Your looks at non-native speakers are so much more than just, "Hey, check out their awesome skills!" I love that you work in tips, useful criticism or compliments, etc. Great! (It really is incredible what these speakers have been able to achieve though!)
Ahh thanks, Alex❤😄 They really are brilliant! But the reason why I make videos like this is definitely to help more Chinese learners speak Chinese better, so there should be a lot more explained than just "oh they're good"😆🙌
I’m not learning Chinese or even had interest to do so, but after watching some of your videos coz CZcams recommend to me: I wish to have a teacher so charismatic like you.
As for the personality thing, i think it happens because of the different rules and ways of the language work, it sorta creates a cognitive dissonance from your former native self. New language, new culture, new you.
I’ve always thought it’s about how humans just naturally replicate the environment you’re in. Like how some people code switch between different groups of friends.
I don't know any word in Chinese, but somehow I find your videos entertaining :D. I like to hear the difference when you correct the sound and sometimes I try to repeat after you and check if I can say something in Chinese.
Polish may have. consonant that is similar ton Chinese xi, = Polish c stih cedille hook, mark? Russian, Irish,and Scottish Share some consonants + vowels with, Mandarin Chinese s xi, hi, qi.!!
I watch C-dramas a lot. The first time I don't use subtitles so I can try to figure out on my own it f I can understand what's being said. I give myself points if I actually get it right.
wow so when teenagers group up in Beijing their entire accents change? Like i know most ppl stop using trendy slang when they get to their mid-twenties but i never thought a whole accent could be attributed to an age group!
I love watching people speak in another language. lol it's like a mind bending thing. Even when I see Chinese American/Canadian/British, my mind is still blown
Rita! You really deserve more than thankyou!! Really make this top level content is so hard!! Really think i cant feel more greatfull!!, My friend in china give me the suggestion, talking about the shadowing method to imitate a chinese native speaker, try to imitate the standard accent of. "康辉" (kang hui), maybe one day we can Analyse his flow and pronunciation, i think is so hard to my low level, jajajaja. Thank you!!!
Bryan you da best! Shadowing is def a great practice method, Kang Hui though...could be a bit "too" standard? I should listen to him more and see if there's a natural flow in his speech😆 All I can think of him is 新闻联播...which is reading scripts😂 But that's a good idea! Will think about it! (You're Spanish native?!
I love this! The male actor, I love his trick. I'm learning Korean right now (not Chinese), but I find that I hold on to words better when I practice saying them using a movement. For example, if I'm saying "eat" in Korean, I mimic spooning something into my mouth. Then, if I'm looking for the word and it doesn't come right away, I do the motion and remember it immediately. These kinds of tricks work!
Yes, as Chinese, I was surprised a foreigner can discover sometimes we will do some actions, even Chinese are not aware of this behavior pattern, mostly head or hand motions to comply with the tones, especially the third tone or forth tone. Of cause it's not to represent the tone, it's to represent your emotion. The guy is so smart to find this trick!
Haha I wouldn’t say it’s about “talent” but just hard work and time that they put in listening to natives speaking and practice! You can def do it too, as long as you wanna dedicate yourself to Chinese learning😁
@@RitaChinese I tried learning Chinese a couple of years ago and.... it went really badly. I still can't understand much, remember many words or phrases, or even get the basics of pronunciation and tone right. (I still can't hear the difference between the "s,c,z" sounds after nearly 2 years of trying - that's how bad I am!) I just found it too difficult. It would be really useful to be able to speak and understand the language, as I live and work in Taiwan, but I'm just not confident that it is something I can really do.
I'm not sure what caocao mentioned is a trick as much as some of the nonverbal gestures that go with the language? In my native language (not English) it feels hard to have proper intonation in a sentence without moving your head and hands, no matter how well you pronounce everything as a native.
Cao Cao (rising tone and. high level tone) was, a famous Chinese leaders of 1 of 3 states during a division era, after fall of Han Dynasty, 500s? Cao, cao, Is, swear, word ( falling, tone)?
The first girl in the video had time to prepare her speech, as they all do for that portion of the show 奇葩说. But when that show got to the part where they had to think on the fly she didn't perform so well. It's also possible that people voted for her to win simply because she was a foreigner and was speaking chinese. Chinese people, in my experience, are pretty condescending when foreigners speak chinese well. I have been told by Chinese people that Chinese is the hardest language to learn (not true). Because of that the fact that they are impressed also implies most foreigners don't have the mental capacity to learn the language. If you can do it, so can anyone else. We are both human, after all.
I've found Chinese people are very congratulating of foreigners who can speak "a little bit" of Chinese. Kind of like... good effort? but the better your Chinese gets the more they will scrutinize...rightly so.
Exactly. I don’t think they realize they are being condescending. It seems they think of themselves as smarter than Westerners. Here in the US, there are people from every country in the world who speak good English, and nobody is impressed by that. There’s nothing that impressive about learning a language, actually.
Just one small "false logic" statement you've made: just because speaking proper Chinese is difficult to native Chinese speakers doesn't mean it is for foreigners learning the language, even quite the opposite. When you start from scratch, either variant is as difficult as the other, but the proper formal form has a lot more material available for people to learn. In my native language, I'm always a lot more impressed if people can speak perfectly smooth street talk than if they speaked in the formal "newsbroadcast" register, that natives struggle a little bit with.
That's fair for people who learned in a classroom setting, but at higher levels, when you're actually learning by immersion, the casual register becomes much easier and it's easy to mess up the more formal stuff. I'm an ESL speaker and while I learned with the formal register now that I have to deal with more technical stuff casual "street" talk is def easier.
Proper Chinese is hard though, because China is very big. There are a lot of dialects there and some are very different and for example, Beijing (Peking) is the capital of China. In Beijing they actually don’t speak correctly pronounced Manderin Chinese but with a Beijing accent (One big thing is that they’ll add an “er” behind a word. Studying formal manderin or other dialects in China is pretty hard like another “language” but with the same writings.) Studying broadcast in China is very hard too, and everything they read has to be in time and it also can’t be too fast. Any pronunciation has to be correct there, while I really struggle with that. If I read 四是四，十是十。十四是十四，四十是四十。I struggle with the si and shi (there are 2 shi with different ig accent on in or how you call that.) I don’t pronounce that “h” that is like rolling your tongue while pronouncing the “s”? Also street language is easy for someone if they don’t learn proper language on school but be on social media or friends. You don’t say things the right way and everything you say is actually good in street language though. I don’t speak street language well because I don’t have many friends nor I learn proper language in school because I speak multiple languages (atm 6 but it’ll be more I think 🥲) Also sometimes at home when I am talking to someone, some of my sentences will have 3 languages in it lol. Ok I’ll stop writing now bc it’s too long bye
@@yenivah.4986 If you speak or watch chinese videos, series or other stuff. You will be listening to informal chinese because people are mostly speaking casual. I learn Chinese by watching and listening to those since I live abroad. My parents are Chinese too so I speak Chinese with them too. When taking lessons you’ll learn formal Chinese because nobody is going to teach you street language or something. You can search up Chinese slangs online if you are searching them.
You should take a look at Simone Giertz. She was on a Chinese sitcom as a teenager. She says her Chinese was SO BAD, but her English is amazing (she’s natively Swedish). There’s a video on her channel about her experience.
If someone does not understand my pronunciation, I repeat slower and use my finger to write the tone in the air, for example, “to brush teeth” = “Shuai ya” (Ya with second tone)
.... the advantages of foreigners speaking in a second lauguage, let say a European speaking Chinese, he/she is propregating his/her cultural and ethos thought in the second lauguage. Thus sharing and expanding human knowledge.
She only made a glaring （「超明顯的」）minor mistake throughout the rebuttal (反駁) 2:01 這就是它的「珍貴」之處。 昂貴 refers to things being expensive. Things that are 「珍貴」 may be priceless 「無價」。This is more appropriate because she is talking about a really abstract concept of "giving sense of security" as if I'm getting a service experience in restaurant「（在餐廳裡，撇除實質餐飲的）服務體驗」。
Rita， thank you so much for your videos! They are always so informative and helpful. I love that video of Beijing Grampa! But the trick definitely doesn't work for me. I used to always to do it when I was thinking about tones. I sometimes still have to consciously stop myself from doing it 🙈 Doesn't help with my awful tones and I just look a bit silly, hahahaha
Thank you for watching and liking my content, 小琳! 😊❤ Haha well the tones is def a huge part of the language that you gotta deal with sooner or later😂 Try listen to more natives' (slow) speech and find your own Chinese tones!
@@RitaChinese thanks a million teacher Rita. Your videos are so inspiring to me. I have been struggling a lot to master the pronunciation of Mandarin Chinese. I am a Swahili native speaker and Chinese has never been difficult to me though I'm still a beginner in Chinese. I wish I could send to you my audio so you hear how I pronounce Chinese words. I really appreciate your efforts to Chinese learners.
ALSO, I get an impression, that the Chinese language is for me easier to pronounce than German. I was surprised and was wondering, why is that? My native language is Polish, so it's a slavic language, does not have much in common with Chinese. I can easily pronounce English, of course it's not perfect and I switch between British and American accents, and German belongs to the same language family as English, but it is sharp in pronunciation. I am wondering, why English is easy and German is not? I am also wondering if the musical hearing or absolute pitch have something in common with that. I don't know much about languages, but I get the impression, that some of them are more "melodious" than others. For example Russian seems to me like someone was singing, I get the similar impression with Chinese. Hearing someone speaking those languages is pleasant to me. Chinese is the tonal language, so it makes sense, but Russian is not, but yet seems "melodious".
English and German pronounciation basically have nothing in common,german in this aspect much closer to chinese, german language can produce any kind of consonant combination that is really hard to do,so getting z,zh,q,ch right is so much easier for german than for english speakers
@@chafiqbantla1816 What are you talking about? German and English are almost exactly the same so much it's actually kind of hilarious sometimes. Lol. Guten Morgen/Good morning Gute Nacht/Good night. ("Gut" is "good" without any articles afterwards and is pronounced extremely similar to if the English word "good" didn't ignore the pronunciation rules for "oo" that typically makes a "oo" sound like it does in the word "moose". Because it's a soft "t" as well, meaning it sounds similar to a "d". It's basically the same word spelled different but English strayed from Germanic pronunciation so now our word "good" breaks the "oo" rules and sounds like "gud") Ich habe Hunger/I'm hungry (literal translation "I have hunger") The words for "house" and "mouse" are literally the exact same word when spoken. The German spellings are "Haus" und "Maus" "And" is "und" "is" is "ist" "Fish" and "Cat" are "Fisch" und "Katze" And my personal all time favorite funny word, "Fledermaus": English "bat" (the animal) and the literal translation to English is: "flutter-mouse" 😂 If German is hard to pronounce but English isn't for someone, it's probably because whatever language they came from is more similar to the ways English has strayed from Germanic pronunciation because, as a native English speaker I find them overwhelmingly similar.
@@JoeyisDREADful i think you are mixing up phonetics and lexics, let me explain a bit further, for some examples they are also phonetic similarities as you mentioned but the whole system is extremely different,while the chinese system much closer to german, its a huge disadvantage if a chinese person learned english first and then learn german,they will use english phonetics as their basis to pronounce german words and their are 99% wrong,it absolutely doesnt work;but if they the chinese system as a foundation they pronounciation is way better for example: kaufen (to buy in english) no matter what you do there is no basis in english to pronounce this,so they get it wrong if they use english,then i show them chinese syllables ike kăofēn考分,every german will understand although its chinese,(its sound very like kaufen) or the english i doesnt work in german but the chinese i is exactly the same, the german e is a very special sound and it partiallynexist even systematically in chinese,but not at all in english, english phonetics are just too arbitrary, most chinese students think that english and german phonetics are similar,but its actually the opposite and big hinderance to learn the german sounds
This definitely helped hearing how people have their own set of tones but also how similar they are made. I think I got the 3rd tone down in my hearing today. thank you so much.
I think in fact you’ll find there are more foreigners today that have good Chinese because they grew up in China (though this won’t be stated). It is rumored that Dashan grew up in China until he was twelve.
Hahaha I've never heard that before! As far as the younger generation, there are definitely already hundreds (thousands?) of foreigners who grew up in China and speak pretty much just like a native. I'm sure they'll start making their way on to social media as content creators in the coming years! 👏😄
I’m sorry. I just stumbled across this channel and have been happily enjoying watching many videos throughout the night, does anybody know who the last person she is talking about is? It was a little too fast for me
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2:58 - u pronounce 别人 as bie2ren4. I am curious if this was a slip of the tongue or if this tonal shift on "ren" happens sometimes to place more emphasis on the term "others".
I am guessing it is the latter as, in my experience, natives rarely mess up tone, just like native english speakers rarely mess up stress. It is much more common to accidentally swap consonants or vowels. Just thought I'd ask to be sure, tho :)
yes！chinese mess up their pronounication all the time. each place has their own way to mess up things. the ren you pointed out is not the fourth tone，its actually called the light tone. it happens in northern china. And beijing ppl tend to swallow A LOT of the consonants. you will even hear the word sound as "bie en" when they speak fast
9:43 It doesn't work for me. There's a fundamental 「根本的」problem Only issue (same with native speakers playing games): The video is mirrored「左右調換」, so your head movement is signalling a second tone, but what I see is the fourth tone).
haha did you try the method on your own? When I teach in the class, I always pay attention to the direction of my gesture so that the students can see it in the right way. But apparently not when I am watching a video on my phone😂😆
@@RitaChinese No, I had a friend who was a dance student, so when I see her dance and copying it, it didn't look right, even to me, because she never fixed the mirrored image.
5:14 Actually, I am from south China but I think I can get rid of the 'cacusal habit' in one second. Because I have been told with non-accent(No south province accent neither north provice accent). I used to raised by my mother side of my family, and my grandpa is from HeBei province(the closest non-accent accent provine lol), my mom grow up in Shanghai, and somehow my grandma has no accent although she is kinda local. So that once my friend thought I am actually from north or the middle of the country =,=
To test someone's true level in a language and whether they are "native" or not, get them in a free-flowing intellectual conversation on something specialized, like politics, philosophy, art, etc. THAT's when you'll truly separate the wheat from the chaff. Besides 星悦, most of this was just everyday stuff and accent training. A true educated native would be able to cope with a wide range of specialized topics with ease.
I think it's a result of very strong priority for vertical hierarchy in China... and Beijing, being the seat of the CCP and power in China, is seen as the default high mark.
哇哦~ 谢谢范老师~ 嘻嘻嘻 Thank you Rita! You're so nice~~
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Your looks at non-native speakers are so much more than just, "Hey, check out their awesome skills!" I love that you work in tips, useful criticism or compliments, etc. Great! (It really is incredible what these speakers have been able to achieve though!)
Ahh thanks, Alex❤😄 They really are brilliant! But the reason why I make videos like this is definitely to help more Chinese learners speak Chinese better, so there should be a lot more explained than just "oh they're good"😆🙌
I’m not learning Chinese or even had interest to do so, but after watching some of your videos coz CZcams recommend to me: I wish to have a teacher so charismatic like you.
Fàn lǎoshī is not just criticizing, the videos are always with some SUPER useful tips! Highly recommended!!!
You’re the best Xiè lǎoshī❤️😊🙌
It always funny when you watch a Chinese person’s video and learn Chinese from listening to foreigners speak Chinese
Haha we can always learn from each other, especially for language learning😄🙌💪
As long as you never try to learn from Zuckerberg, you'll be OK.
It's actually really inspiring and motivating to see just how far it's possible for a beginner to go! Thank you for doing this video! ❤
I like watching your videos even though I'm learning Japanese and not Chinese. I just find your content interesting and I like how cheery you are :)
Their Chinese is outstanding. Looking forward to watch more videos like this. Love your analysis.
Thanks Matheus! Glad you like them!
I enjoy watching your videos even if I'm not even trying to learn Mandarin. Your videos are so educational and well explained.
As for the personality thing, i think it happens because of the different rules and ways of the language work, it sorta creates a cognitive dissonance from your former native self. New language, new culture, new you.
Exactly
I’ve always thought it’s about how humans just naturally replicate the environment you’re in. Like how some people code switch between different groups of friends.
I totally agree.I speak three languages and it's like I'm a different person with each one.It's really strange
Great video again Rita, really cool to see all these foreigners speaking such amazing Mandarin
Thank you so much😄❤️ Yeah they’re amazing!!
I don't know any word in Chinese, but somehow I find your videos entertaining :D. I like to hear the difference when you correct the sound and sometimes I try to repeat after you and check if I can say something in Chinese.
+1😂
Polish may have. consonant that is
similar ton Chinese xi, = Polish
c stih cedille hook, mark?
Russian, Irish,and Scottish Share
some consonants + vowels with,
Mandarin Chinese s xi, hi, qi.!!
I love the format of your videos. Even in fun videos like this, you find ways to fit in a lot of useful lessons and tips 😁👍
That's exactly what I've been trying to do😄🙌💪
@@RitaChinese you do it amazingly. Thank you for teaching us chinese
I watch C-dramas a lot. The first time I don't use subtitles so I can try to figure out on my own it f I can understand what's being said. I give myself points if I actually get it right.
Your videos are extremely informative! 🤯 Thanks and I'm waiting for more! 😁😍🤩
Hahah thanks!! I’m so happy hear it😄 The next video is in making!
wow so when teenagers group up in Beijing their entire accents change? Like i know most ppl stop using trendy slang when they get to their mid-twenties but i never thought a whole accent could be attributed to an age group!
I love watching people speak in another language. lol it's like a mind bending thing. Even when I see Chinese American/Canadian/British, my mind is still blown
Do it! The deeper you get, the easier and more rewarding it gets.
Rita! You really deserve more than thankyou!! Really make this top level content is so hard!! Really think i cant feel more greatfull!!, My friend in china give me the suggestion, talking about the shadowing method to imitate a chinese native speaker, try to imitate the standard accent of. "康辉" (kang hui), maybe one day we can Analyse his flow and pronunciation, i think is so hard to my low level, jajajaja. Thank you!!!
Bryan you da best! Shadowing is def a great practice method, Kang Hui though...could be a bit "too" standard? I should listen to him more and see if there's a natural flow in his speech😆 All I can think of him is 新闻联播...which is reading scripts😂 But that's a good idea! Will think about it! (You're Spanish native?!
@@RitaChinese thank you so much!!! you are the best!! , Yes! exactly my mother toungue is spanish! 真的感谢你！！ 加油！！
@@bryanbowtun4470 不客气！我们都加油💪💪
@@RitaChinese 💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪👍👍👍👍
I love this! The male actor, I love his trick. I'm learning Korean right now (not Chinese), but I find that I hold on to words better when I practice saying them using a movement. For example, if I'm saying "eat" in Korean, I mimic spooning something into my mouth. Then, if I'm looking for the word and it doesn't come right away, I do the motion and remember it immediately. These kinds of tricks work!
Yes, as Chinese, I was surprised a foreigner can discover sometimes we will do some actions, even Chinese are not aware of this behavior pattern, mostly head or hand motions to comply with the tones, especially the third tone or forth tone. Of cause it's not to represent the tone, it's to represent your emotion. The guy is so smart to find this trick!
Did you learn Korean ?
I wanna watch some related to the cantonese accent.
Damn, those guys can speak Chinese so well. And here I am unable to say even basic stuff in Chinese, sigh... Wish I had their talent for languages.
Haha I wouldn’t say it’s about “talent” but just hard work and time that they put in listening to natives speaking and practice! You can def do it too, as long as you wanna dedicate yourself to Chinese learning😁
@@RitaChinese I tried learning Chinese a couple of years ago and.... it went really badly. I still can't understand much, remember many words or phrases, or even get the basics of pronunciation and tone right. (I still can't hear the difference between the "s,c,z" sounds after nearly 2 years of trying - that's how bad I am!) I just found it too difficult. It would be really useful to be able to speak and understand the language, as I live and work in Taiwan, but I'm just not confident that it is something I can really do.
@@peterbayne7227 ah I’m sorry to hear that, Peter! What is your mother tongue, May I ask? And how did you practice in the two years of learning?
I’ve also troubles counting to ten in mandarin 😳
It's a long journey. I've practiced mandarin for about ~800 hours or so and am only at an intermediate level. You need to put in the hours.
You should do a video where u guess if someone is native or non native without based on their voice
Very informative!! 很详细的讲解，学华语的同时也顺便练习英语听力，谢谢范老师！
哈哈一石二鸟、一举两得、一箭双雕😆🙌 不客气！You're very welcome!
Wonderful again! best videos ever! 想念你老师！！！！！
😄😄谢谢乔丹每次都这么捧场！我得继续努力多做视频😆🙌 最近又很忙吧加油啊💪💪
Great video, thanks!
Great video ! Any chance you would make a video opinion on 朱力安 ? Would be awesome
范姐就是专业！💪🏼🤓
哈哈哈阿利吗？尽力了尽力了😆🙌
@@RitaChinese 是的
雖然我程度和一般中國人無二，但還是挺享受這影片，加油吖
哈哈谢谢！
Haven’t watched it yet, but from the title this looks awesome!
Haha hope you’ll like it!! Let me know what you think when finish watching it😁🙌
@@RitaChinese yess I loved it! I really learn a lot!
@@RitaChinese great tips!
Yayyy awesome😄🙌💪
I'm not sure what caocao mentioned is a trick as much as some of the nonverbal gestures that go with the language? In my native language (not English) it feels hard to have proper intonation in a sentence without moving your head and hands, no matter how well you pronounce everything as a native.
Cao Cao (rising tone and. high level tone) was, a famous Chinese
leaders of 1 of 3 states during a
division era, after fall of Han
Dynasty, 500s?
Cao, cao, Is, swear, word ( falling,
tone)?
I wanted to see more clips of Reddy.. i tried googling but im in sea ph, is there a way to watch her vids? She seemed so fun haha
The first girl in the video had time to prepare her speech, as they all do for that portion of the show 奇葩说. But when that show got to the part where they had to think on the fly she didn't perform so well. It's also possible that people voted for her to win simply because she was a foreigner and was speaking chinese. Chinese people, in my experience, are pretty condescending when foreigners speak chinese well. I have been told by Chinese people that Chinese is the hardest language to learn (not true). Because of that the fact that they are impressed also implies most foreigners don't have the mental capacity to learn the language. If you can do it, so can anyone else. We are both human, after all.
Its not like they put any effort into learning it lmao and they brag as if they have.
I've found Chinese people are very congratulating of foreigners who can speak "a little bit" of Chinese. Kind of like... good effort? but the better your Chinese gets the more they will scrutinize...rightly so.
Exactly. I don’t think they realize they are being condescending. It seems they think of themselves as smarter than Westerners. Here in the US, there are people from every country in the world who speak good English, and nobody is impressed by that. There’s nothing that impressive about learning a language, actually.
作为中国人，并没有觉得汉语是最难的，毕竟我觉得英语语言体系的都很难····
谢谢范老师！
Please do one on xiaomanyc and his “perfect” Chinese. Thanks!
Already did bruh
She did it a few months back. Here's the link czcams.com/video/Ey0gJvLO15c/video.html
I tried that trick during my last Skype lesson with my teacher... She called an ambulance on me, she thought I had a seizure.
Whaaat😂
Just one small "false logic" statement you've made: just because speaking proper Chinese is difficult to native Chinese speakers doesn't mean it is for foreigners learning the language, even quite the opposite. When you start from scratch, either variant is as difficult as the other, but the proper formal form has a lot more material available for people to learn.
In my native language, I'm always a lot more impressed if people can speak perfectly smooth street talk than if they speaked in the formal "newsbroadcast" register, that natives struggle a little bit with.
That's fair for people who learned in a classroom setting, but at higher levels, when you're actually learning by immersion, the casual register becomes much easier and it's easy to mess up the more formal stuff. I'm an ESL speaker and while I learned with the formal register now that I have to deal with more technical stuff casual "street" talk is def easier.
Proper Chinese is hard though, because China is very big. There are a lot of dialects there and some are very different and for example, Beijing (Peking) is the capital of China. In Beijing they actually don’t speak correctly pronounced Manderin Chinese but with a Beijing accent (One big thing is that they’ll add an “er” behind a word. Studying formal manderin or other dialects in China is pretty hard like another “language” but with the same writings.) Studying broadcast in China is very hard too, and everything they read has to be in time and it also can’t be too fast. Any pronunciation has to be correct there, while I really struggle with that. If I read 四是四，十是十。十四是十四，四十是四十。I struggle with the si and shi (there are 2 shi with different ig accent on in or how you call that.) I don’t pronounce that “h” that is like rolling your tongue while pronouncing the “s”? Also street language is easy for someone if they don’t learn proper language on school but be on social media or friends. You don’t say things the right way and everything you say is actually good in street language though. I don’t speak street language well because I don’t have many friends nor I learn proper language in school because I speak multiple languages (atm 6 but it’ll be more I think 🥲) Also sometimes at home when I am talking to someone, some of my sentences will have 3 languages in it lol. Ok I’ll stop writing now bc it’s too long bye
@@yenivah.4986 If you speak or watch chinese videos, series or other stuff. You will be listening to informal chinese because people are mostly speaking casual. I learn Chinese by watching and listening to those since I live abroad. My parents are Chinese too so I speak Chinese with them too. When taking lessons you’ll learn formal Chinese because nobody is going to teach you street language or something. You can search up Chinese slangs online if you are searching them.
@@yenivah.4986 you should learn the basics first though
You should take a look at Simone Giertz. She was on a Chinese sitcom as a teenager. She says her Chinese was SO BAD, but her English is amazing (she’s natively Swedish). There’s a video on her channel about her experience.
我们上大学的时候，考口语时跟着声调动头的话老师就会扣分的哈哈哈哈😂
哈哈哈你们的老师好严格，但可能也是为你们好😆😁 你在哪儿学的中文呀？
@@RitaChinese 先是在自己的国家(哈国，阿拉木图市) 学了两年，然后在北京又学了一年
@@cyruslenn6807 棒！看起来学得真好啊！现在还常常用中文吗？
@@RitaChinese 那必须的，天天都在用，期待范老师更多的视频！
哈国是哪里啊？
我爱这个视频！谢谢fan老师！
不客气！太好了😄👏🙌
很佩服你的勇气，因为中文在世界上不是一门流行的语言，也不是像英文那样受欢迎的语言，所以你用英语来讲中文课，这条路太难了。
I’m from Taiwan and this is entertaining
If someone does not understand my pronunciation, I repeat slower and use my finger to write the tone in the air, for example, “to brush teeth” = “Shuai ya” (Ya with second tone)
Brushing teeth is shua ya, “shuai ya” could be something like handsome teeth (帅牙) or falling teeth (摔牙) xD
.... the advantages of foreigners speaking in a second lauguage, let say a European speaking Chinese, he/she is propregating his/her cultural and ethos thought in the second lauguage. Thus sharing and expanding human knowledge.
Where is Lele Farley?
She only made a glaring （「超明顯的」）minor mistake throughout the rebuttal (反駁)
2:01 這就是它的「珍貴」之處。 昂貴 refers to things being expensive. Things that are 「珍貴」 may be priceless 「無價」。This is more appropriate because she is talking about a really abstract concept of "giving sense of security" as if I'm getting a service experience in restaurant「（在餐廳裡，撇除實質餐飲的）服務體驗」。
Good catch, Brock!
Rita， thank you so much for your videos! They are always so informative and helpful.
I love that video of Beijing Grampa! But the trick definitely doesn't work for me. I used to always to do it when I was thinking about tones. I sometimes still have to consciously stop myself from doing it 🙈 Doesn't help with my awful tones and I just look a bit silly, hahahaha
Thank you for watching and liking my content, 小琳! 😊❤ Haha well the tones is def a huge part of the language that you gotta deal with sooner or later😂 Try listen to more natives' (slow) speech and find your own Chinese tones!
@@RitaChinese thanks a million teacher Rita. Your videos are so inspiring to me. I have been struggling a lot to master the pronunciation of Mandarin Chinese. I am a Swahili native speaker and Chinese has never been difficult to me though I'm still a beginner in Chinese. I wish I could send to you my audio so you hear how I pronounce Chinese words. I really appreciate your efforts to Chinese learners.
ALSO, I get an impression, that the Chinese language is for me easier to pronounce than German. I was surprised and was wondering, why is that? My native language is Polish, so it's a slavic language, does not have much in common with Chinese. I can easily pronounce English, of course it's not perfect and I switch between British and American accents, and German belongs to the same language family as English, but it is sharp in pronunciation. I am wondering, why English is easy and German is not? I am also wondering if the musical hearing or absolute pitch have something in common with that. I don't know much about languages, but I get the impression, that some of them are more "melodious" than others. For example Russian seems to me like someone was singing, I get the similar impression with Chinese. Hearing someone speaking those languages is pleasant to me. Chinese is the tonal language, so it makes sense, but Russian is not, but yet seems "melodious".
@Stephen Young Thank you for useful information:)
English and German pronounciation basically have nothing in common,german in this aspect much closer to chinese, german language can produce any kind of consonant combination that is really hard to do,so getting z,zh,q,ch right is so much easier for german than for english speakers
Hmmm interesting lol Maybe I should trying to learn some Polish
@@chafiqbantla1816 What are you talking about? German and English are almost exactly the same so much it's actually kind of hilarious sometimes. Lol.
Guten Morgen/Good morning
Gute Nacht/Good night.
("Gut" is "good" without any articles afterwards and is pronounced extremely similar to if the English word "good" didn't ignore the pronunciation rules for "oo" that typically makes a "oo" sound like it does in the word "moose". Because it's a soft "t" as well, meaning it sounds similar to a "d". It's basically the same word spelled different but English strayed from Germanic pronunciation so now our word "good" breaks the "oo" rules and sounds like "gud")
Ich habe Hunger/I'm hungry (literal translation "I have hunger")
The words for "house" and "mouse" are literally the exact same word when spoken. The German spellings are "Haus" und "Maus"
"And" is "und"
"is" is "ist"
"Fish" and "Cat" are "Fisch" und "Katze"
And my personal all time favorite funny word, "Fledermaus": English "bat" (the animal) and the literal translation to English is: "flutter-mouse" 😂
If German is hard to pronounce but English isn't for someone, it's probably because whatever language they came from is more similar to the ways English has strayed from Germanic pronunciation because, as a native English speaker I find them overwhelmingly similar.
@@JoeyisDREADful i think you are mixing up phonetics and lexics, let me explain a bit further, for some examples they are also phonetic similarities as you mentioned but the whole system is extremely different,while the chinese system much closer to german, its a huge disadvantage if a chinese person learned english first and then learn german,they will use english phonetics as their basis to pronounce german words and their are 99% wrong,it absolutely doesnt work;but if they the chinese system as a foundation they pronounciation is way better for example: kaufen (to buy in english) no matter what you do there is no basis in english to pronounce this,so they get it wrong if they use english,then i show them chinese syllables ike kăofēn考分,every german will understand although its chinese,(its sound very like kaufen) or the english i doesnt work in german but the chinese i is exactly the same, the german e is a very special sound and it partiallynexist even systematically in chinese,but not at all in english, english phonetics are just too arbitrary, most chinese students think that english and german phonetics are similar,but its actually the opposite and big hinderance to learn the german sounds
It's a long journey to reach high advanced level. Thousands of hours. Get started now bois ;)
在我心中，你老公马思瑞--是the best Chinese Speakers！！
哈哈哈他说“谢谢！！”😄🙌
啊啊原来小姐姐是马思瑞老婆呀
Coming here to learn some English from Chris
第二人说了真棒
谢谢老师 这个真的很赞
不客气！喜欢就好😊
很喜欢范老师的每期视频👍🌹💐
谢谢谢谢😊🙌❤
Please how can one get chinese friends to practice the language with? considering chinese people don't use common social media network 🥺
你们两口子可以做一期视频 点评一下奥地利的小胡 吗？我很好奇为什么他说中文会像唱歌一样 估计会给学中文的朋友做个好的反面教材🤣
This definitely helped hearing how people have their own set of tones but also how similar they are made. I think I got the 3rd tone down in my hearing today. thank you so much.
This is inspiring
Glad you like this one!
“F*** f***” 😂
2:52 LMAO girl rly said “achoo 😐”
I think in fact you’ll find there are more foreigners today that have good Chinese because they grew up in China (though this won’t be stated). It is rumored that Dashan grew up in China until he was twelve.
Hahaha I've never heard that before! As far as the younger generation, there are definitely already hundreds (thousands?) of foreigners who grew up in China and speak pretty much just like a native. I'm sure they'll start making their way on to social media as content creators in the coming years! 👏😄
@@RitaChinese I have foreign friends whose children speak mandarin perfectly even better than their native language.
I’m sorry. I just stumbled across this channel and have been happily enjoying watching many videos throughout the night, does anybody know who the last person she is talking about is? It was a little too fast for me
@铁蛋儿 tyler
you can find him through that tag on weibo (and probably douyin as well)
Whole vlog is almost perfect except your 刘海。🤣😜🤣
Where can i find them...I'm currently learning chinese an i don't have any native speakers to tlk to or help me improve...someone help meeeeeee
我是 trying to learn chinese
加油！💪💪
One can fond book.and online Reference grammars in Chinese
English etc, to Compare
forms, like word phrase clause
order, etc
contents, like word meanings, etc
to See where they are
1 ) ID
2) similar-
3) opposite,
4) different
To use polyglot learners.methods
A).To.immerse.surround self with
everything Chinese---- midic song dance, traditionsl.and new, pop, folk, opera, etc. films, novels,. old and new, cooking, philosophy, like
Yin Yang, qi energy, trad medicine
etc?
On line
courses
tutors
language exchanges (native
speakers not teachers)
italki. com, paid
hellotalk.?? free?
Good, luck!!! Zhu, ni, hao yunqi!!
Jia, you!!!
omg dongbei grandpa too real
看过非正式会谈没？
范老师加油
谢谢你😊💪
I think Chris Chinese is also good
Haha can't agree more😆🤝
铁蛋儿超可爱，还有北京ABD食话实说也很棒
I'll like to have a t-shirt like your.
How can I get one?
安全感不是别人应该给我们的 和 安全不应该是别人给我们的 ， 意思是一样的吗？
第二句是对的！
I'm so sad I'm not in this video :( 233333333
👍🏻
Hohoho Look who I found
百万博主亲自敲碗了哈哈哈
I know a lot of Chinese
马思瑞 😂
与思瑞
could you please tell me which app did u use to edit this video? please. thanks
Hi I use Adobe Premiere Pro😊
挺漂亮呀！
😲 what a difficult language Chinese is. Atleast smiling and laughing expression is same like rest of the world 🤔😉
這部影片好好笑喔，特別是爺爺的部分
2:58 - u pronounce 别人 as bie2ren4. I am curious if this was a slip of the tongue or if this tonal shift on "ren" happens sometimes to place more emphasis on the term "others".
I am guessing it is the latter as, in my experience, natives rarely mess up tone, just like native english speakers rarely mess up stress. It is much more common to accidentally swap consonants or vowels. Just thought I'd ask to be sure, tho :)
She pronounced it correctly.
yes！chinese mess up their pronounication all the time. each place has their own way to mess up things. the ren you pointed out is not the fourth tone，its actually called the light tone. it happens in northern china. And beijing ppl tend to swallow A LOT of the consonants. you will even hear the word sound
as "bie en" when they speak fast
That is neutral tone, not fourth tone. Native speakers basically never get tones wrong.
东北爷爷笑死我了😂😂
Well, i am chinese indonesian. You give an attractive vibe .
Haha thanks for liking my videos! Love Bali and hope I’ll go back there soon😄🙌
what about 老雷
老雷一听就是外国人
Lele Farley is great
Thanks for your recommendation!
如果不谈tiktok我认为最好的是克里斯bilibili的和非正小贝
谢谢分享！😊😊
ah the more videos I watch from you the more I want to learn Chinese 😪
9:43 It doesn't work for me. There's a fundamental 「根本的」problem Only issue (same with native speakers playing games): The video is mirrored「左右調換」, so your head movement is signalling a second tone, but what I see is the fourth tone).
haha did you try the method on your own? When I teach in the class, I always pay attention to the direction of my gesture so that the students can see it in the right way. But apparently not when I am watching a video on my phone😂😆
@@RitaChinese No, I had a friend who was a dance student, so when I see her dance and copying it, it didn't look right, even to me, because she never fixed the mirrored image.
@@BrockMak gotcha! That’s tricky for real haha
Lila is def the best out of all these
About the second girl . I think she knows Russian and we have soft and hard version of every sound
Yes, Anzhela Smirnova is ethnic Russian from Latvia
Also. Irish and Scottish have some sounds like Chinese and Russian.
5:14 Actually, I am from south China but I think I can get rid of the 'cacusal habit' in one second. Because I have been told with non-accent(No south province accent neither north provice accent). I used to raised by my mother side of my family, and my grandpa is from HeBei province(the closest non-accent accent provine lol), my mom grow up in Shanghai, and somehow my grandma has no accent although she is kinda local. So that once my friend thought I am actually from north or the middle of the country =,=
Yuan yuan. From France. Francois.
Hi Yuan Yuan, what's up! 😄🙌
所以我想当中文老师，我该如何做
欢迎！但这个问题太大了，也许可以专门做个视频讲一讲😄不了解您的教育背景和生活环境，有具体问题的话欢迎探讨😊
找次評一下 樂樂法利 (Lele Farley) 吧！他常自誇自己是講漢語最好的頭幾位美國人。
谢谢推荐😊
omg. I'm Chinese by race and these Tiktokers are a whole galaxy better than me 🤣🤣🤣 fml I need to brush up on my mother tongue 😭
To test someone's true level in a language and whether they are "native" or not, get them in a free-flowing intellectual conversation on something specialized, like politics, philosophy, art, etc. THAT's when you'll truly separate the wheat from the chaff. Besides 星悦, most of this was just everyday stuff and accent training. A true educated native would be able to cope with a wide range of specialized topics with ease.
Where can I buy a t-shirt like yours??
Amazon😆
@@RitaChinese What's it called?
“取了个中国媳妇吗？你一个月赚多少钱？” 😂😂😂
我觉得马思瑞和曹操谈天的视频会火爆起来
哈哈期待有一天能看到他们在一起聊天！
我个人认为星悦还不够，比如腔调
成语歇后语这些还差了点
她刚开始接触中文时的老师是台湾的，所以仔细还能听出来点，不过很棒了已经
好像饭冈加奈子😍
Why is a strong Beijing or Dongbei accent considered ideal? I wouldn’t say I want to learn a Texan American accent.
It's the standard.
I think it's a result of very strong priority for vertical hierarchy in China... and Beijing, being the seat of the CCP and power in China, is seen as the default high mark.
There's plenty of people that prefer a standard neutral accent, but since Beijing is so important people might tend to see it as another standard too.
I totally agree. I don't see any reason to learn any particular regional accent, unless you live there.