The Most Useful Phrases for Chinese Beginners | MUP 01 | Mandarin Lessons — Transcript
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- 0:00hello i'm ishan from harveymandarin.com
- 0:04in this lesson we are going to learn the
- 0:06most useful phrases for chinese
- 0:08beginners
- 0:10when you are first learning chinese it
- 0:12can feel like everyone is speaking so
- 0:14fast
- 0:15maybe they are when that happens you can
- 0:18say
- 0:19they are sure please speak a little
- 0:21slower
- 0:23qing means please means
- 0:28means a little note that the n in dr
- 0:32is silent and sure means speak
- 0:35please slow a little speak in other
- 0:38words please speak a little slower
- 0:41please repeat after me
- 0:53please speak a little slower let's see
- 0:55an example
- 1:03that was too fast
- 1:06please speak a little slower ho
- 1:10ho
- 1:19[Music]
- 1:25problem solved
- 1:29i really love that actress okay
- 1:32moving on if you didn't quite catch what
- 1:35someone said
- 1:36you can say
- 1:39please say it again ching means please
- 1:43sai means again means
- 1:46say and means one time
- 1:50please again say one time in other words
- 1:53please say it again please repeat after
- 1:55me
- 2:06please say it again let's watch those
- 2:09amazing actors again
- 2:16i didn't catch that chin
- 2:20please say it again
- 2:24[Music]
- 2:26this time i got it he said i'm really
- 2:34beautiful
- 2:38okay when you want to ask how to say
- 2:41something
- 2:42in chinese you can ask by saying the
- 2:44word or phrase you want to know and add
- 2:46young which means how do you say it in
- 2:50chinese
- 2:52for example happy young
- 2:56how do you say happy in chinese
- 2:59means using means chinese
- 3:04means how and sure means say
- 3:08x using chinese how to say in other
- 3:11words
- 3:12how do you say x in chinese please
- 3:15repeat after me
- 3:29how do you say it in chinese
- 3:33jack how do you say i love you in
- 3:36chinese
- 3:37i love you you ha you sure
- 3:41i love you shir or i need
- 3:50thank you i love you too
- 3:55okay if you want to know what a chinese
- 3:58word or phrase means
- 3:59you can ask by saying the word what
- 4:01phrase followed by
- 4:05for example if you want to know what the
- 4:07word lao shi
- 4:08means you can say lao shi shi shama is
- 4:12what does lao she mean she
- 4:15is the verb to be means what
- 4:19and is is meaning x
- 4:22is what meaning in other words what does
- 4:25x mean
- 4:26please repeat after me
- 4:38what does it mean
- 4:54mean
- 4:56[Music]
- 5:04thank you
- 5:09okay if you want to ask if someone can
- 5:12speak english
- 5:13you can say
- 5:16can you speak english means you
- 5:20means can sure means
- 5:49i want to find a good restaurant near
- 5:51here but i'm not sure how to ask
- 5:54um can you speak english
- 6:00yes i speak english oh can you recommend
- 6:04a good restaurant near here
- 6:06sure i'd be happy to problem solved
- 6:12aren't they cute okay
- 6:15if someone asks if you know chinese you
- 6:18might want to tell them that you can
- 6:19speak
- 6:20a little chinese
- 6:24i can speak a little chinese
- 6:27means i means can
- 6:30sure means speak epr
- 6:34means a little and hanyu means chinese
- 6:52i can speak a little chinese
- 6:57can you speak chinese
- 7:09[Music]
- 7:12a little chinese too
- 7:17okay if someone says something you
- 7:20didn't understand
- 7:21you can say what
- 7:25means i may is used to negate an action
- 7:29that happened in the past
- 7:30in this case it means didn't tin
- 7:34means listen or hear and do means
- 7:37understand so what
- 7:40means i didn't understand what i heard
- 7:43please repeat after me
- 7:56i didn't understand what i heard in
- 7:59chinese
- 7:59we make a distinction between
- 8:01understanding something you heard
- 8:03and understanding something you saw or
- 8:06read
- 8:07if you want to say you didn't understand
- 8:09something you saw or
- 8:10read you can replace tin listen
- 8:14with kan which means to see or read
- 8:17so means i didn't understand
- 8:21what i saw or read please repeat after
- 8:24me
- 8:34i didn't understand what i saw or read
- 8:53yeah very cold
- 8:58this is so hard to understand what may
- 9:01khan do
- 9:06okay sometimes when someone asks
- 9:10you a question you don't know the answer
- 9:12in that case
- 9:13you can say what i don't know
- 9:17wa means i boo means not
- 9:21and means to know
- 9:32i don't know
- 9:37is he a doctor
- 9:41i don't know
- 9:46okay if you need someone to wait for you
- 9:48for a moment
- 9:49you can say hua please wait
- 9:53a moment chin means please
- 9:56dong means wait and ih means
- 10:00a moment
- 10:17let's go oh i need to find my keys
- 10:20chung yohur please wait a moment
- 10:27okay to say thanks in chinese
- 10:30you say please repeat after me
- 10:40thanks
- 10:45this is for you
- 10:49thank you
- 10:54to say you are welcome in chinese you
- 10:57say
- 10:57bukuchi or
- 11:00please repeat after me
- 11:09you're welcome or
- 11:24jack this is for you
- 11:28thank you you're welcome
- 11:32or i could have said
- 11:37is it that actress amazing
- 11:40okay if you make a big mistake
- 11:44you can apologize by saying
- 11:47which means i'm sorry please repeat
- 11:50after me
- 12:02[Music]
- 12:05i'm sorry
- 12:09for smaller mistakes like if you dial a
- 12:12wrong phone number
- 12:13or likely bump into someone you can say
- 12:18which also means i'm sorry but it's a
- 12:20lighter apology
- 12:22please repeat after me
- 12:31i'm sorry
- 12:35my dad is there hi baba hello dad
- 12:41i'm not your dad oh boy
- 12:44i'm sorry i thought he was my dad
- 12:51okay if someone apologizes to you
- 12:55and you want to say it doesn't matter
- 12:57don't worry about it
- 12:59then you can say me guanxi or may sure
- 13:03please repeat after me
- 13:19made sure it doesn't matter
- 13:23so where ouch
- 13:26i'm sorry mei kuan shi
- 13:29it doesn't matter
- 13:35you can tell someone that something is
- 13:36not a problem by saying
- 13:38mei wenti you can say mei wenti
- 13:42if someone asks a favor from you asks
- 13:45you to wait for a bid
- 13:46or tells you that they are going to be
- 13:48late to let them know
- 13:50it's not a problem please repeat after
- 13:52me
- 13:53maywen p
- 13:56may went
- 14:00no problem
- 14:04hi jack
- 14:07are you busy tomorrow
- 14:10[Music]
- 14:12i have a chinese exam tomorrow
- 14:24no problem
- 14:29okay here are some commonly used chinese
- 14:32greetings
- 14:33hello in chinese is
- 14:37means you ha means good together
- 14:41this is how we say hello in chinese
- 14:44please repeat after me
- 14:53when someone says nihao to you all you
- 14:55need to do is say
- 14:57niihau back
- 15:01hello hello
- 15:09when you see someone in the morning you
- 15:11can greet them by saying
- 15:12shanghai means morning
- 15:16and hao means good zhao shanghai
- 15:19means good morning please repeat after
- 15:22me
- 15:24shanghai
- 15:30good morning zhao zhang hao is a polite
- 15:33way of saying good morning
- 15:35you can also just say dao as a more
- 15:37casual way of saying good morning
- 15:40please repeat after me
- 15:47good morning when people say
- 15:50shanghai words out to you all you need
- 15:53to do is say
- 15:54shanghai back
- 16:00good morning morning
- 16:07when you want to say goodbye in chinese
- 16:09you can say
- 16:12means again means
- 16:16means see you again or goodbye please
- 16:19repeat after me
- 16:28again when someone says to you all you
- 16:31need to do is say
- 16:32daijian back
- 16:37oh no it's late i have to go home
- 16:40sai jian goodbye jai jian
- 16:43goodbye
- 16:48when it's time to go to bed you can tell
- 16:50your family or friends
- 16:53which means good night one means
- 16:56night and an means safe where peaceful
- 17:00so means have a peaceful night
- 17:03in other words good night please repeat
- 17:05after me
- 17:13good night again when someone says
- 17:16one unto you all you need to do is say
- 17:19what i'm
- 17:20back
- 17:26on good night
- 17:30good night
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