50 Sentences For Small Talk - Beginner Chinese Course | Chinese Conversation | Survival Chinese
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Are you an Elementary Chinese Beginner student who still can't make small talk conversation in Chinese? Then this video is for you! It main goal is to encourage you to memorize and speak out loud Chinese sentences. With these Survival Chinese sentences, you will increase your comfort level thinking and saying simple sentences in Mandarin. Eileen presents the lessons in a very slow and very clear Chinese so beginners can easily follow along.
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Video serves as great introduction to a beginner Chinese course, beginner Chinese listening practice and beginner Chinese conversation using small talk.
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No problem Eileen, you more than deserve to be supported!
Eileen speaks Chinese so clearly that we foreigner can really understand! Kind and friendly, a great teacher!
Thanks for watching Ann Onymous!
这是什么样的外国人，自己称呼“老外”？好像英文打的不太流利。在我耳中说的太慢但是我同意教材很精彩！
I was like " please don't start with nihao, please don't start with nihao" and in fact it really covers small talk sentences. Thank you for that
What makes this so helpful for me are the 'chunks'. This really helps. A 'run-on' sentence is difficult for me to remember. But broken down into smaller chunks of the 'literal' translation makes it much much easier. Also, I'm a big Quizlet fan so having it accompany the video (at the MC website) is a real bonus! I'm happy to be a premium member of Mandarin Corner and would recommend it to all I know who are eager to learn Mandarin Chinese!
Yeah, I was introduced to 'chunks' when learning Russian and it accelerated learning greatly. We don't think' in words. We think in phrase chunks.
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Thank you! This should be pinned. LOL!
I find this extremely useful. It is slow so there is ample time to practice the sentences. Xie xie lao shi!
Even for me as an "78-years old senior-learner", your CHUNKS are very well, helpful and precious. In my autodidactic learning, I have always longed for textbooks with such chunks and the subsequent correct rendering of the sentences, but since 20 years ago, I never found this helpful method. A big compliment for your fantastic VIDEO - it takes me a step further in oral communication!
As a companion in the same enterprise, a mere few years your junior, I cannot but wholeheartedly agree with you. Why, on the other hand, are there SO many poorly designed and ultimately useless books and courses in Chinese?
真的在学中文吗？ 我是35岁但我的中文水平是HSK4.5，我也得了JLPT N2. 想知道你的故事 哈哈。
Even after studying Chinese on-and-off for almost 2 years, this video is an excellent review for tones and characters. MC is such a great resource! (Please support this channel.)
best CHINESE learning videos..
great teacher, great sounds quality..
Eileen, I appreciate everything you do!!!thanks a bunch!!!💜
your channel deserves more 100K subscribers
Your content is always so beneficial!
Awesome lesson.
I generally spend some hours with great lessons like this.
It's not a one-time-watch video.
Thank you again my friend.
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This video is just what I need to to make the most of my learning Chinese. The problem with most people is that they think it is the teachers job to teach them how to do something. I think it is the students job to learn. By doing this exercise in focused attention to reading, listening and speak Mandarin, it will be a great help for the information to start to make sense. Thank you for providing the best material for the students to get a chance to experience more realistic and interesting Mandarin examples. You have prepared a great meal. Let the students feast.
How true. On the various "learning Chinese" Facebook groups I see some people acting like it is someone else's fault they are not learning.
Whether it is a language, a trade, a musical instrument or whatever, you have to WORK. You can certainly search for better methods or techniques, but nothing changes the fact that you will still have to work hard to make any progress.
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I agree! Amazing video and content!! We can tell you put a lot of work into your videos and you should know just how appreciated they are, especially by the serious students. Keep up the AMAZING work.
Very true, thank you for the inspiring words
教不是老师的工作吗？真奇怪!
As an Asian American learning Chinese, the chunks are super helpful! 謝謝你！
Hi Eileen and team. Thank you for those wonderful videos. Thanks to you and other small contributions, I went from level 0 to level HSK 3 in one year. I'll never be thankful enought for that. However, as I am now at the stage to start reading and writing actively, I miss having the chinese characters during the "Chunks process". 1000 thanks anyway. Love U
Hi Nathalie! If you need reading practice, you may want to check this video we did to help with reading Chinese. Our website has all the Chinese characters in the story in flashcard format so you can really drill the hanzi (and it's free!):
ruclips.net/video/rMde75UM98M/видео.html
You'll find the flashcards here:
www.mandarincorner.org/reading-and-listening-phone-addiction-in-china/
Hi beautiful teacher I'm Adam Silva from Angola this is my first time here in your channel I start to learn Chinese by myself and this channel is the best to learn Chinese thank you for your good job in this channel because I can't go to China I don't have money but I feel so motivated to learn Chinese with your channel I love languages I just speak five languages but I do love Chinese music and culture please continue doing those videos because you're doing a great job..
adao da silva good
This was the first video I looked at, so I appreciated it being slow to match my slow brain. Having done a lot of the others, it seems slow now but I think this is essential for beginner. Thanks . This is an amazing resource for me to learn Chinese
谢谢Eileen! 非常有用的。I've been studying Mandarin for awhile but still have trouble with even simple small talk. This video helps a lot!
You welcome, Heather! You might want to check out our Survival Chinese Video Series. In the series, you will find more useful videos presented in the same slow and clear fashion:
ruclips.net/video/KcENi3ESMcQ/видео.html
I just found your channel and Im really enjoying it! Ive been studying Chinese for over a year now and your lessons are very useful because I can practice and learn new things. Greetings from Peru! Saludos desde Perú!
You are so altruistic offering these lessons for free on RUclips! But I believe you should receive more compensation! Reward your efforts. I should donate. Also, you can add more advertisements to your RUclips videos to get more ad revenue.
This channel was set up with Eileen's email which RUclips consider as "Chinese" and China is one of the countries excluded from the RUclips Partnership program so we were prevented from making money from RUclips advertisements. That is one reason we ask for donations. We know there are many RUclipsrs in China generating revenue from RUclips ads. Our guess is that they either used emails created before they came to China or they figured out some other way to get around RUclips Partnership Program's China exclusion. We were unaware of this exclusion when we set up the channel.
Now drill the 50 sentences for small talk with free FLASHCARDS!
www.mandarincorner.org/50-essential-sentences-for-small-talk-flashcards/
Breaking up the sentences is so helpful!
Very good presentation, especially the chunks...great help for beginners like me. Thank you so much, super love your videos! ❤
I'm new in the channel and I'll be learning a lot ;)
Thank you so much, Eileen - this is absolutely perfect! Clear, fun and useful...the best resource I have found for learning Chinese!
Fantastic when you separate the words, it's easier to understand.
great job with the chunks!!! It helps me learn, really appreciate it!!!
It is primarily meant to serve as an educational tool for advanced level beginners, Dereko. Of course, no native speaker speak so slowly - we never meant to give that impression and we believe the majority of advanced level beginners understand this and appreciate the slow delivery to give them a chance to get used to Chinese words and sentences.
This is one of the best elementary Chinese language videos I've seen. I've just subscribed. Great work Mandarin Corner!!!
Thanks, The Red Road East!
You may also want to check out some of our other Survival Chinese videos:
ruclips.net/video/KcENi3ESMcQ/видео.html
You're welcome Mandarin Corner. I surely will check out your other videos. Thanks a lot!
these are very useful and I'm thinking to run an entire month of self study off the lexical set linked to each question. It's pretty good stuff. I loved the Hong Kong walkabout too. Thank you very much Mandarin Corner
Great, that I found your channel. It helps me learn Chinese language more. ❤️
Thank you so much for your very useful video lessons !
You make a good point with this video in that while a growing vocabulary is essential,understanding Chinese word order is vital and best reviewed with simple sentences(not so simple for me).For me once this word order is grasped it's just a matter of using and fitting in new words.Also there are some idiomatic expressions here which for me are best learned and understood by seeing the sentence....for example- "Let me-Wo lai".I think you personally have leaned how to learn though your English studies...chunks are good......your videos are fun.
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Mandarin Corner
Very helpful. I like the chunks. Next time please add simple Chinese characters to the chunks as well. They actually help me very much. After a while I just get used to them and I start to recognize them
Good point! We will do that next time. Thanks!
谢谢老师。
感谢。your English is very well.阿
A lot of thanks ,小姐。我是洪沫。我是孟加拉国，现在我学习在常州工程职业技术学院，第一年我学习汉语，现在我学习专业课。我的专业是机电。
my name is MD.FARAD HOSSAIN, my Chinese is 洪沫。
Very good way of translation.👍👋
Chunk 18 -At 15:23 it should be there are some places shenme difang, something would be shenme dongxi - I think, not sure of the pinyin spelling.
I love you teacher.. your videos are life safer for me..
Thanku so much
How wonderful: now you have taught us -- fifty times -- that the word "chunks" is spelled c-h-u-n-k-s.
I guess this is to help us learn the connection between Roman letters and Chinese Putonghua.
(And of course I'm always happy when language courses tel us it's Chinese Putonghua they are using. I would be so-o-o unhappy if they tried to use Italian or Nigerian Putonghua on us, so it's important to keep these distinctions clear.)
Joking aside, though, Elaine, your clear enunciation and useful vocabulary are a great help. Thank you.
Ouch.
You're a great teacher, Eileen.
Extremely helpful thank you!!!
Download's this video's free PDF at mandarincorner.org
This is good it must've taken a long time to make thank you! Maybe a little slow but it's really useful nevertheless
Thanks Williams! And yeah! I did it slowly deliberally. Because I think that some students need to get used to the sentences first, then try to speed up. We have a lot of complicated and relatively faster videos. You can check them out!
@@MandarinCorner2 Exelente job and the speed you uses to explain its wonderful for beginners like me and others as well . Thanks a lot
Super helpful video! Thanks so much!
Wow... Great job...
Easy approach.. And very essential sentences
Mandarin corner is a very good for Chinese language learning source
I love your channel and I have subscribed. I am going to tell my chinese class about it. Could you do a video on "connectors (in addition/although/even if) with sentences?
Our 42 Sentence Patterns video covers some of these type of sentence structures:
ruclips.net/video/PULnJUnQbac/видео.html
your sentences and their chunks are incredible i also need you to give dialogue conversation too with long sentences at different situations like in parks to ask direction at office at school at market or mall at road with texi driver student teacher dialogue etc
感谢老师。对我最好用。
Your videos are fantastic!! Thanks so much!
Best teacher ever
Thanks for chunks.
Note about chunks, they are usually based on subject predicate construction or topic comment construction...in Chinese, particles are often used to separate chunks. In other words, the slight pauses come after the subject or topic of a sentence, so that you take one breath to say the subject or topic and then you say the predicate or the comment in another breath. Obviously, with short sentences, you can say everything in one breath. I read about this in a book called 汉语口语语法
New subscriber here 🌹🌹🌹
I subscribed. Great info. I needed this.
thanks for the free content! 🐯
Thanks 🙏🏻
謝謝再次老師！這是一部非常有用的視頻。 對第八個關於，我覺得我感覺更舒服說：“你住在這裡嗎？” with 在 added. Is that OK?
也可以的。
@@MandarinCorner2 好的。謝謝。我感謝您的幫助。
Pure gold 🎉
Thank you
This is really really helpful. 真有用，谢谢你！
This is a really really good video. Thank you.
Thank you, great video
Well presented. Simply cool.
thanks , super as usual ! you see Eileen you can do a l lot in 24 hours... no need for 48 hours ;-) (referring to a video in which I learned a lot)
Haha! I know the video you referring to! Thanks for the support, Gabriel!
lao shi, ni hao
i just found your video by chance
i am enjoying it
I like this style learning, can you add characters in the lesson?
Thank you so much u r best!!!
One word I will NEVER forget now is 'CHUNKS' !! 😅
Very good 👍
So "啦" in #21 "出什么是啦", I've been told more than once not to use the "啦" very often because it would make me sound (their words) "girlish." ...
You hear guys using this one too. It's not exclusively for girls.
@@MandarinCorner2 ok, wow! Thank you for replying!
挺不错，非常感谢。😊
不客气! 视频只是一部分，记得去下载闪卡形式的PDF和音频文件，多多复习，效果会加倍的哦！
www.mandarincorner.org
一定要去，继续加油！
Another great lesson, thank you so much!
Can you please explain #18, 15:02...
Does 地方 mean places or things? The lesson says both. Thank you. xoxo
Although the word literally means "place". It can be translated to "things" "aspect" in this context. For example, 他身上有很多地方是我欣赏的。 There are many things about him that I admire.
+Mandarin Corner (Eileen Xu) 谢谢李老师
我姓徐Xu. :<
不过不要叫我老师，我只是在帮助你们学习而已。
对不起，我的中文不好。 我试着写 xie xie "ni”，不是“li” .
徐小姐,谢谢你帮助我学习.
没关系！不用紧张。
你的中文会变好的。加油！
Please we need more essential sentence like this chunks video
很好
Love you guys for making this videos 😊
非常好
谢谢
En el número 18 dice primero "There are THINGS....." y luego en chino usan la palabra "there are PLACES...."
remarque très juste.
This has been already answered in another comment, but since this one appears higer for me, I'll copy/paste one of the answers they gave there:
Mandarin Corner
10 months ago
Sometimes, we use 地方 to refer to "some aspects". For example:
如果我有什么地方做得不对，请告诉我。
rúguǒ wǒ yǒu shénmedìfang zuò dé bùhǎo, qǐng gàosu wǒ.
If there's anything I've done wrong, please let me know.
In this example, 地方 doesn't mean "place".
Hello Mandarin corner I'm living in Shenzhen
你住在深圳什么地方?
@@donovandownes5064 老街
@@donovandownes5064 给我你的微信ID
On #11 "你对外国人有什么印象？" the pinyin reads "Nǐ duì wàiguó rén yǒu shéme yìnxiàng?" with "shé me" instead of "shén me" and I just went down a rabbit hole of trying to find a rule about this. Windows doesn't even let you type "shé me" for the 什么 characters. First suggestion is 社么.
Most of the advice on this is that shéme is just how people pronounce it when they are speaking fast, but that it should be shénme. Is this correct?
May I use 多久(30) and 多长时间 (26), in the same manner? I noticed that both of them are translated, as "how long"!
They mean the same thing. It's just one is more concise.
Hi Eileen, I've just finished the small talk item and I'm feeling to be on the track now. So, can you suggest me some steps to follow, I'm a little bit confused, which one to watch next and after, among all your videos! There's really a room for a success here, but only with some guides and advices. Thanks
ruclips.net/video/KcENi3ESMcQ/видео.html
This video has the same format as small talk. You should try this one.
After that, you can go study "sentence starter", there are total of 200 sentences in this videos with common sentence structure.
ruclips.net/video/6rBdlcV3Ank/видео.html
Hi! For the 4th sentence, why did you use “Shangban” instead of “gong zuo”?
At the 18th sentence, I see 有些 地方 translated as "there are some things", which should be "there are some places". It's just a statement.
Sometimes, we use 地方 to refer to "some aspects". For example:
如果我有什么地方做得不对，请告诉我。
rúguǒ wǒ yǒu shénmedìfang zuò dé bùhǎo, qǐng gàosu wǒ.
If there's anything I've done wrong, please let me know.
In this example, 地方 doesn't mean "place".
@@MandarinCorner2 Interesting! May I have one more example, to get it better?
这篇故事中/有好几个地方/是我喜欢的。
In this story / there are many parts / I like (literal translation)
@@MandarinCorner2 ok.
So the verdict is this is not a typo? this language gets stranger every day for me. :)
14 / 2 / 2018 i watched this video for second time
Hi Kamal! You can also go to our website, mandarincorner.org and download this video's PDF transcript and audio file (mp3) to really drill the content!
Hey Eileen! I have a question, is it okay to emphasize the R a little more in the word "son", for example, "erzi", or should I soften my R? I think it might have to do I have been always hearing northern Beijing accents and started to naturally emulate that, but I am not sure if I am overdoing it. I know it's difficult to know without hearing, but is it okay? 5:36
By the way, I can't thank you enough for your hard work, I am just now going to start speaking with a native to practice and I could not have done it without you. As soon as I am able I hope to contribute to your channel. Thanks!
how to say "I have been always longed to see n listen her singing " in mandarin ?
wow...!!! Awesome video... Laoshi
Is there a book or bigger tutorial for learning in chunks like this?
Thank you
“Le” expresses ongoing action as in no. 50? I thought it expressed completed action or change of state.
i am interesting so i can repeat most of them
Thank you for your amazing Chineses learning video. I suscribe it. Would it be possible for you to make Chinese Character bigger and make english font smaller next time you create one? Because Chinese Charater do not stand out compared to English, making it difficult to read and be familair with.. Other than that, your video is flawless and totally recommendable. xie xie
If you trying to improve your reading with subtitles that stress the hanzi, check our latest video:
ruclips.net/video/rMde75UM98M/видео.html
1:38 ❤
Cette vidéo procède d'une bonne idée, mais l'introduction est trop longue et surtout il faudrait utiliser des fonds colorés et non pas blanc qui font mal aux yeux. La typographie est à améliorer. Ceci dit cette vidéo est excellente.
In number 11, is sheme a typo? shouldn't it be shen me?
Yes DFTA! It is a typo. It should be shenme.
@@MandarinCorner2 Thank you for the reply! (and for the great lessons!)
Muy buena lección de Mandarín!
Gracias, Carlos! Viste el video de "flashcards"? No se como decir "flashcards" en Espanol pero es un buen metodo para aprender sentencia en Chino. Ver el video aqui:
ruclips.net/video/yYErZJAXfrM/видео.html
Hola Eileen, voy a ver el video flashcards . Saludos desde Argentina!
Flashcards se dice "fichas" en Español.
Hola Carlos, te gusto las fichas?
Muy buen método para aprender. Excelente trabajo!