Chinese Hack: Breaking down sentence structures in Mandarin

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  • Chinese Hack: Breaking down sentence structures in Mandarin
    Different languages have different ways to make sentences.
    Let’s try to learn Mandarin Chinese from the perspective of a Mandarin native speaker.
    There are four important concepts of Chinese grammars in this video, knowing these concepts will help you understand the way we speak and also level up your Chinese speaking skill!
    The timecode of 4 concepts:
    00:53 (1) Forming Chinese sentences
    03:30 (2) Chinese word orders
    05:52 (3) Chinese is a Topic-prominent language
    09:10 (4) A special structure
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  • @GraceMandarinChinese
    @GraceMandarinChinese  4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    Hope you enjoy today’s video!
    If you have any suggestion or any idea that you want me to talk about, please leave a comment below :)

    • @skyclintliquit7814
      @skyclintliquit7814 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I would love to learn about measure words of mandarin

    • @user-pe3qr3pc5p
      @user-pe3qr3pc5p 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      iwant to learn English with you!

    • @QuizmasterLaw
      @QuizmasterLaw 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      bei passive it's a cognate to english by.
      ba separable verb structure; german also does this.
      German or Estonian grammar is closest to Chinese of European languages (Estonian is a Finno-Ugric language not Indo European).

    • @anasmirza346
      @anasmirza346 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      wo zhu zai pakistan
      ni de jiaoxue fangfa shi zhengque de

    • @anasmirza346
      @anasmirza346 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      xiexie

  • @martinphipps2
    @martinphipps2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +188

    "Chinese sentences have SVO order except when they don't."

    • @felixb6
      @felixb6 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Kind of like English with our VSO questions

    • @QuizmasterLaw
      @QuizmasterLaw 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      yeah, ignore SVO
      Like Grace says Chinese is a topic prominent i.e. topic comment aka left branching language.

    • @groverchiri4031
      @groverchiri4031 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      A sentence Chinese has got
      S+time/place/manner +V+O words order.

    • @zhibinlu6173
      @zhibinlu6173 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      因为这个(或者说这些)只不过是派生的而已,不是什么先天的铁律,它也不配,也根本没有这回事。这种所谓的语法根本没有必然性,所谓sov这一形式“背后”的那些涌动的 东西 根本不受它约束的,我们只是 回过头地 说“汉语有这样的语法(但总有例外)罢了”,暂时设个框架好办事而已,可以随时“反悔”。背后的那套哲学(或者说形而上学)跟西方挺不一样的,我们也不会设想有一个敲代码的超级程序员。

    • @zhibinlu6173
      @zhibinlu6173 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      not like that

  • @avoilachan
    @avoilachan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    I love your channel, your linguistic and analytic approach is just what I need for understanding the language better! I think you deserve so many more viewers, I'm gonna recommend you to all my Chinese-learning friends!! :))

    • @GraceMandarinChinese
      @GraceMandarinChinese  4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Mari ! Hi Mari! I’m so happy that you like the content! 😆 Also very appreciate that you’re willing to recommend these to your friends! Thank you! 💕

  • @eugenelamadrid1445
    @eugenelamadrid1445 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Finally found a teacher here in youtube haha! Looking forward to watch all of your helpful videos👍🏻

    • @GraceMandarinChinese
      @GraceMandarinChinese  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Eugene Lamadrid Hi Eugene! Welcome :D
      Happy to have you here!

  • @Maya-hf3zw
    @Maya-hf3zw 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    谢谢老师!this is a great video! I love how you explain every part of the sentence and say the sentence at a regular speed as well :)

  • @GhostyCowboy
    @GhostyCowboy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    You are so good at explaining this stuff! I’ve been very confused with this stuff and you cleared it up very well!!

  • @leadavids7951
    @leadavids7951 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You’re explanation was so clear, thank you so much and your videos are very aesthetic and nice to look at

  • @fieraasiatica8599
    @fieraasiatica8599 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Your videos are incredibly good explained! Now I’ll take my chinese to the next level

  • @brandon1268
    @brandon1268 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I appreciate the time and effort in explaining proper grammar. I've seen some other videos and they confuse me when they break down sentence structure. THANK YOU!

  • @celinaneruta185
    @celinaneruta185 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you so much for this video! In Portuguese, we also omit a lot of stuff but then we understand it because of the context so it is nice to see similarities!

  • @jessyca9833
    @jessyca9833 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Yayyyyy with traditional characters too, thank youuuuu!!! Wow, your video is amazing. I learned a lot of practical things! Suscribed!

  • @noipecinecitim
    @noipecinecitim 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    your videos are so useful, 谢谢!

  • @briancarter2505
    @briancarter2505 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks Grace, fantastic explanation.

  • @xingdong122kao5
    @xingdong122kao5 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It really needs someone like Grace to get a true insight on the differences between these two languages which i have struggled. Thank you.

  • @trisgray2466
    @trisgray2466 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thanks! This Explanation helps me a lot. 💕 the font is a bit fancy which is good but maybe I just prefer a standard one cause its much clearer.
    looking forward for more videos in this channel. 🙂💕

  • @Bob13Blues
    @Bob13Blues 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you Grace. I have been finding your videos very helpful in restarting my Mandarin studies.

  • @misaelaguirre2984
    @misaelaguirre2984 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Your videos are really helpful.

  • @jamesjames4652
    @jamesjames4652 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Your lessons are vey good :)

  • @ivomoreira42
    @ivomoreira42 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Hey, Grace, I was watching your class and then I started to wonder how good it would be if you made a video about writing Chinese characters, but in the cursive way, like the fonts you are using to write the example. They are so beautiful. I really think it would be a great topic!

  • @imanpoco5654
    @imanpoco5654 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you so much for your hard work making this amazing and informative video

  • @anarchoenby
    @anarchoenby 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This video helped A LOT. Thanks, 老师!:D

  • @trisgray2466
    @trisgray2466 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    thanks grace! always awesome!

  • @chinanepal
    @chinanepal 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you so much i don't know Chinese is a topic prominent language i never forget it really helpful for me

  • @keylavalle-palma6139
    @keylavalle-palma6139 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    謝謝老師!it's like Spanish (what a relief!)

  • @marion6695
    @marion6695 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you, that was very helpful. The sentence structure gives me difficulties in longer sentences. I've only been learning Chinese for four weeks, so I'm hoping I can get the problem under control.

  • @slavovalora
    @slavovalora 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Cant wait for a video on the verb + complement topic!! You explain so well and the illustrations are amazing. Its truly a blessing to have found your channel

  • @fractal_mind562
    @fractal_mind562 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I'm from the UK, and have started to learn Mandarin ! Complex language ! And I'm not good at learning languages but would like to live in China one day

    • @tymanung768
      @tymanung768 ปีที่แล้ว

      Some parts are complex--- writing!! tones (partly) while, others are
      simple--- word order in general. verb modes, verb tenses, verb aspects, etc
      Suggestion
      To find book.and online reference grammars to compare forms like word phrase clause orders

    • @tymanung768
      @tymanung768 ปีที่แล้ว

      To also.compare contents. like
      word meanings between Chinese
      and English in 4 possibilities
      where both are
      1) ID
      2) similar
      3) opposite
      4) different--
      Immersion techniques you, Probably know--- šo many--
      Polyglots Conference, individual
      teachers of Chinese etc languages
      To fond websites and books, on
      Chinese language. past. and present
      To learn, about Chinese culture
      underlying principles, slike yin and yang, 5 elements, directions, flavors, colors, etc. These, also influence language in some ways.
      Hope that these, help.
      Zhu, ni, hao yunqi!!! Jia. you!!

  • @khushichauhan9919
    @khushichauhan9919 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Right now im learning Hsk2 from meiyu institute and you know what i finding your all vedeos are so helpful.谢谢您。

  • @Okoooooo0322
    @Okoooooo0322 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    thanks teacher

  • @youliveandlearn4131
    @youliveandlearn4131 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Wow, I like your mind & they way you teach. Your one in a million. Thank you so much!

    • @GraceMandarinChinese
      @GraceMandarinChinese  4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Shinkodenkai Danforth You’re very welcome! 😉 I’m happy to have you here!

  • @chungchhen
    @chungchhen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you Teacher Guo! You packed a lot in this video. Watching it a few times will help to take it all in.

    • @GraceMandarinChinese
      @GraceMandarinChinese  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Chen Jun Guang Thank you! I know I talked about so many concepts in one episode haha. Just that I want to share so many things 😝

  • @suptho808
    @suptho808 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very helpful

  • @tienphung9576
    @tienphung9576 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've always enjoyed your attractive videos which I'm so thankful for. Hope more and more people follow your channel.
    By the way, could you make a video to show us how the way native speakers write words in daily?

  • @mateyrodian1900
    @mateyrodian1900 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Watched !. I am watching video by video I have already watched other but I decided to start over the first one. Leaving a comment for each video I watch

  • @fridaay
    @fridaay 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    4:50 I laugh at this part :D
    你好可爱!

  • @julielingxu6278
    @julielingxu6278 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Beautiful!

  • @jonaramire
    @jonaramire 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Super channel ! Love Taiwan from Switzerland !

  • @hi___ting
    @hi___ting 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    學姊真的好用心~繼續加油超喜歡你的~~

  • @salmaster8256
    @salmaster8256 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    amazing...

  • @kuzuri3747
    @kuzuri3747 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    感谢

  • @cahit1905
    @cahit1905 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    thanks🙂🙂🙂🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻👏🏻

  • @LilMissDragoness
    @LilMissDragoness 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You are so natural and funny, you actually made me laugh 😍
    Happy to have found you, very useful and helpful videos 🙏⭐

  • @enefem8585
    @enefem8585 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for the video. I'm learning Chinese and subscribed to your channel in hopes it will help me. Your English is very good how long did it take for you to learn it?

  • @martinphipps2
    @martinphipps2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    By studying Chinese I learn new ways to explain English. How do I explain the sentence "He wiped the table clean"? I say "Clean is a resultative compliment of the verb wipe." How do I explain "A bought a bunch of grapes"? I say "bunch of" is a measure word for grapes. Easy peasy.

  • @user-pz3ns7wz5m
    @user-pz3ns7wz5m 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    好棒!!繼續加油💪🏼

  • @curtiswfranks
    @curtiswfranks 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lojban set a lot of these up nicely for me.

  • @rizwan3147
    @rizwan3147 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great

  • @cahit1905
    @cahit1905 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Learning chinese🙂👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

  • @cannabiskid
    @cannabiskid ปีที่แล้ว

    Ohhh, my Chinese lessons coming back to me. I forgot about the 把被 rule 😅

  • @johnroekoek9864
    @johnroekoek9864 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I am soooo gonna write these sentences down, with the English words.

  • @mateyrodian1900
    @mateyrodian1900 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Watched !

  • @fauzinurrahman927
    @fauzinurrahman927 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    dang, I hope I find this channel 2 years ago so my brain won't lagging this whole time cause learning chinese

  • @jaywang2764
    @jaywang2764 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    角色扮演也太可愛了吧
    內容都很生活化餒
    加油加油~~~

  • @jiayou11
    @jiayou11 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you laoshi ♥️
    I have a question. For 0 level beginners like me, what is the likable method to start with? I'm sorry, I'm very confused. 😅
    Thank you for your response. 💙

  • @davitbalag
    @davitbalag 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    MVP video

  • @laff8147
    @laff8147 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is it possible to get a copy of the handout for this lesson?

  • @leandroferrari9211
    @leandroferrari9211 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The third concept you talked about is one great difference from Western cultures (generally speaking), the focus on the element/subject (Western) and the holistic focus (Eastern). Great Grace!

  • @callumanderson2835
    @callumanderson2835 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is there any difference in structure when using 就 and using 然後 ?

  • @Shang176
    @Shang176 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is so funny. So cute XD. 4:50 Thanks for the hack.

  • @lianhui
    @lianhui 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    5:10 用agent, theme來解釋會比較好,因為畢竟主詞還是蘋果(個人淺見

  • @neezatolange2291
    @neezatolange2291 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    please make a video of how to read chinese fast and style of reading chinese.

  • @user-gt5pc9kl6f
    @user-gt5pc9kl6f 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank You. Спасибо。(ツ)

  • @Ukw975
    @Ukw975 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Laoshi grace,my other laoshis say that if I delete the svo order is not appropriate,so I'm guessing that it's probly a higher step to proper chinese such as english because some laoshis explain like u?can u clarify that for me.xiexe lashi grace...🙏👍😇

  • @user-xc8vk5ln8i
    @user-xc8vk5ln8i 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    出片速度也太快
    期待下一部

  • @Bill-ni3es
    @Bill-ni3es 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Mandarin appears to be such an efficient language.

  • @ejchen9487
    @ejchen9487 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    ❤️❤️❤️

  • @jayjaylecourt9431
    @jayjaylecourt9431 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Now i understand why some new chinese people in the Philippines speak our language in a certain way.. like broken grammar, mostly no helping verbs

  • @user-sf1cc9py6w
    @user-sf1cc9py6w 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hello xiaojie xiexie ni. I like you very much. I always watch you video and listen you Chinese. I really love you thank you my love ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @cahit1905
    @cahit1905 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

  • @user-ig7ds2ym6m
    @user-ig7ds2ym6m 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    姐姐加油喔!♥😊

  • @diegoleo1279
    @diegoleo1279 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    4:50 lovely .. like a rabbit~

  • @sreed314
    @sreed314 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hi, Thanks I enjoyed your video. I don't think the "O + 被 + S + V“ is right as this is a passive sentence so the Apple is the subject.

    • @sreed314
      @sreed314 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My Chinese teacher has since explained to me that although " "S + 被 + O + V“ is correct from a Western Grammar viewpoint the Subject is seen differently from a Chinese viewpoint so "O + 被 + S + V“ is correct from that viewpoint.
      Thanks again for the video the structures shown are very useful.

    • @GraceMandarinChinese
      @GraceMandarinChinese  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Stuart Reed Thank you! I didn’t know from Western grammar point of view “S+被+O+V” is correct. Because the way we explain Subjects is considering them as the action doers. Thanks for letting me know :D

  • @tad4362
    @tad4362 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hello this is Tad from Japan. I noticed that the position of 了 was different depending on the sentences. 我吃晚餐了 and 他吃了苹果. Is it possible to say 我吃了晚餐 and 他吃苹果了??

    • @imorichwu4797
      @imorichwu4797 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      我吃过晚餐了
      我吃了晚餐
      过 make eat this action as a main thing what I want to say.

  • @taralim1
    @taralim1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Pls use better text format and size, colors , bcz they are the primary content.. Thanks.. Hope u agree and do needful

  • @WEIHAN1016
    @WEIHAN1016 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    建議可以上個中文字幕會比較好

    • @GraceMandarinChinese
      @GraceMandarinChinese  4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      漢 因為主要是給外國人學中文的 所以才沒上中文字幕😂

  • @AnkanBasu7
    @AnkanBasu7 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was confused, now I’m extremely confused after watching this

  • @Haileyrodriguez288
    @Haileyrodriguez288 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    If only the word order was the same as English I would get this in a day but this is so difficult to understand

  • @jaymeyer5073
    @jaymeyer5073 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Without a strong working knowledge of vocabulary since so many characters get strung together, how can any structure possibly be understandable?

  • @vservicesvservices7095
    @vservicesvservices7095 ปีที่แล้ว

    Had ppl learn the sentence structures u explained, wont they be thinking english while using chinese? I mean most native ppl dont learn chinese this way (inc native chinese teacher). Can ppl really reach advanced fluence with these seemly easy-to-understand gramma oriented approach?

  • @dvn.b__samu-han
    @dvn.b__samu-han 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Chinese grammar is somewhat similar to Indonesian and Malaysian
    中文語法有點像「印尼文」和「馬來文」一樣。

  • @julielingxu6278
    @julielingxu6278 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    鱼吃了吗?Have you eaten the fish? or Have you fed the fish in the aquarium?

  • @papayapositiv1619
    @papayapositiv1619 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    In First sentence is a mistake!
    "nà ge zen" is in Pinyin written, but it should be "nà ge rén" 那个人

  • @dimetutomo1546
    @dimetutomo1546 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    为什么你真的可爱
    Is my sentence right? 😀

    • @GraceMandarinChinese
      @GraceMandarinChinese  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You can say "为什么你那么可爱“ or "你真的很可爱“ :)

    • @imorichwu4797
      @imorichwu4797 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      真的 always follow the first word which as noun.

  • @jeffreytsai2240
    @jeffreytsai2240 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Grace is cute all the time.

  • @anasmirza346
    @anasmirza346 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    grace guo mandarin wo hen xihuan
    grace guo hen hao de laoshi

  • @RafiqulIslam-bh6qm
    @RafiqulIslam-bh6qm ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi grace what's up?

  • @olafgunther9401
    @olafgunther9401 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    why do you say che zi and not just che? 6:22

    • @user-jj6mx3tc1g
      @user-jj6mx3tc1g 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, but Chinese people like to put zi after nouns!for example juejuezi

  • @deryugituberschlechthingh6911
    @deryugituberschlechthingh6911 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    understood almost nothing and that perfectly!the order is to important。meaning is easy to transfer?!but nobody understands it。😭😭😭 svo is to easy,not to practical and not often used in daily conversations!in general to fast!have to watch this at minimum 10 times i believe!just honest opinions。meaning of what?the writing is in my way(subtitles)。bu zén but rén?even if i almost can read the sentence,but i almost always understands it wrong and dont get the meaning after multiple trys!

  • @rasmat7370
    @rasmat7370 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You are beautiful ❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @BiiKay675
    @BiiKay675 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Some of your characters you used are traditional characters? Why didn't you use simplified characters?

    • @pytyus
      @pytyus 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Because in Taiwan they use traditional characters.

  • @EvgenyUskov
    @EvgenyUskov 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    here is what i can't understand: the original chinese was not like that, right? do chinese use words like "wo'men" because that was the original "we", or the current "we" was simply derived and constructed from respective kanjis?

  • @aclearlake6210
    @aclearlake6210 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow! You really have beautiful complexion. I fall in love with your eyes and the way your lips move.
    Thanks for the video, Teacher.
    一定会来中国寻找像你这样的合作伙伴。