Mandarin Chinese Pinyin Pronunciation (Better Chinese)

[VirtualCurry]

Thanks ^^ very helpful

[mag8636]

Thanks

[ryee86]

Wow, my language lab teacher is from beijing and some of thoses vowels are nearly impossible for me to replicate. But when she says them, I can do them easily. I wonder if she is from somewhere else.

[SuperNEKO64]

so x and sh sound exactly the same?

[AlexMoensChannel]

@SuperNEKO64 x and sh are very similar in Mandarin, but I'd say x keeps the tongue slightly more pressed against the top of your mouth and is slightly more abrupt than sh. Check out 1:33 for x, and 1:48 for sh. The sh is closer to the sh sound in English.

[Zodibigh]

Thank you!

[LudiKZ]

kto z uś łapa w górę!!

[caffeinespider]

Great video! This especially helped me in distinguishing the sound and pronunciation of 'j' and 'c'

[vdbc361521]

thank you so very much, i could not figure out how to say half of these during my chinese class and now i do. thank you thank you thank you....have i thanked you yet?

[dderudito]

Thanks ever!

[WillDrache]

00:37 ck...



[bathotic]

Thanks! This will help a lot for my second day of class tomorrow!

[mahyasanaei]

Thank you! Very very helpful!!

[neeleshdomah]

this video was really instructive...but i can't get the 'r' sound correctly, alone it's ok, but with other finals i can't , could you guys post a link where they explain just that?

[Eerae]

thank you so much this is really helpful :)

[downstube]

This was very Very helpful. Thank you so much for posting this.

[dxfreight]

G day from australia. Your lesson is exelent. Thanks.

[someguy6481]

谢谢您

[shayexu10]

Get Chinese Pinyin book from mypinyin dot com

[hotohoriblaze]

happy midnight everyone..

I am under a Mandarin class in ateneo and i so love our teacher...

she makes everything fun and interesting.. =)

[lordzilu1584]

a o e i u v

[ruthakaliz]

i'm learning mandarin but i've heard people pronounce 't' like 'p' in 'ta', can someone take me out of my doubt please?

[886loveMJ]

@ruthakaliz it is "t" in "ta"

[wenx333]

the web site link its wrong, it has an extra . at the end, fix it!

[izzyc53]

@wenx333 thank you! it has been fixed.

[barquq]

although everybody says that there are no voiced consonants in mandarin, i can't help hearing b (as in bei3) as a normal voiced b sound rather than an unaspirated p; and the same happens with g and d... What do you think?

[boylebongo]

I want to learn this language...

[therhythmicsouls]

Thank you very much I looked at many videos to get started but yours is the best to learn the basics, I love the way I can see your lips and mouth pronounce the sounds.

[watchonutube]

bpmfdtnl

[tojsiab100]

that's not Chinese version, the sounds is great but the later is not exactly my Chinese, what do you think? why we don't follow our old version.

[pilatita]

very very awsome video! really simple but effective because you see how they pronounce the sounds and you learn! thank for the post! great job!

[YouStoleMyTube]

Excellent video!

[68WindWater]

Thanks ever so much, I also agree it is "very helpful to see your mouth as you pronounce"....thank you ever so much for making this vid..XD

[danceYOURheartOUT430]

you rock SISTA!

[justmine4me]

I wonder if the speaker is from China or Taiwan. Also was her first language Mandarin? Where in China (or Taiwan) is she from? I'd like to know.

[watchonutube]

@justmine4me 教你就好了，管他哪里的

[tojsiab100]

PinYin version is very hard for me.... But I love to learn the original Chinese one

[ichwillpizzajetzt]

can you send me them per list

[mxyzptlk69]

Mandarin OR Pinyin Lessons

[GhostWritersForHire]

That's it, I'm going to youtuberepeat for this one.

[1nation4]

Pronuciation is easy, for me. Just a difficulty pronouncing letter z in mandarin. Help Please!

[ericaomu]

@1nation4 have u consider the tones before you drew this conclusion

[BrokenCDprodux]

I hate to point this out but I find it difficult to follow the video because all I do is stare at her pretty lips.

[dderudito]

Thanks. I always watch this video.

[SamuellMatthews]

Does anyone else find the "r" initial nightmarish to pronounce?

[kathilo2]

@SamuellMatthews couldn't agree with you more. it's like a mix between and l and r

[kalampakas]

the most useful video about chinese pronuntiation! because even i am a second year student i still have problems.. Thank you very much

[dtv4848]

@kalampakas im starting to learn chinese, as of a week ago, however i am european, are you asian or european, and whats your experience like so far from studying the language?

[kalampakas]

@dtv4848 i 'm greek and i find the language very interesting! It's very easy to write it if you practice a lot, i have an experience of three years. the only difficult thing is the pronunciation. It's a very meaningful language and it's based on a great culture as it is Chinese!

[Plautus123]

her eyes are frozen

[Knepperify1]

It takes a long time. Chinese is an Indo-Tibetan language and is entirely different from most other tongues. Learning Spanish, French, Portuguese, even German or a Scandinavian language is much easier than Putonghua or Zhenghua when you start with English.

The sounds are difference, vowels not only sound different but sound like OTHER vowels, and there are the infamous tones to deal with.

This is what happens when the same people speak the same language, in the same place, for 8,000 years.

[GojiGuru]

Isn't there a vowel "uo"? How do you pronounce that?

[destructicon500]

@GojiGuru I believe it's like "wo"

[LandsharkFilms]

Do you think this could be like a.... a fetish lol

[lilylessons]

Who want to do online lesson with me?

[OneForTheFuture]

Me please please pleaaaaassse! Are you chinese, really wanna learn? How could i begin? I bought a dictionary and am watching videos online but i think i will need a humna coach as well, what do you say? - Dude from England

[killua008008]

really thanks!!

[Surfingninja9]

thanks, this really helped with the zh, ch, and sh

[Summerellla]

Using this is really helping me learn a little better, along with my Chinese class.

[JerrikV]

lol

[eltrollsamurai]

como puedo pronunciar el sonido "e"en chino mandarin. este sonido no lo puedo pronunciar bien, diganme, por favor¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡

How could I make the sound e in Mandarin Chinese?

this sound I can not pronounce.

Tell me how I can do,

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[JoeDaPlumber]

@eltrollsamurai casi como eu pero menos pronunciada la e. Ahorita estoy tratando de aprender tambien

[JoeDaPlumber]

@eltrollsamurai mas como eow

[bratkotenka]

like the english "u" as in "turn".

[AnimaDraconis]

nice video. Audio quality could be better though.

[oughterard87]

Thanks so much : )! It was very helpful to see your mouth as you pronounced the different sounds.

[ShiningLunae]

Thank you, this is so helpful!

[meplusDavid]

thank you so much izzyc53 now i can speak mandarin [Chinese] fluently 噢，我的上帝。我不相信現在我知道中國，在觀看此視頻 4:53分鐘，我認為很難。它是如此容易。非常感謝你。現在我終­於可以轉移到中國 =]你岩石=]..p.s i'm just kidding i don't know Chinese fluently but this video really help ha ha ha

[nguyensps]

very useful. thanks so much

[ultdj]

Thanks for your help. I'm taking chinese language classes now, and I struggle a bit with some of the sounds. This helps me a lot. Thanks again

[mergelfreaksrule101]

My teacher said to look this up for homework and I am glad he did. This was very helpful. =]

[ClassicTVMan81]

If one were to have spelled the Hebrew name Benjamin in Chinese, the approximate Mandarin Pinyin transliteration would be: "Ben-jia-min" if I'm not mistaken.

[TheWhiteDawn]

Thank you, my teacher is hard to hear in class so its good to hear the different to some of the harder sounds.

[japanimefan02]

I've begun Level 1 Mandarin at my college and it's already fun. I also already have proficiency in Japanese, so I know many of the characters used in Chinese (at least the stroke order- pronunciation is somewhat the same.) For example, the Japanese character (山) is pronounced 'san' or 'yama'. The former is left over from the Chinese 'shan'.

The character by the way means 'mountain'.

[jasonluver14]

Having learned German, the umlauted u was easy for me haha

[3u51c41p0d]

r they in order like alphabet? except for the vowels? like bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz?

[TheWhiteDawn]

Chinese is more about sounds then really focusing on the letters. You see the way you pronounce say Tu, there are four meanings to the world.

Also Chinese does not have the word yes or no, but negatives and positives used before a word to show it.

Well that is how ow teacher taught us.

[mikatan12]

holy shit!

[3u51c41p0d]

omg they sound all the same -_-

[blaze26memory68]

i dont understand!

[TheWhiteDawn]

Shes just showing how to pronounce the sounds. Which is a great help for a tone death person like me.

It has nothing to do with an alphabet. But they are sounds that are used in every word.

[shelvinglee]

hi,pinyin and 4 tones isn't hard as your image.i come from china.could i help

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mandarin.

[MrIlovedramaseries]

Excuse me!!! do you think u can help me learn Chinese Mandarin? im really into learning it, but its hard for me to to understand plus i dont have time to go to school because of work :( but i really want to learn!!! i need a Teacher.

[D1SH3Y]

very good video best ive seen ... now i know what mouth shape to make aswel as the sound

[beccashen01]

There is also a Yale translation of the romanize pin yin.

[Rezoneremelya]

Спасибо. Подучусь. Пригодится...

[forsakentoyou]

what's the difference between ANG and ENG??

i hear the same sound!!

[wangstick]

ang to me sounds like "ah-ng"

eng sounds like "uh-ng"

[beccashen01]

Eventually you see and hear the difference. Right now your brain is filtering and decoding for english. Listen long enough and watch how the word is formed and you will hear it too. This takes time because most of our language mapping in our brains happens before age 12. After which it takes a bit longer to be able to decode and store/retrieve in to and from long term memory. All in all be patient with yourself. You will get it :-).

[UTuberSandwich]

English is based on the Roman phonetic system. This is a FACT...the English are the suckups to the Romans since Bible times When the Roman empire declined guess who filled the shoes???? Britain still runs 4/5 of the world including the US. So ummmmm yeah...whatever.

[Sim2500]

no its not, phonetically is more german with sounds of french and old scandinavian.

analyse our english words there are loads of reference to snglish and german!

[fullarmour]

Yes English is flat out a Germanic language. Maybe that person should do some linguistic study before making arguments and absolutes.

[mysandychen2201]

Very good !

I like it!

[UTuberSandwich]

chinese is like nothing you've ever experienced as a romance speaker (of roman origin/roman phonetic system) English, spanish, French, Portugese are some example of "romance" (roman origin) languages.

[jking700]

English isn't a romance language it's germanic, and Swedish has the Mandarin R sound and some tones. Not impossible, but still quite difficult for us poor english people.

[UTuberSandwich]

I'm black and I'm doing very good with pinyin. I'm learning very fast otherwise I'd be lost with all those pretty picture boxes the chinese languages use. I'm gettin so good now that I please the servers at most chinese all-you-can-eats..lol

[tomasstewart56]

Hey! thanks helpful and like the way you enclosed the mouth movement,

[TeppeiDog1]

this is wonderful! i'll be favoriting this. but i still can't tell the difference between c and s, unfortunately...i'll get my Chinese friends to help me on that. but this answered the rest of my questions! w00t!

[Mim3HarryPotter4ever]

why is "q" pronounced like "tch"?

[remain]

Mim3HarryPotter4ever:

"why is 'q' pronounced like 'tch'?"

Most likely, for convenience's sake.

"ch" is already taken.

Now they COULD'VE chosen a letter combination. But what would it be?

"ts"? That would get confused with the Wade-Giles "ts," which is "c" is pinyin.

"ch' "? Bad idea since, as we see in Wade-Giles, apostrophes are often omitted.

Then we'd start to get into all sorts of weird and/or long combinations.

So that's probably why they just chose a letter that wasn't used at all.

[remain]

[continued from previous post]

Yes, it's not as obvious as "tch" would be, but it IS more convenient.

Yes, you'll get tons of people pronouncing it completely wrong (like /k/ or /kw/) but once it's learned, it's learned.

Also, today, in the computer age, it must be a lot a bit more practical to type "q" rather than "tch" or some other 2-3 letter combination.

The same applies for "x" (which could've been "ssh", "sh' ", etc.).

[cristycobe]

thank you very much for your job.This is very clear to learn.

[DDUDE231]

X and Q is weird

[joweelo]

thanks so much, this video helped me alot!

[rexkwondo4life]

Thank you. I need a lot of work on the distinction between z, c, and s. I suspect this will help quite a bit.

[remain]

z = /ds/ as in approximately "frienDS" (but with less 'trembling')

c = /ts/ as in approximately "haTS"

s = /s/ as in ... "s" :P

[vaderisaloser]

heyy, thanks! haha! i now know the diff :p

[nimisimipacposeyda]

xie xie ni ,wu shi i am trying lol thanks but how would i put together words? like wu shi,shi shi

[sourpuss1234]

zhi sounds like pig in cantonese lol

[Megazone23]

Thank you for the video! I plan on attending classes but in the meantime this will help alot!

[biantai888]

Very clear! And I can see the mouth clearly. Thank you.

[KellanLuvver]

this is great! wow thank you so much. i just started a beginner's class in mandarin and this helped me soooo much studying! please do more with pronunciation! maybe practicing a few words?

[merriehogle]

Thank you for this terrific practice video for beginners. It has the pace I like. You've done a fine job.

[Annina02]

I don't get the difference between zh and ch can u tell me please?

[Ellerynum2]

the ch is like "change" and zhi is not found anywhere in english. Just listen and repeat, listen and repeat and curl your tounge when saying zhi. You'll get the hang of it.