哈囉，大家好！ 哈啰，大家好！ Hello everyone!
I’m Grace
In this video I’m going to talk about
a very common mistake that many of my students make
which is using 和 as “and”
which is not entirely wrong
They both can be used to connect two nouns or noun phrases
like“他爸爸和我爸爸是朋友 his dad and my dad are friends”
or “我喜歡吃香蕉和草莓 I like to eat bananas and strawberries.” etc.
but in English “and” has way more usages than Chinese “和”
for example, you can use “and” to express time sequence
one thing happens and (then) another thing happens
“and” can also be used to give further information
like “remember to call me and don’t forget to tell your mom I said ‘hi’!”
In Chinese “和” doesn’t have these usages
so in today’s video
I’m going to give you the words you can use
to express yourself in these contexts naturally
When you want to express that
one thing happens and (then) another thing happens
don’t use “和”
You can use “然後” or “後來”
For example,
Remember “後來” can only be used to talk about things
that happened in the past
however, 然後 can be used to talk about things
that happened in the past or will happen in the future
To express time sequence, Sometimes,
you don’t even have to add any connecting words (conjunctions)
because compared to English, Chinese is a language that
doesn’t rely that much on connecting words (conjunctions)
to show the relation between two phrases or sentences
So for example,
“來我家” to come to my house
“找我玩” to hang out with me
I don’t have to add a 和 to connect them
Here is the example we mentioned:
她很努力讀書，後來考上了她想要的大學。
You can also omit the 後來 here, and say
她很努力讀書，考上了她想要的大學。
So now you know how to express time sequence in Chinese.
Let’s move on to learning the words
that are used to give further information
Let’s think about this
if you want to combine these two sentences
我姐姐很聰明
我姐姐很漂亮
and say “My sister is smart and pretty”
How would you do it?
Okay, here is the answer,
you can either say
我姐姐很聰明也很漂亮
or say
我姐姐很聰明而且很漂亮
So here you can’t use “和”
but you can use either “也” or “而且”
Now let’s think about another one,
Now think about what word you would use
to express the “and” in this context
Here, we use “還有”
還有 can be used to add further information. For example,
Here you can also use 也 or 而且, you can say
The difference is that 而且 is often used to provide information
that is as important or more important than the previous statement
However, 也 and 還有 are usually used to provide information
that is equally or less important than the previous statement
If 也 is used to connect a sentence with a subject
it can only be placed after the subject
However, 還有 and 而且 are placed before the subject
Okay, that’s all for today!
I hope this is helpful for you
to practice how to express “and” in Chinese in different contexts
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那我們就下次見囉！掰掰！ 那我们就下次见啰！掰掰！ I’ll see you next time! Bye!