Are there any other accents you’d like me to analyze? Leave a comment to let me know! 😉 Further information: When learning unvoiced Mandarin consonants such as Mandarin “b”, “d”, “g”, they often sound voiced because adding a vowel to them helps make it easier to differentiate and imitate their sounds. For instance: “b p m f” would sound like “be pe me fe” or “po po mo fo” “d t n l” would sound like “de te ne le” - If you want to learn some daily words and phrases in Mandarin, you can check out my Instagram: Gracemandarin
I heard a good tip about the pronunciation before. Words like "skate", "spin" and "style" have their consonant after the s unvoiced, so practice saying these words without the s in front to get a feel for how Mandarin "g b d" should be pronounced
What's really interesting is how you can tell John Cena actually speaks and thinks in Mandarin (even if imperfect), whereas Zuck seems like he's just reading sounds off a prompter. It's really impressive how fluid Cena's speaking is after just a few years.
As an English teacher here, I've been noticing tendencies in native Mandarin speakers' accents when speaking English. A couple that stand out to me: the -le ending as in "people" or "example". Often times the '-le' ending comes out as a long 'o' sound. Long 'a' is troublesome as well. Often it comes out as short 'e'. "Airplane" becomes "airplen" and "rain" becomes "ren". I really liked this video, because I find these tendencies fascinating and very consistent across the majority of English learners, as I'm sure you notice the same across Mandarin learners.
One time in Taiwan I wrote on the board bat bet bit bot but bait beat bite bot bought boot beaut and asked students to repeat after me. Of course they said bat bat bat bat bat bat bat bat bat bat bat bat. It's really that bad.
I want to say that the visual aid/drawings of the anatomical position of the interior of the mouth to know how to pronounce the phonetics is really great. It really helps a lot to see that visually so thank you for that💜 I have seen other language videos where they show the visual aid of the interior of the mouth and it is not the best for me to learn. But yours is really amazing it facilities the learning for me so thank you again💜
This was so helpful!! I’m not a native english speaker, my first tongue actually is spanish, so I would love to see a video analyzing our accent! They may overlap a bit with the english accent though, as I notice some of these tendencies in myself 😅
This was a cool video to watch! As an ABC I grew up speaking both Mandarin and English, but since I've spent the majority of my life in the US my accent isn't as good as when I was like 4 years old haha. I wonder if it'd be possible for you to do a video comparing an ABC accent? I think it's similar to this vid in the sense that we do often have tendencies from English in our accents but often it's not to this extent. Or maybe our sound pronunciation is kind of like this but our tones are more accurate since we grew up listening to it? Either way, looking forward to seeing more videos from this series!
I'm learning Mandarin. One thing I realized from watching this video is that we should clear our minds and calm our thoughts in order to learn. What I mean by that is, culturally, we Americans tend to think more loudly, at least from what I notice. Vowels are after all much louder than consonants. And we think in our native language. So it gives us a loud voice in our heads. But we're so used to it that we don't notice. Not until we have a genuine desire to learn Chinese. 😌
视频太好了！谢谢！ For me the most confusing thing about Mark Zuckerberg’s Mandarin is his weak or incorrect tones. Many of the consonant differences you pointed out, between Mandarin and English, I perceive to be on the same order as differences in various English accents by countries or regions.
Hi Grace! This is a random comment but i just wanted to thank you for your hard work making videos about Chinese! I'm currently in my first semester of majoring in chinese and we have to do a group assignment but none of my colleagues are helping, which means i have to do everything by myself. I will no tell the teacher because i don't wanna be a snitch :(( Your videos have been helping me a lot with this group assignment and i truly appreciate it! Please keep up with the work and stay healthy
I really appreciate how clear and well-researched all your videos are! (Thank you for including the IPA in some of your other videos as well.) If we get another addition to this series, it would be interesting to have a video analyzing the korean accent.
I've been studying 中文 for over a year and somehow had no idea that consonants were pronounced differently than in English, don't know how I missed that but now that I know it'll be very helpful. Also your explanation of pronouncing ü was extremely helpful, it's such a simple explanation but I've never seen it actually described. 非常 谢谢!
7:05 Now I'm just imagining going about my day with sound effects playing in the background. Open a door? Ding dong. Ope the fridge, but can't find the snack you want? Beeeep. Also, Zuck's accent is going to give me nightmares tonight.
A nice video! When learning Mandarin, I think most people concentrate on the sounds that are unique to Chinese, and don't realize they over-pronounce supposedly easier consonants such as 'b' and 'd'. Certainly, it's an issue I still have to smooth out in my own speaking and videos. Thanks for bringing up this issue.
Hi Grace! First of all let me say thank you for helping me realise some of these mistakes I was making! I'm definitely a better Chinese learner thanks to your videos and advice. That said, I hope you won't be offended if I try to give you some pronunciation advice too. While your English is definitely some of the best I've heard out of any Chinese person, you could sound a lot more native with one tiny improvement. Your pronunciation of the "i" in the words "video" and "lips" is a little bit too long, something I've noticed in the English of a lot of Chinese speakers. So you can try to shorten it to be more like the i in words like hit and bit, so it doesn't sound like your saying veedio or leeps. Keep up the great work! I'm genuinely jealous of your future Mandarin students since you're already such a good teacher!
Thanks!! I like to know where I can improve! Actually I knew I have this pronunciation problem for a while and have been practicing it, but it’s quite hard to get rid of my old habit😝 I need to try harder and practice more for sure haha! Thanks! And I’m so glad that this video is helpful for you! You’re welcome 😉
This is so helpful! Similar to learning technique on an instrument, it’s best to learn good practices in the beginning if possible and work to avoid common pitfalls along the road. Thanks so much grace!
wow, it took me so long to even find a video of a person with an english accent speaking mandarin and this video also explains how to work on correcting the accent, and some of the causes of the accent! you definitely earned a sub!
This is amazing Grace, thank you so much. I’m wondering, have you ever noticed differences between American and British speakers speaking mandarin? Also, since you teach us so much Chinese, I’m going to return the favour and let you know that “Speakers” finishes with a K sound, when you say “native English speakers” it sound and looks (to me anyway) like you’re saying “native English speechers”.
@@GraceMandarinChinese I have two things to say, first I don't hear anything wrong with your "speakers" and second, I recently watched one of your old video and your English has improved so much! 加油！
Hands up if u are a south asian because u can pronounce each and every language correctly 😀😁😉 People from Pakistan, india and Bangladesh (nepal and afgasitan maybe) will understand what I mean
Very interesting ! I’m French I would love for you to make a video about our accents, if you’ve met any french people (the hard sounds for us I think are zh/sh/ch/q/j/x)
另一个非常好的短片 😍 其实我也知道我有这些发音的问题。。。但是我觉得这不容易改变 😌 我会继续努力练习 💪 我们一起加油！！！ I've got to the point where I can just about hear the differences between these sounds, but it's so hard to break old habits 😌 I'm still determined to keep practicing! 谢谢你所有的帮助， 你很辛苦了 😊😊😊
Great video. This will be a reminder to pay attention to the consonants and not use my vocal chords. I have a presentation to give in my Mandarin Chinese class. Even though I’m a native English speaker, I don’t have a problem with the vowels. English has a lot of long vowels sounds but I speak Spanish, French and studied German. Spanish only has short vowel sounds so I find that helpful with my pronunciation. Great tutorial.
I'm actually not a native English speaker but we use English mostly in our country now a days even though I had some of these several mistakes too! Tysm!!!♡
@@GraceMandarinChinese us loyal fans are still waiting on the 50 facts video you spoke about recently don't leave us suspense like that we deserve better and you know this🤣 #grace4president♥️
I'm Polish (from Poland). Polish and English phonetics have little in common, but the imperfections with b, p, d, z, zh, ch, sh are the same for us [*]
the b d g sounds in mandarin, are actually are the unasperated versions of p t k sounds. according to indian linguistics. by the way, can you make a video of analizing indian axented mandarin?
could you make a vid about 可能 and 可以? or maybe how 让 seems to mean both "let" and "make", idk how to be more clear about "making someone do something" for instance 😅
Super useful! I realized for the first section they didn’t sound so wrong to me, which probably means I’m making the same mistakes. So I will be sharing this video with my Chinese teacher so she can help me practice!
It's been about a year since I've heard Zucc of John Cena speak, and I'll say I'm definitely less impressed than I used to be 😂. I certainly used to have a lot of these issues, and most of them vastly improved just through massive input. Watching 王刚、老饭骨、这群人、马蹄厨房 a lot improved my Mandarin enormously. A lot of issues that English speakers face is thinking that they have to understand everything in their input, but I'd actually say the opposite. With the variety of accents were presented, the input value is there whether you can understand it or not
Would it be more accurate to replace "b d g z" with the English non- verbal versions of "p t k s (ts)"? Or are there subtle differences between those Mandarin and English ptks as well?
Hey Grace! Was wondering if you had any intention of sharing your recommendations for books (like normal taiwanese books, not textbooks) and/or poetry?
Agree with you on most of this; however, you are incorrect regarding /b d g z zh/. English does not have voiced stops or affricates. This is a very common misconception that is even taught to/by native speakers in the education system. English does not have a voicing distinction among its stops and affricates such as /p t k s c ch/ and /b d g z zh/. Instead, English makes a distinction between fortis and lenis stops, somewhat similar to Korean, but different. Also, English makes a distinction between aspirated and unaspirated stops which is exactly like Mandarin. In English, the voicing of stop and affricate consonants is governed by allophonic rules and it depends upon where the consonant is in a syllable and word and the acoustic environment around it. It is complicated but regular, so we don't hear any actual consonant voicing. Instead we cue for aspiration. In our acoustic perception, aspiration = voicelessness. To us, Spanish or French /p t k/ sound exactly the same as /b d g/. We actually correctly pronounce Mandarin /p t c ch k b d z zh/, especially initially. Some Mandarin speakers will have heavier aspiration, but that seems minor to me, as does the exact tenseness of the /u/ vowel between English and Mandarin. Now, an English speaker can voice /b d g z zh/, especially between vowels or medially, but Mandarin speakers do this, too! Further, Mandarin speakers voice their fricatives between vowels or medially, which an English speaker wouldn't do.
Lets not forget that we 'choose to listen in a language.' Other people not understanding what you are saying may not (only) be your atrocious accent. As anyone who works with more than one language will be able to confirm, sometimes you just dont understand. Most often this happens when someone surprises you with a change in language. Your brain recognises the words as familiar sounds but cant fit them into the pattern your brain is expecting. A few seconds later everything is fine and the conversation can continue. In China I found this working against me. No-one in Chongqing expects a 外国人 to speak any Chinese. Therefore my stumbling efforts stumbled further because people were not expecting to hear words they would understand. There was a better chance a monolingual taxi driver would understand me than someone who knew a few english words.
in fact you can pronounce them either voiced or unvoiced. Native Chinese speakers can hardly note the difference. The only thing they contrast is aspiration.
I think Grace explained it well. She said they often sound voiced because of the vowels that follow it. In fast speech, the consonants definitely sound voiced, and if those constants are let's say the second syllable of a word, in practical real-life speech they definitely could sound voiced because of all the vowel or nasals that those consonants are between. It's fair and safe to say that native mandarin Chinese speakers don't really need to distinguish them as voiced or unvoiced in actual speech. It doesn't impede their understanding.
I wonder if it's harder for people with North American accents to speak Mardarn than people from UK, or other English-speaking countries? Have you ever noticed a difference in the accent? (Not saying the British are better at the accents, mine sucks) Either way this video was very useful :))
You forgot to mention the pronounciation of "X," we english speakers pronounce it like the "SH" in "shoulder," whereas it is in between the "S" in "skate" and the "SH" in "shoulder," with the lower lip smiling and the til of tongue at back of lower teeth.
Oh shit I'm being put on blast again. This is helpful, especially for those sounds that are close that no one really explains how we are getting wrong. (Don't post this to Facebook Zuckerberg will censor it. JK US election season joke)
Are there any other accents you’d like me to analyze?
Leave a comment to let me know! 😉
Further information:
When learning unvoiced Mandarin consonants such as Mandarin “b”, “d”, “g”, they often sound voiced because adding a vowel to them helps make it easier to differentiate and imitate their sounds.
For instance:
“b p m f” would sound like “be pe me fe” or “po po mo fo”
“d t n l” would sound like “de te ne le”
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If you want to learn some daily words and phrases in Mandarin, you can check out my Instagram: Gracemandarin
Thank you for your video ! How about Russian?:)
Hong Kong accent please
I heard a good tip about the pronunciation before. Words like "skate", "spin" and "style" have their consonant after the s unvoiced, so practice saying these words without the s in front to get a feel for how Mandarin "g b d" should be pronounced
I would love to know how does the Spanish Mandarin accent sound like to native Mandarin speakers🤭
@@선비-m1x i also think that
What's really interesting is how you can tell John Cena actually speaks and thinks in Mandarin (even if imperfect), whereas Zuck seems like he's just reading sounds off a prompter. It's really impressive how fluid Cena's speaking is after just a few years.
As an English teacher here, I've been noticing tendencies in native Mandarin speakers' accents when speaking English. A couple that stand out to me: the -le ending as in "people" or "example". Often times the '-le' ending comes out as a long 'o' sound. Long 'a' is troublesome as well. Often it comes out as short 'e'. "Airplane" becomes "airplen" and "rain" becomes "ren". I really liked this video, because I find these tendencies fascinating and very consistent across the majority of English learners, as I'm sure you notice the same across Mandarin learners.
One time in Taiwan I wrote on the board bat bet bit bot but bait beat bite bot bought boot beaut and asked students to repeat after me. Of course they said bat bat bat bat bat bat bat bat bat bat bat bat. It's really that bad.
This is probably more useful than you can imagine...
I want to say that the visual aid/drawings of the anatomical position of the interior of the mouth to know how to pronounce the phonetics is really great. It really helps a lot to see that visually so thank you for that💜
I have seen other language videos where they show the visual aid of the interior of the mouth and it is not the best for me to learn. But yours is really amazing it facilities the learning for me so thank you again💜
I’m glad you like my drawings! 😄
This was so helpful!! I’m not a native english speaker, my first tongue actually is spanish, so I would love to see a video analyzing our accent! They may overlap a bit with the english accent though, as I notice some of these tendencies in myself 😅
This hurt to watch...but I watched it to try to find my own flaws...thank you.
This was a cool video to watch! As an ABC I grew up speaking both Mandarin and English, but since I've spent the majority of my life in the US my accent isn't as good as when I was like 4 years old haha. I wonder if it'd be possible for you to do a video comparing an ABC accent? I think it's similar to this vid in the sense that we do often have tendencies from English in our accents but often it's not to this extent. Or maybe our sound pronunciation is kind of like this but our tones are more accurate since we grew up listening to it? Either way, looking forward to seeing more videos from this series!
I’ve been waiting for this video!! Thank you! And I can’t wait for the tones video.
I'm learning Mandarin. One thing I realized from watching this video is that we should clear our minds and calm our thoughts in order to learn. What I mean by that is, culturally, we Americans tend to think more loudly, at least from what I notice. Vowels are after all much louder than consonants. And we think in our native language. So it gives us a loud voice in our heads. But we're so used to it that we don't notice. Not until we have a genuine desire to learn Chinese. 😌
视频太好了！谢谢！
For me the most confusing thing about Mark Zuckerberg’s Mandarin is his weak or incorrect tones.
Many of the consonant differences you pointed out, between Mandarin and English, I perceive to be on the same order as differences in various English accents by countries or regions.
Yeah, he adds his super strong, well cultivated english public speaker cadence onto his mandarin and it is ... something
Hi Grace! This is a random comment but i just wanted to thank you for your hard work making videos about Chinese!
I'm currently in my first semester of majoring in chinese and we have to do a group assignment but none of my colleagues are helping, which means i have to do everything by myself. I will no tell the teacher because i don't wanna be a snitch :((
Your videos have been helping me a lot with this group assignment and i truly appreciate it! Please keep up with the work and stay healthy
I really appreciate how clear and well-researched all your videos are! (Thank you for including the IPA in some of your other videos as well.)
If we get another addition to this series, it would be interesting to have a video analyzing the korean accent.
I've been studying 中文 for over a year and somehow had no idea that consonants were pronounced differently than in English, don't know how I missed that but now that I know it'll be very helpful. Also your explanation of pronouncing ü was extremely helpful, it's such a simple explanation but I've never seen it actually described. 非常 谢谢!
7:05 Now I'm just imagining going about my day with sound effects playing in the background. Open a door? Ding dong. Ope the fridge, but can't find the snack you want? Beeeep.
Also, Zuck's accent is going to give me nightmares tonight.
A nice video! When learning Mandarin, I think most people concentrate on the sounds that are unique to Chinese, and don't realize they over-pronounce supposedly easier consonants such as 'b' and 'd'. Certainly, it's an issue I still have to smooth out in my own speaking and videos. Thanks for bringing up this issue.
Hi Grace! First of all let me say thank you for helping me realise some of these mistakes I was making! I'm definitely a better Chinese learner thanks to your videos and advice. That said, I hope you won't be offended if I try to give you some pronunciation advice too. While your English is definitely some of the best I've heard out of any Chinese person, you could sound a lot more native with one tiny improvement.
Your pronunciation of the "i" in the words "video" and "lips" is a little bit too long, something I've noticed in the English of a lot of Chinese speakers. So you can try to shorten it to be more like the i in words like hit and bit, so it doesn't sound like your saying veedio or leeps.
Keep up the great work! I'm genuinely jealous of your future Mandarin students since you're already such a good teacher!
Thanks!! I like to know where I can improve! Actually I knew I have this pronunciation problem for a while and have been practicing it, but it’s quite hard to get rid of my old habit😝 I need to try harder and practice more for sure haha! Thanks!
And I’m so glad that this video is helpful for you! You’re welcome 😉
謝謝! Can you also so for French native speakers? We tend to struggle a lot to get rid of our accent. 😆
已經學了兩年多了， 第一次碰到這個話題，這麼清楚的說明更不用說了哈哈。 Thank you Grace!
This is so helpful! Similar to learning technique on an instrument, it’s best to learn good practices in the beginning if possible and work to avoid common pitfalls along the road. Thanks so much grace!
wow, it took me so long to even find a video of a person with an english accent speaking mandarin and this video also explains how to work on correcting the accent, and some of the causes of the accent! you definitely earned a sub!
Very interesting content. Thank you! I think it would also be interesting to see a similar video on the Mandarin accent of Korean speakers.
Wow this was incredibly helpful. Honestly would love a part two maybe with examples of english speakers trying to do 'r" and how to correct this.
我很感谢。这是特别有用！
hi teacher grace im from philippines! i learn alot from your videos you are doing a good job keep making videos for us takecare ☺️
Hi! Thank you! I’ll keep it up💪
Thank you. This was very helpful for me as a native English speaker to improve my Chinese.
This is amazing Grace, thank you so much. I’m wondering, have you ever noticed differences between American and British speakers speaking mandarin?
Also, since you teach us so much Chinese, I’m going to return the favour and let you know that “Speakers” finishes with a K sound, when you say “native English speakers” it sound and looks (to me anyway) like you’re saying “native English speechers”.
Hi James! Thanks for the feedback and the pronunciation advice!
Actually I didn’t notice the difference, but I will pay attention to it 😉
@@GraceMandarinChinese I have two things to say, first I don't hear anything wrong with your "speakers" and second, I recently watched one of your old video and your English has improved so much! 加油！
@@Coccinelf Thank you! 我會加油💪
This is so useful. Thank you.
Im so glad i found your channel your lessons are amazing 谢谢！
This is a much waited video. Voices of Chinese and English together. Fascinating. 🥇🏆
Hands up if u are a south asian because u can pronounce each and every language correctly 😀😁😉
People from Pakistan, india and Bangladesh (nepal and afgasitan maybe) will understand what I mean
I like those examples especially when you play them in slow motion and repeatedly.
Very interesting ! I’m French I would love for you to make a video about our accents, if you’ve met any french people (the hard sounds for us I think are zh/sh/ch/q/j/x)
this is something iv'e always struggled with, thanks. now i'm more aware anytime i do this.
另一个非常好的短片 😍 其实我也知道我有这些发音的问题。。。但是我觉得这不容易改变 😌 我会继续努力练习 💪 我们一起加油！！！
I've got to the point where I can just about hear the differences between these sounds, but it's so hard to break old habits 😌 I'm still determined to keep practicing!
谢谢你所有的帮助， 你很辛苦了 😊😊😊
This is awesome thanks a bunch!
Glad you like it! You’re welcome! 😉
Great video. This will be a reminder to pay attention to the consonants and not use my vocal chords. I have a presentation to give in my Mandarin Chinese class. Even though I’m a native English speaker, I don’t have a problem with the vowels. English has a lot of long vowels sounds but I speak Spanish, French and studied German. Spanish only has short vowel sounds so I find that helpful with my pronunciation. Great tutorial.
Omg!!!! That was super helpful already!!!! No wonder my gf is always telling me to not over do it ahahah!!
I'm actually not a native English speaker but we use English mostly in our country now a days even though I had some of these several mistakes too! Tysm!!!♡
My favorite teacher 🔥💜
Best videos, thanks for making these.
Fantastic video!!!
Excelente video como siempre, quizá algún día analices el acento en mandarín de los hispanohablantes, 谢谢老师！
Creo que sería similar a la pronunciación del acento de ingles
You’re the best Grace! Love the videos - keep it up!!
Hooray!! 🎈🎉🎊Finally I was able to catch one of your videos in the very very beginning! now I I'm gonna start watching it 😆
Yeah! 🥳
@@GraceMandarinChinese us loyal fans are still waiting on the 50 facts video you spoke about recently don't leave us suspense like that we deserve better and you know this🤣 #grace4president♥️
@@deontesampson1993 Hahaha I’m still in the process of making it! Stay tuned! 😝
@@GraceMandarinChinese 😄 okay okay we trust you so I guess we can wait a little while longer😆
You have help me know Chinese more and more thank you
这个视频非常非常有意思！多谢老师了！
If possible can you make Spanish tendencies
Good job Grace. Keep up the good work.
Very good, thank you
Lucky for me, the ㄨ and ㄩ of Mandarin are very similar to German u and ü :) Though I also struggle with the consonants (especially ㄓ ㄔ ㄕ).
Thanks as always !💖
You’re welcome! 💕
great video! i will love to see a video about Spanish accent, the second most spoken language
Great video again👍 Thank you!
Hi Morris! 😉 Thanks!!
The mandarin ü sound is soo close to the Korean ㅡ sound :)
I'm Polish (from Poland). Polish and English phonetics have little in common, but the imperfections with b, p, d, z, zh, ch, sh are the same for us [*]
您教得很好啊
the b d g sounds in mandarin, are actually are the unasperated versions of p t k sounds. according to indian linguistics. by the way, can you make a video of analizing indian axented mandarin?
I'd be very surprised if any Chinese person can understand Mark Zuckerburg O_O
I'd love to hear you analyze the Korean Accent!
His mandarin accent is pretty weird tho
My life is a lie. THANK YOU THIS IS SO HELPFUL
Love this
could you make a vid about 可能 and 可以? or maybe how 让 seems to mean both "let" and "make", idk how to be more clear about "making someone do something" for instance 😅
I'm Scottish and I find this so interesting! I don't think I voice B D P Z that much in English and didn't realise till now!
NI FEICHANG PIAOLIANG.... Great Teacher
Super useful! I realized for the first section they didn’t sound so wrong to me, which probably means I’m making the same mistakes. So I will be sharing this video with my Chinese teacher so she can help me practice!
Off topic ..
Can you give us some hint how to do well in hsk exam and the questions patterns mark distribution and some techniques for listening ....
It's been about a year since I've heard Zucc of John Cena speak, and I'll say I'm definitely less impressed than I used to be 😂.
I certainly used to have a lot of these issues, and most of them vastly improved just through massive input. Watching 王刚、老饭骨、这群人、马蹄厨房 a lot improved my Mandarin enormously. A lot of issues that English speakers face is thinking that they have to understand everything in their input, but I'd actually say the opposite. With the variety of accents were presented, the input value is there whether you can understand it or not
Would it be more accurate to replace "b d g z" with the English non- verbal versions of "p t k s (ts)"? Or are there subtle differences between those Mandarin and English ptks as well?
Hey Grace! Was wondering if you had any intention of sharing your recommendations for books (like normal taiwanese books, not textbooks) and/or poetry?
Agree with you on most of this; however, you are incorrect regarding /b d g z zh/. English does not have voiced stops or affricates. This is a very common misconception that is even taught to/by native speakers in the education system. English does not have a voicing distinction among its stops and affricates such as /p t k s c ch/ and /b d g z zh/. Instead, English makes a distinction between fortis and lenis stops, somewhat similar to Korean, but different. Also, English makes a distinction between aspirated and unaspirated stops which is exactly like Mandarin. In English, the voicing of stop and affricate consonants is governed by allophonic rules and it depends upon where the consonant is in a syllable and word and the acoustic environment around it. It is complicated but regular, so we don't hear any actual consonant voicing. Instead we cue for aspiration. In our acoustic perception, aspiration = voicelessness. To us, Spanish or French /p t k/ sound exactly the same as /b d g/. We actually correctly pronounce Mandarin /p t c ch k b d z zh/, especially initially. Some Mandarin speakers will have heavier aspiration, but that seems minor to me, as does the exact tenseness of the /u/ vowel between English and Mandarin. Now, an English speaker can voice /b d g z zh/, especially between vowels or medially, but Mandarin speakers do this, too! Further, Mandarin speakers voice their fricatives between vowels or medially, which an English speaker wouldn't do.
maybe korean or viernamese accents?
zhubu yingpian feichang feichang hao
wo dengdai xia yige shipin
wo hen ai grace
yinwei zhongqing nide
I suddenly understood something I was feeling, that was right in front of me, and couldn't see.
What if i can speak both english and japanese fluently. Also I don't quite understand how I could eliminate the voice. I can't even hear it.
Lets not forget that we 'choose to listen in a language.' Other people not understanding what you are saying may not (only) be your atrocious accent.
As anyone who works with more than one language will be able to confirm, sometimes you just dont understand. Most often this happens when someone surprises you with a change in language. Your brain recognises the words as familiar sounds but cant fit them into the pattern your brain is expecting. A few seconds later everything is fine and the conversation can continue.
In China I found this working against me. No-one in Chongqing expects a 外国人 to speak any Chinese. Therefore my stumbling efforts stumbled further because people were not expecting to hear words they would understand. There was a better chance a monolingual taxi driver would understand me than someone who knew a few english words.
They're not unvoiced. They're unaspirated.
They are not only unaspirated but also unvoiced in Mandarin and the “unvoiced” trait is what I want to talk about in the video. :)
They are unvoiced and unaspirated at the same time
in fact you can pronounce them either voiced or unvoiced. Native Chinese speakers can hardly note the difference. The only thing they contrast is aspiration.
I think Grace explained it well. She said they often sound voiced because of the vowels that follow it. In fast speech, the consonants definitely sound voiced, and if those constants are let's say the second syllable of a word, in practical real-life speech they definitely could sound voiced because of all the vowel or nasals that those consonants are between. It's fair and safe to say that native mandarin Chinese speakers don't really need to distinguish them as voiced or unvoiced in actual speech. It doesn't impede their understanding.
Please analyse Russian accent in Mandarin
The ü tip is money!
I wonder if it's harder for people with North American accents to speak Mardarn than people from UK, or other English-speaking countries? Have you ever noticed a difference in the accent? (Not saying the British are better at the accents, mine sucks) Either way this video was very useful :))
Native Mandarin speakers in Taiwan don't pronounce zh, ch, sh either and this confuses me.
Matt smart. Speeak Chinese in English. Beijing. Chian.
I think it would be good to use more mouth diagrams and IPA symbols in the future
You know? I was just binge watching her videos.... And I ended up learning some Chinese ..... I rather watch her than c dramas lol....
当然我想要给你建议做关于母语是葡萄牙语的人的中文口音的视频！也许可以做罗曼语族的都一起！咋样啊？
我觉得对你们来说最大的问题应该也是b p d t g k这些辅音，汉语的b d g相当于罗曼语中的p t c/k，而p t k相当于英语的p t k。听过拉美朋友讲话，这一点非常明显
6:42 hehe, thank god I'm German-American lol
The girl in the last clip is someone I went to school with omg lmao
Woah!
You forgot to mention the pronounciation of "X," we english speakers pronounce it like the "SH" in "shoulder," whereas it is in between the "S" in "skate" and the "SH" in "shoulder," with the lower lip smiling and the til of tongue at back of lower teeth.
Why I am watching this since I am a Chinese
不错 🐘
Pleease, do the same with russian
So basically we are sol
I honestly could not understand a single thing that these people say without subtitles...
nice video
grace love your videos but could you maybe think about turning down the volume of your intro a tad bit?
Oh sure! Thank you for letting me know!
how about filipinos speak mandarin can you?
That Mark Zuckerberg video always makes me wince at his super American pronunciation 😭
I’m American and hope my Chinese doesn’t sound like that. Oftentimes, we’re told our Chinese is good.
German accent, please!
We wanna study together
Oh shit I'm being put on blast again.
This is helpful, especially for those sounds that are close that no one really explains how we are getting wrong.
(Don't post this to Facebook Zuckerberg will censor it. JK US election season joke)
it's more helpful to say the consonants between 2 a's, when saying them on their own the sound differences aren't as clear