Since my Chinese-speaking husband has drilled me on tones from the beginning, my tones are actually pretty good. Unfortunately, as soon as I add emotion to my speech I mess up my tones and I noticed most foreigners have this problem. I would love to do an advanced class about how to vary the overall tone in Chinese without changing the tones.
You made a great point here - the way how we emphasize syllables in the sentences is so different from how we do in Indo-European languages! And I'll definitely include that in my course as the more advanced part of my training system. 😊🙌
OMGGGGG the big news is actually so exciting 😭😭😭 please don’t burn yourself out but you’re actually the best mandarin teacher I’ve found (and trust me I’ve looked a LOT lol) and your videos never fail to both make my day better and reinvigorate my passion for studying mandarin!!!
Awww thank you so much Joe!! I'm really excited about the course, too, and I'm really enjoying the process to put all I know into this project. Hope you all will find it helpful!! 🙌🙌
You said your parents speak 晉 dialect, where are they from in Shanxi? My region (Yangquan) usually pronounces -an as -ae (nasalized) but merge the rest of -n into -ng like you described!
I like his channel. But he always sounded funny to me . Of course I knew he was German . I try and watch alot of shows and mimic how they speak . Eventually ill take some lessons. I haven't focused on grammar so much as vocabulary. Most things I read at my level I understand by knowing most of the words but lately I been going back and doing more grammar. But chinese grammar doesn't feel too hard. But I also need to find a tutor cause I don't have anyone to speak with. Besides the occasional Chinese restaurant. Or the massage lady I go to . Im almost finished with hsk 4 . Its ok I know I need alot further to go but I surprise myself sometimes with what I can understand by listening intuitively.
7:34 sounds more English to me, as they pronounce the a as ä. A German would pronounce da as da, with a clear open a , not däor de.. maybe too much English influence in the teaching material? Especially since the German word 'da' exists, and it sounds exactly like the Chinese one. Means 'there'
more tones = harder idk about grammar in principle if you can read mando should also be able to read canto and i watch some canto songs with subs and understand completely so idk
I am also German. This video was really useful as it made me realized that these are exactly the tones that my Chinese friends and followers pointed out already several times=) Now I know why these are particularly difficult for Germans. Thanks =)
Love your videos! I think it would be really interesting if you analyzed the Olympic champion in badminton, Viktor Axelsen 安塞龙's Chinese. I'm Danish myself and would love to know what you think about his accent.
Whaaat, my language idol 阿福 doesn't speak perfect Chinese?! My life is shattered T_T Haha j/k, actually it's interesting to know that, because my Mandarin is not good enough yet to hear any "non-nativeness" in 阿福's Chinese. Anyways, thanks Fàn lǎoshī, your videos are always pretty detailed, technical, and educational. Really great resource, as I'm sure your new program will be!
Deutsch ist Deutlich ausgesprochen Initials are easier for Germans due to actually pronouncing words intently all the time with little or no liason. But German is also atonal. Some initials which exist in Chinese do not exist in English but also exist in German and German like Chinese has seperable verbs / particles of completion. German grammar of the European languages is closest to Chinese of non European languages Finno Ugric languages like Chinese feature post-positions, but still no cognates...
@@RitaChinese 例如， 看到 zusehen, zugesehen. I can easily replicate any of the separable verbs using a German structure (unlike other european languages where i can't).
Great video! I love to watch Thomas and I always thought his Chinese is perfect... Also, is there a way to take your class? I assume you teach at school, not online? I understand you may not have time...
Trying to learn chinese and was listening to an anime in German to see it in all language and it sounded a little like Chinese with certain phrases. I can only listen and learning to listen to both and not read or wright or anything.
Basically pinyin is a mix of european languages, X in pinyin is very close to X in Russian. Z pinyin like German Z etc. But Q doesn't have ANY European or Finno-Ugric counterpart.
pinyin -n like french pinyin -ng like english i don't really speak italian but pinyin C may correspond to one of Italian C's pronunciations. Does equal Germn TS/TZ (which do sound different in German but you probably don't notice the difference).
The Chinese C is actually much more aspirated than German Z/TS, English C/TS and assumingly Italian C. Didn't dive into this too much, but I'll explain all details in my course for sure😁
though yeah a german native would want all tones to be level but at different "heights". The idea that the sound rises and falls or falls or rises is not really the way germans would think about tonality from the German language perspective.
Yeah I think European, at least Germanic language speakers share a similar tendency in terms of tones, but maybe because German vowels are usually shorter than English, if I didn't get it wrong, the rising and falling tones are more likely to be pronounced incomplete or be simplified as different pitch heights. Just my theory hahah
I am so happy that I stumbled across your channel. I started to learn Chinese back in 1994, but really haven't done anything for the past 20+ years. Your channel really motivates me to become an active learner of Chinese again. And as a German speaker myself I found this evaluation of Afu's Chinese skills quite interesting. The way you're pointing out the different aspects is just phenomenal. A big thumbs up for your work!
You know what I would be interested in seeing as a video, if you had a linguist help you improve you on your accent in English, see if you feel that you got better or stay the same. No hate, just think it would make an interesting video.
Thank you so much, Brenda! It's a great idea and I've actually been thinking about it for a while! Just didn't get to do it, given so much time I'll have to put in. But it's definitely something I'll do whenever I can!
I am from Germany and just started learning Chinese with the help of my friend from Taiwan. These different tones drive me crazy, but my friend has a lot of fun listening to my pathetic attempts. But she has the patience of a saint to teach me the correct pronunciation. We laugh a lot together. I really hope to get better at the language soon.
Yeah it's a good start to help people find their Chinese contour tones thinking in this way, and there's a long way to go when it comes to mastering the tones for each syllable💪💪
@@RitaChinese I waited until completing HSK5 to start actually pronouncing Chinese. It's much too easy for European language speakers to ruin tones. I'm hoping to at least get them right mostly. I've got great initials and finals so at least theres that.
@@QuizmasterLaw Wow that's not a common path of learning Chinese, but I'm curious about how it works out! At least I'm pretty sure that pronunciation and tones are something that you definitely can master as long as you wanna put in time and effort. Vocab and structures, on the other hand, are relatively innumerable.
@@RitaChinese The toughest part about Chinese is the near total absence of cognates. I intend to speak and read Chinese at a near native level. I did not want to drill lots of incorrect pronunciations. I doubt I can get to a native level but hope to eventually speak Chinese at least as well as you speak English. I am lazy, in a sense: pronunciation drills take time and effort, it's active learning. But as a newbie I knew I would make errors, not know it, and then reinforce them. My learning path was the right one (this is maybe my 8th language) 1) KANGXI RADICALS oh thank god i did them first 2) PICTOGRAMS 3) Hui Yi Zi and only then really get into the pictophonetic characters. I focused on learning vocabulary, primarily, with active understanding of the grammar, but only passive learning of tones and pronunciation until now. Even as I am now working on HSK6 there are still lots of words and hanzi to learn. But I feel I can and should also work on speaking. Chinese grammar in principle is easy. But the absence of cognates makes this language tougher.
Hi! I used to studied linguistics in university in Germany. Apparently our language also does the voiceless sounds often in the "bdg" plosives. :) French language doesn't as far as I know but it might depend on the context of the sound.
Since my Chinese-speaking husband has drilled me on tones from the beginning, my tones are actually pretty good. Unfortunately, as soon as I add emotion to my speech I mess up my tones and I noticed most foreigners have this problem. I would love to do an advanced class about how to vary the overall tone in Chinese without changing the tones.
You made a great point here - the way how we emphasize syllables in the sentences is so different from how we do in Indo-European languages! And I'll definitely include that in my course as the more advanced part of my training system. 😊🙌
Yes! 👏🏻
Favorite part of day is watching your videos! When they pop up, I’m like: let me get something to eat and enjoy this. Learning Chinese made fun 🤣
Hahah this made my day!! That's exactly what I do when I see my favorite content coming out😆🙌
@@RitaChinese yessss I totally mean it 100%
Actually so true omg
Love the big news! Can’t wait to get a hold of it! Thank youuu
🙌🙌🙌
aw I missed the premiere, liked and commented.
KLINGT DEUTSCH
😆😆
Hurry!! I need your program. Like yesterday! :)) jk.. take all the time you need. But seriously, hurry up.
Hahah thanks!! I'm trying💪💪 Coming up soon!
又见范老师了！阿福和马思瑞的油管视频都是我喜欢和关注的!
哈哈太好了！都是很好的了解中国和学习中文的内容呀😄🙌👏
OMGGGGG the big news is actually so exciting 😭😭😭 please don’t burn yourself out but you’re actually the best mandarin teacher I’ve found (and trust me I’ve looked a LOT lol) and your videos never fail to both make my day better and reinvigorate my passion for studying mandarin!!!
Awww thank you so much Joe!! I'm really excited about the course, too, and I'm really enjoying the process to put all I know into this project. Hope you all will find it helpful!! 🙌🙌
I love your videos. Also, "knowledge" is not a countable noun :)
Thanks for pointing out! And glad you liked my content😊🙌
You said your parents speak 晉 dialect, where are they from in Shanxi? My region (Yangquan) usually pronounces -an as -ae (nasalized) but merge the rest of -n into -ng like you described!
They are from 晋中市! Pretty close!
Super, jetzt muss ich nur mehr chinesisch lernen 👍
Afu and Laoma should collaborate 😂💥
That'd be awesome!! But we gotta go back to China first😆
4:43 it was such a bad idea to sound an example with some bleeping backgroung. What's the point , especially when you do examples?
I like his channel. But he always sounded funny to me . Of course I knew he was German . I try and watch alot of shows and mimic how they speak . Eventually ill take some lessons. I haven't focused on grammar so much as vocabulary. Most things I read at my level I understand by knowing most of the words but lately I been going back and doing more grammar. But chinese grammar doesn't feel too hard. But I also need to find a tutor cause I don't have anyone to speak with. Besides the occasional Chinese restaurant. Or the massage lady I go to . Im almost finished with hsk 4 . Its ok I know I need alot further to go but I surprise myself sometimes with what I can understand by listening intuitively.
That's awesome!! And you are right - Chinese grammar is relatively pretty simple! Keep up the good work🙌💪😄
老师，请问您做中文辅导吗？如果有一天您举行(?)中文课，我很想去参加！
是呀我一直在做辅导，但现在我教的学生不多，因为开始准备这个中文发音课了！开始报名的时候我会告诉大家😊 期待在课程里见到你啊！😄🙌
@@RitaChinese 好啊，谢谢您通知我！
范老师晚上好
你好Benedict！你在欧洲或者亚洲吗😁
Fan laoshi,
Kannst du Deutsch sprechen ? 💥
No I don't really speak German haha, although I wish I do!
2:11 that's the german ch sound
And the chinese ch sound is the german tsch
很厉害！！
😄🙌 希望大家喜欢！
7:34 sounds more English to me, as they pronounce the a as ä. A German would pronounce da as da, with a clear open a , not däor de.. maybe too much English influence in the teaching material? Especially since the German word 'da' exists, and it sounds exactly like the Chinese one. Means 'there'
Afu says Cantonese is harder than Mandarin 🔥
Haha did he say why?
more tones = harder idk about grammar in principle if you can read mando should also be able to read canto and i watch some canto songs with subs and understand completely so idk
I am also German. This video was really useful as it made me realized that these are exactly the tones that my Chinese friends and followers pointed out already several times=) Now I know why these are particularly difficult for Germans. Thanks =)
Awesome! Glad to hear that you find this video helpful! 😊🙌
Love your videos! I think it would be really interesting if you analyzed the Olympic champion in badminton, Viktor Axelsen 安塞龙's Chinese. I'm Danish myself and would love to know what you think about his accent.
Thank you so much for your suggestion! And Viktor has been on my list for a while haha. Will make a video about his Mandarin for sure!!
Whaaat, my language idol 阿福 doesn't speak perfect Chinese?! My life is shattered T_T
Haha j/k, actually it's interesting to know that, because my Mandarin is not good enough yet to hear any "non-nativeness" in 阿福's Chinese. Anyways, thanks Fàn lǎoshī, your videos are always pretty detailed, technical, and educational. Really great resource, as I'm sure your new program will be!
Hahah thank you!! Appreciate it! And I'm pretty sure that your Chinese will be good as Afu's if you put in time and effort😄💪
终于！好期待你的发音和语音项目！恭喜你🥳 视频也好看，没注意到不同的母语口音回对中文的口音有那么大的影响^^
Yayyyy谢谢Aaron！我自己也好期待，每天都在努力设计和准备这个课程😄💪 口音真的太有意思了！
You’re really good at creating such concise, creative, and constructive content!!!! Thank you for your diligence to help us!
Awww it's my huge pleasure! I'm so happy to hear that you find my content helpful😊
great video very useful as a german native speaker who learns chinese 非常感謝
太好了！😄🙌 So happy to hear that! 加油加油💪
Deutsch ist Deutlich ausgesprochen
Initials are easier for Germans due to actually pronouncing words intently all the time with little or no liason.
But German is also atonal. Some initials which exist in Chinese do not exist in English but also exist in German and German like Chinese has seperable verbs / particles of completion. German grammar of the European languages is closest to Chinese of non European languages Finno Ugric languages like Chinese feature post-positions, but still no cognates...
Wowow thank you for sharing all these! So much to explore. Didn't know there are separable verbs, too!
@@RitaChinese 例如， 看到 zusehen, zugesehen.
I can easily replicate any of the separable verbs using a German structure (unlike other european languages where i can't).
@@QuizmasterLaw Good to know that there's some positive transfer from German as L1
Great video! I love to watch Thomas and I always thought his Chinese is perfect... Also, is there a way to take your class? I assume you teach at school, not online? I understand you may not have time...
You should analyse Ava King's Chinese
Thanks for your suggestion!!
Trying to learn chinese and was listening to an anime in German to see it in all language and it sounded a little like Chinese with certain phrases. I can only listen and learning to listen to both and not read or wright or anything.
If you enjoyed this video, raise your hand to show Rita your undying support 🙋✋💥
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Basically pinyin is a mix of european languages,
X in pinyin is very close to X in Russian.
Z pinyin like German Z
etc.
But Q doesn't have ANY European or Finno-Ugric counterpart.
Tbh pinyin is such a confusing system that I criticize every day... meanwhile I have to use it every day😂
@@RitaChinese Pinyin is soooo easy if you are a polyglot though! Every sound except X corresponds to some letter in one of the european languages!
pinyin -n like french
pinyin -ng like english
i don't really speak italian but pinyin C may correspond to one of Italian C's pronunciations. Does equal Germn TS/TZ (which do sound different in German but you probably don't notice the difference).
The Chinese C is actually much more aspirated than German Z/TS, English C/TS and assumingly Italian C. Didn't dive into this too much, but I'll explain all details in my course for sure😁
I don't think his tone errors are due to the German language; tonality in German is no different than in English or French.
though yeah a german native would want all tones to be level but at different "heights". The idea that the sound rises and falls or falls or rises is not really the way germans would think about tonality from the German language perspective.
Yeah I think European, at least Germanic language speakers share a similar tendency in terms of tones, but maybe because German vowels are usually shorter than English, if I didn't get it wrong, the rising and falling tones are more likely to be pronounced incomplete or be simplified as different pitch heights. Just my theory hahah
老马视频过来的~范老师原来是用英文教课的~哈哈~😁
Rita your knowledge of Chinese phonology and tongue placement is amazing
Thank you!! It's just fascinating to me and I can't help to learn more so that I can understand how languages really work😄🙌💪
@@RitaChinese Yes I can't wait until your new courses comes out!!!
I am so happy that I stumbled across your channel. I started to learn Chinese back in 1994, but really haven't done anything for the past 20+ years. Your channel really motivates me to become an active learner of Chinese again. And as a German speaker myself I found this evaluation of Afu's Chinese skills quite interesting.
The way you're pointing out the different aspects is just phenomenal.
A big thumbs up for your work!
Glad to know that!! Good luck with your studies😄👏
8:35
You know what I would be interested in seeing as a video, if you had a linguist help you improve you on your accent in English, see if you feel that you got better or stay the same. No hate, just think it would make an interesting video.
Thank you so much, Brenda! It's a great idea and I've actually been thinking about it for a while! Just didn't get to do it, given so much time I'll have to put in. But it's definitely something I'll do whenever I can!
I am from Germany and just started learning Chinese with the help of my friend from Taiwan. These different tones drive me crazy, but my friend has a lot of fun listening to my pathetic attempts. But she has the patience of a saint to teach me the correct pronunciation. We laugh a lot together. I really hope to get better at the language soon.
Throughout European languages
Fourth tone is for imperative statements
Second tone is for interrogative statements
Yeah it's a good start to help people find their Chinese contour tones thinking in this way, and there's a long way to go when it comes to mastering the tones for each syllable💪💪
@@RitaChinese I waited until completing HSK5 to start actually pronouncing Chinese.
It's much too easy for European language speakers to ruin tones. I'm hoping to at least get them right mostly.
I've got great initials and finals so at least theres that.
@@QuizmasterLaw Wow that's not a common path of learning Chinese, but I'm curious about how it works out! At least I'm pretty sure that pronunciation and tones are something that you definitely can master as long as you wanna put in time and effort. Vocab and structures, on the other hand, are relatively innumerable.
@@RitaChinese The toughest part about Chinese is the near total absence of cognates.
I intend to speak and read Chinese at a near native level.
I did not want to drill lots of incorrect pronunciations. I doubt I can get to a native level but hope to eventually speak Chinese at least as well as you speak English.
I am lazy, in a sense: pronunciation drills take time and effort, it's active learning. But as a newbie I knew I would make errors, not know it, and then reinforce them.
My learning path was the right one (this is maybe my 8th language)
1) KANGXI RADICALS oh thank god i did them first
2) PICTOGRAMS
3) Hui Yi Zi
and only then really get into the pictophonetic characters.
I focused on learning vocabulary, primarily, with active understanding of the grammar, but only passive learning of tones and pronunciation until now.
Even as I am now working on HSK6 there are still lots of words and hanzi to learn. But I feel I can and should also work on speaking.
Chinese grammar in principle is easy. But the absence of cognates makes this language tougher.
funny thing is when you say "Video" it's like the German pronounciation :p wee-deo should be wi(h)-deo ;)
Hi! I used to studied linguistics in university in Germany. Apparently our language also does the voiceless sounds often in the "bdg" plosives. :) French language doesn't as far as I know but it might depend on the context of the sound.
Love your news and love this video (as a German) 🙌😃
Hahah awesome! Glad to know that German friends are enjoying this video! 😆🙌
Learning from mistakes is a great way to learn. Please keep produce more of this series.
wow! i just knew most of them now. thank you so much. i need your guidance laoshi!
阿福 其实并没有那么多人喜欢
啊没想到啊
非常好！
🙌🙌
分析得太好了！你应该来我大学教语言学😂😂什么清浊音塞擦音送气不送气的 太复杂了
哈哈谢谢谢谢，你在哪个大学啊？作为老师基本理论知识还是应该了解的，但对于学生来说并不需要知道这些，能说对就好！😄
@@RitaChinese 我是新加坡人，在南洋理工大学念中文系哈哈 我才刚入学，所以没什么经验哈哈
I would like to see a video of Mandarin spoken with a Cantonese accent and how well native Cantonese speakers can speak Mandarin.
Yeah that'd be fun! 😄 Thank you for your idea!
范老师太可爱了!
非常期待你的online training video!
哈哈谢谢😄 online training program membership presale opens now!! 欢迎去看看 www.ritachinese.com 🙌
老师 多亏您的帮助，我的中文进步可大了，特别是我的北京口音😊 非常感谢！很期待下期视频。希望您还能教我们京腔更多的技巧🙏
哈哈能帮到你我可太开心了！北京口音的内容必须继续做😄🙌
谢谢。我会选你的中文课
谢谢！我在努力准备😄💪
do 杰里德
Did a bit about his Mandarin😁: ruclips.net/video/ANBIEyTb1V0/видео.html
@@RitaChinese thank you for replying
@@RitaChinese Also you can do Hailey 莫彩曦
@@robcrowther30 Yeah her Chinese is pretty good too!! Thanks!