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Same here....i saw him only toward the end of the video...heee

Spellbound by the characters

This was funny. Probably unintentionally funny haha

Hi Kaleidoscope_, you are fluent in Chinese Mandarin, right? If it is okay with you, do you think you could help me with a very short Mandarin lyric and English translation, please? I would really appreciate it :D

His pronunciation is very good

@@ajayrall I am Chinese,maybe I can help you too

Chinese pronounation is hard bro

@@devonoknabo2582 actually for a a guy that speaks German and french not as bad ;)

+巨鑫 Thanks!

maybe he was borne there..

Jacky Phantom what do you mean? it has an extremely strict structure.

Jacky Phantom whether easier or harder that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have any.

你好

Great to hear, Peter!

@@FluentinMandarinDotCom Hello, could you please do an episode on how to differentiate between : (1) S, SH, and X (2) Z, ZH, and J (3) C, CH, and Q Thanks in advance 🙏

Errr ... grammar in Mandarin (spoken by the Jing tribal nomads during the Sung dynasty and later as foreign rulers ofChina during the so-called Qing dynasty) is quite different from that of Cantonese (the official language spoken in the “central plains” during the Wei, Sui, and Tang dynasties). For instance “Eat first; talk later” in Mandarin would place the adverb “first” (xian) at the beginning of the sentence, as in “xian chi, zai shuo” whereas in Cantonese “first” (sin) appear almost at the end, as in “sic zo ye sin, coy king”

@@ChinaSongsCollection in Sichuan,we don't difference this. all word about ZH SH and CH we use Z S C

@@ChinaSongsCollection it is Southwesten mandrin

@Jerry oop

Mandarin or Cantonese?

@@pau749 Mandarin

+jesuisravi Haha thanks

Actually judging from his accent...he obviously learned his Mandarin in mainland China and not Taiwan.

@@karmafairy351 yes

actually taiwan is one of province in China

@@user-ub6er9op3k no

哈哈哈哈。我不中国人。 我在学习

不用谢！

You're welcome!~

+Mark Davis glad it helped you Mark!

+lala mala glad you like the videos!

Thank you!!!

+AIUUIO KING You're right, but this was a short video and it's designed to be a simple introduction. The reality is more subtle, but I didn't want to overcomplicate things

+David Williams The message I am trying to convey is that 了 has nothing to do with past tense which is very hard (or impossible?)to break away from the habitual thinking or logic people are so familiar hence contitioned to, so that there must be a past tense or any tense in a language. It's certainly not the case with Chinese, unfortunatey. In addition, the following expressions are good to take heed 我要走了 i am going to go now 我走了 I am going /leaving but 我不要去了 is an unclear expression. pay attention that it comes more from Chinese language learners than native speakers, Usually To say I don't want to go now， is 我不想去了 To say I am not going now, is 我不去了 to say I want to go, is 我想去 to say i want to go now ( whereas before I was now thinking to go) 我想去了 When you want to say don't do something, you use 不要, say 不要大声喧哗 ，or 不要不听老师的话， but I don't want (to do) something. is 我不想要, 我不想去

Yes, the likelihood for the 2 phrases to appear in normal conversation by native speakers is possible, though rare in a sense, but the fact is that there is an apparent disregard for tense by the measure impulse present in the minds of the speakers of languages in which tense matters. Even the more often/common used expression is 你学习汉语（学了）多长时间了？even though了s are used in or to their fullest extend, twice in one sentence, but you should notice in this case, that了is not with the main verb, i.e. it is not correct at all grammatically to say 你学习了汉语(学了)多长时间了? If了does not go with the main verb to constitute a tense, the apparent past tense we found somehow in some sense in the sentence here might be true, but the effort to link the presumed target了to that past tense hunt is surely mistaken. 了must be doing something else other than tense here. I can not think of better example so far to explain away the non-connection between了and past tense, though了 does indicate the completion of an action, (but not only that though).

+k odu thanks!

Traditional characters are so complicated

@@jyy4751 they are, but some of us learn them. I do cuz I also speak Cantonese

谢谢！

Thanks Adriana!

+Nilguiri I would like to know that too

+Nilguiri 的 得 and 地 are all pronounced 'de'. 地 comes after an adjective to make it an adverb, 得 comes after a verb to introduce the manner or a attribute to the verb, and 的 is sometimes used with adjectives, but can do other things too (it indicates the relationship between two parts of a sentence)

Fluent in Mandarin.com OK, thanks. I more or less understand, but I need to see some examples for it to fully sink in, I think. Cheers.

+Nilguiri This is a big problem in Mandarin which makes even the native speakers very confused about when to use which one. However, these three words are pronounced differently in most other Chinese languages. This tells one of the disadvantages in Mandarin.

MrTsiqsin Thanks.

Maybe you can help me improve my English translations of Tang poetry (chineselyricpoetry.wordpress.com/translations/). You learn Chinese and I learn English.

No worries. I am not homosexual.

+David Y XD what kind of statement is that: "don't worry i am not homosexual"???

It's because I just realized a few minutes later that my example may not be appropriate. Just in case. Misunderstanding happens.

Yellow Crane Tower 黄鹤楼 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Crane_Tower) by 崔颢 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cui_Hao_(poet)) 昔人已乘黄鹤去 此地空余黄鹤楼 黄鹤一去不复返 白云千载空悠悠 晴川历历汉阳树 芳草萋萋鹦鹉洲 日暮乡关何处是 烟波江上使人愁 - my personal translation - Yellow Crane Tower by Cui, Hao So gone was he upon a yellow crane, To leave behind this Huang-he Tow'r in here. The feathery clouds remain forev'r the same; The yellow crane was gone to nev'r appear. On Parrot Isle is pasture em'rald green; In Han-yang woods is river crystal clear. But where is home with sunset almost nigh? Like growing river mist my grief is dear. If you can't write Tang poetry, you can't say your Chinese is intermediate. If you can't write Song contractual lyrics, you can't say your Chinese is advanced enough. If you really want to learn Chinese as your first language, you really have to set the bar a lot higher. Poetry is the spirit of the Chinese language, never to be missed. No other culture in the world has such a high regard for poetry, not even French. If you can write Tang poetry, you are already way above 大山 in your mastery of the language, a household name in China and probably the first foreigner considered very fluent in Chinese. It's your bragging right.

The second character of both words are actually nouns themselves, so it’s more like “I’m going to run one hour of steps” and “I’ll sleep one hour of sleeping”.

I don't know how to explain the situation like this haha，That's a flexible way of saying it，you can say：“我要跑步一小时” and the second sentenses, I can't distinguish the tenses , so sorry , if the past tenses:”我睡了一个小时“ do not need "觉” or future tenses :“我要睡一个小时”

You're welcome Rashed!