Easy Mandarin 3 - At the market 

The names of the items he says aren't actually in Mandarin. It's a "dialect" of Chinese called Hokkien, which is spoken in Taiwan, Fujian province, and among the Thai and Singaporean chinese communities, I believe,

Specifically the names for clam and oyster.

Hokkien is what is also called traditional Mandarin?

+Maggie h He is the most generous. The lady who sells dumplings was a prick!

I realized no one in Taiwan uses the Mandarin word for oyster, but only the Hokkien word ô-á. Weird.

Julia Tran Absolutely

2023 well did you go there yet?

Aye same I’m learning Malay as a third language and aft watching a vid on basic Malay convos I decided to watch some Chinese ones purely for fun HAHAHAHAHA

Thank u!

I don't know for sure unless I can see the characters, but I think er2 yan2 means "in regards to". Hai shi means "also is", and I think bu ke means "cannot; should not". So maybe the phrase mean "in regards (to that, you) also (or still) cannot"

而且好專業！

but surely people could email the videos out, and upload them from outside? You only need two people, one inside, one out. Also, you can get youtube using freegate from the mainland. This would be great, although i appreciate this service.

I believe the main difficulty would be in applying for permission to film, filling out 40 or so forms to prove you're not "trying to destabilize the country and bring disharmony to the nation with hostile foreign forces" or some such nonsense and relying on the person in the video actually being able to speak Mandarin without having a thick regional accent. It's a little known fact that the vast majority of the population in China (the term "Mainland" implies that certain "islands" near it are connected to China politically, when they are not) do not speak Mandarin very well, on account of a number of factors: 1) Regional dialect and a strong sense of Confucian family filial piety encourage those that are not in cities to stick close to home, focusing on taking care of parents, grandparents, etc. This encourages them to use their hometown or regional dialects much more than Mandarin, and also, as many people marry within their village/hometown region, the dialect is spoken between husbands and wives/partners. Mandarin is still learnt in school, but considering it won't be spoken much outside of school, it will be with a heavy (oftentimes unintelligible) accent. 2) Those that live, work, and die in their hometown/home province really see a realistic need to learn Mandarin in any sense of standardization. 3) The regional question also makes learning Chinese in China harder than Taiwan, which has essentially uniform Mandarin across the country, due to the influence of the Chinese person you are speaking to's upbringing and influence of their dialect. This includes terms used in their region but nowhere else, speech patterns inhereted from their dialect, etc. I believe having the Easy Chinese series in Taiwan is better overall, ease of filming, ease of those being filmed, the less stand-offish/awkward nature of Taiwanese compared to Chinese and the uniformity of expression that work well in both Taiwan and the PRC. Source: Chinese Major in University, lived in China for 4 years and Taiwan for less, fluent in Mandarin.

Because in china you can't see RU-vid.

StormWyrmHeart I understand a few Mandarin words but they are speaking with a different accent.

k odu yes,you are right.

Jul Pra It’s like British vs American English

it's! before i didn't mind too much, but trust me it is taiwanese often don't pronounce the H in ZH SH and CH, also they don't often pronounce the letter R, there are different vocabulary too,

A lot of Taiwanese insert English into conversation because of heavy American media influence

It's actually the same but with different expressions and some cultural stuff. In Taiwanese they use traditional Chinese while in China they use simplified. There also hundreds of other dialects in China. Taiwanese also tend to use words that came from English more often.

And for example if someone go from mainland china to taiwan, will he understand language?

+Giorgi Peikrishvili Yes! There may be minor differences in local words or pronunciation, but they can mostly understand everything.

+Giorgi Peikrishvili Yes mainland people can understand 99.99% of what taiwanese chinese people are speaking. There is also a native taiwanese language that cannot be understood, however there are much more languages that can not be understood within mainland china. There are also tons of languages that are not considered manderin chinese within china.

+jManNative +Alex Chu Thank you guys for answering me :)

+Bob Shapiro 谢谢

Perhaps in China there is more variation in terms of regional dialect, so for someone who is learning Chinese they prefer to film in a place where everyone has the same accent

@@georgebrantley776 but Taiwanese mandarin is not the most standard mandarin pronunciation, northern Chinese people speak it better.......

@@georgekevin7984 Yeah, but if they were to go to Beijing to film, for instance, there would be some Szechuan people, some Guangdong people, etc. Northern China will include people from all parts of China. Taiwan is not so linguistically diverse. In Taiwan it'll mostly be Taiwanese accent with more limited variation.

George Kevin Most Northern Mainland Chinese people have a very strong Northern accent too. Some people in Taiwan speak with a relatively standard neutral accent, and those who don’t have rather similar accents, unlike in China where there are all sorts of regional accents that must be very confusing to learners. Not having undergone the cultural revolution, Taiwan has preserved more of the traditional culture and language than Mainland communist China. Also, we use the traditional characters, not the simplified ones that are unfortunately often devoid of meaning and beauty.

shergazy tairbekov the accent and some word is diferent.

almost the same. But they use different writing system. :)

Yes, both of them are mandarin. The writing system is the same, but Taiwanese uses traditional characters and on mainland China, people uses simplified characters. For example, university is dà xué, so on mainland China is 大学, and in Taiwan is 大學.

It's comparable to british and american english. Same but different.

每天幫著不行吧。他說話那麼快。說明他經常在那兒賣。。。

小孩子應該上學。。。不是工作。 台灣的法律： The Labor Standards Law (LSL) stipulates age 15, the age at which compulsory education ends, as the minimum age for employment. County and city labor bureaus enforced minimum age laws effectively. The Child Welfare Law, the Juvenile Welfare Law, and the Child and Juvenile Sexual Transaction Prevention Act protect children from debt bondage, prostitution, pornographic performances, and other illicit activities specified in ILO Convention 182. www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27767.htm

是的。我們不知道他的情況。我就是覺得滿可惜。法魯沒說假期時可以。。。我不知道。我知道文化不同。

+flashatizer 法律*

+yasikima fǎl(ü+ù,merged tgt)

John Johnson she isn’t actually. I learned what it meant in my class a few weeks ago and I’m pretty sure it means the word like or similar to that.

Oh my bad I meant that or similar

Shelby Muffett yeah I know it’s 那个 I was joking

I was thinking the same! Good questions!