Want to sound Chinese enough? Use topic-comment structure!

[@nguyentanhao934]

Outstanding!!! New sight for me about Chinese!

[@user-do7kb9co8j]

Thank you so much - this is so helpful!! I’ve never heard of this explanation before, especially not in textbooks 😅

[@OutmazeChinese]

Great! Thanks for the feedback. Yes, unfortunately, it's often overlooked

[@virginiacutchin7586]

I哦谢老师！I studied this topic but it was never really emphasized or fully explained. 你既然解释了，都很清楚！

[@SrChatty]

这个视频的话题都很有意思也很有用! 谢谢你把这个语法点给大家分享啊! 那个topic/comment分析办法你怎么学到的? 是不是从赵元任的"A Grammar of Spoken Chinese"你获知的吗？其实在其他油管上的视频我觉得曾没看过被提起。 只有一个问题吧，你真应该分别"sentence"和"clause". 讲中文的这么长的sentences, 再更重要啊。 还有，非常棒的视频啊！谢谢你! 👍🙂

[@bajie1155]

这点其实很重要，中文思维和英文思维的不同，导致我说英语时经常会想先说topic,然后就不知道怎么组织剩下的句子了

[@ChasingFables]

This is really useful, thank you!

[@OutmazeChinese]

Thanks!

[@mountaintag]

In certain kinds of Chinese sentences, I think the topic-comment structure would actually be awkward to avoid. For example: 中文她说得很好 In English, we could say "She speaks Chinese well". Here, both the object "Chinese", and the adverb "well" follow the verb "speaks". But in Chinese, this is not allowed. We cannot say: 她说中文得很好 or 她说得很好中文. Only the object or the adverb can follow the verb, so the verb would need to be repeated: 她说中文说得很好

[@jansoltes971]

至于你的精彩视频，可惜观看次数太少。

[@OutmazeChinese]

谢谢！不都有全职工作么

[@mountaintag]

鱼吃完了 Is this a topic-comment structure ? It depends on whether the fish is in the aquarium or on the dining table. :-)

[@punxrule903]

我学习中文很多年，但是没遇到这个语法。thx!

[@OutmazeChinese]

嗯，这个语法不常见，很可惜我觉得

[@joergdanne5222]

谢谢你。 这个话题我仍然不知道。

[@jamesrimes2870]

你有没有父母问你：哎呀姑娘，你学会中文， 后来要干嘛呀？ 做啥工作呀？你看我们隔壁的Света, 在企业公司已经当经理了 I also came back from China when the apocalypse started, и думаю нафиг этот китайский был нужен 😂