Chinese Lesson , Can You Speak English?

[dhaeryl30]

Can I also ask - Ni keyi shuo Yingwen ma?  Can we use keyi or neng instead of hui?

[BobLeKatt]

Cute.

[jradetzky]

you look gorgeous in that white top

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@jradetzky Thank you~ :*)

[lightrachel]

poor pronunciation - 找 is ZHao not Zao.

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@lightrachel 谢谢你的纠正。:)

[1plus2upto3]

....女老师的头发看起来不是很健康哟。

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@1plus2upto3 头发看起来不健康唷？那怎么办？！！

[1plus2upto3]

@PeggyTeachesChinese kidding..no offence. 没关系,更不健康的话就会显得现在很健康了。-。-

[funkgerat]

You're doing it wrong. The proper phrasing is "English, motherfucker, do you speak it?"

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@funkgerat LOL. 

[CaesarBhirawa]

Haha this is exactly my daily problem :))

Thanks Peggy!

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@CaesarBhirawa Thanks for watching! Do you also live in Taiwan? :)

[CaesarBhirawa]

@PeggyTeachesChinese Yes, this is my third year in Taiwan, and now I'm trying to learn again what I left before :(

But luckily my landlady never say any "bleeping" words as in your video :D

[harry199129]

I am a Chinese.But I am not fluently in speaking English.I want to practice my oral English.Thank you for your conversation.

[MrCrazyNumber]

Its weird why I don't see comments about her boobies.

[seetowqingyu]

Wow! It is a very good video. Hope everyone that who are chinese and do not really know how to speak chinese could learn better chinese from this video.

[chinhuaa]

this is very good i love the conversation based teaching !!!! thank you xie xie

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@chinhuaa Thanks for watching~ I hope you also enjoy other videos! :)

[Smartaz4U]

Who wants to speak perfect English anyway?ANY culture can learn less than basic American English and be perfectly understood here while keeping their own accent.That's what's unique with our (slang)language.

[dikashter29]

thank you so much!! this is helping me so much!!!

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@dikashter29 I am glad this lesson is helpful to many learners! :) Thanks for watching. Please help share the video~

[saintsaens21]

What's this debate about Peggy's dress? If you have it, flaunt it. This isn't Iran.

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@saintsaens21 you should see what they say about my Bikini Pool Party video...

[saintsaens21]

@PeggyTeachesChinese I see..makes me not unhappy to be moving to Taipei next week.

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@saintsaens21 too bad. where are you going?

[saintsaens21]

@PeggyTeachesChinese why is it too bad? I'm going to Taipei, I don't know which district yet..first time in Taiwan!

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@saintsaens21 oh i thought you said you were leaving Taipei... ;)

[saintsaens21]

@PeggyTeachesChinese No...seems a nice place.

[kkkichong]

@PeggyTeachesChinese what's the difference between ydian and yixia?

[anglobiznes]

I would like to recommed a really practical ebook which helped me on my job interview and finally to find a job (it was difficult cause I am Spanish). I bought it on Amazon the title is: 30 MOST COMMON INTERVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS by Anna Piekarczyk ... worth reading

[ace24680]

Man I would not be able to learn a thing from you I'd be too distracted by such beauty, but lets give it a try

[scrapbook11]

There's nothing wrong with what your wearing. Some people are just too conservative. I think you look great!

[qys19870219]

你能教我学英语吗？我在中国，翻墙过来的！

不理解翻墙吧？？呵呵！我们上youtube是被禁止的，要用软­件才能浏览这个网站，我希望学习英语，你可以帮我吗？有QQ么？­MSN也可以！谢谢！

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@qys19870219 你是怎么进来YouTube的？？？你住中国哪里呀？

[lshuaimao]

@qys19870219 不容易啊，注意别从墙上摔下来~

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@lshuaimao 怎麼翻牆的啊?

[Zanmeizhu]

I'm not trying to be mean, Lawlzpie. Why didn't Peggy react when someone made a comment "Boobs" twice? It's very obvious, don't you think so? I don't like Chinese being treated like that, for I am Chinese too. Peggy, you're a good teacher and people all over the world watch you. Wear something decent next time. Those are words of concern so that people will respect you. No offense, please.

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@Zanmeizhu people are always gonna say something though.

[lawlzpie]

@Zanmeizhu don't be mean...

Peggy I like what you're wearing. And I love your lessons.

[Zanmeizhu]

Can't you wear something decent?

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@Zanmeizhu what's wrong with what I was wearing? >< 

[Enjali1]

I personally enjoyed this video and felt that I learned a lot from it, more than a lot of other learn to speak Chinese videos. Thanks!

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@Enjali1 Thank you. That's a nice thing to know! :)

[murchie85]

@PeggyTeachesChinese

Peggy I have to admit at the start a couple of months ago when I watched your videos... I thought they were a little cheesy. Now I think they are amazing and am addicted to them!! Also you have really good humour cracks me up!! This is surely the most fun way to learn Chinese!

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@Enjali1 thank you kindly~ please share the video with others if you like it. :)

[00000lyx]

@eyemla

go look up what shite means then come back, thank you~

[bechamimi]

Boobs

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@bechamimi words

[bechamimi]

Boobs

[Arrogantsupermoose]

I watched it twice and still can't pronounce the high pitched beeps your landlord says, maybe I'm not trying hard enough.

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@Arrogantsupermoose You mean the Chinese cursing word from the mean landlord in the video? :D

[ianmann64]

I think the viewers are more interested in her breast than her English.

[MastaKadaj]

@ianmann64 I'm a multi-tasker. I'm interested in both.

[00000lyx]

your Chinese sucks! why would you teach people your weird accent?

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@00000lyx Ah! Thanks.

[00000lyx]

@PeggyTeachesChinese

oh ah! you are welcome.

[00000lyx]

@PeggyTeachesChinese

ah~ you are welcome~!

[00000lyx]

@PeggyTeachesChinese

you r welcome!!

[Chazamatazamaspaz]

@00000lyx Your punctuation sucks and frankly YOU SUCK!

[hughharman]

I love your teaching technique - it makes learning Chinese fun and easy. Thank you - thank you - thank you!

[krdsnskskrn]

OMG, this is the first time of my life that i felt Chinese is not that hard since I learned from your video and it can be useful and more fun when learn it from you

[blackjin23]

yidianr = a little wo huo shuo yidianr putonghua

[blackjin23]

I thought shuo was speak wo bu hui shuo 

[brightlongpham]

I love your videos very much. 跟你学中文真的很轻松。

[dapropawanka]

sounds like taiwanese taimei. looks like yuanzhumin.

[flako4ladiez]

Peggy you are gorgeous. I wish you were my teacher. I would bring you an apple everyday. ;)

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@flako4ladiez I'd like that...having an apple every day~~~ ;)

[bartekw996]

Is 'English' not 'Ying3yu3'?

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@bartekw996 "英文 ying1wen2" and "英語 ying1yu3" both mean English language. Thanks for watching!

[Manchunia88]

hahha you use 他妈的 and then 莫名其妙 - you couldn't more obviously be a Chinese student! 你的中文一点儿也不标准！去北方学吧 我的天啊 your English is also shite, you speak like a black woman.

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@Manchunia88 你是說.....除了中國北方之外 別的地區的中文都是不標準的 真可笑!

[Manchunia88]

@PeggyTeachesChinese 是啊！ 你看 找 汉语拼音 zh-ao zhao 你说的 是 zao早 Peggy！

第二个错 英文！ 是 ying 不是 ing 没有y的音。我知道你想教汉语我给你一份儿可是你说的不对，别的­人听不出来你有口音。对了你怎么学的英文？你说的有黑人的方式！

[dapropawanka]

@Manchunia88 she's from taiwan, dumbass. they don't use pinyin there. also, zhao is pronounce zao shao, sao. etc. you are a fucking moron.

[Manchunia88]

@PeggyTeachesChinese 哎呀没事，算了吧，你不是飞机场所以我喜欢看着呵呵-加油！

[djn3ck2]

@Manchunia88 你真的是個低能 怪不得 很多國家的人都討厭中國

[Manchunia88]

@djn3ck2 跟你有什么关系？除了她的个个她没有用。对了，eyemia你找­到了shite是啥意思呢？

[babymar18]

ni zhi dao shuo zhong wen? ni hao peggy lao shi, ni mei li he piao liang.. wo fengkuang, HAHA! yin wei, wo mei you li mao. :)) LOL. help wo xue han yu. :DD

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@babymar18 thank you very much for watching~

[navyman4]

YOU are so beautiful (pao Luiang?) I might end up learning chinese just watching you talk. A brotha like me likes your personality too :)

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@navyman4 Thank you~~~ :*)

[rbrbran277]

I'm checking it out all right.

Got it paused at @0:14

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@rbrbran277 classy.

[schang1steve]

@PeggyTeachesChinese Oh come on. You're aware of cleavage, obviously.

[ThePoopoo098]

"you no watt happen"........Do you know what happened? or Are you aware of what happened?

[aafher]

hi miss peggy your videos are very helpfull to me, specially with my work coz some of my co worker are chinese and i know a littile bit of chinese laguages. thank's for uploading!!!

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@aafher That's great! Thank you for watching.

[hooliganizm777]

Ni hao Peggy, wo de pong you!

A couple more questions... How would I say "Pleased to meet you", or "I'm happy to meet you".

Also, when I say "Wo gang kai shi xue Pu Tong Hua", they usually reply in Mandarin "How long have you been learning?" How do you say that sentence in Mandarin? I need to recognise it and reply properly. (In which case it is "since early this year").

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@hooliganizm777 「很高興認識你」- hen3 gao1xing4 ren4shi4 ni3 - very glad to know you.

「你學多久了?」- ni3 xue2 duo1jiu3 le5? - How long have you been learning?

Thank you for watching! Please help me share. :*) Xie xie.

[GhettoDoughBoy]

Ur really pretty :)

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@GhettoDoughBoy Thank you!

[Fishydick]

他妈的外国人！！哈哈

[hil19bb]

ur videos are sooo helpfull tnks!!

great job u make the lessons so dynamic,funny and easy to understand!!

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@hil19bb Thank you for watching! :)

[amancalledCHOK]

หว่ออ้ายหนี่

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@amancalledCHOK Could someone help me with the translation, please? :)

[ANOMALOUS4EVER]

peggy you are the most relaxed and down to earth teacher on youtube. ive seen many channels on here. some others that also teach well, but the way you present your material is great :)

thanks for your lessons

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@ANOMALOUS4EVER Thank you! That's so nice to know! :)

[Forvill]

Wow! Maybe you're one of the best chinese teachers on internet!

I'll be keeping tracki!

[tropez201]

I understand tai4 to mean "to". Is it the same meaning overall? Would Wo de zhongwen bu hen hao / bu ting hao work as well?

[pronetbr]

Nice video!! Congratulations. I'll be keeping track. Cheers from Brazil!

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@pronetbr Thank you. Please do track back. There are other great lessons! :)

[hooliganizm777]

Hi Peggy! I have also been told I should be saying "pu3 tong1 hua4", not "zhong wen", when saying " mandarin language". I know "zhong wen" is "Chinese people". Can you please cure my confusion?!?

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@hooliganizm777 "zhong1wen2" means Mandarin Chinese. "pu3tong1hua4" refers to Mandarin Chinese as well but this term is respectively used in China.

[brandon0brandon]

open the eyes

jajaj

[jfahler]

Thanks! This just helped me make a phonecall, lol

I knew "Wo Zhongwen bu hao," but didn't know how to ask about English... this makes perfect sense... 謝謝你！

[speed6mazda]

awesome lesson!

[Jose23635]

could u write in piyin how I can ask some1 if he/she speaks madarin??  Plz!! it'll be very usefull!!

[worldtravel101]

this is a very helpfull lesson!! but i couldnt understand the one part coz it was beeping lol

[purplydreamz]

shouldn't it be 英语 rather than 英文？This is a mistake that I used to make when i was young, and I would get scolded really badly by my parents.

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@purplydreamz They both mean "English language" :)

[purplydreamz]

@PeggyTeachesChinese yeah i know but we don't use it interchangeably. like for the spoken form it has to be 英语 if not it will be wrong. haha i don't know. i guess we were taught differently, but then again, people tend to be very lax about words usage nowadays.

[BonyHahn]

yes,they're different...语 means language，文 means words and sentence,so the correct expression is "i speak 英语 and i write 英文".

but there's a exception,in chinese,you can say you speak "中文",but you can never use the words "中语" because it doesn't exist.but you can use "汉语" or "普通话" ...

[globetrotteri]

Wah! Peggy Laoshi,

Wo xiang ni shi zui hao de laoshi! Ni de Zhongwen de ke hen you qu gen hen ke xiaode. xoxo

[XartLee]

You are really a fun teacher--this is the best language lessons I have found so far. It's tryly delightful that you infuse so much personality in your lessons..it add soooo much..xie xie! and wo ai ni...

[rasgermano]

xie xie ni! :)

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@rasgermano bu ke qi, :)

[rasgermano]

Ni hao Peggy!

wo jiao Germano,wo shi Baxi ren!

I´m tryin to learn chinese and i´m really enjoying your vids,they´re very helpful ...very good job!Now I have a question...how to say "do you speak portuguese"?

Greetings from Brasil....Zaijian!

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@rasgermano

Ni hao Germano. Xie xie! hen gaoxing ni xihuan wo de yingpian. :)

Do you speak Portuguese? - Ni3 hui4 shuo1 pu2tao2ya2 wen2 ma1?

[Nilguiri]

Hi Peggy.

You said man4 yi4 dian3...

but I'm pretty sure I've heard yi4 diar4 before.

Is that the same thing, maybe with a different accent - or am I imagining it?

Thanks... great lesson.

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@Nilguiri Ni hao, 'man4' is 'slow'; 'yi4 dian3' means 'a little bit'

yes, you've heard the same 'yi4dian3' with this video. :)

[Nilguiri]

Thanks Peggy. But I was referring ti 'yi4 diaR3' with an R. Does that exist?

thanks

;)

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@Nilguiri I guess you are taking about the 'retroflex'? yes, but in Taiwan, people rarely speak with retroflex, so it'd be 'yi4 dian3' rather 'yi4 diar3'. :)

[Nilguiri]

I don't know what retroflex is, but yes, I think the people I heard saying it were from Beijing - not Taiwan.

xie xie

;)

[BuayaGuy]

@PeggyTeachesChinese I've heard (and read in some "China" learning Chinese books that sometimes they add an R to the end of words, like "yi dianR"...none of my Singaporean friends say that though - they think it's strictly something from China.

By the way, why is it yi4? I've always heard it was "yi1 dian3"...

[alwinsaludes]

peggy ni hen piao liang.....wou shi huan ni...hahaha

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@alwinsaludes xie xie ni. :)

[pooshxD]

LOL!

I didnt know saying "Hey" was offensive.

So that means all this time i have been offeneded my Chinese friends! noooooooo

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@pooshxD The one you hear in the video should only be used with lower intonation when picking up a call as in "wei2", but the woman is shouting and we don't use it in daily conversation to get people's attention as 'hey!' is in English. ;)

[alanhkk]

u are ugly

[futmex0007]

this is great!!! I am learning mandarin!! and this is it!!!

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@futmex0007 Yay! Thank you for watching my videos! :)

[DDanielle100]

Hi Peggy =]

Great video!

I have a question - I didn't quite understand how you say OK in chinese, can you please write it in Pinyin?

[DDanielle100]

OK, after watching the video again I realized you said hao ^ ^ (my speakers are not too great)

xie xie, I really enjoyed watching it =]

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

@DDanielle100 Thank you for watching! xie xie.

[coolsteven2]

HAHAHA i understood some of the curse words xD

[Zhenya377]

I enjoy your videoclip, funny to study and nice to see you too, xie xie!

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

bu ke qi. :)

Thank you for watching too!

[PrincessShiya]

I totally LOVE learning from you, it's so easy! But one question: When I first learned "I Don't Understand" in chinese I learned it like: "Wo bu mingbi".

So, I'm wondering? What's the difference between the two?

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

wo bu mingbai - i don't understand

wo bu dong - i don't understand

But in this video, she says "wo ting bu dong" meaning that she is unable to understand by listening to what the landlord is saying.

I hope it solves your question. :)

[PrincessShiya]

Oh! It's just 2 ways to say it! Thanks!

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

bu ke qi. :)

[futmex0007]

thanks you are a great teacher!!!!

[BuayaGuy]

很好！ :) 我有多朋友在新加坡 :)

(My written/spoken Chinese is incredibly basic, but these are some good lessons :)

Gum sia! (Sorry, I usually say thanks in hokkien, cos of my Singaporean friends...hehe)

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

Thank you for watching! :*)

[californiaengineer]

Peggy 老师

你的录音好看！很好!

哎呀！房东 (landlord) 没有manners!

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

哈哈 對呀! :D

[michyeongjen]

cool video... wish u upload more...:)

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

I will try. :)

[AgnosticFTW]

Hi, do you know what "Ching tai wah" means?

I'm asking because there was a Chinese love song that I really like, where the guy kept saying "ching tai wah", do you know that song? if so can you tell me the name of the artist and the name of the song.

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

Hmmm.....I still can't figure out. Who's the artist?

[californiaengineer]

To answer your question:

I think what you mean is: qi1'n ai4 (亲爱） which basically means "Darling" or "Beloved."

And that makes sense because you mentioned that these words are part of a Chinese love song. Chinese people are very passionate about romance.

[faridjabba]

m, Hot, and nice but I think u miising a super basics in CHInese video, like how to say ""hi, i am, i want, i like, i love, i need, etc with transliterated captions , u know what i mean ?

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

Ni hao,

Thank you for watching my video and the comment! :)

I already taught "I am...." "I want..." they are in the older videos. I will be getting into the others soon! :*)

[rochagugu]

really cool video :)

[eto8901]

I am doing a play for summer rec. and i am a chinese woman, who speaks chinese and english i want to know, how a chinese accent sounds while speaking english. please get back to me ;)

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

Ni hao,

Did you mean speaking English with a Chinese accent?

[Supenmanu]

speak english with chinese accent? EASY... just replace r with l and vice versa. And most importantly remember chinese has basicaly NO grammar. So your grammar should also not be there or at least be totally messed up.

Example sentence: "I want to go to a restaurant with you tommorow evening"

With chinese accent it simply becomes: "tommolow we go to lestaulant rate"

[samuel1abarza]

Your final kiss sounded so cool! 哈哈.

What does the final particle (了) represent?, or what is it used for?

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

I already made a lesson on 了, it's in one of the older videos called

Mandarin Lesson: Particle 了(Le5)

加油! :*)

[samuel1abarza]

What's the difference between 説and 講? I mean, in what cases are they used?

謝謝你

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

Ni hao,

sorry for my late reply. :P

說 and 講 mean the same thing, when one is used, it can be substituted with the other as well. :)

[merlion427]

ni hao miss peggy! :)

xie xie!! :)

ur vids helped me a lot!!

[PeggyTeachesChinese]

Bu ke qi! I'm glad they help! :)

[china0867]

Are you Cantonese?