before and after 以前 & 以后 - Chinese Grammar Simplified 205

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@matthewwhiteford3422 Жыл бұрын

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

@ChineseGrammarSimplified Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@skydrummer1366 6 жыл бұрын

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

@phenylalanine8145 Жыл бұрын

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 ❤❤

@ChineseGrammarSimplified Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@Ezkanohra 2 жыл бұрын

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].

@holidayturnpike 3 жыл бұрын

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@loveland1008 5 жыл бұрын

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

@uwanttono4012 2 жыл бұрын

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

@jessicawong6378 6 жыл бұрын

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!

@latahjhan6801 4 жыл бұрын

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. ❤️❤️❤️

@BlaBlaBlaInDaHouse 6 жыл бұрын

Great lesson, thanks a lot!

@Zara7us7r0 6 жыл бұрын

Great videos!! Please, keep on making them.

@robinphal7960 6 жыл бұрын

So good. Thanks for all your video.

@yesyoucaninfo 6 жыл бұрын

Just found your channel. Really great stuff! Thanks so much. We really hope you continue making more videos!!

@menes672 6 жыл бұрын

i want to Practice Chines ,if someone is interested please add me on Skype : Menes Youssef

@Burak-gr4ee Жыл бұрын

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! 😊

@samanthawilliams1811 2 жыл бұрын

Really grateful! Crystal clear 🎉

@user-hg9ex3ql9y 5 жыл бұрын

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

@believeinpeace 2 жыл бұрын

You are amazing! Thank you for this lesson!

@marlonsubuyu2012 3 жыл бұрын

It makes sense, thank you for explaining!

@basicinfo6816 6 жыл бұрын

Awesome Video Laoshi.

@IMHS21 6 жыл бұрын

Keep up the good work !

@nancyg4321 6 жыл бұрын

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

@pedrocarvalho4999 3 жыл бұрын

I like it. Great video !!

@justforfun955 6 жыл бұрын

Don’t stop doing this stuff! 厉害👍

@anasmirza346 2 жыл бұрын

你的每一个视频都有无数宝贵的教训

@andyhuang4228 2 жыл бұрын

「教训」通常是指从「负面、严肃」事件中学到经验或知识。例如「我昨天因为跟同学打架，而被老师教训了」或是「我从失败中学到教训」。「教訓」usually means the lesson you learned from a bad experince or a serious event. For example, "Because I fought with my classmate yesterday, my teacher 教訓 me" or " I learned 教訓 from the failure"

@tawfiksaid2146 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent explanation. 🌺

@ziconghuang7139 5 жыл бұрын

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

@xiaobai1541 6 жыл бұрын

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

@Kitulous 4 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Before then contradict each other and they together make no sense whatsoever.

@ChineseGrammarSimplified 4 жыл бұрын

@@Kitulous According to google:"Before then" means specifically "before that time", whereas "before that" might more specifically mean "before that occurrence" or "before a thing (previously referred to) happens"www.google.com/search?q=before+then&rlz=1C1SQJL_enUS794US794&oq=before+then&aqs=chrome..69i57.2115j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

@timurrustamov2652 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you BRO!!!!

@niruddhpolrob7053 5 жыл бұрын

谢谢

@user-ex8gb9cr9j 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks you so much

@oichiana2002 3 жыл бұрын

Still helpful! 謝謝老師!

@zayanamsrai4286 6 жыл бұрын

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

@chinasmom3610 6 жыл бұрын

Very well explained. Thanks!

@menes672 6 жыл бұрын

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@Shazi5886 3 жыл бұрын

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

@nusratjahan99924 2 жыл бұрын

谢谢老师

@-Mohog 6 жыл бұрын

"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!

@dan-danylo 5 жыл бұрын

how to say on Chinese but before that ? and all these words separately ? say pls )))

@ChineseGrammarSimplified 4 жыл бұрын

According to google:"Before then" means specifically "before that time", whereas "before that" might more specifically mean "before that occurrence" or "before a thing (previously referred to) happens"www.google.com/search?q=before+then&rlz=1C1SQJL_enUS794US794&oq=before+then&aqs=chrome..69i57.2115j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

@rsainz1296 Жыл бұрын

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!

@ChineseGrammarSimplified Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@keptins 6 жыл бұрын

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

@mathor8419 4 жыл бұрын

I love it

@Jeroeny 6 жыл бұрын

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!

@diemcali 5 жыл бұрын

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

@thedude7577 5 жыл бұрын

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

@claudeborrel4265 4 жыл бұрын

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

@ChineseGrammarSimplified Жыл бұрын

Merci!

@ReasonableRadio 6 жыл бұрын

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??

@JasonMeng 2 жыл бұрын

practically, you can omit "以"

@sardoryaxshiliqov6110 5 жыл бұрын

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

@proxypylon 5 жыл бұрын

以后我要看你的视频。

@user-th2cc4uq2s 4 жыл бұрын

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

@KaRelleproductifhobbies 5 жыл бұрын

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?

@sansokchea9168 5 жыл бұрын

Good

@chaikagirl 5 жыл бұрын

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

@pannabhoga4670 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ceylonbudget4525 5 жыл бұрын

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

@spykespykerman7497 2 жыл бұрын

Wow

@TrangDB9 6 жыл бұрын

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

@Ok-cd1zd 2 ай бұрын

*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)

@junaidhaider4395 3 ай бұрын

if i want to be a member and buy subcription ,can i buy it through wechat

@bantuvoicemuchaikinuthia2536 5 жыл бұрын

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 ....)

@Ezkanohra 2 жыл бұрын

Why so many ...'s

@user-bd7yp9ww9b 2 жыл бұрын

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。

@g.l.c.gaming1760 Жыл бұрын

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 ?

@ChineseGrammarSimplified Жыл бұрын

no, it should be我去中国以前喜欢中国人。

@tristanzh3213 Жыл бұрын

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

@ChineseGrammarSimplified Жыл бұрын

Not necessarily, I personally believe that 以前&以后 are just as common, and a lot of the times, we will also just use 前 and 后 for short.

@jackieChien990 5 жыл бұрын

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"。

@ChineseGrammarSimplified 4 жыл бұрын

“Actually, you should omit “以” and only use "前" for the correct Chinese grammar.” What? That is totally wrong! You can always say 吃饭以前要洗手 just as much as 吃饭前要洗手. So I don't know where you get the idea that it is grammatically wrong. You can omit 以 in pretty much every situation of 以前 and 以后 except when they are used as "in the past" or "in the future"。

@jackieChien990 4 жыл бұрын

@@ChineseGrammarSimplified You are wrong. "以" is a preposition or a particle such as '"at" ,"on", "in", "up", . In an English sentence, even though we pick up the wrong prepositions or add up redundant particles, people can still understand your words in most cases but just feel a little bit awkward and know that you might not be a Chinese native speaker. Yes, you can say 吃饭前要洗手 as 吃饭’以“前要洗手, but we can still say it as 吃饭“之”前要洗手. In fact, people who speak Chinese generally talks that this if they add a preposition（之 not 以）or 前 for this case.

@mountaintag 3 жыл бұрын

What's interesting here is that the English preposition "ago" comes AFTER its phrase. We cannot say "ago 500 years". So, regarding 以前 and 以后, maybe all we need to say is that in Chinese, these prepositions come AFTER their phrase, just like "ago" does in English.

@scotth5988 2 жыл бұрын

@@mountaintag which makes ago a postposition rather than a preposition. I think.

@mountaintag 2 жыл бұрын

@@scotth5988 Ha ha ! Good one ! Some people say that "they're at the post" means that the horse race is over, because "post" means "after". :-)

@victory4892 2 жыл бұрын

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@kdrama8636 2 ай бұрын

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？

@danielribeiro2869 5 жыл бұрын

Tai Hao Le

@paulettedevonish9198 5 жыл бұрын

I need more grammar

@cheeeeezewizzz 5 жыл бұрын

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.

@pedroads7683 5 жыл бұрын

What different between 这前 and 以前

@ChineseGrammarSimplified 5 жыл бұрын

Pedro កំសាន្ត 这前 is not a thing we say in Chinese, maybe you are referring to 之前。”xyz 之前” is the same as “xyz以前”

@mraidkho865 5 жыл бұрын

Make mre videos

@maiphamthithao8225 8 ай бұрын

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? 🥲

@ChineseGrammarSimplified 8 ай бұрын

Sorry, but your understanding is not correct. First: English: I went to china before i go to france. chinese: 我去法国以前去中国。 Break down: Sub + V + Obj = I went to China, Time = before I go to France In Chinese: Sub + v + Obj = 我去中国 Time: 去法国以前 Chinese sentence structure: S + Time + V + O therefore: 我去法国以前去中国。

@maiphamthithao8225 8 ай бұрын

@@ChineseGrammarSimplified 谢谢你！

@annymus4502 4 жыл бұрын

I’M SO CONFUSED ASDFGHJKLÑ

@ChineseGrammarSimplified Жыл бұрын

Sorry, please maybe watch the video gain?

@tinhlaingoo1844 Жыл бұрын

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

@ChineseGrammarSimplified Жыл бұрын

That's a very good question. I would invite you to take a look at my video about the five basic tenses in Chinese. In that video I mentioned a character for perfect tense 过. To say I have never done something, we would usually use expression “没 + Verb + 过”, or more thoroughly we would say, “从来没 + Verb + 过”.

@jayramdahal3799 5 жыл бұрын

hen hao xiexie nin

@gentle_lion007 2 жыл бұрын

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

@ChineseGrammarSimplified 2 жыл бұрын

New video will be published this weekend

@randythamrin5976 4 жыл бұрын

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

@ChineseGrammarSimplified Жыл бұрын

Sorry to hear that, maybe watch it a few more times.

@alexanderfarel8365 11 ай бұрын

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??

@redwanalqudaimi3121 Ай бұрын

Omg

@skglearnchinese5075 3 жыл бұрын

老师好！以前和前一样吗？

@mountaintag 3 жыл бұрын

I think that 以 in 以前 can sometimes be omitted, so 前 alone is sometimes used. Also, instead of 以前, sometimes 之前 is used. But when 前 is used alone, it could stand for 前面, which means "before" (in position), rather than 以前, which means "before" (in time).

@gredangeo 5 жыл бұрын

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.

@ChineseGrammarSimplified Жыл бұрын

You touched on the key difficulties of language learning --- changing thought patterns. Different languages organized different information differently, you essentially have to rearrange your thought patterns to be able to switch between languages. Once you're familiar with more than one language, you will find it fascinating when you notice there are different cultural and value priorities reflected in languages. For example, there are so many different words for different kinds of cheese in English and European languages, while in China we have a list of specific terms to address different cousins. In a sense, words are basically shortcuts to ideas, the more nuanced words we create for the concept, the more we value the concept in the culture.

@anhnguyen-kj4st Жыл бұрын

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@nurmuhammad4540 3 жыл бұрын

以后和然后是一样吗？

@ChineseGrammarSimplified 3 жыл бұрын

不一样

@nurmuhammad4540 3 жыл бұрын

@@ChineseGrammarSimplified 为啥呢？

@ChineseGrammarSimplified 3 жыл бұрын

@@nurmuhammad4540 然后 is a stand-alone word meaning "then", you don't attach it to other words. When 以后 is standing alone, it means "in the future" as explained in the video.

@nurmuhammad4540 3 жыл бұрын

@@ChineseGrammarSimplified 明白了，谢谢你

@saifu008 2 жыл бұрын

how to say "first of all".

@ChineseGrammarSimplified 2 жыл бұрын

首先

@mewebs9855 3 жыл бұрын

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

@ChineseGrammarSimplified Жыл бұрын

They don't seem quite right, especially we don't say 说跟客户, we only say 跟客户说。And what is 蒙得维的亚?

@talhasohail2102 Жыл бұрын

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？

@ChineseGrammarSimplified Жыл бұрын

Very close, you can read the answers on my website.

@talhasohail2102 Жыл бұрын

Ya I've seen, a little bit mistake 💔 it's confusing 上班和工作

@AlfDagg 4 жыл бұрын

No wonder they talk about the inscrutable Chinese mind

@CafeX473 Жыл бұрын

去中國以前去中國以后

@simplynmadula8783 Жыл бұрын

🤕

@miguelpmmh8954 3 жыл бұрын

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

@ChineseGrammarSimplified Жыл бұрын

The overarching grammar is usually pretty simple. But there are a lot of exceptions and special phrasings that confuse intermediate and advanced students.

@michaelkurniawan3101 4 жыл бұрын

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

@ChineseGrammarSimplified Жыл бұрын

A 以后, B = A first, B second A 以前, B = B first, A second

@einradtrialer 6 жыл бұрын

騎自行車上班以後我給電話你。

@MrGanbat84 3 жыл бұрын

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

@mountaintag 3 жыл бұрын

Looks like you're trying to leave spaces between the words (as we do in English). This is not done in Chinese. In Chinese, there are no spaces between the words.

@ChineseGrammarSimplified Жыл бұрын

@mountaintag Always good to see your helpful tips for other students .