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Awesome. I guess you would call all of these exonyms?

Thank you! The video is amazing!

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i think the best way to imagine the first tone is by pretending to be a stereotypical British person saying uniVERsity. And for the 1st + 2nd tone combination, imagine that british person being really agitated and asking "ZHONGguo!? you what, mate?"

Pink panther ass music

who else is learning Chinese so they're not illiterate when China invades the united states lol

I am learning Mandarin Chinese for my friend. I have been trying to learn it for a while now but haven't really full focused on it due to the fact that there was not resources I could find that I could rely on. I'm going to try this video out, will update when completed.

I think a mistake began at 1:00:49 where it's no longer an end one tone combination, right?

Amazing video: thanks a lot for it, Mike!!! Especially when it comes to the 5th tone, it's really mind-blowing, because if the following impressions are right, so it raises a question: Has the "5 tone" been called as a "neutral" one, because it has no tonal characteristics by its own, but rather behaves like a "chameleon", but being manifested only when connected to another tone?! Because: 1. After the 1st and the 4th tones, it seems to sound practically like a clipped third tone, so: sūnzi = sūnzǐ' chāzi = chāzǐ' kuàizi = kuàizǐ' yìsi = yìsǐ' gàosu = gaosǔ' zhēnde = zhēndě' kāi le = kāi lě' kàn le = kàn lě' xièxie = xièxiě' tāmen = tāměn 2. After the 2nd it seems to sound quite similarly to a lower-range 4th tone - (this lower range is here being symbolised by the letter "h" after a vowel, as in the Yale Romanisation System for Cantonese, which makes it go as follows): háizi = háizìh chú le = chú lèh wán le = wán lèh péngyou = péngyòuh 3. After the 3rd tone, it seems to sound like either a lower-range 1st tone or a lower-range 4th tone: hǎode = hàoh-dèh//hàoh-dēh wǒmen = wòh-mēhn mǎnle = màhn-lēh So, if it's such like that, an amazing language has become unveiled to our Western world. God bless you, Mike. Thanks a lot, again!

this deserves more views. 謝謝

Your videos inspired me to start learning languages so thank YOU

right, so Chongking, Nanking, Peking aren't Wade-Giles; they're Nanjing/Imperial Koine Mandarin or Postal. Also, Wade-Giles and Pinyin both write Beijing/Standard Mandarin. In Wade-Giles they would be Ch'ung-Ching, Nan-Ching, Pei-Ching. the pronunciation was in fact different back then, with a K/G sound. This form is still preserved in other southern Chinese varities, like Cantonese <bak1 ging1> for Beijing.

The russian ear gesture is also found here in Morocco

Wonderful video. My main issue is neither distinguish between tones nor pronouncing them right. My issue is remembering which tone is right for which character.

turn down the damn music dude wtf

reallllllly helpful!!!!!!

Chat is this real?

11:37 gong should be 3rd tone. Great video. Very well presented.

柚 compose by 木由。木 related to tree, wood. Add side stroke to 由 to know more.，黄，油，柚，抽烟，电，申诉，畅通，铀矿

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The best video I found here about Chinese tones. Understandable and very helpful. Thank you!

Isn't B pronounced p?

The /r/ in Mandarin Chinese for some reason is a bit difficult for me. I speak.both Spanish and English and can roll and say my R's correctly but in Mandarin I feel like I'm off 😢

I think cantonese and several other chinese languages are objectively harder than mandarin chinese for any non native speaker no matter where you're from. More tones, same or more difficult script, way less learning resources.

I thought sombrero meant 'shade maker.'

I thought sombrero meant 'shade maker.'

Great video super helpful!

This is awesome

This is exactly what I've been struggling with. Next thing I need to learn are the Pinyin that don't sound like they're spelled. I know there are certain letters that only have a ü sound even though the dots aren't written and also some that have an extra unwritten vowel. I already saw those on another video, but they didn't sink in yet. So the main thing I learnt from this video was right at the very end with the tone changes for bu & yi. I hadn't learnt those before. Otherwise, this video was great to help me practice. I learnt about the tone change rules for 3rd tones a couple of days ago. I think I'm going to make a lot of improvement now that I've got these down. I've been struggling for quite a while wondering why native speakers never match the tones that are written. Now I know.

This video is amazing!! This should absolutely be viewed in the millions for all those trying to learn Mandarin - best one I've come across

the animation's great, first time knowing what those characters depict as an Chinese

Really good video! Very informative and interesting, thanks!

Mandarin Pin Yin 4 tones. ā Singing tone. 🎼 🎵 á Questioning tone. ? ă Thinking tone. 🤔 à Rejection tone. N😡! NO! 👎 Exclamation rejection tone.

3:06 tones

What app?

I could use this clip for teaching, except that when you turn the volume up enough for a group of language learners to hear the words, the jazz music is too loud.

Thanks i really improved my learning ❤

wowowow!! this is so helpful. thank you so much 💖

Outstanding work and I greatly appreciated the history behind the name changes! Spellings and pronunciations are a serious problem in the field of numerology where every letter translates to a number.

Was I the only person who still didn't understand anything? I also didn't see much resemblance between objects and characters. I was like "seriously?"

1:12:55 dude, where is my car?

I'm struck by the comprehensive nature of this content. A book with similar substance expanded my intellectual horizons. "Your Body Your Temple" by Sophia Wintergreen

Thanks so much for the video, but why is the volume so low?

This is simply the greatest video I found on learning the Chinese tones - I’ve lived in Guangzhou as a model (in 3 month increments, for nearly a year in an entirety) and I never thought of trying to acquire the language beyond the basics. This has inspired me so much, as I was trying to use comprehensible input via YT and it just wasn’t feeling like I’d retain anything beyond words and phrases. But, this gave me an eye opening moment and I am so thankful for this content!

Man, this is the best Chinese Tones Course I've seen in my two years studying Chinese. This is a master piece. Too beautiful, too good and FREE. I can't believe it! I've been struggle with tones for too long, but this kinda cleared out most of my doubts. Sigh, so the sky was blue after all! ❤🎉 How is the app going btw? Can I still keep dreaming on meeting that sweetie someday?

Great topic, I'm currently teaching sign language at our community college, of its alright with you I'd like to share this with my student.

Is there any place else goes through the radicals and explains the history of the symbol? Can only ever find a few random ones explained.

Creepy for real 💀💀 1:36

Just found this after 6 months after started learning Chinese. This is so good, wish I have found this earlier.