How to Count to 10 in Mandarin (Chinese) - Lesson #1

[16Brandan]

Hey, first of all I just want to say that this is a great video :). I've started learning Mandarin at home. I've only been learning for a couple days now. So I thought it would be a good ideo to be able to type in Mandarin on my PC. So I changed the language settings in the control panel. I chose Chinese (PRC), which is the one people said to use after numorous google searches. Only thing is that the symbols that I when I type in pinyin are different to the ones in your video.

[jayrog]

Cued this up to count with my 4 year old who is getting into mandarin and the idiot camera guy kicks it off with vulgar language. Not even funny, just a chappelle reference. Edit it out. Wrong place for it.

[s0uljae]

you know my language much better. i think you should teach me some ching chong ching.

[miltownkid]

@s0uljae Subscribe to MTKChinese. I'll make something happen!

[MrAlecksTv]

all this time Ive been struggling with other boring videos.. who knew a brother would be the best to teach me some chin chang chow! and as Chappelle says " Juice? WTF is Juice?! I want that grape drank!"

[miltownkid]

@MrAlecksTv I should do a video titled "How to say: "What the fuck is juice" in Mandarin. ;) lol

[SockCasserole]

I already am learning Japanese, I'm chuffed that the symbols are the same for the numbers! ;D:D (^_^)

[DD2009252525]

theres actually a 5th tone where a dot ( . ) is added onto the pin yin or joo yin, which basically something similar to a 1st tone where its abrupt like the 4th tone like the sound "ma" in "malevolence" .

[taverch]

Your Mandarin pronunciatons of "two" and "eight" are not standard.

I think that you can pronunce most of the single mandarin words correctly, but when it comes to a sentence or longer sequence of sounds, then your accent appears. However it has been awesome and good enough, since Mandarin is not your first language.

加油。

[Emoif]

Japanese is easier as the numbers are more varied in how you say them so it's easier to learn.

[TheXanian]

Check out my channel, I recited an ancient chinese poem written in eighth century AD during Tang Dynasty. I used the middle-age chinese pronunciation to recite that poem. The ancient chinese pronunciation is different from modern mandarin.

If you really want to watch my private video about the middle-age chinese, please send me a message and I will share with you.

[TheXanian]

Counting from 1 to 10 in ancient Chinese 1400 years ago: qjit (one) njiih (two) sam (three) sjiih (four) ngo (five) liuk (six) cjit (seven) pret (eight) kiu (nine) zjip (ten)

[TheXanian]

Counting from 1 to 10 in ancient Chinese 3000 years ago: qlig (one) njis (two) suum (three) hljids (four) ngaa (five) rug (six) snhid (seven) preed (eight) gu (nine) gjub (ten)

[SpaceInvader1011]

The WTF is Juice distracts from the lesson. Otherwise very good.

[yuweigwo]

我也是台灣人!!XDDD

應該說華人!!中文聽很多人都說不太好學!!

對華人來說中國的文學史太長久了!!!

中文的歷史我也覺得很難= =

[shayexu10]

Learn Chinese,Start here!

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[Ganaijiulai]

谢谢！:)

[fr0sth4x0r]

ni is third tone!!!

[Phildooo]

would have been better without the needless profanity. A video like this people want to learn Mandarin. It should be suitable for children.

[AnotherDay2010]

@Phildooo yikes people, it's the internet. Find one suitable for your child, i've looked at five or more counting videos before this one, all without profanity.

[PeleusofDenmark]

Bad pronounciation. Sorry.

Ex. number ten, you pronounce what sounds like "she". The correct way to say it sounds like "sure".



[crimron]

@PeleusofDenmark

At least he's not saying 'shi' in second tone, as long as the tone is okay Chinese folks will make up the word by it's context.

[ukmale164]

黑鬼不应该教中文！ 

[gon404]

@ukmale164

你是中國人的恥辱

[Doko17325]

You're a cute instructor! But on -iu endings, the tone marking goes on the u, not the i. And be careful with tones going backwards. ^_~

[sobefobik]

Shouldn't "ni hao" have the third tone above both words?

[fr0sth4x0r]

@sobefobik yes! what is wrong with these people??? thank you!

[neoh8612]

when i looked at your whiteboard,i found a few mistakes.you wrote some of the the tone marks at the wrong places. for example,for "jiu"(nine),the tone mark should be above the "u",not the "i".As for "ni hao",there should not be a dot below the tone mark.thank you very much.

[angelamcphail]

The cursing isn't really necessary, is it?

[Koolkidz111]

Jesus, stop busting the guys balls for swearing. If it offends you that much, don't watch the video, it's that simple.

[ZKMX7]

Good video. Shame about the swearing. Do you think it's "cool" to swear?

[beasty45]

thanks man



[CatGameDaiyE]

Good vid man!

WTF is juice!? I don't get it but ROFL!

[LinaSchiffer]

wow....his mando is sooooo good!! but he kinda has a SLIGHT very SLIGHT beijing accent.....or maybe it's just me....coz I have a beijing accent :D

[fishfoodlad]

i love fuckin swearing!

[purplezazaza]

太标准了,比我们四川人还要标准,只不过字写得不是非常好,赞美­你

[000JASON]

我能說什麼呢? 我是道道地地的台灣人...

看到你唸中文 念的都比我還要標準

我都無言了...

[kcmkyle13]

I hate WTF is juice that was uneccesary

[getsmartpaul]

did not appreciate the profanity at the beginning and end of this video ... but 155 people liked it

[miltownkid]

@getsmartpaul I've started a new session of Chinese language teaching. I just put a new video up today and will be putting up new videos each week. The current one is an introduction to pinyin. Check it out (no profanity in that one :) ).

[anottakenusername]

@miltownkid getsmartpaul sounds like some uptight professor with a stick up his ass.

[JJZCS]

his chinese is very good

[tapeworm489]

all you people need to get the fuck over it. "oh my poor little child is going to hear a bad word. what am i going to do? hes going to die now!" fuck you all. its just a word. its in the dictionary. the only reason its a bad word is because someone woke up one day and decided to say its a bad word. you cant keep your kids from hearing it. words are everywhere. thats what life is. thats how the world is. like your poor little children arent gonna know what fuck is by the time they hit 4th grade.

[violin1cello710]

@tapeworm489 i agree within reason, that people do overreact to their kids hearing those words but this isn't exactly the place to be so angry. no need to be so ticked off, and not many people are like that anyway.

[XiaolongSimatong]

你好。我高興得不得了，因爲看完了你的視頻。我很高興像我一樣的­人也學漢語（我也是黑人）。你學了十年的漢語，真厲害！我學漢語­學了差不多四年了（我主修漢語）。我的理想是再去中國做翻譯。你­爲什麽學習漢語？你覺得漢語容易學嗎？我有時很孤獨，因爲除了我­見過的一個人，我認識的黑人一點兒中文都不會（對了，我的漢語老­師幾乎都是北京人，所以我帶有北京口音。我用繁體字的理由是不知­道你認不認識簡體字）。好像很多人喜歡看你的視頻（包括覺得你不­應該說髒話的母親哈哈哈）。你最好編輯你的視頻（我只是在開玩笑­）。你做得很好

[miltownkid]

@XiaolongSimatong Dang! I meant to reply to this a long time ago. You're funny. :) Let me send you a message real quick...

[AlimeProductions]

@XiaolongSimatong 我要学习，罗塞塔石碑中。

[XiaolongSimatong]

@AlimeProductions 你是说你用rosetta stone的中文软件学习汉语吗？

[AlimeProductions]

@XiaolongSimatong 是的。我把其他方案没有当好。

[ThinkChinese]

@XiaolongSimatong Wow! You write EXCELLENT Chinese! Actually there are quite a few black people are learning Chinese with us, you should not feel alone, there will be more and more of them joining in!

[se2cond]

ok NIhao WAS LIke this

NĨ HÃo ~ so it's like that'

[lilcutebel09]

don't say wtf my child is learning it from this video

[yeahhottie]

tones is what makes it hard

[loganboyz]

Ingredient list- Sugar, Water, and of course Purple!. Thanks for the laugh and the lesson!

[Farchbargen]

The characters are the same for the Japanese 1-10 ;)

[tgnrogue]

@Farchbargen, not Exactly the same as 8 is slightly different, but considering that Japanese comes from Chinese its not surprising that they are veeery similar.

[jeromeqi]

@tgnrogue Yes, they are written in the same way, the 8 also. The guy in the video just wrote it in that form for print, rather than regular handwriting.

[tgnrogue]

@tgnrogue Am just going by what I was told by a Japanese woman I train with.

[teddythefrency]

Cool and instructive , and now I can understand my tai ji quan and qi gong instructor counting the movements.Thanks very much.

[akechi1000]

What the f**k is juice?

?????????????????lol

[Gurra88]

Is Chinese a common language to learn in the US?

[AkaoKiyotsu]

When you pronounced those I was quite surprised... I need to learn the pinyin alphabet again :o

[Odi]

Dude, you don't need to swear... Showing this to my little boy...

[Rachel2000000]

ni de sheng ying hen hao

ur sound for chinese is good

[lazzzy]

I cant believe this is featured, crap

[jasma98]

sounds very accurate! This will help me improve. Thanks

[cuitianxiang]

he IS good! :D:D

[TanKwonShinobi]

WTF is Juice!

[helenbbrandt]

potty mouth BIG turn off!

[dayuluo]

u guy speak very correct chinese,,awsome!

[SEXYBACKSWEET666]

lol funny ending.

[DrakeDorosh]

WTF? I'm here with my four year old. It doesn't fit with your subject. Lose it.

[mikeygee7]

You were very unprepared, mr Wannabe-professor!

J/K. thanks for teaching me how to count to 10 in Mandarin. 5 strs!

[1fletchlives]

Too bad you had to end it with WTF. I was trying to teach my Chinese daughter through this. My fault for not testing it first.

[Xinoutorah]

@1fletchlives Definitely watch all youtube videos all the way through before having little kids look at them...no matter how innocent the subject matter.

[Xinoutorah]

Plan ahead, it wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

Interesting....

[ChrissySvg]

Maybe it's the dialect you learned it in, but your 9 is like joh, not jee-oh. But this is a good tutorial, even though it's in pretty strong American accent :) // :P

[tokumeijin]

I HAS TEH SAME HAT :O

[kelvinickable]

and why? coz i'm chinese lol

[Trashfished]

@kelvinickable Me chinese Me play joke  Me go peepee in your coke!

[kelvinickable]

我的华文一定比你好很多， 而且我才十六岁

[Xinoutorah]

@kelvinickable you surely have not learned modesty from the Chinese :-o jk haha

[AlyssaLav246]

lol

wtf is

juice!

[89jcwh]

Hey, bu chuo, bu chuo! 9 sounds funny though... yin gai di le dianr, But, whatever!

[petrucci15]

cheers for the short lesson....i always have trouble with numbers in chinese for some reason!

coz the pinyin is always different haha so hard to make the proper sound

[crbassassin]

wtf is juice

[intrepidtuber]

他是很帅

[KennyGJE]

Mandarin means a small orange in norwegian xD

[toycityworld]

I work at a norwegian company some times, and tac means thank you., making any kind of sound in the morning even an growle means good morning :-)

[KennyGJE]

It's written 'Takk'

[toycityworld]

ok thank you.

[TranceIs4Ever]

@toycityworld

Haha eller på Dansk..

Mange tak.

[TheMikeai]

you did it wrong cause is 你好。nǐ háo

[miltownkid]

No, it's 2 third tones (ni3hao3). The ni becomes a second tone because of the dual third tones (like this ni2hao3).

[toycityworld]

I just finshed listening to fsi standard chinese numbers 1 through 10, I like the way they overlay and mix it up to help, its a free download sir so if you get time check it out as it may help your future teaching,

[TheXanian]

I wish I could open a channel, but I really don't have time. There are already some people who posted videos about Ancient Chinese on Youtube, you can watch those videos. Ancient Chinese is way more beautiful than Mandarin,Mandarin is just a simplified version of Ancient Chinese.

[toycityworld]

well Im trying to learn chinese as best I can in my spare time at 34 here in London and if I get good I hope to help either english people or chinese people learn english from me, I find chinese beautyfull to listen to so if you got a link to the olden style id really appericate it.

thanks

[C00PS899]

@toycityworld

sounds like you can barely type in English there..beautyfull? Learn to spell!!!

[toycityworld]

yes your right, I am going to improve my English also, I have very bad English. I get by day to day with very fast typing skills and application spell check.

I have to say your comment seems very agressive, Im trying to do some thing of mert, and I am sure you are ment to start your sentance with a capital S, also the over use of ! has to be incorrect.

This is an informal public forum, we are here to have fun and get the best from life, some of us are trying to give, thanks for putting me down

[HdBurningblade]

wow! really good pronounciation! good job ^^

[TheXanian]

The ancient chinese pronunciations which I posted here are reconstructed by linguists and historians. They have scientific and historic proves. They are totally not nonsense. The one who talks nonsense is you.

[TheXanian]

Shut up,you loser. The one who talks nonsense is you. I just tell people the truth. Mandarin is not the purest Chinese language. It's mixed with Manchurian and Mongolian.

[toycityworld]

well i would subscribe if you set up a channel and explained what you know about the old chinese, we are noobs to chinese dude, yourtalking about advanced stuff.

[TheXanian]

Try to pronounce these ancient chinese words as a practice of the checking tone:

snhid (seven), preed (eight), niuat (moon), njit (sun), njet (hot), djup (ten), praak (hundred), hwet (blood), dzjwet (very)

[JasonRox88]

Stop spamming Chinese Learning videos with your nonsense.

[TheXanian]

If you want to learn Ancient Chinese, the first thing you need to learn is the checking tone. Checking tones are the words that end with P, T, and K.

[TheXanian]

Middle Age Chinese and Antiquity Chinese pronunciations are very different from modern mandarin. If you want to learn Middle Age Chinese and Antiquity Chinese, I would be glad to help you.

[TheXanian]

Don't be amazed, the number from 1 to 10 in Antiquity Chinese are:

qlig njis suum hljids nga rug snhid preed gu djup

[TheXanian]

I can also speak Antiquity Chinese. The time period of Antiquity Chinese is from 11th century BC to 3rd century AD.

[TheXanian]

The time period of Middle Age Chinese is from 581AD to 1279AD.

[TheXanian]

I can speak Middle Age Chinese. In Middle Age Chinese the numbers from 1 to 10 are:

iet nji sam sjiih ngo liuk tshet pat kju zjip

[ViveTaVie]

Your 五 sounds a bit like 2nd tone。。。

[meggieee18]

oh sorry :D u already saw that yrself

[meggieee18]

3 = first tone ;)

[ViveTaVie]

Hahaha, I caught that too。

[0403555555]

hey man your prononciation is excellent, you mustve practised the pronociation a lot! excellent lesson...best on youtube!

No body says anything about ni hao, changing the third tone to a two, thanks for that info!

[yangsiyan]

"WTF IS JUICE?" Haha so funny.

[Seveilxe]

他說得很好耶~

[Conjurbiscut]

its like singing and talking at the same time a complete contrast to monotone english. and yea maybe cut back on the swearing,save that for another lesson, good job otherwise, thanks.

[ihatefatpeople3000]

Woahhh the symbols are the same as japanese

[violetist]

ihatefatpeople3000: Japanese and Chinese both use Chinese characters, except Japanese calls in "kanji" and has more of the traditional Chinese characters like Taiwan or Hong Kong. Japanese also uses some phonetic symbols, the kana, for things like verb conjugations. But nouns are mainly kanji. In fact, most countries in East Asia, such as Korea and Vietnam, used to use Chinese characters as well, but that has gone with Korea's hangul and Vietnam's Latin-based alphabet these days.

[ihatefatpeople3000]

so can they both read the characters and understand what there saying just by writing it down? or is it like english to french

[violetist]

Basically, yes--Chinese and Japanese can communicate through writing, to a certain extent. As you might know, mainland China uses simplified Chinese characters (starting in the 1950s) while Japan still uses the traditional Chinese characters, like Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, and Taiwan. So it would be easier for someone from the latter four areas to communicate with a Japanese person through writing, but majority of the simplified characters look similar enough for the meaning to get across.

[ihatefatpeople3000]

sweet! so like i never got how they wrote, is it an alphabet or something

[violetist]

ihatefatpeople3000: Nope, they use what's called a "semanto-phonetic" writing system, not an alphabet. (It's not like English, or any language with the Latin alphabet.) Basically, each of those characters represent an abstract idea or a thing. As time went on, the Chinese people created more characters made up of those simpler characters, adding it to form new words/ideas/etc. There are some interesting articles you might want to read on APA PsycNET (apaDOTorg) and brainmapDOTorg. Google them.

[violetist]

calls it*

like in*

[iaknehs4220]

he speak very good Chinese....

[miltownkid]

Yeah, sorry about that. I'll be sure not to do that again in the future.

[tapeworm489]

@grahammarshall100 youll get the fuck over it. like your 3 year old isnt gonna know what the word cunt is by the time he hits fourth grade.

[estrellaslindas]

six 六 liù nine 九 jiŭ

[SuperDuperTracy]

guys you're making me dizzy with the wobbly camera shots.. and what's with the cursing? thought this vid was about learnign chinese not potty mouth.

[lowfiwhiteguy]

Oh jesus christ don't be so uptight

[1virtues79]

can the video person keep the camera steady on the whole white erase board. My nine year old wanted to study so can u keep it clean - take out the profanity.

[alientigerz]

0:05 the guy looks scary his face doesnt move when he talks

[faithnlight]

thts perfect!

[keport]

我覺得我們中文發音是單音節,已經是很簡單了方便.不像英文,發­個詞得有幾個音組成.

[chilota]

why do many people forget to mention "0"

[bobhrma]

in ancient china,

there were no zero concept.

in other words, they can't imagine the "0".

so when teaching chinese lang,"1" is the starting,and ending in "9".

"9" has honorable meanings in chinese

lang

[0LightFeather0]

I love this video

[thesleepyfella]

i agree with samshuai.. obviously if you go to china you'll learn chinese fast right?

[samshuai]

发音不够标准.但是已经不错了.

想学正统的中文,最好还是来中国.呆上几年,中国哪里的话都会说­了

[forkchopsticks]

you r cute,man~! cheer up ~~!!! your pronunciation is good...

btw, the tone for 6 liu and 9 jiu should be written on top of u instead of i

tell ya a trick, here is the rule to put the tone.

有 a 不放過, if there is an "a" dont let it go,

無 a 找 o e, if there is no, find "o" and "e".

i 和 u 在一起, when "i" and "u" are together,

標後不標前。 label the 2nd one

[centaurxz]

cool

[mousepoint]

pretty good.

[HarPlayer]

why are you teaching?

[skrinjy39]

Juice????? lol

[koinbouffier]

果汁？？？？？lol

[Joymax]

haha this is great. you have pretty good pronunciation.

[flyingChinesetiger]

发音不错，再接再厉

[Setpblock]

yi

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san

si

wu

liu

qi

ba

jiu

shi

[animerox1995]

Great Job and Great Lesson I am taking Chinese ^^ ni hao! lol Chinese is easy to learn it's just the characters that can be difficult

[13scarecrows]

Thanks!

[johnnytheflipper]

you said 9 wrong. its JEEEEEOOO. not JOO

[bznarroz]

"nigga what the fuck is juice!?"

Lmao dave chappelle is hilarious!!

[Tahneisha09]

thats wrong my friend is chinese its yip ni sum say mm tit loop and well thats all i no

[miltownkid]

That's Japanese...

[Karmacuarius]

japanese is: Ichi, Ni, San, Yon, Go, Roku, Nana, Hachi, kya, ju and the kanji for it should be written just like is in the video :)

hope you make more videos to learn mandarin casey i s always good to know more.

[arcticmonkeysfan]

Um maybe he is cantonese, this is definitely how you count in mandarin

[On1y1Ch1na]

good job. but damn. you have definently developed southern chinese cantonese accent. lol.

[miltownkid]

I learned in Taiwan.

[On1y1Ch1na]

yea. cantonese, hakka, and minan dialect practically all sound alike. they have very strong southern accent. curl your tongue abit more, dont emphisis the pitch or the "ying" so much, and "she, che,zhe" abit more. even though you are saying shi for ten, it still sounds like "si". its more like "sherrrr" thats more standard mandarin . but as long as people understand you, its fine. i have shanghai accent, but im loosing it. it helps to study in beijing, or dongbei area. any northern province