Learn Intermediate Conversational Chinese _ How Should I Address You_ _ Yoyo Chinese.

Hello what's your name Hello my name is Yang He Run Hello what's your name Beisha How do you wish to be addressed My surname is Sun Mr Sun hello Mr Liu hello My name is Liu May I ask your name My name is Wang Wang Just call me Xiao Wang Okay Xiao Wang Hello what's your name Hello my name is Yang He Run Hello what's your name Beisha How should I address you My surname is Sun Mr Sun hello Mr Liu hello My name is Liu What is your name My name is Wang Wang Just call me Xiao Wang Okay Xiao Wang We start by watching a real Chinese conversation in each class then I will cut this part and explain all the important language points step by step I think you will like this format Because I will Okay no delay at all Let's look at the first part Hello what's your name Hello my name is Yang He Ru Hello what is your name Beisha In our beginner's class What is your name Hello what's your name Hello my name is Yang He-run Hello what's your name Beisha It's like the English "may I ask" this is really useful when approaching strangers because you can make yourself sound extra polite however you don 't really need this for someone you are close to Like your friends or family You usually use "Please" when you ask a stranger a question Also don't make the mistake a lot of foreigners make They think "Please" means Excuse me in every situation Remember it' s only used if you want to ask a question After all "wen" means ask Alright here's another way to ask someone what their name is How do you wish to be addressed My surname is Sun Mr Sun hello It literally is "you" How to address And that means how should I address you "You" is a polite "you " "How to" is "how to" Calling someone means addressing them "So how do you want to be addressed " is a great way to let the other person tell you how they want to be addressed Well when our host asks The gentleman with glasses says "How do you address me " He says "My surname is Sun " That means my last name is Sun In Chinese the word "xìng" is both a verb and a noun It can mean last name or to be last named as Well I know it doesn't It makes sense in English but just remember when you want to say my last name is Smith you say "I am surnamed Smith" Basically he gives a clue to our host as to ow he wants to be addressed So our host starts to address him as Mr Sun Mr Sun hello Let's watch this part again How do you want to be addressed My surname is Sun Let's move on Mr Hello What is your surname I am Mr Liu Mr Liu Hello Another very polite and formal way of asking someone's last name is "You" is the formal "you" The term "Xing" means to be last named Here " Gui" means of high rank You already learned " Gui" before and it means expensive For example when you complain something is too expensive You say "Too expensive too expensive" when you ask "What's your honorable last name" you' really asking what's your honorable last name it's quite useful in a formal or business occasio Or when you want to show off your Chinese Chinese people will say " What " Anyway how would you answer this question " Your surname please" Well this is what the gentleman says My surname is Liu Well this is actually pretty advanced stuff So if you say this you'll get some serious admiration from your Chinese counterparts In this sentence Do not mention the surname Liu "Mian" means to avoid or to remove So the whole sentence literally means to remove the "Gui" part My last name is Liu It's an extremely humble way of answering the questio What's your honorable last name My last name is not that honorable Let's get rid of the " honorable" part and leave my last name as it is My surname is Liu You might be like What in the world are you talking about This all sounds very strange Well I know This over the top of expressing humility It's very very Chinese sometimes it may even seem a little bit too much and completely unnecessary to westerners but I think it' s pretty cool to learn that so you can pleasantly surprise your Chinese friends Why not Mr Hello What's your surname If you don 't mind my asking I'm Liu Mr Hello May I ask what your honorable last name is What is your surname Here she omitted you in the sentence The gentleman says My surname is Wang He's saying remove the "gui" part My last name is Wang Upon hearing tha Our host starts addressing him as Mr Wang Mr But when hears our host calling him Mr which is very formal he says " Just call me Xiao Wang " "Okay Xiao Wang " Just call me Xiao Wang Here please memorize the sentence structure call me so and so is enough It means just call me so and so Here call me so and so means call me so and so It will do or it will be alright You can also say "jiu xing le" "Jiu ke yi le" and "jiu xing le" mean the same thing For example if someone asks you "Nin zěnme chēnghū" which means "How should I address you" You can say "call me Zhang" or " call me Zhang already " both of which literally mean " calling me Zhang will do " Ok repeat after me: "call me Mary" Just call me Mary Anyway this interviewee looks quite young so he' s probably not very used to people calling him Mr yet Just call me Xiao Wang Okay Xiao Wang Very good Now you know different ways to address someone Please try to use them so that you can start diversifying your Chinese sentences I hope you enjoyed our very first intermediate conversational Chinese lesson See you next time Next time Bye All right see you next time Goodbye