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Survival Chinese Chapter 2 Lesson 1 Family, relationships
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Okay, so in the previous video, we learned how to say possession like, this is mine, that's yours. So the most natural thing to learn now would be mom and dad and sister and siblings and those funny words. So let's start with mom and dad. They're actually quite easy, and they're quite universal. It is what most countries would do something similar to mama and papa. So in Chinese would be Mama.

Okay. And that would be dad obviously. Got you on that one, almost. And we've got dad and there'll be Baba. Okay? Because D and B are very easy letters to pronounce for these little infants.

And therefore, it's either become a D for many languages, or B for Chinese in this case, and many other Asian languages as well. Actually. We've got mama and we've got Baba. Okay. And now what's interesting is to teach you siblings as in brother and sister, they actually forwards for that and you can probably guess why every time you get a question. Do you have any siblings?

Then you go Yeah, for instance, I have a sister then the second question will always be How old is she? Is he younger or older than you? So Chinese have just thought well, guys Unless you save some time here and find a word for older or younger sister immediately, so there is no word for your sister You have to say tha which is older sister or May May, which is younger sister. So both of these words are already in play if she's older or younger than you save second question. Wonderful, isn't it? So let's go through those again.

We've got to see it here. And we've got Mamie. Mamie fantastic. Now the second one as brother as an older, younger and older would be good, good. Good. Good.

That sounds a bit funny, I think. I think all of these are supposed to be very easy and they're all repeated as well. You've got Bubba and Mama, you've got Jia, Jia, Mei Mei. It's always just one word, one character but then we repeat it. I think it's supposed to be easy for young little again infants to pronounce and therefore we made them as easy as possible. So it's good and then it's Didi if it's a visa younger brother of yours, fantastic.

So now we know mom, dad and older siblings. We can say Tasha, okay he or he is and then what are you can say and then You would be I don't know, brother. Good, good or DD we can say, fantastic. So be sure what are good, good or DD. Fantastic, isn't it? Now one last thing that I want to mention to you as well hopefully no infants or kids are watching.

Hopefully everyone is above 18. So I don't have to be ashamed of saying this. Anyways, there's slang for the genitals for the male and the female genitals. And so for the male ones, we actually call it little brother. So if it's a DD, it could refer to your younger brother or it could refer to that other younger brother. And similarly to females, you would say memory, which is your younger sister, but also Well, there's no one here but yeah, you get it may may means that thing as well.

So if you say partial, well, there may may. That sounds it could sound a bit awkward To the untrained ear or to the trained ear. Yeah, that's your pic. Casual at the moment. Tasha Gigi, Tasha, Tasha, Didi fantastic. One last thing that I want you to notice here as well.

That you'll know tower Chinese is just so facilitated, we can call it, it feels like whenever the Chinese people realized, oh, but this, we don't have to do this, then they just omitted it instead. So whenever you talk about family, you say my brother, you don't actually have to say my brother in any Asian languages, actually, that I've come across so far. And you just have to say, I am brother, because it's implied that if I'm saying this is a brother, then it's the brother who's related to you so you can skip the.in between that so that would in Chinese sound like war. War good goes, You don't even have to say What does not might strike you as very awkward and weird, but actually think about it. It's quite relieving, actually. So yeah, you just have to say, Tasha, Tasha, Didi, Tasha Watson, Tasha Mamie, and we're good.

Actually mom and dad as well. Tasha Baba Tasha mama fantastic. Porsche GT. Song, a song sister with a movement posture was the song, the song This was a movement

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