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[shayexu10]

Get Chinese Pinyin Books from pinyin.com

[fififamiliya]

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[velinguist]

great great videos! I've almost mastered all the tones! thank YOU Benny!

[CityHOlderOfUtrecht]

What are the Chinese ( no westernized or immigrated) vieuw to westerns (i am talking in love nd stuff)

[askbenny]

@CityHOlderOfUtrecht It's all about chemistry, because Chinese are more open-mined. And i've witnessed lots of mixed marriages.

Benny

[tibet4504]

自由西藏，中國出西藏。中國剛剛回到你的土地，我們不需要你的幫­助。自由西藏

Free Tibet . We don't need your help, just go back to your own land . Tibet is not part of china .

[ChinaYeNan]

@tibet4504 sutpid madass!

[myapplephone]

Hell! It's easy to kill someone rather than learn Chinese language.

[SuperMasteroo]

"經"常：Usually

"空"：Free

"時間"：Time

今天晚上：Tonight

請：Invite

晚"飯"：Dinner

約"會"：Date

"嗎"

These are the Traditional Chinese

[bestyouNEVERhad93]

wow this s very complicated for me. because im more fluent in hmong and english. and i want to learn a new language which is chinese. but i'll get it soon. i have a question. is madarin, taiwanese, and chines the same? please answer back. xie xie :)

[ForeverSweetx3]

Chinese is a language. Mandarin and Cantonese are dialects of Chinese. There are many more. Taiwanese ppl speak Manderin only their accent is a bit different and their use of phrases are different. The dialects are spoken with different accents but the writing system for EVERY dialect is the same. It is like people from New York have a different accent from people from Ohio or some other state, but we all read & write in English. Same as Chinese, there are many dialects but we all read Chinese

[Nanashi123]

@ForeverSweetx3 Actually, Cantonese has some unique characters. Every other dialect uses the same, though.

[mephatboi]

@ForeverSweetx3 mainland Mandarin and Taiwanese Mandarin are considered dialects of Mandarin, but Mandarin and Cantonese are considered different languages; there are many different languages in China.

I was at a hospital once and couldn't believe there were two written signs, one in Cantonese and one in Mandarin even though--as you said--written Chinese is the same no matter the language!

[ForeverSweetx3]

@mephatboi Okies, first of all, I'm not trying to argue with you but i will enlighten you.

Mandarin and Cantonese are Dialects of Chinese. Dialect means : a regional variety of language distinguished by features of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation from other regional varieties and constituting together with them a single language.

So from the above definition, Cantonese and Mandarins are different dialects of Chinese b/c they share the same writing characters.

[ForeverSweetx3]

@mephatboi second: The signs that you say you saw were written in simplified Chinese and Traditional chinese. Like Nanashi123 says there have some words that are different like in England an elevator is called a Lift. Well the same is in Chinese, but overall the whole written language is the SAME.

Idk why you seem like you are trying to prove yourself, but please you don't have to be rude. I'm just sharing what I know as a Chinese person!

[askbenny]

@bestyouNEVERhad93 Ni Hao! Basiclly manderin refers to standard Chinese, while taiwanese is a dialect spoken within local communities.

Benny

[scottly80]

Hi! I love your videos! They have helped me a lot! I just had a question: I have a hard time telling the difference between the "t" sound and the "q" sound. For example, in this video, "jin tian" sounds a lot like the "t" in "tian" is a "q" to me. Do you have a video where you talk about this? (Or do they sound completely different and I am just crazy? haha) :) xie xie!

[inexplicablydivine]

Nah, they're supposed to sound different (:

[AkuunKyande]

q sounds like 'ch'

c sounds like 'ts'

t is pretty much normal sounding

[Nanashi123]

@scottly80 The sound for q in pinyin is kind of halfway between the ch- and the t- sound in english. Position your tongue like you are about to make the t- sound then, without moving it back, try to make the ch- sound.

[SeikoPsycho]

wow you sound so enthusiastic, benny.

were you born like that or did you have an epiphany that made you this way? I just hope it is not drugs

take care.

[liatliatajah]

hahaha,,,,, so funny....

wo hai you bei de anpai le....

never mind, ask them later... hahaha

[PinkGangsta2K7]

how do you say

"will" & "laugh" in chinese and whats the spelling?

[Nanashi123]

you would normally use "hui (sounds like "hway"" for will. So "I will go swimming" would be "Wo hui qu you yong".

I don't know the verb for "to laugh" in chinese

[AmyLynnLeeFan14]

Xie Xie Benny

[sonyansen]

xie xie lao shi! ( thank you teacher! )

[askbenny]

bu ke qi~!

jia you!

[Adiatra]

i love this chapter..hahaha

xie xie benny lao shi!!!

[askbenny]

bu ke qi! Adiatra!

[APNJ]

chinese writing looks like cuneiform

[dragxn]

通过你们学习中文，我也学习英文

[askbenny]

很好，大家互相学习不同的语言！

[dumbjervin15]

I keep watching this video but when I decided to show it to my Chnese tutor there was no sound.

[askbenny]

Maybe you try again next time!

[dumbjervin15]

這是有用的信息。

[askbenny]

谢谢！

[Ilovemengzi]

我学

[Fike2308]

This is very useful information.

XIE XIE.

[askbenny]

Bu ke qi

[dumbjervin15]

谢谢教我們中文。

[dumbjervin15]

Hen duo xiexie.

[loveyoucao]

we only use " fei chang xie xie" 非常谢谢

no one use hen duo xie xie ^^  you are the first one hehahs I am Alexus , chinese , if you have any question i would like to help you ^6^

wish you have a nice day

[dumbjervin15]

Correct!

正確!

[fushoubing]

purity

[guileare]

沒水準的中國人...不要在那裡教人家不正統的中文

[franksui]

說得沒錯。我是大陸人，但我用正體字，注音符號是我自己學的。哈­哈

ㄋㄧˇ ㄏㄠˇ

[shiro1985]

this is hard

[itsanthonyhere]

"Math is hard, let's go shopping."

If it weren't valuable, it wouldn't be easy to learn : o

[sadoolm]

请问你今晚有空吗？

does it have the same meaning?

[askbenny]

Yes, you're right! it does have the same meaning. 有空 and 有时间

[xnametaken1515x]

when do you know when to add "ge(个)"? like the sentence "wo jin tian you ge yue hui."

[Ilovemengzi]

this is a claccifier used before number for counting

[askbenny]

Xie Xie NI Carla!

[kelly2lin]

你是不是中国?

[kelly2lin]

我是说你是不是中国人?

[askbenny]

我是中国人！

[askbenny]

Wo dan ren shi zhong guo! ;o)

[BaiMeiHu]

you really are a good chinese teacher ni hen hao zai jiao zhong wen

[askbenny]

Fei Chang Gang Xie Ni! And you are a good student!

[ericroberson]

It's so easy to follow! I am really going to use it tonight!

[askbenny]

Glad you find it easy! That my goal! Xie Xie!