Mandarin Chinese Lesson 3 - Simple Self-introduction

[GVIGuitarist]

Whaddup girllllll

[vernon115]

hi

[Pounds90]

(☆_☆) 

[laotzu4272]

I am already past this stage having lived in China. But Sophie is so hot I just like to watch Wo Ai Ni, Ni hen ke ai.

[cildni]

nǐ hěn piàoliang

Yes, I had to Google this. But it's true.

[Californiatic2010]

lao shi hao. I have an upcoming exam for my mandarin subject but it seems im still learning nothing, if there, its just a few. Thank you for making this videos, at least im learning some knowledge too. And by the way, you're pretty! bao zhong xiexie

[farrind]

Thank you- I am using a set of CDs to learn Pu-tong-hua. Having a chance to watch how you do it has helped. It sure takes lots of practice (especially since I am older- well past the age when you "soak up" a new language!). Just ignore those posts below- what a bunch of jokers.

[jjd705]

youre beautiful, are you half Asian and half White?

[starshiptrooper02]

Damn... you have a lovely voice.

[claudefrancoissimard]

thank you

[RAIZEDBYWOLVEZ]

how do you say will you marry me yumiilove in mandarin??

[sMILEcRUSH]

she's Taiwanese =D

[tushnim0new]

@sMILEcRUSH I say she ABC (American Born Chinese) with Taiwanese heritage :)

I always fancy meeting ABC girl mate.

[CityHunter84]

egg fly lice, spweshul ling loy sawce, u bai? orrie fitty dworla. 

[vasodezumo]

ni (3 tone) and hao is not 4 tone... its third tone aswell.

[Californiatic2010]

@vasodezumo yeah its 3rd tone as i can remember from my lessons

[rhcp4565]

Ni hao. Ni shi hen piao liang. Ni shi Zhongguo ren ma? Wo xihuan ting yin yue, ni ne?

[PurplePandaLucid]

Incredible.  Thank you for your efforts.

[pupu562]

na ge nuhair shi shei ??????zhen piaolian

[datlibra17]

i was getting it until she threw that monologue at me at the end

[alicewxy2]

ni hao is 3rd tone and 3rd tone...not 34 and 'ao' should be pronounced roundly....and gao xing...X please pronounce it correctely......

[neotitanium1]

@alicewxy2 yes she misspoke, however, actually... when two 3rd tones are together, the first 3rd tone becomes a second tone, so if you want to get specific its not spoken as ni3 hao3 bur rather ni2 hao3.

[tomorrowslunch]

Please use hanyupinyin in description. Non-standard romanisations are just confusing. Anyone who is learning Chinese will have to learn pinyin some day anyway. If people don't know pinyin, they can see how to pronounce it in the video. It's the tonal change of ni3 to ni2 in 'ni2hao3' that is most likely to confuse a beginner. Also, the tonal marks in the description box need fixing. Thankyou for making the effort to teach Mandarin, it's appreciated. (=

[jonathangray91]

I've learned a lot. thanks!

[carlozmr]

hermosa!!

[attrattivo]

Cool... thanks for your help!!! I need to practise on the tones though.. Greeting from Greece!!!

[dbielby]

hao is not fourth tone.

[kami33A]

Ni hao sophie, wo ziao karen...i was wondering if do u have msn or skype and if you would take the time to teach me, I do really want to learn, but where i live i can't find someone who teache me...I'd been thinking about buying the rosseta stone course but if u r willing to teach me let me know and tell me how much it would be...Thanks a lot

[User17081987]

I liked her videos.I feel it would have been great if she had used high tone,low tone,check,sharp tone,...instead of 1st tone,2nd tone,3rd tone etc.

[DemascoNY]

wow, mad perverts up in this. good tutorials though!

[hdnvws4life]

wow this is very good

[charlenenz]

Thank you

Your videos are really helpful

I really appreciate them :-)

(p.s., you are a great teacher!!)

[FantasticArts95]

Great language. You did a great job in teaching. Got the introduction right away!

[r1cc4rd000]

Hi Sophie! My name is Riccardo... i'm italian and a medical student... i would like to be a friend of you... have you got a QQ profile? Xie Xie ni. :D

[klaassart]

"Your room is messy" how to say that in Chinese? :-)

[jetleeming]

suddenly why i love you??? wei zhe mo wo ai ni??

[miladsafi12]

 i will never learn this language

[lbaquero57]

Wow.... it´s ve difficult ! but it´s good your iniciative...

[ykltc]

我愛你

[TheFumakila]

Sophie ni hen piao liang

[bakagajin]

@TheFumakila I was gonna say that!

[Cowboy0077]

thanks for posting this I've always wanted to learn mandarin

[KanjaFubuki]

ive also started language video recently but mine is french , u might want to check it out ? :-) (im canadian from quebec province)

[heyingshihun]

Ist das Mädchen eine Chinesin?

Ihr Chinesich ist ganz schlecht.

Sie sieht wie eine Vietnamesin aus.

[jetleeming]

WO AI NI

[unique95]

Wow this is really helpful! Thank you ^^

[imjustachillin]

How do I say something to chat up a beautiful Mandarin lady?

Please don't have me say somthing rude.

post asap.

[ClemmensNorth]

Thanks for taking the time to post your video's, they are a great help.

[suzanjlo]

I like this!

[Rokshii]

in a previous video someone else did

they said it was

wo shie ...name... isi both the same or is ther an actual difference

like i'm roxi. i am roxi. isi the samelike that

or is mor elike i am ... and mmy name is ...

[mickderkskouta]

0:16 hao fourth tone?... its 3rd

[AmazonMan97300]

Hi Yumi ! You really have an art of teaching Mandarin. Keep it up. Good work.

[dbielby]

I am planning to move to Tainan. I am watching your lessons and appreciate what you've done here. Very nice. I am wondering about your accent. Is it Beijing or Taipei or some other sort of Mandarin?

[antking1117]

wo men qu yi jia tong xing lian ju le bu ba

[finemofok]

Why do white guys like chineese girls? Why dont u stay with your race? Fucking cocks.

[blackhearts2cent]

let me introuduce myself in english: how are you doing lol

[renasr05]

I think 'ren shi ni' 'shi' suppose to be second tone

[BarbieReview]

@renasr05 No, because 'ren shi' means 'introduce' and they are both in the fourth tone

[CrystalEmerald2012]

hey she has a taiwanese accent! im from the north so i noticed...having a taiwanese accent and teaching mandarin is like having a brooklyn accent teaching how to pronounce english...for all u ppl learning chinese out there, she's making a good effort but she does have an accent..just fyi

[delacroix4]

you are so beautiful!!!! ;D thanks for lessons! :D

[angelthman]

Your hair is covering half of your right eye, how can you see? :)

[All4Norway]

Let me introduce myself in Norwegian: Du er vakker!

[Pete54310]

Thanks for putting these lessons up

I'm learning already.

[chimax1178]

Shes beautiful

[HARVEY086]

hi sophie o_O

[littlecozette]

even with this hot girl you can not teach me such a cumbersome language!

[bodytimefitness]

@littlecozette Maybe you should just watch her lips move, dude.....um, no that wont work......how about listen to her voice, music to your ears, bells ringing too....I know, send her a card and just lov her lol - I agree

[aquan1966]

Gracias, sophie, estoy tratando de conocer los acentos. (Thak you Sophi, i training and try every time, but the sound are dificul, i only talk spanish, my parent are chinese, and i live en El Salvador, for my kids i woudlike lear chine because they have to be (orgulloso) chinesse.

[jakeweismann]

Thanks Sophie, learning Mandarin is a lot easier with a teacher who looks like you

[BOAPBONES]

she b cute

[Centurion101st]

i'd marry u in a heartbeat sophie ;)

[iamhe999]

Being a student of Mandarin Chinese, it is confusing, and unnecessary.. to side step standardized pin yin....

also the simplified chinese symbols and pin yin with tone marks should appear simultaneously in the video.. or at least in the description..

[kjmarts08]

hi sophie!

i think you're wrong with the tone of hao. it is supposed to be in second tone not fourth.

--with all due respect--

[johnzendy]

thx u sophie

[johnzendy]

thx u sophie...

[butukau]

you are great for kimochi...

[Weeaboi]

Thank you~!

This really helped my pronunciation!

[WeepingBurma]

Third tone...sorry

[WeepingBurma]

Wait, I thought hao would be fourth tone. Doesn't it dip like Ni?

[TheKingOfSwing]

o god that last comment made me cringe. I may go vomit now...

[80KungFu]

You are so beautiful. Like a beautiful summer day, the grass is green, the sun is bright and warm, the wind touches you softly on your skin, clear sky blue as the ocean, the ground welcomes you under your naked feets, you feel as heaven and earth, that what I fell when looking at you. 5 stars !

[chillypizza]

ur supposed to learn chinese dude!

not to become the teacher's boyfriend!! (or girlfriend, i dont know,,,)

xPP

just kidding..;D

[thomas7250]

AHHHH REN SHI i can't say this word no matter how hard i try.

[Weeaboi]

I'm having the same problem. :)

Best of luck to you!

[stanleygsf]

Is Pinyin also taught in Taiwan?

[yumiilove]

Seriously, chill pill.

[WeepingBurma]

Total pwnage.

[bbphnix]

@yumiilove did you notice how many people post comments about you being hot?

[isaidhello25]

you are wrong... 叫(jiao) is not romanized as ziao it's jiào..

p.s.

z can only be pronounced as j if the romanization of the character starts with zh then it's pronounced as j but not all the time, it depends on the meaning coz zh can also sound as ch... you are confused... z can be pronounced as ds or z itself... who taught you mandarin honestly!? hahaha!!! :P

[charlie223]

she said its not the standardized pinyin...

[mcul2112]

@isaidhello25 shut up. nobody cares about your attempts at showing off.

[FrapMocha]

i agree with you completely, i dont know why these ignorants marked you thumb down so much, but what you said is more than correct.

just FYI, pinyin fucks up all the pronounciations for the non-native speakers, you have to be native speakers to be able to use pinyin efficiently.

Taiwanese ㄅㄆㄇㄈwill teach you the exact sound every word is pronounced in both mainland China and Taiwan.

[beatboxpeej]

@imlaochu She's not saying ziao..but jiào

[bodytimefitness]

@imlaochu yes, seriously, she is, at least, making a cultural effort to the world community. I am also an English Teacher in Taiwon - they understand me perfectly well because of Sophie.....maybe dont take yourself too seriously, this is not life and death, but fun and close enough is good enough.....

[swishersweets666]

@imlaochu shut your faggot face.

[SeriouslyPissedOff]

@imlaochu It IS "jiao" you faggot. Chill out.

[lastplacewin]

piao liang

[bommber13]

She is cute...

[cypresspuz]

Man i cant learn shit from this gurl i just couldnt stop staring...

[OldManIowa]

ok...

[deepakkotnis]

wish my mandarin teacher was that cute !!!!

[RobCardIV]

ah yes.

wo Jiao  我叫

[MissLingLing1087]

hen gao shin ren shi ni - shit !!! i cant repeat this

[ainnhana]

u can try pronouncing it like -hun gao shin run shu nee (for shin replace c from chin with s, for shu - cut short the word shut, remember me and replace m with n)

[Deathmetalist16]

How do i pronounce can i take you to dinner tonight. lol she is hot

[animeanime34]

She is soooo pretty!!!

[Satori1800]

谢谢您

[pilotgendeng]

Nice lesson by beatiful teacher !

[12345Fok12345]

...uuhm...

i think it means "wo jiao" not "wo ziao"

[Uchihakuronue]

Nice! Thanks!

[kurin1]

難しそうです

[13scarecrows]

Thank you! I want to learn Chinese!

[Pow3rGaming]

Wow, there's a couple sounds in there that are VERY difficult to understand how to make if you're a native English speaker. I wish you could have focused on how to make them. They're really sounds that we don't do in English. Thanks for the video. I appreciate it.

[08maplesea80]

lan jiao

[leojerdi]

soooooo dificult

[mgayetun]

many many thanks

lol

[Djkaplin]

hehe ni hao, wo jiao Cheng Long, wo shi lao wai zai zhong guo, wo shi lao shi. ni de zhongwen tai hao le!

[VoluptuousB]

Thank you so much for posting these videos! This helps!

[Fortunato90019001]

Si hablaras en español te miraria todos los dias hasta aprender Chino Mandarin.

[chunella10]

is wo zaio and wo shi the same?

because i've been studying mandarin here in youtube.

and they used "wo shi"

is there any difference?

[jackturner1993]

wo zaio is used when saying your name

wo shi is "I am"- this can also be used to saying your name but usually only if you are an important person like a important businessman

[TheLonelyWaffleKid]

its atcually wo jiao

[Sobreya]

Thanks for the lesson. I would like to know how to say my middle name in Mandarin. It is Lynn. Thanks,again!

[hanamid]

nihao wo jao umi

[hanamid]

nihao wo ziao josh

[RoaringTiger281]

Thankyou for these lessons I am trying to learn Mandarin to honour my sifu in kung fu. It always bothers me that we expect our teachers to teach us, yet we never learn the history or language of our forefathers "Sifus" in martial arts just in my case anyways.

[cooltron]

All i have to say is, great lessons. I also would like to say i would want to marry you in an instant :)

[lnewportTX]

Thank You! My mother is from Taiwan and I always wanted to know how to speak Mandarin Chinese

[kuorerock]

you great !

thank you for the lesson

im from chile, so ingles is my second language, and i im trying your wonderful language as my third one

xie xie !

[MyVidArchive]

Piao Lean Sophie ! Piao lean !

[asianjeannie]

thanks for the videos sophie!

i am chinese, but I only know cantonese.

My mother knows mandarin and i want to learn it, thanks!

[GarboFour]

asianjeannie: Catonese is cool. I speak mandarin and want to learn cantonese. chinese dialects are so different from each other that people from various parts cannot communicate well :( sounds weird but some of my cantonese friends and i have to communicate with english... lol

[HappyEclipse]

你好 我叫Selcuk 很高兴认识您 Sophie :-)

[BadBlueBoy213]

kuso chugoku jin!

[4eva2cool]

Wah! Piaoliang!

[humanvynil]

yeah, really piaoliang ;)

thx for the lessons, real supprot!

[xiaotiemo]

hey Sophie, ni hao, wo shi tiemo, ni jiao zhongwen zhende bu cuo, wo xihuang ni de kouyin,

P.S. ni tai keai

[aqh626]

Ni Hao? Wo Jiao Andy... LOL. Thanks for the lesson. I am trying really hard to learn Mandarin. THe video helps. Thanks again. TTYL.

[aqh626]

Ni Hao? Wo Jiao Andy. Thanks for the lesson. I'm really trying to learn Mandarin. YOur lesson is helping. THanks, TTYL.

[zhuanle22]

啊哟！！！好多回忆！！！我最开始学习汉语时老师们是这样教我的­。声调难极了!

[UglyMaleee]

You are pretty :)

[BRASILIERO73]

ni hao ma? wo jiao Tracy...wo ani sophie

[urbandanzer]

I thought Hao was 3 tone?

[BRASILIERO73]

woˇ ziaoˋ Tracy wo aini

[rooster1066]

Some mistakes: 1)你(ni)and 好(hao) are actually both third tones. 你（ni) becomes second tone when 好(hao) is said after it. 2) The pinyin for 叫 is "jiao" not "ziao". 3) The best translation for "我叫Sophie (wo3 jiao4 Sophie)" is "I'm called Sophie" because "I am Sophie" would be "我是Sophie (wo3 shi4 Sophie)". 4)The pinyin for "兴" is "xing" not "shin"

[Gemmy777]

大大不錯哦~ 您是祖國來的？

[IaidoPeople]

hahaha~!!都是台灣來的～！！

[Shanghai20081114]

她写的可能是台湾拼音吧，台湾2009年三月份统一用汉语拼音了­。你别强求sophie了，她做了这么许多好视频已经大赞了

[weberockinyo]

i love your videos! thanks for your help sophie!

[xyrlocshammypants]

pancake.

[jsprite123]

I am definetely getting the hang of Chinese Mandarin, Having such a beautful teacher also helps a lot!!!

[behlat]

the tones are confusing me!! omfg!

[28880]

i think shes going 2 fast for me

[tommy525]

are you from TAiwan? CUTE

[dlind36]

These lessons are great! Keep them coming.

[KathryneJane]

Hey Sophie,

really found your videos helpful as both my partner and I have wanted to learn mandarin for a while now.

Thanks.

[xunnnux]

阿都仔學華文，偶在練習英文聽力。Good Job。

[indigoblue66]

so what if Sophie makes some pinyin mistakes...she is so cute I can forgive her anything :)

[muz06]

Hi Sophie, u explained that hao in ni hao was in 4th tone but it's in 3rd tone, up pronounced it right though. Ni3 hao3 is respectively pronounced as 2nd and 3rd tone (ni2 hao3) because a 3rd tone word followed by another 3rd tone word makes the 1st word change into the 2nd tone. I've noticed when a 4th tone word followed by another 4th tone word sometimes makes the 1st word into 2nd tone, depending on the word.

[RemyLebeux]

你 好

我 夹 男

its a nick name my parents gave me when I was born so it stuck.

[aisrael1]

还有

gao shinˋ 也不是这样子

你应该想说： GAO XING

;)

[aisrael1]

亲爱的，不好意思你写错了。

不是 "woˇ ziaoˋ Sophie "

你想说： "我叫 - Jiao Sophie"

呵呵。。

[Razekial]

谢谢录影。

Mad Chinese skillz. :X

[Krogons]

you made some really good videos. As i plan to learn chinese in a not to distant future they are alot of help.

Thanks ^^ keep up the good work

[yumiilove]

thank you so much!

[FlippinPin0y]

Wow that was excellent. I was planning to show off my skills to my Taiwanese friend lol

[pcarell]

你好！Thanks for providing chinese videos. I have always wanted to learn chinese. You are a great teacher.

Kind regards

Per

[yumiilove]

Thank you for watching, I'm glad you liked them.

Hope they're helpful!

[neper1982]

HOTTEST TEACHER EVER!!!!!!!!!

[patrickbseattle]

This is good for me:)

Alot of my work is chinese and I try to learn a little bit daily .

[KeniQ]

逆好，我叫肯泥，很搞興認識逆~~

[hackpuppet]

I'm very glad to find these lessons; I've been wanting to study Mandarin again :) Thank you for posting them, please include more if you have the time.

[yumiilove]

Thank you for watching! ^^ Yes I definitely will soon

[wowJhil]

Literally "I am Sophie", not "my name Sophie"?