Make it sound Chinese!

Survival Chinese Chapter 1 Lesson 1 Most common words
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Okay, so what we have here now is it looks a bit funny, but it's that character there. And it means how actually, and then this goes, we're not going to talk about characters. Not at all, actually, but just a tiny little bit because there's still so interesting. It should basically if you can imagine what characters are in Chinese, it's just building blocks and a puzzle almost. So there's two parts in this character, and it's woman and his child actually put together and it means good. So this thick is the character for good.

You can just say it like whoa, that's how you pronounce it. How if you ever need someone you can just say hello how? Or if you if you if you feel like something is good. You can say how you feel like oh, that's okay. How How did you say hot? Hot Hot, hot, hot.

Oh Ha ha ha ha ha. Way. way. Oh, hello. Better No, isn't it? Okay, here's another funny thing.

Now the character is not very entertaining, but the sound is or the pinion was you can call it and this is Ah, ah, ah, one time, I guess it's enough. It's just a sound that Chinese people make. And you, you will notice if you haven't already that Chinese people, they love to make sounds at the end of the sentences, which actually don't mean anything in particular. So you've got friends and you've got up, and that's something you can just put at the ends or whatever you're saying, for no particular reason, except it being I don't know, a bit more emotional in that case. So if you say how that'll be, it's good. If you say, haha, that means like, Oh, it's good, like that.

So in English, we would just stretch the word good. But in Chinese, you can't stretch it because you already have a tone. Ha, or you can say how I guess. But instead, you just thought, Ah ha. So make sure you put out at the end of anything you say here if you just want to make sure that people hear you because it's important to you, and you are getting emotional. Since I'm a language teacher.

I love to wonder at the house and wise of languages. And one of the strongest theories here is about the art because in Chinese if you don't know it already, we have four tones, or there's a new One as well. So some people say five. And now those five tones will make the language a bit irregular. So you won't really feel any rhythm to it because the word that you say the say the rhythm for it, so there's no like going up where you ask your question like in English, where you go, how old are you? I'm five years old, and then you go down when you answer.

There's no such thing in Chinese. And you might not feel like there's a rhythm or a certain sort of regularity to the language. But for that very reason we have art in Chinese then you can add it at the end of a sentence. And it sort of brings some regularity now to the language because regardless of what turns the sentence has, you're always to end up with them our sound and that makes us happy and comfortable because we get regularity. Finally, so that's just a bit about my own theory why we haven't Ah, but I am quite a strong believer on my own theory, actually.

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