Learn Mandarin Chinese – Ask “Who are you?” + (Lesson 4)

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Expanding on the previous lesson, you’ll learn the Chinese characters for the sentences as well as giving yourself a chance to answer some questions on the spot. You’ll learn the question words: shéi and shénme (who and what).

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Display 1 – 1:03 – 你是谁？我是王大年。
Display 2 – 5:53 – 你是谁？我是胡美玲。
Display 3 – 7:25 – 你姓什么？我姓王。
Display 4 – 10:32 – Answer questions
Display 5 – 12:19 – 他是谁？他是马明理。
Display 6 – 14:22 – More questions
Display 7 – 15:58 – 谁
Display 8 – 17:18 – 什么

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Hi, I’m Fame Ketover of Lenguin.com, and this is Mandarin Chinese. This is the second part on questions and answers about names. In this lesson you’ll get practice in producing the sentences learned in the last lesson.

Remember to pay particular attention to identifying and remembering the tone patterns of words. As a speaker of English you’re not in the habit of associating contours of pitch with individual words. But you’ll need to as a student of Chinese. Remember, there’s no such thing as the right word but in the wrong tone.

Here’s the first exchange we had in the last lesson.
Ni shi shéi.
Wo shi Wáng Dànián.

To make this R sound you have to curl the tip of your tongue back. The SH part of “shì” is also pronounced with the tip of the tongue curled back in what we call the retroflex position. Try repeating “shì” again, making sure to keep the tip of your tongue curled back throughout.

We are translating “shì” as “am” here because we are working on the sentence “I am Wang Danian”. But remember that it can also be translated “are” and “is”. In other words, “shì” is the verb “to be”. The word “am” also gets partly swallowed up in English so that “I am” is contracted to “I’m” in just the same way “shì” is often weakened in a Chinese sentence to the point where nothing is left but a toneless SH sound. Listen.

It might help to think of “xìng” as halfway between the first syllables of the English words “single” and “shingle”. If it sounds more like “shingle” to you, notice these two differences. “xìng” is pronounced with the tongue farther forward and with the lips spread.

Let’s see if you can give the appropriate answers to the two questions “who are you?” and “what’s your name?”. Taking the part of Wang Danian, answer before the second speaker and then repeat after him.

Ni shi shéi?
Wo shi Wáng Dànián.

Ni xìng shénme?
Wo xìng Wáng.

Ni shi shéi?
Wo shi Wáng Dànián.