Mandarin Chinese Lesson 1

[ginsinsan]

Cantonese is easier to learn.

[limisaki1]

hi! I like your videos .

PLease write me : c.l85@hotmail.com

[ivan4iai]

It's a little like purring, isn't it?

[Seedofwinter]

Hello. Do you have any techniques or tips for hearing the tones when someone is speaking? I'm having a really hard time with that.

[MeanMikifiki]

I think the 4th & 5th tones sound so close when you say them.

[vernon115]

love your video

[MetalKeirLiquid]

Thanks for the lesson on Chinese, now here is one on English -- it's pronunciation not pronounciation.

[featheredhorse]

Thank you, Sophie!! Good little intro to Mandarin tones, I learned something new! Can't wait to watch your other videos.

[RadekBoktor]

What does she say at 1:50 ?

[tiagoooo1000]

MAAA!! MA MAAAA MA? MAAAAM MA... MAA?!?!?!?! MAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

:D

[MvpNew]

damn, she's hot lol

[TheXoxosweet]

我會說一點中文!!! 寫寫!! ;)

[berthegoat]

What does the "ni ma ta" mean? (The scolding part) I tried to use Google translate but I don't know which characters to use

[rafalbielec]

I cannot really hear any difference between the 4th and the 5th apart from the hand movement

[Ben1607]

@rafalbielec - I've had problems understanding the 4th tone as well. If you listen, there is more "energy" into it, and although the chinese tones do not in any way have the same emotional meaning that tones have in english, the 4th tone can be compared to an expression of excitement, like "Ohhh!", and if you voice it, you will hear that it actually does 'fall' in tone (or 'pitch').

[memo9912007]

this reminds me of the movie Rango.....

animation movie

[Ben1607]

@memo9912007 - that is because the lead female role in that move is an example of the same/ a simmilar female archetype that this woman/ girl is demonstrating as a 'personality identity.' -its like an expression of 'helplessness' that presents itself as 'hard to get'; very attractive to specific expressions of male ego.

[wanwan2456]

i loved it! thanks! i really want to learn manderan

[ThePoisonousPear]

Love the language :)

[hjshzq]

i don't think this video will be quite right when she explain the 5th sound. Chinese people always use 4 of them and how r u, in Chinese way will use the 1th sound.

[cloudsifter11]

@hjshzq do you have a lisp? there is no such thing as 1th.... it's 1st.

[rootiest]

Chinese is a very weird funny language BUT as a business student I'm sort of required to learn this fucking language.

[mertopins]

@rootiest who cares what u r learning, u r just a tiny little guy in the world. WHO CARE!

[rootiest]

@mertopins well obviously u care enough to take the time to reply to my shit you fuckhead!

[fernandokleinrocha]

dude, that is one, fucking difficult language to learn. holy shit

[ChineseFreeOnline]

Good job!!

[hujintao3]

There is a university in the United Kingdom called the University of Dundee. It's in Scotland. I would very strongly urge Chinese students who're thinking of coming to the UK to undertake undergrad or postgraduate studies to NOT enrol at the University of Dundee. Many Chinese students at this university have been racially abused (either verbally, and in some cases physically.) Some lecturers at this university are very racist towards Chinese students and the city of Dundee is also VERY racist.

[wyrda222]

@hujintao3 it's even bad if you're English!

[geragna]

Ahh I've beenw odnering if it mattered if yu held it out or mad eht ehigher sounds and stuff wether or not it made any difference to the meaning of the word/phrase. Thank you!

[KortusLombardie]

mâ = i have a numb leg?? hahah too short to be true

[WayneEdits]

she is a very attractive young lady, nice lesson also

[LearnChineseWithEase]

Tones are SOOOO important!

Thank you for sharing!

[ImMichaelTaylor]

Thanks. The tones are the part I'm having trouble with. The characters and pinyin spellings seem pretty easy by comparison. This month I've learned to read about 350 characters (on the memrise website, if anyone wants to have a look), and at same time working through rosetta stone but I still can't do the tones properly.

I'll listen to this a few times every day and see if that helps.

[NiiLexii]

ma \ - maa V - ma | - ma/ - ma!

[theyallsayyes]

I'm in 7th grade and learning all of this but she never told us what it actually meant. So Shia Shia! :]

[127miles]

I remember the first time I herd that the Chinese had 4 a's I was like WTF how is that even possible. Lol I want to lern it so bad, or Korean..

[neromelano]

Thank you. That was very helpful. I'm just beginning to learn Mandarin. And you are adorable.

[danroach420]

ma

[MrTeejaysingh]

MA!!!

[ZRGuillermo]

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[rootiest]

@phaess fuck you!

[015musicislife510]

I was born in china and learned up to 7. I have since then, lost most of it but can count to 100 haha. my tones are pretty well. I just dont know how to spell any of it now!

[FreekCarnivale]

Damn ma you're so smart, your english is perfect and your chinese is hot too ! Please tell us you're a teacher somewhere.

[163carpz]

Great video, tones are hard for us Americans to pick up. I think you did a good job explaining them. By the way you are a lovely young lady.

[FilsSteven]

ma?

[Mr123candylover]

Omg im srry but i dont like it (im srry)

[kylehindu]

You are awesome!

[truckabc]

Would you like to work for CIA to spy on Chinese spies spying in the US, charming girl? lol

[LE0192000]

nose pero te re entro loco! we

[SirEsahc]

it's bad enough learning pronunciations but diffrent tones as well? what about dialects? grr!

[inachu]

ni pigu buhao! thats chinese for---- your butt is no good! LOL!!!

[muddwell]

I've been studying Mandarin for a while and watching Hero with Jet Li. Whenever the King of Qin talks about himself, instead of saying 'wo' he says something like 'guo ren' instead, i.e. 'guo ren ming bai le' for 'I now understand'. I cant seem to find what he is actually saying, anyone know?

[kyliewongDooppi]

@muddwell That is Gua ren. The chinese king calls himself 'Gua ren' instead of 'wo'. It's a special word in ancient china.

[muddwell]

@kyliewongDooppi hey that's awesome. thanks for the reply.

[VictorynJESUS4]

chinese is like singng

[DemonicSymphonic]

nmmmm babty

[crazyankee4life123]

im in love

[terran236]

Anyone try Rocket Chinese or Rosetta Stone? How accurate is they? I would like to know if it is a scam or actually good. Thanks. Good video, tones are probably the biggest challenge in Mandarin from what I have read.

[claudefrancoissimard]

thanks

[pilotatlaw]

Thank you for putting these lessons on. You are most generous, and your time and efforts are appreciated.

[ygkay]

i take this in school , chinese 1

[D100J]

how long does it take to learn fluid mandarine?

[soldivino2082]

Thanks for the help ^u^

[klumnik]

i think it would be easier to just occupy them.

[klumnik]

i think it would be easier to just occupy them.

[rightdudeth]

MAMMA MIA! MAMMAMAMAMAMAMAM. VERY GOOD!!! HEN HAO

[MusseBo]

Thank you for your videos! So far your videos are the best! You make the lessons very simple! XOXO =)

[MusseBo]

Thank you for your videos! So far your videos are the best!  You make the lessons very simple! XOXO

[Igotfuckedbyatroll]

How do you explain that the hooker accedentely fell into my bed at 1 AM?

[MattRodrig]

I'll never learn Chinese because I can't really see a difference between all the tones. If you weren't born Chinese, you have to be like a musician (those who can tune instruments), so you can tell the difference of the tones.

[Kennyiavh]

谢谢！^.^

[tp61i6c042002]

非常標準!!!!!!!!!!

[zoodrago]

damn i've been doing mandarin for over 3 years and i still suck at understanding stufff when chinese people talk, my friend has the same problem, i guess it's cuz of all the synonyms

[mauromarin21]

huy que bebe

[calsmandarin11]

hen3hao3

[styles7887]

thank you

[paultungpi]

Hi You're gorgeous :P

[kkiske09]

@steve998 You might say "妈妈， 我看了吗，有麻腿！“

That might be wrong, I'm not fluent yet. But in pinyin it reads: "Mama, wo kan le ma, you ma tui!"

[c00L26]

It's so hard to learn your language,but thanks a lot for your help..I'm looking forward to learn more from your videos..keep it up!

[superchewy101]

ma is horse!

Isn't it amazing, l live in HK and l speak mandarin, not cantonese! 

[21centurynostradamus]

your a bit of alright aren't you.

[johnofett]

hi sophie!!!! my partner is chinese and i want to learn some of your language,

im looking forward to keeping up my lessons with your videos

thank you for your help

[1414caio]

AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA

CARAI

[hmrbrt989]

Will you marry me?

[XxXAngelOfPainXxX]

Tony Blair announced to the British it is planned we will need to learn Chinese Mandarin, as we really are going to be relying on doing a lot more trade with China in the future years.

[Hear4Metallica]

Hi Sophie. excellent series of lessons, thank you VERY much for providing these lessons for free on you tube. By the way, you are very beautiful! And excellent English pronunciation as well. If you want to learn to surf, send me a message.

[ayanali4]

hi Sofi u r so prety so beautiful, ur lessons r so helpful thanku very much r on facebook? I m from PAKISTAN,search LOVE PAKISTAN on facebook

[malcolmx2000]

Very helpful and yet very confusing. No one is ever said learning a new language would be easy. Thank you though.

[survivalgun]

they all sound the same

[sumatocampus]

Nice :)

[GodIsSovereignty]

Ni hao beautiful teacher.

[oscar2034]

maaaaaa

[indusrtial]

not making fun, but you sound like my cat in certain parts. Thanks for the lesson

[steve998]

What happens if you want to tell your Mother you saw a horse with a numb leg

[hpd4ever]

@steve998 Lmfao, jesus steve, what a thought, im crying over here..lol I'm trying to learn the language and now im stuck with your comment in my head..lol wow

[reggaeman1956]

@steve998

this is very usefull thank you , i need to brush up somewhat and you are very good ""

这是很好，我要温习 athk，你做得很好

[TheFFV]

@steve998 <__<

[buzzingbee25]

@steve998 just say mamamamamamamamama

[keruixin]

@steve998 妈妈！我看见了一匹有麻脚的马。--I think.

mama! wo kanjian le yipi you majiao de ma.

[ShaysPro]

@steve998

I loughed so hard!!!!



[ShaysPro]

@steve998

GOOD JOKE!!

:)

[sinoj007]

@steve998 hhahahah

[KerryDoan]

@steve998 AH MA HORSEY LEGO NUMAHHH

[MrEmil20]

@steve998 我看到了一個馬的腿麻木了。

[Haunt26]

@steve998 Its "MA MA MaaA maaa" duh.

[lSaif]

I was born in Hong Kong, I could speak Cantonese when I was a kid but when I moved to England I forgot it =(

Thanks for helping Sophie!

[gagahead1]

Chinese does have 5 tones, but the fifth tone has virtaually been subdued. There are currently only 4 tones that are basically used in Mandarin, so far the only Asian language that I have used 5 tones for is Vietnamese.

[barneymilk2k5]

@gagahead1 canto has 7

[gagahead1]

@barneymilk2k5 really? i know Thai has 5, but i didn't know Canto had that many

[TheSmartAbraham]

I thought there was only 4 tones. Why do you say there are 5.

[Emox991]

you are cute :) .. help me to learn it  ..

[RandomAssMaskGuy]

Thank very much for the lesson!!!!!!!!!!!

[violetablv]

wow, it's very easy to remember the tones, thank you very much for the video!

[shayexu10]

Get Chinese Pinyin book from mypinyin.com

[LUKKA2020]

U cute! Thank you for the lesson!

[chochix]

Good work good work! congrats! =)

[elastical9]

thank you sophie, I am learning mandarin this year I have a chinese female freind who wants to teach me her mandarin langauge.and hopefully I can go to china with her.

[faucamargo]

girl, besides the lessons, which are very good, you are beautiful, cute face! =D

[elastical9]

thank you sophie.

[calumbo63]

You is one hot mama,

you're a spicy Italian meatball,

wo3jue2de2ni3you3nei4han2ni3co­ng1ming2he2ni3shi4hen3piao4lia­ng

[iseultwang]

This lady has a pretty obvious American accent when she speaks Chinese, at least to me.

[thekingofmoney2000]

@iseultwang she's from taiwan ^^

[twinbytesinc]

Thanks. Very good, but would be even better if you had examples written on your screen at the same time so we can see it.

[kamenridedragonnight]

i'm chinese so i just watching this for fun

[volgarizza]

荣誉中国！

[Naruto231684]

Wabushi wan wan jan jin shawa messege from da boondocks

[Caleb96]

Oh my God--you're gorgeous!

[play2k2000]

I'm in luuuuv mm,,,,,

[play2k2000]

Just enough to be dangerous..

[YIIIIIN]

suggest you put up the word on the screen too.

[cobedrobic]

Thank you!! Very nice and easy to follow!

[HangyakuNoRuruushu]

thanks for this!! :]

[cwjk123]

Actually, the fifth one is THE LIGHT SOUND. only used in spoken Chinese.

However, you are good

[TheKonkinha]

i need say for you your english is very bad ma ma ma ma ma wtf

[kiuidenilopolis]

 AI SHI TERU DELICIUS

[Prizm4]

@kiuidenilopolis dude, she's speaking mandarin not japanese..

[24FretLove]

@kiuidenilopolis rofl



[yanatsu02]

SHE IS ADORABLE!!!

[landgabriel]

nice teeth

[mariobermudez1979]

Hi Sophie (LOL, although I know that it is not your real name), I found your lesson very interesting, nowadays I am trying to learn Chinese, I am Mexican and know a bit of japanese, french and english (but not perfectly), I will try to keep in contact with you in order to progress in my learning, however, please try to hang up more videos about how to speak. It might be very difficult to hear a native Chinese speaking here in Mexico. Where you live in?

[worldtravel101]

subbed xixi

[adying]

how about learning chinese over cup of Tea...in starbucks

[charmed31142]

im taking a chinese class and im having trouble remembering the characters do you have any tips on how to rememer how to read it

[PLATINIUM1975]

que buena esta esta chinita

[xyz478]

hai shi zhe hen bang xie xie ni :)

[Logoseum]

The tone you use creates different meanings. You got to be kidding me! This is hard.

[g1981c]

actually this was rather helpful ...

[cuterainbowsock101]

hey i have chinese blood and i study in a chinese school

[piano0011]

I am also trying to learn Chinese. Although I am of Chinese nationality, I grew up in a western country and mainly speak English. I am looking for someone, preferably from China or someone with very fluent and accurate Chinese pronunciation. Would be great if that person has Nimbuzz on their android phone or skype...

[CockslamUrBhole]

This shit is way too far over my head... I can't sing.

[julinpaz]

你好 Nǐ hǎo!

hello, I'm Brazilian, but I speak English and am learning Chinese too, I really liked your lesson, I think that you explained very well, but I'm studying more advanced Chinese, I wanna know if you do not have lessons for those studying advanced, do you can send me your email? for we talk about this, thanks

谢谢 Xièxiè

[Kindred1a1]

And I thought arabic was hard!!

Ma can mean 'mother' all the way to 'My leg is numb'!?!

Thats crazy! I love it!

[EverBloom100]

I love learning Mandarin Chinese!

[DeLeonDeewreck]

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[caulanthus]

xiè xie :-)

[TheBluebird23]

You are so beautiful! Thank you for this video I am so interested in learning Mandarin Chinese! :) I am so scared though.

[cristina200053]

Thank you so much, this was very helpful

[katmaidog]

Xieh Xieh, Sophie!

[dudewhatisthepoint]

I will learn Chinese just for you

[iloveucl]

You are so cute :)) !!

[bbphnix]

talk about complicated language..... I mean, ma=mother, horse, scolding and the only difference is the inflexions in your voice.... D'OH

[kobinski]

tnks!!!!

[peacebeuponyou70]

you're hot

[FreeCapital]

Nice lesson. Thanks

[thisisseriouslyshit]

Sophie - You are the most beautifull chinese girl i have ever see and your english is perfect. I am here to learn Mandarin so that I can move to HK and after I see you my conviction of moving to HK only strengthens! Hail dragon:)

[YumeAi520]

the first tone supposed to be flat not high like that, and it only have FOUR tones not FIVE

[odyc16]

thanks for doing this

[TlPeanut]

Ni hao ma, what tone is the 'ma' here?

5?

[lallalalalallla]

@TlPeanut

yes its 5 :)

[greatgatsby696969]

she's fucking hot