Understand Native Chinese Speakers: What People Actually Mean When They Say These Things.

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In this video, you will learn many Chinese sentences and phrases that Chinese people use in everyday life. They might look one way literally, but when people say it, they actually mean something different.
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[@demonschnauzer1555]

“改天一起吃饭啊!” reminds me of how Americans will say “let’s have coffee sometime!” We almost never actually end up having coffee with the person lmao

[@MichaelNicastro]

Your videos are so different from other teachers. I feel you do a good job of explaining very important nuances. - Thank you! - Michael

[@KristinGrady]

I agree. It's why I subscribed.

[@nicoleraheem1195]

I agree

[@fighterman8808]

This video reminds me of WHY I originally started to learn Chinese ! The language is so full of the indirect and sideways way of expressing and concealing what you’re thinking.

[@aliceinmandarin4866]

Yes. That reflects the culture background, the way of doing business and other parts.

[@aliceinmandarin4866]

@DarthShuaider welcome to watch my videos which aim to improve your mandarin in a systematic way

[@levifowler7933]

In English, among young people, we have a saying: "Damn, that's crazy" It's what you say when someone is telling a story that isn't funny or interesting 😂

[@ShuoshuoChinese]

😱

[@fagbowsa]

I remember in high school we’d say “that’s a funny story” sarcastically, because we weren’t actually listening

[@Mikachu2407]

depends on the context, can also be genuine

[@whatdoyousuppose]

If someone is telling you a story and you accidentally/maybe not accidentally stopped listening halfway through because maybe it’s boring you or you have something else on your mind or whatever, and now you’ve missed part of it but are left to have to respond some way (usually either this is going to be for your best friends who would be ok if you messed with them a little bit OR for complete strangers who start talking to you randomly and you are just not interested in talking back to them in the moment and yet they don’t get social cues and think it’s ok to tell you some wild story out of the blue) you can respond with “wow that’s crazy!” in a variety of different ways depending on the general tone of the story and act like you didn’t miss anything and get away with not having to ask them to repeat it 😅 and if it’s a complete stranger, they’ll probably finish the story and not elaborate and leave you alone thereafter! works every time!!!

[@laobae]

And if it’s really boring, you say “cool story bro, tell it again”

[@joality1756]

I just wish Shuo was a teacher online for example on iTalki so i could have chinese classes with her. Your videos are really amazing!! And you're a really great teacher, everything becomes simple when you explain it haha

[@ilage666]

我有两个中国朋友。他们俩常常给我说 “一天我请你来我家吃饭吧”。。。我觉得 “改天一起吃饭” 这个句子的意思跟 “一天我请你来我家吃饭吧” 的一样，因为他们还没请我吃饭。。。哈哈哈

[@KristinGrady]

I am just starting my Mandarin lessons, but learning this kind of information is priceless.

[@aliceinmandarin4866]

Jia you!

[@skylarshines7520]

Agreed

[@vinnyalfayedessonoabaga181]

@shuoshuo Chinese I sincerely liked this video , the content was reallly interesting(丰富) but also your teaching style , you make students feel at ease being hilarious and it's easy to understand,thank you you're the best one. 我们的完美的老师😊♥️

[@indigofremont]

IMMA START JUDGING YOU NOW * rolls up sleeves *

[@ShuoshuoChinese]

😂

[@kokomi228]

Incredible as always

[@misakichen9996]

Thank you for the vid Shuo 老师 😊

[@Mintshake_bunny]

Your videos are really fun to watch!

[@casbardos9309]

i loved this!!! the dating part made me laugh out loud hahaha

[@a-sam8151]

謝謝老師非常好的影片👍

[@Black-yj4xf]

Thank for teaching us.

[@mihokapro3226]

Instructive sarcasm. Bravo! 👌😁

[@heyshedy6373]

You’re an amazing teacher! 每一句话解释了很清楚，多谢啊！🙌🏻✨

[@lululululululu010]

Your videos are the best!!!!!

[@weivi6435]

老师，谢谢！很有意思的视频 ^^

[@FutureDr.K]

The monoact really makes this lesson more interesting 谢谢老师。

[@yingguojieke]

Awesome video - good mix of humour and education! Love it!

[@learnchinesewithimane4427]

谢谢♥️

[@aurireba6469]

谢谢你啦！你的视频对我们学中文的人都特别有帮助！

[@botsmile8869]

thank full teacher for lesson

[@Mathdmd]

Fav Teacher.

[@AshinAsia]

Love your films. I like this new font, much easier to read.

[@keithbrown1370]

Hi Shuo, I‘m learning so much from your great videos and content. Have you thought of setting up a Patreon page or have you one already?

[@sonam4366]

老师对学生们解释非常好

[@heatherbwallace6250]

Really loved the 5 minute mark. I like this video. Very good. You have a great personality. Thanks!

[@manilyndelapaz7155]

Wow, thanks laoshi, as always your videos are very helpful (just download this and watch again and again)stay safe laoshi 💕💕👍👍😀

[@salihzanatta3116]

Hello , love ya training video

[@prettyj1652]

You are the best teacher i ever met in youtube. ❤️

[@azmatullahullah9947]

You look as dazzling as ever! I'm very happy to watching your episodes because I understand 💯 %

[@olgaoqc]

You are simply Great, our super chinese teacher!!!

[@davidp5855]

学中文学了三年了，我向来以为“你开心就好”是客套话。多谢你做这个视频啊！

[@popoolos478]

EARLY!!! LOVE YOU and THANK YOU!!

[@ValleyData]

谢谢哦

[@nattasiit]

очень интересное видео 谢谢 老师！

[@JasielMontes14]

Qué hermoso video, muy divertido! Gracias!!!!!

[@karatethuduc]

thank you😀👍

[@sinfuldavy0]

I really enjoy your videos you make Mandarin so much easier compared to others. I have gone over all your videos. How many have you done in total? Do you have an actual course set up to teach Chinese?

[@tyhayter5022]

I must admit. I'm learning a lot from these videos

[@roxanneandrieux3425]

我是法国人，非常喜欢你的视频. 看你视频以后，常常用刚学习的生词跟中国朋友聊天。很有意思！ 谢谢你 From France ♥️

[@pinkbutterflies994]

Subscribed!!!!

[@bounthiengbounthieng5357]

Hello teacher! Greeting from Laos 🇱🇦

[@moviesync3131]

这样啊，谢谢！

[@peterchew846]

对。你开心就好

[@BrunoHenrique-li6ni]

awesome!

[@omargabrielsanchez4263]

Omg I think it would be such a good idea to actually have a dinner gathering someday with you and some followers! We could treat you for your birthday!

[@johnmongver]

So nice!!! These things, you will never learn from textbooks but from real life situations. When I moved to China, I guess Filipinos and Chinese talk the same way, we are also very indirect so I had no much trouble in understanding them haha! This video is really nice!!! 超级赞！

[@GordonLonghouse]

That's nice.

[@chinabillchinese9180]

You are such a cool cat!

[@mannaporanna2678]

@Jing Xuan Hu 哈哈哈哈😄

[@a.n1662]

😎

[@jeany5826]

@Jing Xuan Hu cool 可以是酷

[@user-hh9rd1vq4d]

谢谢你的视频，我认为你说的生词太有用了啊 对我来说，在学习中文过程中，称呼是比较重要而很不容易掌握的语言特点之一。如果你可以拍教称呼语的视频的话那就会帮助很多外国人了解中国人和中国文化 ☺️ 谢谢！

[@DongChinese]

很期待和老师改天一起吃饭~

[@yuzheng7832]

That sounds weird to me and I am Chinese. 很期待改天和老师一起吃饭 is better

[@yosafatjuwono7519]

I don’t know about other languages, but at least in my language (Indonesian) these phrases and when to use them makes lots of sense, like we would use these type of phrases ourselves although how one interprets it (rude or not) depends on the person her/himself. Thank you for the video 老师. 我爱你的课！

[@johnmongver]

Same in Filipino or Tagalog! :D

[@bels4840]

yes when i learn mandarin it makes a lot more sense to connect it to indonesian

[@Panneapple]

Great video! I love that many languages have this type of "no offense (BUT)" phrase that people will use just before judging you hard haha. Judgemental people exist everywhere!

[@ferialsouhail]

I love all your videos, and i learned so much from you as a student and also as a teacher cause I'm an English teacher and I want to sign up in all of your courses, but i only use wechat to pay,I'm in china so can i add your wechat and pay for the courses there?

[@MARamos-mq7xk]

Loved this video. I've learned a lot thru it. For whatever it's worth, the verb "quit" remains unchanged in past time (no -ted); in the "Baidu" scene, I'd recommend using: "Why don't you go on Baidu & see for yourself? Again, I love your Chinese lesson videos--they're fairly "short and sweet." 非常感谢您。

[@RebeccaChinn]

对我很有帮助， 谢谢你的视频！很棒

[@erturtemirbaev5207]

Where are you?

[@erturtemirbaev5207]

Where are you from?

[@HuongNguyen-wl9lm]

改天一起吃饭啊。第一次听到我一直问“ 改天是哪天啊姐”🤣🤣🤣 。她不会再说什么就约我星期六到她家吃晚饭😂

[@razzaqunique]

Thanks for the original Chinese language

[@sonam4366]

我好很感动

[@ancaihong]

哇啊， 非常感谢

[@peterchew846]

你的英语华语都很好

[@lennon_richardson]

Indirect rejection is even more common in Japan. My first trip there, I asked a girl out in 6 different ways before I realized she understood what I was asking, wasn’t interested, and was never going to give me a direct answer. Thankfully I had better luck going forward.

[@whatwendylikes]

哈哈哈 跟媽媽講電話太好笑了，這樣啊，真的嗎，真的假的，嗯嗯嗯😂😂 so true

[@maruf-ne1nu]

Shuoshuo I like you 👍👍👍

[@okaeritadaima4451]

I was happy when you said " 看到这里的朋友们 改天一起吃饭啊“ at the beginning of the video... but you don't mean it 😭😂 yeah but I understand these sentences you introduced today, because we do that often too in our country! (日本） Thank you for your great videos!

[@okaeritadaima4451]

@@henrymorrisss 　Is it because we know some 汉字 already？Yes, Japanese have advantage to learn Chinese language in that way!

[@okaeritadaima4451]

@@henrymorrisss Oh my, you are learning Chinese and Japanese! Yeah, we pronounce different, it's confusing, eh? Some letters and words have even different meanings. For example, 手紙 (てがみ)in Japanese means a letter but means toilet paper in Chinese!) I'm happy that you like my country like that..! 😊 good luck for our studying languages!

[@zikunli2009]

@@okaeritadaima4451 Hello.I am also a Chinese who is studying Japanese.I think the kanji(hanzi) is easy for us to write,but the pronouncation is hard to memorize.

[@okaeritadaima4451]

@@zikunli2009 Yes, the pronunciation...! 😭 But cool about kanji, it's much easier to learn each other because of that...thank you China for teaching Japanese Hanzi long time ago, so we have Kanji 😊

[@IlloyedKater]

In German we have the word "bald" wich is probably similar to 改天 there is no way to figure out how long it is gonna take^^ it can be the same day week year or longer...^^

[@whatnextkai1294]

Trying to think of the equivalent of one of my hated filler phrase "Oh good for you, well done" (when they don't care or indifferent, and are mildly just a little bit jealous and hope you trip over in the street...), something stronger than 真的 or 这样啊.

[@reyblueberry]

This video taught me more than a whole semester of Chinese class

[@sonam4366]

我很感兴趣

[@aynazsyzd8537]

太好了

[@biankaponyokai2517]

Hi! I'm from Hungarian. 😀

[@johnmofula]

I just realized a good to get out of conversations in China or "reject" one. I just say "Sorry, I don't speak Chinese" in English because if I say, 我不会说中文... all I hear is but you just spoke Chinese.

[@Ishikamishra777]

zhende zhende xie xie wei nin tigong you😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊 jiazhi de xinxi. Ai ni😘😘😘😘.

[@laobae]

Past tense of “quit” is “quit,” not quitted. “I quit my job.” 🙂

[@TheDuked]

Firstly, appreciate how you give the viewers information that will be used when talking to actual native speakers. Secondly, this video made me realise that Mandarin speakers are just as indirect and slightly sarcastic as English speakers

[@suone7036]

Actually not slightly sarcastic, but very often used, if you surf on Chinese Internet. When someone didn't agree with what other people say, they never say it directly but sarcast about it. Nowadays it is almost impossible for people to have a good conversation on Internet.

[@TheDuked]

@@suone7036 Interesting! Sounds very similar to England in that sense

[@QcCuber4]

So what you are telling me is chinese has sarcasm too? Oh boy! I'm extatic!

[@austinip5273]

Thank you for the video! Question, do people usually say the positive then negative for asking a question when speaking mandarin? I know Cantonese speakers usually do that, and most of the mandarin speakers I hear just use the verb plus 哪 at the end.

[@aliceinmandarin4866]

It really depends the specific scenario

[@telekidd8559]

Can u explain différence between lingwai, qita and biede ?

[@marcusdrake4111]

TingBuDong has had good results for me.

[@brigitta-6048]

God this helped a lot

[@handybanana2274]

I was in China half of last year. Indirect = your handsome, amazing at Chinese, much to you make, why did you get fatter? I am kind of course, shuo knows more than me overall. In business environments Chinese people say "it's difficult "when it's actually impossible. They are careful not to do things that make you lose face in a group out of courtesy/respect.

[@venusdemilo4808]

hahaha here in Brazil we have some similar phrases like "Vamo tomar algo qualquer dia desses" (let's have some drink someday) and both know probably anyone is not going to move a muscle to make the appointment happen hahahaha and my favorite one "com todo respeito, mas"(respectfully, but...) * then say something tottally disrespectful that probably will make the other person really offended*

[@vidushichauhan16]

i want to know why we use le, a, ba in the end in so many phrases?

[@natalyadanchenko6742]

Oh my god! Now I understand that all those Chinese people who suggested going out for dinner and chatting often were not strange or bad! They just translated Chinese phrases into English! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 your video is really an eye opener about how cultures are different!! And the strangest thing is that nobody ever told or explained this to me.

[@franzmaier4364]

I don't think that this is really specific to Chinese culture. I think people in other countries say similar things (about meeting up or having dinner together etc.) without necessarily intending to do these things.

[@luiysia]

^ lol so true "wow i haven't seen you in forever! we should totally get dinner sometime!" = nice to see you =/= let's actually make plans

[@natalyadanchenko6742]

Yes, of course! Other cultures do say similar things! Maybe it was just my misunderstanding at first. When someone said just after chatting with me once: let’s chat often in future, I was a bit confused about their determination. And realized later that they were never going to write again 😄😄😄

[@retto1155]

I choked on my drink at "Hehe" ohhh my god 😂😂😂

[@martinphipps2]

I found out the hard way that if you tell a Chinese person that something will be difficult to do that they interpret that to mean that you are refusing to do it.

[@a.n1662]

我爱你手守

[@HitMeOnMyPeja]

I can tell this girl loves her mama 😄

[@vinicioslucas7319]

你妈妈好厉害呀

[@alitaryasa2211]

hmmm,,your face looks different,,much brighter and looks happier

[@ShuoshuoChinese]

Hahaha I did the make up with a beauty blogger, don’t know if that helps😂

[@francisbarrois8956]

If you can explain.what the Beatles mean in their song “. I am the walrus”

[@LynnieW]

Doesn't the phase "你开心就好“ mean "It's good that you are happy" too? Perhaps in some situations it does have this positive meaning?

[@bohu1701]

yes, it has positive meaning originally. but nowadays the meaning of this phrase changes in young generation. if you say" 你开心就好" to old people, they just feel positive. for young people, they will fell sarcastic.

[@amushapiro]

老师，我真的很喜欢你的教学视频。以前我听说过，‘真的假的’ 在台湾经常使用。 ‘真假’ 是一个可爱的缩写。根据你的视频，我可以假定它在大陆上普遍使用吗？ 非常感谢你

[@hsiaotienchiang8994]

我就经常用。我会说“真假的”或者“开玩笑吧”

[@rs9660]

“真假” 相对 “真的假的” 个人感觉更普遍一些，可能地域不同有些差异，确实大陆这边是生活中普遍使用的。

[@aarondodo4076]

大陸也用，可能頻率沒台灣那麼高，而且看地區。南方以及大城市裡出現頻率挺高的。一般來說兩岸出現頻率非常高的詞彙對岸多少都知道。

[@lesliewelch717]

Hen mingxian, wo buyao dezui bieren, suoyi wo ke bu keyi shuo "ni kaixin wo jiu kaixin le?" Hao bu hao?

[@zhiqianwen]

多喝热水

[@jieyixie480]

Haha I always use 你开心就好 on my mum when she refused to take my advice

[@luiysia]

lol this video is so funny you remind me of papi酱