Telling the Time in Chinese | Learn Chinese Now

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11 жыл бұрын

In this episode Ben and Peggy show you how to tell the time in Mandarin Chinese.
What time is it now? - Xiànzài jǐ diǎn? - 現在幾點？
O'clock - Diǎn - 點
Minute - fēn - 分

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@legaleagle46 8 жыл бұрын

Ben's tones are amazing. If I didn't know better, I'd say he was a native speaker!

@timnyapming8114 4 жыл бұрын

Agreed. May I please ask which other videos could be used to learn Mandarin so that I can use it globally in other places?

@rocksspeak 9 жыл бұрын

Yes, Thank you both so much for putting on these straight forward videos, Please make more simple ones, how about hiking, biking, walking around in China, buying, exploring. Entering different venues, manners customs, any would help.. Thanks again and I hope you can keep making it fun.. Greetings from Lake City, Colorado, USA

@darkwarfare772 11 жыл бұрын

You can use 早上, 下午 or 夜上 at the beginning to indicate whether it's morning, afternoon or night.

@brucegonyea6875 6 жыл бұрын

Glad I found your videos very helpful

@user-jc4fz7lp6v 8 жыл бұрын

I am so happy and lucky to be with you guys! hey I just want to know the expression as to when you are late about for example 10 minute at appointment. I mean I want to know the expression about describing punctuation or reverse.

@user-ip5wv8yk8n 5 жыл бұрын

thank you so much I am studying chinese and you are very helpful

@theboringayanda6228 9 жыл бұрын

If I want to say 8:55 ( five minutes to nine) in Chinese, will it still be correct if I said "jiu dian cha wu fen" instead of saying "cha wu fen jiu dian"?

@shauzinsyeda9714 6 жыл бұрын

Thank u so much .

@98USB 8 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much I have finals in my Mandarin class tomorrow and your videos help me review the lessons. Xiexie nin

@laurentsai7191 5 жыл бұрын

Saira Gie this is such a late response but I have my Chinese final tomorrow and this helps me to! :)

@galvis1217 5 жыл бұрын

is never too late

@laurentsai7191 5 жыл бұрын

Emerald Broker haha true

@mehdihassan33 5 жыл бұрын

Saira Gie we can help each other by throw conversation because me to studying Chinese

@silenttigerblackcrowazraze886 4 жыл бұрын

hahaha I'm also going to have a test in Chinese and since its COVID season, well its a speaking test and before that if failed that 1

@abdulrazagmustapha5167 9 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the lesson on time, but how do we distinguish (pm) from (am) in Chinese telling time?

@recklessroges 11 жыл бұрын

Thank you for putting the bloopers in their own video - it was hard to hear them under the music in the credits.

@1212yod 9 жыл бұрын

I've always heard, say, for 8:50 - ba dian cha shi fen. Or 5:45 - wu dian cha yi ke. Now you say the 'cha' thing first; which is correct?

@zangkookismyfavoritepokemo7701 8 жыл бұрын

Can you use 時 ?

@elmohead 8 жыл бұрын

I've always said x:45 as "X dian shao yi ke". Have I been doing it wrong?

@laameldy1422 6 жыл бұрын

很好看

@ceciliagrace16 4 жыл бұрын

When using 'yi ke' to express quarter past in this video, 'yi' is marked as tone 2; is this a difference between mandarin spoken in mainland china and Taiwan?

@narayana8249 6 жыл бұрын

I am curious. Under what circumstances are the appropriate time for liang instead of er?

@azuresea00 11 жыл бұрын

can i also say 五点差十分 or 五点还差十分? because in my dialect it's the latter one...

@elyn34 5 жыл бұрын

where can I find the test telling the time?

@DavidsonLoops 10 жыл бұрын

Can you use either of these? a) Cha yi ke wu dian - 4.45 b) Wu dian san ke - 5.45

@NortheasternChina 10 жыл бұрын

Both of them are correct.Young people can understand that(I mean ke) but it's quite rare to use it.Almost all of time we use the first and second methods in the video.

@jennyyang1018 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the wonderful video. It would have been better if simplified Chinese is used

@kayekwok6148 9 жыл бұрын

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@Catanonimus777 5 жыл бұрын

Can I say 差一刻分五点？

@ManfrediVullo 5 жыл бұрын

“现在几点？” 可以变成 “几点了”吗？

@serenaju8374 11 жыл бұрын

Mostly, it simplified :)

@rozgann 9 жыл бұрын

This series is fantastic! It's exactly on my level. What do you recommend for when I'm over in China? I understand KZfaq isn't available there.

@eliahkim3446 10 жыл бұрын

I go to school and qi dian shi fen Hopefully thats right :D thanks a lots

@lgrsrj4143 5 жыл бұрын

Peggy is so cute🤩

@jimd2101 4 жыл бұрын

She is perfect

@Benimation 10 жыл бұрын

How can you say AM or PM?

@ianlippart8314 10 жыл бұрын

You could specify morning or night with zaoshang (早上）or wanshang (晚上). For example, 7 o'clock in the morning would be: zaoshang qi dian (早上七点). In Chinese you always start with the largest increment of time first, so if you wanted to specify a specific date and time in the near future, the format would be: day-of-the-week / time-of-day / hour / minute. Wednesday, in the evening, at 8:30. Xingqi san wanshang ba dian ban. 星期三晚上八点半。