There are also a lot of measure words in English, for example, when describing a group of animals in Chinese, we just use "群" ，like一群羊，一群鸟，but in English ，we say "a herb of sheep","a flock of birds","a school of fish","a swarm of bees","a pack of wolves","a pride of lions".😃
You're seriously the best! Your way of explanation is so clear and you make it easy. I'm glad i found your channel after searching for so long. I hope you will make more videos in the future!
i'm brazilian and i just started learning chinese, your channel seem's to have great content and it will be a wonderful tool for my learning, thank you so much dude
For example I have no idea what kind of classifier is 只 but I know that it's used before 猫 because of sentences I've practiced with, so I assume animals have 只 as their classifier. I do the same thing with tones I don't study tones for each word, I just remember them automatically after reading or hearing sentences
Not really though, but I guess it depends on the perspective. To me it's just a very logical and systemic language, and studying it has proven to be easier than I imagined. I procrastinated starting to study it for 7 years just because of people saying it was hard.
东 > East 东面 > East(东), (面)= face, side > (direction) 东边 > similar to 东面, (边)= side , interchangeable with 东面 东部 > Eastern, (部)=section, part, department 东部地区 > Eastern area, (地)= place in here, (区)= district, (地区)= district or area 东方 > Eastern, oriental (方)=direction
The comparison between the 'measure words' in English vs in Chinese is not exactly clear to me as a speaker to both languages. In English when you say 2 plates of bananas, the plates here are the actual containers of the bananas instead of being a grammatical add-on to the phrase. The measures words in modern Chinese that are associated with nouns is very similar to the concept of gender of nouns in most indo-european languages (keep in mind that some languages have more than 3 types of genders for nouns)
@@ChineseGrammarSimplified wow that list is hilarious though 🤣 I don't know most of those words, some sound archaic to me, except a few common ones like a nest, herd, swarm, colony, flock. Some sound really crazy to me, like "a business of ferrets" or "a murder of crows"
There's no reason to be afraid of measure words. They go in a specific place, so when you hear a number, or 这, you know you're about to hear a measure word. If you know it, it might help you recognize the noun. If you don't, you're no worse off. When speaking, you can help the listener the same way if you know a good measure word, but if not you can use 个.
I am not good in English... I find his way great to explain... May be because you are an American native this is why it looks not effective for you... I hope you did understand what I mean. 😀😀
I learned about present continuous in korean before I remembered I learned it in English 😂. English comes natural to me as an native. I don't think of these building blocks of language when I speak my language but I must think of them as I learn other languages, so now I must compare in order to understand. One must understand GRAMMAR structure of one's language to understand GRAMMAR of ones target language. Basically, how are you going to learn someone else language when you don't know your own???????????????? Twin cities obviously Targets ENGLISH SPEAKERS WHO DESIRE TO LEARN CHINESE.
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There are also a lot of measure words in English, for example, when describing a group of animals in Chinese, we just use "群" ，like一群羊，一群鸟，but in English ，we say "a herb of sheep","a flock of birds","a school of fish","a swarm of bees","a pack of wolves","a pride of lions".😃
I'm a beginner. I think this is an excellent lesson. Cause you use pictures so it makes the Chinese language easy to understand. Thank you very much.
Very nice- I think illustrating the concept by talking about English measure words is really good. Haven't seen this done before- really useful!
You're seriously the best!
Your way of explanation is so clear and you make it easy. I'm glad i found your channel after searching for so long. I hope you will make more videos in the future!
Your videos are so underrated. You deserve more views and subs
you really make this very easy to understand! Thanks!!
i'm brazilian and i just started learning chinese, your channel seem's to have great content and it will be a wonderful tool for my learning, thank you so much dude
The best explanation I have seen! Especially the last part, I didn't know about using MW with verbs.
Your videos are very helpful.please upload more often.
非常好！
Your explanations are so clear and logical. Please keep doing more videos!
Twin Cities Chinese Tutor is the RUclips channel making putōnghuà the easy way to learn and understand. 👏
Thank you!
I agree, this channel is so underrated, like all the channels that use an animated hand to draw things 😢
Thanks for explaining. Your videos are entertaining and enlightening. You're doing a really good job.
"We not only have measure words for nouns, we also have measure words for verbs!"
Me: *dies inside*
*crying noises*
It's easy. Just don't study measure words by themselves, study sentences that contain them.
For example I have no idea what kind of classifier is 只 but I know that it's used before 猫 because of sentences I've practiced with, so I assume animals have 只 as their classifier.
I do the same thing with tones I don't study tones for each word, I just remember them automatically after reading or hearing sentences
老师的解释太好了！ 中英文的发音都无可挑剔！
Your videos is awesome ❤️❤️
Thank you! Youre videos are amazing! Good job!
Very nice, I from your video can learn more, thank you.
You are the best, just what I needed
Nice explanation
excellent explanation
Thanks, very informative
很好，谢谢啊！😄 非常棒
Wow, your telling is so help me....thanks!
Great job sir thanks, now I understand the meaning of measuring words in Chinese, like from deep ocean 😀 👌 by your kindly and quality teaching
分かりやすいですね
量词 【Liàngcí】 Measure Word, Classifier (in Chinese grammar)
Xiè xie. Thank you. 👍👍👍
What i learned
shui
水=water
hello riyshad
Can you do a video on the sentence structure shi.....de ?
*In Spanish we do say things like "Bebí dos aguas." (I drank two waters.).... It's kinda funny. xd*
真是妙极了 💙😇
Yusssssssss I get it!!! Thank you
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If you don't know which one to use, you can use "个"
Like the language isn't already complicated enough.
Actually, Chinese grammar is usually simple. The main problem is that it is so different. But the characters are tough to learn. I'll give you that.
Not really though, but I guess it depends on the perspective.
To me it's just a very logical and systemic language, and studying it has proven to be easier than I imagined. I procrastinated starting to study it for 7 years just because of people saying it was hard.
how is your journey with chinese going? @@sasino
It will be good if you bring the videos of the common measure words and their simplification 😃
Thank you, I might make a part 2 of the measure words video later.
Welcome sir
很好
Is there an exhaustive list of those measure words somewhere, along with their meanings and usages?
employees.csbsju.edu/hjakubowski/classes/ChinaStudyAbroad/list_of_chinese_measure_words.htm
Wikipedia :DD
Dear Author, if you could make a sheet of exaples of those measure words, I would appriciate you!
studycli.org/learn-chinese/chinese-measure-words/
Hi, can you please explain how to distinguish 东面 东边 东部 东部地区 东方？
东 > East
东面 > East(东), (面)= face, side > (direction)
东边 > similar to 东面, (边)= side , interchangeable with 东面
东部 > Eastern, (部)=section, part, department
东部地区 > Eastern area, (地)= place in here, (区)= district, (地区)= district or area
东方 > Eastern, oriental (方)=direction
A big thank you! @@wesleeFEZ
Make more videos please
What’s the Chinese Measure Word for Stone?
Kuai. Yi kuai shi tou.
To complement the above answer: 一块石头
+ at 5:15 it says droped, not dropped
sorry
@@ChineseGrammarSimplified it is ok!
What about duplication of measure words?
ok
I'm curious now, does such thing exist
You could watch the recent Chinese réduplication video, the measure words actually can be reduplicated.
Please upload 2 videos every week , do you have any paid service ??
我看了一个车？
我看了一辆车！
都可以。😍
一台車也可以喔
口语中有时候可以用“一个车”，但是听着比较怪，书面不能用“个”， 而用“量”或“台”
个 is the universal classifier but it doesn't sound natural in every case
口语都可以
No really, at least in Mainland China, only 一辆车 would be considered grammatically correct. We don't really say 一台车 in mainland.
what would 沙发的量词 be?
一 张 沙发
The comparison between the 'measure words' in English vs in Chinese is not exactly clear to me as a speaker to both languages. In English when you say 2 plates of bananas, the plates here are the actual containers of the bananas instead of being a grammatical add-on to the phrase. The measures words in modern Chinese that are associated with nouns is very similar to the concept of gender of nouns in most indo-european languages (keep in mind that some languages have more than 3 types of genders for nouns)
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As a native speaker of Italian which has "gender" for nouns, I disagree, the concept is not the same 😐
@@ChineseGrammarSimplified wow that list is hilarious though 🤣
I don't know most of those words, some sound archaic to me, except a few common ones like a nest, herd, swarm, colony, flock.
Some sound really crazy to me, like "a business of ferrets" or "a murder of crows"
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@@danielribeiro2869 You should say 非常感谢 or十分感谢 if you wanna say Thank you very much
There's no reason to be afraid of measure words. They go in a specific place, so when you hear a number, or 这, you know you're about to hear a measure word. If you know it, it might help you recognize the noun. If you don't, you're no worse off. When speaking, you can help the listener the same way if you know a good measure word, but if not you can use 个.
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@@ChineseGrammarSimplified sir pls don't stop making videos like that
I have confusion about S + 中+ 了。它是什么意思呢？
Can you give an example?
@@ChineseGrammarSimplified like.. 我中了
@@陈瑞娜 中 (zhong4) is a verb. Its meaning includes:
to hit (the mark)
to be hit by
to suffer
to win (a prize, a lottery)
@@ChineseGrammarSimplified ok, i get it. thanks!
The one hundreth like 👍
but it would be better if you just show the use of all the difficult measure words
Can you tell me more? What measure words do you find difficult?
Who is here learning chinese at grade 10th 🤔🤔
Envolope XDDDD
I know, sorry about the typos.
You teaching English more than Chinese, that confused
I am glad that you are at least learning something from it. ;-)
I am not good in English... I find his way great to explain... May be because you are an American native this is why it looks not effective for you... I hope you did understand what I mean. 😀😀
I learned about present continuous in korean before I remembered I learned it in English 😂. English comes natural to me as an native. I don't think of these building blocks of language when I speak my language but I must think of them as I learn other languages, so now I must compare in order to understand.
One must understand GRAMMAR structure of one's language to understand GRAMMAR of ones target language.
Basically, how are you going to learn someone else language when you don't know your own????????????????
Twin cities obviously Targets ENGLISH SPEAKERS WHO DESIRE TO LEARN CHINESE.
If something is a countable noun, loosely speaking, "个" can be used in front of any noun if you don't know what the measure word of the noun is
My professor says it's also referred to as "the peasant's classifier" lol.