Studied it for 5 years but yet I have to come back here. I have had so many different teachers with different accents that I am so confused to the point of avoiding to speak at all
no need to mind that too much I think.... their accents stem from the dialects. Even if I am Chinese, many Chinese dialects are like foreign languages for me. Imitate the accent of Chinese hosts. That's surely authentic.
@@zhengliu924 there are really word that i'm confuse when pronouncing it because i think some of the first letter in chinese word became different from it's spelling or maybe it wasn't really change that it was just because of the pronouncing
@@o_o9220 Actually I didn't understand your mening well. What is the problem of the first letter of Chinese word when you're spelling? Definitely, every Chinese letter(pinyin ) has constant pronunciation. You just need combine the first letter and the following for pronouncing. But the same word may have various pronunciation.
I am from albania and it is super helpful, albanian has all of the chinese sounds such as sh , zh , ts , x etc. Everything , it gives you an advantage in every language out there.
A minute in and I just want to commend you on the script and presentation of this video. Really clean flow that accompanies you on the journey from point A, to B, to C etc. while moving at a decent pace that is both vigorous and laid back.
@nehem but it's at least consistent, so once you remember all of the rules you'll be able to pronounce just any word correctly without having heard of it before
My wife and I work very hard on our mandarin,this video is a top one to keep. We askes ourselves there is so many teachers who teach mandarin,but we try to find mandarin chinese peoples to exchange language english for mandarin and it is not easy,even hard to find them,yes everybody study very hard,but what about speaking,talking, this video is extremely helpful and one of the best,but we need to talk and use it
This is an amazingly helpful video, especially how to make the various sounds not found in English. Thank you. My biggest issue is with Ping Ying as it is not accurate so often to a native English speaker (and I was an English teacher). While it can be helpful often, after studying it for only 2 months it can be very confusing. I'm not giving up but who ever thought of it should have used phonetics. Your explanation for the "ch" sound is such godsend. It is so helpful at this stage in my study.
Really good as you use IPA symbols to explain the sounds, so it's quite helpful, but just a bit challenging for beginners especially in trying to copy the sound as it is done fast. Oh well, I'm a slow learner. Hahaha! Over all, it's really great and thanks!
@@xiuyuechang2122 yes! hi yourself. I'm slugging but persevering. I'm learning to sing songs in Chinese and doing ear training with this channel Slow & Clear Chinese. Pretty lucid!
I recommend learning Chinese as having English, Chinese, and Spanish will help very much, but when learning Chinese please understand and learn tones and single letters first, because none beginners will jump ahead only to learning basics however there are tones that will change your meanings completely as you could say I’m shitting your umbrella instead of I love you which is “我爱你！” anyways that won’t really happen with those characters, but will happen to changing it. Mandarin is great and as a native born Chinese I have lived outside of my country but I’m getting better with my mandarin again sooo I recommend but it’s a struggle and I hope you can put up with that haha! For learning I recommend PPtutor, that’s where my moms friend recommended her Chinese daughter and told my mom and said it would be great for me too since we’ve been finding one forever!
Hi teacher. Nice to meet you. I have seen some of your videos. I'd love them. I love English and Chinese languages. I hope I can have your videos. Thank you very much.
Wanted to strengthen the basics of knowledge. But there many things are not said rightly. For other people who is studying, give a look at those moments Like: 13:05 "o" actually is "uo" sound. And only bo,mo,po,fo is pronouncing as buo,puo,muo,fuo. b,p,m,f also change pron-n of peng,beng,meng,feng 18:17 "e" better explain as russian "ы"+"э" sounds, in english there is no equal sound at all. i mean "e" that is in ke, she etc 19:44 in "uan" "a" pronounced like yEn too after j,q,x,y 22:50 "iu" actually is i(o)u, "un" is u(e)n, also "ui" also is u(e)i 29:57 "ri" with 4th tone is something really special in chinese, because it has absolutely anothe pron-n in compare with other "r" sounds in chinese. and something very special too that i cant found in any video, when you pronouncing yün,xün,qün,jün there is secret short [i] sound after ü.
@@sleezzzyp i think the video explained it as best as it could for people who want to learn chinese and have english as their native tongue, who also have no linguistic knowledge like the IPA (international phonetic alphabet). i am a german native speaker so some sounds like ü are natural for me, i also have linguistic experience so i can understand and translate some phonetics. but when your language does not really have the vowels or consonants and you are just someone who wants to learn the language, you simply have to work with whats already there, which is similar pronunciations in your native tongue. and what's good is that they had a chinese speaker to say it in the ultimately correct form to finally correct yourself. natural learning of a language also means building bridges between the goal language and languages you already know. :)
very accurate and in many ways helpful. It is so important to learn a form of correct pronunciation and as learners we should aware that a good pronunciation takes time, a lot of time, many hours of practice. I have one critical point: the explanation of the third tone, the idea that it is falling and rising is a misconception and makes it IMPOSSIBLE to learn the right building of the sound, i lost many years by trying to let my voice falling and rising. This is not what happening. What happens is something like a so called VOCAL FRY. American speakers are very familiar with it these days, it is rasping sound sound deap in the throat, Oprah Winfrey is in my ears a living example. I am sure that when the Pinying was invented the phoneticians could not identify what happened (Apart from that, the whole pinying is a disaster... you need too much time for understanding). In a video from an other RUclips channel the "third tone problem" was very good explained. No Chinese speaker let his voice fallen and rising, they do it only when trying to explain. These phenomena is called "hypecorrect" ergo wrong. Sorry for critical annotations
Can someone please tell me what application or internet program can I use to record and listen to myself speak chinese and have a fairly accurate translation? Thank you!! and God bless you in this troublefull 2021
Google Assistant can translate between languages. It doesn't record, but I find it's very useful to practice speaking Chinese and getting an English translation back as feedback. Many language learning programs, including some that are free, test you on word pronunciation. Presumably they're using Google on the back end.
The ä is a Swedish letter and putting it under the a, that has a completely different pronunciation becomes very confusing. Ä sounds almost exactly like the backwards 3.
In this case, I believe they were indicating an IPA symbol commonly used for the open/low central unrounded vowel, [ä], since they contrasted it with [ɑ], the IPA symbol for the open/low back unrounded vowel.
As a German native speaker we have other problems to pronounce Chinese than English speaker. The vowels make no problems because we have these in German too. a, e, i, o, u, ei, ou, ü, ue, üe, etc. x is similar to s'ch. Difficult for us is to distinguish c,z, and ch, zh. q is not a problem.
@@AC9123 By the way, there is a channel called Slow & Clear Chinese. The people behind that channel have produced an app called Immersive Chinese, and it is very good for boosting familiarity with the language. I don't normally pay for apps, but I paid for this one because it is definitely worth it 😊👍
They honestly are clearly different to me in the video. But I guess It's kinda related with the native language we have. The "th" in "the" sounded at first as "d" in "density" to me, but I got used to.
The main speaker is very cute and intelligent looking you should tell us your name did you have Chinese half American did you live in China you speak very good English
I am a beginner. Would you please help me in explaining 2 problems? First about the chinese letter "Y before i...." likewise your name. Some speakers pronounce this letter "y", other don't. What is the rule of it? Second the pronounciation of the first tone in general. Chinese grammar teaches us, that this tone is pronounced in a high voice, but many chinese speakers pronounce it in a deeper voice, what confuses me a lot. I hope you will answer me. Thanks in advance. Your videos help me a lot. Maybe you can may another video with this topic.
Q1: When y comes before i, they pronouce just like "i". There's no need to pronouce y as it's same as i. Q2: The 1st tone is a flat one, as long as you keep the tone flat during the whole duration, it will be fine. You can say it in high voice or low voice, people will still understand.
13:44 description is right, but she still pronounces it with the ought vowel .... but thats a thing of younger generations, they really say k(ough)ng instead of hook's oo aka k(oo)ng h(oo)ng like older people still do ... but in Zh(oo)ngGuo and words of the like the original pronunciation is retained even among the younger people
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This is brutal lol I finally figured out that q is ch and x is sh why don't they slow down and explain that Edit: sorry she explained it like 30 seconds after my detective work
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Studied it for 5 years but yet I have to come back here. I have had so many different teachers with different accents that I am so confused to the point of avoiding to speak at all
no need to mind that too much I think.... their accents stem from the dialects. Even if I am Chinese, many Chinese dialects are like foreign languages for me. Imitate the accent of Chinese hosts. That's surely authentic.
@@zhengliu924 there are really word that i'm confuse when pronouncing it because i think some of the first letter in chinese word became different from it's spelling or maybe it wasn't really change that it was just because of the pronouncing
@@o_o9220 Actually I didn't understand your mening well. What is the problem of the first letter of Chinese word when you're spelling? Definitely, every Chinese letter(pinyin ) has constant pronunciation. You just need combine the first letter and the following for pronouncing. But the same word may have various pronunciation.
@@zhengliu924 btw, Thank You for that😊
中国版图堪比一个欧洲，so讲话不可能一样，就算都考过二等甲的，也不可能一样。而作为非母语者，语音一定会有瑕疵，不是每个人都能成为第二个大山的--就算大山也是stick to一种口音拼命练习的。最重要的是让对方理解就ok。搞那么多细枝末节不是最重要的事情。如果在意语音的打磨，那是慢慢来的。
3:35 - Mistakes to avoid
7:09 - Chinese Vowels
15:58 - Chinese Romanization and Tones
22:15 - How do I pronounce e, ü, üe?
Me at the beginning knowing very little Chinese: Oh yeah, it’s easy until the “i” sounds like “u” and “zh” sounds like “jch”
Ahah omg
English is even weirder
Actually, "i" in "shi" sounds more like "r". It's just you need to make a syllable out of no vowel, like the "L" in "able".
Yeah “i” sounds like “e” I don’t know why you got “u” haha 😂
峰峰文曦 其实还是更像「日」成音节。
I am from albania and it is super helpful, albanian has all of the chinese sounds such as sh , zh , ts , x etc.
Everything , it gives you an advantage in every language out there.
Learning new languages is fun if done the right way - for me it starts thru my stomach first (^--^)
😂😂😂😂
tahsin _03 weeeewe
LMAO!
A minute in and I just want to commend you on the script and presentation of this video. Really clean flow that accompanies you on the journey from point A, to B, to C etc. while moving at a decent pace that is both vigorous and laid back.
This is THE BEST pinyin pronunciation guide that I have ever found. Thank you!!!
@nehem but it's at least consistent, so once you remember all of the rules you'll be able to pronounce just any word correctly without having heard of it before
I need a chinese speech therapist very hard rn
I can help you.
Wechat:yunmengze0428
miko
@@yfz4118 can you help me
ELITE CHINEESE
我很喜欢你的汉语课！ 非常感谢！
对，非常好，哈哈！你是中国人或美国人？我也喜欢汉语！
So quick near the end! I could keep up with most of it. The seed is planted now, I give it water.
Me sitting here with an aussie accent 😭
Lmaoooo
HAHAHAHA
RIP 😭🤚
LMAO, i wanna know how it sound like
Bloody hell mate.
fantastic .Its really helpful for beginner .
My wife and I work very hard on our mandarin,this video is a top one to keep. We askes ourselves there is so many teachers who teach mandarin,but we try to find mandarin chinese peoples to exchange language english for mandarin and it is not easy,even hard to find them,yes everybody study very hard,but what about speaking,talking, this video is extremely helpful and one of the best,but we need to talk and use it
I'm from Brazilian and I for exemple: read and listing Chinese Thank you very much
I’m not a native English speaker so it’s a little more easy
Victoria Saevar lucky you lol
me too
uuuuuu same and it kinda helps
yeah, vowels are pronounced exactly the same as in spanish (except for the e)
@@danielrachi yes, it's very helpful. 😁👍
This is an amazingly helpful video, especially how to make the various sounds not found in English. Thank you. My biggest issue is with Ping Ying as it is not accurate so often to a native English speaker (and I was an English teacher). While it can be helpful often, after studying it for only 2 months it can be very confusing. I'm not giving up but who ever thought of it should have used phonetics. Your explanation for the "ch" sound is such godsend. It is so helpful at this stage in my study.
I really love this channel because i can easily understand chinese since i'm a student that is studying mandarin in our school in the philippines
Oh shit sameee- u from science hs lol?
Lol idk but our school got chinese language too- lol just dont mind me XDDD
Wow that is really helpful (and/or useful). Thank you so much for this video!
mhm
Is anyone here to learn how to xue hua piao piao?
Usune Rodriguez Espallargas it’s not that hard to pronounce actually
XUE= SHOOAY
HUA=HWA
PIAO=PHAYAO
@@rizwanbutt4625 But there is no "ay" sound in Mandarin (that is, the sound that you would hear in English)
I’m here specifically for xue 😂
Thats alot to remember
Thank you so much for the effort
Really good as you use IPA symbols to explain the sounds, so it's quite helpful, but just a bit challenging for beginners especially in trying to copy the sound as it is done fast. Oh well, I'm a slow learner. Hahaha!
Over all, it's really great and thanks!
hello, are you still learning chinses now?
@@xiuyuechang2122 yes! hi yourself. I'm slugging but persevering. I'm learning to sing songs in Chinese and doing ear training with this channel Slow & Clear Chinese. Pretty lucid!
Thank you so much!
Alicia's voice is really great, clear pronunciation.
I don’t even have time to learn Chinese rn but it sounds so good and I wanna 😭
I recommend learning Chinese as having English, Chinese, and Spanish will help very much, but when learning Chinese please understand and learn tones and single letters first, because none beginners will jump ahead only to learning basics however there are tones that will change your meanings completely as you could say I’m shitting your umbrella instead of I love you which is “我爱你！” anyways that won’t really happen with those characters, but will happen to changing it. Mandarin is great and as a native born Chinese I have lived outside of my country but I’m getting better with my mandarin again sooo I recommend but it’s a struggle and I hope you can put up with that haha! For learning I recommend PPtutor, that’s where my moms friend recommended her Chinese daughter and told my mom and said it would be great for me too since we’ve been finding one forever!
My brain HURTS. Thanks for the video! really helpful
Hi teacher. Nice to meet you. I have seen some of your videos. I'd love them. I love English and Chinese languages. I hope I can have your videos. Thank you very much.
I CAME SO CLOSE TO READING 晴 BUT MY BRAIN JUST DECIDED TO SAY 清
Wanted to strengthen the basics of knowledge. But there many things are not said rightly.
For other people who is studying, give a look at those moments
Like:
13:05 "o" actually is "uo" sound. And only bo,mo,po,fo is pronouncing as buo,puo,muo,fuo. b,p,m,f also change pron-n of peng,beng,meng,feng
18:17 "e" better explain as russian "ы"+"э" sounds, in english there is no equal sound at all. i mean "e" that is in ke, she etc
19:44 in "uan" "a" pronounced like yEn too after j,q,x,y
22:50 "iu" actually is i(o)u, "un" is u(e)n, also "ui" also is u(e)i
29:57 "ri" with 4th tone is something really special in chinese, because it has absolutely anothe pron-n in compare with other "r" sounds in chinese.
and something very special too that i cant found in any video, when you pronouncing yün,xün,qün,jün there is secret short [i] sound after ü.
I am so confused now
@@sleezzzyp i think the video explained it as best as it could for people who want to learn chinese and have english as their native tongue, who also have no linguistic knowledge like the IPA (international phonetic alphabet). i am a german native speaker so some sounds like ü are natural for me, i also have linguistic experience so i can understand and translate some phonetics. but when your language does not really have the vowels or consonants and you are just someone who wants to learn the language, you simply have to work with whats already there, which is similar pronunciations in your native tongue. and what's good is that they had a chinese speaker to say it in the ultimately correct form to finally correct yourself. natural learning of a language also means building bridges between the goal language and languages you already know. :)
Great comprehensive lessons!
very accurate and in many ways helpful. It is so important to learn a form of correct pronunciation and as learners we
should aware that a good pronunciation takes time, a lot of time, many hours of practice.
I have one critical point:
the explanation of the third tone, the idea that it is falling and rising is a misconception and makes it IMPOSSIBLE to learn the right building of the sound, i lost many years by trying to let my voice falling and rising.
This is not what happening.
What happens is something like a so called VOCAL FRY. American speakers are very familiar with it these days, it is rasping sound sound deap in the throat, Oprah Winfrey is in my ears a living example.
I am sure that when the Pinying was invented the phoneticians could not identify what happened (Apart from that, the whole pinying is a disaster... you need too much time for understanding).
In a video from an other RUclips channel the "third tone problem" was very good explained.
No Chinese speaker let his voice fallen and rising, they do it only when trying to explain. These phenomena is called "hypecorrect" ergo wrong.
Sorry for critical annotations
Very nice class
thanks
im still a beginner and this is helping me a lott
Early impression: I like the quick pacing.
A better analogy for "ü" would be bÜreaucracy imo
Thanks..
Excellent, thank you very much...
Great 👍
good lesson.
Can someone please tell me what application or internet program can I use to record and listen to myself speak chinese and have a fairly accurate translation? Thank you!! and God bless you in this troublefull 2021
Duolingo try to download
Google Assistant can translate between languages. It doesn't record, but I find it's very useful to practice speaking Chinese and getting an English translation back as feedback. Many language learning programs, including some that are free, test you on word pronunciation. Presumably they're using Google on the back end.
20% of my pronunciation skill came from my aunt and uncle arguing welp :/
Awesome! , it was interesting， 谢谢您
omg. u wrote: xie xie nin in mandarin!!! i read it. lol
谢谢
Is the description for how to pronounce the q sound correct? Because I physically cannot do that no matter how hard I try
魔术 means magic 13:11 that was the only mistake I found as a Native Cantonese and Marine speaker but great work overall.
But I may be wrong someone does reply if I am wrong.
Turns out I was right I checked with my Chinese parents. (Also Microsoft bing and google translation secret can only be 秘密)
Thanks👍👍👍💮😊💮👍👍👍
Super helpful!
Yinru 😍
3:47 5:16
My tribe also used cha as tea and baba as father mam
6:07 Tip of the tongue should reach upper front teeth. Qi
20:00 for J X Q
These were definitely 3 of the most difficult; may have been the very most difficult consonant sound I've encountered.
The ä is a Swedish letter and putting it under the a, that has a completely different pronunciation becomes very confusing. Ä sounds almost exactly like the backwards 3.
Not just Swedish!
In this case, I believe they were indicating an IPA symbol commonly used for the open/low central unrounded vowel, [ä], since they contrasted it with [ɑ], the IPA symbol for the open/low back unrounded vowel.
ikr? i started pronouncing it the swedish way...lmaooo
@@kasumifu1541 That’s true should have added that.
如果有像那么详细的教学教我们英文发音就好了
没错😂
一大堆啦 看你要不要找罢了
我希望能有所帮助，我学习汉语已有一段时间了，但我似乎也无法弄清楚
:(
@@miasestric9743 I am not sure what you mean, perhaps you can say it in English?
@@zichenfengyin3270 Oh Yeah! Sorry, I meant to say I wish I could help. I have been learning chinese for a while now but I can't seem to get it :(
As a German native speaker we have other problems to pronounce Chinese than English speaker. The vowels make no problems because we have these in German too. a, e, i, o, u, ei, ou, ü, ue, üe, etc. x is similar to s'ch. Difficult for us is to distinguish c,z, and ch, zh. q is not a problem.
The long sentence with the number four (sì) reminds me of a tongue twister about the age that Sishi had (44 years old) when she died.
Good
To me, the "e" of "rén" still sounded like the "e" in "red", even with Yīn Rú pronouncing the word.
Welp, not supposed to XD
I mean, same thing with me hearing other languages, and other people with other languages. :3
@@AC9123 I have heard it being pronounced properly in other videos. And the difference is very clear.
@@AC9123 By the way, there is a channel called Slow & Clear Chinese. The people behind that channel have produced an app called Immersive Chinese, and it is very good for boosting familiarity with the language. I don't normally pay for apps, but I paid for this one because it is definitely worth it 😊👍
They honestly are clearly different to me in the video. But I guess It's kinda related with the native language we have. The "th" in "the" sounded at first as "d" in "density" to me, but I got used to.
The main speaker is very cute and intelligent looking you should tell us your name did you have Chinese half American did you live in China you speak very good English
I am a beginner. Would you please help me in explaining 2 problems?
First about the chinese letter "Y before i...." likewise your name. Some speakers pronounce this letter "y", other don't. What is the rule of it?
Second the pronounciation of the first tone in general. Chinese grammar teaches us, that this tone is pronounced in a high voice, but many chinese speakers pronounce it in a deeper voice, what confuses me a lot. I hope you will answer me. Thanks in advance. Your videos help me a lot. Maybe you can may another video with this topic.
Q1: When y comes before i, they pronouce just like "i". There's no need to pronouce y as it's same as i. Q2: The 1st tone is a flat one, as long as you keep the tone flat during the whole duration, it will be fine. You can say it in high voice or low voice, people will still understand.
What region in China has the most common accent?
Standard mandarin is accent around Beijing area.
Any Hong Kong people here that’s trying to pronounce mandarin for school? :D
Im not English speaker and this video is comparing Chinese with English.. which confusing me..
would it be possible to have pшctures of tongгу, lips, teeth position for each sound?
13:44 description is right, but she still pronounces it with the ought vowel .... but thats a thing of younger generations, they really say k(ough)ng instead of hook's oo aka k(oo)ng h(oo)ng like older people still do ... but in Zh(oo)ngGuo and words of the like the original pronunciation is retained even among the younger people
How can I find lesson 7 of the series mentioned in the video?
Great video, but... Anyone else finds that the slides turn way to fast?
cool
I only now realized how strange English vowels are (my first language is German not English)
The other common mistake is to pronounce C as K. It's more like 'ts'
Oh gosh I have a prof named “Cai” and I’ve been saying his name wrong for awhile 😭 Thanks for pointing this out
I like the vid but maybe I should teach Yinru how to pronounce English :p @31:29 NOT whale but WHEEEEEEL :)
Now I understand why 青島啤酒 is transliterated as Tsing Tao Beer and not as Ching Tao Beer.
Just here to talk myself out of wanting to learn chinese. im in the middle of learning japanese i dont need another language. Brain please.
How do i write vennessa in Chinese in the proper way
Rule concerning “u” without dots (umlaut)…Well why not just include them in pinyin?
Why does h and m blast out at a volume I did not choose to use ...politely regarding others is not rebuttable
Tell me how to request ads volume work as the video volume does so that is representing the users not just parasites on this platform
Ой,как Алисе косичка идёт. Няшка прям.И умная очень . Эх...😍😍😍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Согласен, я влюбился)
25:45
HOW DO YOU PRONOUNCE REN???? How do i say the r part i cant say it helppppppo
hello the "ren" 's tone is second , if you wanna listen the pronounce, add me!
Why sometimes chinese pronounce 从 as song? I know the pinyin is cong but as i know, cong is pronounced like tcong. No?
Why is the sound not working
as a vietnamese, i see chinese tones are easier to master than vietnamese tones lol
jiandan de juzi rongyi lijie
yi zi yiju nide jiaoxue fangfa shi dui de
其实我是来学英语的
its not wingardium leviosa, it's wingardium leviosa Ron
That Yinru chick is probably
JUST LIKE SOMEONE SUPER RICH
I think we have discovered the epicenter of the CRA world!
A problem with this is that they give examples of American English...which we, an English speaker, would consider incorrect..
😁
I like learn chines with chines people
The easiest way to think of the "q" sound is "ts." So "qing" would sound like "tsing."
then what about "cing"??
@@multifandommess273 actually there is no “cing” combination in Chinese pinyin
Wanzhaoguotong Lang guan juo Jung Zhang bin zheng ruo Tao Tai Mao Dong Yun qou Wang Yen Min tong huao hao hang guang
THIS IS SOME *_HAARD_* STUFF!!
This is brutal lol I finally figured out that q is ch and x is sh why don't they slow down and explain that
Edit: sorry she explained it like 30 seconds after my detective work
我觉得还是英语比较难学。如何学英语？
15.16 this is like the ee sound in “see” but with rounded lips... what?
Timestamps I stopped on dont mind this
19:53
ITS SO HARD!
I’m chinese but I forgot how you speak it