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so black myth Wukong has been breaking
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record and students in my course have
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been playing the Chinese version and I'm
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seeing even more people saying they want
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to learn Chinese to understand the story
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and game better and all for it I think
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this is one of the best ways to learn
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Chinese in 2024 so let's break down some
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useful Chinese phrases in the game that
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will help you sound like a native as
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well my pronunciation book cam starting
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on September 23rd let's
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[Music]
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go what
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so why did they
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have that's a good
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[Laughter]
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question it's a super common sentence
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structure where we bring the object to
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the beginning of the sentence as the
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topic of the sentence why that we want
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to talk about it and we want the
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listener to pay attention to it okay so
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it's like emphasis right it's usually
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emphasis of the sentence
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Okay so we've got some dialect
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words I use one of those all the time
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both of them are from northern dialects
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usually and is war but you get this
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Countryside
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Vibe so it's used in a lot of Northern
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dialect areas
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like Shand
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I'm so it's super down to earth so what
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about sha like I use sha a lot myself so
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sha is even more common I feel like a
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lot of Southern Chinese people would use
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it all the time the is just you can
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say uh or just like what yeah shock
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surprise yeah it's a lot more casual
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probably don't want to use it with your
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boss don't use it with your boss
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so you can hear the pitch range of his
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tones change a lot within this
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sentence so the last part is drastically
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lower than the first part and this is
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how we stress the key information in the
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Chinese sentence and express different
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emotions and the last third of my f
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voice course and Bot Camp are
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specifically designed to getting you
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sounding less robotic and more natural
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speaking
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Chinese so I really like this section it
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was the first part that I had to like
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stop and go back listen to it
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again which also very hard to pronounce
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yes it is so what do we have there
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pronunciation there are XJ sounds that
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don't exist in English so they are
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usually more difficult for English
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speakers Americans to pronounce they DTC
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you need a lot of time to just really
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build a good pronunciation habit on that
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because otherwise you say G CH she
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and very wrong you need to do a lot of
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drills your tongue needs to be in the
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right place Al I just like really like
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when he says
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like it's just like the
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Classico that everyone knows and loves
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in China it's it's weird cuz like that
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pronunciation the like really high to
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the low pitch all his like fourth tones
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I think are just like would not work in
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English cuz you just sound like a
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teenager going through puberty type of
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thing sound really weird but that sound
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more like Bing manding intonation the
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Beijing accent actually has like a much
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wider pitch range yeah yeah it's pretty
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wide so is probably from Beijing it
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actually had like another thing right
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now that is really hard for a lot of
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people when they're learning
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[Music]
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what were the tones there that happened
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this is the tough part yeah all of the
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syllables are actually originally with
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the third tone so yeah don't but in
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Chinese we don't pronounce them all with
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the third tone we need to change the
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third tone here so you can either say or
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if you say the first two faster this is
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why I always tell people like you need
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to learn with phrases cuz otherwise like
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yeah you learn oh there's this rule but
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when you
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learn it you start to get that muscle
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memory and it makes it a lot easier to
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actually just do it automatically in the
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future rather than just trying to think
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of it on the spot when you're trying to
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say something keep drilling it basically
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and especially for those really high
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frequency ones and that's what we do in
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the boot camp
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[Music]
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[Music]
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what just happened there if you've been
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learning Chinese for a while you've
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probably heard is just like you know the
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theing word were the common one what is
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that also means Ma and you can use it
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everywhere in the sentence like the f
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word the later part like I think is
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really interesting cuz like I don't I
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think I can go really high but like the
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show and again this is how we stress
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something in a Chinese sentence so sh
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hos increase the pitch range drastically
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while still we keep the tone Contours so
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people can still hear and understand
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what you are saying or which tones you
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are saying this is like the hard part
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though cuz a lot of people they can do
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it in isolation you just
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have the same word with correct tones is
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not that hard but getting all the tones
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correct in the sentence is a whole
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another level I feel like this is
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something like a lot of people really
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ignore they learn the tones for one word
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and then they just keep going and they
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never put it all together like I was
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saying got to learn phrases you need to
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put it in a sentence and also we change
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the page range in the sentence all the
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time and that takes time to get a hand
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out and we spend quite some time on that
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in our boot camp
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[Music]
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I actually really like the way that he
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speaks cuz I think it's it's something
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that a lot of people just don't mention
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in classes where something with the same
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tone can be higher or lower depending on
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how important it is or what's going on
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so like what does he have here the
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modifiers here are like
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stress here and the volume the tance and
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the page range of these parts are
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significantly different from the rest of
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the sentence they're really important
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information right and if you don't have
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a solid foundation of tones and when you
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want to emphasize something in a Chinese
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sentence or put in more emotions the
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tones can go off very easily we'll talk
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a little bit about how I practice
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sentences in a bit but just you need to
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just really be thinking about what is
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higher lower longer louder quieter and
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like that that stuff is what really
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differentiates you know a guy who can
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kind of speak Chinese as someone who
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speaks pretty well to a native
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speaker I love his
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intonation so I feel like in general
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Aran speaks a little bit more formally
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than him but he's also got a right above
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his
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just I like the the intonation
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what is pay actually so pay means be
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worthy of someone or something you can
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say pay or with compliments
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P so it's I don't deserve you or like
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I'm not good enough for you pay is
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deserve something in a good way in
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English you also say you deserve
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that yeah that's a different phrase yeah
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so deserve this one is definitely a good
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deserve he's just telling everybody like
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hey get back I am the only one that can
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fight him no one
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is actually good enough to challenge him
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except
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me so he definitely speaks a lot more
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formally than yeah cuz he's a god
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so what
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is definitely stop give up so if we
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change it to like more casual speech
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it's
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just so that's not the end of it I won't
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leave it there I'll be back I will get
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revenge he also use some other words
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that are are common in I guess spoken
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speech but not just one character by
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itself
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so I would say but he says I would say
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and he says super form if you're reading
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a book if you're reading some
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articles definitely see that but in
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normal speech you're definitely going to
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hear
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more yeah people don't really say it
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AR sounds more like a villain here yeah
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I definitely get that Vibe but what did
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he say just now this is actually the
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part I think in the first 20 minutes of
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the game where I was just like I don't
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know what he
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said what is
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that means a lot of people or creatures
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died or they're murdered
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was kind of like a God they're
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co-workers yes we were co-workers for a
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while and I don't want to fight you and
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then he
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says so basically want him to KNE down
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admit that you made a
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mistake which is a little bit more
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casual speech yeah
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yeah is back to the super formal style
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and it
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means how about that you could use that
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at the end of a question
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or you can also say plus verb means how
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to do
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something if you're searching on Google
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how to learn
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Chinese it's weird if you can't
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use you probably don't need to search
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and ask
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[Laughter]
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question
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fore
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fore foree
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just come at me
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bro okay what else does he
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have
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BS so can be used as an adjective or a
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verb so someone happy basically just
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doing something to make somebody laugh
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make someone smile makeone happy or just
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someone is a pretty common restive
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compliment
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yeah until there's nothing left so kill
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everyone dead finish all the food drink
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all of the
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beer here go it's just so just a kind of
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pejorative so everyone from the heaven
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court is like a dog and I'm going to
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kill everyone of you and dog in Chinese
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usually
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bad thing often times cuz in English you
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might say you lucky dog Lucky Dog what
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do you think of the language in in the
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game in general so there's a definitely
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a lot of formal phrases sentences or
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special terms words but it's a good mix
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of different styles and I know some
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students in my course have been
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imitating and learning from the game and
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I think these are just like really good
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for learning because you get a lot of
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people who fall in love with a game or
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fall in love with a TV show if you're
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willing to just listen to it over and
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over and imitate it you're going to get
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really good not just at those sentences
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but it starts to actually expand into
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other areas in donations what I would do
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is just take a couple of the sentences
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there are in here in the subtitles you
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can just like copy it down and listen to
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that clip over and over and over and pay
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attention to when it's really high and
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when it's really low and obviously in
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normal speech you're not going to say
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like you're not going to talk like that
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but if you can imitate it well it's
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going to just help with just your
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general speech even though you're
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speaking in a way that you probably
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won't in your day-to-day life I will
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tell people all the time this is one of
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the most effective things that you can
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do just trying to imitate it I would
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even take notes on a piece of paper and
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then Shadow it just try to do it in sync
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with the person or with the character
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and just try to get not only the actual
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characters and the pronunciation but the
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tones obviously then the pitch the
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length the
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volume and it sounds complicated but
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after you do that a couple times it
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starts to get easier and easier and if
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you do that with some high frequency
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sentences you're going to sound really
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good and I always tell my students like
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it's completely fine to exaggerate a
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little bit when you practice
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pronunciation but of course first you
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need to know what is the correct way to
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pronounce them and then just do the
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drill and form a habit if you're looking
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to master pronunciation right now her
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boot camp is starting on September 23rd
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where she goes over finals initials
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obviously tones intonation so it's not
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just stuff within a character or a word
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but also within the sentence and how you
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start reducing something so you can
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actually sound more like a native and
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it's not just for your speaking because
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if you know these rules if you know how
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people are doing it you're going to be
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able to understand it better and you're
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going to be able to have better
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conversations plus you get personalized
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feedback every day every day yes and we
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live stream with me where we do oneone
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session and you can ask away any
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questions you have so check out the link
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below and now you can sign up starts on
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September 23rd and remember with SP
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Chinese makes perfect sense see you in
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