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The 'Ji Qi Xi' part was brilliant. Your explanation of the reason why you dont use umlaut with these characters was very good. You really are an amazing Chinese teacher. 😁
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My native accent is Cantonese, so my it took me some time to really understand how to pronounce x sound as I used to pronounce the x sound as s. Thanks Andy for such informative video, I finally know how to pronounce it correctly! 😀
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From last few months I was just watching pinyin videos. But today I learned how to make sentence in Chinese. Wow 🤩 thank you sooooo much for this wonderful lecture. 🙏
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You're such a great teacher, I know I said it before but I love your teaching method. Is this the only platform you use to teach mandarin? I just started learning last week and just came across your video two days ago.
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Actually, it is because "j q x y + u" cannot form a syllable, so "u" and "ü" do not need to be distinguished from each other, so the two dots are removed directly. For example, initial "l" can form "lu" and "lü", so it still needs to be distinguished by adding a little hat (the 2 dots). 其实是因为j q x y + u 没有办法组成音节，u和ü不用作区分了，所有就直接去掉两点。像是 l 可以组成lu和lü，所以还是要戴帽（加点）区分
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I think supplementing Pinyin with Wades-Giles would provide more clues to how to pronounce the words. The actual sound would be between ch'ü & qù. Then again, we are using English, the language with probably the most exceptions to its own rules.
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You are really a good teacher I try to learning the letters first And I watch your Video six time to understand a lot of . Frankly, you are a good teacher
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🟢I likw your teaching is easy to ynderstand. You are the most.Teacher Laoshi , Xie Xie . How are you teacher .? Please becareful your health . Wishind you all Family.
eventhough german and chinese are very distant and different its fun to see that you have the same ü sound in pronounciation and letter what a coincidance
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You are very good as a teacher. I will visit China in the future with my Chinese girlfriend. I will impress her with my Chinese language because of your help.
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...and there must not be a "tü" syllable either because if it were to be pronounced properly, there would automatically be an i added there as well, which replicates the sound that "qu" makes (I might be wrong, but that's my understanding of it)
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Very nice classes. I am portuguese/spanish native. Speak english too. It has been easy to learn chinese pronunciation with this classes. Ü is very used in german language as in Müller. The vowells are about the same as portuguese-br. Tks for the tips and tricks. Nicely fone.
@@AskAndy ok. The pronunciation of the initial vowells in brazilian portuguese, including the tones, are pratically egual to mandarim. When I heard the audio 1st time I felt when I was in kindergarten.
When you make those sounds (ji/qi/xi) do you put the tip of your tongue behind the bottom teeth or behind the gum under them? I feel that depending on where exactly the tip is they might sound slightly different. Does that make any difference for you?
I am Russian native. In russian, we have soft and hard consonants. It seems to me, that J Q X is the soft consonants. And U with umlaut is soft too. In russian, after the soft consonants goes only soft vowels. That's why we don't need two dots.
Я ничерта не понимаю по английски, но пытаюсь учить китайским сама, просто по фану, но мне так нравится слушать ваши уроки, не понимая двух языков, я все равно улавливаю суть ваших обьяснений. Спасибо за урок!!!!
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ps: just for fun:- jeep, cheep and sheep.... the 'cheep' I wrote represents the way we often describe the sounds that birds make when they are singing to each other.... cheep, cheep, cheep... hahaha...
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Thanks. Another questions Why just "j", "q" and "x" are following this rule with ü ? Is there another rule with "lü" ? and ...the other consonants why Not play with ü ? Should you do more examples and exercises with these rules please ?
Actually, it is because "j q x y + u" cannot form a syllable, but "ü" can do it with the four initials , so "u" and "ü" do not need to be distinguished from each other when going with "j q x y", so the two dots are removed directly. For other initials like "l", it can form "lu" and "lü", so it still needs to be distinguished by adding or removing a little hat (the 2 dots) on "u".
For j q x + u without the dots, the phonological reason is that you can never have j q x coexist with 'u' so that's why when ju qu xu are written they are pronounced as 'jü qü xü' its even impossible to pronounce them as 'ju qu xu'.
That's correct. I would argue this rule makes it inconsistent; makes unnecessary extra rule for new students that they have to memorise j q x are actually paired with ü, not u. Although we can argree that ü is unavailable or difficult to type in many keyboard format.
Hi Andy!, your channel is superb! you explain everything so well. I have a question related to 'ch' and 'q' sound, how to differentiate between them because what I learnt is that ch is a sound like in 'church' and q sound is the same but a little aspirated like 'ch-h' but when I listen you, both letters sound same, like a little aspirated 'ch-h', so how to differentiate between them?
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@@AskAndy I've been studying many european languages in the past, Mandarin is my first extra E.U. language :) I really like your approach, pragmatic and very informative. I will follow you with much pleasure. Xièxie
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I'm already frustrated😂 it all sound similar...but the challenge is acceptable! I love it! Same with Nihongo..you need vowels at the end of every consonant..
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Oof, this video hits a lil different for a British northerner. When we say jeep, cheap and sheep we tend to purse our lips a lot and raise the end of our tongues so the xi sounds more like shi when we compare it to sheep, and therefore we also have the same more open mouth shape for ji and qi :'). I wish having different accents didn't make things so fiddly ಥ‿ಥ.
Even some native Chinese from southern part of China find them difficult. They tend to make j q x into z c s. Sometimes we make fun of them: 洗Xi - to wash becomes 死Si - to die.
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My teacher explained that they don't have the umlaut because they can't be paired with normal u sound. qu is pronounced with the ü sound, not with the normal one. But there will never be a word with qu pronounced with the normal u. That makes sense since the umlaut there might be too much, and you should just remove it, and remember this rule. There will never be j/q/x/y (I think also y) paired with a normal u sound, only ü sound.
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That's why we use Tonyong Pinyin and Mandarin Phonetic Symbols, they are more clear for student and easier to pronounce them correctly. ㄐㄧ JI ㄑㄧ CI ㄒㄧ SI ㄐㄩ JYU ㄑㄩ CYU ㄒㄩ SYU
According to my chinese teacher, ü umlaut is removed to make easy to type. But the correct phoneme should be ü, not u. Except in Lü 率 iit can not be written Lu路 , because there will be LU syllable.
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But one thing is certain. Each language has its own specification in some pronunciations but those are similar or considered to be the same in another language.
l didn't say “X” is pronounced as Sh in Sheep exactly, but the most similar one in English. Because that's a counterpart in English but not an equivalent.
Dear Andy, I'm Reza a subscriber to your channel from Bangladesh. From your previous lesson I came to learn about a sentence....."I have been waiting for an hour=wo deng le yi ge xiaoshi le." But if the sentence would be like."I have been waiting for you since morning" what would be in Chinese? Give me a reply please.
I am a HSK student and still struggle with the pronuntiation of "q". It feels like the range goes from a very thick, "ch-like" as spoken by northenders to a "x" mostly pronounced in the south. Is there any rule of thumb i should follow? Thank you for this great channel!!!!.
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I like this video, and your way to teach us Chinese, I’m at the first level I enjoy learning Chinese. Could you write my name in Chinese pleas! My name is Ashwaq😊
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You're either teaching a straw student, or teaching students to be straw students. First up, you're making the ü letter seem as if it's a common part of Pinyin. It's not, it's only something that you see in lü/nü (a grand total of 2) syllables to distinguish them from lu/nu syllables. Almost obviously one of the first things a Chinese learner learns is the putting together of initials and finals. So it's at that point they're taught that ju, qu and xu (plus yu) are pronounced with pursed lips in contrast to zhu, chu and shu with the normal u sound. It's *after* you learn how common initials and finals combine that you learn that ü can make lü or nü. Nobody should be trying to add ü to other initials, so why suggest otherwise? Let your students learn well so we can all be well.
With your logic, I am sorry to know that all the native Chinese students would become straw students because the rule about ü is taught in every Chinese elementary school in China.
I am not making ü seem like a common part of Pinyin because it is. There is a ü group of finals in Chinese Pinyin. And I have to say you missed another two syllables: lüe and nüe.
What's more, ü is an independent basic simple final not just to be in contrast to so-called "normal" u sound. We just see it more often without umlaut in the syllables " ju jue juan jun, qu que quan qun, xu xue xuan xun and yu yue yuan yun" compared to "lü, lüe, nü, nüe".
I agree that "Nobody should be trying to add ü to other initials" because it's wrong to do that. Thank you for your concern about my students. So far, they are learning well and hope you guys are all well.
Okay, a couple of rare extra syllables but at any rate I'm not trying to score points. Plus isn't 鋝 the only character that can come out of those extra syllables? Ü is a common phoneme but (as a letter) its usage in *Pinyin* is just after l or n, so not as common as a student might get to thinking... It's usage as a *phoneme* can (only) come after l, n, j, q or x, which is much more common. To each their own. But I think, for CFL learning, a lot of students would be happy to avoid (because they can!) learning about spelling rules and just appreciate that vowels can change depending on the initial it's matched to (e.g. i-in-si ≠ i-in-ni nor i-in-bi etc; u-in-qu ≠ u-in-pu, u-in-gu etc). Though 1 in a billion might ask for it, it's not really practical to learn Chinese as an L2 in the same way as a Chinese child would be educated. The one advantage of learning specifically about the ü final *phoneme* is that if you ever use "the other" phonetic system (and keyboard input method), Zhuyin Fuhao, you will actually need to select this phoneme every time to make words like 去 or 女 (the latter is often done on a roman keyboard with nv).
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You explanation for u after j q x makes sense, thank you. But there are also words with pinyin jiu, qiu, xiu. So how are they different from ju, qu, xu ? Thank you for any help.
I guess you've never heard most of my answers to those questions about "WHY" in Chinese because common Chinese textbooks and teachers just let you know " it's a rule in Chinese"
I am having trouble to spot a difference between he and she, yes the characters are different but the sounds are the same, how can i recognize when it is he and when she ? example: ta shi lao shi. So what gender is the teacher in the sentence ?
拼音的 j 只是接近英語發音[dʒ] 拼音的 x 只是接近英語[ʃ] 無法列成兩個等式 最簡單的判斷即聽英語主播讀「習敬平」 「習xi」和「敬jing」總是怪怪的 這就是讀最接近的英文音所導致 Pin yin - j and [dʒ] are just similar. Pin yin - x is only similar to [ʃ] Both pairs are not the same. Whenever you hear CNN anchors say the name of the China's president習敬平 It's always weird and awkward to hear -- j replaced by [dʒ] and x replaced by [ʃ] are the main reasons these anchors pronounce 習敬 strangely.
interesting that you explain the third tone as rising and climbing, colleagues of you neglecting it, they explain it as a sound which is called today as "vocal fry", that rasping into the sound you use when you speak English. And indeed since i pronounce it like this my app gives me 10 points for my pronunciation.
You are very good at teaching pinyin and tones, and I enjoy watching your programs very much. However, your explanation on the missing of two dots on top of u that follow j q x is misleading. Students would likely pronounce ju, qu, xu, as jiu 纠, qiu秋, xiu休 if they follow your explanation. Please let us know if you have a better way to explain it, otherwise just tell us that it is a ‘rule’ as told by your kindergarten teacher long time ago.
It's just my hypothetical answer and actually it works well with my students. My elementary school teacher told us to remember it in a funny way: The chicken（j）will eat the two eyes of the fish（ü） when they meet.
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I love when the teacher is not just telling rules but explaning them in a smart way
You are really SMART and A VERY GOOD TEACHER!
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The 'Ji Qi Xi' part was brilliant. Your explanation of the reason why you dont use umlaut with these characters was very good. You really are an amazing Chinese teacher. 😁
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Your jeep, cheese, sheep trick made ALL the difference for me. I always struggled to remember what sound the x made, but not anymore. Thank you.
No problem. l am trying to simplfy the pronunciation to save your time rather than saying PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT:)
Same for me
After learning Chinese for almost 4 years only today I understand perfectly! Thank your teacher Andy.
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My native accent is Cantonese, so my it took me some time to really understand how to pronounce x sound as I used to pronounce the x sound as s. Thanks Andy for such informative video, I finally know how to pronounce it correctly! 😀
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Love your teaching style, brother. Thanks for sharing it here. Keep it up.保重
I apppreciate the effort you put into coming up with these expalations.
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From last few months I was just watching pinyin videos. But today I learned how to make sentence in Chinese. Wow 🤩 thank you sooooo much for this wonderful lecture. 🙏
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I found your explanation to be extremely clear and easy to understand.
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yeah the sound in this video is much better
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You're such a great teacher, I know I said it before but I love your teaching method. Is this the only platform you use to teach mandarin? I just started learning last week and just came across your video two days ago.
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you the best teacher,i learn a lot from you
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Your explanations are logical and easy to understand, they're excellent, thank you so much.
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Actually, it is because "j q x y + u" cannot form a syllable, so "u" and "ü" do not need to be distinguished from each other, so the two dots are removed directly. For example, initial "l" can form "lu" and "lü", so it still needs to be distinguished by adding a little hat (the 2 dots).
其实是因为j q x y + u 没有办法组成音节，u和ü不用作区分了，所有就直接去掉两点。像是 l 可以组成lu和lü，所以还是要戴帽（加点）区分
Your lessons are so useful, i enjoy watching, thank you so much Andy, i am from Morocco.
Great understanding of the language, awesome teacher!
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My theory about the two little dots is : they run out of ink! ha, ha...
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you are clarifying the real thing . pronunciation is key ro learn accurate mandarin...
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Now I know why the word GO pronounced 'Chweet' by pinyin Qu instead of Choot.Your teaching style is outstanding. Thank you very much indeed.
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I think supplementing Pinyin with Wades-Giles would provide more clues to how to pronounce the words. The actual sound would be between ch'ü & qù.
Then again, we are using English, the language with probably the most exceptions to its own rules.
Great, Andy! I like your logic. Well explained the 'i+u' combos. It mkes a perfect sense to me (and I don't care about the academical correctness)
You have a very good pronunciation both¡ in chinese and english. Very interesting videos. Thanks a lot for your help.
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谢谢，像往常一样，它是非常有用的学习技巧。
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woah your explanation is so easy to understand
gotta write this on my book ✍🏻
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Amazing lecturing method and he makes easy to have understand. Thank you.
So much of help. Thanks Andy.
With pleasure :)
Looking forward to more videos. Learning is so much fun with Chinese language
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You are really a good teacher
I try to learning the letters first
And I watch your Video six time to understand a lot of .
Frankly, you are a good teacher
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I hate it when he says, "It's easy, right?" No, Andy, it's not easy, but I still enjoy your channel :)
l am trying to make learning Chinese easier for you guys instead of saying PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT.
Wow I totally understand!! Thank you:)
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l may not be the best but l am trying my best. :)
Im a native spanish speaker and we have this ü letter to indicate that the u letter is pronounced in some cases
Thank you Andy. I just subscribed seeing the quality of your tutorial is amazing
🟢I likw your teaching is easy to ynderstand.
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Actually would be nice if 老师 可以 explain the rest of the pinyin system
As in bpmf dtnl and gkh
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I did. They are in Pronunciation 01. And compound finals would be in Pronunciation 04.
eventhough german and chinese are very distant and different its fun to see that you have the same ü sound
in pronounciation and letter
what a coincidance
Yeah. And it's easier for Germans to learn Chinese pronunciation because of that.
You are too sweet teacher.thank you
我的老師說 since j，q，x always go with ü we can confidently omit the umlaut.
i love the way how u teach
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You are very good as a teacher. I will visit China in the future with my Chinese girlfriend. I will impress her with my Chinese language because of your help.
For Chinese pronunciation, this video will save you a lot of time on tones and is good for your Chinese fluency👇
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...and there must not be a "tü" syllable either because if it were to be pronounced properly, there would automatically be an i added there as well, which replicates the sound that "qu" makes (I might be wrong, but that's my understanding of it)
Andy is soooo charming! And thanks a lot this is so helpful.
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Very good explained. Thanx
Thank you so much! It is super helpful, love your videos.
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Thanks sir ❤️for outstanding teaching 🙏
You make learning Chinese, fun! More people should discover you!
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Very nice classes. I am portuguese/spanish native. Speak english too. It has been easy to learn chinese pronunciation with this classes. Ü is very used in german language as in Müller. The vowells are about the same as portuguese-br. Tks for the tips and tricks. Nicely fone.
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And thank you for sharing your knowledge about Portuguese.
@@AskAndy ok. The pronunciation of the initial vowells in brazilian portuguese, including the tones, are pratically egual to mandarim. When I heard the audio 1st time I felt when I was in kindergarten.
Good to know that. lt's funny. 😊
Love your videos
When you make those sounds (ji/qi/xi) do you put the tip of your tongue behind the bottom teeth or behind the gum under them? I feel that depending on where exactly the tip is they might sound slightly different. Does that make any difference for you?
Behind the gum under the bottom teeth
I can hardly pronounce them if I put it behind the bottom teeth
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@@AskAndy 谢谢，Andy老师！
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Do we say "and" and "drink" the same way in Chinese language?
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I am Russian native. In russian, we have soft and hard consonants. It seems to me, that J Q X is the soft consonants. And U with umlaut is soft too. In russian, after the soft consonants goes only soft vowels. That's why we don't need two dots.
And we have soft and hard vowels. Я Ё Ю Е - that's soft. А О У И Э - that's hard.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge :)
Another, Indo European language,
sub group, Celtic, also uses these
sounds, especially Irish and Scottish Gaelic.
Я ничерта не понимаю по английски, но пытаюсь учить китайским сама, просто по фану, но мне так нравится слушать ваши уроки, не понимая двух языков, я все равно улавливаю суть ваших обьяснений. Спасибо за урок!!!!
For initials it is the same in Romanian. We need a vowel after them.
Very informative and interesting video 🙏🏽❤️👍
Wow those tricks help a lot
Great teacher Andy 老師！
You are so humourous yet reasonable 👍👍👍👍 definitely your channel is very helpful for learning Chinese 🙏🙏🙏🙏
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ps: just for fun:- jeep, cheep and sheep.... the 'cheep' I wrote represents the way we often describe the sounds that birds make when they are singing to each other.... cheep, cheep, cheep... hahaha...
That's funny 😂
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Thanks. Another questions Why just "j", "q" and "x" are following this rule with ü ? Is there another rule with "lü" ? and ...the other consonants why Not play with ü ? Should you do more examples and exercises with these rules please ?
Actually, it is because "j q x y + u" cannot form a syllable, but "ü" can do it with the four initials , so "u" and "ü" do not need to be distinguished from each other when going with "j q x y", so the two dots are removed directly. For other initials like "l", it can form "lu" and "lü", so it still needs to be distinguished by adding or removing a little hat (the 2 dots) on "u".
For j q x + u without the dots, the phonological reason is that you can never have j q x coexist with 'u' so that's why when ju qu xu are written they are pronounced as 'jü qü xü' its even impossible to pronounce them as 'ju qu xu'.
Just wrote similar comment 😅
That's correct. I would argue this rule makes it inconsistent; makes unnecessary extra rule for new students that they have to memorise j q x are actually paired with ü, not u. Although we can argree that ü is unavailable or difficult to type in many keyboard format.
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What do you mean when you say "Think about Chinglish" ? Thanks for you Video.
Hi Andy!, your channel is superb! you explain everything so well.
I have a question related to 'ch' and 'q' sound, how to differentiate between them because what I learnt is that ch is a sound like in 'church' and q sound is the same but a little aspirated like 'ch-h' but when I listen you, both letters sound same, like a little aspirated 'ch-h', so how to differentiate between them?
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Check out this video for CH👇
ruclips.net/video/LH3yhKGg3lk/видео.html
And for ch, you can also try TR in TREE while q like the ch in cheap. You have to listen more to tell the difference because those counterparts are not exactly equivalent.
You are so good Andy! Excellent teacher.
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@@AskAndy I've been studying many european languages in the past, Mandarin is my first extra E.U. language :) I really like your approach, pragmatic and very informative. I will follow you with much pleasure. Xièxie
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Excellent!
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I'm already frustrated😂 it all sound similar...but the challenge is acceptable! I love it! Same with Nihongo..you need vowels at the end of every consonant..
Just different
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Oof, this video hits a lil different for a British northerner. When we say jeep, cheap and sheep we tend to purse our lips a lot and raise the end of our tongues so the xi sounds more like shi when we compare it to sheep, and therefore we also have the same more open mouth shape for ji and qi :'). I wish having different accents didn't make things so fiddly ಥ‿ಥ.
Gotcha!
Don't worry that much, my friend.
Even some native Chinese from southern part of China find them difficult. They tend to make j q x into z c s. Sometimes we make fun of them: 洗Xi - to wash becomes 死Si - to die.
That's just a joke. Most of the time we can understand each other well like what mentioned in this video about tones👇
ruclips.net/video/BGm3ftiEjTQ/видео.html
@@AskAndy hahaha that's brilliant
Very funny to hear the Do Re Mi La Ti because Mandarin don't have S+i pronounce as [i] but as Epsilon
in “ jeep, cheese, ship” the tongue and the tip of the tongue are in a different position than in “j q x “?
Thank you 😀
I was told chinese don't have voiced consonants, but aspirated and non-aspirated, so why do I hear voiced sounds B or D. Please explain.
Do you say "and" and "drink" the same way in Chinese?
Love this
My teacher explained that they don't have the umlaut because they can't be paired with normal u sound. qu is pronounced with the ü sound, not with the normal one. But there will never be a word with qu pronounced with the normal u. That makes sense since the umlaut there might be too much, and you should just remove it, and remember this rule. There will never be j/q/x/y (I think also y) paired with a normal u sound, only ü sound.
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That's why we use Tonyong Pinyin and Mandarin Phonetic Symbols, they are more clear for student and easier to pronounce them correctly.
ㄐㄧ JI ㄑㄧ CI ㄒㄧ SI
ㄐㄩ JYU ㄑㄩ CYU ㄒㄩ SYU
According to my chinese teacher, ü umlaut is removed to make easy to type. But the correct phoneme should be ü, not u. Except in Lü 率 iit can not be written Lu路 , because there will be LU syllable.
It cannot be the only reason because the Pinyin system was created in 1958 and Chinese people knew nothing about typing then
率 is not the only exception. I talked about that in detail in this video👇
ruclips.net/video/QseaTbeUBxQ/видео.html
Question re q+ü=qu because of q (i) u then how do you explain qiu (like the word for ball)???
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You can find the answer in this video👇
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If “X” is pronounced as Sh as in Sheep then how “Sh” is pronounced ?
X - Siva
Sh - Shiva
S - Saval
(Please note we have 3 letters in indian languages)
Sorry that l don't speak lndian language.
But one thing is certain. Each language has its own specification in some pronunciations but those are similar or considered to be the same in another language.
l didn't say “X” is pronounced as Sh in Sheep exactly, but the most similar one in English. Because that's a counterpart in English but not an equivalent.
You can check out this video to know SH in Chinese:👇
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You will know both S & SH in Mandarin in the video l mentioned.
Dear Andy, I'm Reza a subscriber to your channel from Bangladesh. From your previous lesson I came to learn about a sentence....."I have been waiting for an hour=wo deng le yi ge xiaoshi le." But if the sentence would be like."I have been waiting for you since morning" what would be in Chinese? Give me a reply please.
Good question!
Wo cong shangwu deng ni dao xianzai.
I from morning wait for you untill now.
I am a HSK student and still struggle with the pronuntiation of "q". It feels like the range goes from a very thick, "ch-like" as spoken by northenders to a "x" mostly pronounced in the south. Is there any rule of thumb i should follow?
Thank you for this great channel!!!!.
Try similar ones in English to find one works best for you: cheap,cheese, cheat...
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I like this video, and your way to teach us Chinese, I’m at the first level I enjoy learning Chinese. Could you write my name in Chinese pleas! My name is Ashwaq😊
Your name can be 阿施瓦克A shi wa ke.
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jee chee shee are kind of similar to j q x but not same.
well at least you cannot wrong too much.
great
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You're either teaching a straw student, or teaching students to be straw students.
First up, you're making the ü letter seem as if it's a common part of Pinyin. It's not, it's only something that you see in lü/nü (a grand total of 2) syllables to distinguish them from lu/nu syllables.
Almost obviously one of the first things a Chinese learner learns is the putting together of initials and finals. So it's at that point they're taught that ju, qu and xu (plus yu) are pronounced with pursed lips in contrast to zhu, chu and shu with the normal u sound. It's *after* you learn how common initials and finals combine that you learn that ü can make lü or nü.
Nobody should be trying to add ü to other initials, so why suggest otherwise? Let your students learn well so we can all be well.
With your logic, I am sorry to know that all the native Chinese students would become straw students because the rule about ü is taught in every Chinese elementary school in China.
I am not making ü seem like a common part of Pinyin because it is. There is a ü group of finals in Chinese Pinyin. And I have to say you missed another two syllables: lüe and nüe.
What's more, ü is an independent basic simple final not just to be in contrast to so-called "normal" u sound. We just see it more often without umlaut in the syllables " ju jue juan jun, qu que quan qun, xu xue xuan xun and yu yue yuan yun" compared to "lü, lüe, nü, nüe".
I agree that "Nobody should be trying to add ü to other initials" because it's wrong to do that. Thank you for your concern about my students. So far, they are learning well and hope you guys are all well.
Okay, a couple of rare extra syllables but at any rate I'm not trying to score points. Plus isn't 鋝 the only character that can come out of those extra syllables? Ü is a common phoneme but (as a letter) its usage in *Pinyin* is just after l or n, so not as common as a student might get to thinking... It's usage as a *phoneme* can (only) come after l, n, j, q or x, which is much more common.
To each their own. But I think, for CFL learning, a lot of students would be happy to avoid (because they can!) learning about spelling rules and just appreciate that vowels can change depending on the initial it's matched to (e.g. i-in-si ≠ i-in-ni nor i-in-bi etc; u-in-qu ≠ u-in-pu, u-in-gu etc). Though 1 in a billion might ask for it, it's not really practical to learn Chinese as an L2 in the same way as a Chinese child would be educated.
The one advantage of learning specifically about the ü final *phoneme* is that if you ever use "the other" phonetic system (and keyboard input method), Zhuyin Fuhao, you will actually need to select this phoneme every time to make words like 去 or 女 (the latter is often done on a roman keyboard with nv).
What is the difference between sh and x pronunciation?
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@@AskAndy I'm sorry but where in that video is the difference addressed? I'm not seeing it.
so what the difference in pronunciation between CH and q?
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The difference lies in the tongue position. You can find it out after watching this video👇
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This viseo is #2 and that one is #3
Awesome Andrew!
Thank you for your good feedback. 😊
You must be a smart guy who values reasons and logic in rules :)
ü after jqx doesn't have dots is just because there are no legal pronounciations of jw qw xw , could be very weird too any Chinese people.
and jiu qiu xiu are legal pronounciations , like 救 求 修
You explanation for u after j q x makes sense, thank you. But there are also words with pinyin jiu, qiu, xiu. So how are they different from ju, qu, xu ? Thank you for any help.
No problem. Jiu qiu & xiu are abbreviations and the full spellings are Jiou qiou & xiou. You can see the differences clearly now
@@AskAndy Thank you! I never heard that before, so I need to investigate.
I guess you've never heard most of my answers to those questions about "WHY" in Chinese because common Chinese textbooks and teachers just let you know " it's a rule in Chinese"
@@AskAndy It is very helpful that you explain. Pinyin is a lot more complicated than I thought.
I am having trouble to spot a difference between he and she, yes the characters are different but the sounds are the same, how can i recognize when it is he and when she ? example: ta shi lao shi. So what gender is the teacher in the sentence ?
Good question!
Actually we can't tell TA is he or she when we are talking about someone.
That's why l say Chinese is a contextual language, especially when it comes to speaking.
But we can see the difference when TA is written: 他 he & 她 She
Another thing, we only write in characters. So we can tell the difference from those two characters. But it doesn't work for Pinyin.
拼音的 j 只是接近英語發音[dʒ]
拼音的 x 只是接近英語[ʃ]
無法列成兩個等式
最簡單的判斷即聽英語主播讀「習敬平」
「習xi」和「敬jing」總是怪怪的
這就是讀最接近的英文音所導致
Pin yin - j and [dʒ] are just similar.
Pin yin - x is only similar to [ʃ]
Both pairs are not the same.
Whenever you hear CNN anchors say the name of the China's president習敬平
It's always weird and awkward to hear -- j replaced by [dʒ] and x replaced by [ʃ] are the main reasons these anchors pronounce 習敬 strangely.
interesting that you explain the third tone as rising and climbing, colleagues of you neglecting it, they explain it as a sound which is called today as "vocal fry",
that rasping into the sound you use when you speak English. And indeed since i pronounce it like this my app gives me 10 points for my pronunciation.
Math l Algebra
(Imagine x is u )
1x + 1x. = 2x
2x = 1x + 1x
x +. x = 2x
2x = x+x
You are very good at teaching pinyin and tones, and I enjoy watching your programs very much. However, your explanation on the missing of two dots on top of u that follow j q x is misleading. Students would likely pronounce ju, qu, xu, as jiu 纠, qiu秋, xiu休 if they follow your explanation. Please let us know if you have a better way to explain it, otherwise just tell us that it is a ‘rule’ as told by your kindergarten teacher long time ago.
It's just my hypothetical answer and actually it works well with my students. My elementary school teacher told us to remember it in a funny way: The chicken（j）will eat the two eyes of the fish（ü） when they meet.
Why the value of the letter Q changed in pinyin?
How do you say Jamaica in chinese
牙买加Ya mai jia
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哇，这“ji”、”qi”、“xi”的理论实在太高端了！
我不喜欢说，“没有为什么，记住就行了”，我喜欢思考为什么的问题，并且告诉大家应该怎么办:)
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