Family members in Mandarin Chinese

＊＊ Structure of this lesson＊＊ Introduction: (1) What titles of family members you will learn in this lesson (2) Concept for titles of family members in Mandarin Chinese 2. Family members in your generation G_0 (2.1) Titles for your siblings (2.2) Titles for the children of your parents’ siblings 3. Family members in your parents’ generation G+1 (3.1) Titles for your father and mother (3.2) Titles for your father’s siblings (3.2) Titles for your mother’s siblings 4. Family members in your grandparents’ generation G+2 (4.1) Titles for your grandfather and grandmother on your father’s side (4.2) Titles for your grandfather and grandmother on your mother’s side 5. Family members in your children’s generation G-1 (5.1) Titles for your son and daughter (5.2) Titles for the children from your brother’s family. (5.3) Titles for the children from your sister’s family. 6. Family members in your grandchildren’s generation G-2 (6.1) Titles for your grandson and granddaughter (6.2)Titles for the children from your brother’s family. (6.3) Titles for the children from your sister’s family. 7. Comprehensive Review Mandarin Impossible / David Qing

Telling the Time in Mandarin Chinese_Part2

Hi Everyone! 大家好! I just made a very useful Mandarin Chinese lesson for you! In this video, you will learn how to tell 12-hour clock time in Mandarin Chinese. Also, you will learn how to say the time periods of the day, like before dawn, morning, noon, afternoon, dusk, evening, night, and midnight, in Mandarin Chinese. You will also learn two more useful characters, 整 and 半, to help you tell the time. At the end of this lesson, you will also learn how AM and PM are expressed on electronic devices and computer systems which are set to use a 12-hour clock in Mandarin Chinese. Structure of this lesson: 1. Mandarin 12-hour clock time concept 2. Learn to say Time Periods of the day with the 12-hour clock time (2.1) Before Dawn (example: 3:07 AM) (2.2) Morning (example: 8:45 AM) (2.3) Noon (example: 12:30 PM) (2.4) Afternoon (example: 2:33 PM) (2.5) Dusk (example 5:46 PM) (2.6) Evening (example: 6:58 PM) (2.7) Night (example: 10:22 PM) (2.8) Midnight (example: 12:03 AM) 3. Learn two more useful characters 整 and 半 to tell the time. (3.1) How to use Mandarin Chinese character整 to tell the time (3.1.1) example: 4:00 PM sharp (3.2) How to use Mandarin Chinese character半 to tell the time (3.2.1) example: 4:30 PM 4. How AM and PM is expressed in electronic devices and computer systems which are set to use Mandarin Chinese and a 12-hour clock to express the time 5. Comprehensive Review 6. Comprehensive Test (6.1) Test of Speaking (6.2) Test of Reading and listening

Mandarin Impossible / David Qing

Telling the Time in Mandarin Chinese_Part1

Hi everyone! 大家好!

Do you know how the time is told to passengers in transportation places like airports and train or bus stations?

After learning from this video, you may have the ability to tell the time with a 24-hour clock.

At the end of this lesson, you will have a comprehensive test for telling the time in Mandarin Chinese.  Can you pass all the questions?

Check out this video to learn more!  Have fun!

By the way, the Chinese New Year is coming. 新年快樂 (新年快乐)!

Structure of this lesson.

1. Introduction: What you need to know before learning to tell the time

(1.1) Numbers from 0 to 60   ► http://bit.ly/2iMRwi5

2. Telling the time with the characters點 (点) and 分

(2.1) Introduction of the Mandarin Chinese characters 點 (点) and 分

(2.2) Using a simple word sequence to tell the time with the two characters 點 (点) and 分

Example: 11:26

Example: 23:57

(2.3) More detailed explanations for telling the time with 點 (点) and 分

Example: 01:01

Example: 02:02

Example: 00:03

Example: 07:00

Example: 00:00

3.Telling the time with the characters點 (点), 分 and 秒

(3.1) Introduction of the Mandarin Chinese character 秒

(3.2) Detailed explanation for telling the time with the characters 點 (点), 分 and 秒

Example: 16:35:08

4. Comprehensive Review

5. Comprehensive Test

(5.1) Test of speaking

(5.2) Test of reading and listening

Mandarin Impossible / David Qing

Learn Mandarin Chinese with Monkey Nursery Rhyme

Hi Everyone!

Here is a nursery Rhyme about the days of the Monkey’s week.




After you learned Hanyu pinyin and the numbers from 1 to 10 in Mandarin Chinese, you can practice your Mandarin Chinese with this nursery Rhyme. Just follow the drum beat tempo and pronounce it with me. At the end of this video, you can review all the Monkey nursery Rhyme sentences in two pages.

Also, teachers and parents can play this video for students and children to help them become interested in learning to say the days of the week in Mandarin Chinese. Then show them the detailed explanation in the video as at the link below:
 “Learn how to say the days of the week in Mandarin Chinese”

There are twelve years in the cycle of the Chinese lunar calendar.
There are twelve animal signs, and each animal represents a year in turn every twelve years. In the Chinese lunar calendar, the sequence of the twelve animals is Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig.

Chinese New Year in 2016 started on February 8th and this lunar year is the Year of Monkey.

Let’s just play with the monkey, 猴子!
Have fun!

Traditional characters: 

星期一 ( xīngqíyī )
猴子穿新衣 ( hóuzi chuān xīn yī ) / Monkey wore new clothes.

星期二 ( xīngqí'èr )
猴子肚子餓 ( hóuzi dùzi è ) / Monkey was hungry.

星期三 ( xīngqísān )
猴子去爬山 ( hóuzi qù páshān ) / Monkey went mountain climbing.

星期四 ( xīngqísì )
猴子去考試( hóuzi qù kǎoshì ) / Monkey took an exam.

星期五 ( xīngqíwǔ )
猴子去跳舞 ( hóuzi qù tiàowǔ ) / Monkey went dancing.

星期六 ( xīngqíliù )
猴子去斗六 ( hóuzi qù dòu liù ) / Monkey went to Douliu.

星期七 ( xīngqí qī )
猴子擦油漆 ( hóuzi cā yóuqī ) / Monkey painted.

星期八 ( xīngqí bā )
猴子吹喇叭( hóuzi chuīlǎbā ) / Monkey played the trumpet.

星期九( xīngqí jiǔ )
猴子去喝酒( hóuzi qù hējiǔ ) / Monkey drank alcohol.

星期十( xīngqí shí )
猴子死翹翹 ( hóuzi sǐ qiào qiào ) / Monkey died.

Simplified characters:

星期一 ( xīngqīyī )
猴子穿新衣 ( hóuzi chuān xīn yī ) / Monkey wore new clothes.

星期二 ( xīngqī'èr )
猴子肚子饿 ( hóuzi dùzi è ) / Monkey was hungry.

星期三 ( xīngqīsān )
猴子去爬山 ( hóuzi qù páshān ) / Monkey went mountain climbing.

星期四 ( xīngqīsì )
猴子去考試( hóuzi qù kǎoshì ) / Monkey took an exam.

星期五 ( xīngqīwǔ )
猴子去跳舞 ( hóuzi qù tiàowǔ ) / Monkey went dancing.

星期六 ( xīngqīliù )
猴子去斗六 ( hóuzi qù dòu liù ) / Monkey went to Douliu.

星期七 ( xīngqīqī )
猴子擦油漆 ( hóuzi cā yóuqī ) / Monkey painted.

星期八 ( xīngqī bā )
猴子吹喇叭( hóuzi chuīlǎbā ) / Monkey played the trumpet.

星期九( xīngqī jiǔ )
猴子去喝酒( hóuzi qù hējiǔ ) / Monkey drank alcohol.

星期十( xīngqī shí )
猴子死翘翘 ( hóuzi sǐ qiào qiào) / Monkey died.

Learn how to say "Days of the week" in Mandarin Chinese

Hi! my dear friends!

After you learned the numbers from 0 to 9,999,999,999,999,999 in Mandarin Chinese, let's apply them in another subject “Days of the week" in Mandarin Chinese.

For saying the “Days of the week", with a very simple concept, you can start to say Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday in Mandarin Chinese in a very short time!

Here is the structure of this lesson.

Part1:

(1.1) Basic concept and rule for saying the days of the week ( Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday)

(1.2) Learn how to say “week” in Mandarin Chinese ( 星期xīngqí or 星期 xīng qī , 禮拜(礼拜) lǐbài, and 週 (周) zhōu)

(1.3) Learn how to Sun and Sky and the numbers from 1 to 6 in Mandarin Chinese. ( 日, 天, 一, 二, 三, 四, 五, 六)

Part2:

(2.1) Learn how to say each day of the week with the phrase meaning week 星期xīngqí or 星期 xīng qī

(2.2) Learn how to say each day of the week with the phrase meaning week 禮拜(礼拜) lǐbài

(2.3) Learn how to say each day of the week with the phrase meaning week 週 (周) zhōu

Part3

Comprehensive Review

Part 4

Practice saying the days of the week with a Taiwan nursery Rhyme.

Enjoy it!

Mandarin Impossible / David Qing

Learn how to say "Year, Month, and Day" in Mandarin Chinese

Hi! My friends!

After you learned the numbers from 0 to 9,999,999,999,999,999 in Mandarin Chinese, let’s apply them in some useful subjects starting with saying the “Year, Month, and Day” in Mandarin Chinese.

For saying the Year, Month and Day, you only need to learn several characters and some rules.

Here is structure of this lesson.

Part1:

(1.1) Learn the characters 年, 月, and日

(1.2) Basic concept and rule for saying the Year, Month, and Day

Example 1:  November 31^st, 2013

Example 2:  March 28^th, 1876

Example 3:  December 4^th, 2139

Part2:

Detailed explanation for saying the Year, Month, and Day

(2.1) Explanation for the Year

(2.1.1)

Introduction:

The Arabic numerals of the Year are commonly pronounced as individual digits and sometimes are as a single number   

Example:  the Year 2000

(2.1.2)

Learn how to say and use 公元 and 西元 for saying the Year in Mandarin Chinese

Example 1:  2014 A.D.

Example 2:  2014 C.E.

(2.1.3)

Learn how to say and use 公元前 and 西元前 for saying the Year

Example 1:  1046 B.C.

Example 2:  1046 B.C.E.

(2.2) Explanation for the Month

(2.2.1)

Practice saying each Month of the Year

(2.3) Explanation for the Day

(2.3.1)

Introducing the other way to say the Day by using the character “號 (号) ”

(2.3.2)

Practice saying each Day of the month by using the character “日”

Practice saying each Day of the month by using the character “號 (号)”

Part3

Comprehensive Review

Part 4

Comprehensive Test

(4.1) Test of speaking

(4.2) Test of reading and listening

Mandarin Impossible / David Qing

Learn how to say numbers in Mandarin Chinese_Part 3: 10,000 to 9,999,999,999,999,999

Hi, everyone!

Finally, the new lesson "How to say the large numbers from 10,000 to 9,999,999,999,999,999 in Mandarin Chinese" is issued!

Before you start with this lesson, you should have learned to say the numbers from 0 to 9,999 in the last two lessons. That will help you to have easier learning and better understanding with this lesson.

The structure of this lesson has 6 parts:

Part 1:  Introduction of what you need to know to say the large numbers from 10,000 to 9,999,999,999,999,999 in Mandarin Chinese

(1) how to say the numbers 0 to 9,999 in Mandarin Chinese
(2) three Mandarin Chinese characters: 兆, 億, 萬 (兆, 亿, 万)
(3) rules for how to say the digits 0, 1, 2 in the large numbers

Part 2: The three Mandarin Chinese characters: 兆, 億, 萬 (兆, 亿, 万)

Part 3: How to use the four green circles and the three characters: 兆, 億, 萬 (兆, 亿, 万) when saying the large numbers

Part 4: The rules for how to pronounce the numbers which contain the digits 0, 1, and 2

(1) Rule for digit 0

(1.1) Four additional cases: how to pronounce the small numbers inside the green circles
in the four additional cases
(1.1.1) case1: 0xxx  example: 0836
(1.1.2) case2: 00xx  example: 0067
(1.1.3) case3: 000x  example: 0005
(1.1.4) case4: 0000  example: 0000

(1.2) three points to explain the rule for digit 0 in large numbers
(1.2.1) the units corresponding to the green circles with the digit 0 inside.
(1.2.2) when there is more than one digit 0, together in a cluster.
(1.2.3) when the digit 0 or a cluster of zeroes is at the end of a large number.

(2) Rule for digit 1

(2.1) The rule for digit 1 in large numbers
(2.1.1) the digit 1's positions and pronunciation within the first three green circles when there is only a single digit 1, without any other digits inside the first three green circles

(3) Rule for digit 2

(3.1) The rule for digit 2 in large numbers
(3.1.1) the digit 2's positions and pronunciation within the first three green circles when there is only a single digit 2, without any other digits inside the first three green circles

Part 5: Comprehensive Review

Part 6: Comprehensive Test
(1) Number speaking Test
(2) Number listening Test

End of this lesson

With these three lessons, you will be able to say all the numbers in Mandarin Chinese that you will use in your daily life! Congratulations!

Ｍａｎｄａｒｉｎ　Ｉｍｐｏｓｓｉｂｌｅ　／　Ｄａｖｉｄ　Ｑｉｎｇ

Please pay attention to the information that this video doesn't provide as below notes. 


Note 1: 
​
For saying the large numbers from 10000 to over 9 quadrillion, you should pronounce the following small numbers in the green circle 0010, 0011, 0012, 0013, 0014, 0015, 0016, 0017, 0018, 0019 as below:

0010: líng yīshí

0011: líng yīshí yī

0012: líng yīshí 'èr

0013: líng yīshí sān

0014: líng yīshí sì

0015: líng yīshí wǔ

0016: líng yīshí liù

0017: líng yīshí qī

0018: líng yīshí bā

0019: líng yīshí jiǔ 

Note 2:

For the character 兆zhào, there are some parts that you need to pay attention to:

In China:

Although there are still some people who use 兆zhào to represent the large number “1 0000 0000 0000”, it is NOT the official way to say 1 0000 0000 0000 in Mainland China.

Instead of 兆zhào , people in Mainland China use万亿 wàn yì to say 1 0000 0000 0000 in the official way.

In Taiwan:

People in Taiwan use 兆zhào to represent the large number “1 0000 0000 0000” in the official way.

In BOTH China and Taiwan:

The character兆zhào is also used to represent the prefix“Mega”or“M”which means 10⁶ or 100 0000 in the International System of Units.

In Mainland China and Taiwan people often use 兆zhào to say things like Megabytes (MB), Megahertz (MHz) and Megapixels (MP).

Learn how to say numbers in Mandarin Chinese_Part 2: 10 to 9999

Hi Everyone! 大家好！
In this lesson, you will learn how to say the numbers from 10 to 9999 in Mandarin Chinese.

Before you start this lesson, you need to have the ability to say the numbers from 0 to 9 in Mandarin Chinese.  That will help you have a better understanding of this lesson.
You can review the last lesson on how to say the numbers 0 to 9 by using this link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVR7jcY7_gE


Here is the structure of this lesson:

Part 1:  Introduction of what you need to know to say the numbers 10 to 9999 in Mandarin Chinese

(1)  how to say the numbers 0 to 9 in Mandarin Chinese
(2)  three Mandarin Chinese characters:  千, 百, 十
(3)  Rules for how to say the digits 0, 1, 2 in the numbers 10 to 9999

Part 2:  Introduction of three Mandarin Chinese characters:  千, 百, 十

Part 3:  Learn how to use the four red circles and the three characters:  千, 百, 十  when saying the numbers 10 to 9999

(1)  four digit numbers
(2)  three digit numbers
(3)  two digit numbers

Part 4:  Learn the rules for how to pronounce the numbers which contain the digits 0, 1, and 2

(1 )  Rule for digit 0
(1.1)  the units corresponding to the red circles with the digit 0 inside.
(1.2)  when there is more than one digit 0, together in a cluster.
(1.3)  when the digit 0 or a cluster of zeroes is at the end of a number.

(2)  Rule for digit 1
(2.1)  the digit 1's positions and pronunciations within the four red circles
(2.2)  the exception to the rule for the digit 1 in the numbers from 10 to 19 in Mandarin Chinese

(3)  Rule for digit 2
(3.1)  the digit 2's positions and pronunciations within the four red circles


Part 5:  Comprehensive Review

Part 6:  Comprehensive Test
(1)  Number speaking Test
(2)  Number listening Test

End of this lesson


Reminder:  Make sure that you can pass all the flash cards from the test in this lesson.  You will need to have this skill as you start learning the numbers 10,000 to 9,999,999,999,999,999 in the next lesson.

See you next time!
再見!
Mandarin Impossible / David Qing

Learn how to say numbers in Mandarin Chinese_Part 1: 0 to 9

Hi Everyone! 大家好！
In this video, you will learn how to say the Mandarin Chinese numbers from 0 to 9.

Here is the structure of this video:

Part 1: Introduction of Mandarin Chinese numbers
(1) 0 to 9
(2) 10 to 9,999
(3) 10,000 to 9,999,999,999,999,999

Part 2: Learn how to say Mandarin Chinese numbers 0 to 9

Part 3: Review
(1) Pronounce Mandarin Chinese numbers from 0 to 9 two times
(2) Flash card drills
(2.1) 0 to 9
(2.2) 0 to 9 in Mandarin Chinese (零、一、二、三、四、五、六、七、八、九)

Part 4: Learn how to say a series of numbers in Mandarin Chinese
(1) Postal delivery zone numbers
(2) Phone numbers
(3) Credit card numbers

End of this video


Reminder: Make sure that you can pass all the flash card drills in this video. You will need to have this skill before you start learning the numbers 10 to 9,999 in the next video.

See you next time!
再見!
  
 Mandarin Impossible / David Qing

Learn Basic Mandarin Chinese : "How to Introduce Yourself" and "I am pleased to meet you"

大家好! Hello everyone!

Nice to see you again!

In this video, you will learn some useful Mandarin Chinese phrases to use when you meet people for the first time.

Here is the structure of the video:

1.Introduction of what you will learn in this lesson -- 4 Chinese Phrases

2.Learn how to introduce yourself in Mandarin Chinese with the following phrases:

(1)   Introduction of the Chinese phrase "I am..."  我是

(2)   Introduction of the Chinese phrase "I am called..."  我叫

(3)   Introduction of the Chinese phrase "I am pleased to meet you." 我很高興認識你 (我很高兴认识你)

(4)   Introduction of the Chinese phrase "I am pleased to meet you, too." 我也很高興認識你 (我也很高兴认识你)

3. Comprehensive Review for this lesson with the conversation between David and Qing

Try introducing yourself to me. Practice with the phrases "我是+(your name)" or "我叫+(your name)" in the comments. It would be nice to know you!

我是 David. 我很高興認識你(我很高兴认识你)!

See you next time !  再見!

Mandarin Impossible/ David Qing