Say "Pin Yin" in Chinese!

[fuzzypaws17]

I need give you a lesson in cleaning your room. Bu hao ! ;)

[eileenhhouston]

The fifth tone she demonstrated is WRONG!

[Haqichaqi]

you did more than an ok job. get out of here you did a perfect job.

[kungfudoggie]

Jesus, girl, make your bed and clean your room! Where's your mom?

[ffahlis]

I thought it would be something fun, Like all those "Say R in Chinese". This was boring, but surely useful to some.

[twostorms]

Thank you very much:)

[slb318]

Thankyou, This helped me alot! Great explanation :o)

[baraclude]

i use pin yin to pronounce english words. helped me a lot when i was young.

[tamir1979]

que despelote ke tenes en la habitacion!!!

[naranjico]

your chinese is very good, but you should make the bed as well... ;)

[jackturner1993]

i would never expect a chinese person to be good at the chinese language- but thats just me!

[godsrightarm]

I thought if two identical tones followed each other, as in ni hao, the first was dropped? As in, ni hao3 instead of ni3 hao3.

[aurielMoon]

godsrightarm, that rule is when there are two or three third tones in a row. in that case, the first 3rd tone (and second, if there are 3 third tones in a row) changes to second. ni3hao3= ni2hao3. if there are 4 third tones in a row, the tones change to 2nd, 3rd, 2nd, 3rd.

[godsrightarm]

clean your room.

[diegohernan82]

she had some action in that bed last night :P

[smilingmatthias]

Wow!! wonderful explanation!

5 shuriken

[bayandsl]

my mandarin is not quait good but only my problem is pin yin for exmanple in english is the letter Y and in chinese is yha i cant understand that

i remember my last last school days in chinese school my first pin yin its confusing me... :(

[Rohan4basu]

is this cantonese or mandarin

[bayandsl]

this is mandarin

[runbambirun]

Your stuff is really good. Thank you for going to all this trouble. Just one thing. Make your bed, for God's sake! What is your poor mother going to think when she sees that mess?

[mra85008]

yes it did specially inm learnig chinesse on the ds with my chinesse game coach thx

[Bankbuddy]

Great lesson, thank you! And good English, too.

[kikiorg]

In English, the tonal changes change the *implication* of the word, but not the meaning, like "yes" or "yes?" [The first is a falling tone (4) and the last is a rising tone (2).] Does the tonal change in putonghua actually make it a *different word* altogether?

In other words, do I have to be *very* careful with the tones, or will native speakers generally understand what I'm saying, even if I use English-like tones?

Thanx for your awesome videos!!

[pandaclaus88]

You should be careful with the tones. It does make different words!

[tunein]

To add to this, remember the first tone which is flat, is also always high! In your high register voice. The second rises from mid to high, the third dips to low and back up to around the middle register, then the fourth starts up around the high level and drops down sharp to low.

[LochNessPanda]

Wow, since luckily my Vietnamese reading gave me experiences, i can now read 拼音 more quickly! thanks a lot

[KameWaOni]

By the way yes this video was helpful, I actually never heard of a fifth tone before now, thanks again.

[KameWaOni]

Thank you for helping us learn chinese, great video 5/5.

[SMALLVILLEdvds]

...you should make your bed before showing us your room! Very untidy!

[carbonlaminate]

dude. you're too uptight. that puts her one step closer to being the perfect girl. it shows she's relaxed, and that there are other more important things to do.

[dizztant]

You are marked!!!!!!!!

i am your student now...

thanks for a reat video

[dcfila]

You are awesome. Keep it up. I am moving to Shanghai this year and want to learn a little before I go. Thanks for your help. Where do you live?

[ealado]

Excellent, continue helping us to learn your language! You have a lovely voice also. Keep doing

[annarboriter]

Wow,we can even talk about theoretical pinyin as in shu5!

[dalmain77]

Good job and thank you for posting your video. Keep it up.

[ArieKawaii]

Woa! This was the best explanation I ever got in chinese tones!

I'm so grateful, because I'm starting my mandarin lessons next month and I'm trying to learn some things on the internet, but found the tones so difficult to understand until I saw your vid!

Now everything makes perfect sense! Thanks!

[invictus2]

Your profile says you've been born and raised in Shanghai... so you've never lived in the States? Wow! I was convinced you were American. lol. Your English is amazing. Thanks for these great videos. I particularly enjoyed the one about the teenager-isms. 我的女朋友-她也是户妹-主在六年纽约，你的英语她比更好！嘻嘻­，你真的很可爱。谢谢。

[sarnberger]

Good one!

[leeks5229]

Xie xie nin Diana laoshi! You have done very well with your explanation on pinyin. For English-speaking people like me, pinyin would come as a big relief trying to learn to speak Mandarin Chinese. Keep up with the excellent work! I could sense your commitment in your videos. By the way, are a teacher? Warmest regards, Lee KS

[carpediem4utube]

I'd like to be some day. I don't have a background in education but it's something I feel a natual afinity to. Thanks for the kind words! Namaste.

[Flimmerjung]

I learned that "ni" is spoken with an up tone (ní), when it comes before "hao".

[carpediem4utube]

I agree, it can certain sound that way. I was never taught that in school but I definitely see your point. ;-)

[crimsonxdreamxx]

@Flimmerjung my chinese teacher taught me that this year! she said it was because two 3rd tones sound weird together or something xD

[Flimmerjung]

Well done.

[Misa8321]

I liked watching this, it was easy understand!, thank you for putting these up!

[carpediem4utube]

I'm so glad you like it. Makes me motivated to add more vids. ;-)  Cheers!

[Bubbles1234567890]

xie xie ni zen banj :)

[carpediem4utube]

Duo xie cheng zan!

[Andy7645]

Excellent video. Thank you for sharing and your explanation of Pinyin. Xie4 xie!

[wangtianthu]

you should clean up your bedroom first.

[carpediem4utube]

yes mom! ;-)

[chrstg2003]

Hi, Thank you for this. Hope to have more lessons on Pin Yin, your explanations and examples are easy to understand. Where do you live, actually; US or chinese speaking country? Regards

[carpediem4utube]

Thanks, I'm so glad to hear that. I live in the US.