Thank you very much for all of your videos. I have spent hours trying to figure out where to begin in learning Mandarin and out of all the videos I have seen on here for learning how to Enunciate consonants, vowels, and tones yours are by far the most helpful!
Sam Gane Hi, Sam! I am glad I can help you to learn Mandarin Chinese. I believe after you watch these videos, you can have a basic ability to start to learn Mandarin Chinese by yourself with pinyin symbol and tones. Keep learning. It's not so hard like many other people think. :-)
You are good student, study hard, right, so Mr. Mandarin I like your explain and your upload of the lessons are related to studying Chinese and others...thxs
ha~~ When I was a student, I think I was diligent because I am not smart and I need to spend more time on study than the others. You are welcome! I hope you can learn Mandarin Chinese very well and thank you like my videos. :-)
I believe you will speak Mandarin Chinese like a native speaker! To know more languages always can bring you more interesting life! Your life will be quite different because of the languages you choose to learn. :-) Go for it!
nice lesson, thank very much..maybe i may be late, but i was wondering about the last rule regarding the tones, is there a rule order for which tone to put first??
You are welcome! It's never be late to ask a question. :-) The "where to put the tone mark" rule is: Tone mark is always put on the symbol "a", "o", "e", "i", "u" OR " ū". When there are more than one symbols, the priority are like this: 1. a>o>e>i OR 2. a>o>e>u OR 3. a>o>e>ū Except the above cases 1, 2, and 3, you also need to pay attention that: When it's the cases "iu" or "ui", put the tone mark on the latter symbol. 1. For symbol iu: put the tone mark on "u" 2. For symbol ui: put the tone mark on "i"
@@MandarinImpossible thanks for answering, but i think i wasn't clear, so; there are 4 tone marks, that i have to place above 6 vowel symbols, and i'll need to follow the rules for which vowel i'll have to start from, but from what tone mark i have to begin with? the first or the second or the third or the fourth, how do i know which one to put above the vowel?? i hope i explain myself better this time... i really like the way you explain things....
I think you need to remember that : PinYin and tone mark are both symbols to represent the sound for Mandarin Chinese characters. For example, when you see the character 上, 兒, 心, you may not know how to pronounce them. But with the PinYin and Tone marks, you may know and represent the sound of each character like 上 "shàng" 兒 "ér" 心 "xīn" For the sound or tone of each character, you need to memorize it. I am not sure if I totally understand what you said to me. If you still have questions, just feel free to ask me again. Thank you!
How does the compounding of the words work in pinyin? Some people write "bǔ huì" and others write "bǔhuì"... there are tons of other examples for this... is there any rule?
Vagabund92 For the compounding of the words like the pinyin of "你好", you can write it as "nǐ hǎo" or "nǐhǎo". Both of them have the same pronunciation. 你( nǐ ) means "you". 好 (hǎo) means "good". 你好 (nǐhǎo) means "Hello". To say it simple, if two or more characters (words) can be compounded and become as another one new meaning, then you can write these pinyin together. If you write them Separately like "nǐ hǎo", it is still OK. If you see something like "yìshùjiā" instead of "yì shù jiā". Then you can know "yìshùjiā" must have three Chinese characters in it and these three characters which are put together has "one meaning".
For the pronunciation: The combination of consonant and vowel "yin" and the vowel "-in" are the same. The combination of consonant and vowel "ying" and the vowel "-ing" are the same.
