very grateful for you help ! Thanks in advance! I wish you could make a video concerning these sounds too!
Hey grace! I would like to first thank you for your really informative video! You are doing really great! I Had a few questions regarding chinese pronunciation: 1 - Do you come back to the n/ng position you are describing in each word, like dang, zhang... I find it really difficult to move swifly from the consonant position (especially those on alvear ridge) right to ng. 2 - Also in a more general way, i find it really difficult to move to the t/d alvear ridge position when the consonant coming right before is j,q,x or c,z. (and especially with a i vowel that requires palatalization). Do those theorical positions adapt depending on each vowel coming along ? Is the t/d prononced a bit more front after those consonant sounds? Best !!!!
Great video!! The picture of the tongue placements Really helps me visualize and place my tongue where it needs to go! Although I could do without the loud bell dings during practice when it is my turn. It is a little distracting for me when I wear my headphones. Maybe if the bell ding was less loud it would be ok. Otherwise great instructions!!
I hear almost the same with your "in" and "ing" sounds! Like I can hear a slight difference but they both sound like "ing" to me. Also, I always have a hard time not typing "xien" and "dien" when I want to write 現 and 點。I've always wondered why the pinyin was that far off.
As a native Standard Mandarin speaker and teacher myself, I think Grace does a great job explaining the nasal finals, but she does not really pronounce them accurately in her videos, including this one (having said that, she actually does it better than most Southern Chinese).
Thanks for explaining ian. Would you teach us multi-combined vowels? Because somehow some of them do not make sound by pinyin itself like English. If you teach us tricky vowel pinyins, it will be awesome.
I had a lot of trouble with ying for a while. I would say dian ying in china and nobody knew what i was saying. Later i decided that after the initial yi and before the final ng, the sound subtly glides through a centralizing schwa like sound. I feel like in English, we consider ng to be like "iŋ", and in china, ng is like "əŋ". I am not a language expert though. Just had more luck adding a bit of a schwa before any ng sound in chinese.
@@GraceMandarinChinese I wish I had learn some mandarin phrases back in 2017 when I went to TARI, Taichung, and in Taipei.. One of my memorable events in my life.. Taiwan is a beautiful country. Just sharing 🙂
Love the video, very well explained. The only thing what really bothered me was the super loud sound when it was my turn to repeat the words. Otherwise perfect 👌
Thank you for this video. I think this is the first time someone confirmed that the pronunciation of ㄢ actually changes when there is ㄧin front of it. Most of other sources do not mention it at all! By the way, I got an impression that in some words ㄥ pronunciation changes into something close to ㄨㄥ，like in the word 風．For example, the word 颱風 (typhon) you are expected to say ㄊㄞˊ ㄈㄥ while I clearly hear ㄊㄞˊ ㄈㄨㄥ., or is it something wrong with my hearing? :)
There is nothing wrong with your hearing haha you have good listening skills! I guess you heard that in Taiwan right? I talked about this ㄥ and ㄨㄥ thing in this video: ruclips.net/video/vdl6Q-RCr2I/видео.html You can check it out! :)
I truly appreciate the work and detail you put into these videos Grace, thank you for teaching me even though you may not know who I am your work is truly awesome!
Hey Grace ! very useful video :D I always pronounce the 'in' sound in chinese like the word 'in' in english so I accentuate the 'n' sound. But I guess this is not the same, right ? When I hear you making de 'in' sound in chinese, I can't clearly hear the 'n' sound. 比如说 '见' I can clearly hear the 'n' sound when you say it but not with '音'的静音
I'm confused about the "n" sound. When I hear 犯, for example, to me it sounds like the "n" sound is produced by putting the tip of the tongue as if you were to pronounce "q", but then press the middle of the tongue to the hard palate. Is this correct or just part of an accent? I hear it a lot and when I was trying to produce it perfectly, that was the only way I could. Does this makes sense?
Question about the final N: When the final N is pronounced, with the tip of the tongue, if the next word begins with a vowel, it means that there will be a connection? (Like the cluster " maN And woman"). So, the word "pin ying" would be pronounced "piNYing"? In the occasion, wishing blessings of Jesus, the One who lives, and the name above ALL names (Phillipians 2)!
im starting to feel bad for all this good free material :) i just discover your channel!! wao, thanks I was one step away from quitting learning mandarin and thanks also for the ㄅㄌㄇㄈ
Not like picture, it seems that some or many Chinese touch not only tongue tip(n element) but also tongue back(ng element) to top for [n]. They think this is also [n]. But I hear it as [ng] because it's the sound when blocked back part near throat. This is a difficult part of listening Chinese.
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Can you please add a handout attachment to this lesson?
ah sure but e (like end but without the d)
most people I think which is English don't understand that internet pronunciation > ɛ
So yuan is actually more like üεn
I dont know how to pronounce that e you wrote in "en"
These details aren’t the attractive side of language learning, but it’s still very necessary. Thank you for covering these things :)
Tbh, imo they are very interesting.
Depends on the personal taste, I guess…
@@mskiptr I second that, I love finding out more details of these languages. It's like a game to decipher a code.
Agreed. And they are essential for making progress despite sound reproduction shortcomings of electronic devices. Learning on youtube is a huge impediment but these lessons overcome the problem.
@@d.o.p.d.o.p.1775 I love the way you describe it that’s exactly how I feel about it too
as ur level progresses i think these details start to become more fun
IPA and a diagram of the mouth?! You're the best! Thank you a lot 😊💕
I'm learning Chinese for almost 1 year and heard a lot of different explanations about how to pronounce these sounds,
This video is the best one! so clear and informative :)
謝謝妳!
I’m glad you like it! 不客氣！:)
I have never seen someone explain these so understandably. I finally get it! Thank you so much, you are the best.
so helpful, so clear! I finally can pronounce these sounds correctly. Thank you for your insight!
You’re very welcome! I’m glad the video helps! :D
Fabulous video! I can't believe this is free. Thank you so much. You are god's gift to the world.
I've never thought that I can pronounce this sounds correctly but thanks to you i did a lot of progress. Your are the best teacher ever.
This was a superb explanation of a difficult pronunciation topic. Clear, well structured, and presented in a relaxed and engaging manner. You must hear this all the time, but you have a natural talent for explaining and teaching. I have struggled with these sounds for some time and all that three different teachers could do to help me was to keep repeating the sounds instead of explaining their dynamic and physiology as you did. Excellent work!
Your channel is an amazing find for me! First, your great English motivates me to improve English as well!
Second, you explain things very clear and exciting. Thank you🙏🏻
I am so happy i found your channel. It's a lot of fun practicing chinese with you! Thank you for teaching your language :)
Thank you!
You are a great teacher!
I've been looking for phonetic help and you Just did it perfectly!!
This video is super helpful! Very well done, I can't imagine the amount of work you had. Thank you!
Fortunately, my native language is Portuguese and we have both of these nasal sounds so it was very easy for me to distinguish them and know how to pronounce.
mds vei eu tbm é nois ai
@Bis Nagito a do NG e N é bem fácil
@Bis Nagito ue meu mano a pessoa ai tava falando sobre facilidade de ver a diferença só isso
Excellent! Thank you very much for your time, effort, and consistency in making these videos.
I feel improved my pronounciation and kind of understand how to pronounce it way better and, aware of my tongue position. 多谢 老师。
I just wabted to make sure that her tips for these :
an, en, in, and ang, eng, ing ... also applied to : un, ün and ong
Thanks !
This girl is fire, i am barely motivated to learn a new language and the quality of teaching make my attitude a shame.
Omg it is very hard to understand but your video is clear and perfect! The gifs and your explanations are so helpful
You are the best teacher, Grace. Thank you. 🙏
This video was so helpful,thank you so much.I have been studying chinese and it is the first time I pronounce -ng correctly!
Thank you for the material. Since you asked to write you about our problems with chinese sounds, I would like to share my problem. It is really hard to me to distinguish -eng and -ang sounds. Most of my errors in phonetic dictations are about these two. Could you make a video devoted to this question, please?
You deserve much much more subscribers , because you are explaining it very well.
Keep it up.👍
Your videos help me learn Chinese easier. Thank you so much.
It is fascinating, Grace. I m growing more and more interested. Thanks
You are a great teacher,
Thank you so much for this video! I have been struggling with pronunciation and this video has helped me improve my speaking!
Hey. Grace, thanks for the video!!✌❤
I wanted to ask you if you could do a video about the how to express the conditional tense in Chinese with it's types?
Khalid Ousri please I need this too... conditional tense expressions
Actually, en/eng is the only pair that can only be told apart by their final nasal sounds. For an/ang, their vowel are different as mentioned in the video, as front/back /a/, and for in/ing, there's technically a schwa in /ing/, making it actually /ieng/, but shortened as /ing/ in spelling. There are other omissions in Pinyin system, e.g., /un/ is actually /uen/, /iu/ is /iou/, /ui/ is /uei/, etc..
Thank you for that info. I've been confused as to why the actual pronunciation differs from the pinyin, and Chinese speakers themselves do not seem to be aware of the discrepancy. Now it makes sense.
I like how you explain this it's really amazing and helpful. 谢谢您!
I know how to pronounce Chinese but for some reason I want to watch all your videos.
10/10 class! Watching from Brazil
underrated channel.
Trying to remember tongue positions are a killer while looking at the words lol I've never even thought about the position of my tongue whole speaking English 😢😅
Thank you for this video! I think I finally get how to make the different sounds.
best channel about chinese... thank you so much for your efforts, you deserve better!
Thank you! :D
我爱画 你也会画？
@@yuemao970 我不会哈哈
.........YES YOU ARE ONE OF THE BEST TUTORIAL
TEACHERS....
THE VISUALS GRAPHICS
( DRAWINGS. )
AIDS ....REALLY ARE A GOOD INSTRUCTION
AID.
THUMBS UP
( LIKE ) & NEW SUBCRIBER !!
謝謝！
你的解释很清楚。谢谢.
You have enlightened me! I'm deeply thanks 😊❤️
So helpful for me .
Thanks a million.
I have watched all your videos concerning Chinese pronunciation, thank you a lot, they are very helpful! I have a few questions, I hope you will have time to help me with them.
1) uan-uang sounds, is the -u sound in these finals also pronounced with the back of the tongue and then should add sound an-ang?
2)ong sound - is it alsoo -u sound (with back of the tongue)+ng sound?
3)ueng: -u(with back of tongue) + eng?
4)un/iong are quitw confusing, how to pronounce u/io in them? (I mean the position of the tongue)
Will be very grateful for you help ! Thanks in advance! I wish you could make a video concerning these sounds too!
Thanks for such clear explanations
Hey grace! I would like to first thank you for your really informative video! You are doing really great! I Had a few questions regarding chinese pronunciation: 1 - Do you come back to the n/ng position you are describing in each word, like dang, zhang... I find it really difficult to move swifly from the consonant position (especially those on alvear ridge) right to ng. 2 - Also in a more general way, i find it really difficult to move to the t/d alvear ridge position when the consonant coming right before is j,q,x or c,z. (and especially with a i vowel that requires palatalization). Do those theorical positions adapt depending on each vowel coming along ? Is the t/d prononced a bit more front after those consonant sounds? Best !!!!
好專業的教學✨
Great video!! The picture of the tongue placements Really helps me visualize and place my tongue where it needs to go! Although I could do without the loud bell dings during practice when it is my turn. It is a little distracting for me when I wear my headphones. Maybe if the bell ding was less loud it would be ok. Otherwise great instructions!!
Thank you for the feedback! I’ll make it less loud next time:)
Amazing. Thank you so much. Please make more videos about pronounce in future.
Wha't handy about this is if you can master ng as a sound it's used a lot at the beginning of words in Thai language as well.
Thank you for your explanation!
Would've liked a teacher like you while in Kaohsiung!
作为一个南方人，根本区分不了en/eng，in/ing，每次打字的时候都会在是否加一个g的问题上反复，私以为这么像的两个音为什么要区分出来，谁说话还是没有上下文的？直到遇上了北方人……另外，福建地区的朋友连an/ang都不能区分，这可能就是不断降维之后的代差感吧。
I hear almost the same with your "in" and "ing" sounds! Like I can hear a slight difference but they both sound like "ing" to me. Also, I always have a hard time not typing "xien" and "dien" when I want to write 現 and 點。I've always wondered why the pinyin was that far off.
As a native Standard Mandarin speaker and teacher myself, I think Grace does a great job explaining the nasal finals, but she does not really pronounce them accurately in her videos, including this one (having said that, she actually does it better than most Southern Chinese).
you ve helped me sooo much!!!! thank youuuuu!!!
So clear!
Thanks~
Hi Alex! You're welcome! :D
Please , could you make a video about pronouncing the rest of the finals like üe, ou.......etc.
And thanks for all videos.thanks so much
Amazing, definitely the best clip so far.... almost perfect in every aspect until the reading of 擅长 sounds more like 扇城
Thanks for explaining ian. Would you teach us multi-combined vowels? Because somehow some of them do not make sound by pinyin itself like English. If you teach us tricky vowel pinyins, it will be awesome.
Thank you very much teacher
Great video need more like this....
Really appreciatEd your hard work
Thank you Cipher!
I had a lot of trouble with ying for a while. I would say dian ying in china and nobody knew what i was saying. Later i decided that after the initial yi and before the final ng, the sound subtly glides through a centralizing schwa like sound. I feel like in English, we consider ng to be like "iŋ", and in china, ng is like "əŋ". I am not a language expert though. Just had more luck adding a bit of a schwa before any ng sound in chinese.
This video is great.
I think distinguishing these sounds are really hard for us, Japanese
As Arabic person it's hard to differentiate between an and en..
Hi Grace. What's the tongue position for ㄝ? You introduce the sound @ 7:12 could you explain more?
Thank you so much,very helpfull!
Grace, I love your videos! Can you do a video comparing Pinyin and Zhuyin? I don’t know which to use
I'm actually thinking about making a video about Zhuyin! Maybe can also talk about the differences between these two systems in that video! :)
@@GraceMandarinChinese thank you :)
Me a 19 years old native Chinese never knows difference between "n" and "ng" until now:
Where are you from? My GF is Taiwanese and she has also some problems telling them apart.
Very useful grace
Your english is good. Also you look smart.
🇵🇭
Thank you!
@@GraceMandarinChinese I wish I had learn some mandarin phrases back in 2017 when I went to TARI, Taichung, and in Taipei.. One of my memorable events in my life.. Taiwan is a beautiful country.
Just sharing 🙂
Thank you so much!❤️
Love the video, very well explained. The only thing what really bothered me was the super loud sound when it was my turn to repeat the words. Otherwise perfect 👌
Could you please make video on Compound vowels 🙏🙏
thanks, these words are really difficult for me before this video/
怎么抬起舌头后面啊？
Hi Grace, I want to have diagram picture of the mouth shape, is there any chance I can get them? where can I find it?. Thank you
谢谢😃 I need more and more practice!!
Thank you for this video. I think this is the first time someone confirmed that the pronunciation of ㄢ actually changes when there is ㄧin front of it. Most of other sources do not mention it at all! By the way, I got an impression that in some words ㄥ pronunciation changes into something close to ㄨㄥ，like in the word 風．For example, the word 颱風 (typhon) you are expected to say ㄊㄞˊ ㄈㄥ while I clearly hear ㄊㄞˊ ㄈㄨㄥ., or is it something wrong with my hearing? :)
There is nothing wrong with your hearing haha you have good listening skills! I guess you heard that in Taiwan right? I talked about this ㄥ and ㄨㄥ thing in this video: ruclips.net/video/vdl6Q-RCr2I/видео.html You can check it out! :)
I truly appreciate the work and detail you put into these videos Grace, thank you for teaching me even though you may not know who I am your work is truly awesome!
te amo grace!!! 我爱你。来自阿根廷的吻。
Hey Grace ! very useful video :D
I always pronounce the 'in' sound in chinese like the word 'in' in english so I accentuate the 'n' sound. But I guess this is not the same, right ?
When I hear you making de 'in' sound in chinese, I can't clearly hear the 'n' sound.
比如说 '见' I can clearly hear the 'n' sound when you say it but not with '音'的静音
I’m glad you found it useful! :)
I think you heard them differently because the “n” sound is combined with different vowels.
嗯 I guess you're right, I need practicing listening and you are a good model !
啊 对了，你的耳环好看 ;)
ying I hear is pronounced like yuheng
so dian yuheng, is also another way right?
謝謝你
I have never been so aware of my tongue.
That's another great video of yours! 謝謝! Could it be that ㄢ is also pronounced differently in combination with ㄈ, ㄓ and ㄕ？like in 飯 or 站.
不客氣！I don’t think “an” is pronounced differently after ㄈㄓㄕ. But I’ll look into it for sure! Thanks for mentioning it!
Thanks so much, but i have a question, how to distinguish between( ang) and (eng) into words like 长城 as i hear both with (ang), and thanks again😊
I'm confused about the "n" sound. When I hear 犯, for example, to me it sounds like the "n" sound is produced by putting the tip of the tongue as if you were to pronounce "q", but then press the middle of the tongue to the hard palate. Is this correct or just part of an accent? I hear it a lot and when I was trying to produce it perfectly, that was the only way I could. Does this makes sense?
That was great
谢谢你！ 我从德国来和我学中文在大学。 这时很难难，可是也有意思。对不对？
As always very informative. Try to make grammar videos also if possible
Thanks for the suggestion! ;)
谢谢!
Thanks! Now I can say my wife’s family name correctly!
Yeah! I'm glad this helped! :D
Question about the final N: When the final N is pronounced, with the tip of the tongue, if the next word begins with a vowel, it means that there will be a connection? (Like the cluster " maN And woman"). So, the word "pin ying" would be pronounced "piNYing"? In the occasion, wishing blessings of Jesus, the One who lives, and the name above ALL names (Phillipians 2)!
im starting to feel bad for all this good free material :) i just discover your channel!! wao, thanks I was one step away from quitting learning mandarin and thanks also for the ㄅㄌㄇㄈ
5:39 just realize, I don't know how to pronounce the Y consonant sound. Is that just the i sound?
Hi. For me it's very difficult distinguish the sound between yan and yang.. thanks
Carlos
I hope this video has helped you differentiate them! :)
Not like picture, it seems that some or many Chinese touch not only tongue tip(n element) but also tongue back(ng element) to top for [n]. They think this is also [n]. But I hear it as [ng] because it's the sound when blocked back part near throat.
This is a difficult part of listening Chinese.
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Hi Grace 老师！
Thanks for that, more work for me to do though :)
Ok and how to distinguish these sounds?
你好老师
哦谢谢老师
过来过来过来 来教我啦
Unlike en and eng, in and ing sound like the same as ing. I think I have to remember this to help listening mandarin.