Foreigner Learn Chinese PIN YIN, Chinese Phonetics, 2 VCD-2

[LearnChineseWithEase]

The introduction was quite long, but interesting.

I liked the fact that each of the PinYin sounds was introduced using actual words!

[MrAlanapril1314]

the four different tones only occured to aoeiuv, sounds like b,d shouldn't introduced like they also have four different tones, that make things very complicated for foreigners.

[shayexu10]

Get Pinyin Books from pinyin.com

[handsupbud]

This was all Greek to me.

[Maniaclaughter]

I'm a native English speaker and I liked this video. One thing, however, I didn't like was your hand movement to show the tones. I think a drawing of the movement would be better. I was able to follow you though because I already learned the tones. I did like that you read some pinyin to us. It was very helpful. I also found it interesting and nice that you pronounced the "c" a little differently than I heard else where. You added a "t" sound before it, making it "tsai", as apposed to "sai".

[candy1715]

hey where is the continuation??

[7AlexFord]

she's rather not very clear with the hand lol

[lilylessons]

WHO WANT TO LEARN CHINESE WITH ME?

[candy1715]

@lilylessons mandarin or cantonese?

I wanna learn mandarin

[sorcress18]

@candy1715

This is most likely Mandarin

[LittleUFreak]

@candy1715 It is mandarin. Perhaps it covers cantonese too, but I only know mandarin. And I think it is with Shanghai accent, which I've heard is actually more standard than Beijing (because Beijing accent is very heavy I've heard).

[lordzilu1584]

@candy1715

1.5 billion people can speak Madarin, only 80 million people can speak Cantonese

[roxterat]

@lilylessons

me xD

[mnzl]

will you teach me?

[kngpinga]

ＬＯＶＥ　ＩＮ　ＪＡＰＡＮＥＳＥ  愛

ＲＯＭＡＮＪＩ　ａｉ

[micery]

Im confused

do u use letters or symbols when writing in mandarin?

[crock703]

Chinese characters/symbols (Hanzi) is the reading/writing system for Mandarin. The Western alphabetic phonetic system (Pin Yin) is the system used to make reading and learning Mandarin easier for children and foreigners.

The pin yin in an easy visual way to learn how its spoken. The Hanzi is how its really written and read.

[micery]

So u use the Pin Yin first, then u learn all the chinese charachters? So u need to know a symbol for every word, and they are all unique. right?

[crock703]

Yeah, its beyond complex.

Pin Yin gives you a way to phonetically sound out words.

1st you learn the way an "a" sounds in pin yin, then "ai", etc. Above the pin yin letters are the tone cues.

Regular Chinese characters don't have tone cues, b/c there is a unique character for every word (or many for some words.)

Learning Chinese is easy, it has cave-man like grammar. Just learn the tongue (speaking style), & theres far less to memorize than English.

Reading/writing is a whole other bag.

[Starrii]

'It has cave-man like grammar'

XDXD

Which is true. I can speak perfect Chinese but reading..? Pah!

[franksui]

chinese use characters. The letters (Pinyin) is like phonetics.

[SilverGunZoO]

similar to カタカナ、ひらがな、漢字　and romaji

[Babybobgirl]

I get it,but I don't get what you are saying at the same time..T.T

So if I want to learn Chinese as a language to start off from scratch,should I learn PinYin or Hanzi first???o.O

When u say Pinyin is how it sounds,if I wanted to read Chinese newspapers,

would it be written in Hanzi or Pinyin??

Is the difference between Pinyin&Hanzi something like this?

For the word: China. when u write,is it like

Hanzi=China

Pinyin=Chai nah. (something like that..-_-)

Thank u*

[crock703]

Starting you learn pinyin, b/c its easiest to help learning how to speak.

Hanzi is the writing you read in Chinese newspapers.

The word "China" in Chinese sounds totally different, it's "Zhongguo." "Zhongguo" is the pinyin written version. It's pronounced the same in spoken Mandarin Chinese, but when its written in Hanzi it looks like this "中国"

China: Zhongguo (written in pinyin)

China: 中国 (written in hanzi)

[NAPELION86]

no，we use letters only for typing

[fvxter]

there are multiple ways of expression.

not symbols, characters are like the normal words and phrases that make up the language.

letters from the english alphabet are a different way of expression ('pinyin') - it is supposed to help people learn pronounciation phonetically.

eg. i love you is 我爱你

pinyin - wo ai ni.

which is how you say it - wuo aye nee

add to that the tones as showed in the video

wǒ ài nǐ

watch the vid again to understand it with the tone marks.

[bigbeing]

As far as I'm concerned, I'm not a foreigner. I'm a local. The term foreigner is used by the Chinese to refer to Westerners both in China and in Western countries (though in Chinese - so we don't understand).