I hope you enjoy today’s video! 💛 If you have noticed any other reductions in fast Mandarin speech, feel free to share them in the comments! - BTW, if you want to learn some daily words and phrases in Mandarin, you can check out my Instagram: Gracemandarin

@macky2228

4 жыл бұрын

Xìèxìè nì! Wo ai ni de... vedio 😅...don't know what to say vedio in Chinese...I'm Indian....(beginner)

@MrChrisLia

4 жыл бұрын

我怎麽覺得在台灣爲什麽聽起來是= weiyanmuh

@dr.mahmoudqaadan92

4 жыл бұрын

I studied medicine in china and now i am prepping to go back china again for further education and your videos really helped me a lot

@KKFan592

4 жыл бұрын

It seems like this is impossible to understand😂😂

@macky2228

4 жыл бұрын

@@KKFan592 yeah! Ur absolutely right! Especially for beginners like me😂but I'll never give up! I also advise to u...never give up!❤😌

As a native Mandarin speaker, I never realized how we slurred the words until this video... HATS OFF TO PPL LEARNING CHINESE.

@puppz9274

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly it'd prolly be hell for non natives to listen to me speak in English, any word I can shorten I do haha

@puppz9274

3 жыл бұрын

Hats off to people learning English xD

@madeline569

3 жыл бұрын

I have more respect for people learning English. Because we have so much slang and vocal reductions and mixing and slurring of words like this, but on top of that we have verb conjugations. As a Australian English speaker, it's difficult for even me to understand some thick American accents or Scottish or some country British accents. And Australians too, we butcher our language, chop it up shorten, lengthen words slur and change sounds. I don't know how you guys do it.

@wngmv

3 жыл бұрын

I'm a native Chinese speaker. I understand american english accent 100%. I've heard enough aussie english too. I understand more english in different accent, than people from 50km away in china. To me, english is pretty easy now. It's all about practice. There is nothing inherently more difficult in english. In fact, I think it's one of the easiest language compared to stuff like arabic, russian or even German.

@elohime

3 жыл бұрын

哦醬啊我造了

You have no idea how much we appreciate that you add examples from movies and TV. It the replaying and slow-mo really really helps thank you

@noakim5676

4 жыл бұрын

Yes!我同意

@Butterflydodo

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, i agree 🙏

@alejandraestrellamadrigal3705

3 жыл бұрын

I think the same!

@lilinlong7695

3 жыл бұрын

但是这些发音真的不好，不标准

@ericlwk964

3 жыл бұрын

Agree! Great job on that

It's so right! Chinese language students need to know this so they don't get confused or give up. Great content to share.

@GraceMandarinChinese

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😉

@WMDistraction

3 жыл бұрын

As someone living in China, it’s also just a matter of exposure and practice. I’ve even learned how to understand my in-laws from deep country Anhui from many hours of Spring Festival dinners. 😂

This is a bit like the Chinese version of "want to" becoming "wanna" or "going to" becoming "gonna". Good to know when it comes to listening - thanks for the video!

@ryanli3265

3 жыл бұрын

As a native chinese speaker, I can confirm how are absolutely correct

@suzannah991

3 жыл бұрын

Going to...gunsta. Got to... gotsta.

@garbagecollector2281

3 жыл бұрын

This is more than that. It's like trying to learn English from rap songs.

@natalielongtin4430

2 жыл бұрын

or even saying "i'm tryna think" instead of "i'm trying to think" haha. it's so interesting that we realize these things about english while learning chinese😅

I am a professional Chinese language translator and even I never noticed such details. Thanks for such a valuable video Grace

@Revolut1oNGuitar

3 жыл бұрын

@doomscyte boasting about being so fluent in english yet making a mistake in one simple sentence, doh >_>

@zaidkuzan1096

2 жыл бұрын

@@Revolut1oNGuitar he said he translate chinese but didnt say to which language LoL

A useful tip if you wanna be understood when speaking Chinese, talk in regular speed or a bit faster cuz when I was speaking slowly with my chinese friends, they dont seem to understand. But when I speak in regular speed like how my friends talk and presenting my oral project, they miraculously understood 80% of it 😂😂 In other words, dont hesitate to make mistakes!

@lennon_richardson

4 жыл бұрын

I've noticed this too. Our mind is good at filling in the gaps when wet don't have time to think about it. Also my tone problems are accentuated when I speak slower.

@gabrielroque6664

4 жыл бұрын

I experienced the same. When I was trying to speak slow, tone by tone correctly, they were like: "what the fuck u are talking about?" But when I decided to speak fast, preatending I was fluent, they started to understand me. Lol

@zitronnnen6444

4 жыл бұрын

Gabriel Roque Lol

@alias_peanut

4 жыл бұрын

U still to pronounce it correctly to do that or we will misunderstand what you mean

@artugert

3 жыл бұрын

I‘ve had the same experience. If I speak very accurately and clearly, but not with 100% confidence, my wife sometimes doesn't understand what I said, for some reason. But if I say it with confidence, she somehow understands. I really don't know why that is, but find it very interesting.

NE Pennsylvania English "Did you eat?" "No, did you?" = "Jeet?" "No, Jew?"

@stephenkeen5737

4 жыл бұрын

Here it's najew. Haha

@AdeleiTeillana

4 жыл бұрын

Down south we speak a little more slowly... we actually say "J-eat?"

@jesse7680

3 жыл бұрын

Jamaican for dinner, mom?

@makokx7063

3 жыл бұрын

@@jesse7680 wassfer din'r? Hats off to people learning English lol

@hope4betterdayz

3 жыл бұрын

@@AdeleiTeillana EXACTLY!haha Like butter becomes "bud-err"

It’s so cool that I am a native speaker and I still finish the video 😂

i speak mandarin and i didn't even realise we cut short all the sounds like this!

@raexjl3008

3 жыл бұрын

Same!

This is the top content that you can't find anywhere about Chinese language... Your videos are one of a kind

Omg! This explains everything 😂, you became the light under the tunnel for me in Chinese , I was feeling stuck , but after watching your videos , and understanding the “why” of everything is becoming easier . I’ve been studying Chinese for 9 years 🙈. Anyway , thank you for all your videos and content, you are great.

@fabiolasepulveda5674

2 жыл бұрын

The light at the end* :)

Most difficult part of Chinese is the listening. Reasons: 1. It's tonal language, different tones different meaning 2. Many similar sounding syllables. How many "shi" are there?😂 3. Many native speakers have accents. 4. They speak fast. 5. And they even shorten some words! Like in this video. 🙄🙄🙄🙄

@noakim5676

4 жыл бұрын

这就是为什么我能死。

@benedictk7338

4 жыл бұрын

do you even 文言文?

@kokolexx

4 жыл бұрын

@@noakim5676 its better if you change the 能 with 会

@kokolexx

4 жыл бұрын

@@benedictk7338 no, 你呢？🤭

@susanlim5003

4 жыл бұрын

just dont give up, you can learn Chinese just from the drama, after watching 20 drama, you will catch up more, day by day, your Chinese will better!

This is something that needs to be explained at every beginning Chinese classes. I took Chinese several times and never stuck. They always spend too much time on trying to get the tones and pronunciation correctly. Then you go watch a Chinese movie and "huh?? how do these people understand each other?" There's such a big gap between what's being taught in classes vs actual conversation. It didn't click to me that this is how the native speakers speak until recently, and am glad to see a video confirming it.

lmao at that intro. exactly me. “oh i think i heard ma at the end! youre asking me a question!”

Learning the correct grammar from a textbook is great, but hearing you dissect these everyday grammatical realities in such a fantastically edited video is so, so helpful. Thank you so much, Grace

as a native mandarin speaker, I’ve never realized these nuances until they were pointed out 😂 I happen to provide English subtitles (native speaker of English as well) for videos in mandarin, and I nearly die from how much text I have to fit in.

@clonkex

Жыл бұрын

I assume you know already, but English subtitles are probably just broken up into shorter blocks than Chinese subtitles (so they change more often). But I don't speak Chinese (yet) so I don't know for sure

As a native mandarin speaker, I wouldn't recommend mandarin learners do the reduction deliberately. When you are able to speak mandarin at a certain level, it just happens but still rarely. Reduction is not a really frequent phenomenon among mandarin speakers overall. In my experience, most of the native mandarin speakers just articulate each word or at least they don't deliberately do the reduction.

@xSTFNx

4 жыл бұрын

Non-native here, but I feel the same. I think this should be taken more as a little help towards better understanding the spoken language, rather than to speak in a more “native-like” way. I’ve seen people (learners) do this and it sounds very odd. For example I’ve heard people pronounce 不知道 as ㄅㄨˋㄖ˙ㄠˋ, but the person’s overall speech wasn’t SO fast as to motivate that kind of slurred speech. Which made it sound way worse overall, and kind of a weird flex..

@JustLIkerapunzel

4 жыл бұрын

I also think this isn't about shortening words yourself if you're not even at the level that makes it happen naturally (just like when you learn English you'll automatically addapt saying "gonna" etc. but you won't practice it deliberately it just happens as you spoke so often to natives so it will sound authentic as you aquired the habit not studied it). But to me this is a game changer for listening! I use captions so often watching cuinese shows and wondered why I can understand it written down but it sounds a lot different. Now I have a chance to recognize the patterns

@voyzorneeden4453

4 жыл бұрын

@@JustLIkerapunzel I feel the same with English. Sometimes, people say some sentences in TV shows, even though there are subtitles, it doesn't sound like the words in the subtitles to me, of course that's when they are speaking very fast. I think listening ability depends a lot on being familir with the language. if you ask someone something, he replies very fast, you can hear 不 and 道, but can hardly hear 知, it doesn't matter, you already have enough information and know he said 不知道, that's the same with a lot of other cases.

@golden_ratio

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed, reduction is a byproduct of speaking more fluently and sometimes it doesn't sound natural when learners do it on purpose. 我們聽慣了“這樣子這樣子”，一聽到 "這..子" 就知道是“這樣子” if that makes sense lol

@voyzorneeden4453

4 жыл бұрын

@@golden_ratio yes, that's also why it's hard to understand English sometimes when the speaker is speaking fast. As a non-native Engligh speaker, I am not that familiar with the language yet.

That's why when I try to learn by watching Taiwanese films, the subtitles seem to zoom past so fast, there is no time to actually even see the characters and i have to pause. I've tried watching a 2-hr film, and ended up watching it for 5 hrs. I am in Taiwan and trying to pick up Chinese as best I can, but it's been hard trying to keep pace even during small talk. I shall be watching this again and again to remind myself. 非常感謝, Grace. 🙏

@alias_peanut

4 жыл бұрын

5小时挺好的

@konaplays1920

3 жыл бұрын

慢慢学 你很快就会讲中文

@andia968

3 жыл бұрын

Set playback speed at 50 or 75 percent

Every day I discover something that makes learning Chinese 10 times harder. And every day I choose to continue learning regardless of the hurdles. Thank you Grace老师, today I just learned why I still struggle to understand native speakers, even after learning so much!

@yef66

Жыл бұрын

英语口语需要花费大量的时间专门练习听力和说话❗️‼️ 相比之下，汉语口语要简单多了😅 口语和书面语本来就是2码事😅😊

奇怪 华语母语者反而看着觉得也变复杂 哈哈哈 （每天都在用 可是却没发觉 辛苦学习中文的人了xDDD

@havenfu9675

3 жыл бұрын

yanxun kee 同同同！！哈哈哈哈哈哈哈 但是的确如此 可能这就是母语者的优势吧 害～

@user-wm6fx7rb9b

3 жыл бұрын

对啊，不如谐音说着舒服

@jasonchrist8164

3 жыл бұрын

我只觉得我的耳朵没救了,我听着也没省略啊

I grew up speaking Mandarin. I'm not sure why I started watching this, but it really opens my eyes to how words are actually pronounced. I do a lot of them I just didn't notice lol.

This is the first time I ever encountered the subject or reductions in the language. Huh...maybe that is why I find it so difficult to understand television shows. I will definitely listen for these reductions the next time I am watching. Great video!

You are improving my Chinese

Awesome, I've been looking for a video like this. Perfect!

thank you so much for making these kinds of teaching video, all of your videos are very helpful for me to make progress in my chinese learnning. i will always follow you and waiting to watch your new videos, my beautiful teacher!❤😍

THIS IS THE MOST HELPFUL VIDEO EVER!!! 😢😢😢❤❤❤

This is why I’m so glad there’s the Chinese characters as a subtitle so I can somehow understand what they are talking about even when they are speaking really fast

哈哈哈哈哈我一个中文母语者看得津津有味，我能想象这个视频对学习中文的人的帮助，很棒！加油呀

I can say this is the Chinese nobody will teach you in school . Your videos are really helpful , and I really appreciate you take the time to do such a detailed content .I am someone who left China 4 years ago , and I don’t live in an environment that allows me to practice my Chinese often , so watching your videos is really refreshing , and give me a lot of insight.感谢你啊！

I absolutely love this video, thank you so much! Especially love the examples!

I haven’t seen video about this topic before. Just golden:) thank you so much!

As a Chinese native speaker I totally didn’t notice that we do actually speak in that way! Your tips really helps! Like 👍

@GraceMandarinChinese

3 жыл бұрын

Lee Xin Ze Thanks! 有機會的話可以分享給你的外國朋友哦！😉

你的视频很有用！感谢Grace老师！

This is insanely helpful, thank you!❤️

Amazing work Grace. Really impressed with your talent in covering these rarely taught subjects.

i fell in-love with your channel. Thank you so much for all of this useful information!

Thank you! Definitely needed these tips! ☺👍✨

WOW! Thank you SO much Grace! This is super helpful. A lot of these were things I kind of thought I was hearing but wasn't sure maybe if they were actually some other words I didn't know. I really appreciate this video!

I finally found a good channel on KZread to learn Mandarin with. Thank you for these well-produced videos! liked and subbed.

This is highly enlightening. Not anything I could have learned on my own or in a Chinese class. Subscribing!

Wow, this is one of the most useful videos I've seen since I started learning Chinese! I'd heard a couple of these, but most of these examples explained something I'd tried to understand and just given up on at some point in the past!

Thank you for spending so much time on editing, visualization helps a lot!

Thank you so much for this! This is super helpful ❤❤

This video was extremely helpful! 非常感谢❤️❤️❤️

i chanced upon your channel in the youtube's Recommendation section, and seriously you put in a lottttttt of effort in finding examples for these reductions! 辛苦你了！I hope people who watched this, know how difficult it is, because there's no ctrl+f for the dialogues in clips and movies! (i'm a native speaker but it's really nice to see them listed in a video)

Wow, I can't take enough of your content! Having functional and practical mandarin examples like this priceless. I never found any other teachers explaining this before! Thank you so much!!!

This video is a life saver! Thank you!!!

This a very helpful and well made video. I somehow never thought about reductions. Great video! Thank you!

Finally someone made a video about this. I have been practising mandarin for 3 years and never had someone break it down so clearly. Please do more!!

Thank you so much! Your videos are very helpful 💕

I like this topic, using different scenes from tv shows and movies to make her points is extremetly helpful, that most be a lot of work, thanks Grace we appreciate that efford.

Wow it's absolutely useful and helpful for anyone! Thank you very much! Keep up the good work 😊

Finally one who talks about it! Thank you ! Reminds me of "going to"="gonna" in English ,this type of stuff..

I always watch every video of Grace :)) All of them are very good!

This is the best lesson ever. Thank you Grace.

Great video. I still have a lot of troubles to follow fast Chinese but this was inspiring. Keep up the good work ✌🏻

all of the topics you make videos on are seriously very essential to know about, this one and many others saved my life. you are amazing, thank you!

Really great explanation, and the examples are very helpful! Thank you!

These ones I’m used to, but the rest of your videos are a great help to get some lost chinese back in my head

I love your channel. There so many Chinese teaching channels, I don’t follow too many but I like the subjects you discuss and how you teach them

Wow! Great lesson! This stuff has been driving me crazy for years. Thanks for the great content 😁👍

Really good. Only just found your channel and subscribed immediately after watching this. Thank you.

It must take so much work to find all these examples! Thanks for your efforts!

I've never tried learning chinese I got this in my recommended but omg...kudos to all the people who speak or are learning mandarin.

哇塞，你每一个视频都非常有帮的！特别是这样的关于天天的讲话，真的帮我提高我听力理解。感谢你的努力

Your channel is amazing! Thank you for this great video

omg I'm re-learning my mandarin and this helped so much! Great content for motivation.

Finally, it makes sense to me, I have been watching tv channels, but when I read the subtitles along , I always felt I miss words in the sentence. Now it makes sense, I will watch this video a bunch more times, and see how that fills in the blanks when watching tv again. Thanks for the information Grace

This is so helpful, thank you! 😊

From your video i can learn Chinese and improve my English. 十分感谢你哦😘

Yeah, I completely agree with others. This video is awesome and probably it took a huge about of time to make it so thanks a lot, Grace!

This video is amazing, thank you! No wonder I have such a hard time when I watch things >.

Watching with grace is more enjoyable and more understanding

That is definately the kind of content that I would pay for. Really really good! Thank's!

Thank you so much, I couldn't figure out why I couldn't understand dramas. They seemed to speak faster than subtitles! Thank you so much

Thanks Grace, that was really helpful.

Thank you for explaining natural conversations like this. This kind of stuff isn't covered on the HSK test, or in other youtube channels where they just repeat chengyu and proverbs. This is a breath of fresh air.

This video is really helpful for me. Usually the way people speak in movies are too quick for me but this helps me comprehend the slurred words. So thank you for creating content like this.

the example of Chinese shows are so great!!

This channel is professional , hard work gives great results !

This video popped up on my feed and I’ve been looking for some frequency words to learn for everyday situations and this is really REALLY good. I have to re watch this and write them all out. X

Ahhhhh the video is totally relatable especially in the beginning part lol. In my current level, I cannot understand how natives speak in normal conversations and I can only just pick up some words from it. If I'll go to China or Taiwan and talk with a native, I need them to speak slowly character by character so that I can understand the context hahaha And, Its better for me if I see a written form than listening hahaha 我想念学习 中文. 我最近很忙 :(

This video is soooooo useful. You're amazing. Thank you very much Grace ❤️🌼🌼🌼🌼

Always wondered why chinese speak so fast, I now understood this is so helpful

This is your best video to date! So so so so useful. Maybe next time, you can also include the new characters made by these reductions, for example 這樣 will become 醬. Perhaps a video on internet slang like this?

Incredibly informative video, and amazing to have so many examples from TV/film!!

the best useful chinese youtube channel i ever found

Imagine an American listening closely to fast chinese and they hear “nèi ge” 😂

@redminnie7336

3 жыл бұрын

When I first started to learn Chinese and watch shows in mandarin, I was lost every time I heard it 😂 and I'm black

@angelita_.__590

3 жыл бұрын

Oof korean also has 네가 (niga : you)

@theholywater

3 жыл бұрын

Angelita _.__ oof lol

This video is amazing, thank you so much

Thank you so much for this. I study Mandarin by myself and always feel lost with the way they talk in movie like I haven't been close to understand the basic at all >.

thank you so much for this video, now I can hopefully understand mandarin tv shows more!

Fab lesson and great video, thanks very much. Incredibly useful !

Thanks for your videos! I appreciate your content very much :D

Thank you i think this can be very useful!!

I'm a Brazilian Portuguese speaker and we do the same. Every statement there's a reduction. Thanks for this video and I'm turned on you on Instagram.

I so excited for this content it make me more clearly about chinese listening tips 🥰

THANK U GRACE ❤️

Oi this is so applicable! I wish this was something people would point out to learners! I grew up listening to and speaking some Mandarin, but things like this are why I miss some words without the subtitles! 多谢你！！

Thanks for a great video! I teach English as a Second Language, and I teach exactly the same thing -- how English speakers reduce certain sounds and function words! Native speakers usually don't even realize they are doing it. This was so helpful in demystifying Netflix Mandarin!!