Understand FAST CHINESE | The Northern Accent Explained Video
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In this video, we’re gonna learn how to understand Chinese people from Beijing and generally northern China when they start speaking fast in real life!
Basically, a LOT of words end up being pronounced pretty differently from how they show up in your Chinese textbooks, so even if you’ve been studying for a long time, it might be hard to understand natives!
If you’ve ever been to Beijing, you’re probably familiar with the “pirate-like” ARRR (also known as 儿化) that’s typical there and throughout most of Northern China, as well as Sichuan and Chongqing.
You might also have heard the classic “Bu’r dao” from a Beijing taxi driver, but the thing is that all of these pronunciation features have rules, and learning them will REALLY help you understand fast Chinese speech better.
PLUS, not only will this help improve your listening skills, it’ll make you sound more authentic (地道 dìdao) when speaking! Who doesn’t want that!
Today we cover:
00:00 Intro
00:21 How textbook Mandarin and REAL Mandarin are different
01:20 Neutral tones & Rhythm in Standard Mandarin and Beijing Mandarin
02:56 How Tones are exaggerated in Bejing Mandarin
03:54 ERHUA (The R sound) sound in Beijing Mandarin
06:42 When Beijingers use 您
07:36 Commonly-Used Pronouns are pronounced differently
09:06 When “w” becomes “v”
09:45 Finals “a/e/en” are easily dropped or softened
10:39 When “zh/sh” become “r”
11:54 When “j” becomes “y”
12:16 "Y" could be dropped
12:26 "H" could be dropped
13:20 The VERY Beijing “th” sound
14:01 How syllables merge
14:24 NEVER change the beginning of a sentence
Remember, Chinese makes perfect sense!
Video Sources:
Shi Lu interview：https://youtu.be/SYlsyaBAXdM
FANG Qingping Stand-Up Comedy：https://youtu.be/RJCcAjRBQ5o
Chang Xiaoliang：https://youtu.be/cUgzqexCNs4
Purple Soul “Purple Soul”：https://youtu.be/K-aCyl_Aeh0
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