Learning Chinese

[claton95]

I love speaking Chinese.

[nikkicokkie]

xie xie for making this videos:)

[musicalphantom2010]

Awesome video! And no music! I love it!

[mxm190]

she said i speak good Chinese i didn't say nothing

[masajhn]

Yeah, thks for the lesson, and yes, you're totally hot..!!!

[themagus187]

Thanks for the lessons. You're cute by the way. ^_^

[mistermjones2000]

Thank you for the lessons.

[MidnightRayn]

wonderful series thank you very much for this. I shall begin learning as soon as possible. :)

[AppleSouffle]

My first Chinese teacher explained the character for hao - good this way. She said the left part represents a woman. You can imagine it as a woman kneeling because women were subservient in ancient China or it can represent a woman's breast.

The right part of the character represents a baby wrapped in a blanket, waving his or her little arms around.

So it's a woman with her baby, and for a mother to be with her baby is good.

A story always helped me to remember a character.

[coolsteven2]

the left radical is woman and the right character is son. And it is said that Mother and son together is very good. I heard this version from 北京人们

[dddd36362003]

you are very good i'm learning Chinese now fei chan gang xie

[Pillowie]

Tamen bu zai zheli ^^ Just practicing the chinese I learned from school ;3 I think I'm getting the hang of it! Nihao ma?

[furryfourlegs]

Oh I really like you lesons I have susscribed, I think your great. You dotn rush and Your very encouraging kepp it up love you = )

[yveslopez]

the sound is out of sync with the lips just like in a real kung fu movie lol great !!!!

[linuxva]

Thanks for lessons !

[KiomeKagai]

Your ni... is missing a hook. xD

[thmk0828]

Where? I do not think so.

[Wufnu]

In 你, at the bottom of the fifth stroke. It's a little darker at the bottom. I think you drew the hook but since you were writing such large characters, with a marker, it doesn't show up well on camera.

[Omega231984]

don't bother wasting your time with Wufnu, he just has a small video card

[Jonathan6593]

WOW! Your French is perfect also!

And also, it's EXcellent, not AXcellent =)

Sorry, I don't mean to offend you, it's just I wanted to point that out.

[CyborgNinja7]

If you didn't fix your audio problem yet: remember to close every application that you don't need before you make a video. This will give the computer more processing power to work on your video instead of wasting it on other programs. Hopefully this will sync the sound to the video.

[thmk0828]

Thanks for the suggestion. I have fixed the problems for the later videos :)

[Loha92]

hurray... thanx ..

[lauraandkatiexx]

what does mei ren wo ai ni mean?

[stingy1sam]

wo ai ni means i love u

[thmk0828]

stingy1sam is correct. And "mei ren" means beautiful person, it's for describing women. So the sentence means "beautiful person I love you."

[lauraandkatiexx]

oh how sweet one of my friends sent it to me and i wasnt sure what he ment thats y i'm startin to learn chinese and i'm really enjoying it :D also he siad seksek and im not sure what that is too x

[SeijiiNakamaru]

seksek? never heard of that... if it is chinese, it must be cantonese. Mandarin doesnt sound like that.

[T0Pway]

mei ren means nice girl

[MayZ84]

mei ren means = beautiful person/woman

[LiberatedSpirit]

Hey thanks! I love your videos.

I just bought a book and cd package off ebay to help me learn chinese, but i still like checking these vids out. yours are great! Thanks for uploading.

I think asian people are wonderful; so polite. And china has a great culture!

thanks again! ;)

[thmk0828]

Thanks! I'm glad my videos are helpful. Hope you enjoy learning Mandarin :)

[yanjiaren]

Nin hao ma..

wo xiang shuo hao Zhongwen..

xie xie nin..Haa Laoshi

[mortalkombat1984]

I want to go to Hong Kong in bout 2 years :P I so want to learn chinese... By the way, mandarin chinese? isnt that more difficult thmk?

[thmk0828]

You mean comparing Mandarin to Cantonese? I do not speak Cantonese, so I cannot answer you this question :p

[SeijiiNakamaru]

I'm sure most of hong kong speaks cantonese instead of mandarin... But dont trust my word, i might be wrong.

Same, I only know one word in cantonese for sure and that is NEI, meaning NI from mandarin.

[ivi4e]

Thank you.. i am very into chinese language..

before i didn't have chance to learn it..

thanks a lot..

[thmk0828]

I'm glad you find my lessons helpful. Keep it up and enjoy learning Mandarin Chinese!

[SeeingBeauty]

Ni hao means "You good" and is used as a greeting but it doesn't mean "Hello" per se.

[thmk0828]

I agree with you. But translate word by word is not a good way to learn Mandarin Chinese.

[SeeingBeauty]

That seem to be the popular theory but I think that goes on the false assumption that a student can't learn to understand the differences in grammar. For me I'd just rather learn word for word and force myself to learn the nuances of the language.

[SeeingBeauty]

By the way. You are too beautiful for words. Siiiiiigh.

[sharmainemasian]

FYI it also means hello....

[sundancemandarin]

Can you repost lessons 4 and 16. Great lessons.

[FleetwoodSmith]

It is a pity you have removed lessons 4 and 16.

[Nipponkoku]

你好! 你是一位優秀老師。 我學會中文在相當平穩的節奏，并且這為初學者是優秀的! 加油。

[Dr4g0nstyl3]

hey thank u very much 4 posting!duìbùqî but its "nì" not "nî". záijiàn

[shaelmone]

Sweet :D Don't you dare take these videos off untill i have seen them all atleast 3 or 5 times ... lol

Thanks :)

[nrwin]

錄的真好!!支持一下!!~~~

[lukygirl314]

Thanks for making these video's... I've been wanting to teach my child mandarin and learn mandarin myself but it's hard to find time as a full time parent. This is perfect. I just subscribed :) Now my child will know cantonese and also be able to speak with her many mandarin friends too.

[tenshigem]

yah XD my chinese is getting better

[apotheosis00]

I like your usage of paper, folding and such. It's very creative. Thanks again for posting the free lessons.

[lukman4068]

love its dubbed just like the movies ;)

[AbualSemi]

Wow! Thanks a lot for this! I am going to go to China in summer to learn some Chinese! This really can help me! Thanks ^^

Greetz from Germany

[clindex]

You are a very good teacher.

Right to the point.

[thornwellhead]

Great lessons! Xie Xie.

[cpelletier9635]

Fabulous! We are waiting to pick up our adopted daughter from China and this is exactly what I've been looking for! Thank you very much!

[thmk0828]

Thanks! I'm glad my videos are helpful for you :))

[FleetwoodSmith]

Looking forward to Lesson 17

[hikaru369]

How different is Mandarin from Taiwanese? My girlfriend insist that pronounciation is not the same.

[thmk0828]

She's right. The pronounciation are not the same. Taiwanese is a dialect.

[foxlatenight]

HAHA cuuutie^^

[bobdoe510]

go slower i cant seem to grasp the concept of chinese

[nakjisanjeok]

I wanted to learn chinese, and I went to different websites, but this is what I've been looking for! Thanks!

[thmk0828]

No prob! I'm glad you like my lessons.

[Lauwong]

A little question is it cantonese or mandarin.?

[thmk0828]

It's Mandarin.

[LordOfRuin]

cool stuff, if your going to do just one word, could you break it down slightly. Like "ni3" means "you" and "hao3" means "good".

Thanks!

[thmk0828]

Thanks for your comment! I'll pay more attention to it :))

[forestbird42]

Very good. When is the next lesson. I want to learn more