These Common Mistakes Are Becoming Your Bad Habits! - the Most Common Mistakes Chinese Learners Make

These are the MOST COMMON MISTAKES that Chinese learners make! Even my advanced level students are making these mistakes!
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[@peters8699]

At this point, I'm here for the comedy as much as I am the language content.

[@danielm.4346]

God, you are really good .

[@danielm.4346]

She's awesome both ways.

[@wellwell6986]

I guess one more common mistakes is 平时，平常，，往往，一般，通常 等等。I guess many students don't understand the difference between these words , could you make a video about " how to say Usually in Chinese . Pleaassss

[@ShuoshuoChinese]

Thanks for your great idea!

[@vaeal2004]

而且为什么这首歌”平凡之路“叫平凡的。应该是普通，对吗？那些区别都也让我有点蒙

[@aysaiahwu2204]

ShuoshuoChinese说说中文 that would be a great topic to cover！～ 加油 ^_^

[@bobijam]

@@vaeal2004 "普通“ is normal, not special, it has connotations of "fact and objective", like 每个人都是普通人（everyone is a normal person); "平凡” also means normal, but "凡” refers the mankind earth comparing with heaven, so 平凡 has the connotation of "not magnificent". "平凡之路“ refers to the life, and it's more about self pursuing inner peace instead of describing the life is just bland and normal.

[@vangmx]

Haha, reminds me learning Chinese back at the university especially with 同意. Laoshi had us repeat 我同意你的看法/想法 several times. As for 都, it's easy to understand why many students commonly make this mistake because they haven't been introduced with 所有的. They want to say 都人 everyone、都国家 all countries etc. because they've only learned that 都 means "all". However 所有的 isn't taught in Chinese class until much later usually at the intermediate level.

[@TRUTHGOSPEL2023]

Very True and well said

[@jxj2786]

What is 所有的？

[@aysaiahwu2204]

Jessy J it means “all” like you can say 所有的钱 （ all of the money）拼音： suǒ yǒu de qián

[@jxj2786]

@@aysaiahwu2204 but this is equivalent to 都right? The only difference that 都becomes after nun and 所有 before the noun, right?

[@endualva]

I personally use 以后（as in English for later） where I should 晚一点 instead. I found real hard to correct this habit

[@Matt-pu3zg]

Most of those mistakes are made by native speakers of English language. In my case (native speaker of Italian and Spanish), there are some times I don't commit that mistake, as in Italian we say exactly in the same way, for example: 等我一下。 Some other mistakes are the same or differently. Thanks for your help!

[@brstfr7126]

So helpful! Thank you.

[@aavig9963]

非常重要谢谢!

[@tinane3541]

Thank you for your video(s). They are reallllyyyyyy helpful

[@JasielMontes14]

Thanksssss! I've learned a lot from you! You're very fun and funny.

[@saubanmusazango2346]

Thank you for the great lesson

[@okaeritadaima4451]

This is great! Thank you, laoshi!

[@johnmofula]

I only got 4 correct. And I always hear Chinese people say "wait me a moment", now I know it comes from 等我一会儿

[@ShuoshuoChinese]

Ah! Yes! That’s Chinese speakers bad habits!

[@johnmofula]

@@ShuoshuoChinese I thought that's called Chinglish... sometimes I envy speaking English like that.😆

[@kevinpan5525]

maybe you don't even know "look one look".😂

[@johnmofula]

@@kevinpan5525 like 看一看? Do people actually say that? 😳

[@olgaoqc]

You are cristal clear, thank you!

[@ProphetTLK]

Great lesson thanks, excellent. Makes me more cautious about my speaking

[@LearnwithMubashra]

你讲的很好， 我每次都看你的视频。

[@TurkeyDart]

Love this channel. Great help for a super beginner learning this language

[@eth1699]

Love the funny intro. Very interesting and useful video. Thank you!

[@concerned_netizen]

I am so glad I subscribed. Thanks.

[@olegli82]

You are such a wonderful teacher! 😉

[@misterRDF]

Great video, thank you a lot :)

[@igorgoga7985]

I restarted learning because of your videos

[@yeyasutokugawa7775]

Your videos are really helpful, thank you! I like the way you explain, so big thumbs up! ☺️

[@addisonmock]

Thanks!

[@ericquagliozzi]

Thank you so much for this video ! I get it now. I didn't know about 一点儿 after an adjective.

[@ArthurXandTheScars]

Very good and funny! 😀

[@Deny_Yen]

超级好的解释. Thank you laoshi🙏🙏

[@rizwan3147]

Fantastic method of teaching love and respect

[@kondaniriche8372]

Thank you so much I have learnt a lot

[@mahtash9655]

Thanku so much

[@adrianinchina1528]

I picked out most of them, thank you for the 有（一）点儿 and 一点儿 review, it`s so easy to get those mixed up.

[@caangngungkulanpoek1604]

Thank you

[@MatSil-]

"there are so many mistakes that you are keep making..." Aaaarrrgh, the timing, so unfortunate

[@hashslingingslasher4214]

i came for this comment lmaooooo

[@milenamachado6268]

I guess there's a mistype: the 没有 is missing in one of the sentences. By the way, AMAZING LESSON. Thank you soooo much!

[@anoshashan7245]

Wow.. You are good... Been looking for this kind of Chinese learning source.. Thank you so much

[@luismiguelrojasberscia5250]

Got most of them correct. I just realised many of my students make those same mistakes! I may have started copying them as well！ Great video!

[@skglearnchinese5075]

谢谢老师！

[@fitriariani11]

Thank youu 😊🙏🏼

[@MoeMoe-vc6os]

谢谢老师❤

[@xiipa8_nikomangvirdayanti964]

Thanks for the information, your video its helpful! Anyway, Could you make some video more about the chinese grammer? It's a bit confusing sometimes. Thankyou!

[@jojomorgan]

I love how you create videos about frequent mistakes which are made by both natives and non-natives! 非常感谢 说老师.

[@wordsofwisdom1661]

Your videos are excellent. I'm curious if you will also be making advanced and highly advanced classes?

[@usmanst6564]

谢谢你老师，你教得太清楚了。I hope that I have't made any mistake in this sentence. 哈哈哈哈

[@vertigq5126]

Hilarious and helpful! 视频真好看啊！

[@stevenrkeyes]

Thanks Shuo! No wonder people have been confused whenever I use 同意

[@bertinowetu836]

Thanks for the video, especially for reminding us of those mistakes we make in our daily life. These mistakes, I do believe, are influenced everyone's native language. We tend to translate literally sentences from our native languages into other languages. Regarding ”我同意你”, some of my Chinese native speakers think that it's wrong. For them, we should say ”我同意你說的話”、ie for them in Chinese we don't agree (or disagree) with people but with what they say or what they do). Thanks, waiting for your comment.

[@dr.ijazkashmiri4281]

Many times I made mistake with 都. Thank you for correction.

[@lionelcerda258]

CORRECTION: ( HIT THE WRONG KEY ) SHUOSHUO YOU'RE GORGEOUS & VERY BEAUTIFUL !! THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME & PATIENCE

[@corner9166]

Đóv

[@ummidfamilyvlog7585]

hi nice content.. i like it

[@Avthefit]

Love your work Shuo! By the way, can you explain why Jay Chou says "再给我两分钟“ in 最长的电影 ??! Hoping you can explain why he says this, because I'm sure lot of students have heard / studied that song and used some of the learnings in daily life (perhaps incorrectly!)

[@demenascus]

I like your style of teaching and by the way .. 没有错 在泰国当中文老师 。。。我的中文老师在马州。

[@user-mw8pd5nx5w]

老师的影片做的越来越有趣了！字幕太活泼啦XDD

[@kevinpan5525]

usually we say "视频" instead of "影片", perhaps the people of HK like to say "影片".

[@pauljennens1769]

Your English is spectacular!. 好喜欢给我的中文学生看您的视频。很有帮助......

[@TheOldPM]

I’ve been following her for several years and she’s come a long way. So natural. She’s always had good material, but her presentation is fantastic now.❤

[@CoolTvTanzania]

谢谢您老师，我是李小龙，是坦桑尼亚人、 正在我的中文慢慢提高了！

[@kevinpan5525]

😂李小龙？This is a Chinese star's name.

[@CoolTvTanzania]

@@kevinpan5525 yes it's Bruice Lee's name but my Chinese teacher gave it to me at confucious Institute， UDOM- TANZANIA

[@WillWilsonII]

Your student Will..... hahahaha I love it! I JUST started Korean 5 weeks ago and had no intention of starting Chinese yet. But I'm already drawn in....... I went to look up Krock bands to listen so I could listen to the language. Ended up finding music I love anyway. Rolling Quartz and Luli Lee are amazing. 5 weeks in and it has already opened up a new world. Chinese and Japanese are next. After that, Spanish and Italian ought to be easy. I'm from California so I can probably skip ahead.

[@kashr118]

Haha, this really made me laugh. I have been teaching English to Chinese students for 7 years and I have to really fight not picking up the common mistakes that I hear! Great video, thank you!

[@caramelvictim193]

My favourite thing that native chinese speakers tend to say in english is "Let's play!" Always cracks me up lol

[@Peng_Peng]

Soooo true! I feel I'm getting used to "最近下雨很多" after watching this video😂

[@ShuoshuoChinese]

是吧！

[@Peng_Peng]

@@ShuoshuoChinese 哈哈哈哈哈，被翻牌，好开心。

[@lbb2rfarangkiinok]

Come back often enough and it will become part of your regular usage!! >P

[@henrykho4796]

Great

[@davidhull1481]

Good lesson. You might want to clean up the last translation “All cities in China fun”

[@lbb2rfarangkiinok]

:)

[@ShuoshuoChinese]

Apologize for my 粗心！

[@Sterretje1996]

Yaay, all correct! But 都 is a tricky one. I know how to use it but too often I still forget it, it is not always obvious to me when I'm casually talking

[@mr88cet]

Great topic! 请继续谈话这样事情！ “等我几分钟” rather than “给我几分钟” I probably do mostly get right, but almost certainly do make that mistake from time to time. For whatever it’s worth, my (Chinese) wife thinks that “给我几分钟” is probably OK, informally at least, but, yes, agrees that “等我几分钟” is certainly more proper. “我同意你” I probably have gotten wrong in the past, but no more! 谢谢！ 都 before a noun is a mistake I *almost certainly never* make. As with many of these, this clearly comes from word-for-word translation from English, which I rare do. I virtually always go straight from ideas in my brain directly to 中文. That to the point where, sometimes when I’m stumbling to figure out how to say something in 中文, my wife sometimes criticized me for not just saying it in English. I don’t because my brain is in full-on 中文 mode, and if I try to switch my brain to English mode, I often forget what I was talking about!

[@pauljennens1769]

I got all correct BUT I admit to still frequently using 给我 construction.

[@yeroca]

These all seem to stem from doing a word by word translation from English, which is generally a bad idea. I don't think I've made any of these mistakes recently, but I definitely make others! Thank you for your videos! 🙏

[@MiguelGonzalez-ck6pj]

muy buena maestra

[@johncarpenter4083]

Pardon me. That duì 对 (at 5:30) has 5 uses: adjective, noun, preposition, verb and measure word. Is there a similar word with fewer uses that we can use until our language competency reaches the point where we can intuitively select more "tricky" terms? 谢谢.

[@diemquynhphungthi6058]

luckily i don't have any of these bad habits. Can you make a video about how to use 给，谢谢！

[@mihokapro3226]

我终于明白了！！！😂 谢谢，你是太厉害了！🙏😊

[@kevinpan5525]

"太厉害了！/太强了吧？/牛逼！学会了。"that's what native speakers say, we usually don't want that subject.

[@kevinpan5525]

but in a formal situation, we need subject.

[@cigdemkenar628]

I only got two of them correct: 有一点儿 vs 一点儿 , and 都。谢谢老师，我学过了很多。

[@TheGretaoto]

你很棒老师！

[@coininbox]

I love these videos because I started teaching beginning Chinese last year, and there are some instances where I will come across students translating sentences directly, but then have a hard time explaining why their direct translation does not make sense in Chinese like in the instance of 很多 versus 经常/常常. I really like these lessons as refreshers for myself and knowledge I can pass on to my own students. ^o^) We should be learning 都 soon, so I can't wait to see how easily my students will be able to pick it up.

[@juliarios8445]

I would like to have online classes with you!

[@MrZooganopolos]

Great video! That clarified all kinds of things, so thanks so much! In fact, it even had me question the characters in 意思 briefly, because when I lived in Japan, I'd see caution/danger signs at train stations (or, when driving on mountain roads...), and other places with the characters 注意 ( said, "chui") which is apparently nearly a perfect homophone in Chinese with (chu4 yi4). When I'd first seen the 意 in 意思, I was curious as to how the two were related. In the last sentence example, you are missing the word "are" in, "Many cities in China are fun." Still, this lesson was top notch! Thanks again! (also, I'm glad you don't prefer guys that are taller than you, since that means you are judging a potential mate on a largely vein characteristic versus one of value, like goodness or honesty. It is very juvenile to be superficial. Best in finding the right guy, even if it could potentially be me! hahaha Take care!)

[@MrZooganopolos]

I should also mention your English is great!

[@SharpNaif]

9:21 Is there a rule about word order that you can explain? I would have said "很多中国的城市.“ Thank you!

[@paoyogapao9993]

多谢

[@zayn841]

Love you

[@learnchinesewithweiwei]

Good tips! "都“ mistake is super common among my students, too! As a native speaker, I wouldn't say "同意你”. Instead I would say "同意你的看法“ or "同意你的话”. Typically “同意” is followed by an opinion instead of a person, unless I'm mistaken?

[@yongtaozhao6876]

我猜shuoshuo老师应该叫李烁，不知道猜对没有。很喜欢你的视频，既能学到教中文的方法，又能学到教中文时会用到的英文。

[@wilburslug140]

I will use "dou" before a noun just to annoy my Chinese friend,

[@paulwalther5237]

When I taught English in Japan I think I was more likely to end up speaking English like my students than for them to speak English like me 😆 I've barely started studying Chinese so I don't have any habits yet but I'll revisit this video again later.

[@Valorian]

I yawned out of sympathy, not because I was tired D: Loved this lesson, helped me a lot.

[@tangtienji]

哇！好舒服的腔調和內容，，， 建議：轉場沒有做好，會以為還在上一句。

[@mbbr6]

It was very very useful you r amazing I have a question about the word （等） I am confused about it"s meaning in these sentences : 1_ 等活动结束的时候人肯定很多。 2_ 在乘坐地铁和公共汽车等交通工具时，可以听到 .......... What's the meaning of 等 in each sentence and in general . How it can be used Thanks

[@zhubajie6940]

Your Chinese of course is infinitely better than mine, and I regret saying this but in English, you need a helping/auxiliary verb: "Many cities in China *are* fun/interesting." not "Many cities in China fun/interesting." for 中国的很多城市有意思。

[@vade248721]

I also live in Bangkok as an English teacher. Can you teach privately?

[@ele9667]

Hi ! At 9:27 , does the sentence mean "Many cities in China are fun ? " I think the verb is missing in the translation. Also your videos are amazing.

[@ShuoshuoChinese]

Right😂

[@frankz6881]

Hi, teacher Shuo, your video is very helpful and informative as well. I'm a little bit confused about 一点儿 and 有点儿 one. Just a quick question, can I say "他就是一点儿钱，没什么不起“("一点儿+noun" as you mentioned )? In addition, would you also let me know which one is correct between "他一点不害怕我” vs "他有点不害怕我“? Thank you! I guess the latter one, right? (有点儿+adjective) Thank you!

[@kevinpan5525]

他就是一点儿钱，没什么不起✘ 就他那点臭钱，没什么了不起的。✔ 他一点不害怕我。✘ 他一点(儿)都不怕我/他一点(儿)都不害怕我。✔ 他有点不害怕我。✘ 他不是很怕我/他不是很害怕我。✔

[@buckfarmer-gregory6400]

Wonderful lesson. On the last one, there's a subtle difference in English that I'm not sure how to convey in Chinese. In English saying: "All my friends " emphasizes a different common relationship among the subject than "My friends all " The latter matches with the Chinese in emphasizing that they share the predicate, but the former instead emphasizes that they are all members of the group "my friends." Is there a simple way to convey this other emphasis on Chinese or does the dou construction bridge both meanings?

[@ShuoshuoChinese]

All my friends: 我所有的朋友都… My friends all: 我的朋友都…

[@alphonsoelm5652]

I only got one... dou. that one threw even me for a loop

[@oliviasarah9270]

全都答对啦～ 我的学生也经常犯一样的错误，尤其是“都”的用法。心好累 😂

[@karidtrancon982]

Hello Shuo! How much ur classes cost? How can I find u on WeChat?

[@siagakoti]

Thank you ^_^

[@neymobola7387]

没有老师，我所在的城市（莫桑比克，Tete ）根本没有下雨. I’m not pretty sure if that’s correct, I’m a beginner. I really appreciate your videos。 thank you 说说中文😅😅

[@kevinpan5525]

It would be better if you put "," between "teacher" and "no", if not it might be like "there is no teacher".

[@kevinpan5525]

没有，老师，我所在的城市(your city)根本没下雨。

[@kevinpan5525]

😏我这儿也没有下雨，哈哈哈哈哈。

[@neymobola7387]

Kevin Pan XD I didn’t even noticed that thank y’all. 😅😅

[@jarethozb07]

I commented on someone's video earlier "这个视频太棒了" and instantly after I posted it I had the feeling it was wrong for some reason. I didn't know why it was wrong but I know one of the Chinese teaching KZbinrs talked about this in a video. So I have been going through your common mistakes videos recently because I had a feeling it was one of yours. If you know what I'm talking about can you please link me the video or explain if and why it it wrong ?

[@gigglehertz]

5:23 What happened to Chinese being a SVO language??? I'm so confused!

[@xiaochengpeng2581]

Some mistakes sound totally fine to me haha. 给我一分钟, or 给我一点时间，though not used when asking someone to wait, it’s usually used as a response when you are pushed by others (like being pushed by your boss to finish a task immediately), or making promises (e.g. 给我三天，一定把钱还你）. 最近下雨很多，sounds fine as well. 很多 can also be used to describe frequency. “最近（我）熬夜很多，需要保养下” Though these might be grammatically wrong, they sound fine to native speakers. Maybe in daily conversations, grammar isn’t that important. Native speakers make mistakes as well. Then some common mistakes become accepted by people. That’s how languages evolve. However, if you are taking Chinese tests, follow your teacher’s instructions, haha. After all tests are really different from real life. Like me, got 8 in IELTS, still can’t consider myself a proficient English speaker.

[@juangrun25]

Amazing lesson, thanks! I have a question, is it okay to say 最近下了很多雨? In this sentence I'm talking about quantity, not frequency, right? Thank you so much!

[@TRUTHGOSPEL2023]

I think for quantity we can simply say “最近下了大雨” or ”最近下雨很大”。Hope this helps.

[@kevinpan5525]

as a native speaker, i can tell you that "最近在下大雨" is more natural.

[@kevinpan5525]

"下了"is past tense, 最近should connect with "正在" or "在"。

[@kevinpan5525]

For example, what have you been doing?(你最近在干什么？/你最近在干嘛？) 最近connects with 在/正在。

[@midinette]

So funny as usual! 👍👍👍

[@stewardc56]

hey 说说中文, can you make a video about how to use 比较? Thank's 😃😅

[@itslipeng]

比较 is mean Compared 可以说“比较好”，is better 。也可以说 “比较坏”is bad

[@stewardc56]

@@itslipeng 谢谢 ✌✌

[@nati4024]

@@stewardc56 比较 means "relatively", "rather" -> for example 比较大 means relatively big / rather big

[@lenojames827]

最好的

[@cafuvietnam]

汉语老师很可爱。