Chinese Lesson 7 - Money

[welalie]

YOU ARE AMAZING!! Xie Xie! ^^

[mp3charmed]

hen gaoxing renshi ni

[ytiwilliam]

Your teaching methodology is very effective. Thank you for taking the time to make these videos.

[unprofessionalist]

Hi there Sophie, I really apprieciate the videos that you upload as this summer I will be going to Kuala Lumpur so would you happen to know what Ringitt would be?

Many thanks

[annna58715]

Hi i have a question how do u say autumn anna adrienne and allyson please put it in your next video cause i think your a good chinese teacher and im really learning from u

[MorganFriedland]

Oh and Morganfriedland is my dad and this is his iPad from:Zoe

[MorganFriedland]

I love it!! But I would like you to teach me how to say yes. from: Zoe age 8

[selshurloshel]

hi

Thanks its really useful for every body , so hope you will have more on difference topics and i really have got more interesting of learning chinese. ok thanks

[CatGameDaiyE]

Is 2nd tone 4th tone the way the voice rises/falls when you say the syllable? So it would mean something different if you have incorrect tones?

[pilypetuna]

Sophie, you're so generous! Thanks a lot. pily (from Argentina)

[The2044323]

goooood!!! i love you style !!! nice lessons !!! easy to learn !!! love you !!!

felicidades!!! viva china!!! vivan las chinas!!! arriba!!!

[bokyuno]

谢谢 sophie,normally when people go to shopping they use the term "This How Much" or "that how much" can you explain it?? zhege duo shao qian, nege ...nege...??

[58druide]

hen hao, xiexie ni!

[yayancini]

Hi, thanks for the lesson. I have one question. 2 (in money terms) is said like "face"? It's the same word for this two things? Thanks

[calvinhlfan]

there's a little mistake in the video that the 2's pronunciation should be liang instead of lian) .So the face has nothing to do with 2

[antiann52]

People are trying to learn here, you sick dog. Take your dumb ass somewhere else.

[miewolfram]

yumiilove, can you translate these in mandarin chinese(taiwan language).kindly use the english standard letters not the traditional chinese characters because we can't understand. pls. include the pronunciation.

1.long time no see

2.how are you?

3.where is the nearest bus station?

4.kindly repeat what you said

5.i don't understand

6.can i ask you a favor?

7.i want to buy this

~~that's all thank you~~ ( xie xie )

[DeathKnight725]

Lolz at the confusion. "yuan" is formal language equivalent to "dollar", "kuai" is colloquial language equivalent to "buck". Only I really hardly say "yuan". It's like you say 5 bucks instead of 5 dollars.

[sovb130642]

compliments to Sophie. She is very pretty and great in teaching the pronounciation. Finally I get the differences. I did not hear well before for learning.

You are great Sophie!

Stefan (Italy)

[askfskpsk]

I dont know what is the case in taiwan, but if you say "yuan" in China mainland, although people definitely can understand, but the thing is we don't really say that much. Normally people say "kuai" instead. If you say "yuan", I would think that sounds wierd

Good job, very nice video, its getting better

感觉元这个字用得很少，我们几乎都说块。我南京人

[cometchaser832]

i prefer to say "yuan", while my parents like to say "kuai"

说元还是块是个人习惯吧，我喜欢说元，我父母说块多

[tonyh284]

我需要練習英文會話,可以請你教我嗎, I will pay you money.

[yumiilove]

哈 可以阿

你要怎麼練習?

[vegetaowen]

no soliciting sex over the internet please

[hillarywhore]

yuan is the increment of chinese money. the word for DOLLAR is kuai.

[drurawa]

RMB (Renminbi) - People`s Money - the official term for the Chinese currency

Yuan - the official name for the basic unit of RMB

Kuai - commonly used colloquial term for yuan.

That's what it is says in my book anyway !! :-))

[hillarywhore]

my book says that the yuan is the chinese equivalent of the dollar (their term for money increments), and that kuai is the chinese term for the word "dollar" so when they are talking about american dollars (for example) they use kuai, and when they are talking about chinese money, yuan is used. and my teacher (a native beijinger) says that kuai is not acceptable to refer to chinese money.

[kennerzzz]

I am by no means a student learning chinese, nor am I asian, but this actually makes perfect sense (because i know a little japanese, which how the numbers are structured is very similar to). Thank you so much for making these videos!

[TriXuan]

I WILL subscribe if you will listen to my suggestions for a future episode.

[behlat]

make written tests!! LOL

[sakib33]

Kuai is actually the measure word used to bridge the numeric and the currency itself. Similar to how *ge* is used as a measure word for myriad items e.g. Yi *ge* xiao shi(1 hour). Not sure about Taiwanese folks but a lot of mainlanders use "Kuai". e.g.

Yi kuai ren min bi huo jia Liang kuai Mei jing (1 yen or 2 dollars).

[josephcrsn]

@sakib33 I am glad that somebody finally cleared that up. It was really annoying me and you explained it so well. saved me trouble 

[xnametaken1515x]

when i speak with chinese people in the US they usually use 塊(kuai) instead of yuan

[vicdoree]

Thank you very much for taken the time to teaching us Mandarin. I really appreciate it!!!

[JC19900]

Good work.

The tones changes are made because otherwise the tones clash, so the tonal sandhi changes to accommodate.

[number1yangsta]

Oh yeah, the bottom comment is also aimed at yumilove!

hehe

[number1yangsta]

hey radio, i learned this from AskBenny

"Wao jeda ni fei chang piao liang"

I think you're extremely beautiful!

[p0kerf1st]

hehe, isn't she awesome ^^ ?

[radioqrp]

hi sophie! I have a request for a chinese video subject... love and relatiohship? maybe these phrases words:

boyfriend girlfriend "I like you" "I love you" cute pretty handsome husband wife "to marry" marriage...

thank you Sophie for reading this!

[mlc1191]

ni hao. hehe i watched many of ur video.ur very talented. I like you

[RainPuss]

You should make more videos soon!

[dalmain77]

谢谢 for the lesson. I wish you were my teacher, I had to learn this from a book by myself.

[Yoji112]

Hey Yumi, I dont know if you remember me but I left a comment about my gf and family on your "Starlight vid". Well I've been practicing a lot lately and spoke to my gf in mandarin for the first time and she was speechless. She is happy that im learning the language and is now helping me in learning it. Thank you.

[yumiilove]

Awesome!! Of course I remember!

I'm very happy to hear that you've decided to learn Chinese for them. ^^

I'm sure she's flattered!! Well, keep it up and thanks for your support! Good job ^^

[Tohte]

Thank you for this lesson.

Is there a lesson already with the names for the parts of the face? Eyes, ears, nose, etc? If not, can you make one? 谢谢

[yumiilove]

Hi there!

Yes, I have actually recorded before this one, just need to edit a little and you read my mind!!

It'll be on here soon. Thanks!! ^^

[shoua07]

thank you for posting this lesson. it was confusing watching it the first time but after a couple play backs i seem to follow. however you confuse me at the end. is 10,000 wan2 ii wan4 or ii wan4 or ii wan4 wan4?

[yumiilove]

Hi, thanks for watching and sorry if I confuse you.

10,000 is ii(2nd) wan(4th).

It's really difficult to flat out and say when to change the tonation. I don't think there's a pattern...

But in that case, it's 2nd tone. ^^

[shoua07]

thanks for clearing that up. also, i forgot to mention if there were words for cents, millions, billions and trillions?

[ShizokuDojo]

你好！

Thank you for the lesson! : )

[yumiilove]

Thanks for watching!!

[andyni807]

還有感覺"元"粉怪的

還是"塊"比較順

[yumiilove]

哎喲 再加一堆東西可能錄不完了啦

[andyni807]

小姐... 妳少了一個ㄛ

還有港幣

[yumiilove]

管他的啦 哈

[TheNewNikoSoprano]

Best teacher!! Thanks

[wowJhil]

Good lesson, and Merry Christmas btw!

[yumiilove]

Thank you!!

Merry Christmas!!

[JonnyNice]

I think you would be a great teacher, every guy would love to come to your class, I'm sure ;-)

I have just one comment, if people want to go on learning Chinese, they might be a bit surprised when they see real pinyin, which is written differently from what you are showing in the video.

Anyway, 继续加油 :)

[quietman18]

Thanks for the lesson, very enjoyable. Chinese numbers would be a bit tricky for non-Chinese to grasp, I think. E.g. You said 5 and 10 is 50, but in English 5 and 10 would be 15.

[yumiilove]

Ya it is...

I guess it's difficult to get it.

Let's see it this way:

from 11-19, it's pretty much 10 + 1, 2, 3, and so on.

for 20 on, it'd be 2, or 3, and so on, plus the 10. (more like multiplication) in that sense.

Is it a little bit more helpful now?

[Limfame]

What she meant is five tens (5x10=50); and not five and ten (5+10)!

Her English is good but it needs to go a slightly higher level!