Mandarin Chinese for Complete Beginners — Your First 30 Minutes

Ni hao everyone! Did you know that Mandarin Chinese is the most widely spoken language in the world in terms of number of speakers? One billion plus speakers and counting. It's spoken in China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, and many overseas Chinese communities around the world. If you ever wanted to do business in China, or even just want to visit, well now is a great time to learn. In my beginner's course, you'll not only be taught, but you'll be given tips and tricks on how to learn Chinese. When you are learning a new language, I believe there is a certain way to make the new words and sounds stick longer in your mind. I did some research and am confident about the seven rules for effective language learning that I will present in my course. Check out the free previews and sign up now. See you in the course. Goodbye! Hello my students, Hello everyone! Welcome to Beginner's Mandarin Chinese. In this course, you will learn the very basics of the Chinese language and you will gain a foundation upon which to increase your Chinese language skills. This course consists of lecture videos and quizzes. The quizzes will serve to reinforce what you have learned in the lecture videos. Please feel free to watch each lecture video more than once. In fact, I recommend you watching the lecture video at least three to four times. Alright, now please feel free to read my article entitled, Jason's Seven Rules for Effective Language Learning, and please dive right in. I'll see you in the lectures. Hi, everyone. In this lesson, we will be looking at some common adjectives in Chinese. Big, small, big and small. Very big, very small, very big, very small. Left, right, left, right, left and right. full, hungry, full, hungry and full. Happy, sad, happy, sad, happy and sad. These words literally mean an open heart and a wounded heart. 开 means to open, and 伤 means injured. So when you're happy, think of having an open heart. And when you're sad, think of having a wounded or injured heart. How many, how many, one means a lot. And the other means few. Incidentally, placed together, these two words mean how much. How many are there? How much do you have? Early, late, early, late, early and late. This, these, this and these. That, those, that and those. To make this and that plural, simply add 些 at the end. This concludes this lesson. Until next time, goodbye! Everyone hello! Today, we will focus on common adverbs. Fast! Fast, fast, fast! Hurry up! Quickly! Fast! Quickly! Slow! Slow, slow, slow! That man is very slow. Very slow. Very slowly. Very! Very! Very. Very fast! Very slow! Very fast. Very slow. Often, often, I often go. I go very often. Sometimes, sometimes. I go sometimes, only sometimes. I go sometimes. Still, are you still there? What? You're still here? Still. Still, still there? Now, right now. What are you doing now? What are you doing right now? A bit later, I'll go eat a bit later. Go eat. I'm going to have dinner a little later. This concludes this lesson. Until next time, goodbye. Hello everyone. Hello, everyone. Today, we will focus on some common nouns. 房子 is a house. 学校, school. 学校, it means a place where you learn something. 餐厅, a meal place, if you will, a restaurant. Market. Market, a market Restroom, it means a room where you wash your hands Car, car Hospital, a place where you are healed 医 means to heal Bank, bank Money, money This concludes this lesson Until next time, goodbye In this lesson, we will focus on common verbs 是, this verb means to be, but not in a physical sense. For example, I am a teacher, I am a teacher. This verb also means to be, but in a physical sense. For example, I am at school, I'm at school. I'm at home, I'm at home. 去, 回, to go and to return. Where are you going? Where are you going? 想, 要 Both of these words mean to want. 喜欢 means to like, and 爱 means to love. What are you eating? What are you drinking? Is there any? To have or not to have. This is a good time to bring up that in Chinese, there are two negatives. There is one that is used for the regular verbs, and there's one that is used specifically for have. No This is the negative used for all verbs except for to have. I am not I am not Work To work Work And you say it. Buy Sell Buy my. My means to buy, whereas my means to sell. This is a case in which the tones are very important because if you say the tones incorrectly, then instead of saying to buy, you could accidentally say to sell. To remember this pair of verbs, simply remember my, my, my. Today I have to go buy and sell at the market. This concludes this lesson. Until next time, zài jiàn. Dàjiā hǎo. Hello everyone. Today we will focus on common questions and expressions. Nǐ jǐ suì? Nǐ jǐ suì? How old are you? You would reply by saying wǒ sān shí suì. I am 30 years old. Nǐ jiào shénme míng zǐ? Nǐ jiào shénme míng zǐ? You would reply by saying wǒ jiào. Jason. How many pieces? How many pieces? How much is this? Where are you from? Where are you from? I am from the USA. USA. America. Where do you live? Where do you live? You reply by saying, I live In what? What? It's what? Who? Who is it? Who is it? Who? Where? Alternatively, you can say, Where? Where? Where? Where is it? Where? Where is it? Why? Why? Why? When? When? When? How? How? How? Please? You use this word when you want someone to do something. Please sit. Please have a seat. Sorry. This literally means I cannot face you. I can't face you. Sorry. Thank you. I'm sure most of you already know this. And finally, It means see you again. Goodbye. And on that note, this concludes Beginner's Mandarin. Thank you for taking this journey with me so far. Until next time, TOTAL TRAVELS PRESENTS SAYING HELLO IN MANDARIN CHINESE Today, we will learn how to say hello and how are you. Remember these words. You good? You good? You good? We say 你好 in Chinese, which means hello. 你好 You may have noticed that the first word is pronounced as the second tone, even though it's written in the third tone. This is a good time to go over some grammar. Painlessly, of course. This is the rule. Whenever there are two words side by side that are both third tones, you pronounce the first word as the second tone. Why? Because it's easier to say. I mean, what's easier to say? 你好 or 你好. 你好 is much shorter and much faster to say. Alternatively, we can also say 您好. 您好. 您 is the polite word for you. To say how are you, we say 你好吗? 你好吗? If you think back to lesson one, 吗 is the fifth neutral tone. And in this case, it means literally you could question a particle. One way to respond to 你好吗 is 很好. Again, notice that because there are two words in the third tone, side by side, the first word is pronounced as the second tone. 很好, 很好 meaning very good. You can also say 不好, 不好 meaning not good. As you may have guessed, 不 is a negative. It is a negative for most words, with a few exceptions that we'll get into later. Alright, now it's your turn. I'm going to ask you, How are you? How are you? How should you respond? You can say 很好 or 不好 or simply 好, which means good. Hello everyone, Hello everyone. In this lesson, we will focus on learning the numbers in Chinese. Now repeat after me, Zero, one, two. Now when we get to 11, we simply add the 1 after the 10. So 11 would be 十一, and when we get to 20 and 30, we simply add a 10 after the 2. So 20 would be 二十, 二十, 30 would be 三十, 四十, and so on. 100 is 一百, 一百. Now when you get to 101, you must add a zero. So 101 would be 一百零一, 一百零一, 102 would be 一百零二, 一百零二, and so on. And when you reach 110, you have to say 一百一十, 一百一十, and 111 would be 一百一十一, and 112 would be 一百一十二, and so on. 1000 is 一千, 一千, and when you reach 1001, the same rule applies, 一千零一, 一千零一, and so on. Ten thousand has a special word, 一万, 一万. This means when you get to a hundred thousand, it is 十万, or ten, ten thousands, 十万. This concludes this lesson. Until next time, 再见! Hello students, it's your friendly Chinese language teacher, Jason here. Today, we will focus on something short and easy, pronouns. The first one is wǒ. Wǒ means I or me. The way you can remember this pronoun is to think of war. I make war. Wǒ make war. Now you try it. Nǐ, nǐ, nǐ, nǐ, nǐ means you, which is the informal way of saying you. And 您, as you might recall in the 你好吗 video, 您 is the polite form of you. The way you can remember 你 is to think of knees. Your knees are wobbly. 你. Now you try pronouncing 你. 他, 他, 他 means he or she. You will notice that both words are written differently, but pronounced the same way. That's why in Mandarin Chinese, you can't tell someone's gender just by referring to the pronoun. The way you can remember ta is to think of he's leaving. Oh, he's leaving. He's leaving. Now you try pronouncing ta. The way to say us or we or they or them or the plural for you is simply by adding 们 at the end of each pronoun. So you would say 我们 or we, 他们 for they, and 你们 for the plural of you. Now you try it. This concludes this lesson. Until next time, 再见! presents lesson one the five crazy tones of Mandarin Chinese so you want to learn Mandarin Chinese the official language of the People's Republic of China then you'll have to deal with the headache of the tones Chinese is a tonal language which means that words which have the exact same pronunciation will have different meanings based on the tone for example ma and Ma. Believe it or not, these are completely different words with completely different meanings based on the tones. And these tones are important. They could mean the difference between ordering a bowl of dumplings in a restaurant and telling the waitress you want to sleep with her. So is Chinese hard to learn then? For speakers of non-tonal European languages, yes, maybe it is a little bit hard to learn because there aren't any tones in European languages. But if you apply a little effort and follow my lessons, you should be speaking the basics in no time. In this course, we will focus entirely on speaking and listening. Writing and reading will still be featured but not emphasized. The first thing we're going to learn is the five tones. Get ready. Tone number one. Ma. This first tone is high and flat. Imagine you are singing. You are singing an opera and it's music. Just picture a fat lady singing at the end of an opera. Ha. By the way, ma means mother. Tone number two. Ma. I call this one the questioning tone, but it doesn't mean that you're asking a question it just means you intone your voice so act as if you are constantly questioning everything ma ma ma ma ma ma means hemp tone number three ma this tone is arguably the hardest tone to learn it's a down and and then up-tone, so you go down first and then up. Mǎ, mǎ. Imagine that you are bungee jumping off a bridge, and then suddenly the cord snaps and you are pulled back up. So you went down first and then you went back up. Mǎ means horse. Tone number four, mǎ. I call this one the angry tone, and it is probably the easiest one to remember. Just imagine that you're angry. Ma, ma, ma, ma, ma. By the way, ma in Chinese means to scold. How appropriate. And finally, we have the fifth tone. This is the neutral tone. Just pronounce it ma, ma, ma. And this means question in Chinese. It is a question particle. You put this at the end of a sentence to indicate a question. 你好吗? meaning, how are you?