 Welcome to Found Mandarin, Hua Yu Hao Hao Wan. I'm Tintin from Taiwan Technical Mission. What do you know about Mandarin? Well, first one, I would like to talk about characters. It seems complicated. Actually, it is. Characters are very different from the alphabet system. For beginners, we use pinging to assist. Pinging is a tool to help with pronunciation, listening, and speaking. To be honest, there is no pinging in real life. So it's better if learners can recognize and remember characters. It takes time to learn characters, so we just put it behind right now. Let's talk about tones. Mandarin is also a tonal language, like many ancient languages. Different tones means different things. Even the word is composed by the same initial and final. For example, yī yī yī yī, there are different things. Let's try together. Yī is a high flat tone. Try to keep saying words in this tone. Sounds like a robot, right? And yī is rising tone. It's rising, so you need to be pronounced from low to high. Yī yī yī. It's a low tone. The original tone is like a check. The high, low, and high. Yī yī yī yī. However, we only pronounce the first part. Short, low one. Yī yī yī. And last, yī is a falling tone. It's a bit difficult. You need to think you are excited. Imagine that you are watching a soccer game and the game hits up. The player is going to shoot. What will you say? Like, go, go. Yeah, so pronounce yī like that. Yī. Okay, so more practice. Let's see the other group. Ma, ma, high flat, ma. And ma, rising, ma. And short, low one, ma, ma. And falling, ma, ma. Okay, after tones, let's talk about personal pronouns. Mǐ, it means you. Mǐ, and wǒ, wǒ, means I. Wǒ, and tā, means he. Can you distinguish the tones of the personal pronouns? Mǐ, wǒ, tā. Let's learn how to say hello in Mandarin. Mǐ hǎo, one more time. Nǐ hǎo, hǎo means good or nice. So, nǐ hǎo means you good. And actually, the meaning is hello. Nǐ hǎo, nǐ hǎo. All right, let's learn a word. shì, it's a falling tone. shì, shì is verb to be. And in Mandarin, there is no tense, neither verbal conjugation. So we say shì, nǐ shì, you are. wǒ shì, I am. tā shì, he is. shì, so we can use the word and put the name after it. Like wǒ shì, tíng tíng, I am tíng tíng. wǒ shì, tíng tíng, like that. Except name, we can also put nationalities. So let's learn some countries. sēn lù xià, shēn lù xiì yǎ. shēn lù xiì yǎ. So if you want to say, I am sēn lù xià. wǒ shì, shēn lù xiì yǎ, rén. We put rén means human or people in the end. shēn lù xiì yǎ rén, sēn lù xià. People from sēn lù xià. OK, again. wǒ shì, shēn lù xiì yǎ, rén. So let's learn how to make questions. We just need to put ma in the end of sentence. It will become a question. So are you a solution? nǐ shì, shēn lù xiì yǎ rén, ma. One more time. nǐ shì, shēn lù xiì yǎ rén, ma. Put ma in the end. So what's your answer? wǒ shì, shēn lù xiì yǎ rén. I am a solution, right? wǒ shì, shēn lù xiì yǎ rén. And let's learn the other question particle, called nǐ, nǐ. It's like to ask both questions. nǐ nǐ means end you. How about you? Or what about you? nǐ nǐ. So the sentence. wǒ shì, shēn lù xiì yǎ rén, nǐ nǐ. OK. But actually, I'm not a solution. I'm Taiwanese. So I would say, wǒ shì, tǎi wán rén, nǐ nǐ. wǒ shì, tǎi wán rén. OK. So after we have learned the personal pronouns, nǐ nǐ means end you. And how about nǐ? How to say nǐ? tǎ, tǎ nǐ, tǎ nǐ. And the sentence. wǒ shì, tǎi wán rén, tǎ nǐ. nǐ, tǎ yǎ shì, tǎi wán rén. 也 means also or to or either. tǎ yǎ shì, tǎi wán rén. Wait, let's practice the tones. OK. The high flat tone. ma ma ma ma. Uh huh, high and flat. ma ma. OK, good. And the rising one. ma ma. From low to high. ma ma. Yes, perfect. And the short low one. ma ma ma. Yeah, one more time. ma ma. Yes, ma ma ma. Yes, good. And the following one. ma ma. Try one more time. ma ma. I think you are excited. ma ma. OK, let's try the other group, the first one. yī yī yī yī. High and flat. yī yī yī. OK, and the rising one. yī yī. No? Good try. OK, let's try again. So you do it. It's yī yī yī yī. OK. yī yī. Yes, it's rising. So it's rising. yī yī yī. Yes, good. And the short low one. yī yī yī yī. Back when you say, well, uh, yī yī. And the falling one. Falling. Excited. yī yī. Yes. yī yī yī. Hello, I'm Ting Ting. Hello, I'm Huma. Do you speak Taiwanese? I'm a Taiwanese. How about you? I'm a Chinese. How about you? I'm also a Taiwanese. I hope you have fun learning Mandarin with me today. I'm Ting Ting. See you next time.