Chinese lesson#1(注音符号跟拼音）

[DrSpeakwell]

The Pinyin developed by the Communist Chinese (originally intended to wipe out the Chinese culture altogether) has not only murdered the Chinese language learning for native Chinese as well as foreigners. It has also muttered native Chinese speakers’ ability to learn a real spelling language, like English. The right way and only way to learn Chinese (Mandarin) is to learn ㄅ,ㄆ,ㄇ,ㄈ.

[DrSpeakwell]

Chinese (Mandarin) is NOT a spelling language. Chinese pronunciations are integrated not sequential. In a spelling language like English, you pronounce the consonants/vowels in sequence according to its spelling order. In Mandarin, you integrate the phonemes (at most 2) together to produce an integral sound. Mandarin has 37 phonetic symbols to form 59 unique phonemes, which are used to generate 417 unique integrated sounds w/ various tones. Mandarin is easy. Pinyin is complete rubbish.

[DrSpeakwell]

In this video, the chap uttered (ㄅㄜ,ㄆㄜ,ㄇㄜ,ㄈㄜ) for (ㄅ,ㄆ,ㄇ,ㄈ). The correct utterance should be (ㄅㄛ,ㄆㄛ,ㄇㄛ,ㄈㄛ). In Mandarin, (ㄅ,ㄆ,ㄇ,ㄈ) are NEVER combined w/ ㄜ, except for (ㄇㄜ˙) as in 什麼(ㄇㄜ˙).

[boilpoil]

i will attempt to list all pingyins :3

a o e i u u(2 dots above it)

b p m f d t n l g k h j q x zh ch sh r z c h

ai ei ao ou an en ang eng ong

ia ie ian iou ing iang iong

ua uo ui uan uen uang ueng uong

*ue uan uong*

*with 2 dots on the "u"

Others: "w" represent "u" e.g. wu

"y" represent "i" and *"u" e.g. yi and yu

[Pumpernickel006900]

lol a black O.G talking in Chinese... must be a Wu-Tang Clan member :)

[JiaoLaoshi]

I dont know where you learnt your Chinese. what I wanna say is Taiwanese use Pinyin, too (like english letters). Also 'b p m f' are 4 of the initails of Chinese Pinyin. We call initails - 声母(sheng mu), 声means 'sound', bcz 声母 decide how we sound each Chinese character.

You should tell people what Chinese you are teaching here, and where to use - Taiwan or Mainland China, so people will not get confused

[g00glian0]

Hey there. I'm from Dayton. I am learning Mandarin also. Cool video. Thanks!

[JOOXA389]

Good Job!=)



[samuel40301]

is your teacher chinese or taiwanese ?

[laoshu505000]

@samuel40301 My wife is Taiwanese.

[watchn22]

This is sooo cool--I love that a Brother can teach me CHINESE along with the other languages you speak---Thank You-- Your Language Soul Sister

[laoshu505000]

@watchn22 Where are you from by the way?

[battleofjericho]

Also your pronunciation of the "tongue roll" sounds, ㄓㄔㄕㄖ, are spot on. Those are the most difficult Mandarin sounds to master.

[battleofjericho]

Your pronunciation of ㄛ is a little close to ㄡ. ㄛ isn't squashed at the end with the long "u" as ㄡ is. Contrast 火 (fire) to 頭 (head).

Also use robot voice (1st tone) when pronouncing 注音符號.

This and last comment show utility of 注音符號 for learning correct pronunciation of basic Mandarin phonemes. One can tell, from knowledge of English pronunciation, when non-native speaker has learned Mandarin using pinyin. I commend your study of 注音符號. The rare person who studies it has better pronunciation.

[battleofjericho]

I use a different stroke order for ㄏ. Top first, left to right, then pick up the pen and write the downstroke. Same as writing Chinese characters. But maybe for 注音 it doesn't matter.

Also your ㄐpronunciation sounds like English pronunciation of "G" -- lips puckered a little at the beginning. No puckering, otherwise it sounds just a little like the beginning of ㄓ. Lips should should almost be smiling, as with pronunciation of 雞 (chicken) or 機 (machine).

[daisyo12345o]

注音符"號" ：]

[Ivellios49]

ㄐㄧㄚ 一ㄡˊ ! ㄏㄣˇ ㄏㄠˇ!

[o00593]

you do a good job!!

I am Taiwanese

[anitaguh]

I just type the all in here.

ㄅㄆㄇㄈ ㄉㄊㄋㄌ ㄍㄎㄏ

ㄐㄑㄒ

ㄓㄔㄕㄖ ㄗㄘㄙ

一ㄨㄩ ㄚㄛㄜㄝ

ㄞㄟㄠㄡ ㄢㄣㄤㄥ

[BrianonLanguage]

Ah, cool, you're from Akron? I went there once ... isn't it near Cuyahuga Falls? Enjoying the videos! -Brian

[laoshu505000]

@BrianonLanguage Yea, I was born in Akron. Yep, Cuyahoga Falls is right down the street from the H.S. I graduated from. Akron's a smaaaal city!

[Sablicious]

lol - looks like Hiragana for borrowed words!

[pipa2255]

「ㄊ」寫錯囉！外國人背「ㄅㄆㄇ」真的好辛苦！恭喜你背起來嚕！­

[SwaggaliciousKeedah]

finally i got sth to teach my amercian friend,thaaanks mein xxx me likey it,nice job duh!!!

[Codylangaugesblog]

any human being can speak any language if they have the motivation, that is what I believe.

[PinkIcexMellow]

awesome handwriting!

[kk4769]

you're good man, i saw many videos that you spoke some languages, awesome <3

[YouTuGood]

不错啊，拼音我都没学会。

兄弟，有空就要多做些汉语视频教程吧。

你的视频教程非常好。

请允许我以上面评论向你表示敬意！！！

hi dude, great work!

[Mrshifengzhou]

发噶 你噶

[samer820]

very good! rare people who are learning chinese know ㄅㄆㄇㄈ is better explanation for learning chinese without messing up with original Rome characters pronounce.

[BJ2046]

Keep up your studying--you have a gift for language and I am VERY impressed at your multi-languages skills. Hope you are still studying languages nowadays.

[acumen321]

Wow, this is awesome. Chinese is definitely a hard language even for Chinese people, but it can be done. Keep at it! And good luck.

I love you.

[icygreenful]

for foreigners, it is better to use the taiwanese method ( based from experience)

im a taiwanese..

[kryptonite747]

try Cantonese, give yourself a challenge mate

[ahuang930124]

good,Chinese is diffcult,keep going on!never give up~

加油，兄弟~~

[jianfeibai]

wow, I'm beijing, I have never learned Chinese this way.....fascinating......

[a0952148886]

so, ㄅㄆㄇㄈ(b, p, m, f,) is better than rome phonetic

PS.I come from Taiwan ：)

Taiwan use the ㄅㄆㄇㄈ

and China use the rome phonetic

[ppw8626]

there is no such thing as "better". it's just about preference, and more importantly, popularity.

[a0952148886]

You con't useㄅㄆㄇㄈin China! ㄅㄆㄇㄈ is used by Taiwan different conbination of the ㄅㄆㄇㄈ show the different pronunciation of each Chinese letter Taiwan use the traditional Chinese China use the simply Chinese for example: 工厂(Chinese)= 工廠(Taiwan)= factory(America) 工= gong=ㄍㄨㄥ 廠= chang= ㄔㄤˇ= 厂(simply Chinese) ㄍ=go, X=on, ㄥ=ng ㄔ=cha, ㄤˇ= ng althoughㄥ=ng=ㄤˇ=ng but they are different

[Paul3love]

@a0952148886 and your point is?

[MrDaldagnuur]

ching.. chang.. chong.. goof lesson for all of u..

[omggmod]

how many languages are your learning ? how can u remember them?

[pedro6102]

you misspelled ㄊ

[laoshu505000]

Thanks.

[chikenamorada]

that's very interesting

[vyvanvu]

i dont really speak japanese but i sing it. its really cool=]

[mario1234camachos]

is chinese not japanese

[vyvanvu]

you should learn japanese too=]

[sorrypapawxz]

Thank for this video!! I am learning chinese (mandarin) and this video was important for me!

[ckshkid]

Your writing of "ㄊ" is not right actually : )

[laoshu505000]

oh, ok.

[mantisboxer]

Laoshu,

I applaud your efforts. You should consider spending a year or so in Taiwan or China.

Regarding some of your comments though:

I think that the bo-po-mo-fo method is taught to children in both mainland China and Taiwan so they know how to pronounce characters.

Pinyin, like you said, is a method of romanizing Chinese, but I think it's mainly for foreigners who don't want to learn Chinese characters.

Taiwan has a system for romanizing Chinese also. It's called the Wade-Giles system.

[laoshu505000]

That's interesting. I've never heard of the Wade-Giles system.

[Zac2333]

@mantisboxer

With all due respect, I don't think that zhuyin fuhao has never been taught in the mainland, but is only taught in Taiwan. I bought a few Chinese-Chinese dictionaries in Mainland China just last month, and the romanisation that they use is pinyin.

Also, I believe that Tongyong Pinyin is used in Taiwan rather than Wade-Giles nowadays.

[kev1zhong]

Oops! I rated 2/5 by accident, supposed to be 5/5!

[PhoFanatic]

whats with the hat? something special bout it???

[laoshu505000]

Yea, it's my trademark.

[boyjohnnyyoyo]

You are awesome!

[whodidyouexpect]

注音符號 is a great tool and it eases the confusion that comes from looking at letters and saying different sounds (比如: c = ㄘ / z =ㄗ ...).

There is also an extended set of phonetic symbols called 台語注音符號 which are useful for learning 台語 or 閩南語. Also if you get annotated editions of ancient Chinese texts, they'll have 注音符號 for obscure words, which helps a lot.

Just work on ㄐ ㄑ ㄒ and ㄓㄔ ㄕ ㄖ

Keep it up, man!

[RUSHEM24]

Please let me know what was harder to learn chinese or my language persian/farsi. Thanks . I as well have embarked on the journey of learning many languages and now you are my motivation. Please keep it up man. By the way where are you from ???

[mb14uk]

Bopomofo is the most pointless waste of time ever. Like going from A to Z to get to B.

Pinyin is the most logical and accurate system, but is frowned on in Taiwan for political reasons - not linguistic ones.

[vlag]

Yeah it might be pointless to you but I could very well say the same thing about learning a tongue that uses the latin script.. There's no difference in learning the latin alphabet and getting to know what 'A' or 'B' sounds like and so on, and learning bopomofo and getting to know what 'ㄅ' or 'ㄆ' sounds like. You're only saying pinyin is more logical because it's easy for you as you're already well acquainted with the latin alphabet!

[davidpeachey]

I'd recently discovered that my pinyin-based pronunciation resulted in *very* incorrect pronunciation of over ten chinese sounds. Simply, there are sounds that exist in languages that aren't in English (and vice versa), so it's slightly misleading so say 'x'=''sh' and 'q'='ch' for example.

I had to totally re-learn the sounds ㄓㄔ ㄕ ㄖ from scratch to have proper (non-embarrassing) pronunciation. Tying them to English sounds and characters I knew just didn't work.

Great work, Moses!

[kittygirl792]

wuut? we learned the "alphabet", or this bopomofo stuff in school too but we learned it in pynyn. and then i tried asking my teacher if there is a character to every sound so you could just make a word with souds and write it in characters.. u kno like in any other language.... like u have a letter to every sound, i asked if there was a character to every sound.. and she said no. but ur writing characters so there is a character 4 every sound? then y doesn't 叫 end with "zh" ?

[laoshu505000]

If you've studied Chinese in mainland China or any other place other than Taiwan, you won't learn the BOPOMOFO system. Perhaps there are places where you could learn, but it's rare to learn this system outside of Taiwan.

Most schools will teach you pin yin instead. I would consider learning both systems which will benefit you a lot.

I'm not sure why that teacher told you that, but yes, there is a system which has letters according to their sounds.

Actually 叫 would be spelled as 'jiao'

[kittygirl792]

ooooh .. chinese is super complicated.. thanx

[laoshu505000]

I wouldn't say super complicated. The characters are difficult, but you could do it.

[meienmarler]

Can you tell me what benefit(s) you will have if you learn BOPOMOFO system? (other than that BOPOMOFO system actually is the abstracted parts from Chinese characters, if you learned to write them, you also learned to write a lot Chinese character parts. )

[laoshu505000]

Well, you would definitely be able to type traditional characters on the computer with native Taiwanese. Not only that, it forces you to know the tone for each word unlike pin yin. So I guess I could say that it helps tonation.

[hrpharold]

I love bo po mo fo!!!!!

There are tons of great books from Taiwan using bo po mo fo. Great to learn to read han zi with really neat stories, etc.

You rule!!!

[inputmycd]

wow man

i just find this .. this is really cool.

I can show my friend who want to learn chinese ~

[aklyl]

ya, actually I am from Taiwan.

[laoshu505000]

是么？ 台湾的哪里？

[aklyl]

台北

[laoshu505000]

酷~ 很高兴认识了你。 希望你会继续看我做的录音。 后会有期。

[aklyl]

ㄈㄚ 一ㄣ ㄏㄠˇ ㄆ一ㄠˋ ㄌ一ㄤˋ!

發 音 好 漂  亮!

Beautiful pronunciation!

[laoshu505000]

hahahahaha! 好像你也会注音啊

[aklyl]

ㄈㄚ 一ㄣ ㄏㄠˇ ㄆ一ㄠˋ ㄌ一ㄤˋ

發  音 好 漂 亮

[SHUJINCELL]

hahahahahahahahhahah bopomofo ROFLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!! -shujincell

[ILuvEire]

I liked this.

Bopomofo owns. :)