Hello everyone, I’m Grace!
Welcome to my channel!
Today we’re going to analyze Yoona’s Chinese and learn from it!
She’s a well-known Korean actress and singer,
famous for being a member of the girl group Girls' Generation.
She also passed HSK’s speaking test at the intermediate level
which is very impressive!
OK, without further ado, Let’s get started!
First, I’ll show you an interview with Yoona:
In this clip, the host asked her about her experience
playing the role of 安娜 Which was quite different from her previous roles.
Let’s see how she responded:
First of all, her pronunciation is really good,
so I want to focus on the words she used.
Here she said:
If you want to say “I’ve been thinking about…”
you can say “我一直在想......”
For example:
The word Yoona used is “想到”,
“想” is to think
and “到” here has the meaning of getting or having a result.
So 想到 is used when you produce a new idea or plan,
or you think of a certain thing or person.
For instance,
Or when you and your friends want to come up with a good idea for something,
and you suddenly have one, you can say:
OK, another thing I wanted to point out is
the word that she used to connect her speech:
In this clip, she used “所以” to connect her two sentences,
but “所以” means “so” or “therefore”,
so in this case, it’s not that suitable.
The translation of her sentence is
“I’ve been thinking about what kind of person Anna is
and what Anna has in common with me.”
Here the transition word is “and”,
in Chinese, you can say “還有”
When you say something first and you want to add a bit more information,
you can use 還有 to connect your sentences.
So it would sound more natural if she said
OK, let’s move on to the next clip:
I’ve heard many non-native speakers say “很有意思 to be interesting”,
which is great,
but today I want to teach you some alternative ways to express “很有意思”
For example, you can say “有趣 to be interesting or entertaining”
like,
or “很棒 to be very great or awesome”
Another one, “很特別 to be very special”
OK, let’s move on to the next clip:
I really like her pronunciation, it’s so clear!
But let’s see how we can fine-tune her sentences to sound more natural.
Here she said:
It would sound better,
if she changed this sentence into “今天的節目我錄得很開心”
This sentence is a common sentence structure in Chinese,
which is called “Topic-comment” structure.
In Chinese conversations,
sometimes we put a topic at the beginning of a sentence
to point out what we’re talking about.
For instance,
So we can use this topic-comment structure to rearrange Yoona’s sentence:
The last thing I want to point out is
the difference between 再 and 又
Let’s see what she said:
In this sentence “以後我們又見面吧！”,
here instead of using “又”, you should use “再”,
so the sentence should be “以後我們再見面吧！”
I know “再” and “又” are both translated into “again”,
so it’s quite confusing.
But here is the basic rule that will help you distinguish them:
When 再 and 又 are used to express “again”,
“再” is usually used when the repeated action hasn’t happened yet,
and “又” is usually used when the repeated action has already happened.
For example,
You want another person to repeat an action
and that person hasn’t done it yet, so you use “再”.
So in imperative sentences, we mostly use “再” instead of “又”.
Another example of “再”
Let’s see an example with 又：
Because he already said it again, we use “又” instead of “再”
Another example:
Remember, when 又 is used in this way,
了 is often included in the sentence,
So the rule is that when expressing “again”,
usually “再” is used when a repeated action hasn’t happened yet,
and “又” is used when the action already happened.
But! not always!
“又” is also used to talk about
regular habitual things that are about to happen again,
For instance,
So in these examples, “又“ is used to talk about
things that haven’t happened yet, but happens regularly.
And also in this usage,
又 is often combined with an auxiliary verb,
like “要” and “會” in the examples.
OK, that’s all for the analysis of Yoona’s Chinese.
Overall, her pronunciation is really good
and I can understand every sentence she said,
despite better word choices or sentence structures;
however, the main goal of language learning is
using this language to understand and communicate with others.
So don’t be afraid to make mistakes,
like me, when I chat with others in English,
I still make tons of mistakes,
but we should all learn from them in order to improve ourselves.
Alright, I hope you learned a lot from today's video!
I’ll see you next time, bye!