Learn Chinese grammar with Movies: Expressing "too much" with 太&了/HSK1/Basic Chinese A1/How to use 了

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Watch with subtitles 1:05-1:45
1.Form and Meaning 1:45-2:45
2.Positive and Negative contexts 2:45-8:32
3.Omission of 了 8:32-9:45
4.Negation 9:45-12:12
Review without subtitles 12:12-13:25
Homework 13:25-13:55
This video is the beginning of our series "Learn Chinese grammar with Movies". In today’s grammar lesson, we are gonna learn a very useful grammar structure for Basic Chinese grammar A1 or HSK 1 level.
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Video Script
You will learn how to express "too much", "so" or "really" with "太+adj/adv+了" like native speakers in real-life conversations.
There are four parts in the lesson and will go through one by one.
It is a common and simple way to express the meaning of “too” or “excessively”
This expression or structure is one of the key grammar patterns with the particle 了
In this structure, the adjectives or adverbs (describing words) are placed between 太 and 了.
Actually, this structure can be used in both (negative contexts such as complaints) or (positive ones like compliments)
Let’s take a look one by one.
It is true that this phrase is very often used to indicate the negative feeling, especially when people complain about something.
For example,
Zhōngwén tài nánle
中文太难了！
Chinese is too difficult!
In many grammar books or resources, 太+adjective+了 is translated as “too” or “too much”.
It is partially correct but “too much” normally indicates a negative emotion or result.
However, depending on the context, this set phrase can mean so, very, too or excessively.
But the same exact pattern can be also used in positive contexts.
It is frequently used when people give compliments or to exclaim how good something is
In this case, it can be translated as “so”, “very” or “really”.
For example,
中国菜太好吃了！
However, bear it in mind though
Sometimes native speakers will even omit (remove) the 了 at the end
To make the sentence more concise and the tone firmer
For Example
中文太难了 can be changed into 中文太难 with the 了at the end removed
We have learnt how to use 太 adj/adv了 in both positive and negative contexts.
Now let’s learn the negative form of this structure
Like most negation in Chinese, you need to add the negation word 不 in front of it
And the word 了 at the end MUST BE REMOVED in the negation.
So
To negate the sentence中文太难了,
We need to add不 in front of 太 and remove 了 at the end.
Therefore, we got the sentence of negation, 中文不太难了。
Watch some movieclips to see how Chinese use such pattern of negation.
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Thank you, that was a really educational watch. I will definitely check out some more videos in the future. I really like to watch soem movies and after, when I want to learn Chinese, really love it, when I can see some of the content in your videos and learn a lot! Recently, watching Dying to Survice and let's see, if I can find the videos with that movie in it. Ofc would like a single video for it, too! I think the idea of splitting into different levels (A1, like my level) is especially good and I can see your channel becoming an even more useful learning resource in the future. Hopefully not just for me. Until then, keep it up! 💪

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[@hulaguhanozturk430]

Can I ask something? I'm like 0,00% in Chinese at the moment. The problem is, it feels as though they're speaking too fast that I cannot identify the sounds. Will it change after I learn more?

[@LearnChinesewithMovies]

Hi Hülagü Han Öztürk, thanks for your comments. So happy that you start your journey of Chinese learning. Good on you! It is very true that the native speaks pretty fast (as what they normally do in daily life) in those Chinese movies and TV Series so it is sometimes hard to get and mimic their pronunciation, not only for beginners actually. Another fact is these native actors and actress all got certain kind of accents sometimes. So don't panic or worried if you can't get the sounds or pronunciation coz even native speakers cannot catch 100% content all the time. You are right and you will definately identify and understand more once you move to a higher level in your learning. What we recommend is to lower the speed to 0.5 or 0.75 with the playback function on youtube and it helps a lot in most cases, especailly for beginners or learners who want to improve the pronunciation in particular. We believe learning with Movies and TV Series does improve your listening and speaking, hlep you to learn real-life Chinese and get to know a wide range of idioms and cultural points. Stay tuned and we will create more videos with pronunciation tips for beginners like you! Thanks again!

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Very clear explanation! It’s fun to watch movies to learn Chinese grammar.

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11:12 why did she use 'tai' twice?

[@LearnChinesewithMovies]

Such a nice question, Ayedaa Khan. The expression 太太 (with two 太) means "Mrs" in Chinese. So by saying "房东太太"(Fángdōng tàitài), she meant "Mrs landlord". If the landlord is a male then it would be "房东先生" (Fángdōng xiānshēng) because" 先生"(xiānshēng) is "Mr" in Chinese. But as you can see, in Chinese the order of "Mrs" and "Landlord" is actually the opposite of that in Engish, so you say "Landlord Mrs" or "Landlord Mr" in Chinese. Finally, 太太 also means "wife" so if you hear someone say "someone (的) 太太", that simply means "someone's wife". For more details of 太太 and its several synonyms, you can go to watch our video lesson"Learn Chinese with Nezha". Stay tuned and thanks for your watching!

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Just found this channel recently. This is the first video I watch and I have to say it helped me understand the use of this grammar structure better than pages about grammar. I'm a visual learner and it is easier for me to memorize phrases, words and grammar watching videos so I will surely watch more videos of yours because this one was very helpful and fun! Thank you so much for this video and this channel as whole, I hope you keep uploading when you can.

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