10 Fun Facts about the Chinese language that you probably didn’t know！
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Here are 10 facts about the Chinese language that you probably didn’t know:
00:00 Intro
00:44 Rich Homophonic Puns 丰富的同音双关语
02:04The beauty of chinese names 中文名的魅力
03:44 Number homophones 数字同音词
05:45 Color talk in characters 用色彩说话
07:39 Words reversed in order 顺序颠倒的词语
08:15 Reduplication 重叠字
09:21 Language and cuisine 语言和美食
09:55 Uncomplicated grammar 不复杂的语法
10:39 Chengyu 成语
11:49 Cracking the code 破解文字密码
If you are interested in learning Chinese, you can check out this step to step guide video: • How to learn Mandarin ...
If you would like to learn more about the history and the evolution of this language, you can check out : • 🇨🇳The Chinese Language...
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Even if you have several clones, I don’t understand how you can manage so much.👍❤You can see that the SOUTH OF CHINA is very fascinating.
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😍🌹💋💋🇮🇷
At time 06:25 why are you pronouncing "shi" as "she?"
Bal = (Honey)
Bal >Mal >Mel >Mil >Meli > Melit > Melis =(yumuşak, hoş kokulu, tatlı / yummy, mellow, balmy, malleable, dessert, sweet) >>>
Al-Bal (red-sweet) =Alpal (Apple) >Afal >Almelo> >Alma > Elma
(the dessert) > Alba> halba > halvah > helva
Mel-ak (sweet-white)>Mela >Mal >Mar >Milo >Melon >Melam >>>Milk
(sweetie) > Balak > bala
Almıla / Melah >> Elma = Apple
Meltem= mellow wind = breeze
Mel-melat = marmelat = marmellata
Melisa = balm / jam / rosin
Melamine = chemical resin
(Mel-hem) merhem=(almost-balm) > ointment
(Mel-sumac) mercimek = lentil
Mel-audio = melody
(tow/toğ/tao/tai/tav/tağ)>> Dağ =mountain /~塔 / 高 /ضيقة
(dar /tar /dai /tai /tav /dae /too /toi)
Phone / Phoon/ Fun / Wajan / Wehen = Ses /Rüzgar /Esinti
Dae-vane /tao-fun / too-fan/ tai-phone/ typhoon = (loud sound) > hard-strong wind
Dar = narrow / nearest /stuck / compressed / solid / hard / durable
Dar = birbirine yaklaşmış / sıkışık / sıkışmış / sıkıştırılmış / sağlam / sert / dayanıklı
Dar-lık= sıkışarak yükselmek, yükseklik hissi, sıkışma duygusu
Dağ= litosferik tabakaların sıkışarak yükselmesi / compression and rise of lithospheric layers
Darlık= to rise upwards by squeezed, feeling of height, feeling of being squeezed
Dar = yakın olmak , alakalı olmak, ilgilenmek / to be close, to be involved, to be interested
Hüküm-dar = Hükümle ilgilenen , hüküm veren
Mihman-dar = Misafire yakın olan , misafire alaka gösteren
Darülaceze = Acizerle ilgilenilen yer
Dai-u > nearest he's = Dayı = uncle
Toy = meeting /ceremony/feast/ immature-game boy
(Dai-emek)> Dayamak =to base on /make it support/fasten down
(Dai-en-mak)> Dayanmak= to recline upon / stay strong /be close literally
(Dai-et-mak)>Dayatmak = to impose / insist
Yanardağ ile ilgili / pertaining to a volcano
Dağ-et-mak >Dağıtmak = to distribute /to deal out / to deploy
Dağ-al-mak >Dağılmak = to get dispersed / to go to pieces
Dağ-la-mak = krater şekline çevirmek / cauterize
(Doğ-umak) = Doğmak = to go up / re-rising up / come into the world > to born
Doğ-ğur-mak= Doğurmak= to make this come up > bring this into the world
(Doy-umak) = Doymak = to rise to the top / to be full
Doy-ğur-mak= Doyurmak=to satiate > to make it full > to feed
我正在教同事們中文，有時候我很難解釋清楚中文的美與特色，這部影片幫助了我很多，我要分享給他們看！真的太棒了～～謝謝妳ZOE💕
I started learning Chinese from a while and you were one of the reasons why I'm learning it. You really show the language and the culture in a simple and unique way, it makes me want to know more about it. One of my dreams is being a polyglot like you and know many languages I already know Arabic and English and German and I'm learning Chinese now there are also other languages i will learn soon like Italian, Persian, Turkish and French. So thank you zoe a lot for motivating me to learn languages and thank for your beautiful videos ❤
Instead of being something stressful, to me write hanzi is so relaxing and I even feel like it's a meditative task, instead of frustration, learning Mandarin has been a delight.
And good for the brain 😁
Totally agree. I got a head start with kanji in Japanese though…hehehe
Very true. Studying foreign languages are very good for stress management, because they require the person to focus on the lesson. Your mind cannot be on anything else that might be causing you stress.
@@PatEller well actually I meant that learning this language wasn't a source of stress.
Thank you Zoe I’m learning Mandarin at the restaurant I work at, this is such a great addition to my studies!
Glad it was helpful!
myself born in Guangzhou, GuangDong, for some reason, whenever I visited China & spoke manderin, right away, people said I come from Guangdong , even I left there in october 1974...amazing, home dialec never changed... de Miami, florida
花綻雨紛紛 柳搖風降春 紗窗隔淺霧 遠景罩煙雲
左往右唸一首詩, 右往左唸也是一首詩.
你的中文很棒。
@@mingxeper6384 不是很捧, 是非常捧, 從古至今寫過迴文詩的人不超過三十人.
是 (((從古至今))) , 今時今日大概只有三個人寫迴文詩.
中国語を学ぶのは、凄く楽しいです。日本語はアニメや漫画、コスプレなど世界的に有名で人気があり勉強するきっかけにもなりますが、中国語も同じです。私は西遊記、三国志、現代アニメのキングダムを通じて中国に興味があり勉強を始めました。普通語とされる北京語を集中的に勉強していますが、日本人の私は四声の発音が下手なので当初は苦労しましたが、ある程度勉強すると少し自信がついて北京へ旅行に行きました。中国は広いです。色々な方言を聞き取れず苦労しましたが、メモとペンが有れば通じることが出来ます。通じる楽しさはネイティブでなくても充分に得られました。親切な人ばかりに巡り会えたおかげで、益々興味が湧き、今度は昆明に旅行したいと思ってます。
中国人也听不懂其他地方的方言所以不用担心，加油哦
私の仕事では毎日日本人の友達と会う必要があります。もう3年になりますが、まだ日本語を勉強できません。会議があるたびに、日本企業は中国語の翻訳者を雇います。私が日本語を話すことができれば、翻訳者やグーグル翻訳を使わずに、自分の言いたいことを直接伝えることができます。
@@VikingAge
今の翻訳は、すごく進化しています。あなたの文章も日本人の私には充分に理解出来ます。しかし、私が中国語を勉強するのは意味を伝えるだけでなく、感情も同時に伝えることができ、相手と心の会話ができることです。意味が通じる感動より、相手との感情を含め心の対話が出来ることに感動するからです。
@@nakamurahiro1364 Google TRANSLATE と CHAT GPT の翻訳は非常に正確です。しかし、日本のクライアントと直接コミュニケーションをとる代わりに、テキストを入力するのに多くの時間が必要です。あなたの中国語がさらに上達することを願っています。ぜひ中国へご旅行ください。1.有朋自远方来，不亦乐乎？2.三人行，必有我師焉；擇其善者而從之，其不善者而改之 3.欲穷千里目，更上一层楼 4. 长地久有时尽，此恨绵绵无绝期 5.姑苏城外寒山寺，夜半钟声到客船 6. 举头望明月，低头思故乡 7. 夜来风雨声 花落知多少 8. 但愿人长久，千里共婵娟 9. 愿君多采撷，此物最相思。
Thank you Zoe, learned a couple of chengyus that I didn't know ❤
Thanks for the lovely video Zoe!
Very interesting and practical! Thank you Zoe!
I've been learning Mandarin for about a year and this was really interesting! Thank you for your content Zoe
I'm so glad!
I am from Pakistan and I've started learning Chinese for fun. This language seems hard but once you start learning it, its very fun. Now i am at the beginner level and i study daily for 30 minutes.
This was an excellent video! Thank you and Well done 👏
Being studying Mandarin for nearly 3 years now and still the best part for me is when I recognize what is being spoken. Most of the no no's in Chinese culture and the language I have come across and try to stay clear but again it is very satisfying when I recognize them. Interesting how the amount in the red envelope 🧧 carries a message. Thank you for keeping my enthusiasm for Mandarin and the Chinese culture alive. Greetings from South Africa 🇿🇦
I am so glad 🥰
where do you learn Chinese from?
@@yakamoz705 Duolingo and the internet. I speak to Google to check pronunciation. Google is not very forgiving and only the correct tones etc being accepted.
I LOVE this kind of information. This is the first video I have watched from you, and I will definitely be watching more. 😊
Very cool and super interesting information. Thank you Zoe
I am learning Chinese language ....Thank you for sharing some cultural aspects of the Chinese language.❤❤❤
Waiting for more videos like this one ❤❤❤
Thank you, Zoe !
Could you make other study/routine vlogs , please?
Or a day in your life now or a day at university. Also, it would be interesting a video about how to maintain focus and overcome procrastination. Keep up the good work!
“The art of brand naming” is a must for foreign product marketers to study when entering China market.
I enjoyed your video very much!
I'm learning Mandarin by English as my second languages and Chinese is my third languages 😅
Thank you for great information❤
So Chinese is my fourth language
@@user-xr5rk7xg3c 👏👏
This is so interessting! Thank you so much ❣ I love the Chinese language, it is so astonishingly beautiful. If just it were a bit easier ...
And yes, this helps a lot. It's great to widen your comprehension of words/ characters in different functions, methaphors and orders.
作为一个母语者，我觉得这些文化知识都是很简单的。但如果是以外国人的视角确实感觉很复杂，但是我们就是在日常生活中,就直接记住了这些文化成语。
I discovered something new today, thank you very much. I love mandarin and wish to speak that wonderful language.
Such a fun and interesting content!
Beautiful video!❤
Such a beautiful video😍thank you💖我喜欢汉语🥰💕🌸🌸
早上好老师😊太谢谢你了🙇🎉
Thank you for the information, Best regards from Colombia
unfortunately i bought green hat for my father in law and i told him wear it and i wanna get picture🤦♀️🤦♀️😁😁
No way ! 😂😂😂 Is he Chinese !
It's weird, when you explained some sort of things, it looks much easier, than it was before
Yes, Zoe is very good!
Love it!
Great efforts .
Thank you so much
谢谢你为中华文明做出的贡献。无论她现在怎样，对我来说都是无法割舍的爱❤❤❤
so u are chinese right?
@@BitFlowerS-Ku 你可以消灭我，但是，你改变不了我对中华的爱。
@@BitFlowerS-Ku You believe the God, but the God whether really believe your behavior and support you?
Çin dizilerini birkaç yıldır izleye izleye bazı küçük kelimeleri bile öğrendim 🥰🇨🇳🇹🇷
Diliniz çok tatlı geldi gözüme
Ulan ne dizi izliyon bütün diziler çok sıkıcı şimdi dili anlayabiliyorum ama izleyecek şey bulamıyorum
Çin Dizilerinin çoğu bir Harika Dostum.
@@bigsmoke4 Maybe I can recommend 《舌尖上的中国》 《远方的家》 and 《大国重器》 for you. These documentaries are excellent materials for learning Chinese, and their content is also very engaging. Wish you a happy time
@@joejoe7960 Thanks dude will definitely watch all of em
hello altaic
Hi Zoe, interesting facts about Chinese! You are very smart and also very beautiful. I will enjoy learning with you 🥰! Also wanted to let you know your discount code still works. Just ordered HSK 1 and got the discount.
very good , love it ,O ! 非常好，非常喜欢哦！
Zoe, I beg you to speak Cantonese in a video or short.
I speak mandarin at home, but one day I should really learn how to write! 😂😂😂 learning Lebanese Arabic at the moment!
This is so interesting! I’m going to start using these expressions with my parents!
Very nice
I have a discord chinese learning community with 9000 members. Thank you for the video, I found it useful and I shared with my community!
So interesting
I went to China in December for vacation and I practiced a lot. Tones are my big problem, sometimes people can't understand me. I am focusing on mastering tones.
Give you some advice. If you can't remember the tone, you can add some auxiliary expressions. For example, when you want ice (冰 bīng), and your pronunciation becomes other (饼 bǐng or 病bìng), then you can say, the water is so hot, do you have ice?
Many THX ….
谢谢你，我是越南人，我住在德国，我在学习中文
love you👍👍
Most, typically mention the number 9 sounding similar to dragon (in Mandarin). I was using the Pimsleur method (which is audio only) so it makes reading the characters have a need to be broken down by the sound of a stroke and location more necessary. - The need is that learning those basics could allow for the creation of new words/thoughts/expressions (or stumbling upon existing ones that were not yet learned) something that can be done easier/faster.
Greetings. Thanks for info about HSK materials and discount. Guess I'm not smart enough to figure out how to access the offer. I can not get through steps to find offer. I will just go to other channel. I do want say Chinese is one of most beautiful and soft-spoken and romantic languages in the world. I am a total, never-before-tried-it learner. Thanks for all your videos. Thanks for your enthusiasm and joy and encouragements to learn. Hopefully I can find quality way to learn Chinese and other languages. Have a great day Zoe.
gracias
Hey, Zoe. One hundred percent agree on the beauty and complexity of the Mandarin Chinese language. My girlfriend’s name means something like “heavy snowfall” because she was born in the dead of winter. I thought that was such a wonderful naming practice because where my family comes from-Mexico-we’re lucky if we’re named after saints, lol. Our names, like many Western names, don’t have an inherent meaning to them like Chinese names do. Also, I agree about Chinese grammar-it’s simpler than English and much simpler than Spanish where one has to conjugate literally every verb if you want to say something, haha. Love the channel and content. Keep up the great work, chica!
I finally got a chance to explain the logic ! 🤭
In my 2nd year of learning mandarin.usually I slow down the videos to better understand .this is the first time I ever had to slow down the English.lol
Additional fun fact:
When you work in international company Chinese Colleagues make up their names in English language to make it easier for the rest.
Linda chinesa. Inteligente, segura em suas apresentações. Ótimo canal que nos ensina a olhar o aprendizado de forma diferente. Adoro assistir seu talento único. Gleison 🇨🇳🇧🇷
I'm really happpy to learn it and feel it n_n
结束的动作好潇洒 ！
看到最后了🙏🥰
Zoe, you look gorgeous
In my country some time ago it was fashionable to dye your hair green, it’s a pity that I didn’t know about the peculiarity of this color before 😂
我就是來留個言，點個贊！🥰
As a native speaker, I learned a lot about differences of food names in north and south. And it's my first time to notice that there's a color word in the phrase "白干了" Perhaps it's quite commonly used so i didn't notice lol
An interesting presentation of Chinese language.
AS A CHINESE, I JUST KNOW ABOUT 500 COMMON CHINESE CHARACTERS BUT THAT IS ENOUGH FOR READING THE HISTORY BOOKS ABOUT WW2
Hey zoe u said u was going to learn kurdish when do u plan to start that journey and are u going to make videos about kurdish language thnk youu 🎉🎉
Beauty with brain.❤❤❤
这节课真是栩栩如生
wait....why you say 栩栩如生...
@@BitFlowerS-Ku “栩栩如生”是一个汉语成语，原意是指画作、雕塑中的艺术形象等生动逼真，就像活的一样。出自《庄子·齐物论》。现在，“栩栩如生”多用来形容艺术形象生动逼真，像活的一样。例如，可以说某个画作中的人物形象栩栩如生，就像真实存在的人一样。这个成语体现了对艺术的高度赞扬和认可，同时也传达了人们对真实、生动事物的追求和向往。
Current Chinese is not Han language (漢語） but Mandarin (滿語）. Han language is ancient Chinese language way back to nearly two thousand years.
I can’t die before I at least learn how to say a proper Chinese sentence!!! 😭🙏
Can you post the reference for at the end where you mention the cognitive research into reading Hanzi
You may know that latin caracters came from semitic cradle, and each caracter represents a word, like the graphem R is still the head profile, and express Order, command, so the word Resh hebrew or Ras arabic. The M is still represents Water, the M used in grammar and morphology to indicate a place or a moment. Investigating in languages origin, I notice some link between semitic with sino-tibetan language. The indo-european languages have their cradle in semitic one, and some of sino-tibetan in north europe.
Nice example you offered : Dao (tao) the phone D in semitic language indicates direction, like Din, or Huda, and in aramaic, it indicates an owner, genitive case. Then in latin too. The meaning of D is mainly about extension, so the latin root Additio (addition) from semitic عدّ or مدد simply, in hebrew and arabic.
اهلا بيك زوي انا اسمي هالة انا جدا معجبة باسلوبك وفيديوهاتك ومتابعة لكي من البدايات اتمنى لك التوفيق والنجاح
لدي اقتراحان اولا تدريس اللغة الصينية ولكن بطريقتك ومهاراتك في تعلم اللغة اما الاقتراح الثاني وهو تصوير نفسك عند دراسة اللغات لايف وجعلنا ندرس معك ❤❤
اخيرا احب ان اقول لك انك اثرتي فيني ودرست الايطالية العام الماضي ولكن توقفت بسبب التسويف والتشتت وكانت تجربة جميلة شكرا من قلبي لك 🥰👍
علمني أحد أصدقائي في مدينة الهفوف السعودية عبارة عربية، تُنطق: KAS A-Maga. أخبرني أنها تعني "مرحبًا"، حتى أخبرني صديق سعودي آخر أنها لا تعني "أنت". """جيد"" يعني!
@@VikingAge انها كلمة سيئة اما كلمة مرحبا في اللهجات السعودية( هلا -مرحبا) اما في لهجتي مثلا السودانية نقول (اهلين -مراحب-اهلا)👍😊
Haha it's a new vocabulary❤❤ 感谢你Zoe ❤❤520 ❤
Interesting 🇲🇦🤝🇨🇳
Recently started learning Mandarin Chinese just for fun. I first heard of different hanzi giving names different meanings (or feelings?) in the Death Note manga (but then I'd have to say kanji right?).
Out of curiosity, if this ever reach you, how is the spelling of your name Zoe?
Is it ok to learn mandarin and Spanish at the same time?
I speak Arabic as mother tongue
And English as my second language
I don't know whether it will be possible to learn both languages at the same time
I am waiting for Your classes On phonetics
6:33 en español. al menos en Colombia, decimos "blanquearse" para decir "fallar estrepitosamente", "no hacer ni un punto en un juego", a pesar de haberse esforzado...
Omg such a cute teacher! 😍
Any resources suggestions for learning 成语 for English native speakers?
there is this playlist on sysmandarin channel that teaches some chengyu stories in mandarin + english that is great if you're learning chinese: th-cam.com/video/bMBCK0C96Sg/w-d-xo.html
The Chinese language currently has a prominent international status thanks to China's rapid growth and economic and cultural influence, making it an important language in many fields. do both Chinese characters (Hanzi) and Kanji share common origins and visual forms?
Kanji (the Japanese one) is derived from Hanzi, people there crossed the see to China to transplant it into their own language based on the local oral speech, and Japanese people created their own some new characters by time. That’s why there are two ways to read for kanji, one sounds similar to the original Chinese, and one is the oral speech people use first to represent the same meaning. However, the Kanji would be quite different from the one you see in China. That’s because Chinese government simplified it to eliminate the illiteracy when the country was really poor(and it worked well), and now you can find traditional Chinese mainly in the area of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau, simplified in Chinese mainland, Singapore, Malaysia, etc. Btw, people who speak Chinese can read both version easily. I hope this helps😊( I am native Chinese and learning Japanese
a man, and a tree
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like it!
c:
好美啊😍😍
I have noticed that Chinese people want to know the meaning of names.
The meaning of my name is 不死.
Nice to meet you!
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
For me you are special polyglot because, you challenged yourself to learn hardest languages in the world and furthermore you learn them at very advanced level. Very impressive :D
اللغة الصينية مهمة في السعودية
Maybe I should give up, Chinese is already difficult 🤣, just started a few weeks ago
But since you say it helps with brain function I am convinced to continue 😜
Where are you from?
As a native speaker.(母语是中文) I think those knowledge are simple to me. But If it's for People from other countries Except chinese. I think That it is a little confused.
我在两年前开始学汉语，现在我会说汉语。希望我一天去中国。
加油，中国欢迎友好的朋友
你的这个句子有些问题，正确的描述应该是这样“我在两年前开始学习汉语，现在我会说汉语。希望我有一天能去中国。”
@@user-yh3fk5hg2j 啊啊啊啊，谢谢朋友。
I knew all these, as they are all very basic. By the title, I got the impression there might be more obscure facts, but I guess not.
I thought they throw pan down the stairs n name the kid after produced sound
أنا حقًا أريد تعلم الصينية بعد تعلم الإنجليزية
Can you explain why China use the characthers 非洲 for Africa since you wants to chose some nice words for everything else?
The usage of “非” in this context doesn’t carry its standalone meaning of “not” or “non-”, but rather is part of a phonetic transliteration from” fi “ part . “非 also has the meaning of “ extraordinary “ and “ very “ like 非常
非洲 is the abbreviation for 阿非利加洲 which is a phonetic transliteration and 非 here is for the syllable “fi” in the word Africa. 飞 is rarely used in country names, because it means unstable in some contexts. Although basically 非 means not or non-, it is not derogatory per se, and to a native Chinese speaker, it is even philosophical. Like 庄子Zhuang Zi's famous saying, "子非鱼，安知鱼之乐" which means "You are not a fish, how can you know the happiness of fish?".
Shuk ran sister!
interesting
Baya güzelleşmişsin
正宗台灣腔😊😊
520 Zoe ❤
ohhh you learn so fast !
@@zoe.languages 😁😁