emKid Mandarin #2: Pinyin, Pronunciation and Writing Basics

[NaturalSpinTurn]

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[tenneral]

This is great encouragement for beginners.  Thank you very much.

[bbly096]

Question.....: why use pinyin but write in traditional?

[CatGameDaiyE]

It's great to finally here the rule about 2 third tones in a row. I noticed that myself about ni hao pronunciation but it was never explained in vids I watched so I was confused :/ Until now!

-Matt

[tep2005]

This is a very helpful video. It dissects the learning of pinyin from a native English speaker's perspective.  Please keep 'em coming!

[DesiGirlInCanada]

XD don't run around saying ni hao ni hao

[cuitianxiang]

you ARE good at the tones :D

nice!

[medicdroidl]

:P really helpful, writing chinese is just too complicated.. no alphabet.. too hard :D

[licheenut]

Love it! The world is truly becoming a more cozy place; this vid made me feel really happy and hopeful!

[supervelvetlips]

it really helps hearing another non-native speaking the new sounds! keep doin it! ; ) like ur sense of humor, too!

did your wedding work out fine by the way?? ; ) lol

greetings from germany...

[robertgenito]

thank you so much for posting this :)

i found your video while looking for a video about the stroke orders (and line "directions") of the mandarin phonetic symbols. wish me luck :)

[eduarazo]

lesson two..out!

[YesRighton]

well done . i am chinese but have to learn from you !!!!!

[Zhenya377]

excelent, good, bravo, short but very clear, thanks!!!!

[ephektz]

It's not "pin yin" it's "peen een."

Yi is pronounced "ee."

[ewilson999]

Your Great, Helped me out a lot. Thank You

[xxFortuneCookie]

oh forgot... 谢谢 =D

[xxFortuneCookie]

thanks a lot!!

[D1SH3Y]

maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa thanks

[mistermjones2000]

Excellent work, please continue!

[rofhunter]

ni hao ma?

i love this lang *-*

[gugam44]

xièxiè

[spore637]

@gugam44

應該是

Xièxie 

[close6]

must have given you a headache when you start haha

[Firena0]

that the letters should be written with an order was new to me :D Keep up with these lessons plz, they make learning so ez.

and btw.. please get better lighting on the board.. the darkess made it almost impossible to read the ní XD. not very good for the eye. thx for links btw:)

[miltownkid]

Check out my new youtube channel. MTKChinese. I'll be doing stuff over there.

[Firena0]

already have:) looks great

[miltownkid]

Oh yeah. I think I told you that somewhere else didn't I. :)

[Firena0]

yup, u did :p

[zingybingy]

skin

[kicdos]

where r the links? ni hao ma?

[kicdos]

where r the links?

[rivluk]

awsome, i learned it in 注音though i can never get use to pin yin lol

[RickChimera]

Ma, MaA, MaAA, Ma-

Mandarin is such a cool, yet obscure, languange. I appreciate these lessons. Keep it up!

[supersniperkilla]

i lol'ed when i heard you say..now dont go run around goin ni hao ni hao ni hao!!! lol..im looking forward to picking up on this language

[Caru2]

Dude you are my idol. Do some more.

[miltownkid]

Perfect timing. Lessons start Monday. Then every week after that.

[WeShallC]

sweet I used to know how to read and write that back in the day... nice vid

[bentheweirdo]

lol sounds like choung

really fast

[Bakahashi]

Thanks! More please, its nice and easy to understand. I think after studying a bit of Japanese my general learning curve for languages isn't as bad :D

[sandietje]

Just like learning Dutch helps learning German, I think learning Japanese helps learning Korean; learning Mandarin helps learning Japanese; learning Korean helps learning Japanese; but learning Japanese help ruining English...lol, well, unless you are already a native speaker. So, be careful!:-)

[willkiller07108]

yo MTK we also ned to play more!

nice vid i walked into my local chinese take-a-way and said nihao they laughed and said they spoke cantoneese :(

[miltownkid]

But I'm sure they would have understood that.

[willkiller07108]

oh they did they just said they spoke cantonese so i felt ike a bit of a dick.

[zmoney682]

yo mtk we need to ply on xbox live again

[miltownkid]

Hellz yeah. I just quit that one job that was killing my free time. Sunday?

[zmoney682]

sure

[chickentime182]

when are u ganna make mo videos

[miltownkid]

Want me to upload something tonight? I can. I usually do 1 every two days or so. I'll do another Chinese lesson next week.

[chickentime182]

oh srry i was using the new youtube page that everyone has now iand i didnt see your lates videos i only saw videos that were posted a year ago

[kcor25]

nice vid miltown kid!! Looking forward to your next chinese tutorial!!

[UptownVeteran12]

That was great dude. I'm gonna start practicing this some. It seems pretty simple :)

[kozes]

KNEE HOW! KNEE HOW! KNEE HOW! lol

[miltownkid]

That's basically how it goes. :)

[kozes]

im just kidding. this stuff is cool i would want to learn how to speak another language. i just dont want to have the patients to learn it right now

[diovisi]

brilliant.. this is actualy fun... its too bad you werent my spanish teacher for the 3 years i took it., was very boring. this was great. thanks Casey.. 5/5

[xkab2]

ni hao bitches lol

[miltownkid]

lol, Exactly!

[wakolok]

thanks miltown well ill be waitin for thatvideo jaja well umhopefully youll add me my gamertag is wakoloks um wellhopefully illmake another vid too aboutsumthing else well thanks for the response and take care man ang game on! peace from mexico

[wakolok]

i hope you got my video response well peace from mexico

[miltownkid]

I did and left comments already. :) Peace from Mil-Town (Milwaukee)

[wakolok]

cause of this video i want to learn chinese you make it look so easy and fun thanks man you the man!

[miltownkid]

It is easy and fun (the emKid way ;) .)

[wakolok]

ooo forgot to tell you man i like your vids so much that you inspired me to make a lil series called the adventures of miltown kid vids coming soon probably tomorrow or intwo days theywill be up here so u could look those up jaja i hope you like them well peace again and goodnight man peace from mexico and gameon!

[DarkGsus]

lol blacky chan ftw nice vid!

[miltownkid]

lolz. Excellence!

[gamejunky420]

Dementedsoldier: this is the shit

[noobleskthx]

ZOMFG THIRD.

for a second i thought you'd leave me hanging today :(

[jioninja]

Ohhh and forgot to add, I always wanted to learn chinese but never knew where to start so thanks for this!

[jioninja]

Yay! I've been waiting! Good job...