Seriously Impressive Ways To Start A Conversation In Mandarin

In this video, I discuss the many different ways to greet someone in Mandarin Chinese. Whether you are just passing by or initiating a conversation, this video covers all types of greeting phrases. Be sure to keep in mind the cultural differences and body language. Tune in and expand your social skills and foster meaningful connections with native Chinese speakers with your newfound knowledge.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro & Cultural Differences
1:25 Just Passing By
6:45 Stopping to Talk
9:45 Most Common Conversation Starters
11:50 Fixed Phrases
12:50 Common Responses to Greetings

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[@thomaskorell1735]

Thank you for the heads up according to the cultural do's and don' do's. This is very helpful! I've been in Pakistan this year and have been warned in advance too about what is a no go (handshakes with women or wearing short clothes). This is always nicer than learning it the hard way through sceptic looks or comments. 😅

[@thebornking9752]

Great content please be a little clearer sometimes with which phrase you show us in clips means which, i got a little confused 😅 thankyouu

[@yanndroy1036]

I love your videos and I am improving a lot, but please please keep the sentences in Mandarin longer on the screen so we can write them down, even pressing pause is a challenge sometimes I press it and the sentence is already gone xD

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​@@MandarinBlueprintyeah I also have this problem. Would also like it if you included 繁體字。

[@wealthynomad]

These are great. I haven't gotten to immersion yet but one thing that concerns me is hearing the various clips in this video. I don't know if it's their rate of speech, but the Chinese speakers seem to drop syllables a lot or they combine words. (I know, English speakers do the same). I understand that's just speaking naturally, just wondering about immersion. Thinking I don't know a word that maybe I do, but the speaker said it so quickly or in an odd way.

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Good video. Simple and practical

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[@Tired_m0nkey]

1:46 I know this sentence! What surprised me is that the lady cut the什么 into sounding like 什 and using the 么 as a jump into the 名字 (yes I needed to point that out)

[@kaleoscreations8069]

Since you pointed this out, I listened to this many times. I actually don’t think she cut off the 么， she just pronounced it quickly and softened the consonants to say it less clearly but more quickly/efficiently

[@showerrice-dm4sj]

中文说的比较快就会有这样的连读，英语中应该也有类似的连读，也算是比较地道了，如果把“么”读出来比较拗口，难读，所以就会读的很轻

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[@qazedctgb19]

It's weird because here in Shanghai friends touch each other all the time like two guy friends can walk down the road with one of them having his arm over the shoulders od the other one. But maybe it's more for young people and more in urban environments

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2:43 as Jerry Seinfeld might say 'Two-Face!"

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I live in a Daoist monastery in the states, and had a visitor from China greet me with “howdy!” 😂 🤠

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awesome video!, crucial to understanding the social norms of quick chinese conversation, i will be saving this

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This was so useful! Thank you!

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Thanks for this awesome video!! I am looking for 中文电影. The ones you have used in this video look nice could you kindly share their names. 感谢您．

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[@Ben-nx8fr]

great video! where are the clips from? I wanna check out these tv shows / movies. thanks!

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its about 打招呼 or 问候

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Can you tell me the name of the movie or series u got the clips from?

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[@catinabox3048]

I don't think of the whole "really obvious comment about what they're doing in that moment" as a comment but more like a question. It's akin to "you leaving?" when you arrive somewhere and see someone packing up. Although some of your examples like the "你回来了" one admittedly do make a little less sense in English. I also think "have you eaten yet," while it can just be used casually to express care and concern, is also frequently used when the real question the asker wants the answer to is "Will I be cutting into your meal time if I engage you in conversation?"

[@MandarinBlueprint]

You'er right, 吃饭了吗 can definitely be asking if you're interrupting someone's meal time, but I estimate that's only in 1 in 5 situations; since we're teaching fresh learners, we tend to fall on the simplest and most common daily life usage, and that's just a generic comment to start a conversation, and not literally asking about whether the other person has eaten. For example 你走了啊？ isn't seeking an answer 是啊，我走了。but definitely has to be followed up with a conversation proper, since just answering that and leaving is very strange and perhaps rude. Similarly, if your spouse says 你回来了 when you come home, you wouldn't just answer 是，我回来了。 then end the conversation and go do something else.

[@Greenhand1516]

4:26 narrate yes,辛苦了 for example.That’s a narration

[@user-rf4ki2ww4m]

作者，可以添加中文字幕吗？我实在听不懂英语，如果很麻烦就算了

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已经发布的视频会比较难，但我们今后会纳入您的建议，尽量添加中文字幕。

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Learning Mandarin by reciting fragment words and phrases is incredibly dull. Thanks to Immersive Translate, I can read some web novels on my own for relaxation.

[@pottersis]

Could I say something like hello my name is. I am 12 years old. I am learning Chinese it is nice to meet you

[@boycool3859]

I'm a Chinese,I study English recently,Can we exchange language？

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@@boycool3859 of course! How do want to do this

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[@canalonossopequenomundo3955]

Sorry for the doubt, but in the video you said: when we're just passing by when we're not intending to stop and talk to someone and we just want to be polite and engage with someone either a stranger or someone that we already know so when greeting a stranger or passing an acquaintance whose name you don't know in the street it's common just to say (Nǐ hǎo ma) with a smile. But in your article you wrote: While using 你好吗 (Nǐ hǎo ma) in daily Chinese conversation technically isn't wrong, in reality, native Mandarin Chinese speakers very rarely use this as a greeting as it comes off as very rigid and formal. So I really didn't understand the use of this expression. ☹

[@MandarinBlueprint]

I said it's common to say "ni hao" (hello), not ni haoma. Nihao ma is indeed a little rigid but is fine for native speakers to use in certain situations. Non-natives who use it however will come across as someone who doesn't know the language well so best stay away from it.