Seriously Impressive Ways To Start A Conversation In Mandarin

In this video, I discuss the many different ways to greet someone in Mandarin Chinese. Whether you are just passing by or initiating a conversation, this video covers all types of greeting phrases. Be sure to keep in mind the cultural differences and body language. Tune in and expand your social skills and foster meaningful connections with native Chinese speakers with your newfound knowledge.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro & Cultural Differences
1:25 Just Passing By
6:45 Stopping to Talk
9:45 Most Common Conversation Starters
11:50 Fixed Phrases
12:50 Common Responses to Greetings

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  • @MandarinBlueprint
    @MandarinBlueprint10 ай бұрын

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  • @LordRubino
    @LordRubino11 ай бұрын

    I love your happy face, smiling mood and amazing voice. Really fantastic! I've been mimicking female voices and sometimes i find it difficult to find my natural tone. With you is so much easier. (even if your voice is amazingly deep

  • @joemanner6171
    @joemanner61719 ай бұрын

    You sir are a godsend. For somebody who's trying to learn true conversational mandarin, It's so refreshing for me to learn from somebody with actual first hand experience living in China. Your videos are amazing.

  • @OstiOriginals
    @OstiOriginals11 ай бұрын

    THIS CHANNEL IS ONE OF THE BEST I HAVE EVER FOUND FOR LEARNING CHINESE, IT IS VERY INSPIRING AND I SEE YOU GUYS GROWING VERY BIG!!! 你们真的是最棒的!!!

  • @MandarinBlueprint

    @MandarinBlueprint

    11 ай бұрын

    Glad to hear that you’re enjoying our channel!

  • @thomaskorell1735
    @thomaskorell173511 ай бұрын

    Thank you for the heads up according to the cultural do's and don' do's. This is very helpful! I've been in Pakistan this year and have been warned in advance too about what is a no go (handshakes with women or wearing short clothes). This is always nicer than learning it the hard way through sceptic looks or comments. 😅

  • @thebornking9752
    @thebornking975211 ай бұрын

    Great content please be a little clearer sometimes with which phrase you show us in clips means which, i got a little confused 😅 thankyouu

  • @Mike-mo1gq
    @Mike-mo1gq11 ай бұрын

    谢谢你老师! 真的,太棒 content!😂

  • @rakeshmuthyala4229
    @rakeshmuthyala422918 күн бұрын

    Good video. Simple and practical

  • @MandarinBlueprint

    @MandarinBlueprint

    15 күн бұрын

    Glad you like it! Check out our channel for more like this!

  • @ArjanDuijs
    @ArjanDuijs11 ай бұрын

    Cheers Luke, great vid

  • @mariofiorilli3983
    @mariofiorilli398311 ай бұрын

    Very enjoyable, excellent content, lots of new stuff to master. Ty!

  • @wealthynomad
    @wealthynomad11 ай бұрын

    These are great. I haven't gotten to immersion yet but one thing that concerns me is hearing the various clips in this video. I don't know if it's their rate of speech, but the Chinese speakers seem to drop syllables a lot or they combine words. (I know, English speakers do the same). I understand that's just speaking naturally, just wondering about immersion. Thinking I don't know a word that maybe I do, but the speaker said it so quickly or in an odd way.

  • @DanLaneWowLookAtThisFancyURL
    @DanLaneWowLookAtThisFancyURL10 ай бұрын

    super helpful!! added to my notes

  • @lexxryazanov
    @lexxryazanov11 ай бұрын

    太棒了!谢谢你的视频!

  • @user-rf9xf5te3h
    @user-rf9xf5te3h9 ай бұрын

    This is fantastic! Thank you!

  • @arisaka233
    @arisaka23311 ай бұрын

    awesome video!, crucial to understanding the social norms of quick chinese conversation, i will be saving this

  • @yanndroy1036
    @yanndroy10369 ай бұрын

    I love your videos and I am improving a lot, but please please keep the sentences in Mandarin longer on the screen so we can write them down, even pressing pause is a challenge sometimes I press it and the sentence is already gone xD

  • @MandarinBlueprint

    @MandarinBlueprint

    9 ай бұрын

    We will take note of this for future videos!

  • @terrachan8225

    @terrachan8225

    6 ай бұрын

    ​@@MandarinBlueprintyeah I also have this problem. Would also like it if you included 繁體字。

  • @matthewxi7789
    @matthewxi77893 ай бұрын

    amazing videos!

  • @surendracharan5811
    @surendracharan58112 ай бұрын

    老师,谢谢

  • @yousefwaleed3955
    @yousefwaleed395511 ай бұрын

    Great content by the way... Thanks for it Your video about pronunciation are very will and soild in concept and knowledge ❤ . And also i want to know where did you get the chinese subtitled videos you used in this video

  • @thealgernon6896
    @thealgernon68966 ай бұрын

    Just discovered your videos. Exactly what I need. Perfect. :) 谢谢

  • @MandarinBlueprint

    @MandarinBlueprint

    6 ай бұрын

    Welcome!

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    @taehyungkim-301211 ай бұрын

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  • @MandarinBlueprint

    @MandarinBlueprint

    11 ай бұрын

    Glad you’re enjoying! Thank you for subscribing!

  • @cynthianichols4851
    @cynthianichols48517 ай бұрын

    Great advice! 👍

  • @MandarinBlueprint

    @MandarinBlueprint

    7 ай бұрын

    Glad it was helpful!

  • @pottersis
    @pottersis6 ай бұрын

    This was so useful! Thank you!

  • @MandarinBlueprint

    @MandarinBlueprint

    6 ай бұрын

    Glad it was helpful!

  • @audreyeugenee
    @audreyeugenee8 ай бұрын

    This is one of the best Chinese learning channels and I’m so grateful to find it at the perfect time. Thank you so much!! 🎉

  • @MandarinBlueprint

    @MandarinBlueprint

    8 ай бұрын

    We are glad you are loving the content and the channel is helping you to learn!

  • @qazedctgb19
    @qazedctgb192 ай бұрын

    It's weird because here in Shanghai friends touch each other all the time like two guy friends can walk down the road with one of them having his arm over the shoulders od the other one. But maybe it's more for young people and more in urban environments

  • @LucasRcarman
    @LucasRcarman9 ай бұрын

    I just started learning Chinese and this makes Chinese alot more understandable

  • @MandarinBlueprint

    @MandarinBlueprint

    9 ай бұрын

    🙏🏻🙏🏻 keep up the journey!

  • @boycool3859

    @boycool3859

    2 ай бұрын

    I'm a Chinese,I study English recentl,Can we exchange language?

  • @Tired_m0nkey
    @Tired_m0nkey5 ай бұрын

    1:46 I know this sentence! What surprised me is that the lady cut the什么 into sounding like 什 and using the 么 as a jump into the 名字 (yes I needed to point that out)

  • @kaleoscreations8069

    @kaleoscreations8069

    4 ай бұрын

    Since you pointed this out, I listened to this many times. I actually don’t think she cut off the 么, she just pronounced it quickly and softened the consonants to say it less clearly but more quickly/efficiently

  • @showerrice-dm4sj

    @showerrice-dm4sj

    8 күн бұрын

    中文说的比较快就会有这样的连读,英语中应该也有类似的连读,也算是比较地道了,如果把“么”读出来比较拗口,难读,所以就会读的很轻

  • @jw1731
    @jw173111 ай бұрын

    2:43 as Jerry Seinfeld might say 'Two-Face!"

  • @patriot813
    @patriot8134 ай бұрын

    Thank you for your hard work, as a Chinese teacher myself, this video was so interesting and helpful, giving me new and fresh ideas. Keep up the good work :) 😀🙏

  • @MandarinBlueprint

    @MandarinBlueprint

    4 ай бұрын

    You're very welcome! Thank you so much for watching! Be sure to subscribe for more

  • @deyongutube
    @deyongutube5 ай бұрын

    Your Mandarin is so good. How long did it take you to reach this level?

  • @MandarinBlueprint

    @MandarinBlueprint

    5 ай бұрын

    Hey Thank you! Thousands of hours :)

  • @SnakeAndTurtleQigong
    @SnakeAndTurtleQigong11 ай бұрын

    I live in a Daoist monastery in the states, and had a visitor from China greet me with “howdy!” 😂 🤠

  • @MandarinBlueprint

    @MandarinBlueprint

    11 ай бұрын

    😂😂🤠🤠

  • @ruynobrega6918
    @ruynobrega691811 ай бұрын

    So it is true then that when you become so wise your hair just falls over (it really is a say in Brasil btw). What amazing content this channel is! Thank you for the lessons :)

  • @MandarinBlueprint

    @MandarinBlueprint

    11 ай бұрын

    lol

  • @tarochilo5557
    @tarochilo55579 ай бұрын

    Thanks for this awesome video!! I am looking for 中文电影. The ones you have used in this video look nice could you kindly share their names. 感谢您.

  • @jichao_ma

    @jichao_ma

    20 күн бұрын

    Hi,bro。Do you speak English,im a Chinese,I want learn oral English, so if you want to study Mandarin ,say British accent and don't mind it, we can have mutual learning, my Mandarin is very standard. But my oral English is awful.😖 兄弟,你的母语是英语吗,我是🇨🇳人,想学英语口语。如果你想学普通话,母语是英语并且不介意的话,我们可以相互学习(你学普通话,我学英语口语),我的普通话很标准,但我口语很烂😢如果你有意向的话,可以私聊我

  • @kingwong168
    @kingwong16810 ай бұрын

    its about 打招呼 or 问候

  • @hentaihaavard
    @hentaihaavard11 ай бұрын

    great content good for chinese learning

  • @leeanne1289
    @leeanne12895 ай бұрын

    我比較喜歡早安.午安,晚安。

  • @Ben-nx8fr
    @Ben-nx8fr4 ай бұрын

    great video! where are the clips from? I wanna check out these tv shows / movies. thanks!

  • @MandarinBlueprint

    @MandarinBlueprint

    3 ай бұрын

    Hey Ben, We'll check with our video editor . If you're looking for movies to immerse in , you find some here : www.mandarinblueprint.com/blog/good-chinese-tv-shows-to-learn-mandarin/

  • @moneer6268
    @moneer62688 ай бұрын

    Can you tell me the name of the movie or series u got the clips from?

  • @MandarinBlueprint

    @MandarinBlueprint

    8 ай бұрын

    There are quite a few. Which one exactly are you asking about? But if you're looking for movie inspiration, Here are 22 Good Chinese TV Shows to Learn Mandarin! www.mandarinblueprint.com/blog/good-chinese-tv-shows-to-learn-mandarin/

  • @moneer6268

    @moneer6268

    8 ай бұрын

    @@MandarinBlueprint THX

  • @catinabox3048
    @catinabox30485 ай бұрын

    I don't think of the whole "really obvious comment about what they're doing in that moment" as a comment but more like a question. It's akin to "you leaving?" when you arrive somewhere and see someone packing up. Although some of your examples like the "你回来了" one admittedly do make a little less sense in English. I also think "have you eaten yet," while it can just be used casually to express care and concern, is also frequently used when the real question the asker wants the answer to is "Will I be cutting into your meal time if I engage you in conversation?"

  • @MandarinBlueprint

    @MandarinBlueprint

    5 ай бұрын

    You'er right, 吃饭了吗 can definitely be asking if you're interrupting someone's meal time, but I estimate that's only in 1 in 5 situations; since we're teaching fresh learners, we tend to fall on the simplest and most common daily life usage, and that's just a generic comment to start a conversation, and not literally asking about whether the other person has eaten. For example 你走了啊? isn't seeking an answer 是啊,我走了。but definitely has to be followed up with a conversation proper, since just answering that and leaving is very strange and perhaps rude. Similarly, if your spouse says 你回来了 when you come home, you wouldn't just answer 是,我回来了。 then end the conversation and go do something else.

  • @Greenhand1516
    @Greenhand1516Ай бұрын

    4:26 narrate yes,辛苦了 for example.That’s a narration

  • @user-rf4ki2ww4m
    @user-rf4ki2ww4m2 ай бұрын

    作者,可以添加中文字幕吗?我实在听不懂英语,如果很麻烦就算了

  • @MandarinBlueprint

    @MandarinBlueprint

    2 ай бұрын

    已经发布的视频会比较难,但我们今后会纳入您的建议,尽量添加中文字幕。

  • @user-lu8cw5iv1r
    @user-lu8cw5iv1r25 күн бұрын

    Learning Mandarin by reciting fragment words and phrases is incredibly dull. Thanks to Immersive Translate, I can read some web novels on my own for relaxation.

  • @pottersis
    @pottersis6 ай бұрын

    Could I say something like hello my name is. I am 12 years old. I am learning Chinese it is nice to meet you

  • @boycool3859

    @boycool3859

    2 ай бұрын

    I'm a Chinese,I study English recently,Can we exchange language?

  • @pottersis

    @pottersis

    2 ай бұрын

    @@boycool3859 of course! How do want to do this

  • @boycool3859

    @boycool3859

    2 ай бұрын

    @@pottersis I don’t know what social media do you use?Can you tell me your email address?

  • @canalonossopequenomundo3955
    @canalonossopequenomundo395510 ай бұрын

    Sorry for the doubt, but in the video you said: when we're just passing by when we're not intending to stop and talk to someone and we just want to be polite and engage with someone either a stranger or someone that we already know so when greeting a stranger or passing an acquaintance whose name you don't know in the street it's common just to say (Nǐ hǎo ma) with a smile. But in your article you wrote: While using 你好吗 (Nǐ hǎo ma) in daily Chinese conversation technically isn't wrong, in reality, native Mandarin Chinese speakers very rarely use this as a greeting as it comes off as very rigid and formal. So I really didn't understand the use of this expression. ☹

  • @MandarinBlueprint

    @MandarinBlueprint

    10 ай бұрын

    I said it's common to say "ni hao" (hello), not ni haoma. Nihao ma is indeed a little rigid but is fine for native speakers to use in certain situations. Non-natives who use it however will come across as someone who doesn't know the language well so best stay away from it.