The comments would make me think there is many mistakes in this video. But it's so well done that I watch it to learn anyway, and cross-reference it's material with the language Nazi's comments.
I don't know if asking "have you ate?" is really equivalent to "how are you?" It's more like someone commenting, "nice weather," in the US. It's just a polite way of striking up a conversation.
GET A NATIVE SPEAKER!! and some people can speak english gosh. hong jiu means red wine. not wine. dou sau chiang means how much money!!! GOSH!! ne zhen piao lian = u r beautiful/handsome/
ou she fuang nee= i luv u. plz go fix these and go 2 a class GOSH
No, never asking any kiss or physical touch at first date, or, you will be seen a rude people , and kiss in Chinese not means smell at all, it is two words, the mouth and not, do not know why , may only should use light kiss and lips only. :) so funny. :) Say anything as indirectly as you possible to get the attention and love only . Remember.
No, never asking any kiss or physical touch at first date, or, you will be seen a rude people , and kiss in Chinese not means smell at all, it is two words, the mouth and not, do not know why , may only should use light kiss and lips only. :) so funny. :)
Hahahaha oh my gosh I couldn't stop laughing. Now everyone who's just watched the video, watch it again and think about someone who is trying to learn Chinese so that they can pick up a prostitute haha All the phrases fit right into place. Besides that it was actually pretty good. Never seen that kind of spelling for pinyin so it looks like they just made some mistakes. And as for vorpal22's comment, she probably had parents from mainland so she has the stronger accent on the various characters.
Step five: Ask wakaiocnhignhauibaibajahfiuashdubasudbjbjchinesechineselongandcomplicated, then there's a smiling guy shaking a beer bottle. Suddenly I feel this is not so easy.
"ce zuo" translates most literally to "toilet". In China, people most often don't use this, for it is embarrassing to say, "I am going to the toilet" just as it is in the US. Instead, they most commonly use, "wei sheng jian" which is closest to restroom, or bathroom. So one could say, "wei sheng jian zai nar?" or "wei sheng jian zai na li?" as is most common in the south.
Hey, Chifanle Meiyou can't be answered by Xiexie. Even though Chifanle Meiyou pragmatically means "How are you," you still should answer with "you" or "meiyou," which means "I have" and "I havn't" respectively. Answering Chifanle Meiyou with "xiexie" is like answering "what's up" with "fine."
I've been studying english for many years but I'm still bad at it, so,i wanna find a friend who always speaks in english. and I can teach you chinese if you want... ^_^
I've been studying english for many years but I'm still bad at it, so,i wanna find a friend who always speaks in english. and I can teach you chinese if you want... ^_^
I've been studying english for many years but I'm still bad at it, so,i wanna find a friend who always speaks in english. and I can teach you chinese if you want... ^_^
I've been studying english for many years but I'm still bad at it, so,i wanna find a friend who always speaks in english. and I can teach you chinese if you want... ^_^
I've been studying english for many years but I'm still bad at it, so,i wanna find a friend who always speaks in english. and I can teach you chinese if you want... ^_^
Liked it a lot, its pathetic that there theres so few decent videos for learners, especially adults who may be interested in romance as well. the style and music were refreshing, I'd like to see longer more in depth and variant themes from you guys, XIE XIE!
OMG this is the most AMAZING video I've ever seen !!!! In only 2 minutes and 52 seconds you have helped me to become fluent in Chinese ! No grammer explinations, no information about tones or pronunciationand what, a total of 10 words of vocabulary ?... You people are GENIUSES! Congratulations on a SUPERBE video !!!.... NOT ! PS: Oh, and the dufus in the video is WAY over-acting with the facial expressions.
@Pwnderer what?? it took you 2 months to come up with such a nonsense comment?! do you even know what a word is? a word is an array of sounds (with intonation) and not the meaning it expresses. therefore: same sounds with same intonation = SAME WORD!!! so, 'to smell' and 'to kiss' do not sound similar in said sentence, they sound THE SAME and therefor ARE THE SAME WORDS which means the sentence means "i want to kiss you" and "i want to smell you" at the SAME TIME! dito!
@DarthChrisB I replied to your comment the day I saw it.
They're written differently and are therefore different words. Unless you think "pear" and "pair" are the same word, this shouldn't be too hard to understand.
@Pwnderer wow. this whole argument was related to the spoken language and my first comment was a reply to your "They just sound similar.". And now you try to turn it to your favor by talking about the written word. absolutely ridiculous. i'm not gonna argue any further with an idiot that doesn't even know what he's talking about. bye!
@DarthChrisB I said that "kiss is not the same word as smell". You disagreed, claiming that they "ARE THE SAME WORDS". A word constitutes both its spoken and written form. That is why I gave the example of "pear" and "pair", because everybody knows that they sound the same, but are different words.
Saying that the Chinese terms for "kiss" and "smell" are the same word is like claiming that "pear" and "pair" are the same word. Obviously, they are not.
no no no chifanle meiyou means have you eaten rice when i went to the china house i gave a chinese woman a fortune cookie and said chifanle meiyu and she said have i eaten rice?
i only know how to read and write, cause after 10 years of not using it, you will forget some of it... i been studying it since nursery till high school... here in our country, but almost all the student their are speaking another language. the only way i really learn was when i was reading comic books and how strict my third year chinese teacher was, who let us write sentence 30plus times before.. i wish after i graduated i was able to study again in china,
@awaygirl23 same here, i know what you mean... i was planning after i graduated in college, but.. oh well.. we have the same situation.. if you dont use it, sometimes you forget if not being used for a really long time =( but i think you will recall it again if you watched show with subtitle, and read comic books again, and ask elders... i just felt sad that after nursery till high school, you forgot some of it, a big waste of forgetting what you've learned from all those years,
@awaygirl23 ops, what i really meant to say was, its sad to forget them, not just for you, but for me as well... but if ever i was able to go to china to study the language, we might be back from being a beginner student again, thats what my high school classmate told me, what more to us who wasnt able to used it for long time now... but you can practice it again, like what i will do.. i also envy the white guy who was spealing chinese in another video...
@mucik lol, yeah, i got what you mean, my parents speaks in many languge better than i do,but they speak to me in another chinese language. so i kind of combined all of them sometimes, i do it through reading, & at school.i had a hint from where ur from, hahaha. anyway, yeah, tnx for the advice. i just wished to study abroad to china for a few months,so i can learn and recall it..=( yea, i saw that other video. damn,! his a good speaker. wish it was me.but i guess his in china for a long time
theres a guy in our class room and he chinese but i cant speek to him to him cuz he only same language so i was like screw that and then he told me exactly (wo xi huan ni) so until i saw this video he likes me iwtch i wanna go out with him witch was soo cute to say that to me!!!! OMG i just cant belive it!!! thanks for the video it really helped if want to know what kind am i? im Philipina and i come from the Philipines thanks ^_^ :p
@Chameleonardodavinci i thnk it jst depends on people,, i find japanese easy cz i already hve an idea on what its basic structure is,, and japanese isnt really made up of long word, lol
it jst looks like it
like their "i love you" is jst one word "aishiteru"
the thng thats making it long are the add ons on the root word, equal to -ing , -er, -est, ectect in english....im makng ths complicated am i ^^;;;
@Chameleonardodavinci in reality, and english speaker, japanese would be easier to learn. the syllables are much more simple, and the tones are easier to pronounce(for english speakers, as i said) the reason you think japanese is made up of "long words" ,as you put it, it because of the speed people normally talk in japan(that is because the speach would go on forever speaking at an english pace.) look into it :) both Chinese and japanese are fun to learn ^-^
the pinyin is also very strange. I know there are different ways of writing it, but "bu kuh qi"? I have never seen that one before.
@ supersinc800: of course you're right with the 四声 and the difference of the pronunciation, but for us foreigners it's pretty hard to remember them all. Therefore it's a good way that the context can clearify some issues.
this persons chinese in the video sucks. if your gonna make an educational video on chinese, at least speak with correct tones and pronunciations. Wen does not both mean kiss and smell, and you dont tell from context. you can tell the difference between the tones.
I think you lack knowledge in Chinese. Her pronounciation is perfect You might have learned Chinese in a different area, or you just suck at chinese. This video is obviously for travellers so they're not too familiar with tones.
that's what I thought too when I first heard mainland china's chinese. I studied chinese in Taiwan for 3 months and they pronounce 就 as "jou" and the chinese pronounce it as "jiyuu"
you have to remember that chinese is extremely varied because of the number of regional dialects/differences.
If you learn Mandarin because you love Chinese culture (not because of business opportunity), then this language won't help you to glimpse the East Asian Culture.
Do you know why there are so many RRRRR at the back in Mandarin. Because It is heavily influenced by the Mongolian. You even get more Chinese culture from learning Japanese, no kidding!
One factor that makes "dialects" in China under more danger is writing in "dialect" isn't acceptable. I give you an analog - It is like an Englishman can't write in English and he has to write in French. If you write in English, you are thought to be uneducated and low class.
I don't hate Mandarin itself. I hate the aggressive Mandarin promotion policy that kills off the diversity and culture of China,
The status of "dialect" is given is because of political concern - one united China. Chinese people believe that they are of "same race speaking same language", so they can't accept the fact that unintelligible "dialect" is called a language. The Chinese character is like latin alphabet and "dialects" of China is like European languages and difference b/w each other can be like English and French with major grammatical and pronunciation differences.
Chinese isn't a language. in term of language, China is like Europe where you can't find a language called European. . However, due to "one china", regional languages are not allowed to be called as "language" even thought their differences between each other is very great - much greater than differences between French/Spanish/Portuguese or English/German...
What you present in this video is Mandarin.
Cantonese, Hakka, Shanghaiese, Sichuanese and Hokkien are also Chinese languages.
I bet a whole bunch of chinese people watched this哈哈哈
rachaelly1 4 days ago
1. Mandarin
2. Spanish
3. English
spore637 5 days ago
nup spanish is number 2 and arabic is number 3 then its english
schpoogie 2 weeks ago
chinese people ni wei shen me kan ge ge you si ni men dou zhi dao zhen me shuo zhong wen
translation chinese people why are you watching this video you already know how to say chinese
angel987643211 1 month ago
好多錯誤
rony60527730 3 months ago
Very quick, definitely interesting, but not always correct.
LearnChineseWithEase 3 months ago
it is speeled YEN not yuan
kctosdtraveler 4 months ago
@kctosdtraveler Yuan is Chinese Renmenbi 人民幣, and Yen is Japanese Yen 円
spore637 5 days ago
I thought it most spoken languages went English -> Spanish -> Madarin Chinese -> Arabic
magdalena727 5 months ago
yiyuan zai nair means where's the doctor..not the hospital
beatboxpeej 5 months ago
@beatboxpeej @beatboxpeej No, "yīyuǎn" means hospital, and "yīshēng" means a doctor. Try to consult a Chinese before posting a "correction".
spore637 5 days ago
@spore637 wow my comment was really old hehe. You are right I learned that maybe two weeks after I posted the comment.
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spore637 3 days ago
The music is so weird....
CJFRANKS7 5 months ago
吻我
dipdipish 6 months ago
THIS is SO offensive to me!!
Megansings01 6 months ago
music is weird in back ground and go to moto4maddness channel and plzzz comment !!!!!!
Moto4maddness24 7 months ago
CHI BAI!
kamikazeboy123 7 months ago
Wow, um, so funny video, especially the "have you eaten?" part. But I'm not entirely sure if they're being serious or just mocking Chinese culture....
Too fast and the English transliterations are in bad fonts and organizations.
Humandavid1 7 months ago
Great job, though not perfectly accurate, but that's good enough for any back packers i suppose.
genelin1995 7 months ago
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T00NinjaForYou 7 months ago
bi zui (shut up) is a little bit harsh...
kickmyask82 8 months ago
The comments would make me think there is many mistakes in this video. But it's so well done that I watch it to learn anyway, and cross-reference it's material with the language Nazi's comments.
downstube 8 months ago
the background music makes me depressed
lizziechick16 8 months ago
actually the second most spoken languaje in the world is spanish.....english is the third! :D
ED9306 9 months ago
@ED9306 No, no it's English.
RainexFalls 8 months ago
@RainexFalls no it's not....is spanish :) as mother languaje.....as second languaje + mother languaje...yes it is english :)
ED9306 8 months ago
@ED9306 No you're wrong. English is second, Hindi is third. Spanish is much less spoken.
S5ate99lit3e 7 months ago
the actors are fking high
Cryaboot 9 months ago
i loled at step 6
jellybeen62 9 months ago
this video feels so trippy
kunned 9 months ago
you need to say wo shi if you wanna say youre name. ni hao! wo shi - and then youre name.
我是..
MOR7295 10 months ago
@MOR7295 wojiao=my name is
woshi=i am
paliwoo 9 months ago
piao liang doesnt mean wonderful O.O it means pretty or beautiful.... so if a girl tells a guy ' youre so pretty' then things will be.......
Disconnected290 10 months ago
Good
TheMCulgan 10 months ago
1:16 .. LOL
step wot?
lordipin 10 months ago 5
Be a man !
IspanasOnTop 10 months ago
I don't know if asking "have you ate?" is really equivalent to "how are you?" It's more like someone commenting, "nice weather," in the US. It's just a polite way of striking up a conversation.
Xisme66 10 months ago
Ni zhen piao liang? Wouldn't that be more like, "You are really pretty"?
aerisismine 10 months ago
@aerisismine It means "You're pretty!"
spore637 5 days ago
This video proves to the douchebags that chinese is not "ching chong chong ching"
y8art105 10 months ago 3
@y8art105
because that's more like Cantonese, which hk ppl speak.
there are many of 'em in western countries,
so westerners tend to think Chinese sounds that way.
lisawtfxx 10 months ago
@y8art105
Russell Peters has a good definition on that xD
lisawtfxx 10 months ago
wen is actually not kiss depends on your accent
pokedude919 10 months ago
wen is actually not kiss
pokedude919 10 months ago
thank you
Haqichaqi 10 months ago
GET A NATIVE SPEAKER!! and some people can speak english gosh. hong jiu means red wine. not wine. dou sau chiang means how much money!!! GOSH!! ne zhen piao lian = u r beautiful/handsome/
ou she fuang nee= i luv u. plz go fix these and go 2 a class GOSH
Ladygagafan752 10 months ago
Wow douchbags Asian is not a bunch of chings and chongs.
HollyLe143 11 months ago
@HollyLe143 ching ching chong chong ching ching ching
superawesomesuperkid 11 months ago
@squirtthepencilout why do people say ching chong. is that even in the language? lol
BlackBoxShortTop 11 months ago
@BlackBoxShortTop no
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ching chong ching chong ching chong.
BlackBoxShortTop 11 months ago
No, never asking any kiss or physical touch at first date, or, you will be seen a rude people , and kiss in Chinese not means smell at all, it is two words, the mouth and not, do not know why , may only should use light kiss and lips only. :) so funny. :) Say anything as indirectly as you possible to get the attention and love only . Remember.
sea2007w2011 11 months ago
No, never asking any kiss or physical touch at first date, or, you will be seen a rude people , and kiss in Chinese not means smell at all, it is two words, the mouth and not, do not know why , may only should use light kiss and lips only. :) so funny. :)
sea2007w2011 11 months ago
Hahahaha oh my gosh I couldn't stop laughing. Now everyone who's just watched the video, watch it again and think about someone who is trying to learn Chinese so that they can pick up a prostitute haha All the phrases fit right into place. Besides that it was actually pretty good. Never seen that kind of spelling for pinyin so it looks like they just made some mistakes. And as for vorpal22's comment, she probably had parents from mainland so she has the stronger accent on the various characters.
23skizzy 11 months ago
That was one of the best videos I have seen so far. It makes me so happy just to look at it and I learn fast from it too :-) XieXie !
jedone11 11 months ago
I hurt my leg
Ah bang ma far kin nee
PYROjoSH09 11 months ago
i don't suppose anyone knows the music for this video ?
zuckerarm 11 months ago
你叫甚麼名字。 (nǐ jiào shénme míngzi)
The "mingzi" is pronounced ming-dzi, not ming-ji! zh is pronounced like a j, but z is pronounced like dz, like the ds in "lads".
Also "ging"? You mean "Qing" for please.
Duosaoquan? 多少錢, or dūoshǎoqián.
Overall, very cute video. Too bad about the few errors.
vorpal22 11 months ago
Step five: Ask wakaiocnhignhauibaibajahfiuashdubasudbjbjchinesechineselongandcomplicated, then there's a smiling guy shaking a beer bottle. Suddenly I feel this is not so easy.
key37raminus 11 months ago 7
Your Chinese sucks more than the Chinglish of the Chinese.
koisumaz2000 11 months ago
I bet that the girl speaking is a chinese resident.
Hola24143 11 months ago
after they kissed they went to the hospital? lol
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DevilsWhorehouse666 1 year ago
"ce zuo" translates most literally to "toilet". In China, people most often don't use this, for it is embarrassing to say, "I am going to the toilet" just as it is in the US. Instead, they most commonly use, "wei sheng jian" which is closest to restroom, or bathroom. So one could say, "wei sheng jian zai nar?" or "wei sheng jian zai na li?" as is most common in the south.
tableaux88 1 year ago
@squirtthepencilout way cute !
alittlesugarinmybowl 1 year ago
FAIL!!!!
AnotherDay2010 1 year ago
吻（wen）/ 亲（qin）=== both means kiss。
闻（wen）=== that means smell。
zhlsimon 1 year ago
我喜欢馅饼！竖起大拇指，如果您使用谷歌翻译
iq12212 1 year ago
@iq12212 LOL Translation FAIL, the positions of different part of speech is wrong. :)
spore637 5 days ago
42 people were either told 'bi zui' or couldn't find the train station.
Itheanonymous 1 year ago
LOL am I the ONLY one that remembers bi zui? XD
DrTheizoogurl 1 year ago
wen is NOT the same as smell!!!
KuoMeihsing 1 year ago 16
@KuoMeihsing but they are prounced the same way
xxDeadHeartzxx 9 months ago
@xxDeadHeartzxx they are definitely not pronounced the same way, there's a difference of tones.
DPBurn121 8 months ago
@KuoMeihsing yes it is.
monkeylabs1 6 months ago
@KuoMeihsing well it has that meaning "闻"
2kyle7magic 6 months ago
@KuoMeihsing 一样叻
ahxingmrelectro990 4 months ago in playlist Liked
Hey, Chifanle Meiyou can't be answered by Xiexie. Even though Chifanle Meiyou pragmatically means "How are you," you still should answer with "you" or "meiyou," which means "I have" and "I havn't" respectively. Answering Chifanle Meiyou with "xiexie" is like answering "what's up" with "fine."
KuoMeihsing 1 year ago 2
@KuoMeihsing Well technically in the video they asked you to nod after the asked that. So that negates the need to answer it with you or mei you.
TheLocalDJ 1 year ago
your pronunciation and spelling are both wrong... i don't see how this is helpful...
ajmartino 1 year ago
The aside isn't very standard....
darrenlonginus 1 year ago
The pronunciation is not up to snuff.
MaxViars 1 year ago
im not gonna say "duo shao qian' cuz will get slap by girl if you say so..
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Dodgy pronunciation!
TheMaixiu 1 year ago
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TheMaixiu 1 year ago
i gotta go to china and try this on a white girl.... oh wait THERE AREN'T ANY
TheWinningGambler 1 year ago
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y0utub3useer 1 year ago
She is so beautiful!
dhordiepachacamac 1 year ago
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I've been studying english for many years but I'm still bad at it, so,i wanna find a friend who always speaks in english. and I can teach you chinese if you want... ^_^
my msn: ye.nan@msn.com
ChinaYeNan 1 year ago
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I've been studying english for many years but I'm still bad at it, so,i wanna find a friend who always speaks in english. and I can teach you chinese if you want... ^_^
my msn: ye.nan@msn.com
ChinaYeNan 1 year ago
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I've been studying english for many years but I'm still bad at it, so,i wanna find a friend who always speaks in english. and I can teach you chinese if you want... ^_^
my msn: ye.nan@msn.com
ChinaYeNan 1 year ago
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I've been studying english for many years but I'm still bad at it, so,i wanna find a friend who always speaks in english. and I can teach you chinese if you want... ^_^
my msn: ye.nan@msn.com
ChinaYeNan 1 year ago
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I've been studying english for many years but I'm still bad at it, so,i wanna find a friend who always speaks in english. and I can teach you chinese if you want... ^_^
my msn: ye.nan@msn.com
ChinaYeNan 1 year ago
golly! This ish is wonky beyond belief. I don't think i could learn mandarin like this :[
JamesMajdali 1 year ago
@squirtthepencilout he has a nice smile and stubble.
JamesMajdali 1 year ago
nizhenpiaoliang means you're pretty, not you're wonderful.
xxDeadHeartzxx 1 year ago 20
@squirtthepencilout i would \but im not a homo
miesrah12 1 year ago
i'm a guy, but man, this is so cute =]
CRFbadass 1 year ago
If you say these phrases without tones,
they can mean totally diffrent things.
It is very important to learn the tones first!
YouTubianGuy 1 year ago
Thanks for the vid but...you have made alot of mistakes so far
insurgent17x 1 year ago
why are we getting Chinese lessons from a white sounding girl....i dont trust this
madude04 1 year ago
that's a mistake, right? im a chinese and i dont think "have you eaten" is like "how are you"....
i think it really does means HAVE U EATEN...
KIMKIMkimari 1 year ago
这 很 笨! 为什 么 您 们 不 想 自 己 用 书 本 学? 用 书 本 一 点 都 不 会 难!
(this is so stupid and lousy, why not use a book to learn. using the book is not a bit hard!)
No offense, howcast. :)
LexieBear1 1 year ago 2
@LexieBear1 同意!!
spore637 5 days ago
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Step 7 is wrong It says Where can I find the restaurant? when is actually asking about the WC (ce zuo)
cbatlla 1 year ago
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cbatlla 1 year ago
Thank goodness for the pause button huh, lol? They do go along pretty quickly.
chairmanofthebored1 1 year ago
Step 1: Buy Rosetta Stone
nyy2ss 1 year ago
umm you cant really speak chinese? its either cantonese or mandarin
nejiman111 1 year ago
ちょっとシュール過ぎると思う。
khadejahd 1 year ago
if you say 'bi zui' which means shut up, you will be beat in china. seriously, you cannot speak that word to a stranger.
cklg588 1 year ago 2
Ask Benny is still fast, but more doable.
3salamanders 1 year ago 2
Holy shit, this video is trippy as balls
t3hubern00b 1 year ago
i like when guy gets slapped when he asks how much it costs, instead of when he tells the room mate to shut up.
MagicalMikhail 1 year ago
i like when guy gets slapped when he asks how much it costs.
MagicalMikhail 1 year ago
I thought some of it was helpful, but the acting was really cheezy and I don't think all the lovey stuff was necassary.
ponyjumperxox2570 1 year ago
Liked it a lot, its pathetic that there theres so few decent videos for learners, especially adults who may be interested in romance as well. the style and music were refreshing, I'd like to see longer more in depth and variant themes from you guys, XIE XIE!
themightyspringwater 1 year ago
OMG this is the most AMAZING video I've ever seen !!!! In only 2 minutes and 52 seconds you have helped me to become fluent in Chinese ! No grammer explinations, no information about tones or pronunciationand what, a total of 10 words of vocabulary ?... You people are GENIUSES! Congratulations on a SUPERBE video !!!.... NOT ! PS: Oh, and the dufus in the video is WAY over-acting with the facial expressions.
ABOUJAD123 1 year ago
How coud this phrases ever come in handy? Please, i going to china for sightseeing not for climbin into bed whith every person!
Loveangel199775 1 year ago
Ugh, my Filipino-Chinese-Spanish brain.
SDBPR 1 year ago
you can try the pause button.
chan536leo 1 year ago
The video is way to fast. Slow it down.
psycopet 1 year ago
awssom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
KAIDGERZ 1 year ago
this video is pointless it's to fast and where's the tone guide's the 4 different tone used in pinyin
roman1289 1 year ago
hi i love you china iam moroccan my old 18 and in my old 20 i speaking 5 franch englich espanich arabic and china i love china merçi
maro767 1 year ago
@maro767 LOL you don't even speak english
DarthChrisB 6 months ago
one of the best language video i've ever seen, obviously aimed at students it is very easy to pick up
SGwizard1 1 year ago
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the word for kiss, wen 吻, is spoken in the 3th tone while the word for smell, wen 闻, is spoken in the 2nd tone or did i mix something up?
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sschmu 1 year ago
Wow kiss is not the same word as smell. They just sound similar.
Pwnderer 1 year ago 35
@Pwnderer nope they have the same tone in such a sentence mister expert. thumbs down
DarthChrisB 9 months ago
@DarthChrisB I'm impressed that you're faring acceptably with English given your inability to note the difference between "word" and "tone". :)
Pwnderer 6 months ago
@Pwnderer what?? it took you 2 months to come up with such a nonsense comment?! do you even know what a word is? a word is an array of sounds (with intonation) and not the meaning it expresses. therefore: same sounds with same intonation = SAME WORD!!! so, 'to smell' and 'to kiss' do not sound similar in said sentence, they sound THE SAME and therefor ARE THE SAME WORDS which means the sentence means "i want to kiss you" and "i want to smell you" at the SAME TIME! dito!
DarthChrisB 6 months ago
@DarthChrisB I replied to your comment the day I saw it.
They're written differently and are therefore different words. Unless you think "pear" and "pair" are the same word, this shouldn't be too hard to understand.
Pwnderer 6 months ago
@Pwnderer wow. this whole argument was related to the spoken language and my first comment was a reply to your "They just sound similar.". And now you try to turn it to your favor by talking about the written word. absolutely ridiculous. i'm not gonna argue any further with an idiot that doesn't even know what he's talking about. bye!
DarthChrisB 6 months ago
@DarthChrisB I said that "kiss is not the same word as smell". You disagreed, claiming that they "ARE THE SAME WORDS". A word constitutes both its spoken and written form. That is why I gave the example of "pear" and "pair", because everybody knows that they sound the same, but are different words.
Saying that the Chinese terms for "kiss" and "smell" are the same word is like claiming that "pear" and "pair" are the same word. Obviously, they are not.
I'm amazed by your stupidity.
Pwnderer 5 months ago
cool thanks this was a good vid and usefull
hunter2373 1 year ago
OMG~What a fucking video!
ZEcho87 1 year ago
This background music scares me!
allgore444 1 year ago
ARGH the vid's too fast!!! i had to watch it 5 time just too see how to say thanks and ur welcome!!! gosh -_-
XxxMysticalxRosexxX 1 year ago
lol we sho8uld all speak mandarin chinese then, but it's a very hard language tolearn so we speak english
jrg305 1 year ago
You suck!!!
cel1268910 1 year ago
1:14 dont forget "bai jiu" is "hardshot liquor"
NKoreaMann21 1 year ago
这不是学说中国话，这是泡妞速成第一课。
china0exe 1 year ago
@china0exe
外國男人都是靠這個才有學習的動力 XD
TaiwanGreenteaLeaf 1 year ago
They switched their 'G's and 'Q's.
TheDiwanShantwain 1 year ago
who dumbass made this video?
ytertyu 1 year ago
no no no chifanle meiyou means have you eaten rice when i went to the china house i gave a chinese woman a fortune cookie and said chifanle meiyu and she said have i eaten rice?
kovu107 1 year ago
i only know how to read and write, cause after 10 years of not using it, you will forget some of it... i been studying it since nursery till high school... here in our country, but almost all the student their are speaking another language. the only way i really learn was when i was reading comic books and how strict my third year chinese teacher was, who let us write sentence 30plus times before.. i wish after i graduated i was able to study again in china,
awaygirl23 1 year ago
@awaygirl23 same here, i know what you mean... i was planning after i graduated in college, but.. oh well.. we have the same situation.. if you dont use it, sometimes you forget if not being used for a really long time =( but i think you will recall it again if you watched show with subtitle, and read comic books again, and ask elders... i just felt sad that after nursery till high school, you forgot some of it, a big waste of forgetting what you've learned from all those years,
mucik 1 year ago
@awaygirl23 ops, what i really meant to say was, its sad to forget them, not just for you, but for me as well... but if ever i was able to go to china to study the language, we might be back from being a beginner student again, thats what my high school classmate told me, what more to us who wasnt able to used it for long time now... but you can practice it again, like what i will do.. i also envy the white guy who was spealing chinese in another video...
mucik 1 year ago
@mucik lol, yeah, i got what you mean, my parents speaks in many languge better than i do,but they speak to me in another chinese language. so i kind of combined all of them sometimes, i do it through reading, & at school.i had a hint from where ur from, hahaha. anyway, yeah, tnx for the advice. i just wished to study abroad to china for a few months,so i can learn and recall it..=( yea, i saw that other video. damn,! his a good speaker. wish it was me.but i guess his in china for a long time
awaygirl23 1 year ago
theres a guy in our class room and he chinese but i cant speek to him to him cuz he only same language so i was like screw that and then he told me exactly (wo xi huan ni) so until i saw this video he likes me iwtch i wanna go out with him witch was soo cute to say that to me!!!! OMG i just cant belive it!!! thanks for the video it really helped if want to know what kind am i? im Philipina and i come from the Philipines thanks ^_^ :p
Queen101Drama 1 year ago 2
I'm going to China this summer, but to be honest I find the language really complicated o-o
CharlotteMadison 1 year ago
I like chinese more than japanese...Japanese sounds all made up of long words,whereas I find chinese as nice and dissected and easy to learn...
Or is it just me because of I haven't learned japanese?
Chameleonardodavinci 1 year ago
@Chameleonardodavinci i thnk it jst depends on people,, i find japanese easy cz i already hve an idea on what its basic structure is,, and japanese isnt really made up of long word, lol
it jst looks like it
like their "i love you" is jst one word "aishiteru"
the thng thats making it long are the add ons on the root word, equal to -ing , -er, -est, ectect in english....im makng ths complicated am i ^^;;;
yoshikoinori27 1 year ago
@Chameleonardodavinci in reality, and english speaker, japanese would be easier to learn. the syllables are much more simple, and the tones are easier to pronounce(for english speakers, as i said) the reason you think japanese is made up of "long words" ,as you put it, it because of the speed people normally talk in japan(that is because the speach would go on forever speaking at an english pace.) look into it :) both Chinese and japanese are fun to learn ^-^
oblivion1717 1 year ago
They certainly are. :) I'm planning on learning Chinese when I get to High School next year and I already taught myself a bit of Japanese. :D
Schoolgoth124 1 year ago
@Chameleonardodavinci
After you've learned a little bit of Chinese, you will find out how damn hard it is:)
zk10120 1 year ago
cant wait to go there
eLLriDe420 1 year ago
basically a guide to get laid in china
darkrange97 1 year ago
Wo xihuan lai ge mama x)
xNiKKixThExCuTiEx 1 year ago
the pinyin is also very strange. I know there are different ways of writing it, but "bu kuh qi"? I have never seen that one before.
@ supersinc800: of course you're right with the 四声 and the difference of the pronunciation, but for us foreigners it's pretty hard to remember them all. Therefore it's a good way that the context can clearify some issues.
HanRiDe 1 year ago
this persons chinese in the video sucks. if your gonna make an educational video on chinese, at least speak with correct tones and pronunciations. Wen does not both mean kiss and smell, and you dont tell from context. you can tell the difference between the tones.
supersinc800 1 year ago
I think you lack knowledge in Chinese. Her pronounciation is perfect You might have learned Chinese in a different area, or you just suck at chinese. This video is obviously for travellers so they're not too familiar with tones.
YangSunWoo 1 year ago
at 0:37 she says ni jiao shen me ming ZHI. and it should be zi. I am not a native speaker but i have never heard any native speaker say that.
supersinc800 1 year ago
that's what I thought too when I first heard mainland china's chinese. I studied chinese in Taiwan for 3 months and they pronounce 就 as "jou" and the chinese pronounce it as "jiyuu"
you have to remember that chinese is extremely varied because of the number of regional dialects/differences.
YangSunWoo 1 year ago
wo xihuan niunai :]
iknowimreal 1 year ago
wo3 dou1 xi3 huan1 he1 niu2 nai3 :P
molfoy 1 year ago
@molfoy lol :)
iknowimreal 1 year ago
hehe..hihi, Iknowimreal..
molfoy 1 year ago
@molfoy lol hi :)
iknowimreal 1 year ago
HAHAHAH! ni zhen piao liang means "you are very pretty!", not "you are wonderful!" this is hilarious!!!!=D wo xiang wen ni. i wanna smell you!!
rinphie 1 year ago
If you learn Mandarin because you love Chinese culture (not because of business opportunity), then this language won't help you to glimpse the East Asian Culture.
Do you know why there are so many RRRRR at the back in Mandarin. Because It is heavily influenced by the Mongolian. You even get more Chinese culture from learning Japanese, no kidding!
iloathelilyallen 1 year ago
One factor that makes "dialects" in China under more danger is writing in "dialect" isn't acceptable. I give you an analog - It is like an Englishman can't write in English and he has to write in French. If you write in English, you are thought to be uneducated and low class.
I don't hate Mandarin itself. I hate the aggressive Mandarin promotion policy that kills off the diversity and culture of China,
iloathelilyallen 1 year ago
The status of "dialect" is given is because of political concern - one united China. Chinese people believe that they are of "same race speaking same language", so they can't accept the fact that unintelligible "dialect" is called a language. The Chinese character is like latin alphabet and "dialects" of China is like European languages and difference b/w each other can be like English and French with major grammatical and pronunciation differences.
iloathelilyallen 1 year ago
bu ke qi* lol BU KUH QI xD
Momoko002 1 year ago
Chinese isn't a language. in term of language, China is like Europe where you can't find a language called European. . However, due to "one china", regional languages are not allowed to be called as "language" even thought their differences between each other is very great - much greater than differences between French/Spanish/Portuguese or English/German...
What you present in this video is Mandarin.
Cantonese, Hakka, Shanghaiese, Sichuanese and Hokkien are also Chinese languages.
iloathelilyallen 1 year ago