Stop Using These RUDE Chinese Words | Chinese Learning

Stop Using These RUDE Chinese Words | Chinese Learning

In this video, I introduce 5 words with negative nuances that you might use unwittingly. Different words may have similar meanings but can often express a totally different tone. Let's find out what the five common words that may unintentionally offend people are!

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[GraceMandarinChinese]

Thank you for the 50k subs! 🎉
I hope you enjoyed today's video! <3

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Some pronunciation differences:

03:57 東西（东西）
TW (Taiwanese Mandarin): dōngxī / ㄉㄨㄥ ㄒㄧ in daily life
CM (Chinese Mandarin): dōngxi / ㄉㄨㄥ ㄒㄧ˙

[ajax]

嗯 is literally when you keep texting “k” to someone

[Rypervenche]

I like how you've separated the 注音 with the traditional characters and the pinyin with the simplified characters. It makes it much easier to read for traditional/zhuyin users. 👍

[kerrymok]

Out of all the Chinese learning channels on YouTube, you stand out a lot of by using the Taiwan writing system. Also I like how you show Simplified and Traditional characters as well. Keep it up!

[Aerikku]

Thank you so much ! I actually didn't know 不行 was more appropriate than 不可以 but i think i used it more naturally.
This kind of content is extremly usefull even for advanced speaker as we don't always have friends or teacher that dare to explain this aspect. Haha
I would love you to make videos only in chinese, explaining chinese concept and all IN chinese that would be amazing !

[leajohnson]

you are seriously the BEST teacher you always pinpoint the parts of chinese that i was always curious about but none of my Chinese friends could answer me or couldnt even think of how to let me know these things. so thank you so much~~ <3

[corgilover]

I love how organized and well planned your videos are you dont know how much you help me during my online classes 🥺

[chungchhen]

Hi Grace! Thanks for helping us to notice the "hidden" meanings of these words/phrases. Job well done!

[bitasafdari]

I really found it interesting and useful specially the usage of 不要.

[lyah]

your channel is probably the most helpful to me for learning practical, real life usage of Chinese not just meaning or grammar! thank you.

[clonkex]

I LOVE the role play, it's weirdly helpful!

[midinette]

So useful as usual! Thank you for the explanations and precision about this! It's so helpful

[Lin_The_Cat_]

2:26 I learned about the negative connotation of using 嗯 thanks to Aggretsuko lol. I like to watch all those shows with Chinese subtitles, and so when she (the protagonist) went out with her coworker, he would keep responding with 嗯, and she quickly got tired of his indifferent demeanour in their conversation. It’s good to know for sure that it can be taken to be rude, though! Especially understandable in text, since you can’t really use body language and other cues to hint that you don’t mean 嗯 in a rude way.

[InvaderMixo]

Phenomenal teaching skill! You're great at explaining things about the Chinese language in English.

[klaha]

不想 - don't feel like (opinionated)
不要 - don't want to (authoritative, stronger tone)

Both has its usages depending on the emphasis of what the speaker wants (to reject) and might not necessarily relate to negativity.

[babyanie]

I don't speak Chinese and never really had the desire to do so but for unto I realized for one reason or anotherb I hear it every day. I love figuring out what is acceptable and what isn't. Thank you

[TheTMax]

It seems I have been the rudest person ever!😳😅 Thanks for the correction!

[natalia-pzcb]

can you pleaseee do an in depth video on 了 im still struggling with it 😭

[kellieliang]

This was super helpful since I learned Chinese mostly from my mom. 不要 was something I heard often. :P I wonder how many times I accidentally used it in a rude way to other Chinese speakers.

[PaulCHa]

This video was great! I think you can do a whole video just on 想vs 要. It’s probably one of the most common newbie questions.