There are also a lot of measure words in English, for example, when describing a group of animals in Chinese, we just use "群" ,like一群羊,一群鸟,but in English ,we say "a herb of sheep","a flock of birds","a school of fish","a swarm of bees","a pack of wolves","a pride of lions".😃
@petermcmillan72054 жыл бұрын
Very nice- I think illustrating the concept by talking about English measure words is really good. Haven't seen this done before- really useful!
@wanpachaysri10814 жыл бұрын
I'm a beginner. I think this is an excellent lesson. Cause you use pictures so it makes the Chinese language easy to understand. Thank you very much.
@PixelBytesPixelArtist5 жыл бұрын
Your videos are so underrated. You deserve more views and subs
@yinzhu14095 жыл бұрын
You're seriously the best! Your way of explanation is so clear and you make it easy. I'm glad i found your channel after searching for so long. I hope you will make more videos in the future!
@rosebubbles.3 жыл бұрын
"We not only have measure words for nouns, we also have measure words for verbs!" Me: *dies inside*
@maxwell_isnt_here2 жыл бұрын
*crying noises*
@sasino2 жыл бұрын
It's easy. Just don't study measure words by themselves, study sentences that contain them.
@sasino2 жыл бұрын
For example I have no idea what kind of classifier is 只 but I know that it's used before 猫 because of sentences I've practiced with, so I assume animals have 只 as their classifier. I do the same thing with tones I don't study tones for each word, I just remember them automatically after reading or hearing sentences
@Niko-ro5wz5 жыл бұрын
i'm brazilian and i just started learning chinese, your channel seem's to have great content and it will be a wonderful tool for my learning, thank you so much dude
@mollym47065 жыл бұрын
you really make this very easy to understand! Thanks!!
@chinolatino26525 жыл бұрын
The best explanation I have seen! Especially the last part, I didn't know about using MW with verbs.
@yoshiomaki15173 жыл бұрын
Twin Cities Chinese Tutor is the KZbin channel making putōnghuà the easy way to learn and understand. 👏
@ChineseGrammarSimplified3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@sasino2 жыл бұрын
I agree, this channel is so underrated, like all the channels that use an animated hand to draw things 😢
@pretoriousrussellstagawa70045 жыл бұрын
非常好!
@heenamukadam53505 жыл бұрын
Your videos are very helpful.please upload more often.
@the_learner124 жыл бұрын
Your explanations are so clear and logical. Please keep doing more videos!
@southiefkoreafuckoff882 жыл бұрын
If something is a countable noun, loosely speaking, "个" can be used in front of any noun if you don't know what the measure word of the noun is
@tacitozetticci93082 жыл бұрын
My professor says it's also referred to as "the peasant's classifier" lol.
@yingtaowang33974 жыл бұрын
老师的解释太好了! 中英文的发音都无可挑剔!
@marion66955 ай бұрын
Thanks for explaining. Your videos are entertaining and enlightening. You're doing a really good job.
@alokparmar74524 жыл бұрын
Your videos is awesome ❤️❤️
@boorinquynh89814 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Youre videos are amazing! Good job!
@yamaleong18554 жыл бұрын
Very nice, I from your video can learn more, thank you.
@basicinfo68165 жыл бұрын
量词 【Liàngcí】 Measure Word, Classifier (in Chinese grammar)
@believeinpeace2 жыл бұрын
You are the best, just what I needed
@LanguageEndeavor4 жыл бұрын
Nice explanation
@shalee80664 жыл бұрын
excellent explanation
@umargul5644 Жыл бұрын
Great job sir thanks, now I understand the meaning of measuring words in Chinese, like from deep ocean 😀 👌 by your kindly and quality teaching
@adqxca65523 жыл бұрын
Thanks, very informative
@legoboyplayz.3 жыл бұрын
很好,谢谢啊!😄 非常棒
@jojoking66385 ай бұрын
If you don't know which one to use, you can use "个"
@DeeMoaMia234 жыл бұрын
Wow, your telling is so help me....thanks!
@serena19523 жыл бұрын
分かりやすいですね
@JohnJohn-sf1df4 жыл бұрын
Envelope
@r_iyy4 жыл бұрын
What i learned shui 水=water
@Jatoob4 жыл бұрын
hello riyshad
@kakababuda57555 жыл бұрын
Can you do a video on the sentence structure shi.....de ?
@kalli4231 Жыл бұрын
*In Spanish we do say things like "Bebí dos aguas." (I drank two waters.).... It's kinda funny. xd*
@lavierose94975 жыл бұрын
Xiè xie. Thank you. 👍👍👍
@mq463123 жыл бұрын
Like the language isn't already complicated enough.
@-mr.beckwith22363 жыл бұрын
Actually, Chinese grammar is usually simple. The main problem is that it is so different. But the characters are tough to learn. I'll give you that.
@sasino2 жыл бұрын
Not really though, but I guess it depends on the perspective. To me it's just a very logical and systemic language, and studying it has proven to be easier than I imagined. I procrastinated starting to study it for 7 years just because of people saying it was hard.
@fatcammal10 ай бұрын
how is your journey with chinese going? @@sasino
@abdulrhmanabouzaid44625 жыл бұрын
真是妙极了 💙😇
@bonbonpony5 жыл бұрын
Is there an exhaustive list of those measure words somewhere, along with their meanings and usages?
It will be good if you bring the videos of the common measure words and their simplification 😃
@ChineseGrammarSimplified Жыл бұрын
Thank you, I might make a part 2 of the measure words video later.
@benbencom5 жыл бұрын
There's no reason to be afraid of measure words. They go in a specific place, so when you hear a number, or 这, you know you're about to hear a measure word. If you know it, it might help you recognize the noun. If you don't, you're no worse off. When speaking, you can help the listener the same way if you know a good measure word, but if not you can use 个.
@KittieGreen4 жыл бұрын
Yusssssssss I get it!!! Thank you
@NZhou5 жыл бұрын
Hi, can you please explain how to distinguish 东面 东边 东部 东部地区 东方?
@wesleeFEZ5 жыл бұрын
东 > East 东面 > East(东), (面)= face, side > (direction) 东边 > similar to 东面, (边)= side , interchangeable with 东面 东部 > Eastern, (部)=section, part, department 东部地区 > Eastern area, (地)= place in here, (区)= district, (地区)= district or area 东方 > Eastern, oriental (方)=direction
@naomizhou72865 жыл бұрын
A big thank you! @@wesleeFEZ
@impexhubtradingcompany42455 жыл бұрын
Welcome sir
@user-rv8io4oi6d2 жыл бұрын
Dear Author, if you could make a sheet of exaples of those measure words, I would appriciate you!
@ChineseGrammarSimplified Жыл бұрын
studycli.org/learn-chinese/chinese-measure-words/
@sokheng62794 жыл бұрын
很好
@Lashovadjs3 жыл бұрын
The comparison between the 'measure words' in English vs in Chinese is not exactly clear to me as a speaker to both languages. In English when you say 2 plates of bananas, the plates here are the actual containers of the bananas instead of being a grammatical add-on to the phrase. The measures words in modern Chinese that are associated with nouns is very similar to the concept of gender of nouns in most indo-european languages (keep in mind that some languages have more than 3 types of genders for nouns)
As a native speaker of Italian which has "gender" for nouns, I disagree, the concept is not the same 😐
@sasino2 жыл бұрын
@@ChineseGrammarSimplified wow that list is hilarious though 🤣 I don't know most of those words, some sound archaic to me, except a few common ones like a nest, herd, swarm, colony, flock. Some sound really crazy to me, like "a business of ferrets" or "a murder of crows"
@user-bx3cw3ss1h3 жыл бұрын
What’s the Chinese Measure Word for Stone?
@juliamu14083 жыл бұрын
Kuai. Yi kuai shi tou.
@sasino2 жыл бұрын
To complement the above answer: 一块石头
@theresmoretolifethanmeetst75794 жыл бұрын
What about duplication of measure words?
@janetmissjacksonifyourenas29044 жыл бұрын
ok
@reeceselby29794 жыл бұрын
ok
@sasino2 жыл бұрын
I'm curious now, does such thing exist
@ChineseGrammarSimplified Жыл бұрын
You could watch the recent Chinese réduplication video, the measure words actually can be reduplicated.
@legoboyplayz.3 жыл бұрын
+ at 5:15 it says droped, not dropped
@ChineseGrammarSimplified2 жыл бұрын
sorry
@legoboyplayz.2 жыл бұрын
@@ChineseGrammarSimplified it is ok!
@tarunjain123able5 жыл бұрын
Please upload 2 videos every week , do you have any paid service ??
@LearnwithAasma4 жыл бұрын
我看了一个车? 我看了一辆车! 都可以。😍
@ragnarok49354 жыл бұрын
一台車也可以喔
@yingtaowang33974 жыл бұрын
口语中有时候可以用“一个车”,但是听着比较怪,书面不能用“个”, 而用“量”或“台”
@amekanasai4 жыл бұрын
个 is the universal classifier but it doesn't sound natural in every case
@qazwsxq81354 жыл бұрын
口语都可以
@ChineseGrammarSimplified Жыл бұрын
No really, at least in Mainland China, only 一辆车 would be considered grammatically correct. We don't really say 一台车 in mainland.
@issamtzu81835 жыл бұрын
Make more videos please
@impexhubtradingcompany42454 жыл бұрын
今年我们买了一颗美丽的圣诞树。
@ChineseGrammarSimplified4 жыл бұрын
Shuchad Ahmed Saif 棵
@Rajan_raj_4 жыл бұрын
@@ChineseGrammarSimplified sir pls don't stop making videos like that
@vLxqsaz Жыл бұрын
what would 沙发的量词 be?
@simonxu2487 Жыл бұрын
一 张 沙发
@zariakhan91655 жыл бұрын
Who is here learning chinese at grade 10th 🤔🤔
@danielribeiro28695 жыл бұрын
Tai Hao Le
@danielribeiro28695 жыл бұрын
Tai Xie Xie Le
@oliverbian40345 жыл бұрын
@@danielribeiro2869 You should say 非常感谢 or十分感谢 if you wanna say Thank you very much
@user-fp7tm9lw9s3 жыл бұрын
I have confusion about S + 中+ 了。它是什么意思呢?
@ChineseGrammarSimplified3 жыл бұрын
Can you give an example?
@user-fp7tm9lw9s3 жыл бұрын
@@ChineseGrammarSimplified like.. 我中了
@ChineseGrammarSimplified3 жыл бұрын
@@user-fp7tm9lw9s 中 (zhong4) is a verb. Its meaning includes: to hit (the mark) to be hit by to suffer to win (a prize, a lottery)
@user-fp7tm9lw9s3 жыл бұрын
@@ChineseGrammarSimplified ok, i get it. thanks!
@sunnyahmed14865 жыл бұрын
but it would be better if you just show the use of all the difficult measure words
@ChineseGrammarSimplified5 жыл бұрын
Can you tell me more? What measure words do you find difficult?
@josepalmos73035 жыл бұрын
The one hundreth like 👍
@TheEzz094 жыл бұрын
Envolope XDDDD
@ChineseGrammarSimplified Жыл бұрын
I know, sorry about the typos.
@bh90735 жыл бұрын
You teaching English more than Chinese, that confused
@ChineseGrammarSimplified5 жыл бұрын
I am glad that you are at least learning something from it. ;-)
@lavierose94975 жыл бұрын
I am not good in English... I find his way great to explain... May be because you are an American native this is why it looks not effective for you... I hope you did understand what I mean. 😀😀
@nicoleraheem11954 жыл бұрын
I learned about present continuous in korean before I remembered I learned it in English 😂. English comes natural to me as an native. I don't think of these building blocks of language when I speak my language but I must think of them as I learn other languages, so now I must compare in order to understand. One must understand GRAMMAR structure of one's language to understand GRAMMAR of ones target language. Basically, how are you going to learn someone else language when you don't know your own???????????????? Twin cities obviously Targets ENGLISH SPEAKERS WHO DESIRE TO LEARN CHINESE.