Complete Introduction to Chinese in 30 Minutes

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In this video, you’ll get started with Chinese language. You will discover why you should learn Chinese! You will also get introduced to Chinese pronunciation, grammar and writing. This is THE place to start if you want to start learning Chinese, and master both reading & writing.
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[@ChineseClass101]

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[@bottleofwater1675]

Knowing Chinese, French, English and Spanish almost 95% of the population

[@user-hx7ve6th4f]

Where the hell did you get that from?!?! French is not one of the top ten most spoken languages in the world, and not even half (

[@romamahant8612]

Hindi also

[@Adnamie]

Wow... I already speak Arabic, french and English, and now I'm learning Spanish for fun and travel, my dad told me if I learn Chinese aswell then I could basically communicate with almost everyone around the world, I've also started to pick up interest in Portuguese and Esperanto, Brazilian Portuguese sounds so cool and its similar to spanish so thats why I like it, I like esperanto because it's so easy to learn and I love the esperanto community

[@user-hx7ve6th4f]

@@Adnamie I already made it clear before, the original comment is frikin stupid. No source is given. How do you actually believe 95% of the population speaks only 4 languages? AND nobody asked you about what languages you know OR are currently learning OR what you are interested in. This is why I hate the internet...

[@Adnamie]

@@user-hx7ve6th4f buddy, it's common knowledge that English, French, Spanish and Chinese are some of the most spoken languages in the world (number of native and non-native speakers combined) according to Ethnologe and many other sources. English is obviously 1st, Chinese is in second place, Spanish is in 4th place, and French is right below it at 5th place. Yes it is true that Kwasi here didnt mention a source, and I also doubt that speaking ONLY those 4 languages will allow to communicate with 95% of the world

[@ramadhanalfaini1411]

This sum up some semesters of university class. Well done

[@timeisapathwalkingtounderstand]

Almost mastered hiragana and katakana but but kanji, well that's a different story. Now Mandarin. Chinese and Japanese is a beautiful mysterious language. I'm enjoying learning them. Good luck everybody. PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE

[@guiseb7137]

Same

[@kundi9211]

勉強!勉強!(日本語)😁

[@Plluvi]

Dude, I mastered katakana and hiragana bit KANJI IS SO DIFFICULT. I'm learning Korean and Chinese right now so I think I'll save the hardest for last. It's good that I know "some" Japanese🤷🏼‍♀️

[@mandarinplaza3272]

Thank your for your good efforts to make this introduction video. It’s very easy to understand. But I have to point out that, 1. Usually ‘time’ is put behind the ‘subject’ , it’s also okay if you put ‘time’ ahead of the ‘subject’. For example 我明天去学校。 明天我去学校。 2. I hope the the pronunciation of the Chinese host can be better, since I heard some obvious pronunciation mistakes when she speaks the compound final.

[@ChineseClass101]

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[@lilalpaca6690]

Just want to correct that we don't speak Chinese everyday here in Indonesia. We even don't speak English everyday, instead, we speak Bahasa and/or local language.

[@fish-uz2nj]

she meant indonesian-chinese

[@antoniojoaquimsilva668]

老师好！ 恭喜你！ 非常感谢！

[@selectiveweirdo8274]

This 30 minutes feels like hours when you writing down the Chinese English and the pinyin

[@JohnJohnson-yi6jg]

i think better to learn pinyin first and start hanzi after, that’s how small kids in China learn

[@user-uk2rp8zw9w]

감사합니다

[@tzuyuwu.]

Your welcome

[@johnroekoek9864]

10:54 The 4th tone falls down from the upper line. It is the highest tone. Found out after months, because this video shows different. Than I could distinguish the tones. Example: 1 ta 4 shi (he/she is). Shi starts much higher than ta.

[@bunthoeun9817]

Many thanks.

[@teacherbam7230]

Finished this video... Thanks so much

[@selectiveweirdo8274]

I hope this will be me some day I'm 3 hours and 30 minutes in and I'm only half way there😭😭

[@somtochukwua.6123]

Very helpful

[@aidenbooksmith2351]

谢谢！Great video!

[@haneul9867]

谢谢

[@rbancal4768]

Thank youuuuuu

[@mandarinplaza3272]

7:26 'ue' doesn't exit in compund finals......!!! we only have 'üe' and if it behind 'j\q\x', two dots of 'ü' should be removed then.

[@whosthisgurl]

OmG, I want to thank you for your explanation of stroke order. Maybe it was just me, but text books and even my professor and tutor could not explain this to me in a way I could understand. Maybe I just needed the video visualization.

[@raziahussain9119]

muje bohot psnd aya apka tarika,

[@bunthoeun9817]

So cool I love your video so much.

[@dreadlinxx5990]

very nice conversations

[@Kumuthapoorvi]

nice

[@sihamgh1889]

你好。我是摩洛哥人。

[@kamalmohamad3820]

25 7 / 2017 thanks ........

[@redrose3337]

very helpful video. thanks Alisha

[@kim21simplelife]

Thanks for Sharing

[@cattree9704]

xièxie

[@user-nc1dg9cr5w]

That Alisha First Japanese , Thai , Korean and now Chinese 😲😲

[@candicelee9336]

I work for some international school as a Mandarin teacher. this video is really helpful for me to teach foreign students. many thanks.

[@28palakaggarwal83]

hey can you be my teacher pleasee

[@drk7016]

As a chinese. i need say. 谢谢=thank, not thank you, 谢谢你=thank you. 4:22

[@bjcbjc8253]

Did you notice that the tones have the same line above the letter EX:à has a line like that above it

[@robertlonn6128]

Nihao! XieXie Ni. The 50,000 Characters is that only for Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese or dose those 50k Characters include; older Chinese, ancient Chinese and ancient ancient Chinese? (Saw a video from youtuber NativeLang about the diffrent types of Chinese languages, So I had to ask)

[@robertlonn6128]

Let me refrase the question: How many characters are there in total in Kanji?

[@AlexGrave]

One error. Terracotta warrior is in Xi'an City which located in Shan Xi Province, .

[@user-nh7iz2uc9d]

helpful ngl but i have bed memory so its a big challenge but ill try

[@user-cd8cy7le2u]

Lernen wir im Tandem, Sie helfen mir bei Deutsch und ich bei dir chinesische!

[@ruthramokgopa5519]

Learning chinese is difficult,but i m getting there.my pronunciation is not bad.xiexie

[@wannabemusician2519]

I'm taking notes and writing in chinese is so painful to me

[@spaceboy3101]

This seems like good info, but it's way too fast to really learn from as a beginner (maybe the slower courses are at the site?). I find myself pausing and rewinding way too much. This seems like it would be great for a speedy review to stay fresh after you've learned from another course. Unfortunately, just about all the Chinese videos I've seen so far from the various channels seem to be the same, for the most part. They move too fast, although some go way too deep for a beginner. This is a surprise to me when comparing to other languages that take a slower approach with more repetitive practice. (FTR, I have learned spanish & french in the past so I'm accustomed to the more common learning methods) These are some ways to make language vids more friendly for a beginner: * Longer pauses between instructional sentences. Students need time to analyse what is on the screen based on what was just explained. * Longer pauses between sections. This allows for more digestion time with the visual info on the screen. The brain needs time for it to "sink in". When it is forced to move on to fast, it does not stick nearly as well. * Repeat each spoken example at least 3 times. This is kind of a standard. 3 times is widely known to boost retention plus the student is able to improve their pronunciation and accent after 3 tries. Also, the teacher can use slow pronunciation with the first and normal speed with the last which also helps. * Ideally, have two sets of videos, one for travel/tourist part time speaker, and one for more serious learning. The tourist version would skip some technical things that they really don't need and that wouldn't cause issues for just basic communication.

[@So_Appalled]

You can pause the videos.

[@bunthoeun9817]

I have thousands of your lessons.

[@ubalesjustine1428]

Naoll

[@timerise5486]

I already knew some radical cause it's like JAPANESE

[@achuabi6516]

Can you tell me how can I get job in china

[@evelynwong3816]

Super language huh? Does that mean I’ll be Superman or supergirl? Take a look at this 0:33

[@TheManInCommand]

Does your paid videos move this fast?

[@gigglehertz]

WTH? Alisha is cheating on Risa from JapanesePod101

[@mayolover23]

bruh she's in every pod 101 as the English host lol

[@user-nc1dg9cr5w]

Also Korean,Thai too😐

[@xiaobosun-yt3gt]

It's easier for native English speakers to learn Chinese.

[@aazeenhussainali786]

i want to learn Chinese just to play Chinese games

[@user-vk5dq7wg6e]

ل

[@1004Benny]

Sorry... Stopped watching after two minutes upon learning you mix the linguistic concepts of language and dialect. Cantonese, for example, is not a dialect, it is a language per se. 话 does not refer directly to a dialect.

[@driving101drivingschool2]

You are wrong.

[@profetakurumim459]

Quando a esmola é demais o cego desconfia, reza sábio ditado. Esse é um comercial que visa aumentar seu faturamento apresentando argumentos que absolutamente não tem nenhum valor para o aprendizado do Hanyu. Como "chines nato" e poliglota fluente de todas as línguas orientais, afirmo: É impossível aprender o Zhong Wen (Lingua Chinesa) como anunciam! Como principio básico é sofrível. Sem o acompanhamento de um professor NATIVO ninguém aprenderá a se comunicar fluentemente nesta "dificílima, porém sábia língua" de mais de 3000 anos de cultura... Acredite quem quiser;

[@Ratchet2022]

But it’s not as difficult as you might think? Coming from a Chinese person.

[@imme791]

as someone who speaks arabic (One of the most difficult languages ) ;french and english and a little bit of Korean , I can assure you that chinese isn't that hard,you just need a lot of practice to master the prononciation , although I have to admit that the characters are pretty damn hard , cause there's no alphabet :( ,how's your learning going ??

[@Plluvi]

@@imme791 yeah, it really isn't. I had to go back and get another glamps at the Korean honorifics but for Chinese, I just went through the whole thing and took screenshots to go over later🤷🏼‍♀️

[@alexaisneverhome]

@@imme791 it's been a year, how did your learning go? I'm arabian as well so I'm curious..

[@sedemtsikata9075]

Xiexie

[@Sigtyra]

Too many wrong informations.

[@hugoquijanovalencia7134]

Anyone else watched Darwin's video?

[@awequayzngs1780]

Xie Xie.

[@umbrkk6210]

tis is bed vidio, me nu likey UwU. cina veby bad, logan pewl veby gud. wach vidios fur tips. he rek ksi

[@umbrkk6210]

nutting wut wrung wit u bish

[@umbrkk6210]

jew r gae

[@umbrkk6210]

i c al poleese

[@umbrkk6210]

y u meen

[@umbrkk6210]

because your mother used teeth

[@mateuszadamkiewicz7317]

Cantonese is not a dialect

[@zhang4610]

It's not the same as Mandarin. I'm a native Cantonese speaker, but learning Mandarin now. There are some similar words on occasion, but it is different.

[@michaelcheung7483]

Mateusz Adamkiewicz it is a dialect.....

[@hahaLOLhaha72]

We are taught in school that yue yu is a different language group all together.

[@suspiciouscomrade1973]

We just call it 方言 fāngyán. We let the westerns argue about how to say that in their own languages. Although our teachers and texts will say the way people speak in Canton (Guangzhou) is a type of 粤语 yuèyǔ.

[@bottleofwater1675]

It’s like saying that Italian is a dialect

[@tenienteramires4428]

Cantonese is not a dialect.

[@driving101drivingschool2]

It is.

[@memyselfiyo_its_me_lmaooo8769]

im gonna be on a date with an asian chick .Who else is here cause of that

[@princessnitishasahu2252]

I literally hate your introduction and would you just come to the point, I want to lean the, it's alphabets and vowels NOT it's history, at least not now.

[@fish-uz2nj]

just search for another video

[@bottleofwater1675]

谢谢

[@famillebenammar7396]

Xiexie