Mandarin Chinese Lessons with Serge Melnyk

[chineselessons]

As of now, there are over 200 lessons on the Website, and hundreds of dialogs recorded in a professional studio in Shanghai, check it out!

[musicalinfluenced]

His Chinese accent is really good. For those who want to know what they are saying, "Whats your name?" "Are you Chinese?" "Do you like Chinese food?" "Do you like Beijing roast duck?" etc... :)

[whoryhobopowers]

I feel proud. I could actually understand half of this conversation. xDDD

Thank you Chinese 1 teacher. <3

[worldtravel101]

@brokencountry123 maybe i dont notice accents as much as im listening so hard for the tones, but ive spoken with beijing people as well as fujian (as many immigrants in my area are from that province) and i dont notice much difference in being able to understand them. to top it off... i learned from a taiwainese person.

good luck, its a difficult language for native english speakers :)

[mostupdate]

OK I understood their conversation completely now on to an advance level

[heyingshihun]

Der mann spricht aber ganz gut chinesisch.

Sehr schön!

Er sagte, dass er in China schon zehn Jahre sei.

[shfbdfi1273]

Ladies, if your man is learning a foreign language, chances are he wants to pickup a foreign woman.

[Denarian]

Well done.

[speed6mazda]

girl is cute.

[chineselessons]

You gotta go to my Website and sign up there, then you will get texts of this and all 160+ lessons over there.

[Furansowakun]

Too bad there is not explanations. Like subtitles or something.

[chineselessons]

It says at the end of the video, subscribe for PDF transcripts and worksheets at the Website. This is where you will get a PDF file with full conversation of this dialog in English, pinyin, Chinese characters (both traditional and simplified), new vocabulary explained and also a worksheet for doing a translation exercise. No need for subtitles in this video.

[dckdckmoose]

Even though the guy seems very creepy, I think that is just because he is genuinely enthusiastic!

[Ophelia781]

The guy looks kinda funny, but its encouraging to see more Westerners learning Chinese. Gives me hope to learn the language as well. :)

[JakeintheBox17]

lol, i have to agree with some of the rpevious comments. i have taken two semesters of pu tong hua at my college.

though i understood everything but two words, you should slow down if this is a video lesson.

xia ci jian

[askfskpsk]

LOL, what i meant to say was his Chinese is better than most native speakers :D

[coccinelle80]

I wish people would realize that there is more than one Chinese dialect. I'm tired of people thinking all Asians speak the same language. Xinnian Hao everyone!

[snoopyhan]

Mr Serge speaks nearly perfect Mandarin Chinese!

[earogc]

@snoopyhan

yes ...it is amazingly good!!!

[xmaxjacky123]

holy crap the way that guy pronoce mardarin is perfect and im chinese so i know

[zachesttreskool]

this is my man serge... serge, gong xi gong xi!

[andresurprise]

All I learned from this video is that girl looks great.

[HanaMontnasBigestFan]

this is awesome i speak mandarin at my school . qing wen nin gui xing. may i ask what is ur surname. wo shi mei guo ren (i am american)

[GrrrDinkleberg]

(hello)J: konnichi wa C: nin hao; (what's ur name?) J: o-namae wa nan desu ka? C: ni jiao shenma ming zi?; (thank you) J: arigatou C: xie xie; (your welcome)J: do itashimashite C: bu ke qi; (do you speak english?)J: eigo ga hanasemasu ka? C: nin hui shuo ying yu ma?; (excuse me)J: sumimasen C: dui bu qi; (bye)J: sayounara C: zai jian. Understand? Okay, none of these sound alike, at ALL

[GrrrDinkleberg]

i agree with akirabenito; i am also learning both. nothing alike in speech. chinese is rly difficult for me cuz of the tones where in japanese it's non-existent (tho their overall inflection on sentences is different from western languages)

[heilong79]

Japanese language got very polluted with english words(at least in sound) after WW2 ended, But hundreds of years before that when China was the superpower Japan borrowed hundreds of words, for example fried rice, in japanese it is called Cha han and in Chinese it is called chao fan(chow fan) and another example would be telephone, japanese is denwa and chinese is dian hua. Also heaven/sky in Japanese is Ten and in Chinese is Tian, the list goes on and on.

[GrrrDinkleberg]

i actually think japanese is prettier, and easier to speak, tho i love both. opinions are opinions tho

[xm3liss4]

There is so many non-asians that wanted to learn our asian language

[AkiraBenito]

ok i thought my first reply wasn't posted so i typed another one below, whatever :)

[AkiraBenito]

for Chinese people, reading in Japanese is easy if the sentences contains lots of Chinese characters, however if the sentences are written in full hiragana and katakana scripts it might be more difficult and takes longer time to read and understand.

and writing speaking and listening are completely different matters, many Chinese people writes awkward sentences when learning Japanese and vice versa.

things that creates difficulty for Chinese people:

particles, grammar, respect language

[tola0240]

The Japanese writing system is based a lot on the Chinese writing system, but the spoken languages are completely different which you can tell quite easily if you listen to either one. There's about ten different varieties (read: dialects) of Chinese, so making such a blanket statement kind of shows your ignorance in the matter.

[AkiraBenito]

i am Chinese and i am learning Japanese

i would like to correct your statement. Japanese did not come from Chinese, Japanese's sentence order is SOV, Chinese is SVO. Chinese characters is one of the few similarities between the two languages.

[lionbeat23]

nice one! I could understand almost everything, but the funniest part for me was that not only you have the same accent as I do, but also same name! :)

[crock703]

yeah. Mandarin is our English name for the dialect(hua) that the government has designated as the State language. Mandarin is the putonghua.

[Spiculum2008]

I understood the first part but... I agree with Zombiee...

you're just talking, is this really a "lesson"? Some explanations would help ^^ or even subtitles.

[tushnim0new]

couldn't agree more with you mate

[ItsSooRagDoll]

i have 3 years of french

[GrrrDinkleberg]

moi aussi mdr

[xMirax]

to GrrrDinkleberg: ooo, vous parlez francais aussi huh...cool. lol

[smallcomment]

叫?　What does that character mean in Chinese, because in Japanese it means 'scream' (sakebu)? Everything else made sense though.

[ryuuhi11]

It means 'call' or 'to be called' (pronounced 'jiao' with a falling tone). I can't type in Chinese right now, but the phrase 'ni jiao shenme mingzi' means 'what's your name?', or literally, 'you are called what name?'.

[lillyyoshi123456]

ta hen gao.

[ashel91]

wo hai mei you ji hui jiang de zhe me hao na. Xie xie ni men de bang zhu.

[HOuseZoMBIEE]

Cool guy, seems to have a really good grasp of Putonghua :D

My only gripe, how does this really add up to a lesson?

Should'nt there be subtitles or step-by-step thingies telling you the basics?

[HOuseZoMBIEE]

or are we just supposed to jealously stare and yearn to speak this cool language LOL

[chineselessons]

melnyks dotcom has all the texts of the lessons.

[vinnymatrix]

This guy speak chinese like real chinese who live in Bejing

[KennDoggy1]

Really good im takking chinese 2 its really hard NI HAO=HELLO NI JIAO SHENMA MING ZI=WHATS UR NAME WO JIAO=MY NAME IS... its a really cool launguage

[liquidgel8]

He sounds rlly good, like not a fake accent or anything

[nykungfu]

lol, that guy is funny.

[naksnaks625]

lol.. it's really funny seeing a white ppl when speaking chinese or any asian language...but not bad good job..keep it up...i'm phili and there's alot of white learners of fili here too... and some sounds great and indeed perfect accent others are sounds funny..

[Sp4wnY]

they speak to fast for me lol

[MisterAstigma]

Very basic. Good fayin (accent), i gotta work it...

[SuperTurkey]

WOW! O_O I understood most of that.

[psyght]

I have been learning alot from serge he has Podcasts on Ipod Itunes with about 100 free lessons in varied levels. He speaks traditional HAN mandarin with a textbook bejing accent. He has been alot of help.

[Obbyto]

Very fluent indeed! ^^

[tsubasa914]

Woa...he is awesome...man, it's like being in china all over again...

[p0stman06]

His Chinese is very good indeed.

[linguist786]

I've been learning Mandarin for ~7 months now - I really hope to get further with it!

I actually understood most of that!! (well, up until she says "your chinese is really good")

What did he say after that? Something like "hai ke yi" - zhe ge ying yu zen me shuo?

[nicoshibata]

lol "hai ke yi" means "so so" or "that's alright" ... nomorlly we just use it when u are really modest!

^_^

[dj1206]

wow...your good...10 years in china O.o and you both like dumplings and baked duck? lol...

[possiblebulletwound]

ive been learning chinese for around 1 year and a half and could only translate a bit of this :(

[kenteatworld]

hen hao a. i obviously need more practice.

[xiaoyun231]

nice pronunciation

[whyeff21]

Wo xiang shi beijing gaoya. mmmMMMmmmmm!!!

[iluvric]

That man's Chinese is damn good

[linguist786]

Most people who learn Mandarin have a terrible English accent and pay little attention to their tones. This guy seems to have put the effort in to getting them nice and correct! He does sound very Chinese!

[chineselessons]

Thanx, man. All you need is to love the language you are learning+some efforts, of course.

[linguist786]

Exactly. I aim to learn Chinese and French fluently in the next 10 years. My French is quite good since I've learning for about 5 years (I'm going to Réunion Island in Jan!). Good luck with all your language learning! Oh by the way I study French and Linguistics at uni :)

[chineselessons]

You choose what ever suits you better.

[agimcomas]

Wow, i understood most of it. I like your rythm.

Super.

[ericandthelake]

Chinese Pod is similar to this, but I find Serge more sincere!

[aromaticchicken]

wow he's actually pretty good

[tubejeffrey]

Great Serge!

[Chicando]

not every 'chinese' came from China

[charliehymas5]

this was good

[davidfallenangel]

chinese people love it when caucasians speak chinese

[raf300]

so cool, I started learning chinese at university of ghent and i also could understand a lot of what theye were saying!!! haha, cool..

[chinemanda]

There is a full PDF transcript for this video lesson on the Website for FREE. When on the melnyks Website, search for video 1.

[chinemanda]

There is a full PDF transcript for this video lesson for Free on melnyks dot com/?p=55

[buddha01a]

very impressive, I am going to subscribe to his site in the future.

[bobdoe510]

Next episode:

Serge: Jin tian tianqi hao re.

Summer: Dui, ni ke yi bang wo tuo xia lai wo de yifu ma?

Serge: En, dang ran keyi la.

(Cue music, "bom shaka bom wom wom")

[prqnl]

Tranlsation of bobdoe's dialogue:

Serge: The weather's pretty hot today.

Summer: Right, can you help me take off my clothes?

Serge: Umm, of course I can.

Naughty, Bob.

[TabrisLong]

Wow this is great, I've been looking for something like this for ages now

[ladyedwards]

He's got a great accent. He sounds more chinese than the chinese girl!

[Darkeagle22]

Dude sounds flippin' Chinese seriously. I envy his accent...

[chinemanda]

Cool!

[chineselessons]

Serge: Nihao! Hello! Summer: Nihao! Hello! Serge: Ni jiao shenme mingzi? What's your name? Summer: Wo jiao Summer. My name is Summer. Serge: Summer, Ni jinnian duoda suishu le? Summer, how old are you this year? Summer: Wo er shi liu sui le. I'm 26. Serge: NI shI Zhongguoren ma? Are you Chinese? Summer: Dui, wo shI zhongguoren. Right, I am Chinese.

[EFU127]

Hihi so funny.. just started learning mandarin myself.. :D I could understand a lot of this conversation.. So cool! =) hihi.. Thanks for posting.. it's fun to hear people speaking mandarin..

[chineselessons]

great!

[pureseasky]

Threre are many schools of teaching Chinese in Shanghai. I hope more foreign friends could grasp Chinese and learn more about Chinese culture.