Daily Chinese Phrases That Make You Sound Like a Native Speaker Immediately

[@TheNatEight]

Hi Grace, just wanted to say I was watching one of your videos from 3 years ago and this video shows your English pronunciation has really improved since then! (and it was already pretty good!) I think it’s great that you teach Chinese so well and continue to improve your own English.

[@fernandoo.8737]

I love it that this channel teaches us mandarim from both mainland China and Taiwan

[@TalaySeedam]

China and Taiwan, don't belittle prc by just calling it the "mainland" part of ROC.

[@fernandoo.8737]

@@TalaySeedam? "Belittle? I said mainland China, because China is not only the continental part, in both PRC and ROC constitutions.

[@err_go]

@@fernandoo.8737Be aware that yours is not the majority view held by modern Taiwanese, rather it's the colonial view of previous generations that's in rapid and terminal decline.

[@fernandoo.8737]

@@err_go I'm aware of the contradictory piont of view of Taiwanese youth

[@LukS626]

Hello Grace. I'm sorry for an unrelated comment but today is exactly 1 year since I've started learning Mandarin Chinese. Living in Poland, Europe, I'm as far from native Chinese speakers as possible, there is also little probability I'll ever need Chinese in my work - but I don't regret choosing it and studying it all the way. I've been learning so much about not only the language itself, but the culture, people, history. Learning Mandarin opened a whole new, fascinating world for me. I haven't missed a single day since 25th August 2021, and although I have my downs, feeling of getting stuck, frustration and not as much progress as I'd like to, I'm not going to stop. And here I take my chance to say a huge thank you to you for all you do for people like me. I already said it under one of your vids, but I'll just restate it - I wish I had met you and your channel much, much earlier, just when I was starting my adventure. Luckily the future is ahead and I'm happy to be part of your learning community. With you, the huge task of learning Mandarin Chinese, becomes a pleasant, rewarding, fascinating journey. I just wish I could talk to native speakers one day - but who knows, right? Thank you, 谢谢 Grace, I wish you all the best! Luke

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

Which phrase in today’s video have you heard before? - Let me know what kind of topics or videos you like the most in my channel! I’ll keep it in mind when I make future videos!

[@AshinAsia]

all new for me! Thank you! 谢谢老师！

[@thoughtfulsapien1235]

Do you have any tips to improve pronunciation

[@AshinAsia]

@@thoughtfulsapien1235 for me, listen and copy. My friend/teacher makes me read a sentence over and over, slowly at first to get tones right, then faster and faster until no problem. (I know you are asking Grace, but this is what many people will say.

[@DoubleDiction]

Especially helpful when you note when phrases are informal

[@retrorystergaming577]

Thanks for the phrases Grace. This type of content is great

[@obomevelhomagal]

This everyday phrases is amazing, thank you so much Grace

[@guidow9616]

I started with learning chinese as my new years goal for 2024. Videos like that will help me in the future, of course a bit too early for a 2w learner. A few questions though: - When the phrases were shown in real life, like the couple washing dishes, she seemed to repeat the phrase multiple times. Why does she do that? - When grace introduces new phrases she speaks them very slowly and this way I am able to get the tone of the vocals nearly right, but the second time she speaks much faster, probably how it's spoken in real life, and that way it seems for me that some words are reduced to mearly a millisecond sound (like YI), it's so fast that without knowing that it should be YI, you could easily miss it, right? Also the Tones like `, ´, ... are very hard to get. Does a native speaker get the meaning and tone more from the overall context?

[@charlesayache6801]

很有意思也有用的成语! 太多谢你老师!

[@jamiemarcelle6394]

Your videos are so helpful. Thank you!

[@maximilianisaaclee2936]

哇，好棒的一堂課，謝謝老師！

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

不客氣🥳

[@ionamygdalon2263]

Awesome upload👌 Many thanks Grace!!

[@Lecoledelavie-mng]

老师讲得很清楚。很棒！ 英语也不闹！ 老师我认识最聪明的。。。

[@rsainz1296]

Wonderful! I learned so much. Love the video clips and yours too!😊😊

[@xinxiong6986]

Man! Such good lessons! This is the stuff you can't find in text books. Thanks so much for the great content! 😁👍

[@georgeherzog5929]

Chinese academic second language textbooks are far behind real communication in Chinese. The focus here is everyday expression. Thanks, Grace.

[@enocnarvaez5533]

Thank you for this class , I Loved it.!

[@shfunky]

These expressions will come in handy. 非常感谢你！

[@yazars]

Thank you for sharing some extra phrases to practice! I use phrases like shuō dào zuò dào (說到做到) and wǒ lái (我來) all the time! In terms of future videos, maybe one about useful phrases to use in restaurants, if you haven't done one already?

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

You’re welcome! 😉 Thank you for the suggestion!

[@richtea87]

Love these videos!

[@mdnurhossen239]

Wonderful ❤❤❤

[@ゲンガー-i1c]

谢谢你！这个视频非常有用！ 我有一个问题，我发现了很多外国人说中文的时候会让第一声成为第四声或者第一声不够高。How to avoid this mistake? 你有什么建议吗？ A video on this topic would also be great!

[@Ji-TaoYuen]

我最喜欢的中文老师。

[@MidTownMike212]

Amazing !! Thank you so much 📒

[@Sanji1908]

Thank you Teacher

[@sherlockbj]

感覺之後可以開始做podcast 了，用聽的也不錯，雖然我是聽英聽

[@linacuna187]

啊啊,帮了 !! 你放心吧! 我学会了🙃 谢谢你^°^

[@FinanceAlex]

Feichang hao! Really liked this video, very useful and easy to implement! 🤩

[@chinesebytyler7349]

Hi Grace, I love to watch your videos

[@gabrielmendez4349]

Thanks for the video. Do you have one that explains the usage of "也"? I saw that it was used in one of the phrases you mentioned (你也瞇太久了吧).

[@miguelsgoliveira]

I was going to ask the same! Anyone know why it's there? 😊

[@kikithedisneyfan5607]

Grace, I have a question about the Chinese language, although it uses characters like Hanzi. Can a person learn Chinese or text or write with just using pinyin?? ☺️☺️

[@张克琪]

no, because many homophone

[@annagor4727]

I'm not Grace, but I suggest the said person wouldn't be taken seriously, it's like if you learned international phonetic symbols ænd tɔːkt tuː ˈpiːpl laɪk ðɪs. Mind you, you do use pinyin to type on a computer or a smartphone, but you have to recognise the exact character you want, as there are hundreds of nis, haos, tas etc

[@natanialaurencia724]

It's really nice that you give the title of the movie's clip

[@genace]

LOL at the skits. Thanks for sharing these phrases! I actually just heard something similar to the last one in a drama today. But the character said 說話算話. Is it any different from 說到做到？

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

They have similar meanings, but 說話算話 is more often used to ask someone to keep their word (and usually is for your own benefit). For example, A: 我明天會還你錢的。(I'll return your money tomorrow.) B: 你最好說話算話。（You had better keep your word.)

[@genace]

@@GraceMandarinChinese Thank you so much for explaining all of this!!

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

@@genace No problem! :)

[@MarshaBaldwin24]

Ahh it's the skits for meee! 是我最喜歡的部分

[@sachio8136]

Thanks Grace laoshi, love the video ! gonna use them to my friends immediately ....hhh

[@kendo512]

眯一下 is such a cute term

[@err_go]

在這些中我最喜歡的是 “安啦”，很有台灣的感覺

[@elly6285]

Hi Grace, 我很好奇妳書架上的書，能不能分享一下，謝謝！

[@musicianias7hanu873]

Hello...Grace...Hope you're having good time...I wanna learn Chinese but not just Phrases...I don't understand how to start letters in Chinese or Mandarin...I'm working so can't manage time for Class...So ...Would you Suggest ..Please?? Like ...Korean Has HANGUL...Japanese is having...Hiragana, Katakana n Kanji but Chinese is very vast...How can I learn....

[@Emanra19]

Is there connected speech in chinese language?

[@walkingair97]

非常好！😭😭😭❣️🤜🤛

[@pikachuu3842]

Is it a dialect or is it okay to pronounce xin as xing ? 🤔 Please give me a hint 🙇or maybe i miss heard it?

[@deity177]

learning for my chinese girlfriend, thx so much

[@rywath168]

我想去睡一下 = 我想小睡一下 = To take a nap 我很累， 我先去眯一下 现在几点？ 你也眯太久了吧 我不相信 你少来了 你真的是我认识最聪明的人. 你小来了 我来 我来吧 不用担心 已读不回 = 不读不回 说到做到

[@crush_override]

Can i use 別鬧了 with my kids?

[@kishorpradhan1579]

Do write Characters big pl

[@rahulsingh7508]

When to use 就是?

[@邱堯財-i1g]

Grace超美❤️.有新影片

[@thanapornj1392]

Know the following form TV series. 😆 我来／ 我来吧 放心／ 放心吧 我就知道 说到做到

[@Hello-kr8gj]

I have seen the top transliteration writing before and some chinese keyboards seem to use it but does anyone know what it is?

[@vincents.6310]

It's 注音, commonly used in taiwan

[@Hello-kr8gj]

@@vincents.6310 ok thank you I will look this up

[@Hello-kr8gj]

@@vincents.6310 after looking it up the history of zhuyin is pretty interesting

[@djbslectures]

I thought the "r/儿/兒" ending was just a Beijing accent. Is it used for some words more broadly than Northern China?

[@TheeNam3less]

Hi I study chinese cause I like u

[@nesh4732]

Chinese and mandarin are the same ? Or different

[@aaronfung7743]

bu yau fang xin is only use in mandarin fang xin is use both in mandarin and cantonese

[@jianyu-ting7158]

3小時真的瞇太久了啦哈哈哈哈哈

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

是的🤣

[@johng2155]

🤗🤗

[@ChristopherChandra]

谢谢美丽的老师,我学到了很多。我是印尼华侨,我更习惯讲福建话。我的国语讲得不太好

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

加油！💪

[@ChristopherChandra]

@@GraceMandarinChinese 我听说在台湾读书有点儿难，你还有时间教华语。NTU是很好的大学,我为你骄傲。加油Grace!

[@yuan-chen]

我都不說"說到做到" 我都說"打勾勾"

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

也可以😂😂

[@microcolonel]

Grace is wholesome, and did not call the boy a loser for replying to her message quickly. :+ )

[@laterwell]

爱死你了

[@FaliyosKako]

”瞇一下“是台語吧？

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

我問過我中國的朋友，他們也會說哦！不過也可能看地區。

[@leviethak16_hl94]

i learn chinses because how a cute

[@ErwinDulmin-tw5th]

MY WIFE..... MAMI.... SAYANG KU..... MAHATMA ERWIN DULMIN GANDHIJI.... MAHATMA ERWIN DULMIN GANDHIJI....

[@13EqualsB]

I think Grace has some trust issues at the moment.😆

[@NickvonZ]

AWESOME always! VIRGO POWER in Taiwan! I follow your Insta, too.

[@ErwinDulmin-tw5th]

MY WIFE..... MAMI.... SAYANG KU.... MAHATMA ERWIN DULMIN GANDHIJI... MAHATMA ERWIN DULMIN GANDHIJI....