When I was takeing Chinese in school in the first year the teacher was going to give us the translation for our names however my name is not one with any translation in Chinese so my teacher gave me a different one. I used to think it was so cool until about a year later when it hit me she gave me the translation for my last name and was using it as a first name ;-;
That's interesting. The initials you included above is what is commonly used in Taiwan, but PinYin is used most often in China. For many born and raised in Mainland China, they learned PinYin and have seen the Taiwanese system, but didn't learn it in school. Thank you, though, for demonstrating another system that can be used to read Chinese characters. Greatly appreciated!
@MikeyInternational小宾看世界 befire tou had to use shift and arrow left to go back and rewatch again that particular clip but now using playback speed you could slow down to watch it slowly. There is no playback speed before.
I am Taiwanese by birth living in Canada, and have started to learn french in early 2014, I was amazed how many alphabets sound so closed to my mother tongue, and so easy to pronounce such as Letter U in french, also accent grave and accent aigu is just 4th sound and 2nd sound in Taiwanese alphabet. But of course, R in french is difficult for Asian.
initials are hard to learn , btw , it only used in Taiwan , in China we use PinYin initials we used are like this ㄅㄆㄇㄈㄉㄊㄋ ㄌㄍㄎㄏㄐㄑㄒ ㄓㄔㄕㄖㄓㄗㄘㄙ 一ㄨㄩ ㄚㄛㄜㄝㄞㄟㄠㄡ ㄢㄣㄤㄥㄦ
Bina Thapa more than 90% of the people can speak Mandarin aka Modern Standard Chinese. Other varieties/dialects like Cantonese, Shanghainese etc, are used in informal conversations.
I am a Brazilian guy and I am learning Chinese through English. I can pronounce a word Chinese easier than other learners but from another nationality, because the sounds in Chinese can record the sounds in Portuguese. I just have some problem to type in real Chinese, it is, its characters, but at the moment I'm going well.
This is why I see phonetic languages as easier than symbolic. Symbolic is like learning two different languages, one written and one spoken, so it's twice the work.
I have just started learning Chinese mandarin, I would love someone to add me on Skype, maybe someone looking for an English guide? Someone to practice English with? Maybe we could help each other? ... Xxxx
Emma Symonds Hope you will find some great friends who will help you learn to speak Chinese! Keep up the good work in starting with the Chinese alphabet! 加油！
Emma Symonds ican speak english and ican help you in any lang.like german arabic, indian and i want to speak english much better than amaricans or britch sorry for splling mestake what's app number 01111903311
I didn't had to learn it cause i can speak Hungarian and we pronunciation is the same😄 i also can speak korean and spanish and the English and i learn the Chinese is cool easy😄
Would be helpful to see a human's face to look at the mouth shape for all of these! For example my understanding of the initials ji, qi, xi, your mouth is a wide, flat grin, but zh, ch, sh your lips are spread open more.
"iu" didn't sound right to me... for example 六 (Liu) is pronounced like the name "Leo" except without emphasizing the 'e' part. What I heard in the video would rhyme more with "pew" like pews in a church. Is this pronunciation regional?
Thanks for the comment. Mainly, it's what happens when you combine the "iu" sound with any initials. I think you will find a slight variation for example, even between "liu" and "siu." Hope that helps as you continue learning Chinese!
LearnChineseWithEase 谢谢, I've learned a lot of words but yet to encounter an "iu" sound like that... my pinyin input can't find "siu"; it keeps correcting to sui options like 岁。 Do you have an example character?
You're right. her version of "iu" is a bit off from the standard mandarin(标准普通话) where it should sound more similar to a "yo" although it probably won't make a big difference in conveying one's meaning since there are no close phonemes to "iu" in Mandarin.
educationalvideos Based on my knowledge of Mandarin, there is no character corresponding to the sound "siu". It sounds more like Cantonese to be honest.
TheEechee Eww! Sounds like Chinese whispers now as we've gone from "liu" should be sounding like "lew" when "iu" is fine and "siu" was just used as an example - ooh!!
Ismail Supinda Yes, that was funny "kindy" but we knew what you meant so no trouble there. Excellent work - did you start of with the alphabet (vowels and consonants, initials and finals) and then did you learn the radicals to help recognise what the is trying to be said as well as just rocognising it in the components? Did you also learn with inbetween all that beginners stuff the various tones also? How did you find best to learn? It's always helpful to see how others structured their learning.
it does exist in "yun". This is actually "yün" but ü is replaced by u after y due to the pinyin writing rule. Other examples are "jun", "qun", "xun" which are actually "jün", "qün", "xün". The rule applies to all üs after y j q x as you can see "yu", "ju" and so on. However, in cases of "lun", it is just un instead of ün. This is because ü after l or n will still be written as ü, i.e. "lü". "lu" is different from "lü". Fortunately, you don't have to worry about it in the case of "lun" because there is no "lün" in pinyin system.
The joke on laowai is that, unlike what the author states, the pronunciation of pinyin (which is NOT pronounced pin yin, but as peen yeen) is Not the same as how most English speakers pronounce the letters/words. To have spelled the Chinese words phonetically in the Roman alphabet would have come far too close to making sense... ;-)
Sorry, I know it was fast. Many don't want to take the time to listen to something longer, especially when it comes to the Chinese alphabet. But, the great part about video, is that you can always pause and replay portions of it!
LearnChineseWithEase That is exactly what I did - I paused it and listened to it that way. The video is absolutely fine and very helpful indeed. It's not that people don't want to learn something slower also it's just that when starting out I feel people don't realise the importance of taking time to learn the alphabet and the radicals - as I thought I could skip it and just start learning. I've had to go back and now start learning the alphabet and it's not so boring realising it's importance. I also like this speed cos when you get the hang of it you can say it along with the speed to improve ones proficiency. No problem with it at all - of course there is more alphabet to this but it's one hell of a good starter. I open up this RUclips video every day as well as reaffirming some of the phrases and writing I've already learnt, like I can count now and write the numerical characters, I can also just about write the days of the week and some other phrases. I will then be doing the radicals and I've almost master the 4 tones plus the 5th toneless tone. Excellent stuff. If any one would like some help I'm sure I can pass my wisdom as a beginner as the best way to learn on as it's working for me so far so good!
Actually even though I'm native Chinese i can't figure out all of them lol i can speak Mandarin and Cantonese😂when I was little that is not the way i learn Mandarin lol I just speak that even though the teacher will teach you , i don't think it helps me to learn Mandarin lol
Because I speak Mandarin in school and communicate with others. like I don't really have to learn that step by step I speak Cantonese when I'm home cuz my family speak Cantonese and that's why I can speak both of them.
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When I was takeing Chinese in school in the first year the teacher was going to give us the translation for our names however my name is not one with any translation in Chinese so my teacher gave me a different one. I used to think it was so cool until about a year later when it hit me she gave me the translation for my last name and was using it as a first name ;-;
That's interesting. The initials you included above is what is commonly used in Taiwan, but PinYin is used most often in China. For many born and raised in Mainland China, they learned PinYin and have seen the Taiwanese system, but didn't learn it in school.
Thank you, though, for demonstrating another system that can be used to read Chinese characters. Greatly appreciated!
Extremely self explanatory. Thank you. Even though I probably shouldn't be learning a new language at 10:30pm. But Mandarin looks so cool...
I just love it when people start to advertise their books, etc at the end of their video :D
I'm learning Chinese manderin now just in case I get sent to Hong Kong from Agust D's tongue technology
(Jk I'm actually learning it for fun)
anastasia I get this reference.
ARMYs are everywhere and I love it
i don't know if mandarin works in Hongkong
anastasia beck A to the G the U to the std
Hali Salat they speak Cantonese in Hong Kong!! Just saying!
Thankyou for a straightforward video
u helped me a lot!!!
i am learning this at school at dps
can you make your lesson much longer and make it slower . overall it is great
4 years ago there is no playback speed now it has! I hope you have learned chinese pinyin already 👌
@MikeyInternational小宾看世界 befire tou had to use shift and arrow left to go back and rewatch again that particular clip but now using playback speed you could slow down to watch it slowly. There is no playback speed before.
I am Taiwanese by birth living in Canada, and have started to learn french in early 2014, I was amazed how many alphabets sound so closed to my mother tongue, and so easy to pronounce such as Letter U in french, also accent grave and accent aigu is just 4th sound and 2nd sound in Taiwanese alphabet. But of course, R in french is difficult for Asian.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience! It's great when what we learn in one language can be applied to another :-)
Whitta. C forget Canada forget French! I thank God that I don’t like the male hating tax hard on anymoreb
This was so helpful.....thank you
initials are hard to learn , btw , it only used in Taiwan , in China we use PinYin
initials we used are like this
ㄅㄆㄇㄈㄉㄊㄋ
ㄌㄍㄎㄏㄐㄑㄒ
ㄓㄔㄕㄖㄓㄗㄘㄙ
一ㄨㄩ
ㄚㄛㄜㄝㄞㄟㄠㄡ
ㄢㄣㄤㄥㄦ
I'm just learning Chinese for a game Qian Nu You Hun! And yeah also for cdramas !!
i know chises for a long time until the school closed down now im studying chisnese again.
I learn to chinese thanks give all this
Do you have some books or some helping material?
I am not getting that the total letters (pinyin) are 29 then why they are divided into two finals and initials Are finals also considered as letters
In china which language is mostly used: Cantonese or Mandarin?
Mandarin aka putonghua means standard chinese
Bina Thapa more than 90% of the people can speak Mandarin aka Modern Standard Chinese. Other varieties/dialects like Cantonese, Shanghainese etc, are used in informal conversations.
Hello, I am interested your video, thanks for sharing
i love this video thank you whoever made this!!!
You're most welcome! Hope it will help you in learning the Chinese alphabet :-)
So this is what a Chinese cliffhander looks like.
thanks
i like chocolate😂 我喜欢巧克力我也喜欢你💞
I am a Brazilian guy and I am learning Chinese through English. I can pronounce a word Chinese easier than other learners but from another nationality, because the sounds in Chinese can record the sounds in Portuguese. I just have some problem to type in real Chinese, it is, its characters, but at the moment I'm going well.
The Autodidact i can teach u
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Amazingly Chinese Finals have one set of Tamil letters group, called Uyireluththu, in correct order!!! But HOW !!!!!
but what is the chinese equivalent of these sounds?? we need to see the chinese text next to it to understand...the video is helpful though
where is ur easy to read book
Thank you :)
I also much liking chinese language ...Lean
All great I would ned this in a tabel however.
I love to learn Chinese language.
very nice...
This is why I see phonetic languages as easier than symbolic. Symbolic is like learning two different languages, one written and one spoken, so it's twice the work.
This is great
好，我很喜欢。。。谢谢您。
The lesson was great although i couldn't say my name
Cool video :D 谢谢你
不用谢！Hope that it helped you in learning the Chinese alphabet :-)
wow i learned chinese since kindy and I'm not a chinese I'm a muslim
i wish good to all of u
+Ismail Supinda there is muslim chinese.. islam is a faith not a country :)
i want to know how many chines alphabet i want writing chines so english has A to Z
I have just started learning Chinese mandarin, I would love someone to add me on Skype, maybe someone looking for an English guide? Someone to practice English with? Maybe we could help each other? ... Xxxx
Emma Symonds Hope you will find some great friends who will help you learn to speak Chinese! Keep up the good work in starting with the Chinese alphabet! 加油！
Emma Symonds i can on what's or messenger then skipe bec theres aproplem on it
Emma Symonds ican speak english and ican help you in any lang.like german arabic, indian and i want to speak english much better than amaricans or britch sorry for splling mestake what's app number 01111903311
help me in English
i'm intrested.
this is so awsome
Xuěhuā piāo piāo běi fēng xiāoxiāo,
tiāndi yīpiàn cāngmáng.
Are you a native Chinese?
this is misleading, even some of the vowels are wrong.
Wang Shuang sank you!
Yep most of the pronunciations are wrong
I also leanr Mandarin
I didn't had to learn it cause i can speak Hungarian and we pronunciation is the same😄 i also can speak korean and spanish and the English and i learn the Chinese is cool easy😄
I am Haitian but I that’s gonna be easy for me if it’s like that.
Hope you're keeping up on your Chinese alphabet!
#learnchinese #chinesealphabet
Would be helpful to see a human's face to look at the mouth shape for all of these!
For example my understanding of the initials ji, qi, xi, your mouth is a wide, flat grin, but zh, ch, sh your lips are spread open more.
? and the characters ?...
I am learning chinese
Hello man I am learn to Chinese language English alphabet easy but Chinese symbols is deficoult pronunciation
Loudly Please.
0:47
Idk why but I’m Chinese but I forgot almost al the pinyin
i'm taiwanese, same problem with you
Subtitle is disturbing 😩😩😩
"iu" didn't sound right to me... for example 六 (Liu) is pronounced like the name "Leo" except without emphasizing the 'e' part. What I heard in the video would rhyme more with "pew" like pews in a church. Is this pronunciation regional?
Thanks for the comment. Mainly, it's what happens when you combine the "iu" sound with any initials. I think you will find a slight variation for example, even between "liu" and "siu." Hope that helps as you continue learning Chinese!
LearnChineseWithEase 谢谢, I've learned a lot of words but yet to encounter an "iu" sound like that... my pinyin input can't find "siu"; it keeps correcting to sui options like 岁。 Do you have an example character?
You're right. her version of "iu" is a bit off from the standard mandarin(标准普通话) where it should sound more similar to a "yo" although it probably won't make a big difference in conveying one's meaning since there are no close phonemes to "iu" in Mandarin.
educationalvideos Based on my knowledge of Mandarin, there is no character corresponding to the sound "siu". It sounds more like Cantonese to be honest.
TheEechee Eww! Sounds like Chinese whispers now as we've gone from "liu" should be sounding like "lew" when "iu" is fine and "siu" was just used as an example - ooh!!
Nicee
euh，as a chinese，i want to say that “j” pronounce like how Americans say “z”，it's not翘舌音
by kindy i mean kindergarten
Ismail Supinda Yes, that was funny "kindy" but we knew what you meant so no trouble there. Excellent work - did you start of with the alphabet (vowels and consonants, initials and finals) and then did you learn the radicals to help recognise what the is trying to be said as well as just rocognising it in the components? Did you also learn with inbetween all that beginners stuff the various tones also? How did you find best to learn? It's always helpful to see how others structured their learning.
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Anyone wants to practice Chinese?
ün does not exist in standard pinyin
it does exist in "yun". This is actually "yün" but ü is replaced by u after y due to the pinyin writing rule. Other examples are "jun", "qun", "xun" which are actually "jün", "qün", "xün". The rule applies to all üs after y j q x as you can see "yu", "ju" and so on. However, in cases of "lun", it is just un instead of ün. This is because ü after l or n will still be written as ü, i.e. "lü". "lu" is different from "lü". Fortunately, you don't have to worry about it in the case of "lun" because there is no "lün" in pinyin system.
well thank you you make me feel happy
Hi😁 guyz ithink chinese is easy
Hope we join🙋♂️
It’s actually REALLY HARD! Any way Good Luck!!!
The joke on laowai is that, unlike what the author states, the pronunciation of pinyin (which is NOT pronounced pin yin, but as peen yeen) is Not the same as how most English speakers pronounce the letters/words. To have spelled the Chinese words phonetically in the Roman alphabet would have come far too close to making sense... ;-)
How would you propose doing that with the overlap of like 'j' and 'zh' or 'q'/'ch'? Do you prefer wide-giles?
some vowels are pronounced WRONG! like IU........ and others !!
Do you know of a video that Pronounce them correctly?
its not to late to come to the easy Korean side where learning is lazy.
Come on! Chinese language has characters, no alphabet!! There is no Chinese “alphabet”!! Pinyin system is not a formal part of Chinese language!
there is no sounds same as j q or x in English.
Maybe the we need people help in chine guía to business
I've been researching into how to understand Mandarin easily and discovered an awesome website at Magic mandarin blueprint (check it out on google)
I wanted to go to China but i was like what if peopole talk to you in Chinese and i do not now what they are even saying
Oh, I thought this was something different; never mind.
... Why am I here? I'm Japanese...
Mandarin sounds like a very difficult language to learn. Fuck!
idek
nah
ui? you are kidding me? Ridiculous！
Sorry that this seems different to you. Could you clarify, possibly for the benefit of others who want to learn Chinese? Thanks so much!
LearnChineseWithEase This video was way too fast.
Sorry, I know it was fast. Many don't want to take the time to listen to something longer, especially when it comes to the Chinese alphabet. But, the great part about video, is that you can always pause and replay portions of it!
LearnChineseWithEase That is exactly what I did - I paused it and listened to it that way. The video is absolutely fine and very helpful indeed. It's not that people don't want to learn something slower also it's just that when starting out I feel people don't realise the importance of taking time to learn the alphabet and the radicals - as I thought I could skip it and just start learning. I've had to go back and now start learning the alphabet and it's not so boring realising it's importance. I also like this speed cos when you get the hang of it you can say it along with the speed to improve ones proficiency. No problem with it at all - of course there is more alphabet to this but it's one hell of a good starter. I open up this RUclips video every day as well as reaffirming some of the phrases and writing I've already learnt, like I can count now and write the numerical characters, I can also just about write the days of the week and some other phrases. I will then be doing the radicals and I've almost master the 4 tones plus the 5th toneless tone. Excellent stuff. If any one would like some help I'm sure I can pass my wisdom as a beginner as the best way to learn on as it's working for me so far so good!
Bee buzz lol
Actually even though I'm native Chinese i can't figure out all of them lol i can speak Mandarin and Cantonese😂when I was little that is not the way i learn Mandarin lol I just speak that even though the teacher will teach you , i don't think it helps me to learn Mandarin lol
Because I speak Mandarin in school and communicate with others. like I don't really have to learn that step by step I speak Cantonese when I'm home cuz my family speak Cantonese and that's why I can speak both of them.
Janet Sung You're lucky~
I speak chinese with my parents, taiwanese with my grandparents, and mostly english whenever I‘m outside
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Huge
arnaud granger Hope this was helpful to you in learning the Chinese alphabet!
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Too fast
plz you can hepl me
I just started to learn mandarin do u know anyone on Skype who can help me for free
same here
siraj
nice ni huo
It sounds like hindi alphabet s
Siu Em refugee
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The j q x sounds she pronounced are WRONG! no way...
what the fuck?
اش الهبل ذا
hahahahahhahah
So many lies go in the heal
The Chinese doesn’t have an alphabet.
Pinyin =/= an alphabet!!!
Chinese uses an ideographic writing system, not an alphabet.
Pinyin is just a system for approximating the sounds wth the Latin alphabet
very nice...
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