Okay, so here's another neat trick about Chinese. If you know enough city names, then you actually know loads and loads of wonderful and important words. So now, I want to introduce you to some very important and large cities in China. If you don't know them, Well, well, well, now's a good time to learn. And along with those names, you'll also learn South East West north. I hope I got that right.

Anyways, let's get started. First of all, a bit of history. baiting is how we pronounce it. It's not like Peking, because that's the name of the Brits gave it when they couldn't pronounce Beijing. So let's always from now on go with Beijing. And that actually means the northern capital, because before when China was too large for itself to handle, we would have one in the north and one capital in the south, the southern capital financing.

So you can probably guess what this this point what ting means it means capital actually, and B means north and non mean south. So knowing Beijing and Nanjing you actually know how to say capital more or less. You also know north and south in Chinese funny little side note, I know if you've heard about Not funny but the massacre in Nanking that is Nanjing. And the reason why we say King is because again the Brits were there poking around and they said, let's not go with Nanjing let's call it King instead. And you might recognize that from King from Peking, so they switched around with the Peking and nine King. Okay.

But if you want to stay respectful, you should always say no and say Beijing and Nanjing and not peeking in Nanking. Okay, so those are two cities for us. By the way, there's a third one and that's Shanghai. And that actually gives us two very, very useful ones. We've got Shang first, which means on top of something and high means ocean. So Shanghai actually means on top of the ocean, so from that word, we can derive two very useful words.

Hi, we'll see every time we order seafood or anything that has to do with anything that comes from water and Shang whenever we get on top of something or get into a car or anything like that. We use it as a verb. But enough about that more about that later. Anyways, Shang and Jai are both very useful words, but none of them actually have to do with Northwest south east. I've already done North So now let's do East them. Now in the south, we have Cantonese.

And the city where you speak Cantonese is called Canton. But that's the old name or the British name. The common name is cuando. I lived there for five years, by the way, and that's the province capital, but the province is actually called Guangdong. And that Dong means east. I'm a bit of geography there for you as well.

So summing up now we've got Bay from Beijing. We've got none from Nanjing, we've got Dong from Guangdong. And now the last one, if you've heard of the terracotta warriors, they were found in a place called c, n, and C and we can ignore that and but the she actually means West. Okay, so we are called Westerners. She can talk more about that word later on. But if we just keep the she here, then that actually means West.

It sounds like she but it's pronounced she with an X. So she from she on where we found the terracotta warriors. And that gives us the last word here. We've got North East south west. Yeah, you get it. Be none.

Don't She fantastic. Okay, so that was a bit of necessary geography for you. And also a few very useful words. Now if you put Jen at the end of the country, we've learned that you bake it into a person from that country, like Swedish person or an English person like an Englishman. But if you put a run at the end of a city or any place really, then you make it a person from that place. So you can say Shanghai, you could say Shanghai, and then you can even say washer Shanghai, then I am Shanghai person, okay.

And that's why Also, if you haven't noticed that many Chinese people say, I am Beijing person, or I am Guangdong person, I'm Hong Kong person. They simply say this because that's how they say it in Chinese. So if you listen to Chinese people speak in English, their English can very, very much help you along the way with learning Chinese as well. Now let's enjoy not my voice anymore, but Chinese people's and see where they're from, shall be Beijing and Washington and Washington. Yeah, sorry, guys, you might have thought that this video is supposed to end at this point, but no. And there's the word Dong Shi as well.

And that means thing or things. Again, Chinese is super simple. So you don't actually have to care for a singular or plural either. So Dong, she could mean thing or things. So that's another easy thing about Chinese. Anyways, why I want you to look at this word is because you actually know both the Dong and the C in this word don't meaning east and xi meaning West.

So if you stop viewing the Chinese language, from a philosophical language point of view, then you can view this as everything between East and West hope this is not mirrored. So you know, everything from east to west is everything, everything. This encompasses everything. And there you have it, you have thing, don't she actually means thing. Fantastic, isn't it? I love how Chinese works like that.

That's one of my favorite words. Actually.