Mandarin Pronunciation: Everything You Need to Know in Under 1 Hour
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We both started learning Chinese in Chengdu, Sichuan province (China). Phil got a degree in Chinese from Sichuan University. Luke went the self-study route.
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We both struggled a lot for the first year, wasting thousands of hours and thousands of dollars getting nowhere.
2014:
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2015:
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Within a year, we went from failures, to passing the highest level Chinese exam at the time (the HSK 6), and achieved B2 spoken fluency. We did this learning part time, while it should take a FULL TIME learner at least twice as long (that works out to at least 4x faster).
We became tired of everyone we knew falling into the same traps we did, struggling needlessly. We decided to share what we knew with the local community in Chengdu.
Sir, in Mandarin, there are many many phylosephie expression , even known by children. There are also many in English? Like who beside the red, be red. who beside the black, be black, Good horse don't eat the grass by turn head. if you dont want what you done is known, don't do it. etc
2016-2018:
We started Mandarin Blueprint. We spent 100s of hours teaching what we knew in live and online seminars, gradually developing our own curriculum.
I very much appreciate your videos. I've studied Japanese some, but stayed away from Chinese because of the tonal levels. Given the importance of Chinese these days, I need to reconsider. You're a great teacher, and give me hope. :-)
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49:05 with the english word "too" that was a nice bonus way of showing the 3rd tone :)
Thanks, I started out by watching this video and eventually did stop looking at mandarin and eventually picked it up again but I didnt rewatch and just winged it.
Finally some explanations: wu3; wan4 -> no pronunciation of the W(NO voiced german W)
3rd tone -> I cant hear ppl go back up with their tonal range also its super hard -> try zombie tone
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Your tone is way better than mine, I was a native speaker for the first 6yrs of my life. Kept at 3rd grade level. Then again, I grew up learning Nanjing dialect, and transitioned to standard, now I can’t speak Nanjing dialect at all - big tone / pitch difference.
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As a native Mandarin speaker , I can say that your English pronunciation is perfect. You must have had a good English teacher
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Thank you, your videos are so helpful! A lot of the pronunciation excercises were quite easy for me to do, which is actually giving me lots of self esteem, I always feel like I suck so much during Chinese class!Will keep on practising with your videos for sure, you really make me believe I can master this language!
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30 May Week 1 : Day 1 Starting 🎉
0:00 Intro
3:37 Tones
Starting over again after giving up in January 😂 today 29th may 2026.
9:07 Simple Finals
16:35 Problem Initials
Thank god I’m arab so i could pronounce H easily
29:20 Simple Finals
32:07 ‘A’ Finals
this is what im trying to do but even chinese teacher i hire want to move to quickly and it kills me so for pinyin im on my own
33:44 ‘E’ Finals
36:20 ‘O’ Finals
Me sitting here learning the pronounciation in case I want to learn mandarin sometime, lol
36:55 ‘I’ Finals
45:23 ‘U’ Finals
i want to begin my journey on leaning Chinese, i need help and a good teacher
51:20 ‘Ü’ Finals
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@jittichaijuntaratin5303这个哥大概是我听过的英音里发音最清晰最标准的了，中文讲的几乎没有瑕疵！！！
@HueyChaoOutstandingly good. That is a pure gold. Thank you!
@dimakarpov19561st time
@azmainfaiak8111Thank you so much! I'm grateful that I benefited from your explanation.
@yasoouyasmine37:15 UNCLEEEEEEE
@an_Orange_under_a_CapybaraPLEASE tell or explain how to say character #8 cong correctly; from in English. Where in your video do You recommend to teach Me since when You say it sounds like T does in English not the co I'm used to in English. Thanks in advance Rob
@robertschmidt8624Thank you a lot!
@dimakarpov1956谢谢
@0114-ion再見 = 'again see' = auf wiedersehen (German)
為什麼 = 'for what' = pourquoi (French)
I wondered what Mr. Clean was up to these days
@juliacosma9649Wow.. this tutorial is great 💫💫💫the best💯🌸💪
@geneoluminologyYeah, when my Chinese dad tried saying English, I barely understood. Better off saying Chinese to me 😅
@Hey_There-245growing up as a filipino and english native, I don't find any of these difficult at all and めっちゃ安心した
@wardd0710OH MY GOD!!!!!! I totally cannot pronounce xi and shi.. now I can!!!!!! I really have nooooo idea how to say it differently.
@eimonchanchan2478Love your humor.... you have made this thing easy ...this is my 5am mission to learn chinese and i bumped to you ... thank you
@shantellemoyo7148Thank you 😊
@yukleiSuch a great video. Helped me a lot. Thank you very much. But i have just one question. What do i do improve my tones. Like i can't hear the tones when i practice so i don't even know where I'm failing so that j can fix it. Please help me 😢thank you for the video. 💕💕
@MinChristy_97E is Ø in norwegian ;P o is Å a lot of the qi xi zh ch pronouciations are similar to what makes norwegian difficult, the differences between Ski (like xi) Kj (like ch) and Skj (like sh)
@elementalgolem54986:19 about Tones
@aanya4818The sounds of tougher initials match with that of hindi consonants. That's the only thing I found easier as a chinese learner ❣️😂.
@Bhagat8006Thank you so much. What a great great Laoshi. By referring to similar word sounds, you helped me pronounce correctly syllables I have had trouble with in 4 months of Mandarin lessons.
@sallasarr6938谢谢
@NoName-rb6fjoffcially journey starts here march 01,2026
@yueliang2713As a spanish native who is learning english and mandarin at same time, this video was like found gold, love your pronunciation in both languages !!!
@mailyncanas3175Hello I'm confused, you said only the top combinations of the vowel ü are spelled with the letter y in the beginning and other than that it's spelled ü, but then proceeded to show the word qù. ... Which isn't an umlaut... I already know the word 去 but never noticed that it's pronounced qü but worked qu in pinyin, why is that
@kingjae-gerWhen you speaking mandarin most word has a sisisi sound , it is like you’re whistling, listen to it make you laugh
@riccym4039Mandarin is a cheap and rudimentary peking dialect. It is a shame that asking all Chinese use it rather Cantonese is a much much better, profound, beautifully sounding language that has been speaking for two thousand five hundred years by Chinese, the guy pushing mandarin is truly an upside down guy ashamed to all Chinese
@riccym4039普通話講話時都是sisisi像在吹口哨，真是一種低級爛語文更無有資格成為宇宙間及月球上所有的眞中國人的共語，它是中國一簡溜無深度的方言
普通話國語是真老土低能的语文及難聽
因你在講國語普通話時:””你那條舌都伸不直不管講話及唱歌都很難聽！ “”
你知道你講國語普通話說什麼是是時時事事實實，十十十十，去去去去，唉呀！好像在""吹口哨“不但不好聽是"！難聽""還有“耳"跟“而“又是同音，這是什麽音？普通話都是假聲虛音，好難聽！普通話十個有八個字是同音, 用這種簡留而沒有深度的語文來成中國國家公語真是中國人的悲哀.
應用高質量語文如粵語 好聽及博大精深，更能再傳五千年，粵語在中國已運用了二千五百年了.
簡體字更是未殺五千年中華文化的凶手是中國人的恥辱，傳統中文字每一個字都是一段故事 字的結構看得出及反影出每個字內的函意及中華文化，傳統， 民生的喜怒衷樂。簡體字就不知像什麼確實是中華民族的悲哀-我淚在心裡流！！你可知""粵語是世界公認最好聽的語言之一，之最"！
國語歌真難聽只知道尖叫聽聽張學友水連天比普通話歌就知道粵語歌好聽太多
聽聽費玉清，周傑倫，周深 娘娘嗆 歌就真難聽
粵語九聲六調，國語普通話四去聲，粵語的音優越一聽便知，所以用普通話為中國的共語是全宇宙中國人的恥辱
國語普通語應該真真正的歸還給粵語，那才是真真正正中國人共同的語文
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