wo mei tian xue xi pu tong hua! Cool!

Benny I’m tryna spread the word on youtube about u!

Benny you are the man! thanks for your efforts. Gd Bless You!

These are all so very useful… I’m going to keep reading this lesson for a while until I’m confident I have remembered them all before moving on.

Wo mei tian xue xi Pu Tong Hua. Wo gao xing zhi dao Benny. Xian zai xu yao ka fei. Xia ci jian!

Oh wait, that’s wrong, isn’t it? Zhi dao is to know something, not someone, so what I should of said is, “Wo gao xing ren shi Benny” right?

Well done! you totally got it: ‘zhi dao’ and ‘ren shi’.

‘ren shi’ means we’ve met each other and became friends. Wo xi wang ren shi ni, Pooshybooshy!

Wo3 ye3 xi1 wang4 ren4 shi ni3 – that’s better! About the tones, there is no fifth tone, but I’ve seen people place 5 at the end of a word – is this necessary?

本霓，世界上最好的老师，我有一个文帝，你可以不可以说“我对他说”

At the end it says “9 verbs” when there is only zhī dào, rèn shi, xué xí, xū yào, lái, gěi, gào su and shuō. That is 8 verbs. Where is the 9th?

Hey beeny ni hoa umm i love this and stuff but i can’t find the nescestiys like thank you sorry i love you and all that can you point me in the right di rection…

Ni hao Sasha! KFC is the famous American fast food brand. Do you like fast food? There are many KFC and Mcdonalds here in Shangahi

in Mandarin, we say:

kěn dé jī = KFC 肯德基

mài dāng láo = Mcdonalds 麦当劳

Sasha, sorry you can’t eat fast food, but it’s not good for health anyway :)

You mean the difference between Chinese and Mandairn, right? You know there are so many dialects. They are very different. A Chinese people from North normally cannot understand sourth China’s language at all, though the written Chinese are all the same. But we have an official language, that is, Mandarin. Basically, everybody can speak and understand it, except of some older people.

But when we talk about Chinese, we normally mean Mandarin.

Sometimes I think I am too old to remember all this, but I keep trying and saying chinese words to myself. I know how to write the numbers but not words yet. Benny your videos are terrific!

Hi, I’m now in taiwan and trying hard to learn mandarin until i found you. Wow!! you’re great.

It would be perfect if you’d take the time to explain the structure of a Chinese sentence. I managed to ascertain that (excuse lack of diacritics) ‘ming’ is some kind of future indicator, ‘tian’ means day, and ‘mei’ means every. From that, I was able to extract ‘ming tian’ (“future day”, i.e. tomorrow) and ‘mei tian’ (every day). Additionally, I’m uncertain about this one, but ‘xi’ seems to be a possessive indicator.

The point I want to make is that things like this should be clearly pointed out in the printed lessons, so that those of us who can’t figure out these elements of speech independently (I might be part of that crowd) can simply glance at a chart or a list and fully understand the mechanics of the language.