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Sup everyone! Thank you all for your support over past 16 months on my KZread channel! Now it's my turn to serve you better with my BRAND NEW Mandarin Chinese Pronunciation training program: Finding Your Mandarin Voice 👉 www.ritachinese.com Can't wait to see you in the course! Let's improve your Chinese pronunciation and tones in 3 months!

@QuizmasterLaw

2 жыл бұрын

so there i am just listening to some random chinese music like i do to try to bash this language into my head kzread.info/dash/bejne/ka6axKuOksWxn9Y.html and then i'm like HOLY SHIT THATS LI BAI !! I had an eargasm.

@WellBehavedForeigner

2 жыл бұрын

What's the course schedule and timezone?

This is so exciting!! Going to sign up now! Also, thank you for acknowledging the shortcomings of pinyin like the multiple sounds for “i” and “e” as you noted.

@RitaChinese

2 жыл бұрын

Yayyy welcome! I’ll definitely elaborate the “i” and “e” in Mandarin as different sounds in the course with you😄🙌

Wow! I can see how hard you have worked on this course! Can’t wait to get a hold of it 👏

This sounds amazing! I don't think I will be able to afford to pay for it though as it is over half of my pay and costs more than my rent. I will try to save up so I can get it before the lifetime offer expires. I think this is exactly what I need!

@RitaChinese

2 жыл бұрын

The course will be there waiting for you! In the meanwhile I’ll keep making free content for Mandarin learners here on KZread and on Instagram @funchineseclub, and we can always discuss anything about Mandarin Chinese in the comments😊

anyone else find themselves sayng 'fan laoshi' whenever it pops up? XD

Thank you for this video! I recently started learning Mandarin, and I really want to be able to speak well, so knowing common mistakes is so helpful!

as always, such an interesting video!!

@RitaChinese

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Paula! 😄🙌

Yayyyy!! 恭喜！！！🎉🎉🎉🎉

@RitaChinese

2 жыл бұрын

Yayyyyy!! Finally😄🙌

We missed the puppet mouth in this video! I expected it to jump out when u were talking about jqx🤣🤣🤣 What a great video, like always. Thank you!

太棒了！恭喜你实现项目！太棒了！👏👏👏

@RitaChinese

2 жыл бұрын

谢谢Aaron！新的旅程才刚开始，好激动😄🙌

wow。你辛苦了。我祝你成功！加油！

@RitaChinese

2 жыл бұрын

谢谢！😄🙌

"High quality support group" THIS! This I need badly! I live in an area where I don't feel comfortable tell people I am learning Chinese so an interest support group would be awesome

@RitaChinese

2 жыл бұрын

For sure! Welcome to the community!

Let’s goooo! One day your channel is gonna take off! We will all be saying “I knew her before she became mainstream” 😂💪🏽So excited for this course to take off too! Let’s go Fan Laoshi☺️🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽

@RitaChinese

2 жыл бұрын

Awww thanks, Josh!! I couldn’t have done this without all you folks’ support😄 The course is selling pretty well, and I’m truly grateful for so many Mandarin learners’ trust and love❤️

好期待啊

@RitaChinese

2 жыл бұрын

耶！准备了这么久，终于跟大家见面了😄

范老师太优秀了👍💖🌹

@RitaChinese

2 жыл бұрын

谢谢😊❤️

icl i needed this. So far besides learning vocab I'm working on my tones etc so slow progress since I want to learn grammar more naturally by watching conversations but what is really hard is when I see two characters that look similar and I'm like "wait which one is...." etc XD also gotta save money to get this course now lol

@RitaChinese

2 жыл бұрын

Tones and characters are definitely two difficult aspects of the language, comparing to vocab and grammar. Keep it up🙌💪

@huxa7624

2 жыл бұрын

@@RitaChinese thanks fo the support!

Me encantas tus videos , me subscribo, quiero aprender chino, buen trabajo

@RitaChinese

2 жыл бұрын

Gracias! Buena suerte con tus estudios😄🙌

@relaxwhc

2 жыл бұрын

El chino es una idioma hermana 👍

Hi, 范老师！I'm a Mandarin learner who is currently at an intermediate level. My goal is to sit the HSK5 in the next few months. I want to read and listen to get tonnes of input, but I'm also aware that pronunciation and accent, rhythm and cadence, etc, are paramount. You're certainly the best Mandarin coach out there -- do you think I'd get much out of this course, or is it more for beginners? Thank you so much for producing such helpful content. The tips for producing /zh/ /ch/ /shi/ and /ji/ /qi/ /xi/ are immensely helpful!

@RitaChinese

2 жыл бұрын

Hi! This course I definitely not just for beginners. Over the last few years, a lot of my students have also been people who had been learning Chinese for years but weren’t quite satisfied with their pronunciation. If you have specific goals for your Chinese, then this’ll definitely help, not just speaking but also listening. Btw I’m glad you found the tips helpful!

@slowlearner3785

2 жыл бұрын

@@RitaChinese Excellent. Purchased!!

Mandarin pronunciation is still much easier than English, at least for me 💥 Your tongue don't fly and whip around acrobatically like English 😂 No need to vibrate the throat for voiced consonants like in English 💥

@RitaChinese

2 жыл бұрын

Haha can't argue with that as an English learner from China. Speaking decent English is definitely not easy! At least when it comes to syllables of words, Mandarin is so much simpler and easier😄

@sasino

2 жыл бұрын

Pronunciation is not even the hard part of mandarin, even tones can be enhanced with practice, however, learning thousands of characters is definitely the part that requires the most effort

Maybe good price for American but in Brazil its very expensive, 1000R$

@samysantos1031

2 жыл бұрын

yeah

@sasino

2 жыл бұрын

In America $200 is very cheap for a normal family, but I know that in other countries it can be expensive

I wish you much sucess with your course, however for me personally pronunciations and tones are not a problem at all. That's a reason, why I started learning Mandarin in the first place. I have kind of a "talent" for langauges, but only speak 2 1/2 languages (German, English, Spanish), so I wanted to try a "hard" language. Turns out, Chinese is not that hard in my opinion, however I fell in love with the language. (And it's a lot easier to learn Mandarin as a German native speaker, because there are way more similatities with German than English in Mandarin)

@RitaChinese

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! I’m so happy to hear people say “Chinese is not (that) hard!” 😄😄 and would love to know more about the similarities between German and Mandarin!

@tydalm.9665

2 жыл бұрын

@@RitaChinese Well, Chinese Hanzi obviously take some time to learn (I wish there was a simplified version for every character) and many words sound very similar, which doesn't make it easy to remember them, but the grammar is very easy and syntax is kind of intuitive, especially for me as a software developer. Chinese is a bit like a programming language. Regarding the similarities between Chinese and German, when I see Chinese lessons in English, I very often think "That would be some much easier to explain in German" (And especially in our Berlin vernacular, which breaks a lot of German grammar rules) good bye = wiedersehen = 再见 (wieder = 再, sehen = 见). it's the same. English has no words for 上午, in German it's "Vormittag" (before noon) German has composite words like Chinese and a lot are very similar. The old German word for plane is "Flugmaschine" which literally means 飞机. Nowadays we say "Flugzeug", which translates to 飞东西. The subtle difference between for example 咸 and 咸的 do not translate to English, but in German it's just 咸 = "salzig" and 咸的 = "salziges". And you cannot translate 我不能吃咸(的) to English without using the word "things", while there is no 东西 in the Chinese sentence. In German it's no problem to excatly express the same. Well, that's all I can come up for now, but there are more similarities. Oh and in Berlin we even have an equivalent to 吗, it's "wa" and sounds like "va" in English, so very similar to 吗 and used in the same way (While German does not have such a question marker)

@RitaChinese

2 жыл бұрын

@@tydalm.9665 wow all these are super interesting!! Thank you for sharing! I didn’t know anything about word creation and question mark in German, but what you said definitely shows there’re a lot of similarities between German and Chinese👍 Makes me wanna learn some German now haha. Fascinating!

@RitaChinese

2 жыл бұрын

@@tydalm.9665 and I like “Chinese is like a programming language!”

@sasino

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, pronunciation and grammar are easy, the hard part is remembering the characters and words 🥲

Couple of questions. What style of pronunciation will you be teaching? Are you teaching standard mandarin pronunciation or mandarin influenced by the Beijing accent? I can’t help to ask because I notice that amongst a lot of mandarin teachers from the north. Especially with sounds like shi zhi chi, a lot of people add this very strong r sound behind these sounds. You do it as well. Either or is fine, I’m just curious. Secondly what is your success rate with actually helping foreigners achieve fluency in mandarin? Not the “bottom of the barrel” we will accept because you’re a foreigner, but actual real fluency? Obviously it’s up to the student to really push to that level of fluency, however i do think it’s important to know if your methods had been effective.

Review Serpentza and Laowhy86's Manderin. Do it.

我又来打招呼了，马嫂你好～

Can you please make a video on word order and 思维？I and people I learn with often organize ideas in a non-Chinese way. People can generally understand, but it creates confusion sometimes.

@manuelgutierrez6546

2 жыл бұрын

I have never seen a video about this and this is so much needed. People say Chinese grammar is easy or simple but the reality is that our sentences are completely 老外. This language is very pragmatic and I guess part of the way of structuring sentences and ideas is just a habit Chinese imitate by massive exposure as they grow up, but I am sure some hints and patterns should be able to be explained to us.

@RitaChinese

2 жыл бұрын

That's a super important yet massive topic to talk about haha, because there are so many layers of it! But I've been thinking about it over past few years, and maybe I can put together a few points to make a video for you all at some point! Thank you for your suggestion👍

@RitaChinese

2 жыл бұрын

For sure! And there are more layers beyond grammar - if we are talking about sentence structures. Word selection, fixed phrases, and in general different language forms that different languages use to express the same concept, etc.. Very complicated topic. I'll see what I can do to put together a video at some point!

2:17 😂

What about if your native language has more tones than Mandarin but still struggle with Mandarin tones? I'm a native Cantonese speaker so I think I have a hard time with Mandarin because it's similar enough but also at the same time very very different.

@RitaChinese

2 жыл бұрын

Good question! Sometimes the similar things can be harder to distinguish! That's a really interesting topic to look into. I assume it's as hard when Mandarin speakers try to learn Cantonese tones! But if your native language is a tonal language, it should be a good thing for learning another tonal language.

@tymanung6382

11 ай бұрын

Cantonese tones. Putonghua high level. high level high to mid fall mid to high rise. mid low to very low. low to mid mid level. high to very low fall mid low level. " " " mid low to mid. low mid to very rise. low fall to mid rise mid low to very low. mid to high rise Some Cantonese teaching books + dictionaries show these equivalences.? Juk, nei hou wanhei!!! Zhu ni, hao yunqi!!

@tymanung6382

11 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, Cantonese + most other SE + Central E dialects syllables that end in ---k, ---p, ---t, ---glottal stop, their "equivalences" + Putonghua Cantonese. Putonghua high level. + consonants.= ends in vowel mid level. ---k, ---p, ---t. high level low level mid to high rise " lowmid to ver low fall + rise to mid high to.very low falll The 3 different level tones ---k, ---p, ---t repeat for each of 4 Putonghua tones " equivalences could be any of 3 level tones/ 1 Putonghua tone.

If you claim Chris Laoma is your student, I bet many people will rush to become your students 😂💥💥

@RitaChinese

2 жыл бұрын

His Mandarin pronunciation was already phenomenal when we met haha - I missed the chance to prove myself😆 But we nerd out about language pronunciation and tones A LOT at home😄

@user-do2ow6jn1c

2 жыл бұрын

前两年一直在看老马，现在感觉你的视频比他对我还有用，范老师，像我这种生活在中国北方小县城的人，周围完全没有英语环境，怎么才能学好英语？

Why do I feel like she made this video for me? lol

@RitaChinese

2 жыл бұрын

Hahah you’re welcome😄🙌

@peterbayne7227

2 жыл бұрын

@@RitaChinese You are rather generous at only naming 3 reasons, lol.

@RitaChinese

2 жыл бұрын

@@peterbayne7227 hahah 3 things one time, and let’s talk about another three next time😆

Well, my tones suck, I get initials wrong and my grammar i mean Chinese has no grammar so I guess word order doesn't matter amirite? Getting to B1 in Chinese is definitely doable. Idk about C2 but FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!

@solomonpierce2676

2 жыл бұрын

More practice :)

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@sasino

2 жыл бұрын

Ok lol 🤣