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Nice and appropriate small talk will certainly helps you to get a good first impression, and build a nice relationship with the people around you . it just makes you feel more positive about the interaction you have with the people.
today i will show you the most common Chinese sentences you can use in your daily life for small talk, to start a conversation naturally, with colleagues, friends, strangers……avoiding the awkward silence and sound nice and smart, and i can guarantee you that all these phrases are real life language material, not textbook or made up sentences. So you wouldn’t be embarrassed.
#smalltalkinchinese#learnchinese#conversatinoinchinese#
Listen.
I replayed this 4 times.
I have so much respect for the chinese adopting my local dialect of english. We speak soooooo differently like, on a muscular level.
I love everything in your videos..., but my favorite aspect is the way you repeat the examples. That makes the rythm of the class very useful and good to learn. Congrats for such a good work🤗🤗🤗
Glad you like them!
What I love: they are practical and relevant to everyday life. The larger 汉字 font size and the smaller pinyin on top is perfect. This helps me clearly recognise characters. Like how you delay bringing the English translation in. This helps my brain to think in Chinese first. You provide perfect context for each sentence. Your titles are accurate and so I know what I’m going to get when I open your lesson. Love how you follow HSK curriculum, but also provide other useful grammar and vocabulary outside of this. ..... what could be improved: hmmm, so difficult, I’m just thinking of more topics, but I know you will cover so many of these anyway, from a more technical perspective, and this is only an idea, what about a short snippets of actual conversation between 2 native speakers. You could break this down and help tune our ears to real life conversations that relate to your content. Again, just an idea. ... I know you will get over 1million followers, this is the best resource for learning Chinese on TH-cam! 太感谢了老师🦀🦀💟💟🐨🐨
HELLO JONH!!💙🤗💙 I m so happy to hear from you , how have you been? 谢谢你！ thank you so much for taking you time to write this long message to me , every word of yours means a lot to me, I will work harder to make it better, thanks again John , I m really happy to have you here. 💙🤗💙💙🤗💙
Wow 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 you've put this so nicely ❤️
This is a perfect description of her video content.
I started following her, sometime, last week and this is why.
Her channel is quickly becoming one of my my top Favorites, alongside:
1.)ChineseForUs- they go over the HSK 1 lessons, first without PINYIN, then with pinyin, then with English translation and after, they have a short stories with all of the Hsk1-2 vocab included.
Then you're quizzed for your reading comprehension.
This is truly, an effective method .
They just added HSK3 content one or two months ago , after a 2-3 year hiatus.
2.) Lichao Chinese.
He goes by the standardized book, mostly. He explains nearly every chinese character which helps, if students don't know the filler words, outside of the vocab list.
And he's handsome, so for girls, this might help with being more attentive.😁😍
3.) Twin Cities Chinese-
He basically goes over the grammar of certain words, like the difference between 看and 看见 or how to use
就.
4) one lemon chinese is great too
And I like how, at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, they covered health terms and they have animated videos, to further illustrate the dialogue. This is great for super beginner Chinese students.
And now, this lady. Yimin chinese will be added to my list of faves.
Great program,, and project?
I agree, first Pinyin is essential for English learners. I need to see hanzi very large, at least 2-4x font size of latin letters because of the fine detail. I like in other videos sentences are broken down so each word or combination of words is shows to correlate with English. Without this deconstruction of Chinese sentences, there is often something incomprehensible and English learner will not understand. 🙏🙏🙏
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Teacher Yimin, thank you for your creative and practical lesson on small talk which can break the ice between friends and strangers.
I'm glad you like it John🤗🍭🌺
You are the G.O.A.T of chinese teaching on youtube. Your content is by far the best, please continue to produce more, hopefully we can get you to 50k subscribers!
Thank you so much Taylor ! 😊🍡💖
Thank-you for another super-practical video; I like the two approaches you describe when adressing strangers. And I would like to suggest that what you mean by 'nosy' can be more accurately expressed by the words 'curious,' and 'curiosity.' When someone is curious, they show respectful curiosity and inquiry. When someone is nosy, this has the negative implication that (s)he wants to learn inappropriate gossip, or even intends to meddle with the person's affairs- as in the expression 'nosy parker.' Hope this helps :)
I really liked this lesson! It was really helpful for a broad range of topics. :D
Thank you. Very helpful.
This video taught me how to do small talk in Chinese and in English!
😊yay
Thank you so much for your very good video.
Hi yimim ,thank you so much for your videos.
This is bigger help for me.
You are a good tutor
yeah, I so happy to see your comment . that's the best thing a teacher want to hear, haha. thanks for your support,stay tuned for more valuable video lessons. 🥰🥰🥰
Love your videos
Best teacher, great video ! thanks =D great as always, best teacher here.
aww, thank you so much Paulo😋
I like the way you teach us !!! Perfect for me👌☺️😊🙂
Happy to hear that!
thank you yimin
I love it,pretty chinese way
thank you yimin! love your videos and you look beautiful today.
谢谢你JAMES
💚 💛 💚 🥰
Great 👍
多谢老师
Thank you, you speak very clear in both English and Mandarin
Well done 👍🙋♂️
I am so happy to hear that my friend, thank you for telling me 😊😊😊
谢谢
谢谢你老师
好久不见 is a freaking awesome sentence! thank you so much!
yes James, it's really very useful, and by the way, there is a song called 好久不见 by the singer 陈奕迅，it's really touching , you can check it out😋😋🎼😋thanks for watching my videos and leaving this sweet message, I m so happy to have you here
@@yiminchinese the words in that are so hard, I wish i can speak like this someday. I don't understand it well but my depth is on the level of a toddler in chinese. It's very beautiful though thank you for sharing. I have one for you with very, similar meaning in English.
"I'll Be There For You" -by bon jovi
Perfect. You are a creative enthusiastic in the way you give information. Thank you a lot. Also beautiful looking. I depend on your videos a lot despite of being Hsk1
so happy to have you here ٩(^ᴗ^)۶
May I ask why you speak Spanish sometimes?
太棒了🌟谢谢你老师
不客气😊🍡
So good! 👍⭐💐
yay 😊😊😊😊💃💃💃💃💃
This is really great i like this the best
aww, so happy to hear it 🤗🍭😋
Namaste , I like your videos very much.Thank you miss.
Again You're most welcome Shishir🌺🤗
你教的办法很好
我喜欢你的教。😁
这是有用啦！谢谢老师！
太好啦John, 我很高兴你喜欢我的视频。
不客气！ 我要谢谢你！
Gracias!
de nada !
Well for the mean time I like all your vedios it's very helpful 🎉
So nice of you
thank you jimin for teaching chinese
The best video on small talk in Chinese. Keep up the good work. Thx a bunch. Could you make a video on the equivalent of 'I'm sorry' in Chinese?
wow, ,that's a very high praise , thank you so much, surely I will keep up making valuable videos for you guys , you are great audience. 💙💙💙🤗
Thank you so much
You're most welcome
Thanks.
You're welcome😋
太谢谢你了
😋谢谢你
thank you yi min lao shi
it's my pleasure Jeffrey 😋😋😋thank YOU
谢谢老师！
不客气！ WOW, your user's name here is very impressive, are you Buddhist? hope the question doesn't make you uncomfortable, sorry if it does,but I m really curious🥰🥰
Hey Yimin, I love your videos. I have thought about correcting Chinese people about this before but today I finally will. "Small talk" is always singular. It should be "Small talk IS so important" etc.
Keep up the great work and you will have 100K in no time :D
Compared to English, the Chinese language has an advantage here, since the plural forms are always the same as the singular. Also, we're not sure if it should be small talk, or small-talk, or smalltalk. This kind of problem also does not arise in Chinese.
Smalltalk is similar to chitchat, or chit-chat, or chit chat.
According to my research, these words are commonly only used in the singular. But they can be used in the plural if the situation requires. For example, one might say "at each table, there were different smalltalks/chitchats going on". And that would sound okay to me. But maybe it would be better to say "at each table, there was a different smalltalk/chitchat going on".
thank you Carl, for loving my videos, for your great wish of my 100K subs, that really means a lot to me, I appreciate it a lot, your comment made my day, this is the kind of moment I feel that all the hard work worth it. and thank you for correcting my English, to be honest, I never knew that, but now I know, that's another reason why I love to hear from you guys, we all grow together .🥰🥰🥰
@@yiminchinese 你记得了！哈哈哈。你太棒了。
Thank you
You're welcome😊
谢谢您
不客气！谢谢你收看我的视频，thanks for watching my videos, I will make more useful videos to help your Chinese study !💙💙😋
Thank you for this nice video lesson I like this one very much
yeah, I m so happy to hear that, since you like it so much ,then I will try to do more videos like this. thanks for letting me know which ones you like more , it's very important to know. 🥰🥰🥰
@@yiminchinese
I like them all but I like the following more
Bu hao yi si rang ni jiu Deng le
Sorry to keep you waiting so long. Thank you
Frome Bangladesh . Very good video
great video bro
yeah, I m so happy to hear that , thanks for watching and liking my videos. I will keep making more useful videos for you guys. 😉😀🙆
好有用的視頻！
yeah, 很高兴你喜欢我的视频，谢谢你的支持，我会继续上传更多的视频。 🥰🥰🥰
王老师说得好! 所有的视频都非常好. 我现在没什么建议. 多谢多谢.
谢谢你俊光，我会继续努力的🥰🥰🥰
I am a new subscriber, I feel a super friendly vibration on this channel, and the font sizes and Pinyin go together perfectly with the lessons. I would be lost without Pinyin. I think if China ever wants Mandarin to become an international language, 🤔then Pinyin must become more standardized even for native Mandarin speakers. I found that many native speakers are not even aware of Pinyin or tones, as they just know these things instinctively.
Welcome aboard!💖🍭😊
Hi Yimin, I am learning so much with your videos! I really like how you tell us exactly how it is and get right to the point haha. One question, you said you don’t usually initiate small talk with strangers. Is that just your personal decision? Or is it something that is frowned upon in the Chinese culture? Would Chinese people feel uncomfortable if I do? I ask because I love talking to new people haha
Glad you like them Yoselin!🤗💖🍡
Me gusta su manera de enseñar ya me suscribí
😊gracias
Nice
😊
I like your videos very much. Good review and it is good to hear proper pronunciation. One can always improve. I studied Mandarin 50 years ago. Bye bye.
Thanks for sharing!😊谢谢你
Great video but you should have somehow included 最近 in all translations (at 5:50 you included it tho). A more literal translation could be helpful cause I looked it up, paused the video a few times and couldnt remember its meaning in the 2nd sentence (at 5:40). Or you could add a translation for each character/word (using small font and below each word).
What helps me a lot (especially in the HSK vocabulary vids) is if the same word shows up in 2 or more consecutive sentences. How you presented ting shuo also helped a lot.
yes you are totally right, I will pay moor attention on my future videos, thanks for your suggestions, it really helps us to make the channel better, I really appreciate it, xiexie ni 👍❤👍
Xie Xie ni, Yimin Lao Tse
永远的神 ! 🐘👏🏻
哈哈， 过奖了
@@yiminchinese 哈哈哈 我知道 ! 🐘
Muchas gracias por tus vídeos. Son muy útiles y su formato en tiempo y forma hacen fácil la comprensión de la lección y tus mensajes. Lo único que cambiaría un poco es que repitieras las explicaciones en chino, o incluso disminuir el uso del inglés para las explicaciones, es decir, no sólo los ejemplos en chino si no también tus comentarios hacerlos utilizando el idioma chino. By the way congratulations for your English, easy to follow and understand. 你辛苦了！
😊谢谢你，Muchas gracias Aurelio, me da mucho gusto leer tus comentarios.
Good
Thanks💙💖🤗
@@yiminchinese really useful
Γεια σου 艺敏 εισαι σπουδαια δασκαλα και πολυ γλυκια κοπελα. Εχω δει πολλες φορες ολα σου τα βιντεο και τα βρισκω καταπληκτικα. Σου γραφω στα Ελληνικα για να δεις πως ειναι η γλωσσα μας και η γραφη μας. Σου ευχομαι καθε ευτυχια.
Θεέ μου, λυπάμαι πολύ, είδα μόνο τα σχόλιά σας σήμερα, μερικές φορές κάποια σχόλια δεν θα εμφανίζονται, ευχαριστώ, είμαι πολύ χαρούμενος που βλέπω τις πληροφορίες σας, με κάνει πολύ χαρούμενο, χρησιμοποιώ λογισμικό μετάφρασης για να σας χρησιμοποιήσω Σας γράφω στη γλώσσα σας, χαχα, πολύ ενδιαφέρον, ελπίζω να μάθω τη γλώσσα σας μια μέρα. σου εύχομαι ευτυχία
@@yiminchinese Thank you very much for your response . I study chinese alone for six years using only the internet . I feel very happy to make progress in my age , being now 82 years old a
I wish you good sucess in your endevour.
I just like you.
Hen pialong laoshi
Hello Yimin, 💘
Can you do a Q&A video or a video that you tell about yourself. I would like to know more about my teacher
Love Kenny
awww , that's so sweet, maybe I will do it later. but what kind of things do you want me to talk about myself 😁😊
@@yiminchinese hello Yimin,
I would like to know how you learned English?
What part of China do you live?
Why did you start teaching English?
What countries have you visited?
Have you ever been to America?
Do you have brothers or sisters?
What year were you born? (I was born in the year of the rabbit)
ok Kenny, I already wrote it down, hopefully I will do this Q&A video soon in this year🤗
@@yiminchinese Thank you!
I know you're probably very busy and get many replies and request from people all over the world 🌎 so I understand if your unable to get to the video. I remain a loyal student for Yimin (my great Chinese teacher)
xie xie lao shi hen yo yi si
😋yay, so happy you like it 😋
Thanks! Great stuff. But I would appreciate it even more, if you would slow down a little bit, just like you've done it for HSK 1. It's all new for everyone. A slower tempo of speech and pauses are very important. These gives us some time to snap and process the new information. I've tried to slow down the video, but it's not the same...
thank you so much for your feedback, it's really very important, and yes, I will be more careful about it in future videos, thanks for watching and sharing your opinion
Great videos! Many thanks. Please, don’t change the speed of your speech. 😂
Going slower often sounds unnatural. The Chinese writing that comes along with your speech allows to understand.
Hello! Is there any difference between 接着 and 然后
接着 is immediately after the previous action. 然后 doesn't mean" immediately "
@@yiminchinese 非常感谢 老师！you are the best youtube teacher
@@dursunseyitniyazowa62不客气，谢谢你的支持❤❤❤
What about:
"Thank you for coming. Traffic must have been terrible."
Can we use the expression 车水马龙 ??
谢谢你的到来。路上车水马龙吧。
HAHA ，that's sounds really cute, but no, 车水马路is a 成语that normally used in written language, like articles, lyrics, I will give you some sentences for you to see the context to use it .
在下午三四点左右的时间里，本应是一片熙熙攘攘、轰轰烈烈、车水马龙 、人声鼎沸的气氛和景象。
在南京路坐公共汽车到外滩。南京路上，还是车水马龙 、人流滚滚。
在阴凉的楼底便道上，到处停着支着凉篷的白色冰车，烈日下的街头车水马龙.
it's not commonly used in daily life oral speaking, you just say 路上很堵吧？
hope it helped you, ask me any question when you have further doubt.
@@yiminchinese It seems to me that 车水马龙 is similar to 一派繁忙景象.
Probably these kinds of expressions should not be used by stumbling learners like myself.
What about: 路上辛苦了 ??
路上辛苦了is for the long distance and long time trip.
stumbling ? no , you are doing it great !!!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Dear teacher, I want to know the words that Chinese people always say simply “ how are you?” and then reply to the question. Thanks for helping
Hello my friend, it's hard to answer it in short words, but I have a video talking about this topic in details, I leave the link here if you are interested th-cam.com/video/RO9dCfb_xB0/w-d-xo.html
Ai love you sweetie mamm
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@@yiminchinese ai love you sweetie 😘❤💗💖💓💕
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如果我想说“Can you believe it??"？ 怎么说呢？ 🤔
We'll see what the teacher says, but I think one way to say it is:
信不信由你.
This literally means: "Believe it or not, it's up to you."
Another possibility is:
你敢相信吗?
Literally, 敢 means "to dare", but in these kinds of expressions, it can mean "go so far as to".
One such common usage is in the expression:
我不敢相信
which means "I just can't believe it".
@@mountaintag Thanks 😄
can you believe it? the equivalent in Chinese is like this, if it's used before you are going to tell a shocking news, you can say, 说出来你可能不信，and if it's after the news, you can say, 难以置信吧？
the thing mountaintag replied 信不信由你 normally is when the listener didn't believe you ,so after trying to convince him or her, you say, 信不信由你 😒
thanks you for your comment, I like hear from you guys, don't hesitate to ask if you have further doubt. 🥰🥰🥰
@@yiminchineseThanks!! I will use them soon 😄😄
Ur teaching is Very good 👌 but ABIT too fast can't can't catch up.
thank you so much for your feedback Susan , it's very important you know? it helps to make the videos better, and I already took note, I will slow down a little in the future videos Susan 😋🤗💕
Hi 老师
I just recieved a message from a language exchange friend, she said:
"Recently I am busy with my exam,我太难了"
How should I translate this?
感谢你
Hi Marius, are you sure that your language exchange friend is female? This is what a pervert might say to you (我太难了). The first character is completely inappropriate. It means "I'm so hard". If your friend had meant the exam was difficult, "它太很难了" might be better.
Recently I am busy with my exam,我最近忙着考试。
我太难了means it's very hard and tough for me . People use this phrase to complain about the situation or life .
hope it helped you ,don't hesitate to ask if you have further questions, You know I love reading from your guys .
她为我唱了一首中国生日歌，所以我回复了她：
你真漂亮，谢谢你给我生日歌。
她回答我：
不用谢！你的中文学的很好！
The last part (google) translated into:
Your Chinese Literature is very good!
How should I interpret the word: Literature?
感谢你。
Ps.
"You know I love reading from you guys" not your guys.
Oh this is too advanced for me
we don't like parents in the west, is there any way to get around this "parents are the most important" issue? it comes up alot and i have a really hard time explaining why our parents just don't love us like eastern parents. Do you have any advice or phrases that might help?
e: i fear my mother, i don't try to take care of her when shes old, i don't want to see her. If she finds out too much information about me she uses it to try to have my child taken away with false neglect/insanity/abuse/whatever claims.
I totally understand you James, now I live abroad, and with the time I realize it more and more that how people are so different on this issue, even in Mexico, where the people have strong sense of family, but it can't compare to the Chinese item 孝. yes in China the care between parents and child is mutual, the parents really would sacrifice a lot for their child. but sorry James , I didn't quite understand what help you need? can you make it more specific or in other words? it must be my English understanding problem
@@yiminchinese hmmm. I mean when i say like "my mother is a crazy lady, i don't talk to her" thats normal to me, happens all the time in canada. Nobody will even ask any questions about that sentence. just move on. If i say that to chinese it will mostly make them angry with me. They cannot understand that i respect family very much and i will do anything for my sons future but my parents did not do this for me. I was a child in the streets looking for food, how can i possibly respect my mother and help her for old age? it has nothing to do with my lack of values and chinese cannot see this, they don't care how bad my mother is, i should still help her (if i help her she will try to use the law to take my son away, much better to just stay away in real life) . My problem is that a simple chinese greeting like "how is your parents?" or "is your parents house in good condition?" will start a culture war that i simply cant explain. how do i just move past this question without offending so many chinese? (i cannot lie).
@@Tradinghonest Hi James, I totally understand you, and I m with you. the Yimin before may not , bus the Yimin now yes, and hugs for you 🧡 💛 💚to tell you a little story of mine. I had a boyfriend from a western country, and one of the problems we had was about this. He too had very bad relation with his mom, he told me how his mom treated him when he was little. sometimes he even sobbed when he talked about his mom, but I tried to convince him to forgive and treat his mom well(because of my own culture background), and I constantly put the opinion of my parents prior over his without noticing it. which I regret a lot till now. I wish I could have done it better , trying to understanding his feeling and being on his side. anyway, with my mindset now, I totally understand what you are saying, and I got to say, a lot sadness and tragedy in this world are caused by unqualified parents.
to answer your question, with the people you don't know well, you just say 挺好的，or 还好，you don't need to go deep in the topic, and to your friends or people who really care about you, you can say that 我和她很少联系，then you can change the topic.
@@yiminchinese I am sorry to hear that :( i can very much see how that will not be nice if my girlfriend wanted me to say sorry to my mom and let her take my son away with false accusations. She really will do that if i try to say sorry (she tried twice already). I also very much see how you can have trouble understanding him, parents in china will never think about calling police to have children taken away(falsely), the police will laugh in their faces. Some things might happen the same like get drunk and burn the kitchen down three times, that might happen in china, i can forgive burning the kitchen down 100 times with no effort at all. I cannot forgive trying to hurt my son. Those phrases are too dishonest for me. It is very important to my pride as a man that i do not hide my troubled past, i must admit that it happened to properly move on. I understand that "How are your parents?" can be treated with a null answer (fine thanks) like "how are you?" but its hard for me for the same reason it was probably hard for you to ignore your culture and say "fine" to that question (how are you?). When we ask "how are your parents?" it means we really care and we want to know about your troubled past (bad parents are assumed here, not good).
@@Tradinghonest I understand James, sometimes culture conflict can be very tough, but we can't expect that each person can understand us , and we don't need other people to agree with us, just be with the people who really understand you and cares about you .
Small talk*
😰 😰 😰 yeh, I SEE, and I m so embarrassed, sorry for the mistake, I need to work more on my English, thank you so much for pointing it out Vincent 😜😜
Why the stupid 3 dislikes 🤨
😊😊😊🙆that's very nice of you, don't worry about that
@@yiminchinese 我知道了没关事， 但是听不懂为什么 🤔, anyway thank you so much I just discovered your channel and your content is so thoughtful, I like really it and hope you’ll keep it coming and getting better and better. 加油
thank you for your great wish Adam 😊😊😊
thank you yimin
thank you yimin