Understand FAST Chinese Conversations | Common Reductions in Everyday Speech
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- Understand FAST Chinese Conversations | Common Reductions in Everyday Speech
Do you find that native Mandarin speakers talk very fast? Don’t worry! In this video, I talk about some features of fast Mandarin speech and give you some examples to help you improve your Chinese listening skills and understand fast Chinese conversation!
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I hope you enjoy today’s video! 💛
If you have noticed any other reductions in fast Mandarin speech, feel free to share them in the comments!
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BTW, if you want to learn some daily words and phrases in Mandarin, you can check out my Instagram: Gracemandarin
Xìèxìè nì! Wo ai ni de... vedio 😅...don't know what to say vedio in Chinese...I'm Indian....(beginner)
我怎麽覺得在台灣爲什麽聽起來是= weiyanmuh
I studied medicine in china and now i am
prepping to go back china again for further education and your videos really helped me a lot
It seems like this is impossible to understand😂😂
@@KKFan592 yeah! Ur absolutely right! Especially for beginners like me😂but I'll never give up! I also advise to u...never give up!❤😌
You have no idea how much we appreciate that you add examples from movies and TV. It the replaying and slow-mo really really helps thank you
Yes!我同意
Absolutely, i agree 🙏
I think the same!
但是这些发音真的不好，不标准
Agree! Great job on that
As a native Mandarin speaker, I never realized how we slurred the words until this video... HATS OFF TO PPL LEARNING CHINESE.
Honestly it'd prolly be hell for non natives to listen to me speak in English, any word I can shorten I do haha
Hats off to people learning English xD
I have more respect for people learning English. Because we have so much slang and vocal reductions and mixing and slurring of words like this, but on top of that we have verb conjugations.
As a Australian English speaker, it's difficult for even me to understand some thick American accents or Scottish or some country British accents. And Australians too, we butcher our language, chop it up shorten, lengthen words slur and change sounds. I don't know how you guys do it.
I'm a native Chinese speaker. I understand american english accent 100%. I've heard enough aussie english too. I understand more english in different accent, than people from 50km away in china. To me, english is pretty easy now. It's all about practice. There is nothing inherently more difficult in english. In fact, I think it's one of the easiest language compared to stuff like arabic, russian or even German.
哦醬啊我造了
This is a bit like the Chinese version of "want to" becoming "wanna" or "going to" becoming "gonna". Good to know when it comes to listening - thanks for the video!
As a native chinese speaker, I can confirm how are absolutely correct
Going to...gunsta.
Got to... gotsta.
This is more than that. It's like trying to learn English from rap songs.
or even saying "i'm tryna think" instead of "i'm trying to think" haha. it's so interesting that we realize these things about english while learning chinese😅
It's so right! Chinese language students need to know this so they don't get confused or give up. Great content to share.
Thank you! 😉
As someone living in China, it’s also just a matter of exposure and practice. I’ve even learned how to understand my in-laws from deep country Anhui from many hours of Spring Festival dinners. 😂
I am a professional Chinese language translator and even I never noticed such details. Thanks for such a valuable video Grace
@doomscyte boasting about being so fluent in english yet making a mistake in one simple sentence, doh >_>
@@Revolut1oNGuitar he said he translate chinese but didnt say to which language LoL
A useful tip if you wanna be understood when speaking Chinese, talk in regular speed or a bit faster cuz when I was speaking slowly with my chinese friends, they dont seem to understand. But when I speak in regular speed like how my friends talk and presenting my oral project, they miraculously understood 80% of it 😂😂
In other words, dont hesitate to make mistakes!
I've noticed this too. Our mind is good at filling in the gaps when wet don't have time to think about it. Also my tone problems are accentuated when I speak slower.
I experienced the same. When I was trying to speak slow, tone by tone correctly, they were like: "what the fuck u are talking about?"
But when I decided to speak fast, preatending I was fluent, they started to understand me. Lol
Gabriel Roque Lol
U still to pronounce it correctly to do that or we will misunderstand what you mean
I‘ve had the same experience. If I speak very accurately and clearly, but not with 100% confidence, my wife sometimes doesn't understand what I said, for some reason. But if I say it with confidence, she somehow understands. I really don't know why that is, but find it very interesting.
NE Pennsylvania English
"Did you eat?" "No, did you?" = "Jeet?" "No, Jew?"
Here it's najew. Haha
Down south we speak a little more slowly... we actually say "J-eat?"
Jamaican for dinner, mom?
@@jesse7680 wassfer din'r?
Hats off to people learning English lol
@@AdeleiTeillana EXACTLY!haha Like butter becomes "bud-err"
It’s so cool that I am a native speaker and I still finish the video 😂
i speak mandarin and i didn't even realise we cut short all the sounds like this!
Same!
This is something that needs to be explained at every beginning Chinese classes. I took Chinese several times and never stuck. They always spend too much time on trying to get the tones and pronunciation correctly. Then you go watch a Chinese movie and "huh?? how do these people understand each other?" There's such a big gap between what's being taught in classes vs actual conversation. It didn't click to me that this is how the native speakers speak until recently, and am glad to see a video confirming it.
Omg! This explains everything 😂, you became the light under the tunnel for me in Chinese , I was feeling stuck , but after watching your videos , and understanding the “why” of everything is becoming easier . I’ve been studying Chinese for 9 years 🙈. Anyway , thank you for all your videos and content, you are great.
The light at the end* :)
This is the top content that you can't find anywhere about Chinese language... Your videos are one of a kind
lmao at that intro. exactly me. “oh i think i heard ma at the end! youre asking me a question!”
As a native mandarin speaker, I wouldn't recommend mandarin learners do the reduction deliberately. When you are able to speak mandarin at a certain level, it just happens but still rarely. Reduction is not a really frequent phenomenon among mandarin speakers overall. In my experience, most of the native mandarin speakers just articulate each word or at least they don't deliberately do the reduction.
Non-native here, but I feel the same. I think this should be taken more as a little help towards better understanding the spoken language, rather than to speak in a more “native-like” way. I’ve seen people (learners) do this and it sounds very odd. For example I’ve heard people pronounce 不知道 as ㄅㄨˋㄖ˙ㄠˋ, but the person’s overall speech wasn’t SO fast as to motivate that kind of slurred speech. Which made it sound way worse overall, and kind of a weird flex..
I also think this isn't about shortening words yourself if you're not even at the level that makes it happen naturally (just like when you learn English you'll automatically addapt saying "gonna" etc. but you won't practice it deliberately it just happens as you spoke so often to natives so it will sound authentic as you aquired the habit not studied it). But to me this is a game changer for listening! I use captions so often watching cuinese shows and wondered why I can understand it written down but it sounds a lot different. Now I have a chance to recognize the patterns
@@JustLIkerapunzel I feel the same with English. Sometimes, people say some sentences in TV shows, even though there are subtitles, it doesn't sound like the words in the subtitles to me, of course that's when they are speaking very fast.
I think listening ability depends a lot on being familir with the language. if you ask someone something, he replies very fast, you can hear 不 and 道, but can hardly hear 知, it doesn't matter, you already have enough information and know he said 不知道, that's the same with a lot of other cases.
Agreed, reduction is a byproduct of speaking more fluently and sometimes it doesn't sound natural when learners do it on purpose. 我們聽慣了“這樣子這樣子”，一聽到 "這..子" 就知道是“這樣子” if that makes sense lol
@@golden_ratio yes, that's also why it's hard to understand English sometimes when the speaker is speaking fast. As a non-native Engligh speaker, I am not that familiar with the language yet.
Learning the correct grammar from a textbook is great, but hearing you dissect these everyday grammatical realities in such a fantastically edited video is so, so helpful. Thank you so much, Grace
I grew up speaking Mandarin. I'm not sure why I started watching this, but it really opens my eyes to how words are actually pronounced. I do a lot of them I just didn't notice lol.
as a native mandarin speaker, I’ve never realized these nuances until they were pointed out 😂 I happen to provide English subtitles (native speaker of English as well) for videos in mandarin, and I nearly die from how much text I have to fit in.
I assume you know already, but English subtitles are probably just broken up into shorter blocks than Chinese subtitles (so they change more often). But I don't speak Chinese (yet) so I don't know for sure
Most difficult part of Chinese is the listening.
Reasons:
1. It's tonal language, different tones different meaning
2. Many similar sounding syllables. How many "shi" are there?😂
3. Many native speakers have accents.
4. They speak fast.
5. And they even shorten some words! Like in this video.
🙄🙄🙄🙄
这就是为什么我能死。
do you even 文言文?
@@noakim5676 its better if you change the 能 with 会
@@benedictk7338 no, 你呢？🤭
just dont give up, you can learn Chinese just from the drama, after watching 20 drama, you will catch up more, day by day, your Chinese will better!
Every day I discover something that makes learning Chinese 10 times harder. And every day I choose to continue learning regardless of the hurdles. Thank you Grace老师, today I just learned why I still struggle to understand native speakers, even after learning so much!
英语口语需要花费大量的时间专门练习听力和说话❗️‼️
相比之下，汉语口语要简单多了😅
口语和书面语本来就是2码事😅😊
That's why when I try to learn by watching Taiwanese films, the subtitles seem to zoom past so fast, there is no time to actually even see the characters and i have to pause. I've tried watching a 2-hr film, and ended up watching it for 5 hrs. I am in Taiwan and trying to pick up Chinese as best I can, but it's been hard trying to keep pace even during small talk. I shall be watching this again and again to remind myself. 非常感謝, Grace. 🙏
5小时挺好的
慢慢学 你很快就会讲中文
Set playback speed at 50 or 75 percent
This is the first time I ever encountered the subject or reductions in the language. Huh...maybe that is why I find it so difficult to understand television shows. I will definitely listen for these reductions the next time I am watching. Great video!
This is why I’m so glad there’s the Chinese characters as a subtitle so I can somehow understand what they are talking about even when they are speaking really fast
thank you so much for making these kinds of teaching video, all of your videos are very helpful for me to make progress in my chinese learnning. i will always follow you and waiting to watch your new videos, my beautiful teacher!❤😍
I can say this is the Chinese nobody will teach you in school . Your videos are really helpful , and I really appreciate you take the time to do such a detailed content .I am someone who left China 4 years ago , and I don’t live in an environment that allows me to practice my Chinese often , so watching your videos is really refreshing , and give me a lot of insight.感谢你啊！
What i do notice is that most Chinese from China or Taiwan tend to speak a little faster than Chinese from South East Asia like Singapore or Malaysia, which is normally slower. The good thing is we do understand each other most of the time, unless Mandarin is spoken with strong local accents of which we would need them to clarify.
Imagine an American listening closely to
fast chinese and they hear “nèi ge” 😂
When I first started to learn Chinese and watch shows in mandarin, I was lost every time I heard it 😂 and I'm black
Oof korean also has 네가 (niga : you)
Angelita _.__ oof lol
I've never tried learning chinese I got this in my recommended but omg...kudos to all the people who speak or are learning mandarin.
for myself
x and h
1:26 不好意思
1:38 照相机
1:44 不好笑
1:51 时候
1:56 学校
2:02 不想
2:08 你还好吗
zh and sh
2:31 多少钱
2:40 不知道（b r dao）
2:46 不是
3:10 多少钱
3:16 不知道(bu ao)
“y“ bedween a word or a phrase
5:17 这样
5:28 不要
5:32 需要
5:37 哪一个
Function words
6:00 的
6:13 跳得不错
others
7:02 今天
7:23 昨天
7:37 明天
7:48 7:53 现在
8:06 我们
8:20 你们
8:28 8:32 他们
8:43 觉得
8:52 大家
9:02 也
As a Chinese native speaker I totally didn’t notice that we do actually speak in that way! Your tips really helps! Like 👍
Lee Xin Ze Thanks! 有機會的話可以分享給你的外國朋友哦！😉
Me being Chinese using these short forms unknowingly, suddenly questioning myself cuz i didn’t even know I do this😂😭
奇怪 华语母语者反而看着觉得也变复杂 哈哈哈
（每天都在用 可是却没发觉
辛苦学习中文的人了xDDD
yanxun kee 同同同！！哈哈哈哈哈哈哈 但是的确如此 可能这就是母语者的优势吧 害～
对啊，不如谐音说着舒服
我只觉得我的耳朵没救了,我听着也没省略啊
You need to know all this rules for listening, but you don’t want to be considered showing off talking that fast when your Chinese isn’t fluent enough. Thank you so much for this video, you never know how much I wanted such a detailed explanation video about how Chinese people do elision and liaison in real life conversation! 🤲👍
The beginning killed me you have no idea how many times that has happened 🤣
THIS IS THE MOST HELPFUL VIDEO EVER!!! 😢😢😢❤❤❤
Ahhhhh the video is totally relatable especially in the beginning part lol. In my current level, I cannot understand how natives speak in normal conversations and I can only just pick up some words from it. If I'll go to China or Taiwan and talk with a native, I need them to speak slowly character by character so that I can understand the context hahaha And, Its better for me if I see a written form than listening hahaha 我想念学习
中文. 我最近很忙 :(
哈哈哈哈哈我一个中文母语者看得津津有味，我能想象这个视频对学习中文的人的帮助，很棒！加油呀
Thank you so much, I couldn't figure out why I couldn't understand dramas. They seemed to speak faster than subtitles! Thank you so much
Thank you for spending so much time on editing, visualization helps a lot!
Amazing work Grace. Really impressed with your talent in covering these rarely taught subjects.
I absolutely love this video, thank you so much! Especially love the examples!
I finally found a good channel on TH-cam to learn Mandarin with. Thank you for these well-produced videos!
liked and subbed.
Wow, I can't take enough of your content! Having functional and practical mandarin examples like this priceless. I never found any other teachers explaining this before! Thank you so much!!!
哇塞，你每一个视频都非常有帮的！特别是这样的关于天天的讲话，真的帮我提高我听力理解。感谢你的努力
I have started learning Mandarin and I was deliberately trying to find a channel about daily conversations and tips and now since I saw this channel I am damn sure I will be fluent in Mandarin soon :)
Glad that you found my channel and like it! Good luck with your Chinese learning 💪
OMG I was not expecting that. I thought this will recieve no reply from you since it is two month old video. Thanks a lot
i fell in-love with your channel. Thank you so much for all of this useful information!
WOW! Thank you SO much Grace! This is super helpful. A lot of these were things I kind of thought I was hearing but wasn't sure maybe if they were actually some other words I didn't know. I really appreciate this video!
You are improving my Chinese
Wow, this is one of the most useful videos I've seen since I started learning Chinese! I'd heard a couple of these, but most of these examples explained something I'd tried to understand and just given up on at some point in the past!
I haven’t seen video about this topic before. Just golden:) thank you so much!
i chanced upon your channel in the youtube's Recommendation section, and seriously you put in a lottttttt of effort in finding examples for these reductions! 辛苦你了！I hope people who watched this, know how difficult it is, because there's no ctrl+f for the dialogues in clips and movies! (i'm a native speaker but it's really nice to see them listed in a video)
all of the topics you make videos on are seriously very essential to know about, this one and many others saved my life. you are amazing, thank you!
It must take so much work to find all these examples! Thanks for your efforts!
This video is really helpful for me. Usually the way people speak in movies are too quick for me but this helps me comprehend the slurred words. So thank you for creating content like this.
Thank you! Definitely needed these tips! ☺👍✨
Awesome, I've been looking for a video like this. Perfect!
Oi this is so applicable! I wish this was something people would point out to learners! I grew up listening to and speaking some Mandarin, but things like this are why I miss some words without the subtitles! 多谢你！！
I like this topic, using different scenes from tv shows and movies to make her points is extremetly helpful, that most be a lot of work, thanks Grace we appreciate that efford.
This is highly enlightening. Not anything I could have learned on my own or in a Chinese class. Subscribing!
From your video i can learn Chinese and improve my English. 十分感谢你哦😘
I love your channel. There so many Chinese teaching channels, I don’t follow too many but I like the subjects you discuss and how you teach them
These ones I’m used to, but the rest of your videos are a great help to get some lost chinese back in my head
This video was extremely helpful! 非常感谢❤️❤️❤️
Finally one who talks about it! Thank you !
Reminds me of "going to"="gonna" in English ,this type of stuff..
Thank you so much for this. I study Mandarin by myself and always feel lost with the way they talk in movie
like I haven't been close to understand the basic at all >.
Incredibly informative video, and amazing to have so many examples from TV/film!!
Always wondered why chinese speak so fast, I now understood this is so helpful
This is the best lesson ever. Thank you Grace.
I'm a Brazilian Portuguese speaker and we do the same. Every statement there's a reduction. Thanks for this video and I'm turned on you on Instagram.
Finally someone made a video about this. I have been practising mandarin for 3 years and never had someone break it down so clearly. Please do more!!
I always watch every video of Grace :)) All of them are very good!
你的视频很有用！感谢Grace老师！
This channel is professional , hard work gives great results !
Thank you so much! Your videos are very helpful 💕
This video is a life saver! Thank you!!!
Beijing accent where a whole sentence can be contracted to one syllable: amateurs.
老儿百儿京儿人儿
what do you mean 😂
@@marshall5352 比如”今儿吃了吗“，京片子讲起来就有点像”今儿吗？“
@@chizhang2765 那amateurs是想说什么啊？😂
@@marshall5352 梗啦。有个meme是谁谁谁：说个啥啥
另个谁谁谁：Amateurs。
omg 我超喜歡這群人，可是常常需要停視頻，然後慢慢地看字幕因為他們說得太快了。看你的視頻一定會幫我聽清楚多了他們在講什麼。
謝謝Grace！
Wow it's absolutely useful and helpful for anyone! Thank you very much! Keep up the good work 😊
This video popped up on my feed and I’ve been looking for some frequency words to learn for everyday situations and this is really REALLY good. I have to re watch this and write them all out. X
This video is soooooo useful. You're amazing. Thank you very much Grace ❤️🌼🌼🌼🌼
Really great explanation, and the examples are very helpful! Thank you!
This is insanely helpful, thank you!❤️
Finally, it makes sense to me, I have been watching tv channels, but when I read the subtitles along , I always felt I miss words in the sentence.
Now it makes sense, I will watch this video a bunch more times, and see how that fills in the blanks when watching tv again.
Thanks for the information Grace
Your channel is absolutely useful, I love taking notes and I woke up early at 7 am to begin and this video just came right in time before listening practice. 🥺🥺How do you do it? Great job.😊
Yay! Perfect timing! 🥳
This a very helpful and well made video. I somehow never thought about reductions. Great video! Thank you!
Your channel is amazing! Thank you for this great video
Thank you so much for this! This is super helpful ❤❤
Really good. Only just found your channel and subscribed immediately after watching this. Thank you.
Wow! Great lesson! This stuff has been driving me crazy for years. Thanks for the great content 😁👍
Thank you for explaining natural conversations like this. This kind of stuff isn't covered on the HSK test, or in other youtube channels where they just repeat chengyu and proverbs. This is a breath of fresh air.
我是从泰国来的学生。我对中国文化和语言非常有感兴趣。你的视频非常有助的。谢谢你！
Thanks for a great video! I teach English as a Second Language, and I teach exactly the same thing -- how English speakers reduce certain sounds and function words! Native speakers usually don't even realize they are doing it. This was so helpful in demystifying Netflix Mandarin!!
the example of Chinese shows are so great!!
THANK U GRACE ❤️
Thanks for your videos! I appreciate your content very much :D
I'm a native speaker of Japanese. I’v been studying Chinese as a hobby for almost five years.
Thank you for your passionate lessons every time. I guess making such elaborate materials on videos must be pains-taking work for you. Thanks to them, I got understood many points especially concerning pronouncation and grammar of Chinese very effectively and clearly .
Since I'm a teacher of English, I can study Chinese and English at the same time by your lessons.
The sound of your English is very comfortable to my ears, just like a music!
omg I'm re-learning my mandarin and this helped so much! Great content for motivation.
This really explains why I couldn’t understand anything with my conversation the other day. This was extremely helpful. Thank you.
Edit: To clarify, I didn’t understand some aspects (i.e. point of video). Ofc I understood basic things.
This is so helpful, thank you! 😊
Fab lesson and great video, thanks very much. Incredibly useful !