Mandarin Zone - Tones

[noobieshark]

That was lovely to watch!

[LearnChineseWithEase]

Enjoyed the music & costumes!

[astrangeone]

Thank you for this! I'm taking a first year course in Mandarin Chinese in my uni, and I think it's going to be brutal.

Thank you, laoshi!

[Every1Tubes]

I think I just called my mother a horse. Will keep practicing.

[RunAwayGalaxy]

This video has ben super helpful!

[anthonycotillo]

so the first tone is A like in music?

[Oshtinpowers]

@SuperDN70 Awesome! Thanks :)

[Smific]

Im rather confused as to why the Asian was holding a golden pigs head... But this video was needless to say, quite informative. Thank you.

[neonskyism]

Very professional and helpful! Thank you so much you are beautiful by the way:)

[Mayokitty7]

@SuperDN70 lolwut

[helgusoid]

Спасибо!!! Это так просто! Все очень наглядно!

[BrokenClouds89]

Girl is too pretty. I can't concentrate.

[litus2]

Very good explanation! I'm struggling quite a lot with tones. Mandarin would be so aeasy without them!

[calsmandarin11]

This is good, I have also done a lesson on tones, have a look at my channel.

[gp4nut]

I wish I had done a language degree. Totally the best thing to do, so versatile and useful. Especially a Chinese degree.

[danm3y]

Great stuff. Please keep it up. The lesson's been extremely useful. Cheers.

[outkastbabe2]

stupid background music cnt even lisen to da tones rite. tanks

[turquoisesurprise]

@outkastbabe2 lol for some reason I did not even notice it really until I read your comment, but now it is all I can hear. 

Helpful video, nonetheless :)

[malcolmx2000]

I now have the Rosetta stone for Mandarin and i can honestly say the Tones are the hardest to figure out in Mandarin; after that it is pretty much a cake-walk. Your Videos are making it easier by throwing in some of that most commonly used English tones (words). Thank you.

[CatGameDaiyE]

Are you British or some shit?

[wscastello]

@CatGameDaiyE probably, but certainly you are "some shit".

[manofadventure]

im native chinese but always hv problems with tones, but people can understand me perfectly, i think it applies to english as well. i think the key is to learn native language's stentence structure so even if u mis spell some words in a stentence people can still figure out what u r trying to say.....as the very first 2 years in england no one actually understood my english due to my bad accent and sentence structure``lol

[dracublah]

she's really cute

[shayexu10]

Learn Chinese,Start here!

skype id(roaming.gpiggy)

[kissmemonster]

the music in the background makes it really hard to hear!

[TheGooberment]

why is she holding a golden thing?

[OrientalBeginings]

@TheGooberment haha. At the time it was the year of the pig.

[pumasporvida]

Xin Nian Hao! o Xin Nian Kuai Le!

[septima1981]

it's a nice video!!!! Do you have more? congratulations and thank your!!

[motoquan]

cringe.

[jebus0000000]

Thanks for the cideos! I'm learning MAndarin and I find the langauge easy but the tones are a real challenge.

[OrientalBeginings]

@jebus0000000 Goodluck with your studying :)

[Oshtinpowers]

@OrientalBeginings is it best to learn mandarin at a young age? or can you start any time?

[colinpaulturner]

You should knock the background music on the head - it distracts you when you're trying to follow the pronunciation.

[Zenoku91]

love ur vid! im ganna use it cuz i just started to learn. due to the fact i no japanese

[Ravel87]

are you living in China? I lived in hong kong for 4 months, but I really would like to live/work in mainland china or Taiwan and improve my mandarin. =D

[sinohippus]

学会汉语，会向你打开一扇窗户，展现另外一个神奇的世界！加油！

Btw, I like the picture on the wall at 0:52. hehe.

[jzinius]

Thank you for your nice video. I am teaching my 5 year old girl chinese and it is entertaining, fun and useful! sincerely, Malaysian in California.

[CatGameDaiyE]

I looooovvvee how you look in this!!!! Especially right at the beginning, so hott ;-)

[helgard36]

More!!!!! Need more great lessons! Xie4 xie lao3 shi4

[19378167813728163]

This is great, I understand the tones well now. Most places show the second and third tones to be really similar, just the third reaches lower. Thanks!

[Rokshii]

lol you look like japanese decora? :) thanks for vid

[lylecrocodile87]

please get rid of the music for future videos. i'm here to practice my tones and i can't hear myself over the music. i mean...really

[iRNatsoFatso]

Very helpful :DD

Slowly I will get tones. D:<

[ElegantDragon12120]

im just starting to learn Chinese/Mandarin, and this helped so much with understanding tones. Thank you!

[esteesmom]

Ni hao. I would like to hear you speak some Mandarin please.

[jed37jed]

wow.. when you speak english, you have british accent. LOL .

[JosephineSoTime]

lol you are so cute :D'' love it.!^^

[Ralex004]

I have a load of trouble with tones,cuz I speak fast.But a person I know living in China said that the Chinese don't always get their tones right.

[Xinoutorah]

@Ralex004 yea I have heard my teacher make a mistake before, which surprised me! But you still should get your tones perfect because if you are not native your mistake will stand out more than if you are Chinese :) just like with English speakers.

[sukitron]

@Xinoutorah yep, thats exactly what i wanted, thanks :D

[Xinoutorah]

@sukitron No problem :)

[HanTraditionsRulz]

hao a.

ni zhong wen xue de hao hao o.

wo xiang, wo dou bi bu shang ni o.

jia you ya

[sukitron]

I am interested in learning chinese and I've been trying to find a video in internet where someone writes chinese at normal writing speed, not lessons, just like taking a dictate. If you could do that, it would be great! :) thanks

[Xinoutorah]

@sukitron I could put up a video, you just want to learn how to write characters?

[sukitron]

@Xinoutorah

What i wanted was to see for example someone writing chinese at full speed. All the videos are like to learn how to write. I just want to see someone writing like we do at school when we are kids, and we take dictates...

[Xinoutorah]

@sukitron Ahh okay, I see what you mean. Like taking notes in class, or something like that?

[sukitron]

@Xinoutorah exactly.

[Xinoutorah]

@sukitron Any specific characters you want to see? Or more like anything at normal writing speed? I can upload a quick video of writing simple sentences.

[sukitron]

@Xinoutorah no no specific characters. Just writing! :)

[Xinoutorah]

@sukitron I have found a yt video I will send it to you.

[JaceySquires]

I'm so glad your video confirmed what I've noticed as a new student of Mandarin Chinese. Tone 2 and 4 sound just like the familiar tones I use to in English to express a questioning "huh?" and impatient "hey!"

+1 for the cute outfit

[mitchnesbitt]

im learning vietnamese, but my friend's kid started watching the chinese version of dora the explorer, so i'm going to read some words in mandarin and see if he gets it

[caikovskee]

You should be a model lol

[mikatan12]

geezzz. i cant find a serious mandarin lesson on youtube. you guys do know that this is going to replace english one day....soon? any chinese people here who can please post a serious video with no music, fancy shit, just teaching the language?

[4545454545asp]

despite the fact that the grammar in Mandarin is simpler than that in English, the rediculous characters (overly complex and numerous), countless ways of transliterating it into Latin (ex Pinyin), and the 4.5 tones will prevent Mandarin from becoming a lingua franca outside of East Asia

[puberis]

Yep, just how the absurd complexities of the English language prevented it from becoming a dominant global language. Get real. Business importance, population, and overall national influence play bigger roles than how "hard" a language is.

[DukeUniversity08]

Are you kidding? You look absolutely gorgeous. And thanks so much for the help!

[Moyraah]

ty! now i get the tones, it's not as difficult as i thought it was (in theory, that is is. of course). and i think you look cute :)

[diegofany23]

so kinky

[33LB]

chun li :D

[zackisverybored]

haha kewl hair thingies XD

[CrispyClaire]

I can't seem to find that Chinese in 3 months book in any shop. I've got the Japanese one, but the Chinese must be hiding somewhere.

[beatboxpeej]

@CrispyClaire

Try Chinese in 3 years lol

[Huntristiel]

Like your British accent～

[OrientalBeginings]

Thankyou :)

[STyLe69100]

hen hao!

[iLikeDragon]

nice! btw u didnt explain the toneless tone lol

[marice37]

Hey I love this video...My chinesse professor doesn't explain too good so I rely a lot on you!

[Xinadium]

I don't understand the need to dress up, but nice video.

[CrispyClaire]

I think she looks cute. I think it's ok to have fun with the style as long as you are also properly interested in the culture. She's getting a BA in it, which shows she truly wants to understand the society, not just trying to mimick the fashion as a trivial thing.

I'm learning Chinese, not only to communicate but also as I think it's kinda lazy to try to absorb a culture without putting the time in to learn the language, especially since so many of them are making the effort to learn English.

[OrientalBeginings]

There isn't a "need", its just for pleasure :)

[Cranceco]

I wonder if it's dificult to learn this languages, you had to learn the kanjis and the tones, what a mess....

anyway good video.

[eleson333]

哇~妳可以當老師了...聲調教得不錯...妳穿旗袍很漂亮..­我說真的

[OrientalBeginings]

哪里哪里。 ：） 你是中国人吗？

[mattygolightly]

i would love it a lot if you wore those clothes around everyday!!!

[fernandesfran]

2nd tone seems the most difficult to me....Xie Xie

[zarryne]

pretty face :))

[TAKAFANDUB]

SHE LOOKS JUST LIKE PINK CHUNLY!

[Nshastel]

Очень даже неплохо... Хорошо смонтировано, нарядики тоже ничего...

[dpdpblue123]

lovely girl and great video！

看了一下午外国人说汉语，唱汉语歌，有一种自豪感。也很感激你能­把汉语传播给更多的人。我目前在教一个美国人讲汉语，显然，现在­越来越多的人感受到汉语的重要。抛开政治不谈，别人学汉语是对我­们文化的一种肯定。

看上去你在国内好想是个名人了，呵呵，祝贺，希望你在中国的日子­能幸福快乐！

[OrientalBeginings]

谢谢你，汉语很值得全世界的欣赏，中国文化天下无比，我知道一生­学不完，我会努力！

[girldecksrsexy]

the girl in the middle in the beginning picture was bangin

[snoxius]

You dont look any way miserable... you look gorgeous

[blackangeluph]

HAHAH you dont look messy you look good, so how its have been over there i plan to study also but at Taiwan may be in 2 years contact me if you can ;)

[shebrokemiheart]

Is that Hugo's? On your desk?

[RasenganPwn]

lol...

[Pnkbong]

If I studied Mandarin at the local University, what kind of job could I get when I graduate?

[sisisze2007]

However Chinese have many and many language

Not only Mandarin

Such as,Cantonese,Fujina,shanghai and so on..

However,A lot of people can speak Mandarin in China!!

[cindy010cici]

哇~ 好可爱啊~

眨眼还以为是中国人来着~

[OrientalBeginings]

谢谢 ：） 其实我是混血， 我爸爸是中国人

[my7952]

Ah... I hope I wasn't a chinese...

[Shanghai20081114]

haha,You made up like a Beautiful Chinese Girl.I like the style~这段影片做得很好~我想此片对有志学中文的外国人学­的目的和入门都讲得很清楚。你的精彩演绎必定带动了许多聪慧而努­力的学生。~我会经常来你的空间坐坐的~~赞~~~

[OrientalBeginings]

谢谢你 ：） O(∩_∩)O~

[derithyll]

thats some cute hairdo ;)

[blackangeluph]

Very original congratulations !!

Gambey :-)

[neekoseeko]

Mgash!

Is that from Jackie Chan?

[Pnkbong]

I love China. I wish I was Chinese.

[bagpipeplayer]

いいですね。中国語が大好きです。

[jackcarpentersax]

Na me piaoliang!

[ScreamingPsychos]

You look very pretty. And this lesson was very helpful When you add ma to the end of a sentance in Chinese, doesn't it make the statement a question?

[OrientalBeginings]

yes, that would be the question particle "吗"

[moikute]

Thanks for the vid, it's very helpful! By the way, love your hair!

[kunstinflammen]

Btw, you sound more Northern than Brummy o.O

[kunstinflammen]

Amazing

[xianghuaZ70X]

woaw that`s a pretty hair bow she have.

[sakanamono]

thank you this video was quite delightful.

[wowfreak10]

ちゅ語くはだめですね!!!

日本語はだいすきです. =))

[cyclonechamber]

I think you need to study Japanese a bit more....

[cyclonechamber]

(in response to wowfreak10's comment)

[wowfreak10]

was supposed to be ちゅごく語 my bad. and 日本語が大好きです.

[Shaguar97]

わたしはちゅ語くと日本語すきです。

でも、日本語はだいすきです、ねえ。

[wowfreak10]

hehe you copied mine didn't you? i screwed up on my comment, bad japanese i fixed it in a reply some where on here...

[StrawberryKoiVintage]

日本語で話すのは何ですか?

[Shaguar97]

何？ 日本語はちょっとはなします。

[EterLightwave]

actually...you should wear Hanfu =.=

[melody0903]

It's still nice though

[kwicksandz]

you look pretty good in your chinese getup!

[TexHaiLin]

I just wanna let you know that you made my friend Paul love being part Chinese! He's quarter.

You have influenced him Bunny Lo!

[OrientalBeginings]

O(∩_∩)O~

[CoxXximus]

I think i need private lessons !!!!

[DirEnGay]

Ni hao. Wo shi Richard. Qing wen nin gui xing? Hen gao xing jian dao ni. Zai jian.

It's probably too formal but I've not learn the informal way to speak it. I'll probably do a College course next year to help out but since I'm doing Japanese this year and learning Korean at home, doing 3 languages full time might be hard.

[OrientalBeginings]

Ni hao Richard, hen gao xing ren shi ni. wo jiao luo ying ying. O(∩_∩)O~

how are your studies coming along? Sorry for the late reply I havent had access to youtube in a while!

[DirEnGay]

Wow one year ago I posted. it doesn't feel like it at all but yeah my studies are coming along great, thanks for asking.

Unfortunately both the Mandarin and the next stage Japanese course were cancelled this year in Doncaster College due to lack of applicants but I will go back next year for a part time night course if it's available.

I was getting confused learning 3 languages at once so I put Korean on hold for now and have worked through many more books on Mandarin and Japanese writing.

[punkiepop]

your nice! ;) cool dress 2:D bye!:D

[davidcufc]

The music ia a bit intrusive, especially when you're trying to demonstrate tones. Good otherwise.

[OrientalBeginings]

Thankyou, I will keeo that in mind :)

[goomer8]

Thank you very much for the lesson.

[Xytos]

you just explained Vietnamese:)

[chux420]

Looking good in purple! My english(N.American) is bad enough.. Don't think i have the skills to be able to speak fluient Mandarin or Cantonese. I would definetly have to learn it if i Ever decide to leave this crapy continent. Eastern language,culture and espeacially eastern music culture has allways fastinated me.

[KhmerD0g]

i rather learn mandarin than cantonese because cantonese sounds like ching chong chink to me.

[DirEnGay]

Lol you dick. Hahaha, that's what everyone say's about languages they don't understand anyway.

Japanese = watashi washi bashi boshi

Nah I love learning Japanese, Mandarin and Korean, next I will learn Russian and Thai next. It's hard work but I love their cultures so it's only fair I learn at least a bit of their languages.

You're completely wrong about Cantonese by the way it sounds nothing like that when you actually learn some of the language.

[Gymgirls123]

y do u like have a british acent?

[OrientalBeginings]

That would be because I am British. ^__^

[J0hnny601]

Awesome.

[Jianju69]

Wot? How could you possibly be British with that dress & eye makeup? *chuckles*

[wyclef675]

I wish I had a mandarin tutor with a sexy accent like yours. That would make life much easier.

[gurufabbes]

I just started Chinese a few days ok at University. This video came in handy.

Thanks and keep on with them!

[ShahMashya]

Wonderful videos you have! Especially this one!

Eurasian mix rules all the way! The northern they are, the better! I so love to belong to the northern hemisphere with its coldness, winter, forests, wildlife and civilisation.

[naranjico]

I have a question. Why is that girl keeping that "cat head" while saying the four tones of "Ma"?

[shiker99]

that is a pig head~~~

[naranjico]

thank you! now everything is clear and makes sense :p

[OrientalBeginings]

haha, I recorded the video a few years back, in the year of the golden pig, hence the pig.

[Ryuforyou]

Hey im currently living in japan (im english) my visa ends soon and im thinking of applying to sheffield to continue learning japanese, do you recomend it or could you give me any information? I spoke to the uni via email but it would be good to get a students perspective. ^-^

thankyou.

[QualityDefinition]

To black0jackass:

I think you either smoked TOO much weed, or

are an INCREDIBLY stupid, racist, penishead.

Loser.

[Jazash]

thank you for your help

for me, the hardest thing about chinese is the tones. but you cleared it up very nicely.

Could you maybe show an example of a toneless tone?

[yunsaston]

lol i know the chinese girl. Ur in Birmingham rite now?

[OrientalBeginings]

I'm actually currently living in China O(∩_∩)O~

[yunsaston]

lol,hilarous, she 's got a mao-period-painting on the wall.

[Demodrus]

Good lessons and you're so cute in that chinese clothing, cya ;)!

[Poemi10304]

How about a lesson for Cantonese tones? Might be kinda daunting for people, but it would be interesting, that's for sure!

[isantoso81]

learning Cantonese is almost useless

better learn Mandarin

[Poemi10304]

haha, not useless in Chinatown or with my relatives! ;)

[CandleAshes]

wow, this video was great, keep it up and I'll try to learn. thank you :)

[flybynightvideo]

Bravo! Well done. The music should probably be brought down just a bit; it's a bit loud.

[firefox8192]

the dragon rules. go china.

[missmundo2006]

I think learning Hindi/Urdu is more important than learning Chinese because there are more speakers of Urdu/Hindi vis-a-vis those who speak Mandarin Chinese.

[Erazmus72]

Bunny Lo, I'm literally just beginning to learn Mandarin. In this one video explaining the tones, you have helped me more than countless websites. Most appreciated, any chance you'll be adding more videos on learning the language for beginners, or tips to know? Thanks!

[sedative3145]

That girl is hottt! MAAAA maaaaa maAAmmaA

[TexHaiLin]

Cool,So she is fluent? or just really good? Are you and your brother? fluent?

[TexHaiLin]

How does your English mum speak to him? In Cantonese too?

[OrientalBeginings]

Yeah, they've been married for years, so she can speak cantonese too.

[Violekath]

What about Spainish? I'm Chinese American and I can speak Mandarin, Cantonese, English, and a little Spainish does that mean I can communicate with 80-90% of the people in the world?! lol

[ariesw]

such a gd video, gd teacher 2. gd luck with ur study

[mormonic]

Brilliant video. I couldn't get all that tone stuff before. Thanks.