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The Most Useful Phrases for Chinese Beginners | MUP 01 | Mandarin Lessons — Transcript

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  1. 0:00hello i'm ishan from harveymandarin.com
  2. 0:04in this lesson we are going to learn the
  3. 0:06most useful phrases for chinese
  4. 0:08beginners
  5. 0:10when you are first learning chinese it
  6. 0:12can feel like everyone is speaking so
  7. 0:14fast
  8. 0:15maybe they are when that happens you can
  9. 0:18say
  10. 0:19they are sure please speak a little
  11. 0:21slower
  12. 0:23qing means please means
  13. 0:28means a little note that the n in dr
  14. 0:32is silent and sure means speak
  15. 0:35please slow a little speak in other
  16. 0:38words please speak a little slower
  17. 0:41please repeat after me
  18. 0:53please speak a little slower let's see
  19. 0:55an example
  20. 1:03that was too fast
  21. 1:06please speak a little slower ho
  22. 1:10ho
  23. 1:19[Music]
  24. 1:25problem solved
  25. 1:29i really love that actress okay
  26. 1:32moving on if you didn't quite catch what
  27. 1:35someone said
  28. 1:36you can say
  29. 1:39please say it again ching means please
  30. 1:43sai means again means
  31. 1:46say and means one time
  32. 1:50please again say one time in other words
  33. 1:53please say it again please repeat after
  34. 1:55me
  35. 2:06please say it again let's watch those
  36. 2:09amazing actors again
  37. 2:16i didn't catch that chin
  38. 2:20please say it again
  39. 2:24[Music]
  40. 2:26this time i got it he said i'm really
  41. 2:34beautiful
  42. 2:38okay when you want to ask how to say
  43. 2:41something
  44. 2:42in chinese you can ask by saying the
  45. 2:44word or phrase you want to know and add
  46. 2:46young which means how do you say it in
  47. 2:50chinese
  48. 2:52for example happy young
  49. 2:56how do you say happy in chinese
  50. 2:59means using means chinese
  51. 3:04means how and sure means say
  52. 3:08x using chinese how to say in other
  53. 3:11words
  54. 3:12how do you say x in chinese please
  55. 3:15repeat after me
  56. 3:29how do you say it in chinese
  57. 3:33jack how do you say i love you in
  58. 3:36chinese
  59. 3:37i love you you ha you sure
  60. 3:41i love you shir or i need
  61. 3:50thank you i love you too
  62. 3:55okay if you want to know what a chinese
  63. 3:58word or phrase means
  64. 3:59you can ask by saying the word what
  65. 4:01phrase followed by
  66. 4:05for example if you want to know what the
  67. 4:07word lao shi
  68. 4:08means you can say lao shi shi shama is
  69. 4:12what does lao she mean she
  70. 4:15is the verb to be means what
  71. 4:19and is is meaning x
  72. 4:22is what meaning in other words what does
  73. 4:25x mean
  74. 4:26please repeat after me
  75. 4:38what does it mean
  76. 4:54mean
  77. 4:56[Music]
  78. 5:04thank you
  79. 5:09okay if you want to ask if someone can
  80. 5:12speak english
  81. 5:13you can say
  82. 5:16can you speak english means you
  83. 5:20means can sure means
  84. 5:49i want to find a good restaurant near
  85. 5:51here but i'm not sure how to ask
  86. 5:54um can you speak english
  87. 6:00yes i speak english oh can you recommend
  88. 6:04a good restaurant near here
  89. 6:06sure i'd be happy to problem solved
  90. 6:12aren't they cute okay
  91. 6:15if someone asks if you know chinese you
  92. 6:18might want to tell them that you can
  93. 6:19speak
  94. 6:20a little chinese
  95. 6:24i can speak a little chinese
  96. 6:27means i means can
  97. 6:30sure means speak epr
  98. 6:34means a little and hanyu means chinese
  99. 6:52i can speak a little chinese
  100. 6:57can you speak chinese
  101. 7:09[Music]
  102. 7:12a little chinese too
  103. 7:17okay if someone says something you
  104. 7:20didn't understand
  105. 7:21you can say what
  106. 7:25means i may is used to negate an action
  107. 7:29that happened in the past
  108. 7:30in this case it means didn't tin
  109. 7:34means listen or hear and do means
  110. 7:37understand so what
  111. 7:40means i didn't understand what i heard
  112. 7:43please repeat after me
  113. 7:56i didn't understand what i heard in
  114. 7:59chinese
  115. 7:59we make a distinction between
  116. 8:01understanding something you heard
  117. 8:03and understanding something you saw or
  118. 8:06read
  119. 8:07if you want to say you didn't understand
  120. 8:09something you saw or
  121. 8:10read you can replace tin listen
  122. 8:14with kan which means to see or read
  123. 8:17so means i didn't understand
  124. 8:21what i saw or read please repeat after
  125. 8:24me
  126. 8:34i didn't understand what i saw or read
  127. 8:53yeah very cold
  128. 8:58this is so hard to understand what may
  129. 9:01khan do
  130. 9:06okay sometimes when someone asks
  131. 9:10you a question you don't know the answer
  132. 9:12in that case
  133. 9:13you can say what i don't know
  134. 9:17wa means i boo means not
  135. 9:21and means to know
  136. 9:32i don't know
  137. 9:37is he a doctor
  138. 9:41i don't know
  139. 9:46okay if you need someone to wait for you
  140. 9:48for a moment
  141. 9:49you can say hua please wait
  142. 9:53a moment chin means please
  143. 9:56dong means wait and ih means
  144. 10:00a moment
  145. 10:17let's go oh i need to find my keys
  146. 10:20chung yohur please wait a moment
  147. 10:27okay to say thanks in chinese
  148. 10:30you say please repeat after me
  149. 10:40thanks
  150. 10:45this is for you
  151. 10:49thank you
  152. 10:54to say you are welcome in chinese you
  153. 10:57say
  154. 10:57bukuchi or
  155. 11:00please repeat after me
  156. 11:09you're welcome or
  157. 11:24jack this is for you
  158. 11:28thank you you're welcome
  159. 11:32or i could have said
  160. 11:37is it that actress amazing
  161. 11:40okay if you make a big mistake
  162. 11:44you can apologize by saying
  163. 11:47which means i'm sorry please repeat
  164. 11:50after me
  165. 12:02[Music]
  166. 12:05i'm sorry
  167. 12:09for smaller mistakes like if you dial a
  168. 12:12wrong phone number
  169. 12:13or likely bump into someone you can say
  170. 12:18which also means i'm sorry but it's a
  171. 12:20lighter apology
  172. 12:22please repeat after me
  173. 12:31i'm sorry
  174. 12:35my dad is there hi baba hello dad
  175. 12:41i'm not your dad oh boy
  176. 12:44i'm sorry i thought he was my dad
  177. 12:51okay if someone apologizes to you
  178. 12:55and you want to say it doesn't matter
  179. 12:57don't worry about it
  180. 12:59then you can say me guanxi or may sure
  181. 13:03please repeat after me
  182. 13:19made sure it doesn't matter
  183. 13:23so where ouch
  184. 13:26i'm sorry mei kuan shi
  185. 13:29it doesn't matter
  186. 13:35you can tell someone that something is
  187. 13:36not a problem by saying
  188. 13:38mei wenti you can say mei wenti
  189. 13:42if someone asks a favor from you asks
  190. 13:45you to wait for a bid
  191. 13:46or tells you that they are going to be
  192. 13:48late to let them know
  193. 13:50it's not a problem please repeat after
  194. 13:52me
  195. 13:53maywen p
  196. 13:56may went
  197. 14:00no problem
  198. 14:04hi jack
  199. 14:07are you busy tomorrow
  200. 14:10[Music]
  201. 14:12i have a chinese exam tomorrow
  202. 14:24no problem
  203. 14:29okay here are some commonly used chinese
  204. 14:32greetings
  205. 14:33hello in chinese is
  206. 14:37means you ha means good together
  207. 14:41this is how we say hello in chinese
  208. 14:44please repeat after me
  209. 14:53when someone says nihao to you all you
  210. 14:55need to do is say
  211. 14:57niihau back
  212. 15:01hello hello
  213. 15:09when you see someone in the morning you
  214. 15:11can greet them by saying
  215. 15:12shanghai means morning
  216. 15:16and hao means good zhao shanghai
  217. 15:19means good morning please repeat after
  218. 15:22me
  219. 15:24shanghai
  220. 15:30good morning zhao zhang hao is a polite
  221. 15:33way of saying good morning
  222. 15:35you can also just say dao as a more
  223. 15:37casual way of saying good morning
  224. 15:40please repeat after me
  225. 15:47good morning when people say
  226. 15:50shanghai words out to you all you need
  227. 15:53to do is say
  228. 15:54shanghai back
  229. 16:00good morning morning
  230. 16:07when you want to say goodbye in chinese
  231. 16:09you can say
  232. 16:12means again means
  233. 16:16means see you again or goodbye please
  234. 16:19repeat after me
  235. 16:28again when someone says to you all you
  236. 16:31need to do is say
  237. 16:32daijian back
  238. 16:37oh no it's late i have to go home
  239. 16:40sai jian goodbye jai jian
  240. 16:43goodbye
  241. 16:48when it's time to go to bed you can tell
  242. 16:50your family or friends
  243. 16:53which means good night one means
  244. 16:56night and an means safe where peaceful
  245. 17:00so means have a peaceful night
  246. 17:03in other words good night please repeat
  247. 17:05after me
  248. 17:13good night again when someone says
  249. 17:16one unto you all you need to do is say
  250. 17:19what i'm
  251. 17:20back
  252. 17:26on good night
  253. 17:30good night
  254. 17:35okay that's all for this lesson did you
  255. 17:38enjoy this lesson
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