5 Common Pronunciation Mistakes Chinese Speakers Make | 针对中国人的英语音发音
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In this episode, I’m going to talk about the biggest English pronunciation challenges for Mandarin Chinese speakers - all broken down and explained. But first - don’t forget to download the FREE American English Pronunciation Guide for Chinese Speakers: bit.ly/3rVrhbj
In this video, you'll learn what the main pronunciation challenges are that Chinese speakers face and why they are difficult. But more than that - you'll learn how to overcome them and become a more confident and clear English speaker.
Not a Chinese speaker? I bet as a non-native speaker of English you can find at least one challenge that is relevant to you :) Let me know what it is in the comments below!
00:00 - Intro
01:09 - Breaking Consonant Clusters
06:03 - Simplifying Diphthongs
08:00 - No Dark L
11:14 - Applying Chinese Prosody
14:15 - Replacing N with NG
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Hadar! You nailed it ! So impressed by how much you understand our frustrating! Can’t thank you enough! ❤️❤️
Wow!! Such a great video! It’s amazing that you can point out the mistakes Mandarin natives make when speaking English like that. I’m impressed 👍
Hey! Yay😍 thank you🙏
No nonsense, straight to the point, concise, really enjoyed it thanks, subscribed.
It's always a pleasure to watch Hadar and i learn a lot from you coach.
I admire your professionalism, passion and knowledge! Thank you! :)
Fantastic analysis! As a Chinese English speaker, although I have overcome most of the issues, I have never thought about that.
Awesome explanation for me and my students. Thank you!!
I can relate to every example you give😂. Thank you so much !
Fantastic video. Will be coming back for tips😉
Yes, it’s absolutely helpful!
This is a great video! Wonderful! Thank you very much.
The mistakes made by Chinese speakers are pretty correct, for me and my friends , we also struggled with m,n ,especially put at the last character
It is really helpful! Thank you!
N sound is the most challenge one for me as a mandarin speaker. Thank you for pointing these out. It helps a lot.
Hadar, thank you so much for this video. I am currently working on a paper in my TEFL training about pronunciation issues for Mandarin speakers learning English. This video helped me immensely and encouraged me to process my thoughts for my project.
hello! I'm from Kazakhstan. learning English. I'm looking for a partner for a conversation. who wants to speak. write me
AMAZING!!! thank you A LOT!!! This video is super helpful. BTW N and L are the hardest words for me.
Very Helpful indeed Thank you
This is very helpful. Thanks.
The dark l and n/ng are so correct. You are amazing!
Thank you Hadar! You are amazing!!!
Thank you so much. It is really helpful
Thank u so so much...
I'm Singaporean & still making effort to improve my English accent😁
very helpful, thank you Hadar
Very useful, thanks Hadar
Awesome video. It was a lifesaver :)
You are great Hadar. I'm saying hi from Colombia. Thanks for those amazing tips.
This is super helpful!
I love your accent! You did great to get to this level of fluency ❤❤❤❤
Great insight!
this is the best video I watch explaining so clearly
Thanks for pointing out the no.5 pronunciation mistake, I really make such a mistake when I say win and wing without even noticing the difference. And also, as a Chinese native speaker, I hardly speak correctly when I say Thanks and this and that.
It's my first time coming so early and this video is actually for Chinese people! Thank you Hadar, you're such a nice teacher, I learned a ton from you videos. Keep up the good work!
What is your first language?
@@hadar.shemesh My first language is Mandarin Chinese. I was born and raised in China and went to Australia for college at the age of 18.
I'm not Chinese, but this lecture help a lot. Thanks.
Wonderful lesson. Nice. Real nice...
总结的非常到位
thanks, very useful.
I have a Chinese friend who struggles with words ending in ell. After your video, we played with this for over an hour. We realized that she softens the ending ell sounds. What we discovered was pronouncing the word with an added 'e' works to get the correct pronunciation.
dull ⇒ dulle
ball ⇒ balle
call ⇒ calle
null ⇒ nulle
...
Now she pronounces the 'll' and softens the ending 'e'. Perfect!
Damn, now what am I going to snicker at??
hello! I'm from Kazakhstan. learning English. I'm looking for a partner for a conversation. who wants to speak. write me
Very good video! As a native Chinese speaker I would like to say something about the n and ng sound part, cuz it's really interesting.
In fact, we do have n or ng sound at the end of a word. Such as lan 蓝 (blue) and lang 狼 (wolf), Bei Jing 北京 (Beijing) and Tian Jin 天津 (a city that's very near to Beijing). Generally speaking people from north China tend to speak mandarin better (mandarin is based on a sort of Beijing dialect after all), and people from south China tend to speak mandarin with a strong accent, sometimes to an extent that even native mandarin Chinese speakers don't understand. When you hear northern Chinese talking, the difference between n and ng is quite clear, even if they're both pretty different from what's supposed to sound like in English. However, for southern Chinese speakers, we don't tell the difference between n and ng at all. I think that's one of the reasons that Chinese people (especially from the south) tend to have this kind of problem when speaking English.
Another thing that I wanna point out is that for southern Chinese people, at least from where I was born, people there don't distinguish n and l sound. For example niu nai 牛奶 (milk) we'll just say it as liu lai. Which I think is very interesting, in that when someone has a problem speaking another language, the "problem" usually comes from their mother tongue. Actually I don't really think that's really a "problem". That's proof of where we're from, and I'm really appreciative of that. Knowing where I'm from, comparing my dialect with mandarin and English, is the most fun I've ever had recently.
Your English is amazing, I hope one day I can speak French (language I am learning) with this level of proficiency, and that is probably at least 10 times easier than a Mandarin speaker learning English lol.
@@Sjwatts thank you🤗🤗 Hope you'll make it one day
As a Chinese english speaker，I find I can easily differentiate yin and ying，lin and ling，but not win and wing😂
A very good lesson
Thank you very much!
hadar, you'r amazing!
Thank you so much _ teachers
You are amazing¡ I love you .. really 👍❤
thank you！
Hi Hadar! Can you make a video on common pronunciation mistakes that Farsi(Persian) speakers make? I'm from Iran so that will help me a lot. Thank you in advance and have a great day
Extremely informative. I just learned so much as an American English speaker. I actually think Asians sound ADORABLE when speaking English, like a cute speach impediment 😂❤
Now i say (Literally,world....etc) like i do arabic words(my 1st language) ,very easily ,without stressing ,flexibly.... it paid off.
As a madarin Chinese speaker.this video is really helpful！
Happy to
Hear!
The other problem that the Mandarin speakers commonly have is mixing the sound of the letter G and letter J. We may talk about this somewhere in your video too.
hello! I'm from Kazakhstan. learning English. I'm looking for a partner for a conversation. who wants to speak. write me
I had noticed mandarin speakers dropping "t" while saying "sixty" - thanks for clarifying why.
Great lesson, thx. The last one is the hardest for me. I speak mandarin. I believe people from different region of China will have different challenges.
yeah the n and ng are so hard for me and I've been struggling with it for some many years. I wouldn't pronounce n exactly as ng, but I am stuck in between.
your voice so amazing
I suggest you post this to Chinese social media like bilibili
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I'm eagerly awaiting the Japanese speaker version.
Hi, how are you i hope you are safe ☺️❤️I have a question about shadowing and imitation since you are a great teacher and have a huge experience which is more important and effective shadowing OR imitation I mean when you listen to a sentence and pause and then repeat or listen to a speaker and repeat at the same time No pauses which is difficult please give me an advice
It helps me too
Me as a Cantonese native speaker, I'd say another major issue will be identifying voiced and voiceless consonant because in both Cantonese and Mandarin, we don't really have such thing. Even when our local teachers teach us, they'll teach us to differentiate different counterparts, B and P for instance, by remembering the amount of air coming outta your mouth rather than vibrating your vocal cord for a B.
That makes it so confusing!! I’m not sure how one can master or truly understand a sound simply by feeling the amount of air coming out 😟
native English speaker, native Mandarin speaker, So you are a native Cantonese speaker.
Waw😍
Thank you so much our great teacher . God bless you
Hi Hadar! Could you make a video about the same content by considering Swahili speakers? Thanks a lot!!!
Hadar, you are proficient in Mandarin, aren't you? I can't believe that you are able to make such a fantastic and detailed analysis. You hit the nail on the head. You are so
wonderful and amazing.
Also, I am a Cantonese speaker. We share some of the problems too - dropping consonants, unclear dark l, as well as prosody. We need to work hard to get rid of the bad habits, and train our muscles to get used to speaking English clearly.
Thank you for your inspiring video.
I'm so inspired by your talk. Im a MC speaker myself. Is it possible to show me where you found these research? TKS a million!! TODA
I'm japanese and I struggle so much with pronouncements it's so hard
can you please post a video on pronouncing wrench vs ranch?
Pretty interesting this lesson.
Correction: This lesson is pretty interesting
Thanks for your help.
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Good day I appreciate your video. I live and work in China you missed one of the most important ones that's as irritating as they come.
Sweeming - Swimming
Leettle - Little
Teep - tip
Cheeps - Chips
O'leaf - Olive (no vibration)
Scienteest - Scientist
Sleeppers - Slippers
Wheep - Whip
Leezard - Lizard
Bredge - bridge (please emphasize shis I will do any wish you command me for this one)
Wheestle - whistle
Please PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE I BEG YOU. I'm from South Africa and we have a more British or neutral pronunciation and it's very difficult challenging Chinese people they will throw British in front of you and say it's American they're doing. I need an external source to help me Please Please Please.
Hey Hadar, this is amazing! As a native Chinese speaker, I found it profoundly useful to correct my pronunciation. However, I still think it is quite difficult for me to correctly pronounce the vocabularies which combine all these aforementioned features, such as crown. This word actually has consonant clusters, diphthong and ends with n. Accidentally noticed that I can’t pronounce it correctly because of the TV show.
Do you think there is an better way to handle this? Or is there a list of words just like “crown” so I can focus on correcting them in one go.
Hey man, did you find the solution from Hadar? And why did she only liked your comment instead of replying?........
1st hader❤️
after this i can finally pronounce my name properly and not confuse others
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Wow!
How about a video for Filipinos, Hadar?
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Hi teacher
I sometimes drop consonants. It's not easy.
I like Chineese accent, don`t touch it! 🙂Gooda, gooda! 🙂
Ok,you got it, sounds like me...
As a Chinese. I’ve made quite a lot of mistakes while speaking English. There are she and he in English when comes to refer to gender however, in Chinese, we only have the same pronunciation to refer to He and She. One day I was having dinner with my friend who is an American. She showed me a pic of her brother's family. I literally said SHE ( his brother ) is blala. Finally, my friend told me ” He ”, my brother is not gay. I was so embarrassed 😂😂. I apologized and explained it to my friend why I said Her instead of He.
I constantly make these mistakes. It's not because I don't know the grammar. It's just the influence of the first language. Now I'm more aware of this mistake I usually can catch it right away when I make this mistake. But there is an exception while talking something passionate. 😅
Yes, this is a common mistake that I notice my students making, too, and it leads to a lot of laughs! :) Interesting to know that Chinese doesn't have different pronouns for he and she.
@@LearnAcademicEnglish Chinese has different pronouns for he/she/it with different characters, but the pronunciations are the same. It's quite a special case.
@@karaguo2055 That makes sense! Thank you for the information.
As a native Korean speaker, I make the same mistake sometimes since we don't use gendered pronouns often
Thanks you so so much. Sorry, where is the American pronunciation guide??
you are american ellen
My way is to know all the sounds then pronouncing them alone then connecting them slowly, and then a bit faster, and then a bit more faster till i do it fast ,always i end up hurting my throat, but now i speak with an almost 98% American accent...and also 80%british accent...hahahahah....
And i do it with a word the first day, then repeat the same word next day... and i prefer it in front of the mirror, also while doing it I touch my throat and feel the vibrations... it sounds hard,but it pays off
One of the hardes word is "Literally" "world" . I took these2words , i first separate them (wwwww o: rrrrrr llllllll ddddddddd) (llllllll i dddd ə rrrrrrrr ə llllllllll i) R L are very hard to pronounce them together,but i also put my finger inside on the position of where the tongue toches ,then even pull&push my tongue to do the sound 😨😨😂😂😂😂😂😂but you have to wash hands very well before doing such a thing..😂😂😂😂😂😂
Can you tell me why Chinese speakers say "Urally" instead of 'USUALLY"? Puzzled
What about r words like really and also the word laugh.
Hi there! Everytime some word ends with "N" and the following word strats with a "TH" word I'm not able to hear any th-sound.
For example:
Get in there
That's what I hear "Get in ner"
Down there
That's what I hear "Down ner"
In this video
That's what I hear "In nis video"
I just wanna know why do I hear 'em like this? That's eating me it's totally on my nerve.
I'm looking forward to your feedback🙏
This video solved my problem
ruclips.net/video/vmb_Y3kTh_8/видео.html
Clarity is more important than accuracy.
True, that's why we should break the T sound rule of American English that pronounce INTER as INNER, the miscommunication can be very serious. Break this rule.
The clarity comes from context. You could use the same argument to say we should abolish tones in Mandarin, since tones could sound similar and be confused.
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1:42 That's not a cluster. The /k/ and /s/ are in different syllables.
6:41 Some nonstandard native accents have a monophthongal /eɪ/ [eː] and /oʊ/ [oː]. Even less lack the _pain-pane_ and _toe-tow_ mergers. That means the monophthong and diphthong are seperate sounds.
6:48 Also, some native accents (Southeastern US) monophthongize /aɪ/ to /aː/.
8:14 That's British English. In American accents (at least mine), /l/ is always dark.
Thank you for your video. But I need to say they are not the common pronunciation mistakes Chinese speakers make. I don't think you know much about those pronunciation problems that Chinese speakers have.
n/ ng I can not make them sound different
Now i wanna learn how to pronounce chinese sounds
They have crazy sounds lik ā â à á a u ú ù ū û ......I'm dead 😨
When dark L, does the back of tongue to be flat and nearly touch the both side of upper teeth?
For the dark L the tongue is not completely flat but it does touch the sides of the teeth
@@hadar.shemesh thank you. The key is to pull the tongue back, is it?
thank you teacher . well i am not from china 😂😂😂.
Do many Israeli speak mandarin?
It's hard to learn English if you didn't get exposed to it during your developmental period. The brain wiring is fixed after that period.
Maybe vietnamese get the same mistake
i never study chinese its Hard for me i never go tô visit China
Imagine how many mistakes English speakers make when speaking Mandarin
chinese cant log in RUclips . welcom to Bilibili
People pronounced by chinese sounds just like people with rp
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The problem with English, is that, it has no tone
The problem with Mandarin is that it has tones