Hello nǐ hǎo, welcome to yoyo conversational chinese. In this video series, we are only
going to focus on spoken chinese. At the end of the series, you should be able to conduct
basic conversation with chinese people. But before we move on , I'd like to tell you why
I believe mandarin chinese is a conquerable language for you after all. First, chinese
grammar is relatively easy and straightforward. The word order of a simple chinese sentence
is exactly the same as it is in english. For example, I or me in chinese is wǒ, you in
chinese is nǐ, the word to love in chinese is ài. To say I love you, you say wǒ ài nǐ. To
say you love me, you say nǐ ài wǒ. You can just translate all the simple english
sentences word by word to chinese and you will get the right chinese sentences. And
when it comes to long and complicated sentences, you just need to remember a few rules as to
where to put time and location and then you are all set. Also, unlike many other european
languages, chinese people don't conjugate verbs, which means that chinese verbs don't change
form based no subject or when the action is taken place. For example, when you say She
is , He was, I am or We are. The chinese word order for the verb to be doesn't change and
stays the same for all of them. in addition, unlike many other languages such as French
and German, there is no gender in chinese. Isn't that great? Ok let's move on. The second
reason why I believe chinese can be easy to learn is that the more you learn the easier
it gets. What do I mean by that? Well, chinese words are very transparent and logical. The
way a chinese word is formed tells you a lot about it's meanings. For example, in chinese
movie is diàn yǐng, which literally means electronic shadow. The old black and white
silent film of appeared like cast shadows on the screen, and that's where the word is
from. Telephone is chinese is diàn huà, which literally means electronic speech. Computer
is diàn nǎo, which literally means electronic brain. So when you see the chinese words for
movies, telephone and computer. You know they are all related to electricity and that will
help you memorize the words. One more example here, a cell phone is shǒu jī, which means
hand machine. An airplane is fēi jī, which means flying machine. And a helicopter is
Zhí shēng jī, which literally means straight ascending machine. That's what I mean by
the more chinese you learn, the easier it gets. Because the more chinese you learn,
the more building blocks or language components in the word you will acquire. And then you
can just put together the old pieces and make up new ones. In this video series, I am going
to try my best to make your learning process as easy and fun for you as possible. So in
our next lesson, we are going to learn the mandarin chinese tones. Take care, zài jiàn.
Hi, thanks for watching my video. I hope you got a general idea about how mandarin chinese
breaks. If you want to debunk the myth that chinese is too difficult to learn. Please
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