Thank you so much, Paul, and GOOD POINT!! You're absolutely right. I didn't get to wrap up everything into this one video, but am so happy that you brought it up - the "r" sound in Chinese and English are indeed different in terms of the position of your tongue (don't make it towards the back of your mouth) and the shape of your lips (don't round them up too much)!

The r in chinese is more like the betacism version of “sh”. I hope that helps with your pronunciation

There are basically two* ways to make the R sound in English, those are the pirate R [ɻ] with a really curled back tongue, and the most used one, the alveolar R [ɹ]. The two main differences between the Chinese and the English R are: in English there's a coarticulation with a W sound (narrow transcription would be [ɹʷ]), that is to say that the R is pronounced with rounded lips -- there's no such a thing in Chinese; and the second is related to manner and placement of articulation, that means that the Chinese one may be produced either as the pirate R or as a voiced retroflex fricative [ʐ] that resembles the French J [ʒ] or the letter S in "pleasure", but with the tongue a little bit more curled back in the exactly same position for the pirate R. To sum up: the English R is made with rounded lips and the tip of the tongue pointing to the alveolar ridge where its manner of articulation is approximant. In the other hand, the pirate/Chinese R (when realized as so) is exactly the same thing, but with the tip of the tongue a little bit more curled back and the manner of articulation can be both a fricative or an approximant depending on the speaker, but I have the feeling that in connected speech it tends to be more like the pirate R and when pronouncing carefully it tends to resemble more the French J. I hope this helps! Have a listen in the letters (ɹ, ɻ, ʐ, ʒ) I put beside the explanations so you guys can hear the difference between them: www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/IPAcharts/inter_chart_2018/IPA_2018.html *There are actually three: in some Scottish accents they roll the R and it sounds the same as the double R in the Spanish word "carro"!

I couldn't really tell the difference 😂😂😭😭😭😭😭

For me, the 'r' sond of the chinese language it's a combination of the 'r' sond of the English, and the 'L' sond, in the beginning you put your tongue like you were pronunciating a 'r' and final you pronouns a 'L'

Glad you have figured it out yourself👍👍

LOL OMG, I feel called with this comment. I couldn't distinguish those sounds even if my life depended on it, guess it's time to switch dialect

@@loren8215 chi (tongue at top of mouth) shi (tongue in middle of mouth) zhi (tongue at bottom of mouth) Try it. It works for me.

Thank you so much for leaving a comment and letting me know that my content is helpful for Chinese learners like you! Really appreciate it! And it's exactly what this channel needs so much to be recommended to a larger audience! 😊

My great pleasure! So happy that you find my content useful😄❤ More to come!!

Ojalá hubiera más ejemplos así, ya que la mayoría de los ejemplos que da son para angloparlantes y el problema es que los errores que se hacen al aprender otro idioma son altamente dependientes de la lengua nativa. Y aunque a nosotros se nos impone aprender inglés, no pronunciamos como nativos, sino una aproximación (que es lo que crea «el acento»), por lo que se crea un sesgo perceptivo en el mensaje comparativo chino-inglés para los no-nativos de inglés.

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It is definitely POSSIBLE! Have faith and keep it up💪😄

Thank you for your work! Faith makes great!🇨🇳

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Awesome!! Glad you fin dit helpful!

I’m so happy that you liked my video and really enjoyed the details that I made for the videos! Will def make more content for new learners😊🙌💪 加油！

My huge pleasure!! Really appreciate your words😊😊 I'll def make a video fro French speakers in particular when I get to learn French language better so I can help you guys more😄

@@RitaChinese Awesome video Rita! I have been learning Chinese from French as well and would love a video catered for us.

Hi very interesting video, Must watch it again. I am french , I am learning chinese now, through English. Though It would be nice to have some tips for french speakers

Great!! 太开心了😊😆🙌

Haha glad to hear that!! My pleasure😊

@@RitaChineseRemember, with fan laoshi, Chinese makes perfect sense 😊

谢谢你😊 So happy to know you liked it! I just started making YT videos couple of months ago and was too busy to make more in a regular basis. I wish the same hahah! Will def try to do more💪💪

Hahahah great!! So happy to hear that you found my content is helpful😊😊 Really appreciate your feedback so I'll have more motivation to make more videos👍👍

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Yayyy so happy that you liked it😊❤️🙌

You’re very welcome! Glad you find it helpful, Claude!

Gracias! I’ve been trying to learn Spanish so that maybe one day I’ll be able to teach in Spanish haha. Thank you so much for following and getting more learners here😄🙌

That sounds like a good start!! Keep it up💪😄

你好！谢谢😊❤️ Glad you like it! New videos are coming🙌 Keep it up!

Haha better late than never😆👏💪 It just takes time to practice and internalize them!

Glad you find the video helpful! Keep it up😄💪

Wow good summary! Thanks!

太好了！非常开心😆

Thank you so much!! Appreciate your support! Will do😄😄

谢谢😄 继续努力！！

Thank you for sharing your experience!! I'm so happy that you find my video helpful😊 Keep it up💪🙌 加油加油！

太好了！谢谢你告诉我，我很开心看到喜欢学中文的朋友也喜欢我的视频😄🙌❤️ 我们都加油💪💪

The back of you tongue touches the roof of your mouth! And q is more aspirated than j! Good questions👍

It'd gonna be getting so much easier if you practice it over and over in the right way😆🙌 Glad you find it helpful!

It's a great start knowing that what the correct is like! So you will get to practice to the right direction! And good catch! "R" sound is a big one in a lot of languages (like in Spanish, sigh)! Will talk about it when I get a chance! Stay tuned😊🙌

@@RitaChinese Spanish r is hard for English speakers, too. My wife can do them though (probably because she's Filipino).

@@peterbayne7227 Ah interesting! haha I'm still struggling with it unfortunately😄

Oh, actually even HSK textbooks from 北京语言大学出版社 teach coronals (that's the fancy name for j q x) like that. So I was just wondering what's going on. Is it like okay to use either way?🌝

You asked such a great question, Laurent! And it's def been causing a lot of confusions for Chinese learners, I can imagine. I read the 现代汉语 books in college, but back then I didn't really pay so much attention on the pronunciation part. But I just bought it on Amazon to review a bit, and to see how the j/q/x sounds are described in the must-read book for Chinese students. Tbh I won't be surprised if they taught the tongue position is same as zh/ch/sh, and it would make so much sense of why so many Chinese learners have the problems of pronouncing the sounds. I'm afraid that quite a lot of the textbooks and teachers didn't teach the sounds correctly over past...decades. I'll definitely elaborate these two groups of sounds in my next Chinese analysis video! Thank you for your question!

哈哈哈谢谢！我有空得赶紧找马老师再多练练😄

@@RitaChinese 丽塔小姐姐真滴太棒了！！！ 加油！

Hahah thanks!! Heard enough to imitate a bit I guess😆🙌

@@RitaChinese I'd love to learn more about 北京话。Also, what are the differences between 东北话 and 北京话？ I'm fascinated by those kinds of things. Are you planning to make more videos about it? I've already seen your first one! 我想要多学点儿北京话。比如说，北京话跟东北话有什么不同？对这样的话题很感兴趣。您打算做关于这些的视频吗？我已经看过你关于北京话的第一部！

@@totallyfake2852 哈哈谢谢你提出这个话题！等我时间多一点的时候去研究一下东北话的特点，然后可以做个视频给大家看！目前我能想到的声调和声母都有明显的不同，当然方言的话有一些日常用的词也会不一样！应该挺有意思的😁😀

@@RitaChinese 你太棒了！

Fo Shizza my Wizard!

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Good question, Keith! The tones are more about the pitch of your voice, like when you sing a song, you change the pitch of your voice to sing different notes; Whereas "placement" is more about pronunciation, i.e. the consonants and vowels, and the overall position where you "produce" the sounds. So the two overlap a little bit, but basically they're two aspects of your "Chinese voice." I don't know if you have watched it or not, and maybe you can check out my TONE GUIDE video where I explained the tones more😊

@@RitaChinese thank you for the response Rita, I'll check your tone video as well! I have improved drastically on tones but I notice my 3rd tone I tend to use vocal fry to achieve. In the "English placement" the vocal fry is pretty easy to do. With the forward placement I seem to find myself reaching further back to drop down for the 3rd tone. I'm not sure if that makes any sense or not. Thanks again, these placement tips, voiced and unvoiced, aspirated and unaspirated are all gold!

@@KeithHoranParkour Awesome! I’ve actually been telling my American students to use “vocal fry” to get a grasp of the 3rd tone! You’re doing great👏👏 Keep it up💪🙌

@@RitaChinese 加油! Maybe I got idea from one of your videos in the past! 😀

Thank you!! Appreciate it🙏

It just takes time to train your ears and your voice, but it's definitely doable!

确实是，也得继续增加输入、多听多模仿！

@@RitaChinese 你们俩要是得空生个娃，那还不得至少三种母语啊，精通联合国五常的所有语言。想想都觉得厉害。

hahah really? I know an (Chinese) English teacher friend uses it as well!

很荣幸你关注和喜欢我的内容呀😄

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I know it takes time!! Better get a tutor to help you adjust the pronunciation if you can. Your tongue position is different when pronouncing x and s. Similarly with c and q! 加油💪

@@RitaChinese y know i look your explanations 🤣. Thanks for your work Rita :) Chris can promote your channel !! Hey Chris move your ass for !!!

traditional chinese=japanese kanji pre-1946. modern japanese kanji is pretty in the middle with simplfied and traditional though, so maybe it depends on your kanji knowledge. i would guess that if your kanji knowledge is a bit worse than average, learn simplfied. if its better than average, learn traditional. also fyi someone who learns simplified can read traditional (with some difficulty) and someone who learns traditional can read simplfied (also with arguably a bit more difficulty). but if you’re exposed enough to the other there wont be as much difficulty.