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Hi Teacher, you missed out on an interesting point, I am not a Chinese, nevertheless I learnt my mandarin in the 1980s when we never had your superb talent neither the You tube then. You are certainly the best teacher in the world. I'd never forget when I learnt the characters 'ming bai' (Understand) came from 'ming' derived from 're' and 'yue' sun and moon in combination becomes 'ming' (bright) and 'Chong Ming' as wise. This is the precise reason I loved mandarin characters.
I know a 50 years old Man from The domincan republic who started to Learn mandarín at The age of 48, first he learnt pinyin and now at The age of 50 he can speak fluently and can also write hanzi using more than 3000 characters, so, i think we also can make it.
I started learning three days ago. I like it that you don't have worry about alphabets and grammar too much in write, you just go straight to learning words and memorizing.
People think Chinese is intimidating because it looks completely different from what they're used to. "There's no WAY I can learn 3,000 Chinese characters.. You're crazy!" But if you think about it, how many words does the average person have in their vocabulary? Just a different way of thinking is all.
To me 3000 characters are not unfathomable. However 3000^2 words you can build with them... It's much too learn and you do need to learn them as it is not like you automatically know what one or another combination of known characters might result in.
@@miloradowicz I mean in Chinese each character in itself is a morpheme. In English, each word can be composed of many morphemes. So learning each Chinese character is like learning the different English morphemes like in "unfathomable". Un before the word means not and able after means able. Quite similar to the Chinese as described in the video.
I know your comment is three years old, but the issue is that in phonetic languages, you have to memorize 26,28 or more letters and you'll be able to to read any article or book even though you don't understand, and the more you learn, your vocabulary will get better... But in Chinese, I think every word, (or most of them,?!) is written differently.... This is why, it's hard to learn it.. I believe even Chinese people can't understand their literature, most of them..
I can’t believe how far Mandarin instruction has advanced. I studied it in the late 90s and now the content on youtube is like a thousand times better than my formal education ever was. I should pick it up again.
We've come a long way from the traditional methods of teaching Chinese, and our curriculum in particular is designed with non-native speakers in mind. I hope you get back into your Mandarin studies and hope you enjoy studying with us! 😊
I’ve been speaking Mandarin with my family but I’ve never learned how to read or write it. I ignored all my lessons when I was a kid. Just recently I realized how important it is for my heritage and family and I’ve lost much of my touch with Chinese over the years. I can barely keep up a conversation anymore except the basics. I decided to slowly start rebuilding my Chinese up again and your videos have really inspired and motivated me! 谢谢老师！
500 for basic communication（greetings,basic Q＆A）. 1000 for daily conversation.1500 for fluent daily conversation.Most native speaker like myself know 2000-4000 characters.But its more about putting them in contexts than simply knowing them.
2400 characters isnt enough at all (HSK 5), I know 3000 characters and often time I dont know words on Chinese drama, I am studying hsk 6 now to aim for 5000 characters
I don't know how many characters I've learned (maybe something near 500 or less), but I can comunicate with Chinese people on QQ, so it's true that you don't need to know like a huge ammount of characters for that :o
Yes, very nice. It is easier to remmember new characters when placed in two-character words. For instance i always mix 问 ＆ 间。 but when I see 问题， there is no hesitation because my brain recognize the 2-characters words.
True when you read, not when you write. On one hand it makes you more fluent, on the other hand you grow dependent on circumstances that may not always be met. What for instance if there's a line break between 问 and 题. Will you still be able to easily read them as a single word? Or will it disrupt your understanding of the whole sentence? It's not to say that there's no merit in picturing the word as a whole, it's even truer in Japanese where the pronunciation of the characters is heavily affected by the words they're in (like 部 in 部屋 and 全部). But at some point you need to be able to tell the characters apart without the whole words they appear in.
@@retroanim Yes I understand what you mean. Of course I have some problem like "应该" or "知道" where I recognize the word but not the characters so when I see 应 I am mix, I have to think, is this ying or gai... But if I see 该 it is easy cause I know it looks like 孩 which is hai, so gai is close. Nothing is perfect.
I like this video. Learning hànzì is a long way to go for a majority of English speaking people. It is like Japanese takes many years to learn Spanish which English speaking people take just a couple of years or so. On the other hand, the Japanese take just a few months to be able to acquire business level Chinese(pronunciation is not as hard as you think). Anyhow, discipline is the key to learn languages.
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You are a very best Teacher, Madam. I tried to learn on other channels before I don't know about your channel. But honestly your channel is the best.👍👍🙂🙂👌👌👌👌👍👍👍👍👍 Thank you very much.
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As a low intermediate, I totally agree with this video. I know most of the characters that I see. With a little help (to look up words I don't know), I can understand what people write and I can write to them in Chinese. Note that every language has the same problem: there is a core of around 800 most-common words, but less common words appear often. So it isn't realistic to "know every word you will see". But learning the most common characters in Chinese? That's a perfect strategy.
I have 312 characters organized on my notebook and another one with sentences. My goal is to get the 3000 characters or more. Since i started to get more information and write it, i can visualize sentences on my mind.
Yang yang, your channel is the best chinese learning channel or source I have come across during my studies. I started learning about 9 months ago, and if it weren't for you then I probably would've long given up. Now, I can speak very basic Chinese and understand a lot of written Chinese. Thank you. 谢谢你
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It's complicated. In English too we can have parts of words having their own meaning. For example, in the English word "redo" we have the prefix "re" and the root verb "do" and together they convey the meaning "do again". "Bicycle" is another example: it literally means "two (wheeled) cycle". The Chinese words for bicycle 自行车 and 脚踏车 mean "self moving vehicle" and "foot pedal vehicle", respectfully. But there are Chinese words that cannot be broken down this way. Traditionally every character had its own meaning but in modern Chinese some characters only represent sounds and a spoken word in Chinese would be represented by two characters that don't have meaning by themselves. This would be especially true for words like 咖啡 (coffee) and 咖喱 (curry) that were borrowed from other languages. Please correct me if I am wrong about this.
The chinese that ur talking about which cannot be broken down are more like "chinglish" or "chonglish". those words are meant to sound like english words since there is no direct translation for the word. For example the english word "calories" is written like 卡路里 (kaluli) which cannot be broken down or have a direct meaning. These are just pure memorization so it is quite hard to learn at first sight.
such as 尴尬, both of the characters should combine together to make the meaning of "embarrassing " Each of the two characters cannot stand independently in spoken or written chinese. if you look up into the chinese dictionary to look for the 尴 word, the dictionary will only tell you the meaning of that word when it combine with 尬, which is, 'embarrassing'
We're excited you are starting to learn this amazing language! Learning Chinese characters really reveals the beauty and logic of the language. But we recommend you first get a foundation for spoken Mandarin before you start to learn Chinese characters. It’s a lot easier to learn how to read and write when you already know the vocabulary and sounds the characters you are learning form. And it’s a lot easier to focus on your pronunciation and the basic grammar and vocabulary of spoken Mandarin when you aren’t also trying to memorize hundreds of characters. We recommend you first complete Level 1 of the Beginner Conversational Course before you start our Chinese Character Course I. At that point you’re ready to start learning these amazing characters! I hope you enjoy studying Mandarin with us!
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i am from India, and learning communicative Chinese from a near by center. I was scared of the language and was planning to leave it but your videos has encouraged me a lot. it helps me in getting the characters right. xie xie.
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I really enjoy the lessons provided by yoyo chinese but it would breat if you could provide some free lessons for those of us who can't afford to purchase the whole course as we would like to learn more characters... thanks. .. you are a very beautiful teacher!
You make learning Chinese easy and fun! I love language because it allows us to communicate with others, and think about things in another way! Think of how many people we can communicate with with a shared language opposed to people who don’t speak your language? It feels like a missed opportunity of getting to know someone. If you speak with someone in their native language, then you speak to their heart. And looking at China becoming an economic power, there’s no reason not to learn Chinese now, especially with the large population of Chinese people across the world, and building good relations between nations. :)
Thank you for this awesome comment Tony! I appreciate the positive feedback, and I love your enthusiasm about the language. You are totally right: when you can learn even the basics of this language, it is a huge opportunity to build better relationships - both personally and between nations. And there is really nothing like being able to communicate with someone in their native language. 加油 (jiā yóu)!
Im learning japanese language right now and its pretty much the same techniques when youre beginner, but in Japanese their are 2 readings in majority of the characters that youll need to get used how a word was written in Kanji , so I kinda came here if I can juggle 2 languages and it seems impossible for me. and im guessing mandarin will be kinda be a piece of cake when im done with japanese maybe in 2-4 years.
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these are amazing videos and very helpful thank you. and i plan to watch the whole series how to read and write in chinese.... if that could be in a playlist it would be amazing, not sure of the order since its been years but the videos are awesome
Hello Steven! I’m glad you like our videos! Here’s a playlist we made with some of our video lessons on Chinese characters: bit.ly/3fzlfFx You can find the full Chinese character course with ALL of our video lesson here: bit.ly/31ombpG Hope you enjoy learning Chinese with us! 😊
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im trying to learn Chinese and Korean. korean grammer is so easy for me cuz im speaking turkish and turkish grammer is same as korean. i think chinese is easy too when you learn this characters.. i will study hard and learn this language and you too! fighting
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The problem is remenber the correct characters in every word for example: laideji. Do I need to remenber by heart?.How no confuse the characters in every word. Thanks
I read, back in the early 1960s, about a Chinese character typewriter that had 3000 characters. I also heard that 4000 characters were required to be "functionally literate" and that a reasonably well-educated person should know over 6000 characters.
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I just want to understand the correlation between characters and the words so what's the point here learn characters or words I mean hsk levels or Learn characters .for example hsk 5,6 what is the amount of characters? 🤔
Characters each have meaning, and combine to form words. We recommend you first get a foundation for spoken Mandarin before you start to learn Chinese characters. It’s a lot easier to learn how to read and write when you already know the vocabulary and sounds the characters you are learning form. And it’s a lot easier to focus on your pronunciation and the basic grammar and vocabulary of spoken Mandarin when you aren’t also trying to memorize hundreds of characters. We recommend you first complete Level 1 of the Beginner Conversational Course before you start our Chinese Character Course I. At that point you’re ready to start learning these amazing characters! I hope you enjoy studying Mandarin with us!
Would you tell me please, how to boost memorized and how many words should learn daily basis. I was interested writing character while memorizing it then conversation in order to faster learning. Do you think it is the right way?
I’ve spent about 100,000 hours studying English humor and Western culture, and about 100,000 hours studying Chinese culture. My native language is Chinese. I teach Chinese language with humor and pictures. Hope you can recommend my videos to those who want to learn Chinese.
Anyway, thanks for this video. I get bored with conversational Chinese videos because I have been studying Chinese for almost 30 years now. I really need to improve my reading and writing: if I want to improve my listening and speaking it is better for me to just talk to someone. :)
Not nearly as monumental as you think! With just the most common 300 characters you can form 64% of all written Chinese, and the most common 600 characters form 80% of all written Chinese. That's a lot! It takes our students less than 1 year, studying only 30 minutes a day, to complete our 2 Chinese Character Courses and master these 600 characters. Then our Character Reader Course helps you make the jump from memorizing characters to reading full sentences and stories in Chinese! The first two units are free, so check it out and make your dream of learning to read Chinese come true: goo.gl/XcnV8r
You got this! If you're struggling to keep up in class, try practicing with our courses on YoyoChinese.com and you'll start soaring past your classmates. 💪
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Hi Amal! At YoyoChinese.com we currently have two fantastic courses teaching the 600 most commonly used Chinese characters, which is enough for you to be able to read over 80% of written Chinese! We also plan in the future to add content teaching many more characters. We also strongly recommend the Skritter app for learning Chinese characters! 😊👍🏼
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I'm malay, trying to learn chinese language. First though easy with starting learnt basic chinese, but when starting to grammar and merged words, try reading chinese newspaper. I felt read the nothing. At last, i said stop. Now trying to get mood to start with.
We recommend you first get a foundation for spoken Mandarin before you start to learn Chinese characters. It’s a lot easier to learn how to read and write when you already know the vocabulary and sounds the characters you are learning form. And it’s a lot easier to focus on your pronunciation and the basic grammar and vocabulary of spoken Mandarin when you aren’t also trying to memorize hundreds of characters. We recommend you first complete Level 2 of the Beginner Conversational Course before you start our Chinese Character Course I. At that point you have enough of a foundation for the language to start learning characters, and it will help you remember new vocabulary as you continue in the conversational courses.
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What job's can i get
Hi Teacher, you missed out on an interesting point, I am not a Chinese, nevertheless I learnt my mandarin in the 1980s when we never had your superb talent neither the You tube then. You are certainly the best teacher in the world. I'd never forget when I learnt the characters 'ming bai' (Understand) came from 'ming' derived from 're' and 'yue' sun and moon in combination becomes 'ming' (bright) and 'Chong Ming' as wise. This is the precise reason I loved mandarin characters.
I studied korean and Chinese.
Korean is easy at first and gets hard.
Mandarin is hard at first then gets easy, trust me. It is just like that.
It really does get exponentially easier the more you learn!
True.i started study korean first but gave up.i avoid Chinese first but now I can grasp it easily
That's the truth.
자자 Hi
why korea is hard later?
I know a 50 years old Man from The domincan republic who started to Learn mandarín at The age of 48, first he learnt pinyin and now at The age of 50 he can speak fluently and can also write hanzi using more than 3000 characters, so, i think we also can make it.
I love inspiring stories like this! We have students in their 80s learning Chinese. Anyone can learn this amazing language!
Damn xD
Dominicans are amazing!!
I started learning three days ago. I like it that you don't have worry about alphabets and grammar too much in write, you just go straight to learning words and memorizing.
@@siart2001 I only worry about tones 😌 I can memorize characters...
People think Chinese is intimidating because it looks completely different from what they're used to. "There's no WAY I can learn 3,000 Chinese characters.. You're crazy!" But if you think about it, how many words does the average person have in their vocabulary? Just a different way of thinking is all.
Eric Davis 3000 characters are the level of the normal primary school students
To me 3000 characters are not unfathomable. However 3000^2 words you can build with them... It's much too learn and you do need to learn them as it is not like you automatically know what one or another combination of known characters might result in.
@@miloradowicz I mean in Chinese each character in itself is a morpheme. In English, each word can be composed of many morphemes. So learning each Chinese character is like learning the different English morphemes like in "unfathomable". Un before the word means not and able after means able. Quite similar to the Chinese as described in the video.
Y'all have no idea how encouraging it is to read your comments!
I know your comment is three years old, but the issue is that in phonetic languages, you have to memorize 26,28 or more letters and you'll be able to to read any article or book even though you don't understand, and the more you learn, your vocabulary will get better... But in Chinese, I think every word, (or most of them,?!) is written differently.... This is why, it's hard to learn it.. I believe even Chinese people can't understand their literature, most of them..
i am a chinese don't know why am I watching this...But the explanation is very clear and easy to understand!
you watch this and learn English lol
😂😂😂....
Love from India
I can’t believe how far Mandarin instruction has advanced. I studied it in the late 90s and now the content on youtube is like a thousand times better than my formal education ever was. I should pick it up again.
We've come a long way from the traditional methods of teaching Chinese, and our curriculum in particular is designed with non-native speakers in mind. I hope you get back into your Mandarin studies and hope you enjoy studying with us! 😊
your probably the best Chinese learning page thank you for the time you take to reach is
Keke Seay hi friends you are welcome 😘😍
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I’ve been speaking Mandarin with my family but I’ve never learned how to read or write it. I ignored all my lessons when I was a kid. Just recently I realized how important it is for my heritage and family and I’ve lost much of my touch with Chinese over the years. I can barely keep up a conversation anymore except the basics. I decided to slowly start rebuilding my Chinese up again and your videos have really inspired and motivated me! 谢谢老师！
500 for basic communication（greetings,basic Q＆A）. 1000 for daily conversation.1500 for fluent daily conversation.Most native speaker like myself know 2000-4000 characters.But its more about putting them in contexts than simply knowing them.
The polyglot Steve Kauffmann says that in Chinese you need at least 15,000 to get an advanced level. Other languages require more that 50,000.
I think more than the characters understanding Chinese is more difficult. Do you have any tips on that?
2400 characters isnt enough at all (HSK 5), I know 3000 characters and often time I dont know words on Chinese drama, I am studying hsk 6 now to aim for 5000 characters
I don't know how many characters I've learned (maybe something near 500 or less), but I can comunicate with Chinese people on QQ, so it's true that you don't need to know like a huge ammount of characters for that :o
Whats QQ?
@@piked774 it's app for chinese people
@@piked774 its like a texting app in china
.你真是一位非常棒的老师，一定比其他的在线教中文课的老师讲得好得多，我只想给你鼓励一下，你作的视频很有帮助，谢谢！.
Yes, very nice. It is easier to remmember new characters when placed in two-character words. For instance i always mix 问 ＆ 间。 but when I see 问题， there is no hesitation because my brain recognize the 2-characters words.
True when you read, not when you write. On one hand it makes you more fluent, on the other hand you grow dependent on circumstances that may not always be met. What for instance if there's a line break between 问 and 题. Will you still be able to easily read them as a single word? Or will it disrupt your understanding of the whole sentence? It's not to say that there's no merit in picturing the word as a whole, it's even truer in Japanese where the pronunciation of the characters is heavily affected by the words they're in (like 部 in 部屋 and 全部). But at some point you need to be able to tell the characters apart without the whole words they appear in.
@@retroanim Yes I understand what you mean. Of course I have some problem like "应该" or "知道" where I recognize the word but not the characters so when I see 应 I am mix, I have to think, is this ying or gai... But if I see 该 it is easy cause I know it looks like 孩 which is hai, so gai is close. Nothing is perfect.
I like this video. Learning hànzì is a long way to go for a majority of English speaking people. It is like Japanese takes many years to learn Spanish which English speaking people take just a couple of years or so. On the other hand, the Japanese take just a few months to be able to acquire business level Chinese(pronunciation is not as hard as you think). Anyhow, discipline is the key to learn languages.
Thank you for the positive feedback! Discipline is key, but it's also important to have the right approach! We recommend students first get a foundation for spoken Mandarin before you start to learn Chinese characters. It’s a lot easier to learn how to read and write when you already know the vocabulary and sounds the characters you are learning form. And it’s a lot easier to focus on your pronunciation and the basic grammar and vocabulary of spoken Mandarin when you aren’t also trying to memorize hundreds of characters.
Hi Yoyo, i have bought three courses from you and now I am working on the upper intermediate course. Well thanks for your hard work, i learned a lot and your courses are great
That’s so awesome! So glad you are enjoying learning Chinese with us. Keep up the great work! 加油 (jiā yóu)!
You are a very best Teacher, Madam. I tried to learn on other channels before I don't know about your channel.
But honestly your channel is the best.👍👍🙂🙂👌👌👌👌👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you very much.
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As a low intermediate, I totally agree with this video. I know most of the characters that I see. With a little help (to look up words I don't know), I can understand what people write and I can write to them in Chinese. Note that every language has the same problem: there is a core of around 800 most-common words, but less common words appear often. So it isn't realistic to "know every word you will see". But learning the most common characters in Chinese? That's a perfect strategy.
i think this system you are teaching here will be very helpful to all
thanx
I have 312 characters organized on my notebook and another one with sentences. My goal is to get the 3000 characters or more. Since i started to get more information and write it, i can visualize sentences on my mind.
你好，说明你的汉语水平已经很不错了，加油！
I need the translation in English
Love from India💗💗💗🙏🏻💗💗💗 I'll take your teachings seriously and learn atleast 100 words in Chinese, today!!😄😁
Yang yang, your channel is the best chinese learning channel or source I have come across during my studies. I started learning about 9 months ago, and if it weren't for you then I probably would've long given up. Now, I can speak very basic Chinese and understand a lot of written Chinese. Thank you. 谢谢你
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You know the best way to make it easy!! so happy that we all have you💕
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Thank you so much. Your lessons are easy to understand :)
It's complicated. In English too we can have parts of words having their own meaning. For example, in the English word "redo" we have the prefix "re" and the root verb "do" and together they convey the meaning "do again". "Bicycle" is another example: it literally means "two (wheeled) cycle". The Chinese words for bicycle 自行车 and 脚踏车 mean "self moving vehicle" and "foot pedal vehicle", respectfully. But there are Chinese words that cannot be broken down this way. Traditionally every character had its own meaning but in modern Chinese some characters only represent sounds and a spoken word in Chinese would be represented by two characters that don't have meaning by themselves. This would be especially true for words like 咖啡 (coffee) and 咖喱 (curry) that were borrowed from other languages. Please correct me if I am wrong about this.
The chinese that ur talking about which cannot be broken down are more like "chinglish" or "chonglish". those words are meant to sound like english words since there is no direct translation for the word. For example the english word "calories" is written like 卡路里 (kaluli) which cannot be broken down or have a direct meaning. These are just pure memorization so it is quite hard to learn at first sight.
such as 尴尬, both of the characters should combine together to make the meaning of "embarrassing "
Each of the two characters cannot stand independently in spoken or written chinese.
if you look up into the chinese dictionary to look for the 尴 word, the dictionary will only tell you the meaning of that word when it combine with 尬, which is, 'embarrassing'
I'm 17 yo,been learning Chinese for a week.at first,I didn't intend to learn how to write,but u opened my mind.
We're excited you are starting to learn this amazing language! Learning Chinese characters really reveals the beauty and logic of the language. But we recommend you first get a foundation for spoken Mandarin before you start to learn Chinese characters.
It’s a lot easier to learn how to read and write when you already know the vocabulary and sounds the characters you are learning form. And it’s a lot easier to focus on your pronunciation and the basic grammar and vocabulary of spoken Mandarin when you aren’t also trying to memorize hundreds of characters.
We recommend you first complete Level 1 of the Beginner Conversational Course before you start our Chinese Character Course I. At that point you’re ready to start learning these amazing characters!
I hope you enjoy studying Mandarin with us!
Your name!!!! XD!!!
You are a good teacher .
I love to learn Chinese only with you because you explain well and clearly .
❤️
Thank you! I’m very glad you are finding our lessons helpful! If you like the way we teach Chinese, be sure to check out our online platform at www.YoyoChinese.com! 😊
i am from India, and learning communicative Chinese from a near by center. I was scared of the language and was planning to leave it but your videos has encouraged me a lot. it helps me in getting the characters right. xie xie.
love your ways ..I finally understand , Chinese means basic words visualizing the letters
I would love it if u made more of the pingyin videos, thank u ; - ;
Check out Level 1 of our Beginner Conversational Course. It's free, and it is like a mini-course in Chinese pronunciation, tones, and basic vocabulary and grammar: goo.gl/JTGNNs
Love the word ..exponential...! Sounds encouraging!
Thank you so much, I love it. It makes me the light to be able to speak Chinese in my lifetime.
You really can learn this language! If you like the sample lessons here on our RUclips channel, you can sign up on our website and try the first 20 lessons of the Beginner Conversational Course for free to see if you want to study with us. Start here with Lesson 1: goo.gl/JTGNNs
I am 14 years old and i want to learn chinese...😊😀 i can speak a little bit of chinese enough to fool my friends....😅
Same 🤣🤣😅
Haha I do that too!
好
YoyoChinese is the best thing that has happened to me
Thank you for this kind comment... we really take it to heart, and are glad you are enjoying studying Chinese with us! 加油 (jiā yóu)! 💖
Best chinese teacher so far. ❤
Thank you for the kind comment! I hope you enjoy studying Chinese with us! 😊
@Marianie Escanuela mao jud
You're the best Chinese teacher ever! : )
I really enjoy the lessons provided by yoyo chinese but it would breat if you could provide some free lessons for those of us who can't afford to purchase the whole course as we would like to learn more characters... thanks. .. you are a very beautiful teacher!
OMG!!! that's fantastic....Yoyo is the best of the best! I can't wait seeing more Chinese character course..
Answer, all of them
Wow excellent massage very nice class thanks you
THANK YOU VERY MUCH
不客气 (bù kè qì) - you’re welcome! I hope you enjoy studying Chinese with us! 😊
Thank you , I really want to learn this
Excellent
Good video for leaning Chinese
好视频
Thank you for the positive feedback... I really appreciate it!
You make learning Chinese easy and fun! I love language because it allows us to communicate with others, and think about things in another way! Think of how many people we can communicate with with a shared language opposed to people who don’t speak your language? It feels like a missed opportunity of getting to know someone. If you speak with someone in their native language, then you speak to their heart.
And looking at China becoming an economic power, there’s no reason not to learn Chinese now, especially with the large population of Chinese people across the world, and building good relations between nations. :)
Thank you for this awesome comment Tony! I appreciate the positive feedback, and I love your enthusiasm about the language. You are totally right: when you can learn even the basics of this language, it is a huge opportunity to build better relationships - both personally and between nations. And there is really nothing like being able to communicate with someone in their native language. 加油 (jiā yóu)!
Thankbyou so much! I really love this series
Im learning japanese language right now and its pretty much the same techniques when youre beginner, but in Japanese their are 2 readings in majority of the characters that youll need to get used how a word was written in Kanji , so I kinda came here if I can juggle 2 languages and it seems impossible for me. and im guessing mandarin will be kinda be a piece of cake when im done with japanese maybe in 2-4 years.
When you are ready to learn Mandarin, our lessons will be here for you!
This chick is legit! Thanks Yoyo!
不客气 (bù kè qì)! 😊
You explain so clear! Thank youu
Thank you for the positive feedback! Learning Mandarin is a lot easier (and more fun) if you get good explanations of everything. I hope you enjoy studying Chinese with us!
these are amazing videos and very helpful thank you. and i plan to watch the whole series how to read and write in chinese.... if that could be in a playlist it would be amazing, not sure of the order since its been years but the videos are awesome
Hello Steven! I’m glad you like our videos! Here’s a playlist we made with some of our video lessons on Chinese characters: bit.ly/3fzlfFx
You can find the full Chinese character course with ALL of our video lesson here: bit.ly/31ombpG
Hope you enjoy learning Chinese with us! 😊
This video is amazing! So informative and useful. Thanks
Thank you for the positive feedback! I'm glad you found our lessons and are enjoying learning Chinese characters with us. Check out the first two units of the course for free and see if you want to go through the whole Chinese Character Course: goo.gl/jpn7Bi
Yoyo Chinese thank you. I've just started the beginners course, going well so far.
I'm so glad you are starting the Beginner Conversational Course! When you reach Level 2, it's a good time to also start studying the Chinese characters. I hope you enjoy learning Mandarin with us! 加油 (jiā yóu)!
im trying to learn Chinese and Korean.
korean grammer is so easy for me cuz im speaking turkish and turkish grammer is same as korean. i think chinese is easy too when you learn this characters.. i will study hard and learn this language and you too! fighting
Can u maybe like making ur own online academy or something? I finished the series so I'm looking at ur other pinyin stuff
There are 1,000+ video lessons on our website, YoyoChinese.com, organized into 6 structured courses that build up your skills in the right order… with tons of great review features (including 10,000+ flashcards and quiz questions!). 🚀
Sign up now and check it out: goo.gl/XcnV8r
Thanks! This is awesome.
This is so helpful. I love this !!!
You have already solved my problem
The problem is remenber the correct characters in every word for example: laideji. Do I need to remenber by heart?.How no confuse the characters in every word.
Thanks
Thanks a lot, teacher!!!
Can’t wait to start learning Chinese 😊
Thank you 🙏🏼 🌷🌷🌷
不客气 (bù kè qì) - you’re welcome! 😊
I read, back in the early 1960s, about a Chinese character typewriter that had 3000 characters. I also heard that 4000 characters were required to be "functionally literate" and that a reasonably well-educated person should know over 6000 characters.
Thank you
Awesome video.i find all your videos so very helpful... 谢谢你
Thank you for the kind comment! We're glad you are having fun studying Chinese with us! If you like these videos on RUclips, I hope you'll also check out the comprehensive courses on our website www.yoyochinese.com! 😊
Thank you this is really helpful for me 😘😘
Her red dress is so beautiful
I really enjoy your videos.. thanks😍
Thank you for the positive feedback! If you like the sample lessons here on our RUclips channel, you can sign up on our website and try the first lessons of any for free to see if you want to study with us: www.yoyochinese.com
Everything of china is very unique and fascinating.....including its language
I hope you enjoy studying with us!
I just want to understand the correlation between characters and the words so what's the point here learn characters or words I mean hsk levels or Learn characters .for example hsk 5,6 what is the amount of characters? 🤔
Characters each have meaning, and combine to form words. We recommend you first get a foundation for spoken Mandarin before you start to learn Chinese characters.
It’s a lot easier to learn how to read and write when you already know the vocabulary and sounds the characters you are learning form. And it’s a lot easier to focus on your pronunciation and the basic grammar and vocabulary of spoken Mandarin when you aren’t also trying to memorize hundreds of characters.
We recommend you first complete Level 1 of the Beginner Conversational Course before you start our Chinese Character Course I. At that point you’re ready to start learning these amazing characters!
I hope you enjoy studying Mandarin with us!
For more information on preparing for the HSK exam, check out this post: bit.ly/2CRGXnD
You're the best!
Thank you for the positive feedback... I really appreciate it!
Would you tell me please, how to boost memorized and how many words should learn daily basis. I was interested writing character while memorizing it then conversation in order to faster learning. Do you think it is the right way?
I’ve spent about 100,000 hours studying English humor and Western culture, and about 100,000 hours studying Chinese culture. My native language is Chinese. I teach Chinese language with humor and pictures.
Hope you can recommend my videos to those who want to learn Chinese.
Nice! You help alot!
Anyway, thanks for this video. I get bored with conversational Chinese videos because I have been studying Chinese for almost 30 years now. I really need to improve my reading and writing: if I want to improve my listening and speaking it is better for me to just talk to someone. :)
I love your videos! greetings from Colombia
无意间看到这个视频，觉得您讲得非常清楚
如果我不是母语者可能就会想学中文了吧hhhh
Hi yoyo Chinese, I am from India
你好(nǐ hǎo)! :)
Chinese characters have tone information like in chinese pinyin?
You're Awesome.
good job
好喜欢你Yoyo🙋😄
I realy want to learn Mandarian...
We just made Level 1 of our Beginner Conversational Course free as part of our new #StayHome Pricing. Start here with Lesson 1: goo.gl/JTGNNs
Thx for making us smart my mom always teach me too
感觉中文里最容易的就是汉字。发音好复杂😅😅😅 我学中文学了三年，感觉没学够😅😅 my friend said: « Life is too short to speak chinese fluently > lol! 大家加油吧！
How can I purchase your complete video set?
We're glad you are enjoying studying Chinese with us! You can purchase our full courses on our website here: bit.ly/2IznZEk
@@YoyoChinese look ma'am..I couldnt make an account in your website it does not open.
Can you. Please help me about this?
If you had trouble signing up, please click the blue chat icon on the website to talk to our support team, or send an email to info@yoyochinese.com.
明白 is míng bai (neutral).
You're my beautiful teacher, Yang Yang.
A monumental task.
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Not nearly as monumental as you think! With just the most common 300 characters you can form 64% of all written Chinese, and the most common 600 characters form 80% of all written Chinese. That's a lot!
It takes our students less than 1 year, studying only 30 minutes a day, to complete our 2 Chinese Character Courses and master these 600 characters. Then our Character Reader Course helps you make the jump from memorizing characters to reading full sentences and stories in Chinese!
The first two units are free, so check it out and make your dream of learning to read Chinese come true: goo.gl/XcnV8r
我是美国人，我在学校学习中文。我不知道多中文字，我喜欢你的教训。谢谢!
MaceMan Sounds great! you can write these characters, but it might be better to say 教导 or 教学 than 教训. Haha, hope it can help.
MaceMan 教训 means “lesson” in "teach you a lesson". 教学 means “lesson” in "lesson 1/2/3..." or "teaching".
Thank you very much, I'll be sure to use this in the future!
MaceMan 我是美国人，我在学校学习中文。我不认识很多汉字，我喜欢你的教学。谢谢！
We’re gonna learn this in schools 😗✌️💔
You got this! If you're struggling to keep up in class, try practicing with our courses on YoyoChinese.com and you'll start soaring past your classmates. 💪
您是好老师 我爱你💖💕💕💕
我爱你, 谢谢
我正在学中文在Illinois大学， 我认为听力是最难的。
Our conversational courses might help you with that! If you like the sample lessons here on our RUclips channel, you can sign up on our website and try the first 20 lessons of the Beginner Conversational Course for free to see if you want to study with us. Start here with Lesson 1: goo.gl/JTGNNs
Yoyo Chinese thank you I will check it out
Denzel Brown 认真去增加你的词汇量，你听力会越来越好
I wish you will make englishsub, because I am VietNamese people , I can't hear clearly . Thank you yoyo chinese!
There are English subtitles! Click the "CC" button to turn them on!
@@YoyoChinese oh I forgot it.Thanks a lot! ^_^
How about the board baing?
Is there any app from where I can learn all the characters??
Hi Amal! At YoyoChinese.com we currently have two fantastic courses teaching the 600 most commonly used Chinese characters, which is enough for you to be able to read over 80% of written Chinese! We also plan in the future to add content teaching many more characters. We also strongly recommend the Skritter app for learning Chinese characters! 😊👍🏼
This is gonna be awesome
VERY HARD TO LEARN CHINESE CHARACTER BUT VERY EASY TO SPEAK.
Maybe our course can help making learning Chinese characters easier (and more fun!), with these video lessons, interactive flashcards, quizzes and more! Start here with Lesson 1: goo.gl/jpn7Bi
Is this simplified Chinese or Traditional?
simplified
I'm malay, trying to learn chinese language. First though easy with starting learnt basic chinese, but when starting to grammar and merged words, try reading chinese newspaper. I felt read the nothing. At last, i said stop. Now trying to get mood to start with.
We recommend you first get a foundation for spoken Mandarin before you start to learn Chinese characters.
It’s a lot easier to learn how to read and write when you already know the vocabulary and sounds the characters you are learning form. And it’s a lot easier to focus on your pronunciation and the basic grammar and vocabulary of spoken Mandarin when you aren’t also trying to memorize hundreds of characters.
We recommend you first complete Level 2 of the Beginner Conversational Course before you start our Chinese Character Course I. At that point you have enough of a foundation for the language to start learning characters, and it will help you remember new vocabulary as you continue in the conversational courses.
I am Chinese too
thank you so much ,I like your English and videos.I'm Malaysian.
I enjoy your lessons , I find you to be most Beautiful Teacher , I wish I were 40 years younger ,
you pronounced ren... differently :') not sure if its a different dialect. but good video! thank you for sharing