For anyone that is wondering. 任何 rènhé is the proper way to say "any". And as I mentioned in the video 多少 meaning "any" is actually incorrect towards the beginning of the video. In other words, 我没有多少朋友 would actually be "I don't have many friends" or "I have few friends." So 多少 would mean "how much, how many, many, or much". Adding 没有 just before it would be "not much or not many". However, when adding 根本，基本上，or 几乎 before the statement then the meaning would turn into "I principally/fundamental don't have many friends" or "I basically don't have many friends". That said, I don't anyone personally that speaks that way, at least not in the USA. So the closest translation that I can come up with is "I pretty much don't have any friends" which would mean the same thing as "I basically don't have many friends." Hopefully this helps everyone understand what 根本，基本上, etc does to the sentence. For easier lessons, watch anyone of my other videos, thank you. 😊🙏❤❤❤
As a Chinese native speaker not living in a Chinese speaking country, I'm impressed. This video is like music to my ears. It's such a powerful way to learn.
Pretty cool. I'd like a version of this video without the pinyin. when there is pinyin, the brain tends to watch the pinyin and disregard the Chinese characters. With no pinyin a bit harder at the beginning, but brain goes on autopilot fairly quickly and learns those characters and connects them to the sounds. keep it up!
I agree. I’ve struggled with whether I should put pinyin or leave it out. Maybe in the future I can make two versions of each video and put them in the “with pinyin” and “w/o pinyin” playlists. But I agree. Even though I read Chinese fairly well, if pinyin is there, I have to force myself not to look 👀🤦♂️ lol 😂
Consider putting it in for a few seconds, dropping it, and then occasionally re showing it. Tks! I subscribed. To do a high performance show and hide, cover the alphabetic part (letters) by overlaying the same letters in the background color, and leave the tonal accents showing.
That’s awesome 😎 it is definitely a great way to take your Mandarin a notch. I use the YCT books for my kids as well and their Mandarin improved so quickly. I made this channel, because I found my kids liked watching videos than listening to me teach them directly 😅 it worked. They’ve learned so quickly
Very interesting way to teach using language chunks you can plug in to different slots. I'm sure it would help with fluency for people who tend to try to build sentences from scratch word by word.
I hope people can memorize the overall flow of each sentence structure and know which words to swap in and out. It definitely helps for speaking fluently. In other words, it takes out all the translating in the head and the guesswork. Thank you for your comment. 😊🙏
I've been learning Mandarin for almost 4 years and recently started HSK 4, but I still struggle to build sentences and expand my vocabulary. The structure of your lesson is so interactive and easy to follow. I'll definitely be applying this to my studies. Thank you!!! Liked & subscribed!
Nice. Thank you! I honestly love the HSK material, much of it is really common to day to day conversation. But it nice to be able to expand on the structures they give you with more native style Chinese. Thanks for the support 😊🙏
Question do you have Chinese friends or a group/organization that speaks Chinese regularly? If not, this is one of the quickest ways. Also a study partner, native or not, that is willing to speak with you only in Mandarin. You’ll get there so much faster, even if you don’t live in China. Of course, living in China is the best way, but that can’t happen right away for all of us. Anyway, let me know if this helps 🙏🤞🏻😊
Cool. I recognize what was presented as "progressive schematization" with the creator's intention being "typical" and practical sentence to interact with a local.
Yessir. 😁Especially since these are typical ways that Chinese express themselves. BTW, are you Chinese yourself? If so, which part of China are you from? 谢谢你愿意看我的视频！😊🙏
Great video!I've been studying chinese on and off for a few years but it's hard to actually learn sentence structures like this sometimes, I really liked this model. You just gained a subscriber!
This is an amazing method to learn a language. You pretty much dont need to bother with grammar since the structue is given in a very visual form. Amazing.
I grew up in The Bay Area with a lot of Cantonese speakers but now live in Boston where most people outside Chinatown speak Mandarin Chinese. Just by seeing this spreadsheet I can tell this video is going to be better than most. The tones can be an issue but with practice and learning from native speakers, I know I'll get much more proficiency as I use it. Great video! BuKahjie..
this was really fun, thank you! i've already had a decent understanding of chinese grammar/sentence structure, but your explanations helped a lot and the practice exercises was helpful! definitely keeping me motivated getting back into learning the language
It's a tough language for sure. But a friend of mine told me once, "Hey you know how stupid we were in highschool?" (Me) "Uh huh" (Him) "Yeah, well, we can speak Chinese fluently now." (Me) "Yeah" (Him) "So that's means just about anybody can do it, I mean, if they put their mind to it." 🧐 It's true, to took a lot of effort and a lot of tears, but we got through it. 😂 If you don't already have a partner that is willing to speak Mandarin with you all the time, whether or not they are native, find one. 😊👍
😊🙏🏻❤️ thank you for the kind words. If you don’t mind me asking. What are your goals for learning Chinese? I will make videos in the future about different methods of learning languages, but mostly Chinese. Of course, this isn’t the only way 😉😁
@@brownnup9782 And can be used with 没有 to become "pretty much doesn't". Whereas it isn't used with 不 in this video. But if I said 他几乎不来， I’m saying “he pretty much doesn’t ever come” or “he hardly ever comes “ something like that. However, when paired up with a verb (like 做) and then 完了 it becomes "almost"😉 I try not to explain too many rules in the videos, because sometimes you can get bogged down by too much grammar and it becomes hard to get a sentence out. Hopefully that helps 😊👍
OMG thank you so much for this awesome video! I needed it so much! They way you explain everything is really helpful. I'm not good with long sentences in Chinese and even if I understand them, I can't make them well. So this is exactly what I needed! You really motivate me and help me love Chinese more!
Thank you for those kind words! 🙏 I’m glad I could help. Truthfully, the gratitude is what encourages me to keep making these videos 😊 Keep it up! Don’t give up on Chinese 😉 it’ll get easier, I promise 👍🏻
great video will be watching this a couple of times. would love some tips on where to go next, im currently just practicing tones, tounge positions and basic grammar.
Honestly, there's a couple channels that I recommend for pronunciation, but ultimately it'll depend on who you have as a friend or mentor that speaks Chinese with you or who you decide to imitate. Here's an awesome video for pronunciation. I'll do a similar lesson in the future, but for now, check his out. He's got excellent pronunciation 😉 czcams.com/video/FlaJ12tmtu4/video.html Also, let him know that Learn Pro Mandarin sent you. Thanks 😊🙏
Also as for basic grammar. All my lessons, although are stand alone (supplemental lessons), they assume you know nothing and quickly build to intermediate level of fluency in each video. You really can get fluent between these videos combined with a structured curriculum in the shortest time possible. Now, as for those kinds of lessons, I highly recommend picking up this series of books, if you haven't done so already. amzn.to/47X6p54 It really does help. And gives you the appropriate practice with the most common style sentence structures. My videos take a lot of these lessons and enhances them to an intermediate level quickly. By the time you finish level 3 or 4, provided that you've practiced with someone (native or not) that speaks fluent Chinese, you will become fluent yourself. I can promise that. Most of what is taught in those books, you'll hear from day-to-day. My lessons, teach that plus alternative methods of saying the same phrase, that you might also hear a native speaker say. Hopefully that helps. 😉👍
@@learnpromandarin yo dude thank you so much, greatly appreciated! its not nearly as scary as when I first had the idea to learn, really falling in love with the language community thank you again much love
@@MrPiksovs it’s honestly a lot of fun. On the internet there are some trolls and bad actors, but for the most part people are great in the language community. And Chinese people are very nice, and appreciative of people learning their language. You’ll find it easy to learn Chinese because of it
I am studying Mandarin at a major university but find what you offer much more helpful! You are unlocking my understanding of the confusion I have felt when trying to speak correctly. For instance, 打狗看主人. Dǎ gǒu kàn zhǔrén. Mind whose dog it is before you strike seemed something I would never think to say. And speaking of staying on the horse odder still. But I have to remind myself it is NOT English. And strive to learn how it is understood in Chinese culture, which I love. You are helping me with that. Thank you. I sing and record in Chinese, even successfully competing in Chinese college works events and it is good, but that is a script and I am just mimicking what I read in pinyin and hear the pronunciation, and I am a good mimic. Very badly I want to be able to converse and not always use a written translator, which is often wrong because I use the wrong English words to translate. I feel taking your information, writing it out, practicing and studying it repeatedly will be my map out of this maze....so I begin......谢谢 我的中文名字是罗云熙. It was given to me in by my professor, turns out it is a famous male Chinese actor.....hahahhahaha
I have a Chinese roommate but he speaks Fuzhou dialect and is taking Mandarin in college. RATS! I listen to various Chinese videos, which are dubbed in Mandarin, and over time have come to recognize when a subtitle is not saying what the actor is saying but I am a long way from the proficiency you offer. I am able to type pinyin with tones so it converts to characters so I am slowly recognizing more characters. I am taking your lessons, creating my own documents with columns of your words in pinyin and characters (without the background color) putting in the English meanings (the various ones you present to further drill meanings into my mind) on the chart than making a recording of your voice to listen to as I work on creating sentences on my computer and pronouncing the Chinese words properly. And then writing out different sentence combinations from your lessons with translations to practice and own. WHEW! I really love doing this although it is intense. You are fortunate to have a Chinese wife to speak with, thank you again for your hard work, it is very generous of you.😌@@learnpromandarin
I feel like whatever method you use, you’ll pick up on Mandarin relatively quickly, just based your commitment. That’s probably 80% of it right there. Which includes the willingness and bravery to go up to a Chinese native and speak to them or attend social gatherings or clubs that are predominantly conducted in Mandarin. The rest is material and method Thanks again so much for communicating with me about this. As much as I probably have encouraged you in your studies, I believe comments like yours really encourages me to keep making this content. Just knowing it is helping someone 😁🙏❤️
@@learnpromandarinYour pronunciation is soooo good!! Along with my writing and typing your charts, I listen to audios of your lessons in my car. In class at UVA the Professor did a little of this work but not in the way you have, SO many options to build sentences. RESPECT! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
@@learnpromandarin A little bit more about me and my passion for language and culture. Here is a link to our National Chinese Expo submission that has been accepted for publication which is an honor. Especially to me because this is an all Chinese event and I was worried about my pronunciation under such scrutiny but it seems to be acceptable. I have 3 Chinese songs on my channel ( I sang the Moon Represents for the UVA language dept at an event) a Korean song and several "Merican" (hahaha) songs back in the day. czcams.com/video/6rmALu0q5OA/video.html. Thank you again 老师🙏
Subscribe button smashed 🎉. Great way to learn vocabulary and sentence formation. Learn Mandarin to be able to speak with my co- worker (though she's fluent in English, there's nothing like being able to speak your mother tongue with someone else).
Thank you. Honestly though, I don’t feel too smart, but I do appreciate the compliment 😊 I feel like sharing whatever knowledge I have, so we can all benefit. ❤️
Beware of that compliment. I've heard it many times over a long life, whenever I pronounce a few sentences in one language. That compliment is to be answered by "Where?" In Chinese. You can make a video 2min long to explain it. It's basically as if in one particular culture it was deemed forbidden to acknowledge one's skill (superiority, competency, etc) so you ask Where? Where That Other Person is, who is being pointed at. If the same notion existed in the Bible it'd be "Thou Shalt Not feel better than your others and Thou Shalt also Not Show any feeling better than others either" When you hear that compliment, your spider sense should tingle because it's a test of your egocentered-ness, a simple litmus test coming from the outside world. Responding by Talking about your Relative Merit is not the way to pass that test. Hope this input helps in general. I subscribed. Tks @learnpromandarin !
@@doer-knower That's very true. Interesting the difference in cultures. But you're right 哪里 is definitely one of the most commons ways to respond to that. Thank you for the sub! 😊🙏
@@doer-knower Another one when I first started learning Chinese, I'd say "你好，你会说中文吗?" They'd respond ”你的中文说得太好了“ or ”你的中文怎么那么好！" 😆The culture is just extremely polite to foreigners who are barely starting to learn Chinese. Which is encouraging at the beginning. ❤ But once they get to really know you, or your Chinese passes a certain level. They might be surprised at first, but then they'll treat you just like anyone else. The compliments aren't as grandiose
Hi, I must say this is a great source. I have recently started learning Mandarin. Just for the future if words have the english meaning that would be great, I would like to make a note from these but keep forgetting the words meaning. Even if there is not, not an issue I can find while I write or relisten.Thank you so much for this content
At first it’ll be hard to remember, but as you exercise your ability to retrieve the words you’re trying to remember, it’ll get easier and easier. 一开始会很难。但你继续努力学习，你会增强你的记忆力。会越来越容易。我答应你肯定会成功。加油！ 😁👍🏻
Excellent video! Very practical for listening & speaking. The 儿 was explained spot on! I see “完了” as 完 = finish/end and 了 = -ed, thus 完了 = finished/ended 😉
After about 4000 hours(wild guess, it’s been 15 years) of learning Mandarin Chinese I’ve seen it all. I’m still not conversational but actually what you show is a fun way to do busy work in Starbucks and be creative with sentences. You can do it with any sentence. I’ve filled one or the other 40 page notebook with splitting up sentences like this. Just make sure it’s a legit sentence from a real conversation or a real book, and not the artificial 💩 you get from school books. If you download Chinese Text Analyser you will see for yourself that 30-60% of real life Mandarin Chinese (like a conversation about buying stuff in the supermarket) is NOT covered by HSK1-6. So basically HSK is a waste of time (or a great business, depends on your viewpoint) but studying and playing with real sentences like shown in this video will help you more. I guess.
That is really well put. Same with those learning English. How many textbooks in the US, or California anyway, say “imunna get su’m tuh eat”. None, they’ll say “I’m going to (or gonna) get something to eat.” And that’ll work for most people. But then most people over here don’t say it textbook style with perfect pronunciation and grammar, and somehow everyone still understands each other 🤔 Welp, that’s my observation of Chinese. I do learn some things from HSK textbooks every now and then, but mostly it’s an explanation of words I already learned from just speaking with Chinese, and then they proceed to break all the rules 🤣 Thank you for your comment 🙏 I hope to provide value to all those learning Mandarin. Your words are encouraging.
@zeebest1004 I’ve heard of this theory. There’s a lot of debate as to which way is best 🤔 Well, I’d say all of them lol. Just put in the work and you’ll become fluent 😉 Now, I do agree with you. In fact, I highly recommend at least two other channels to watch with which I have no affiliation, but think everyone would benefit. Tons of amazing listening comprehension. LiaoDan is an amazing teacher and her pronunciation is the closest thing to perfect. Not all natives have a perfectly clear and standard “Mandarin “ pronunciation. Chinese natives even discuss this issue all the time (their own pronunciation). I pinned the links in my comment at the top. The other is a channel with 3 Chinese natives that discuss a variety of topics. Both excellent channels. Now, couple that with the ability to construct your own sentences that mimic the native, as well as a short period of time (I’d say 6 months to a year) and voila! You’re fluent. When I say fluent, I don’t mean perfect. But you’ll be able to and have the confidence to speak on a variety of topics fluently. Good luck! 加油！😊👍🏻❤️
You've been learning Chinese for 15 years and you're not fluent? I guess you have to have talent to not be conversational after 15 years with so many learning tools these days
If you can't even hold a conversation after 15 years, then you are doing something wrong. I know people who are conversational in under 6 months. You desperately need real immersion and not grammar drills in notebooks
😂 yep, It’s tough for sure. I stopped using/studying for a long time myself. I picked it back up again, because I have a reason to use it now. That’s the driving factor.
These guys interview a lot of people. It’s a podcast that has characters and pinyin as well. Great content youtube.com/@DashuMandarin?si=uuJEbAb-PVQUArx5
❤ thank you so much. I really appreciate the compliment. 🙏😊 hopefully this helps you on a path to fluency. I would also check out liaodan. She doesn’t speak English in any of her videos. But she has amazing pronunciation and teaches only one to two grammar points each lesson. Great for listening comprehension. 👍🏻
I learned to speak French by throwing myself and my broken French at French people in France for 3 months. Nice thing is the French correct me and they do not speak English well. Now, I can speak French more fluidly than people who actually took years of school French classes. So NOW, I learn the grammar and it's less painful.
I agree. Same here with Chinese. I don’t like teaching grammar rules, because it makes it harder to speak the language. I like teaching it this way, because it’s like having a friend just telling you how to say, not why it makes sense or the rules behind it. 😁 Thanks for the comment. You’re right on 🙏😊👍🏻
Thank YOU! Chinese is my native tongue, and I admire the earnest efforts to learn it. It is quite unlike the process for an English speaker learning French or Italian for example. It's a whole new system... I find the CZcams language learning videos in general to be more stimulating than school language lessons, where the former is actually intended for you to use the language as it is alive and lived in, rather than a rigid test... @@learnpromandarin
@@13hehe that is so cool. It sounds like you are at least trilingual now 😁 I eventually need to go back to working on my Spanish, but sometimes I feel like my Chinese needs a lot of work 😬 No matter how much I learn, I always feel there’s room for improvement. Honestly though, I believe your method of throwing yourself in there is the best. When I lived in China, my Chinese improved the fastest. I even felt weird speaking English when I came back to the US 😂
This is the first video of yours I'm watching, and you're doing an amazing job! (I'm almost at 10 minutes point) it reminds me of the method used in 'English Grammar in Use' (A self-study reference and practice book for learners of English, by Raymond Murphy) I learned English using that book on my own (well obviously I kept reading and reading and used dictionaries) I wish there was a book like that for other languages. Outlining the [grammatical] structure of a language, after that it just filling in the details which is basically more reading. I hope you have videos like this one for Chinese grammar. The English book I mentioned started simple (but with a roadmap in mind and very good break down of the whole thing) things like present simple, present continuous, past, past continuous, future, etc. ... obviously now that I'm thinking of it "if" comes to mind, "passive" (was done/were done) comes to mind and so on ... if you haven't yet, hope you go to that direction of teaching, it's very effective.
Thank you so much for the comment. I will check out that book now. I learned this style of teaching from “Learn Spanish” CZcams channel. It is a British guy who teaches Castilian Spanish. He does an excellent job, so I decided to give it a try and I learned Spanish faster that way than I ever did in high school or college. I stopped studying Spanish, because I decided to focus in this channel, and using the same method. It really works! Btw, what is your mother tongue, if you don’t mind me asking? Again, thank you for the book recommendation. 😊🙏
I was born in an Armenian family, in Tehran, Iran. So we spoke Armenian at home. Also the neighborhood has a lot of Armenians living, so I spoke the language with them too. Persian ('lingua franca' and also the official language of Iran), obviously I learned it first on the streets as a kid, then the school and university material were in Persian. I also lived in Armenia for more than 10 years. So I speak both of the languages quite fluently (like a native's first language) but I would consider my 'mother tongue' to be Armenian, cause I remember as I kid I noticed I had to learn 'a new tonality' for sentences in Persian to make questions, express surprise, etc (on top of new vocabulary and grammar, but changing the tonality [accent] from the 'default (Armenian)' one was tricky 😋😅.) About the book, most welcome, don't mention it cause I guess it's one of the most famous books (if not the most famous.) That's the only book I read for English grammar and after that I just kept reading things in English (I was a computer science major, the good stuff was in English) The book does a very good job of outlining the grammar structure of English language, also it is written for being self studied.@@learnpromandarin
@@AS-wi6hr This is what I love about the online language learning community. There are so many resources and there’s many willing to share their knowledge and resources. I love hearing about experiences and love for language learning. I wish I had learned more languages. But learning Mandarin as well as a little bit of Spanish. I can say that I’m fascinated with each language’s ability to express yourself. Each language is unique and helps open your understanding to new ideas and ways of thinking, both in the language and the culture of the speakers. Btw, when I started this channel, I thought I was only reaching out to Americans because of my perspective of teaching the language. I was completely surprised to see people from all over the world viewing and subscribing to this channel. It makes me think that we all belong to this awesome community and have common interests. My ultimate goal is to freely give whatever info and understanding I have of Mandarin through 18 years of speaking it (off and on). Thank you so much for your comments. I really do appreciate it. Also if you have any topics you’d like to cover. Any grammar that’s confusing or anything, lemme know 😊👍🏻
As I'm thinking about my 'soon to be posted' comment (cause you touched many subjects that's also interesting for me, and also makes me think, the comment is going to be long) but before that how can we contact each other outside of this 'comment box' I had never before felt like I need to directly write to the creator of a CZcams channel, is there a gmail email associated with the channel. I could write my email here, but kind of it's a public place and thousands will see my email, but the same thing is true for your personal contact info, so what's the solution to this @@learnpromandarin 😕
"This is what I love about the online language learning community. There are so many resources and there’s many willing to share their knowledge and resources." Oh this actually goes beyond just 'language learning community' ... I would categorize them as 'really cool people' who like/enjoy sharing their knowledge, teach and help others, generally they are 'learners' too, meaning they enjoy learning new stuff. And it's not limited to 'language learning community,' computer science, physics, mathematics, languages [obviously] it happens in all fields.{Actually I guess computer programmers (geeks) started it, having said that, I also must say, not because of any special merit, but because the technology wasn't there for other things (internet was difficult to use, bandwidth was not there, sound quality was not there, reach was not there (computers were expensive, computers were text only, and on and on) ... so about you wishing you had learned more languages, I guess I have good news for you, now it's the best time to learn languages. When I was 19, 20 who could imagine having a Russian language class with a native Russian teacher, and immediately after that another class with a native Chinese speaker, and another class with a native Italian (all on italki) {it was during the pandemic, so I thought let me try making the quarantine a little bit more interesting and except for the Russian teacher I told the rest I'm just bored and I'm not a student, but I would like to know more about your languages} so you're right on time actually, the ship that went threw a lot of storms shipped and you missed it, the weather is right for a smooth sail now {enjoyable, efficient, never seen before learning experience ... by the way talking Chinese 17, 18 years [ib and off] 😲 ... I was surprised to read that! ... I'm not a language learner, I approach Chinese like I approach Sudoku, I play around with when I'm bored and I want to take my mind off other things. But certainly I'll keep in touch! Or who knows in a comment I might write down, from a learner's perspective, what I could really use as a learner (and haven't seen it yet, cause otherwise I would have certainly followed it up) @@learnpromandarin
exercice (i can't put the accent tones sorry ) 1- wo genbenbu shi qu 2- ta genben bushi zuo zuoye 3- tamen zuo le ma ? 4- chabuduo or chabuduo zuo la (ainting for any correction or tips)
Awesome! I will put up a video showing how to type in Chinese on the phone and on the computer soon 😊 Characters or pinyin (with or without tones) are all acceptable 😉 Below are the answers in characters 1- 我根本不想去 2- 你根本不想做作业 3- 他们做完了吗？ 4- 他们几乎做完了， 他们差不多做完了，or 他们马上做完了。 Any one of those would be correct. In an earlier comment, a Chinese viewer mentioned that you could also say 他们快做完了。 All of these would be correct, and I’m sure there’s even more ways than that. 😉 At first it might seem daunting, but after a while, it is fun to learn all these ways. I promise you’ll enjoy it. Hopefully this helps and keep it up! 继续努力！加油！ ❤
That’s true. I love it. There’s so many ways to say the same thing in Chinese. I’ll pin this to the top. Thanks these comments, they’re really helpful 😁
lol 😂 no way! I live in southern California. Maybe it’s because I do line work for a living. I’ve worked with dudes all over the country, including Tennessee, Arkansas, etc Lot of good dudes from those places.
I have often thought that doing something like this would make a fanatic language app. Load with various parts of speech and then have it generate sentences to quiz you with. Does anyone know if anything like this exists?
That would be awesome 😎 Honestly one of the main reasons I made this channel is because no one else doing this already. An app would be way more efficient 👍🏻
It seems like just an application of all the vocabulary and grammar you've learnt to think of new sentences. But in order to do that, you need to learn those grammars and vocabs individually first anyway. This probably isn't beginner friendly, probably for those who already know quite a few things already.
That’s quite true for this video. Other videos start off with simpler vocabulary and grammar. That said, it saves sooo much time for others that haven’t come across similar vocabulary or sentence structures. I learned Spanish this way and was sooo much faster than my college Spanish class. I was able to construct my own sentences without having to think about grammar rules. This method is so powerful, if you’re learning any language. Thanks for the comment
Good question. 为了 means in order to at the beginning of a sentence. 来 has more meaning than just “to” or “in order to”, but in this sentence that’s the closest translation you’re going to get. You will find in the Pleco app that there are at least 36 different usages for the character 来 and how they can be used in English. So if I said “in order to study Chinese, I use a dictionary.” 为了学中文，我用一个词典。Therefore I use 为了 at the beginning of the sentence. But if I say “I use a dictionary in order to study Chinese.” Or “I use a dictionary to study Chinese” which means the same thing, I can use 来 in this case 我用词典来学中文。 And I place it in the middle of the sentence before the verb. Idk if you’ve studied other European languages like Spanish, they use “para” as in “in order to” before a verb in the middle of a sentence for the same reason. Hopefully this helps. Thanks for the question. 😊🙏👍🏻
@@learnpromandarin 非常感謝 ，如何學好中文 yo he aprendido algunas cosas como saludos otras expresiones lo que me cuesta es el tono me gustó tu método es muy bueno pero no entiendo mucho el ingles soy de Honduras y no tengo como pagar un curso de ningún idioma solo se que todo lo que te escribo en mandarín lo he aprendido solo y se como escribir y pronunciar muchas gracias eres el primero que me presta su atención te felicito
I’ll check it out 😉😁 Probably that book, and/or the HSK series from Confucius Institute and talking a lot to Chinese (which includes a lot listening to them) 😉 Thanks for the comment.
@@learnpromandarin don't worry i understand no te disculpes agradezco tu dedicación no sabes cómo anhelo aprender por un tema de conocimiento y que la cultura china es genial sería excelente ver tu trabajo al español 謝謝 我不知道為什麼，我喜歡國語 還是普通話
Good question. Interestingly enough, a lot of verbs can become nouns, and adverbs can become adjectives and vice versa. The Chinese language is very 灵活 (flexible) when it comes to this. So in this case when you say 做作业 it means to do homework/assignment. I looked up what possible verbs it could be, the examples actually all sound like nouns as well, ie field “operations”, or field “work” as in 野外作业. Or underwater operation as in 水下作业. But personally, I’ve never heard of these nouns before anyway. Or it’s just not as common in day to day conversation. It does look like it can mean to “operate”, but not in the medical sense, that would be 手术. Maybe more like operate machinery or something like that. If you know of any or could give me any examples of when it is used as a verb, I’d be interested. Thanks. 🙏
As a native speaker, it depends on context too. For example, even though 根本means pretty much, if you want to say "I pretty much don't have a lot of friends", 基本上 and 几乎fit a lot better. If you were to use 根本:"我根本没多小朋友", it just sounds off. Not sure how to explain it but it's one of those things that you just have to keep practicing to differentiate.
I understand what you mean. Kinda like saying “grab me one of them tools” but plenty of people say it throughout the United States. I feel more comfortable saying “grab me one of those tools”. Hearing “them” used that way at first sounded weird to me, but then I got used to it. Using 根本 in the way I mentioned it, as a person that lives with natives 😉, I’d say sounds natural to me. I can’t explain it, except I know they use it that way to exaggerate. Do you think it’s possible, that you’re from a different area of China? I don’t want to discount your opinion, but since I’ve heard this usage first hand, I don’t want to discount their Mandarin speaking ability. Naw mean? 😉 希望我说的有道理。我明白大家都有他们自己表达方式，不管是哪个语言。 谢谢你的评论。 😁🙏
11:10 the le is not redundant since it is the old word liao "finish" grammaticalized to an aspect marker that indicates a final state. without it what u say could also be interpreted as a very (c)rude imperative sentence instead of describing the actual state of affairs right now
Yes. It is used for 东西 and for 事情. They just don’t use it nearly as much as we do in English. For example, 是昨天买的。 “Was yesterday bought.” Makes no sense in English, but it does in Chinese. If you put “it” at the beginning of the sentence, then it would make more “It was bought yesterday.” Of course there’s the difference in word order. But in this case, “it” or any noun that is known to the speaker and listener can be omitted. For us we have to say “it”
Yep as well as “you” in imperative sentences or when giving suggestions. You could use it, but they hardly ever do. I was talking to my mother-in-law about 它 I said you guys hardly ever use it. She responded, no we always use it 😂😂😂 That’s why I’m teaching Chinese, because foreigners to the language, like you and I, notice more what they do and don’t do more than they notice. When I was young, my parents always had foreign exchange students living with us. They always noticed more about how we said things in English than me or my brothers. We don’t think about how we say stuff in our native language, we just say it. After I gave my mother-in-law a couple examples, she realized that they hardly use 它 😉😂
Too correct a little mistake here: 我没有多少钱/朋友 does not really equal to "I have no money/friends at all", rather, it means "I don't have a lot of money/friends" or "I don't have that much money/many friends". But amazing work. Respect
I appreciate the correction. You’re right. I wish I could go back to correct it, but CZcams won’t let me make those kinds of corrections. 🤦♂️ I might do an update video here in the future. 😉 The main point of the lesson was to figure out how to use 根本，基本上，吃不多，等等 I appreciate your compliment 😊🙏🙏🙏❤️
hahaha no worries mate. I'm a native speaker so it sounds a bit subtle to me but still I really appreciate your amazing work. You definitely speak great Chinese. Cheers! @@learnpromandarin
Good question. It is used everyday, or at least very frequently. The idea here is to understand how to express yourself like a native. It may not be those exact examples, however I’ve heard natives exaggerate with those exact phrases 😉 他根本没有多少钱。 In each video, which are stand-alone lessons, I stray from beginner in the particular phrases I’m teaching and move to intermediate level sentences. All of which are practical, common ways of speaking. Used quite frequently. Hopefully this helps. Thanks for the question 😊🙏
That is very true! ❤😅 Catchy title though. 😉 Honestly, there’s a lot of amazing teachers on CZcams both native and non-native, and they all have different styles. I agree. 😊👍🏻 For Mandarin, there’s “Everyday Chinese” and “每日中文课 Free To Learn Chinese ” that I highly recommend. Excellent material that I can’t even begin to touch on.
For anyone that is wondering. 任何 rènhé is the proper way to say "any". And as I mentioned in the video 多少 meaning "any" is actually incorrect towards the beginning of the video. In other words, 我没有多少朋友 would actually be "I don't have many friends" or "I have few friends." So 多少 would mean "how much, how many, many, or much". Adding 没有 just before it would be "not much or not many".
However, when adding 根本，基本上，or 几乎 before the statement then the meaning would turn into "I principally/fundamental don't have many friends" or "I basically don't have many friends". That said, I don't anyone personally that speaks that way, at least not in the USA. So the closest translation that I can come up with is "I pretty much don't have any friends" which would mean the same thing as "I basically don't have many friends." Hopefully this helps everyone understand what 根本，基本上, etc does to the sentence.
For easier lessons, watch anyone of my other videos, thank you. 😊🙏❤❤❤
You do a really good job on teaching Chinese! From a native speaker
hope you better 😊
As a Chinese native speaker not living in a Chinese speaking country, I'm impressed. This video is like music to my ears. It's such a powerful way to learn.
Thank you so much! It really means something especially coming from a native speaker. ❤ Where are you living now, if you don’t mind me asking?
This is a great method for studying a language. It is enjoyable to combine all these words and make understandable sentences.
Thank you so much.
谢谢你了🙏😁
Pretty cool. I'd like a version of this video without the pinyin. when there is pinyin, the brain tends to watch the pinyin and disregard the Chinese characters. With no pinyin a bit harder at the beginning, but brain goes on autopilot fairly quickly and learns those characters and connects them to the sounds. keep it up!
I agree. I’ve struggled with whether I should put pinyin or leave it out. Maybe in the future I can make two versions of each video and put them in the “with pinyin” and “w/o pinyin” playlists. But I agree. Even though I read Chinese fairly well, if pinyin is there, I have to force myself not to look 👀🤦♂️ lol 😂
Consider putting it in for a few seconds, dropping it, and then occasionally re showing it. Tks!
I subscribed.
To do a high performance show and hide, cover the alphabetic part (letters) by overlaying the same letters in the background color, and leave the tonal accents showing.
@@doer-knower 这是个很好的主意！谢谢！你给的建议都是好的。下个课程我试一下。😊
谢谢你了。我住过沈阳一年半。但回去了好多次。还有我太太是中国人。已经16年多的婚姻。❤️ 还有偶尔我的岳父岳母跟我们住在一起。这样我能至少保持我原来水平。最近我又认真地学习汉语所以我的中文又开始提高一些。😊
Thanks for your teachings.
Used with my kids in order to improve our Mandarín.
Greetings from Valledupar Colombia
That’s awesome 😎 it is definitely a great way to take your Mandarin a notch. I use the YCT books for my kids as well and their Mandarin improved so quickly. I made this channel, because I found my kids liked watching videos than listening to me teach them directly 😅 it worked. They’ve learned so quickly
Not even supposed to be learning Chinese right now but it was so enjoyable that I watched the whole thing! Well done :')
😂😁 nice! Keep it up 👍 you might become fluent without even trying 😉
You are gonna grow very quickly within this community simply by the value that you provide! Good luck and thank you!
Thank you 😊🙏❤️
Very interesting way to teach using language chunks you can plug in to different slots. I'm sure it would help with fluency for people who tend to try to build sentences from scratch word by word.
I hope people can memorize the overall flow of each sentence structure and know which words to swap in and out. It definitely helps for speaking fluently. In other words, it takes out all the translating in the head and the guesswork. Thank you for your comment. 😊🙏
I've been learning Mandarin for almost 4 years and recently started HSK 4, but I still struggle to build sentences and expand my vocabulary. The structure of your lesson is so interactive and easy to follow. I'll definitely be applying this to my studies. Thank you!!! Liked & subscribed!
Nice. Thank you! I honestly love the HSK material, much of it is really common to day to day conversation. But it nice to be able to expand on the structures they give you with more native style Chinese. Thanks for the support 😊🙏
Question do you have Chinese friends or a group/organization that speaks Chinese regularly? If not, this is one of the quickest ways. Also a study partner, native or not, that is willing to speak with you only in Mandarin. You’ll get there so much faster, even if you don’t live in China. Of course, living in China is the best way, but that can’t happen right away for all of us.
Anyway, let me know if this helps 🙏🤞🏻😊
试一下用小红书或者bilibili之类的社交媒体嘛，在那个环境里能学到的东西就比较多了。
Dude this is GOLD!!! 太好了🥹
非常感谢你的评价😊🙏
Wooow what amazing Chanel I found!!. 谢谢老师，我很喜欢你的方法，太牛了！
非常感谢你的评论！这样的评价鼓励我继续拍视频和教中文。 😊🙏❤️
Cool. I recognize what was presented as "progressive schematization" with the creator's intention being "typical" and practical sentence to interact with a local.
Yessir. 😁Especially since these are typical ways that Chinese express themselves. BTW, are you Chinese yourself? If so, which part of China are you from?
谢谢你愿意看我的视频！😊🙏
Great job. Great teaching tool and method-- I'll keep following.
Nice! 非常感谢你 🙏
Great video!I've been studying chinese on and off for a few years but it's hard to actually learn sentence structures like this sometimes, I really liked this model. You just gained a subscriber!
谢谢你的评价。 🙏😁
This is the best structure I’ve ever seen! Please keep doing these videos😭🩷
Thank you 🙏😊 I appreciate the compliment.
This is an amazing method to learn a language. You pretty much dont need to bother with grammar since the structue is given in a very visual form. Amazing.
😂👍🏻 yep
Thanks for the comment. I love it
I grew up in The Bay Area with a lot of Cantonese speakers but now live in Boston where most people outside Chinatown speak Mandarin Chinese. Just by seeing this spreadsheet I can tell this video is going to be better than most.
The tones can be an issue but with practice and learning from native speakers, I know I'll get much more proficiency as I use it.
Great video! BuKahjie..
你太客气了。希望这样的课程能帮助你。要是我一开始学中文有这样学习语言的方法就好。我2022学点儿西班牙语的时候才发现有这个学习语言的语法。 谢谢你了😊🙏
Thanks a million mate, this is great!
不客气😉
this was really fun, thank you! i've already had a decent understanding of chinese grammar/sentence structure, but your explanations helped a lot and the practice exercises was helpful! definitely keeping me motivated getting back into learning the language
That is so awesome to hear!感谢你的评价！ 加油！ ❤😁🙏
Thank you. It is easy to learn for beginners. For me, it is horrible nightmare to learn mandarin. 😂. Finally, I found a way to learn memorize words.
It's a tough language for sure. But a friend of mine told me once, "Hey you know how stupid we were in highschool?"
(Me) "Uh huh"
(Him) "Yeah, well, we can speak Chinese fluently now."
(Me) "Yeah"
(Him) "So that's means just about anybody can do it, I mean, if they put their mind to it."
🧐
It's true, to took a lot of effort and a lot of tears, but we got through it. 😂
If you don't already have a partner that is willing to speak Mandarin with you all the time, whether or not they are native, find one. 😊👍
you dont know how blessed i am for having found your channel! your content is so great and helpful, thank you so much !! ♥♥
😊🙏🏻❤️ thank you for the kind words.
If you don’t mind me asking. What are your goals for learning Chinese?
I will make videos in the future about different methods of learning languages, but mostly Chinese. Of course, this isn’t the only way 😉😁
The way you speak chinese is so comfortable to listen to. Its like a blessing for my ears.
😁😁😁❤️❤️❤️
Thank you so much for those kind words 🙏🙏🙏
Good job dude!
谢谢你了！ 🙏😊
超棒的视频，特别清晰易懂！
非常感谢你！你们的频道也真好！ 🤠👍🏻🙏
Thats sick thanks
不客气 😉
adding pictures to portray a meaning of the word was actually a smart move 👍ima like and subscribe fr
Thank you thank you 🙏😊 I appreciate your support 感谢你订阅和支持我
This was so flippin helpful!!!
Awesome! Thank you for the compliment.
Wow… u can make more than hundred sentences and or questions using this pattern.. really cool..
That's what I love about this method ✌️😁
I randomly took Chinese in high school years ago but still get random Chinese videos in my recommended.
Hopefully this is a good random video 😉
Very useful! Thank you for a great video! You just got a new subscriber.
Thanks for the sub! 非常感谢你订阅！
1. wo genben bu xiang qu
2. ni jihu bu xiang zuo zuoye
3. tamen zuo wan le ma
第一和第三是对的，第二应该要说 “你根本不想去”
@@learnpromandarin 好的, 多谢。因为几乎 is more “almost” compared to "pretty much"?
@@brownnup9782 And can be used with
没有 to become "pretty much doesn't". Whereas it isn't used with 不 in this video. But if I said 他几乎不来， I’m saying “he pretty much doesn’t ever come” or “he hardly ever comes “ something like that.
However, when paired up with a verb (like 做) and then 完了 it becomes "almost"😉
I try not to explain too many rules in the videos, because sometimes you can get bogged down by too much grammar and it becomes hard to get a sentence out. Hopefully that helps 😊👍
@@learnpromandarin That makes sense. I've heard it used that way too.
OMG thank you so much for this awesome video! I needed it so much! They way you explain everything is really helpful. I'm not good with long sentences in Chinese and even if I understand them, I can't make them well. So this is exactly what I needed! You really motivate me and help me love Chinese more!
Thank you for those kind words! 🙏 I’m glad I could help. Truthfully, the gratitude is what encourages me to keep making these videos 😊
Keep it up! Don’t give up on Chinese 😉 it’ll get easier, I promise 👍🏻
Very very good, I understand it quickly, keep make it sir.
谢谢🙏我一定会😊
"But since this is how they say it, we´re going to say it that way". Chinese grammar in a nutshell :D
😂😂😂 ain’t that the truth 😉😁
great video will be watching this a couple of times. would love some tips on where to go next, im currently just practicing tones, tounge positions and basic grammar.
Honestly, there's a couple channels that I recommend for pronunciation, but ultimately it'll depend on who you have as a friend or mentor that speaks Chinese with you or who you decide to imitate.
Here's an awesome video for pronunciation. I'll do a similar lesson in the future, but for now, check his out. He's got excellent pronunciation 😉 czcams.com/video/FlaJ12tmtu4/video.html
Also, let him know that Learn Pro Mandarin sent you. Thanks 😊🙏
Also as for basic grammar. All my lessons, although are stand alone (supplemental lessons), they assume you know nothing and quickly build to intermediate level of fluency in each video. You really can get fluent between these videos combined with a structured curriculum in the shortest time possible.
Now, as for those kinds of lessons, I highly recommend picking up this series of books, if you haven't done so already. amzn.to/47X6p54
It really does help. And gives you the appropriate practice with the most common style sentence structures. My videos take a lot of these lessons and enhances them to an intermediate level quickly.
By the time you finish level 3 or 4, provided that you've practiced with someone (native or not) that speaks fluent Chinese, you will become fluent yourself.
I can promise that. Most of what is taught in those books, you'll hear from day-to-day. My lessons, teach that plus alternative methods of saying the same phrase, that you might also hear a native speaker say. Hopefully that helps. 😉👍
@@learnpromandarin yo dude thank you so much, greatly appreciated! its not nearly as scary as when I first had the idea to learn, really falling in love with the language community thank you again much love
@@MrPiksovs it’s honestly a lot of fun. On the internet there are some trolls and bad actors, but for the most part people are great in the language community. And Chinese people are very nice, and appreciative of people learning their language. You’ll find it easy to learn Chinese because of it
我没有 钱, 我没有 朋友 I felt attacked 😹
😂😂😂 don't worry. I feel the same way.
我沒有錢也沒有朋友。。 也= also ye也 is a conjunction between no money and friend.
I am studying Mandarin at a major university but find what you offer much more helpful! You are unlocking my understanding of the confusion I have felt when trying to speak correctly. For instance, 打狗看主人.
Dǎ gǒu kàn zhǔrén. Mind whose dog it is before you strike seemed something I would never think to say. And speaking of staying on the horse odder still. But I have to remind myself it is NOT English. And strive to learn how it is understood in Chinese culture, which I love. You are helping me with that. Thank you. I sing and record in Chinese, even successfully competing in Chinese college works events and it is good, but that is a script and I am just mimicking what I read in pinyin and hear the pronunciation, and I am a good mimic. Very badly I want to be able to converse and not always use a written translator, which is often wrong because I use the wrong English words to translate. I feel taking your information, writing it out, practicing and studying it repeatedly will be my map out of this maze....so I begin......谢谢 我的中文名字是罗云熙. It was given to me in by my professor, turns out it is a famous male Chinese actor.....hahahhahaha
罗云熙😁是个挺好看的演员。谢谢你的评论。我以前不知道这句话“打狗看主人”。我先看了词典，然后问了一下太太。我觉得太太解释得比较清楚。有的时候词典真的说的不对。我上大学时候没学中文，所以我认识的成语和谚语比较少。但还是看了HSK的教材和天天跟中国人讲话。这是最好的方法，我认为。我每个视频安排的句子结构都是最常用的。换句话说，我天天听中国人说类似的话。我自己还有很多中文学会，但我觉得我的口语还行。我想问一下，你现在有从中国来的朋友吗？或者你附近有个你参加讲中文的组织吗？这样比单靠读书能提高你的中文更快一些。谢谢你愿意看我频道的视频。一定会帮助你提高你的中文！加油！
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I have a Chinese roommate but he speaks Fuzhou dialect and is taking Mandarin in college. RATS! I listen to various Chinese videos, which are dubbed in Mandarin, and over time have come to recognize when a subtitle is not saying what the actor is saying but I am a long way from the proficiency you offer. I am able to type pinyin with tones so it converts to characters so I am slowly recognizing more characters. I am taking your lessons, creating my own documents with columns of your words in pinyin and characters (without the background color) putting in the English meanings (the various ones you present to further drill meanings into my mind) on the chart than making a recording of your voice to listen to as I work on creating sentences on my computer and pronouncing the Chinese words properly. And then writing out different sentence combinations from your lessons with translations to practice and own. WHEW! I really love doing this although it is intense. You are fortunate to have a Chinese wife to speak with, thank you again for your hard work, it is very generous of you.😌@@learnpromandarin
I feel like whatever method you use, you’ll pick up on Mandarin relatively quickly, just based your commitment. That’s probably 80% of it right there. Which includes the willingness and bravery to go up to a Chinese native and speak to them or attend social gatherings or clubs that are predominantly conducted in Mandarin. The rest is material and method
Thanks again so much for communicating with me about this. As much as I probably have encouraged you in your studies, I believe comments like yours really encourages me to keep making this content. Just knowing it is helping someone 😁🙏❤️
@@learnpromandarinYour pronunciation is soooo good!! Along with my writing and typing your charts, I listen to audios of your lessons in my car. In class at UVA the Professor did a little of this work but not in the way you have, SO many options to build sentences. RESPECT! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
@@learnpromandarin A little bit more about me and my passion for language and culture. Here is a link to our National Chinese Expo submission that has been accepted for publication which is an honor. Especially to me because this is an all Chinese event and I was worried about my pronunciation under such scrutiny but it seems to be acceptable. I have 3 Chinese songs on my channel ( I sang the Moon Represents for the UVA language dept at an event) a Korean song and several "Merican" (hahaha) songs back in the day. czcams.com/video/6rmALu0q5OA/video.html. Thank you again 老师🙏
лучший вариант обучения, что мне попадался. Спасибо!
No problem 😉 thank you 😊🙏
oh wow, how good is this lesson? How good is this channel?? Glad I found it. Thanks so much.
谢谢你的评论。谢谢你的支持。😊🙏
Thank you !
不客气😉👍🏻
Excellent video, super useful!!
I appreciate that! 非常感谢你😊🙏
I really did enjoy this, keep it up!
非常感谢你的评价。你也一样！加油！😁👍🏻
Thank you...these have been nothing short of exceptional....
Thank you! I’m glad you’re enjoying them 😁
谢谢。我很高兴你能享受我的频道 🙏👍🏻
ni genben bu xiangqu
ni genben bu xiang zuo zuoye
ta men zuo wanle ma --> tamen jihu wanle
第二和第三是对的。第一，是“我根本不想去”。 第四，“他们几乎做完了”， 你的答案就缺了“做” 而已。 你做的还可以。真不错👍🏻加油💪🏻😁
Subscribe button smashed 🎉. Great way to learn vocabulary and sentence formation. Learn Mandarin to be able to speak with my co- worker (though she's fluent in English, there's nothing like being able to speak your mother tongue with someone else).
😁😁😁 thank you so much! I’m glad you like it. 👍🏻
Nice one bro, sub!
谢谢哥们儿！😉👍🏻
Very clever
谢谢🙏
Thanks for the great lessons.
Glad you like them! 我也感谢你看我频道的视频。你这样支持我太好了 ☺️🙏
thx
NP 😉
You are so smart
Thank you. Honestly though, I don’t feel too smart, but I do appreciate the compliment 😊
I feel like sharing whatever knowledge I have, so we can all benefit. ❤️
Beware of that compliment. I've heard it many times over a long life, whenever I pronounce a few sentences in one language. That compliment is to be answered by "Where?" In Chinese. You can make a video 2min long to explain it. It's basically as if in one particular culture it was deemed forbidden to acknowledge one's skill (superiority, competency, etc) so you ask Where? Where That Other Person is, who is being pointed at. If the same notion existed in the Bible it'd be "Thou Shalt Not feel better than your others and Thou Shalt also Not Show any feeling better than others either"
When you hear that compliment, your spider sense should tingle because it's a test of your egocentered-ness, a simple litmus test coming from the outside world. Responding by Talking about your Relative Merit is not the way to pass that test.
Hope this input helps in general.
I subscribed. Tks @learnpromandarin !
@@doer-knower That's very true. Interesting the difference in cultures. But you're right 哪里 is definitely one of the most commons ways to respond to that. Thank you for the sub! 😊🙏
@@doer-knower Another one when I first started learning Chinese, I'd say "你好，你会说中文吗?"
They'd respond ”你的中文说得太好了“ or ”你的中文怎么那么好！" 😆The culture is just extremely polite to foreigners who are barely starting to learn Chinese. Which is encouraging at the beginning. ❤
But once they get to really know you, or your Chinese passes a certain level. They might be surprised at first, but then they'll treat you just like anyone else. The compliments aren't as grandiose
Hi, I must say this is a great source. I have recently started learning Mandarin. Just for the future if words have the english meaning that would be great, I would like to make a note from these but keep forgetting the words meaning. Even if there is not, not an issue I can find while I write or relisten.Thank you so much for this content
At first it’ll be hard to remember, but as you exercise your ability to retrieve the words you’re trying to remember, it’ll get easier and easier. 一开始会很难。但你继续努力学习，你会增强你的记忆力。会越来越容易。我答应你肯定会成功。加油！ 😁👍🏻
@@learnpromandarin thank you~
@@nurerd4505不客气😉
Excellent video! Very practical for listening & speaking. The 儿 was explained spot on! I see “完了” as 完 = finish/end and 了 = -ed, thus 完了 = finished/ended 😉
Thank you so much 🙏
These explanations will definitely help out other Mandarin learners. Any extra help or explanations are always welcome 🤗
After about 4000 hours(wild guess, it’s been 15 years) of learning Mandarin Chinese I’ve seen it all. I’m still not conversational but actually what you show is a fun way to do busy work in Starbucks and be creative with sentences. You can do it with any sentence. I’ve filled one or the other 40 page notebook with splitting up sentences like this. Just make sure it’s a legit sentence from a real conversation or a real book, and not the artificial 💩 you get from school books. If you download Chinese Text Analyser you will see for yourself that 30-60% of real life Mandarin Chinese (like a conversation about buying stuff in the supermarket) is NOT covered by HSK1-6. So basically HSK is a waste of time (or a great business, depends on your viewpoint) but studying and playing with real sentences like shown in this video will help you more. I guess.
That is really well put. Same with those learning English. How many textbooks in the US, or California anyway, say “imunna get su’m tuh eat”. None, they’ll say “I’m going to (or gonna) get something to eat.” And that’ll work for most people. But then most people over here don’t say it textbook style with perfect pronunciation and grammar, and somehow everyone still understands each other 🤔
Welp, that’s my observation of Chinese. I do learn some things from HSK textbooks every now and then, but mostly it’s an explanation of words I already learned from just speaking with Chinese, and then they proceed to break all the rules 🤣
Thank you for your comment 🙏 I hope to provide value to all those learning Mandarin. Your words are encouraging.
@@learnpromandarin New beginner, I’m thinking LISTENING is the most important skill.
But I’m a monoglot American so what do I know?
@zeebest1004 I’ve heard of this theory. There’s a lot of debate as to which way is best 🤔
Well, I’d say all of them lol. Just put in the work and you’ll become fluent 😉
Now, I do agree with you. In fact, I highly recommend at least two other channels to watch with which I have no affiliation, but think everyone would benefit. Tons of amazing listening comprehension. LiaoDan is an amazing teacher and her pronunciation is the closest thing to perfect. Not all natives have a perfectly clear and standard “Mandarin “ pronunciation. Chinese natives even discuss this issue all the time (their own pronunciation). I pinned the links in my comment at the top. The other is a channel with 3 Chinese natives that discuss a variety of topics. Both excellent channels.
Now, couple that with the ability to construct your own sentences that mimic the native, as well as a short period of time (I’d say 6 months to a year) and voila! You’re fluent.
When I say fluent, I don’t mean perfect. But you’ll be able to and have the confidence to speak on a variety of topics fluently. Good luck! 加油！😊👍🏻❤️
You've been learning Chinese for 15 years and you're not fluent? I guess you have to have talent to not be conversational after 15 years with so many learning tools these days
If you can't even hold a conversation after 15 years, then you are doing something wrong. I know people who are conversational in under 6 months. You desperately need real immersion and not grammar drills in notebooks
Very good and effective way I like it very much
Awesome! I’m glad you liked the video. 谢谢！我希望这种方法会帮助很多人把中文学会得快点。 😁🙏
I have no patience to do my mandarin homework since middle school when I tried first time. I'm 28😂
😂 yep, It’s tough for sure. I stopped using/studying for a long time myself. I picked it back up again, because I have a reason to use it now. That’s the driving factor.
I need some content to practice my listening but I didn’t know what I should watch/listen to can someone recommend something?
This is an amazing channel. I love her content. Perfect pronunciation too.
youtube.com/@DANLIAOFreeToLearnChinese?si=hK3rgjw7yvDJlSq5
These guys interview a lot of people. It’s a podcast that has characters and pinyin as well. Great content
youtube.com/@DashuMandarin?si=uuJEbAb-PVQUArx5
i ve been a casual learner for a year now, maybe and honest 1-3 hours of study / audiobooks and this video is such a solid recap
❤ thank you so much. I really appreciate the compliment. 🙏😊 hopefully this helps you on a path to fluency. I would also check out liaodan. She doesn’t speak English in any of her videos. But she has amazing pronunciation and teaches only one to two grammar points each lesson. Great for listening comprehension. 👍🏻
Hey, love the video and could you drop the link to the Liaodan channel since i could not find it @learnpromandarin
Here you go ✌🏻
youtube.com/@DANLIAOFreeToLearnChinese?si=Noi1nSXoSxdANEF2
fantastic ◇
谢谢你🙏
Estoy aprendiendo mucho chino gracias a tus videos.
Muchísimas gracias por tus comentarios 😁
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@@carlito6038 🤦♂🤦♂😂😂lol 你写的是对的。谢谢你纠正我们的西班牙语。我改一下。😊🙏
I learned to speak French by throwing myself and my broken French at French people in France for 3 months. Nice thing is the French correct me and they do not speak English well. Now, I can speak French more fluidly than people who actually took years of school French classes. So NOW, I learn the grammar and it's less painful.
I agree. Same here with Chinese. I don’t like teaching grammar rules, because it makes it harder to speak the language. I like teaching it this way, because it’s like having a friend just telling you how to say, not why it makes sense or the rules behind it. 😁
Thanks for the comment. You’re right on 🙏😊👍🏻
Thank YOU! Chinese is my native tongue, and I admire the earnest efforts to learn it. It is quite unlike the process for an English speaker learning French or Italian for example. It's a whole new system...
I find the CZcams language learning videos in general to be more stimulating than school language lessons, where the former is actually intended for you to use the language as it is alive and lived in, rather than a rigid test... @@learnpromandarin
@@13hehe that is so cool. It sounds like you are at least trilingual now 😁
I eventually need to go back to working on my Spanish, but sometimes I feel like my Chinese needs a lot of work 😬 No matter how much I learn, I always feel there’s room for improvement.
Honestly though, I believe your method of throwing yourself in there is the best. When I lived in China, my Chinese improved the fastest. I even felt weird speaking English when I came back to the US 😂
This is the first video of yours I'm watching, and you're doing an amazing job! (I'm almost at 10 minutes point) it reminds me of the method used in 'English Grammar in Use' (A self-study reference and practice book for learners of English, by Raymond Murphy) I learned English using that book on my own (well obviously I kept reading and reading and used dictionaries) I wish there was a book like that for other languages. Outlining the [grammatical] structure of a language, after that it just filling in the details which is basically more reading. I hope you have videos like this one for Chinese grammar. The English book I mentioned started simple (but with a roadmap in mind and very good break down of the whole thing) things like present simple, present continuous, past, past continuous, future, etc. ... obviously now that I'm thinking of it "if" comes to mind, "passive" (was done/were done) comes to mind and so on ... if you haven't yet, hope you go to that direction of teaching, it's very effective.
Thank you so much for the comment. I will check out that book now. I learned this style of teaching from “Learn Spanish” CZcams channel. It is a British guy who teaches Castilian Spanish. He does an excellent job, so I decided to give it a try and I learned Spanish faster that way than I ever did in high school or college. I stopped studying Spanish, because I decided to focus in this channel, and using the same method. It really works! Btw, what is your mother tongue, if you don’t mind me asking? Again, thank you for the book recommendation. 😊🙏
I was born in an Armenian family, in Tehran, Iran. So we spoke Armenian at home. Also the neighborhood has a lot of Armenians living, so I spoke the language with them too. Persian ('lingua franca' and also the official language of Iran), obviously I learned it first on the streets as a kid, then the school and university material were in Persian. I also lived in Armenia for more than 10 years. So I speak both of the languages quite fluently (like a native's first language) but I would consider my 'mother tongue' to be Armenian, cause I remember as I kid I noticed I had to learn 'a new tonality' for sentences in Persian to make questions, express surprise, etc (on top of new vocabulary and grammar, but changing the tonality [accent] from the 'default (Armenian)' one was tricky 😋😅.) About the book, most welcome, don't mention it cause I guess it's one of the most famous books (if not the most famous.) That's the only book I read for English grammar and after that I just kept reading things in English (I was a computer science major, the good stuff was in English) The book does a very good job of outlining the grammar structure of English language, also it is written for being self studied.@@learnpromandarin
@@AS-wi6hr This is what I love about the online language learning community. There are so many resources and there’s many willing to share their knowledge and resources.
I love hearing about experiences and love for language learning.
I wish I had learned more languages. But learning Mandarin as well as a little bit of Spanish. I can say that I’m fascinated with each language’s ability to express yourself. Each language is unique and helps open your understanding to new ideas and ways of thinking, both in the language and the culture of the speakers.
Btw, when I started this channel, I thought I was only reaching out to Americans because of my perspective of teaching the language. I was completely surprised to see people from all over the world viewing and subscribing to this channel.
It makes me think that we all belong to this awesome community and have common interests. My ultimate goal is to freely give whatever info and understanding I have of Mandarin through 18 years of speaking it (off and on). Thank you so much for your comments. I really do appreciate it. Also if you have any topics you’d like to cover. Any grammar that’s confusing or anything, lemme know 😊👍🏻
As I'm thinking about my 'soon to be posted' comment (cause you touched many subjects that's also interesting for me, and also makes me think, the comment is going to be long) but before that how can we contact each other outside of this 'comment box' I had never before felt like I need to directly write to the creator of a CZcams channel, is there a gmail email associated with the channel. I could write my email here, but kind of it's a public place and thousands will see my email, but the same thing is true for your personal contact info, so what's the solution to this @@learnpromandarin 😕
"This is what I love about the online language learning community. There are so many resources and there’s many willing to share their knowledge and resources."
Oh this actually goes beyond just 'language learning community' ... I would categorize them as 'really cool people' who like/enjoy sharing their knowledge, teach and help others, generally they are 'learners' too, meaning they enjoy learning new stuff. And it's not limited to 'language learning community,' computer science, physics, mathematics, languages [obviously] it happens in all fields.{Actually I guess computer programmers (geeks) started it, having said that, I also must say, not because of any special merit, but because the technology wasn't there for other things (internet was difficult to use, bandwidth was not there, sound quality was not there, reach was not there (computers were expensive, computers were text only, and on and on) ... so about you wishing you had learned more languages, I guess I have good news for you, now it's the best time to learn languages. When I was 19, 20 who could imagine having a Russian language class with a native Russian teacher, and immediately after that another class with a native Chinese speaker, and another class with a native Italian (all on italki) {it was during the pandemic, so I thought let me try making the quarantine a little bit more interesting and except for the Russian teacher I told the rest I'm just bored and I'm not a student, but I would like to know more about your languages} so you're right on time actually, the ship that went threw a lot of storms shipped and you missed it, the weather is right for a smooth sail now {enjoyable, efficient, never seen before learning experience ... by the way talking Chinese 17, 18 years [ib and off] 😲 ... I was surprised to read that! ... I'm not a language learner, I approach Chinese like I approach Sudoku, I play around with when I'm bored and I want to take my mind off other things. But certainly I'll keep in touch! Or who knows in a comment I might write down, from a learner's perspective, what I could really use as a learner (and haven't seen it yet, cause otherwise I would have certainly followed it up)
@@learnpromandarin
1.我根本不想去。
2.你根本不想做你的作业。
3. A>他们做完了吗？
B> 他们几乎做完。
真不错！✌😊❤
你的名字baikamara是什么意思？我每次看你的名字，我感觉有点像“白” Camera...or "white camera". 是这个意思不？
@@learnpromandarin 我名字不是‘白’而是‘柏’的意思。
你真做着好样的 ，这些视频对我们比较重要。非常感谢。
@@baikamara1041 谢谢你回复我。不好意思，我刚才看到了。CZcams把你的评论藏起来 😬 我通过CZcams Studio 才发现你十一天前回复了我上面的问题。要不我肯定会早一点感谢你😊🙏
I BASIUCALLY ALMOST HAVE NO FRIENDS.
I think we all feel that way sometimes. 😔
exercice (i can't put the accent tones sorry )
1- wo genbenbu shi qu
2- ta genben bushi zuo zuoye
3- tamen zuo le ma ?
4- chabuduo or chabuduo zuo la
(ainting for any correction or tips)
Awesome! I will put up a video showing how to type in Chinese on the phone and on the computer soon 😊
Characters or pinyin (with or without tones) are all acceptable 😉
Below are the answers in characters
1- 我根本不想去
2- 你根本不想做作业
3- 他们做完了吗？
4- 他们几乎做完了， 他们差不多做完了，or 他们马上做完了。 Any one of those would be correct.
In an earlier comment, a Chinese viewer mentioned that you could also say 他们快做完了。 All of these would be correct, and I’m sure there’s even more ways than that. 😉
At first it might seem daunting, but after a while, it is fun to learn all these ways. I promise you’ll enjoy it.
Hopefully this helps and keep it up! 继续努力！加油！ ❤
We have the same accent 🥰
In English or Chinese? Or both? 😉😁
你的视频又有用又有趣❤
太感谢你了！ 😊🙏
请问，你是哪儿来的？ 你的名字是俄语吗？
@@learnpromandarin 是的，我是半个俄罗斯人，半个中国人。我住在俄罗斯，你呢？
@@user-un2ix8jc6z 我是百分之百美国人 (白人) 。但我岳父岳母是中国人😉 最近我没有很多机会回到中国。工作比较忙。我希望很快能安排的时间回到沈阳拜访亲戚。也可以顺便去日本看一下😁
Yes! !!!!! Sentence frames are so good i love this teaching style so much thank you. I'll be coming back to this channel for sure
Awesome 😎thank you! And I love your username btw 😆
@@learnpromandarin lololol thanks!
不可以😅
in part 3, you can also say 我快做完了。
快.....了 structure
That’s true. I love it. There’s so many ways to say the same thing in Chinese. I’ll pin this to the top. Thanks these comments, they’re really helpful 😁
Great video, man! Where are you from? You have a similar accent to me and I live in Tennessee 👍
lol 😂 no way! I live in southern California. Maybe it’s because I do line work for a living. I’ve worked with dudes all over the country, including Tennessee, Arkansas, etc
Lot of good dudes from those places.
没有多少朋友=don’t have many(not any) friends,= 很少的朋友=few friends. In this sentence 多少=很多=many=or how many /much
Read the pinned comment at the top. Thank you.
I lold at the pronoun joke. Subtle but I caught it.
😂 it’s hard for people to figure these things out nowadays…not sure why 😉
I have often thought that doing something like this would make a fanatic language app. Load with various parts of speech and then have it generate sentences to quiz you with. Does anyone know if anything like this exists?
That would be awesome 😎 Honestly one of the main reasons I made this channel is because no one else doing this already. An app would be way more efficient 👍🏻
i lik this new subscriber here
谢谢 ☺️🙏
根本不想去。
根本不想做作业。
他们做完了吗?
他们几乎做完了。
非常好！第3和第4 都是对的。第1和第2就需要加代词而已。比如说：
我根本不想去。
你根本不想做作业。
除了那意外，都是对的😉👍
It seems like just an application of all the vocabulary and grammar you've learnt to think of new sentences. But in order to do that, you need to learn those grammars and vocabs individually first anyway. This probably isn't beginner friendly, probably for those who already know quite a few things already.
That’s quite true for this video. Other videos start off with simpler vocabulary and grammar. That said, it saves sooo much time for others that haven’t come across similar vocabulary or sentence structures. I learned Spanish this way and was sooo much faster than my college Spanish class. I was able to construct my own sentences without having to think about grammar rules. This method is so powerful, if you’re learning any language. Thanks for the comment
You got me with that clickbait shit brah
Somehow I feel like that's a compliment 😂😂 Thanks
@@learnpromandarin 間違いない
Kinda reminds me of Michel Thomas
Wow! I had never heard of that before. I just watched a video on that. Thanks 🙏
I am Chinese native speaker and I just want to say this is completely the way that how I learn English😂
That is awesome 😎 it really can be applied to any language 😉
你在中国多年了? 你的发音很好啊！👍
多少： not any, meaning "few, little" when using with negtive context.
Please look at the comment I pinned to the top. I addressed this issue already. CZcams doesn’t allow for easy editing. Thank you.
Wow
我基本上不想去
你根本不想做作业
他们做完了吗？
差不多做完了
Are my answers correct ?
不错不错。第二到第四都是对的！第一也可以，不过更正确的是“我根本不想去”因为我在结尾加上了“at all” 😊👍🏻感谢您这么快就回答了这些问题🙏继续努力！
@@learnpromandarin 谢谢你
@@asmaaezzat7829 不客气😉 我应该要感谢您😁👍🏻加油！
are you sure that Lai as in "in order to" is written with that character? Isn't it supposed to be 为了
Good question. 为了 means in order to at the beginning of a sentence. 来 has more meaning than just “to” or “in order to”, but in this sentence that’s the closest translation you’re going to get. You will find in the Pleco app that there are at least 36 different usages for the character 来 and how they can be used in English.
So if I said “in order to study Chinese, I use a dictionary.” 为了学中文，我用一个词典。Therefore I use 为了 at the beginning of the sentence. But if I say “I use a dictionary in order to study Chinese.” Or “I use a dictionary to study Chinese” which means the same thing, I can use 来 in this case 我用词典来学中文。 And I place it in the middle of the sentence before the verb.
Idk if you’ve studied other European languages like Spanish, they use “para” as in “in order to” before a verb in the middle of a sentence for the same reason.
Hopefully this helps. Thanks for the question. 😊🙏👍🏻
Wow that's a good answer. Thank you!! @@learnpromandarin
@@PagliaCappello Thank you. Anything I can do to help, I'll do my best 😊
It is interesting that I hear a Cantonese accent from you
lol 😂 really? My in-laws are from 东北. Most people say I have more of that accent. It’s possible that with some words I have that kind of accent.
我跟你說，你的中文很好 😮
谢谢。我最主要的目的是帮助别人快点的提高他们中文。 😊
@@learnpromandarin 非常感謝 ，如何學好中文 yo he aprendido algunas cosas como saludos otras expresiones lo que me cuesta es el tono me gustó tu método es muy bueno pero no entiendo mucho el ingles soy de Honduras y no tengo como pagar un curso de ningún idioma solo se que todo lo que te escribo en mandarín lo he aprendido solo y se como escribir y pronunciar muchas gracias eres el primero que me presta su atención te felicito
@@learnpromandarin se que ayudas mucho así
谢谢。我想要帮忙。我以后慢慢的提供更多用西班牙语的课程来教普通话
Discúlpeme por favor. No te he respondido últimamente. Voy a tratar de enseñar mandarín en español más a menudo. Muchísimas gracias 😊🙏
No way
Yes way! 😂
The best way to learn Chinese is to get the textbook series called Integrated Chinese. Outstanding book
I’ll check it out 😉😁
Probably that book, and/or the HSK series from Confucius Institute and talking a lot to Chinese (which includes a lot listening to them) 😉
Thanks for the comment.
Lastima no entiendo inglés
不好意思。我打算继续把更多我用英文教中文翻译成西班牙语，希望这样讲西班牙语的人也能学点中文。😉
@@learnpromandarin don't worry i understand no te disculpes agradezco tu dedicación no sabes cómo anhelo aprender por un tema de conocimiento y que la cultura china es genial sería excelente ver tu trabajo al español 謝謝 我不知道為什麼，我喜歡國語 還是普通話
Isn't 作业 a verb of its own?
Good question. Interestingly enough, a lot of verbs can become nouns, and adverbs can become adjectives and vice versa. The Chinese language is very 灵活 (flexible) when it comes to this. So in this case when you say 做作业 it means to do homework/assignment. I looked up what possible verbs it could be, the examples actually all sound like nouns as well, ie field “operations”, or field “work” as in 野外作业. Or underwater operation as in 水下作业. But personally, I’ve never heard of these nouns before anyway. Or it’s just not as common in day to day conversation. It does look like it can mean to “operate”, but not in the medical sense, that would be 手术. Maybe more like operate machinery or something like that. If you know of any or could give me any examples of when it is used as a verb, I’d be interested. Thanks. 🙏
Awesome lesson! 我根本不想继续学习中文! lol jk jk 🤣
不要放弃🙏😉😂
@@learnpromandarin lol 行！
1. 我根本不想去了 2. 你基本上不想做作业 3. 他们做完了吗 4.几乎玩完了
真不错！😁👍🏻 加油！
请问，你打算去中国吗？或者你去过吗？
@@learnpromandarin 老师，从来没有去过中国
如果你去的话，你要去哪儿？
另外，你学中文的目的是什么？
@@learnpromandarin 一定要去西安，大利，杭州，丽江，还有多地方要去。
我的目的就是学习语言的快乐。
我根本沒有多少女朋友
😂😂😂 love it!
are you on linkedin learning ?
还没有。不过我打算准备类似的课程。我到时候肯定会通知你。 😁👍🏻
Not yet. But I intend to prepare a similar course. I'll definitely let you know when I do. 😁👍🏻
As a native speaker, it depends on context too. For example, even though 根本means pretty much, if you want to say "I pretty much don't have a lot of friends", 基本上 and 几乎fit a lot better. If you were to use 根本:"我根本没多小朋友", it just sounds off. Not sure how to explain it but it's one of those things that you just have to keep practicing to differentiate.
I understand what you mean. Kinda like saying “grab me one of them tools” but plenty of people say it throughout the United States. I feel more comfortable saying “grab me one of those tools”. Hearing “them” used that way at first sounded weird to me, but then I got used to it.
Using 根本 in the way I mentioned it, as a person that lives with natives 😉, I’d say sounds natural to me. I can’t explain it, except I know they use it that way to exaggerate.
Do you think it’s possible, that you’re from a different area of China? I don’t want to discount your opinion, but since I’ve heard this usage first hand, I don’t want to discount their Mandarin speaking ability. Naw mean? 😉
希望我说的有道理。我明白大家都有他们自己表达方式，不管是哪个语言。 谢谢你的评论。
😁🙏
Btw, i really appreciate your politeness. 😎👍🏻
11:10 the le is not redundant since it is the old word liao "finish" grammaticalized to an aspect marker that indicates a final state. without it what u say could also be interpreted as a very (c)rude imperative sentence instead of describing the actual state of affairs right now
…but since this is how they say it. We’re gonna say it that way 😉
do stabdard chinese speakers use 它 as it for animals?
Yes. It is used for 东西 and for 事情. They just don’t use it nearly as much as we do in English.
For example, 是昨天买的。 “Was yesterday bought.” Makes no sense in English, but it does in Chinese. If you put “it” at the beginning of the sentence, then it would make more “It was bought yesterday.” Of course there’s the difference in word order. But in this case, “it” or any noun that is known to the speaker and listener can be omitted. For us we have to say “it”
@@learnpromandarin oh it's like dropping I/me in certain sentences it's something i don't quite know yet
Yep as well as “you” in imperative sentences or when giving suggestions. You could use it, but they hardly ever do.
I was talking to my mother-in-law about 它
I said you guys hardly ever use it. She responded, no we always use it 😂😂😂
That’s why I’m teaching Chinese, because foreigners to the language, like you and I, notice more what they do and don’t do more than they notice.
When I was young, my parents always had foreign exchange students living with us. They always noticed more about how we said things in English than me or my brothers. We don’t think about how we say stuff in our native language, we just say it.
After I gave my mother-in-law a couple examples, she realized that they hardly use 它 😉😂
@@learnpromandarin of course. It's like your nose. It's always in your sight so you tend not to see it.
Too correct a little mistake here: 我没有多少钱/朋友 does not really equal to "I have no money/friends at all", rather, it means "I don't have a lot of money/friends" or "I don't have that much money/many friends". But amazing work. Respect
I appreciate the correction. You’re right. I wish I could go back to correct it, but CZcams won’t let me make those kinds of corrections. 🤦♂️
I might do an update video here in the future. 😉
The main point of the lesson was to figure out how to use 根本，基本上，吃不多，等等
I appreciate your compliment 😊🙏🙏🙏❤️
hahaha no worries mate. I'm a native speaker so it sounds a bit subtle to me but still I really appreciate your amazing work. You definitely speak great Chinese. Cheers! @@learnpromandarin
请问你现在住在澳大利亚还是英国？我有个华侨朋友住在澳大利亚。他经常说mate和cheers. 😁
哈哈哈我就住在中国，只去过澳大利亚旅游过。不过我有几个澳洲朋友，可能是受此影响吧 😁@@learnpromandarin
Interesting setup, but who actually uses that type of sentence on a daily basis? It would have been better to use more effective examples.
Good question. It is used everyday, or at least very frequently. The idea here is to understand how to express yourself like a native. It may not be those exact examples, however I’ve heard natives exaggerate with those exact phrases 😉 他根本没有多少钱。
In each video, which are stand-alone lessons, I stray from beginner in the particular phrases I’m teaching and move to intermediate level sentences. All of which are practical, common ways of speaking. Used quite frequently. Hopefully this helps. Thanks for the question 😊🙏
there's not only one way to learn this language
That is very true!
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Catchy title though. 😉
Honestly, there’s a lot of amazing teachers on CZcams both native and non-native, and they all have different styles. I agree. 😊👍🏻
For Mandarin, there’s “Everyday Chinese” and “每日中文课 Free To Learn Chinese ” that I highly recommend.
Excellent material that I can’t even begin to touch on.