Chinese Hack: Breaking down sentence structures in Mandarin

Chinese Hack: Breaking down sentence structures in Mandarin
Different languages have different ways to make sentences.
Let’s try to learn Mandarin Chinese from the perspective of a Mandarin native speaker.
There are four important concepts of Chinese grammars in this video, knowing these concepts will help you understand the way we speak and also level up your Chinese speaking skill!
The timecode of 4 concepts:
00:53 (1) Forming Chinese sentences
03:30 (2) Chinese word orders
05:52 (3) Chinese is a Topic-prominent language
09:10 (4) A special structure
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[@GraceMandarinChinese]

Hope you enjoy today’s video! If you have any suggestion or any idea that you want me to talk about, please leave a comment below :)

[@skyclintliquit7814]

I would love to learn about measure words of mandarin

[@user-pe3qr3pc5p]

ｉwant to learn English with you！

[@QuizmasterLaw]

bei passive it's a cognate to english by. ba separable verb structure; german also does this. German or Estonian grammar is closest to Chinese of European languages (Estonian is a Finno-Ugric language not Indo European).

[@anasmirza346]

wo zhu zai pakistan ni de jiaoxue fangfa shi zhengque de

[@anasmirza346]

xiexie

[@martinphipps2]

"Chinese sentences have SVO order except when they don't."

[@felixb6]

Kind of like English with our VSO questions

[@QuizmasterLaw]

yeah, ignore SVO Like Grace says Chinese is a topic prominent i.e. topic comment aka left branching language.

[@groverchiri4031]

A sentence Chinese has got S+time/place/manner +V+O words order.

[@zhibinlu6173]

因为这个（或者说这些）只不过是派生的而已，不是什么先天的铁律，它也不配，也根本没有这回事。这种所谓的语法根本没有必然性，所谓sov这一形式“背后”的那些涌动的 东西 根本不受它约束的，我们只是 回过头地 说“汉语有这样的语法（但总有例外）罢了”，暂时设个框架好办事而已，可以随时“反悔”。背后的那套哲学（或者说形而上学）跟西方挺不一样的，我们也不会设想有一个敲代码的超级程序员。

[@zhibinlu6173]

not like that

[@avoilachan]

I love your channel, your linguistic and analytic approach is just what I need for understanding the language better! I think you deserve so many more viewers, I'm gonna recommend you to all my Chinese-learning friends!! :))

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

Mari ! Hi Mari! I’m so happy that you like the content! 😆 Also very appreciate that you’re willing to recommend these to your friends! Thank you! 💕

[@eugenelamadrid1445]

Finally found a teacher here in youtube haha! Looking forward to watch all of your helpful videos👍🏻

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

Eugene Lamadrid Hi Eugene! Welcome :D Happy to have you here!

[@Maya-hf3zw]

谢谢老师！this is a great video! I love how you explain every part of the sentence and say the sentence at a regular speed as well :)

[@deryugituberschlechthingh6911]

at least more slow thats increduble good。

[@GhostyCowboy]

You are so good at explaining this stuff! I’ve been very confused with this stuff and you cleared it up very well!!

[@fractal_mind562]

I'm from the UK, and have started to learn Mandarin ! Complex language ! And I'm not good at learning languages but would like to live in China one day

[@tymanung768]

Some parts are complex--- writing!! tones (partly) while, others are simple--- word order in general. verb modes, verb tenses, verb aspects, etc Suggestion To find book.and online reference grammars to compare forms like word phrase clause orders

[@tymanung768]

To also.compare contents. like word meanings between Chinese and English in 4 possibilities where both are 1) ID 2) similar 3) opposite 4) different-- Immersion techniques you, Probably know--- šo many-- Polyglots Conference, individual teachers of Chinese etc languages To fond websites and books, on Chinese language. past. and present To learn, about Chinese culture underlying principles, slike yin and yang, 5 elements, directions, flavors, colors, etc. These, also influence language in some ways. Hope that these, help. Zhu, ni, hao yunqi!!! Jia. you!!

[@keylavalle-palma6139]

謝謝老師！it's like Spanish (what a relief!)

[@anarchoenby]

This video helped A LOT. Thanks, 老师！:D

[@leadavids7951]

You’re explanation was so clear, thank you so much and your videos are very aesthetic and nice to look at

[@noipecinecitim]

your videos are so useful, 谢谢！

[@ivomoreira42]

Hey, Grace, I was watching your class and then I started to wonder how good it would be if you made a video about writing Chinese characters, but in the cursive way, like the fonts you are using to write the example. They are so beautiful. I really think it would be a great topic!

[@fieraasiatica8599]

Your videos are incredibly good explained! Now I’ll take my chinese to the next level

[@jessyca9833]

Yayyyyy with traditional characters too, thank youuuuu!!! Wow, your video is amazing. I learned a lot of practical things! Suscribed!

[@briancarter2505]

Thanks Grace, fantastic explanation.

[@xingdong122kao5]

It really needs someone like Grace to get a true insight on the differences between these two languages which i have struggled. Thank you.

[@brandon1268]

I appreciate the time and effort in explaining proper grammar. I've seen some other videos and they confuse me when they break down sentence structure. THANK YOU!

[@trisgray2466]

thanks grace! always awesome!

[@celinaneruta185]

Thank you so much for this video! In Portuguese, we also omit a lot of stuff but then we understand it because of the context so it is nice to see similarities!

[@misaelaguirre2984]

Your videos are really helpful.

[@jamesjames4652]

Your lessons are vey good :)

[@imanpoco5654]

Thank you so much for your hard work making this amazing and informative video

[@trisgray2466]

Thanks! This Explanation helps me a lot. 💕 the font is a bit fancy which is good but maybe I just prefer a standard one cause its much clearer. looking forward for more videos in this channel. 🙂💕

[@slavovalora]

Cant wait for a video on the verb + complement topic!! You explain so well and the illustrations are amazing. Its truly a blessing to have found your channel

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

xqysite Thank you! Glad to have you here!

[@chinanepal]

Thank you so much i don't know Chinese is a topic prominent language i never forget it really helpful for me

[@Okoooooo0322]

thanks teacher

[@Bob13Blues]

Thank you Grace. I have been finding your videos very helpful in restarting my Mandarin studies.

[@user-pz3ns7wz5m]

好棒！！繼續加油💪🏼

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

好～～～❤️

[@suptho808]

Very helpful

[@youliveandlearn4131]

Wow, I like your mind & they way you teach. Your one in a million. Thank you so much!

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

Shinkodenkai Danforth You’re very welcome! 😉 I’m happy to have you here!

[@chungchhen]

Thank you Teacher Guo! You packed a lot in this video. Watching it a few times will help to take it all in.

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

Chen Jun Guang Thank you! I know I talked about so many concepts in one episode haha. Just that I want to share so many things 😝

[@julielingxu6278]

Beautiful！

[@hi___ting]

學姊真的好用心～繼續加油超喜歡你的～～

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

謝謝你～我會繼續努力的 💪

[@marion6695]

Thank you, that was very helpful. The sentence structure gives me difficulties in longer sentences. I've only been learning Chinese for four weeks, so I'm hoping I can get the problem under control.

[@LilMissDragoness]

You are so natural and funny, you actually made me laugh 😍 Happy to have found you, very useful and helpful videos 🙏⭐

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

Thank you!! I'm glad to have you here! :D

[@cahit1905]

thanks🙂🙂🙂🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻👏🏻

[@tienphung9576]

I've always enjoyed your attractive videos which I'm so thankful for. Hope more and more people follow your channel. By the way, could you make a video to show us how the way native speakers write words in daily?

[@martinphipps2]

By studying Chinese I learn new ways to explain English. How do I explain the sentence "He wiped the table clean"? I say "Clean is a resultative compliment of the verb wipe." How do I explain "A bought a bunch of grapes"? I say "bunch of" is a measure word for grapes. Easy peasy.

[@khushichauhan9919]

Right now im learning Hsk2 from meiyu institute and you know what i finding your all vedeos are so helpful.谢谢您。

[@jonaramire]

Super channel ! Love Taiwan from Switzerland !

[@salmaster8256]

amazing...

[@fridaay]

4:50 I laugh at this part :D 你好可爱!

[@enefem8585]

Thanks for the video. I'm learning Chinese and subscribed to your channel in hopes it will help me. Your English is very good how long did it take for you to learn it?

[@kuzuri3747]

感谢

[@curtiswfranks]

Lojban set a lot of these up nicely for me.

[@johnroekoek9864]

I am soooo gonna write these sentences down, with the English words.

[@rizwan3147]

Great

[@cahit1905]

Learning chinese🙂👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@mateyrodian1900]

Watched !. I am watching video by video I have already watched other but I decided to start over the first one. Leaving a comment for each video I watch

[@jaywang2764]

角色扮演也太可愛了吧 內容都很生活化餒 加油加油~~~

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

謝謝你！！會繼續加油的～

[@mateyrodian1900]

Watched !

[@jiayou11]

Thank you laoshi ♥️ I have a question. For 0 level beginners like me, what is the likable method to start with? I'm sorry, I'm very confused. 😅 Thank you for your response. 💙

[@cannabiskid]

Ohhh, my Chinese lessons coming back to me. I forgot about the 把被 rule 😅

[@fauzinurrahman927]

dang, I hope I find this channel 2 years ago so my brain won't lagging this whole time cause learning chinese

[@leandroferrari9211]

The third concept you talked about is one great difference from Western cultures (generally speaking), the focus on the element/subject (Western) and the holistic focus (Eastern). Great Grace!

[@davitbalag]

MVP video

[@laff8147]

Is it possible to get a copy of the handout for this lesson?

[@user-gt5pc9kl6f]

Thank You. Спасибо。(ツ)

[@callumanderson2835]

Is there any difference in structure when using 就 and using 然後 ？

[@neezatolange2291]

please make a video of how to read chinese fast and style of reading chinese.

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

Nija Tolange Thank you for the suggestion!

[@Shang176]

Is so funny. So cute XD. 4:50 Thanks for the hack.

[@Bill-ni3es]

Mandarin appears to be such an efficient language.

[@lianhui]

5:10 用agent, theme來解釋會比較好，因為畢竟主詞還是蘋果(個人淺見

[@jayjaylecourt9431]

Now i understand why some new chinese people in the Philippines speak our language in a certain way.. like broken grammar, mostly no helping verbs

[@diegoleo1279]

4:50 lovely .. like a rabbit~

[@user-xc8vk5ln8i]

出片速度也太快 期待下一部

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

下一部再等幾天！

[@ejchen9487]

❤️❤️❤️

[@user-ig7ds2ym6m]

姐姐加油喔！♥😊

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

賴婕語 好💛

[@Ukw975]

Laoshi grace,my other laoshis say that if I delete the svo order is not appropriate,so I'm guessing that it's probly a higher step to proper chinese such as english because some laoshis explain like u?can u clarify that for me.xiexe lashi grace...🙏👍😇

[@cahit1905]

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@sreed314]

Hi, Thanks I enjoyed your video. I don't think the "O + 被 + S + V“ is right as this is a passive sentence so the Apple is the subject.

[@sreed314]

My Chinese teacher has since explained to me that although " "S + 被 + O + V“ is correct from a Western Grammar viewpoint the Subject is seen differently from a Chinese viewpoint so "O + 被 + S + V“ is correct from that viewpoint. Thanks again for the video the structures shown are very useful.

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

Stuart Reed Thank you! I didn’t know from Western grammar point of view “S+被+O+V” is correct. Because the way we explain Subjects is considering them as the action doers. Thanks for letting me know :D

[@user-sf1cc9py6w]

Hello xiaojie xiexie ni. I like you very much. I always watch you video and listen you Chinese. I really love you thank you my love ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@tad4362]

Hello this is Tad from Japan. I noticed that the position of 了 was different depending on the sentences. 我吃晚餐了 and 他吃了苹果. Is it possible to say 我吃了晚餐 and 他吃苹果了??

[@imorichwu4797]

我吃过晚餐了 我吃了晚餐 过 make eat this action as a main thing what I want to say.

[@WEIHAN1016]

建議可以上個中文字幕會比較好

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

漢 因為主要是給外國人學中文的 所以才沒上中文字幕😂

[@jaymeyer5073]

Without a strong working knowledge of vocabulary since so many characters get strung together, how can any structure possibly be understandable?

[@taralim1]

Pls use better text format and size, colors , bcz they are the primary content.. Thanks.. Hope u agree and do needful

[@dimetutomo1546]

为什么你真的可爱 Is my sentence right? 😀

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

You can say "为什么你那么可爱“ or "你真的很可爱“ :)

[@imorichwu4797]

真的 always follow the first word which as noun.

[@AnkanBasu7]

I was confused, now I’m extremely confused after watching this

[@papayapositiv1619]

In First sentence is a mistake! "nà ge zen" is in Pinyin written, but it should be "nà ge rén" 那个人

[@user-jj6mx3tc1g]

Na guo ning haha😆

[@jeffreytsai2240]

Grace is cute all the time.

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

Thank you :)

[@dvn.b__samu-han]

Chinese grammar is somewhat similar to Indonesian and Malaysian 中文語法有點像「印尼文」和「馬來文」一樣。

[@vservicesvservices7095]

Had ppl learn the sentence structures u explained, wont they be thinking english while using chinese? I mean most native ppl dont learn chinese this way (inc native chinese teacher). Can ppl really reach advanced fluence with these seemly easy-to-understand gramma oriented approach?

[@olafgunther9401]

why do you say che zi and not just che? 6:22

[@user-jj6mx3tc1g]

Yes, but Chinese people like to put zi after nouns!for example juejuezi

[@julielingxu6278]

鱼吃了吗？Have you eaten the fish? or Have you fed the fish in the aquarium?

[@Haileyrodriguez288]

If only the word order was the same as English I would get this in a day but this is so difficult to understand

[@anasmirza346]

grace guo mandarin wo hen xihuan grace guo hen hao de laoshi

[@rasmat7370]

You are beautiful ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@deryugituberschlechthingh6911]

understood almost nothing and that perfectly！the order is to important。meaning is easy to transfer？！but nobody understands it。😭😭😭 svo is to easy，not to practical and not often used in daily conversations！in general to fast！have to watch this at minimum 10 times i believe！just honest opinions。meaning of what？the writing is in my way（subtitles）。bu zén but rén？even if i almost can read the sentence，but i almost always understands it wrong and dont get the meaning after multiple trys！

[@EvgenyUskov]

here is what i can't understand: the original chinese was not like that, right? do chinese use words like "wo'men" because that was the original "we", or the current "we" was simply derived and constructed from respective kanjis?

[@BiiKay675]

Some of your characters you used are traditional characters? Why didn't you use simplified characters?

[@pytyus]

Because in Taiwan they use traditional characters.

[@RafiqulIslam-bh6qm]

Hi grace what's up?

[@aclearlake6210]

Wow! You really have beautiful complexion. I fall in love with your eyes and the way your lips move. Thanks for the video, Teacher. 一定会来中国寻找像你这样的合作伙伴。