before and after 以前 & 以后 - Chinese Grammar Simplified 205 

This is the first language video on which I have ever commented: absolutely amazingly cogent and concise explication.

My brain has literally grown after watching this video. I love it. 谢谢

以 is a character that can be translated as 'by' or 'via' something. So 以后 and 以前 mean [some action] 'by' [something OR an implied time].

I really want to say thank you . Your videos are extremely helpful .

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All I can say is "FANTASTIC VIDEO"!! Thank you very much!!

Great lesson, thanks a lot!

When you leanr chinese, you understand why chinese people are smart ! Thank you for the explanation, i'm obsessed with your videos, keep up the excellent work teacher ❤❤

谢谢老师

So good. Thanks for all your video.

Really grateful! Crystal clear 🎉

You are amazing! Thank you for this lesson!

Great videos!! Please, keep on making them.

It makes sense, thank you for explaining!

谢谢

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thanx for this explanation. I got it totally after watching this video.

Awesome Video Laoshi.

Thank you so much dear bro. You are so clear in discussion. It’s very helpful. Also you use easy English words for explaining so it’s help us as nonnative English speaker. ❤️❤️❤️

Your videos are extremely helpful. Chinese grammar has always been a struggle for me but you make it very easy to learn. Please make more videos!

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Very well explained. Thanks!

Excellent explanation. 🌺

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Thanks you so much

Still helpful! 謝謝老師!

Thank you BRO!!!!

I like it. Great video !!

I feel like "before that" makes more sense to me than "before then". Great video

Thanks for the clear explanation, Can you explain the difference between 以后, 后来 and 然后 please. Thanks!

Don’t stop doing this stuff! 厉害👍

Although Chinese is an SVO language and Turkish is an SOV language, most of the time the speech logic is the same. We say: 🇹🇷(Biz) Şangay'a gitme[den önce] PEKİN'E GİDECEĞİZ. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿(We) WILL GO TO THE BEIJING [before] going to Shanghai. 🇹🇷(Biz) saat 3'[ten önce] TOPLANTI YAPACAĞIZ. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿(We) HAVE MEETING [before] 3 o'clock. Thanks for your videos. They are really helpful. Plz keep up the good work! 😊

Super... after watching this video i m able to do my homework..

You really should have more likes. I am a native speakers and I benefited.

Well I am chuckling. I thought I understood 以前 and 以后. Thank you for clarifying this for me. You are very good instructor!

"Before then" doesn't make much sense in the first example. It just makes it even more confusing. It should be "before that", or even better "but before that". Like this: "We go to China, (but) before that we go to the US". Also "after that", or "and after that" would be better as well. Like this: "We go to the US, (and) after that we go to China". That way it actually becomes sensible and easily understandable. "After then" makes more sense when talking about a specific time, like 3 o'clock, or tuesday, because "then" refers to some certain point in time, whereas if you say "We go to China before going to the US" it's more vague and refers to just an event, or a sequence of events, where there isn't necessarily a certain specified time when it's going to happen. So using "then" in that case would be strange and confusing. Otherwise a really good lesson! Keep it up!

Love your videos. Can you make a video on 被 sentence?

I love it

Its surprisingly like in Turkish 🤔( ...den önce /yi qian)and ( ...den sonra / yi hou )

I love the way u create your videos. They're really helpful. Thank u!

On dit que le chinois est une langue difficile mais avec vous c'est le chinois facile. Merci pour cette vidéo.

Good

谢谢老师。这视频非常好。please teacher can you understand difference "一块人" 和""一起" .Thanks

I absolutely love your videos. They are by far the best way to teach Chinese. Therefor I would love to know if you will do this on a regular basis? Every week maybe? And I had 1 more question. I saw these kind of videos are called explanimations. What is the name of software you use for this? 感谢你!

以后我要看你的视频。

practically, you can omit "以"

using 'before that' is a more apt explanation, as aopposed to 'before then'

In Russian we can speak 2 version, english one and chinese one:) so for russuans this thing is quite easy

我們去中國以前，"先"去美國。 我們去英國以後，"再"去美國。 加了"先"、"再"這2個字，這樣句子會更清楚一些喔!謝謝。

This is a pretty weird way to look at these words. Wouldn't it just be easier to look at it how it is, that these are qualifiers tacked onto the word before, so the phrase afterward is of that quality to the first one "(going to china)-before = going to america" obviously being going to america before china, since the before is of (going to china). What's the need for the time machines??

my chinese teacher said that this channel is perfect. this is 对的 p.s. why there is only 19.5k subs p.s. your chinese is so perfect

i really love your videos, i don't know why but they really make it easier for me to learn Chinese. I have a question though, shouldn't the sentence "We will go to Beijing before then will go to Shanghai" be "women hui qu bei jing yi qian hui qu shang hai". just like you thought in the tenses lesson. or are there exceptions to the tenses rules?

laoshi we are waiting for your next lessons please upload new lessons .. thanks

Wow

*USE VISUALIZATION* 1. 我们去上海以后去美国 （Shang hai in the back, America in the front. So it means, we go to shang hai first) ILLUSTRATION: (Shang Hai).....(America) 2. 我们去上海以前去美国 (Shang hai in the front, America in the back. We go to America first) ILLUSTRATION: (America)....(Shang Hai) 3. 我们3点以前开会 ( 3 o'clock in the front, meeting in the back. We have meeting before 3 o'clock) ILLUSTRATION: (Having a meeting)...(3 o'clock) 我们星期二以后回家 (Tuesday in the back, go home in the front. So we go home after the Tuesday) ILLUSTRATION: (Tuesday)....(Go home)

Actually the Chinese sentence makes sense to me. Maybe coz my mother language isn't English...

Its easier if you are a Bantu..Or Swahili speaker... Especially Kikuyu..But most bantu can't relate to this .. Without explanation...前means front...Same words we use to mean the same thing...(mbere ya ....)

Actually, you should omit “以” and only use "前" for the correct chinese grammar. We use "以前" as XXX "ago". For examples, "500 years ago" "五百年以前"。

I think "之前"&"之后" are more common for short period.

Do you publish Chinese grammar books? I want to buy some.

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What different between 这前 and 以前

Tai Hao Le

I’M SO CONFUSED ASDFGHJKLÑ

What if I wanted to say I liked chenese people before going to china ? Would it be wo qu zhonguo hi you xihuan zhonguo ren ?

你好 我有问题， 这里（他在银行工作了两年以后来的我们公司）为什么用来的？

People must not read a lot. All of this chinese grammar is perfectly acceptable in english as well. They just arent commonly used in normal speach. more for literary works.

I need more grammar

Make mre videos

1.我们去加利福尼亚州以前，我们会跟客户说。 2.以前，我没去过纽约。 3.我骑车上班以后，我会给你打电话。 Is that correct??

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hen hao xiexie nin

老师好！以前和前一样吗？

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I learned about this before. After watch this, it confused me.

these things really make me confused! as a non-native speaker learning both english and chinese, i explain this by myself: English: I went to china before i go to france. chinese: 我去中国以前去法国。 THEN i separate the sentence's structure LIKE THIS: i went to china before/i go to france => china then France. 我去中国以前/去法国。=》china then france. sorry if i was wrong, but i think they are similar in structure, because BEFORE/AFTER in english also be used to describe the action that happening before the another action in the past. did i misunderstood? can anyone help me? 🥲

我们要说跟客户的以前去蒙得维的亚, 我们去蒙得维的亚以前要说跟客户的

Long story short, it's still backwards. Man, this grammar messes with my head. English thinks in a particular time flow, making this transition difficult. When creating the sentence, the first set of words have come first, but with Chinese, I have to set them aside, and wait until I say them last in the sentence. Normally I have said the first part of the sentence, and the second half hasn't been fully formed yet.

Hui/lai q.......coming going is very confusing.please help

Please, May I know how to say in Chinese? I have never done sth

以后和然后是一样吗？

Omg

去中國以前 去中國以后

加利福尼亚去以前我们跟 clients谈。 我以前没去过纽约市。 我骑自行车去上班 以后给你打电话。 对不对 老师？

how to say "first of all".

No wonder they talk about the inscrutable Chinese mind

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at this point i just think that chinese are just looking ways to be harder an harder

It is better to write 有没有 人 会 告诉 你 我 很 在意 Instead of this 有没有人会告诉你我很在意

图片很漂亮, 但是让我困惑 :-((

騎自行車上班以後我給電話你。

You make me confused... teach us strictly tell us directly... straightfotward if using yihou which happen first? The first mentioned or the second mentioned? If using yiqian tell us so

Yi qian wo mei qu guo zhong guo. Sounds silly really

Background music is too loud/distracting, so I had to stop watching. Otherwise, seems like really good info.

i dont like this

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