Learn Chinese - Study Mandarin with Qooco "How do I get to the airport"

Learn Chinese with this video lesson. Head to http://www.qoocochinese.com for full interactive voice recognition lessons. In this lesson we will teach you how to say "How do I get to the airport?" in Chinese

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[QoocoChinese]

Good question caboose2090. In this case, the word "zenme" is used to ask the question. "Zenme" essentially means "how". Using "zenme" means that "ma" is not needed at the end of the sentence.

[Memphissound901]

Wow the Qing Wen, was very poorly announced by "Mona". As a almost fully fluent Chinese student I strongly, strongly warn you to stay away from this guy and his AI pal. Very poor tones, and all of this you can find in a dictionary. You only re-enforce Chinese stereotypes that Americans use lazy tones. Your AI pal speaks better Chinese than you and she didn't even get the tone right on Qing. Sounded more like Ch instead of Qi, and that def was not the right tone.

[QoocoChinese]

Hi Memphissound901. Mona is a native Chinese speaker. She was born and raised in Beijing and has a degree in teaching Chinese as a foreign language. As any experienced Mandarin speaker can tell you, people from different parts of China pronounce words with slight differences. Mona, as a Beijinger, speaks with a fairly standard Beijing accent. That might be why you were confused by her pronunciation of "Qingwen".

[shayexu10]

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[YuukiAyazawa]

@caboose2090 it doesn't have "ma" because "zenme" means how. "ma" is normally used for a yes or no question

[itbeonlikedonkeykong]

its getting harder hahaha

[caboose2090]

why doesnt this phrase have ma at theend indicating that its a question?

[huangman17]

lololo tom's pronounciation is funnnyy

[XMaYueMingX]

Mona is a good speaker. The white guy is ok and needs to slow down.

[XMaYueMingX]

What are you talking about! If anything white people are treated better than most Chinese in this country.

[Memphissound901]

Mayueming, I think maybe as a Chinese person you don't notice the negative stereotypes that surround westerners in China, much less the stereotypes that surround whites. Not to say that Chinese-Americans don't have the same thing happening to them in the states. But I would say that many Chinese-American people I know also have to go through the racist things as-well. Generally the majority race in a country tends to be racist, and sometimes oblivious to it.

[Memphissound901]

I realize this as I have stated, I have studied Chinese for three years now at Univ. of Washington. The comment about that I made was inaccurate. I would have to say that the further south you go, the harder it is to understand people, and the Northerners put unnecessary (r) sounds on the end of words, both are confusing. I wasn't flaming, don't get me wrong, but even my girlfriend who is from Shijiazhuang (Capital of Hebei) thinks that these tones could use work.