The Chinese “e” has FIVE different sounds?!

[@CybirbV]

That is what I needed. I was confused when my Chinese language teacher was saying 'e' every time differently and I couldn't see the pattern. Thank you Grace :)

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

I’m glad to clear up your confusion! 😉

[@vinhnguyenphan]

Indeed, I also confuse for years until Grace told me that one character might sound in different ways, which is not taught in my class.

[@ABChinese]

If anyone asks me for help with pronunciation, I just tell them to come here... great job Grace!

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

Thank you🥰

[@annabjorn8728]

yeah me too! and i save the clips and regularly return to revise 🥰

[@spicemaster3151]

I think yours are the only videos I religiously hit 'like' on. There's just so much useful information in them. Very glad I signed up to italki, too, even as a beginner. It's so good being able to ask questions and get instant answers.

[@OHS20080405]

This is exactly what I need to learn Mandarin. I have been looking for this kind of lessons for a long time. I finally found a GREAT Chinese teacher here. Ms Guo teaches Mandarin in detail. I like the way you show us both Traditional and Simplified form of Chinese so that we can learn both at the same time. I wish you could write the characters on top of Chinese characters Bigger. Thank you Ms. Guo. You"re an excellent Chinese teacher.👍🙂🙏🏾

[@christian.dewanto7498]

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[@KongSiXin]

Always excited when Grace comes out with a new video!! 非常感谢老师！

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

🥰🥰 不客氣（不客气）

[@DarthShizuka]

I REALLY love your videos!! 谢谢！❤❤❤

[@thuhangnguyen9562]

Love you from Vietnam . I have watched every new video of you of course, practice a lot . 榭 榭 老师!⚘

[@lukesmith1578]

Thank you so much for this video, it’s just what I need. I live in Taiwan I have been frustrated when I speak Chinese and people sometimes don’t understand what I want to say. I’ve been using your videos to improve my pronunciation, and have noticed that this happens much less often. Thanks so much.

[@retsin863]

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[@christian.dewanto7498]

Thank you

[@ruthchappell9073]

Great phonetics work here! Because you brought it up, I noticed that where I lived in China, a lot of people _always_ pronounced "er" as "ar", for any word. I never paid attention to it before...

[@sasino]

I just thought "ar" was the correct pronunciation

[@동백-f2j]

love your videos with ipa and images for the tongue positions. thank you

[@Cinjo6]

That was an excellent explanation for the E sounds. I knew there were different sounds, but I didn't understand the patterns. Thanks!

[@ザウアークラウトマン]

I just started learning 注音 so this is a little overkill for me but I like how you always use both 拼音 and 注音 and traditional and simplified characters so that everyone feels welcome.

[@SteveMallen]

Want to say thank you for using IPA to help with pronunciation. It helps so much... I wish textbooks would do this! Superb channel btw - I'm just starting to learn Mandarin and these short videos have been immensely helpful. Xiexie!

[@xingdong122kao5]

Helpful and interesting video as always, thank you grace

[@davidjosemoreno6435]

wow, you solved my doubts in 10 minutes. Thank you teacher!

[@Tommidgely170]

Thanks Grace. This is very helpful. I’d been quite confused with different e sounds.

[@yeroca]

No wonder people have said my 这 sounds weird.. It's because I was using the e sound from 饿 or 恶. Now I know I don't have to use that slightly more difficult e sound. 谢谢你，Grace 老师!

[@OffeJ83]

Oooh I never noticed this. I've actually started learning Cantonese via Jyutping and lamented how inconsistent I found a lot of pronunciation and lamenting about how much consistent I thought PinYin was. Guess I just got used to it. Some of those sounds, I didn't think sounded different but I guess you're being pretty thorough and I appreciate that :-)

[@cheersfor6323]

"àr" I used to hear that version more often tbh

[@torat2970]

Would love to see this with the other vowels! So easy to understand ✨

[@Mamonoui]

你值得在教中文发音方面获得第一名，非常感谢！我来自阿尔及利亚，母语为阿拉伯语，我正在学习中文。我真的很喜欢你的视频，再次感谢！❤

[@magicale940]

Your videos are helping me a lot, I really want to speak Chinese but it's so hard... :(

[@GregBackwards]

Reminds me a little of the english -ough sound. trough plough through enough dough Having spoken English my whole 34 years of life, I still don't know how to tell them apart besides "I just knough."

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

Haha yeah learning English is also a challenge 😂

[@Skyekate88]

Very good and organised video

[@annabjorn8728]

Thank you so much for this! 😍

[@laraqdangel]

Thank you! It was really difficult to understand how this letter everytime sounds differently

[@kinga9148]

Wow, this's very helpful and interesting!

[@veexish]

This was very helpful. Those subtleties I've never learnt in class!

[@yoshihammerbro435]

Thank you so much for your help ^_^

[@Sami-f8p3n]

You are a superb teacher from you l can learn chinese easily although its not easy 😅

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

You can do it! 💪💕

[@Sami-f8p3n]

@@GraceMandarinChinese thanks a lot. I will try my best😄

[@pinkcholexx827]

Hi grace really love your videos I have Issue for learn chiniese I really want to learn but don’t know when to start what to start I was used to use the Yoyo CHINIESE as you Sade about 2 months ago and I really love it .but unfortunately its premium I complet the first lesson after that we need to pay and I don’t have any kind money right now .and I have no idea where to start learning I know we should first learn pinyin I have learned pinyin I know every thing about pinyin and after that I ....don’t know what should I do I can’t find any best good learning app please help me please please make a video saying whare should I start and what free app should I use for learning chiniese please 🙏🏻😭😭😭🥺

[@paradisemusic7627]

OMG 😯 l have the same issue me too same please grace. Reply to this comment or make a video of this comment please grace me and this PIINKCHOLEXX have the same issue please

[@lithbcyes4201]

Hello chinese or duolingo to get a quick dive into the language

[@MarcoPolo-Wang]

身為一個台灣人看完影片後也覺得不可思議！居然可以把發音拆解地這麼細！厲害👍 反而相對的我是練習英聽🤣

[@tbserrano2]

What a useful video!

[@Yowamitsu]

Omg! 热 is the word my friend says I couldn’t pronounce properly yesterday lol Timely

[@Exolofy]

this was exactly what i needed. cheers grace you absolute smoke show

[@reginaganieva2320]

спасибо за урок! очень четкие и понятные объясния! Могли бы Вы при приведении примеров из двусложных слов повторять их 3 раза (1 - медленно - я только слушаю; 2 - медленно - я поторяю за Вами; 3 - быстрее - я повторяю за Вами быстрее) до паузы для самостоятельного повторения?

[@SoraiaLMotta]

thank you

[@thoughtfulsapien1235]

Can you make a video on Chinese "a"

[@nicoleraheem1195]

The Chinese E is every English vowel in one!! 😂😂🤣 😆🤭( I'm kidding )

[@magicale940]

😂

[@greg7987]

I'm waiting for your new video 👍

[@alejandrojimenez2508]

Thanks a Lot!!! Sorry, I was wondering, is the 門's "en" pronounced the same as 前's "an"? Or is there a differences between the schwa sound in "en" terninations and the sound that we should do in words ending in "ian - yuan"?

[@Borishal]

Does 'i' have several sounds too? Si, chi, mifan, and others.

[@flaviosouza4449]

Interesting! Wow!

[@huishuochinese5486]

Grace, 我也做了很多拼音的视频呢。不过我更多是给中文老师们分享的。但是你的视频做的很好很清楚！希望我们有机会可以交流沟通！

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

當然好呀！老師您有Instagram嗎？

[@dariyanuryeskulova4633]

Thank you! Could you tell where can we see the articulation video of Chinese finals?

[@vibui00]

Can someone please tell me which sound of the letter E is used in the word 人？

[@themandarinmelon]

I've learned a lot form this vid as a native speaker lol ;) but I'm wondering why in this video January is pronounced as *yíyuè* instead of *yīyuè* ? Im asking because the rule is when 一 (yī) appears as an ordinal number (as in "first"), or as a number in a series, address, or date, it is pronounced without the tone change (regular first tone "yī")

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

嗨！謝謝你提出的好問題！ 既然你是母語者我就用中文回覆，我剛剛搜了一些相關的語音材料，發現兩個發音都有人說，甚至有同個人在不同的語境下用不同的唸法。我的推論是雖然字典上「一月」是標 yīyuè ，但實際口語表達當我們說得比較快時，可能就出現了變調，但也根據個人說話習慣而定。在影片中我可能就以我自己的語感發了「一月」的音，並沒有多想。謝謝你的觀察！之後如果我要教這個詞的話，我再多注意一下☺ （對了 我之前看過你的影片很喜歡你的風格！💛）

[@themandarinmelon]

@@GraceMandarinChinese 哇哦谢谢回复！嘿嘿那我就用简中啦;) 对啊我也Google了语音材料两个都有说的所以就很困惑…真是难为learners了lol 谢谢夸奖！超喜欢你的视频😉真棒！用意念点了一万个赞😝

[@GraceMandarinChinese]

@@themandarinmelon 謝謝你！💕 之後有機會再多多交流！

[@Aimaliang]

So nice

[@vertigohan]

Do you teach? Do you have a Chinese program to start from scratch? Thanks

[@arteclarissa]

2:08 a lo que vinieron, pura pérdida de tiempo el intro.

[@andrearosati6454]

Molto utile grazie, immaginavo difatti che si pronunciasse come la "i" di first oppure la "u"di bus inglese, il suono del "moribondo" 😌

[@Teacher_Seth]

Are you on Italki, Grace? The e is the toughest for me to make.

[@deontesampson1993]

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[@GraceMandarinChinese]

Hahaha thanks! I’m trying my best to take care of my little plant now😂

[@deontesampson1993]

@@GraceMandarinChinese 😂 I'm happy to know that the little guy is still around! if it could talk I'm sure it would say thank you for trying mother your efforts are not unappreciated & when I grow some legs & arms like you humans I'll give you the world why!? because you deserve it! 🌵❤️👩‍🦰👈😆 #grace4president #nodebate #plantmom

[@rabindra_kunwar]

Your videos are great but I have some confusion. 1. 我很好。( wo3hen3hao3.) tone changes to wo2 hen2 hao3. 314 tones method, where to make full 3rd tone . 2. 我吧书整理了。( wo3bashu1zheng3li3le.) tone changes to wo3 ba shu1 zheng2 li 3le ) 3. Should the tone changes , tone symbol should be changed ? thanks

[@MrBealmighty]

1.intonation is 323 2.not吧is 把，intonation is 23123. 3.no need to change ton symbol FYI :)

[@lois2911]

Teacher, thank you. Pardon me though. "Schwa" is a one syllable phonetic. It is pronounced with no break between the "sch" and the "wa". Teacher, thanks again. Thumb's up!!!

[@billiee835]

Cheers mate🍺

[@k-2d]

could you please talk about different pronunciations of ‘i’ next? for example, the words 只 zhi3，里 li3, 思 si4 all have an ‘i’ as the only vowel in their pinyin, but they’re each pronounced differently. 谢谢你的帮助！

[@Joy-be3gk]

You may see this as a disadvantage of Pinyin system.

[@walkingair97]

非常好！😁😁😁❣🤜🤛

[@diegoleo1279]

Grace 也穿著藍色的上衣

[@tbserrano2]

谢谢，老师

[@ThreeKingdoms-]

Thank you from Cambodia 谢谢你

[@sasino]

If you don't randomly start dancing during the intro music you're lying

[@NickvonZ]

Thank you, always! VIRGO POWER!!

[@yazars]

Everyone should check out your zhuyin video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d3yrZnx-nceIi6M I like the "your turn" parts! It's unfortunate that pinyin seems to be used more than zhuyin/bopomofo. Having learned with both, I've always felt that zhuyin makes pronunciation very clear, whereas there's some uncertainty with pinyin. Maybe there will be a video sometime where lao shi will start singing: "bo po mo fo, de te ne le" 😂 (I didn't know there were so many versions. I like one that I saw in Qiao Hu)

[@rulalajian3379]

我必须和老师面对面一对一教学才学得会 怎么办才好啊

[@remyanair9688]

Read full carefully. If do good ,get good things in life. If do bad , get bad things in life. God knows all. Read good books for getting knowledge. Pray religious prayer for getting happy. Think 3 times before do any major matter for avoiding problems in life.. sending good message. Thanks ok.

[@Vlogs_by_cloe]

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[@jazminventura685]

Hello👋

[@TheLunarLexicon]

Grace老师很棒

[@rainyang8101]

好好教

[@ngenglee149]

Zhuyin looks like Japanese Kana for some reason.

[@his-os8ll]

You are so pretty♥♥

[@ALJAIEDCHOWDHURY]

10 minutes video and most of the time wasted due to your sponsor's details

[@ThalonRamacorn]

This is why I dont get why they didnt start using zhuyin instead of pinyin. That would make everything more simple... should be part of basic beginner chinese lessons.

[@dsisyjames3722]

Hi! I'm Daisy.I would like to talk about business cooperation with you about chinese learning.Look forward to your reply.

[@cmmlyc312]

有夠難😂

[@rainyang8101]

我不用学了，因为我会说了。

[@silvanoperez4594]

Sorry I don't speak communist

[@vrije7784]

Spanish is (or used to be) also shared by a variety of communist countries in South America such as Venezuela and Cuba lmao

[@notcomfortable_here]

you are beyond ignorant and hopeless if you think an entire ethnicity only amounts to their country’s (quite literally forced) politics. i’m gonna go out on a limb and say you’re american huh.

[@Zympans]

Do ə and ɤ have the same zhuyin ㄜ? Isn't it a bit confusing?

[@christian.dewanto7498]

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