Liyue Locations: Pronunciation Guide (Genshin Impact)
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- Опубліковано 7 лип 2024
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Timestamps:
00:00 Start
00:06 Introduction
00:53 Qingce Village (+ note on 后鼻音)
01:44 Dihua Marsh
02:14 Wangshu Inn
02:49 Guili Plains
03:00 Qingxu Pool (+ note on diphthongs)
03:42 Yaoguang, Guyun, Wuwang, Liyue
04:45 Tianheng, Lingju, Dunyu (+ note on glottal stops)
04:45 Tianqiu, Nantianmen, Hulao, Huaguang
05:07 Qingyun, Jueyun, Cuijue
05:43 Mingyun, Aocang, Luhua
07:08 Character I missed last time (Baizhu, Xinyan, Ganyu, Yanfei)
07:57 FAQ: Are you Chinese?
08:14 Note: Southern Chinese dialects/accents
09:19 Note: accent "correctness"
10:37 FAQ: Why is Zhongli pronounced "Shouri" in Japanese?
11:10 Thank you + outro
Liyue Character names pronunciation guide: • Liyue Characters: Pron...
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Liyue characters pronunciation guide: ua-cam.com/video/p10yiwULJA8/v-deo.html
I stream on Twitch at www.twitch.tv/ying
More fine-grained timestamps are in the description, here's some high-level ones:
00:06 Introduction
00:53 Location names
07:08 Character names I missed last time
07:57 FAQ + notes
11:10 Thank you + outro
I'm glad y'all found the last video so helpful! I tried to break down the sounds a lot more slowly and carefully this time, please let me know how well it works for you! :D
Also, I got a lot of requests for a character name meanings video, lmk if that sounds interesting to y'all and I'll hop on it woooooo
Ganyu -> " 噶牛 " ...
Thank you for these videos, I really enjoy learning how to pronounce their names! That being said, I would love to find out about their name meanings and how the characters took inspiration from Chinese culture! Thank you again!
Laoshi hen piao liang.
yes, i would like to know their meanigns
Damn i love that intro
Me imitating Rhodeia while fighting her after learning the correct pronunciation: "An assassin from our homeland? Or a fool who trespasses upon the waters of 𝓠𝓲𝓷𝓰𝓬𝓮✨?"
HELP THE CURSIVE
PLSS
You mean kinky Village what pisses me off is rodea canonically murdered the entire inhabitants of the younger generation of that Village by drowning them and then calls you an intruder when she literally fled from the queen of whatever the heck creature she is and her own country
ikr she pronounces it like chain sa
I ASCENDED BEYOND CELESTIA-
You're a godsend when it comes to fully understanding these pronunciations!
Yes
Hi @Gacha Gamer 🍏
I'm honored you think so!! Thank you for your learning effort ❤️
Siiiimp
@@suntzu-theartofwar7160 ?
Qingce village: 0:55
Dihua marsh: 1:45
Wangshu inn 2:17
Guili plains: 2:49
Qingxu pool: 3:00
Yaoguang shoal: 3:42
Guyun stone forest: 3:47
Wuwang hill: 3:56
Liyue harbor: 3:59
Mt. Tianheng: 4:05
Lingju pass: 4:09
Dunyu ruins: 4:13
Tianqiu valley: 4:46
Nantianmen: 4:52
Mt. Hulao: 4:57
Huaguang stone forest: 5:03
Qingyun peak: 5:07
Jueyun karst: 5:11
Cuijue slope: 5:19
Mingyun village: 5:43
Mt. Aocang: 5:47
Luhua pool: 6:33
Thanks
Not all heroes wear capes
@@vfx_amin some have a xiao pfp
Omg u didn't even edit it
@@pixelwashere8422 yeah, true legend
I'm a linguistics minor, and it was cool hearing you talk about Chinese dialects. Something we discuss in our class is how some dialects are only called so for political reasons and should in fact be different languages, and sometimes the reverse is true, like the fact dutch and German are technically dialects of a single language but for political reasons we call them different languages
Dutch is as close to German as it is to English. That would make English and German dialects of the same language. All three of them are too different from each other though, that's why they are languages instead of dialects.
@@kostuchan4418 closeness isn't what makes something a dialect, it's mutual intelligibility, which is found between German and Dutch speakers
According to my professor at least
@@trevorbrooks7816 interesting to note is that some chinese dialects are far enough apart that speakers of one dialect can't understand the other
Chinese topolect sinitic sino tibetan
I used to say “Coochie slope” instead of cuijue slope
thank you for your service omfg this is my favorite
Mine is “Kojie Soap” instead of Cuijue slope
i’ve said that before accidentally and it would always make me laugh like crazy
@@zbyshrek4661 damn you are creative
I always call it cajuichi slope for some reason😭
As a Japanese person playing this game since its release, it's interesting to see how these places in Liyue are pronounced in Mandarin. Funny story is that lots of Japanese people are struggling to read names of the places or weapons in Japanese because Genshin uses Chinese characters that are not really familiar to Japanese people 😂
Inazuma will be the other way around for you.
Im not Japanese, but I can read some of it
So when I switched the language to japanese, Mondstadt's map was very easy to read
Until you got to Liyue, it was an absolute nightmare
The reason I gave up on Japanese text 😂😂
are they using characters that don't exist in Japanese, or characters that exist but are used seldomly and not many Japanese are familiar with the words? Kanji seems to be something a lot of Japanese struggle with in general.
If they're using characters that don't exist in the JP language, that's a failure of the localization staff.
@@lostn65 Its more like when catheryn says "ad astra abyssosque"
You don't know what it means in English, but you can generally guess the meaning
In Japanese Liyue, its similar to that. It's hard to read the names
As a Chinese myself, I confirm that Chinese is both a beautiful and adorable language, basically Japanese but in all Kanji XD
Also, for those interested, try Genshin in CN original, you won't regret ❤️
Edit: for those who don't understand why I said 'Japanese but in all Kanji despite not having the same pronunciation', it's because Chinese uses all hanzi (Kanji in Japanese), while Japanese has hira and kata, and since most hanzi and kanji have the same characters, Chinese is basically Japanese but all Kanji (in this case, hanzi) (the languages are not similar tho!) , whereas Japanese has hira and kata to make the language more beautiful and stand out 💕
OG CN Paimon is so soft compared to Japanese and English (not sure about Korean Paimon)
@@Kitty294_ yeah she sounds kind and sweet :D
Zhongli’s CN voice is 👌👌👌
@@ZMike38 yes ✨ ✨ ✨
yes!!! im a big fan of the CN voices especially kaeyas
my Chinese name is 馨妍, pronounced xīn yán, and I never checked xinyan's Chinese characters or pinyin so ive been pronouncing it like my name this whole time xD man if only the yan in her name was 2nd tone
Did they have to put you on yoimiyas banner
you have more than one name 💀
@@0xVENx0 some people who have cultural names who live in america or other majority english speaking countries have an english name aswell as their cultural name , im not sure if this is the case for the commenter here but just my guess
非常漂亮的名字
@@interntangel yeah this is exactly right :D
out of all the places in Liyue, i only got one right,
stone gate
I got Luhua Pool right but that's about it ^^"
So you can pronounce shí mén ey? /j
Lmao 🤣
this murdered me
i got 10
Me as a French person trying to pronounce these:
"wait, this is the easiest thing ever"
Many Pin yin and French alphabet sound the same especially vowels , example: i, a, u, o, y
I was surprised how (one of the) chinese 'u's sounded like the german ü
@@redhidinghood9337 And Chinese has a ü sound (like in 女, romanized as nü) but it sounds like a German u ...
This always messes me up
@@redhidinghood9337 Me too! and the "ch" in "ich" is like the "x" in Chinese! So if you can speak German, you already have two sounds in Chinese that are very hard for English speakers.
I can speak English and German, have studied French for 1 year, but I can't pronounce these names... Okay, maybe I can, but it's still hard for me. C'est difficile. Es ist schwierig. It is difficult.
Being the only Chinese speaker and newest player in a friend group that goes hard on Genshin makes me feel weird for pronouncing the names correctly 💀💀
I’ve been hearing the non-Chinese pronunciations and not knowing what anyone was talking about for like a year, and it feels kinda wild, especially since I told myself I wouldn’t touch the game with a 10 foot pole for the sake of my wallet and sanity
Dropped that sentiment like a hot rock two weeks ago . v .
LMFAO SAME
For me, I just guessed what the names were until I hear the characters saying them. Like zhongli, I was calling him Zhong- gil or something, and calling the noctilucas jade. Noxious jade
Language and names are important, and if people criticize you, you`re probably doing something right ;)
Same lol
same here
On top of everything, this also helps me appreciate the Liyue landscape and how each location has its own aesthetic and beauty.
Its kinda cute that both Liyue and Mondstadt's name is related to the moon
I think miHoYo has obsession with the moon. Their older games also have a lot of association with the moon.
@@faaw3025 to add to that, their first game, IIRC, was FlyMe2TheMoon. Name drop right there.
resin is also in moon shape
Wondering if Inazuma is also related to the moon or not
And the moon in game doesn't even have a lunar cycle
Pretty sus ic you ask me
Omg, so I was not hallucinating or anything when one day I opened the map and realised Mt. Aozang became Mt. Aocang XD was confusion
YEAH I WAS REALLY ?????? when it happened ajfjsjfn
it changed into aochang?!!! i dont even realize it all this time lol
Omg same I was so confused thinking I had it wrong the whole time 😭
I was soooo confused i thought it was just different devices who had an update where it changed ppls maps lol
It doesnt' change in my account it still aozang anybody can eksplain?
I play in mobile btw...
Oh my archon!! Your smile can light up all of teyvat! Just seeing it and feeling the positive elemental energy you give off while doing these pronounuations has made my day better 😃
I'm a multilingual speaker (born and raised in Europe, with chinese parents) and have the game set in english, and it was super nice finally knowing what the actual names are!! (just for reference, I've been saying 望舒 as 王书 😂)
On why JP VA pronounce CN names differently: Japanese has mainly 2 ways of pronounce Kanji, one is kunyomi ie. read as original Japanese. another one is onyomi ie. read as if its Chinese. However, onyomi still sounds different from modern Chinese pronounciation is bc onyomi follows ancient Chinese pronounciations which close to the dialects spoken in southern China nowadays.
As a native Japanese speaker I can confirm that you are correct 👍
The Chinese voice-over also pronounces the Japanese names differently!
Like katakana and English pronunciation
As a Japanese Learner and has a N2 level, this is true and there are some kanji are simplified from the original Chinese Kanji
Basically like Greek and Latin loanwords and compounds in English. Their pronunciations are all butchered too.
When you need to learn the pronunciation for a game.
@edy akhmad junaedy If I say it with the correct pronunciation then I'm 100% sure nobodies gonna understand me
Yup
it's okay if you need assistance, everyone has their strong points and weak points. like they said, what matters is that we're trying to learn
It's the least you can do to respect the game and the culture it represents yanno
@@bullymaguire431 then you teach them the correct pronounciations.
I love these. Absolutely find these fascinating. I find myself trying to pronounce these correctly while playing. My friends never understand when we play together 😄
Your videos are extremely useful to me; one way they stand out from other Chinese instructional videos is you are able to convey the principles of the phonetics in a way (at least for me) that is easy and fun to understand. thank you so much
when people say, keking, songli, kiki, kay-ah, and singkwee (xingqiu) it makes me-
SINGKWEE????
@@damantou IKR HOW DOES XINGQIU SOUND LIKE SINGKWEE????????
Lmao! One of my friends said Kiki and I had to correct him more than once. And I thought Xinqiu was said like Xin-kiu before I learned the correct pronunciation.
Well, I thought it was Kiki and Keking at first. Then I heard people say it correctly and heard their intros in the game, now I try to say the proper American equivalent.
NOT SINGKWEEEEE 😭😭😭😭😭😭
If only Chinese teachers were even a fraction as nice as you AHH
I WISH TEACHERS IN GENERAL WERE JUST NICER TBH
My Chinese teacher is very nice
@@ad-skyobsidion4267 same my chinese teacher is very kind
Thank you really much! Since Sinology is my major in university, I don't have any problems pronouncing the Mandarin names as a foreigner, but I really appreciate that you're helping other people!
Thank you so much for this. I have a liiiittle bit of experience with mandarin pronunciations from some videos I've watched, and I was pretty close on quite a few of these! Still, there are a TON of little things and techniques to say them truly right that I got COMPLETELY wrong... And in some cases, a few bigger things. This was extremely helpful, thank you again!
When Inazuma comes out, we’ll need a Japanese Ying 😂
I'M REALLY EXCITED FOR IT honestly i'm most scared of sumeru omg. im gonna study the videos so hard
When Snezhnaya comes out, I might have to make a similar thing. I mean, you all already pronounce the name of the country differently. (It’s SnEzhnaya, not SnezhnAya), lol :’)
actually, Japanese is easier to pronounce than Chinese (imo at least). Chinese is tone-heavy and the romanization is sometimes hard to remember (Ex: the letter "C" makes either a "kh" or "ss" sound in english, but sounds like "ts" in chinese).
With Japanese, pronunciation is more straight forward and somewhat similar to Spanish (a second language many Americans learn in school).
The only thing i can think of that will be hard for english speakers is rolling R's, and the switch of "R" and "L": There is no "L" character in Japanese, so they can't rlly pronounce it, so it sounds like a short rolling R. What's also funny is that since they can't rlly pronounce the english "R", it kinda makes an "L" sound.
OH! and i forgot. it might b hard to remember the difference between "Tsu" and "Su". The "U" is only heard in "Tsu", while it's silent in "Su", making it sound like "sss"
sorry for the long comment lol
@@berrynickt.2586 so- like-
Sneeze-naya? Instead of snez-naiya?
@@hellothereSayo No, the pronunciation is kind of on point, it’s just that the emphasis is wrong. It’s on the first syllable.
I think the point you made at the end about the variation in pronunciation in Mandarin is very important for everyone to understand, especially because the existence of "tones" may lead people to believe that pronunciation is more set in stone than it really is. "Standard" Mandarin is sort of like received pronunciation in English: it's mainly important for news broadcasters. I play with the Chinese voice overs and even though it's mostly "standard" pronunciation, there's still a certain degree of variance depending on the VA and the character. As someone with a similar background as you, it's very cool to see someone taking the time to point out these nuances in language that can't quite be conveyed in the romanization, and I think a follow-up on name meanings (a lot of work, I know) would be awesome.
thanks for clarifying the japanese nanori versions of the liyue names! as a Japanese language student i appreciate it
THANK YOU for this video, the way you explain pronunciation and provide examples and extra cultural information is so interesting and helpful, i love your vids ♥♥♥
also, as a native polish person who's fluent in english and loves studying languages in general, it's been super interesting trying to compare the sounds in polish and chinese, i feel like some of the words might be easier for us to pronounce than they are for native eng speakers (we do have a lot of sh, ch and j sounds in polish and i think they're still less complicated than the chinese ones but they don't exist in english either so explaining them to people is always a pain lmao)
anyway, thank you sm for providing us with this opportunity to learn sth cool and i hope you have fun exploring inazuma
I remember hearing that the different dialects of Chinese could be considered separate languages because a lot of them are mutually unintelligible like Wu and Yue dialects.
Yes，you're right. I speak Wu(Shanghainese) and my husband speaks Yue(cantonese), I can hardly understand what he says in Yue dialect. But my husband is smart and he moved to Shanghai when he was a teeanager, so he can 100% understand Shanghainese. I am jealous of him.
that is true. The dialects are like different languages, except they share the same script so at least they can read each other's writing. The difference in dialects when spoken are more than the difference between the scandinavian languages (Swedish, Norwegian, Danish), but those are not considered dialects of each other but separate languages (they can somewhat understand each other to a degree). Norway has a lot of what are called dialects, but in reality they are more like accents. They do understand each other better than different chinese people can understand each other.
Which dialect is the Chinese audio in Genshin?
@@kimik-sb1bc I bet it's regular Mandarin, which is the most common dialect in China. If I'm not wrong and correct me if I'm wrong but I think many people in China can speak at least some Mandarin regardless of their native dialect. Just like how many Indians can speak Hindi even if it isn't their native language. Obviously this doesn't mean all people.
@@kimik-sb1bc it’s the standardized Mandarin used in the game. Think of Mandarin for Chinese people as English for people around the globe. When two countries can’t understand each other, we introduce English. When people from 2 distant cities in China and can’t quite understand each other, we introduce Mandarin. People from India, Japan, China all sound different when they speak the same English. It’s the same idea why people from Northern China sound different than people from Southern China when they speak the same Mandarin. Mandarin is not a dialect or local language for most Chinese. It’s a universal set of pronunciations taught to us in school. Because it’s taught in school while we already speak our own set of pronunciations, our dialect, it’s very hard to get Mandarin 100% right under the influence of each dialect.
I see that almost every name on liyue has "cloud" in it, now the name "sea of clouds" makes sense
Yeey!
My Xinyan its here~
Thank you for doing an update, i was searching her in the other video you made.
I love the energy. Thank you so much for all of the effort you put into this.
Me, not knowing chinese with a somewhat proper pronunciation of everything in the game: this is easy
Cuijue Slope: Allow me to introduce myself...
Damn, I wasn't even close to that one.
Same lol that one got me
SAAAAAAME I never even tried to pronounce it
Lol yes this broke me 😂😂
Bruh didn't know how to pronounce Cuihua wood so I just say kwoohaha wood or someshit xd
Cuijue Slope is a mouthful to say, much like the Cuihua Wood. If you break them up into sections of pronounciation, it should come to you like second origin. I believe Cuijue is pronounced (Su-eh joo-eh) and taking the first bit of Cuijue can be applied to the Cuihua Wood (Su-eh hu-ah). Hope this helps!
I’ll never forget clicking on your channel after seeing the liyue character pronunciation guide and then clicking on a stream highlight where you called beidou bidoo
HAJDJAJF it's so funny I can't stop
I'll be rewatching this video for a whole month to get the pronunciations right😭
I already learned to say all Liyue character names correctly and it feels amazing to have learned that, thank you!!!!☺
This is SO helpful. Especially with the guide on where to put tongue in the "sh" and relating to when making ur sound.
You rock
That “ Also known as DPS QUEENNNNNNNNNN”. I loved that 🤣
Me a non bow user crying every time i saw someone using her.. Time to learn some aiming before her rerun banner.
English isn't my first language but the way you explain the sounds and give examples really helps!
I’m so glad it was helpful!!!!
No wonder this randomly popped on my recommendations and I'm glad I watched this to pronounce these correctly. Looking forward for more of your uploads!
Thank you for this video Ying! I'm a Chinese - French (so Chinese born in French) and I only speak in dialect (Teochew dialect to be precise) and I have a heavy accent when I read in mandarin, so you help me a lot for the pronunciation ! :D
Let me add some explanations to the names.
0:54 輕策 means light brigade. Also it shares the similar sound with Clear water 清澈.
2:15 望舒 means "In search of comfort." A suitable name for an inn right?
2:49 歸離 The first word 歸 means "return" and the second word 離 means "leave". It's a special combination of words in Mandarin that when you combine two opposite meaning words, you keep the meaning of the latter one. So 歸離 means "to leave."
2:59 青墟 means "Ruin of moss". 青 means green or moss.
3:42 瑤光 means "Pleasant light."
4:05 天衡 means "Emperor" and "Heavens."
4:09 靈矩 means "Enchanting measurement of force."
4:15 遁玉 means "Escaping Jade."
5:12 絕雲 Actually means "Cloud's end."
5:18 翠玦 means "Jade" or "Green gem"
5:44 明蘊 means "Clear mine."
5:47 奧藏 means "Mysterious treasure"
6:46 Luhua 淥華 means "Clean water and Flower." 黃龍 means "Yellow dragon."
7:10 白朮 Is a kind of Chinese oriental Herb.
7:36 辛焱 means "Spicy and fiery."
7:40 煙緋 means "Vermeil smoke."
7:44 甘雨 means "Sweet rain" or "Timely rain."
望舒 is also the name of a mythological moon god; 瑶光 is the one of the seven stars of the Northern Dipper (Beidou Qixing) just like Yuheng (Keqing) and Tianquan (Ningguang).
The "gui li" meaning is sad
qingce ≠ qingche
你翻译了他们的姓名，也翻译了固定词语。
wait, 青 means 'blue' in japanese but in mandarin it means 'green or moss'? it seems that i will have added difficulty when i finally decide to learn mandarin.
Furiously studying this video, thank you for another one of these!
RINNN
RIN HI
RINTAICHOUUUUUUU
mfw I find you in here 5 months later wtf hello!!!!!!!!
Love your videos with these. Pronunciation and acknowledgement is so important!
I'm getting so many positive vibes from a single video. THANK YOU AND LOVE THE VID 😍💖
And then we have Keith Silverstein who admitted “LiYue” is the hardest word for him, but he just say like any other non-Chinese speakers: LiWei 🤣
Typical muscle-headed god, can't even pronounce his own city's name right. He just doesn't care!
@@filledvoid Poor guy doesn't even have mora
Did they at least try to find a leeway around it?
He's doing his best I think. Also they might have picked from many different takes and if he wasn't told to do a retake(Zhongli has a tonne of lines) the bad pronunciations just stuck.
@@filledvoid the best part is that I’m pretty sure he said that he really wanted to get the pronunciations right since he was gonna be voicing the actual god of liyue. He’s doing his best lmao
You're a really good teacher! The way you broke down Qingxu Pool by telling us to take away the diphthong at the end of the word "shoe" helped me understand how so many other words are pronounced! Including "Liyue" (by dropping the second part of "way") 😁
PS. I actually teach English as a second language to Chinese students. As a language teacher, just hearing someone use the word "diphthong" got me excited 😅
Man am I ever glad I've tried for a long time to pronounce words that aren't in English right. Most of the stuff you said is hard for English speakers to say I already have heard so many times and replicated that it wasn't too hard on me!
I keep coming back to your videos because I hate not being able to pronounce names properly, and your explanations are better than some language instructors'
My husband is Japanese and he cannot stand when I watch folks on UA-cam butchering pronunciation of Inazuma names and places XD
I'm trying to get him to make a pronunciation guide video. He doesn't play Genshin at all but I think that would make it all the more amusing.
I thought it wouldn't be that bad bc the fandom is a bunch of weebs but after hearing some ppl's pronounciation im this close to making the guide myself lmao
@@yukow0w601 lmaooo samee😂
I also get triggered regardless of language. Sometimes a bit of research on proper language usage always helps prior to making content.
Oh yes I also feel the pain of just hearing them say "aya-ka"
Japanese vowel sounds is ecactly the same pronounciation as my native language, so I dom't encounter problem much until i heard people prounounce Raiden as rey-den and Yae Miko as yaye my-kou..
I just love her voice.
Ahh I'm so glad you like it!!
psst. her channel has like, 50% of it, videos of her singing
wow I have been curious about how to say these names and I am so happy that I now have a better understanding of them! Thank you so much !!!!
Language is fascinating AF. Thank you for these guides. I will probably still butcher most of these words, but I do love having a better idea of what I should be aiming for!
omg i never had to say any of these names out loud so i never rly considered what they would sound like THIS IS SO COOL
I was just thinking about a pronunciation guide for the locations as I was rewatching your first video lol thank you for this it's really helpful!
I'm glad you found it helpful!!! I feel kinda guilty HAHAH people have been asking for this in the comments for quite a while :')
I LOVE THESE PRONUNCIATION VIDEOS SO MUCH
I've always known that I've been mispronuncing the words in the game but I didn't know just how badly I was butchering it... This was a great help
I'm here more for "laughing at how wrong I've been" than "Learning Chinese For Real." No one I know plays GI so I don't have to worry about embarrassing myself with Sheeng-cho on Gwee-lee Plains!
I've always wondered why Paimon would pronounce "Shouri" everytime, thank you!
Nice was hoping for another one of these pronunciation videos 👍🏻
THANK YOU!!! You made pronouncing these so much easier. ;w; I was having a bit of a hard time with pronouncing certain words, so this really helped out!
4:46 I just call it 'thank you valley'
I actually found myself laughing coz i've been reading it all very far from
what it actually sounds like lol
Thanks for the A+, Ying! Good job too!!
See u on your next stream ❤
HAHAHA it's all good, it's the effort that counts!!! And thank you, see you next stream WOOOOOOOOO
THANK YOU!!!!! Super helpful! You are really good at teaching pronunciation! (and very articulate)
I'm studying foreign language(Spanish, Japanese, ASL, and hopefully soon to be Chinese) so I probably appreciate this more than the average person, but you won my like and subscribe :D
I saw your characters video a loooooooong time ago and I check some of your work sometime. I didn't know this one, but UA-cam just suggests me this. Thanks a lot
I used to say Wuwang Hill as "Duwang Hill" for unknown reasons.
"what a beautiful Duwang"
chew
👀jojo?
chew ❓😳😳
I believe Wuwang Hill is pronounced (Woo-wong) though I could be incorrect on this. I hardly speak Wu or Yue, but I've played quite a bit of Japan games to understand the dialect.
Right out of the starting gate I greatly appreciate your comment about tonal systems. I've been really concerned about that. I took three years of Japanese in high school and I know they're not the same language at all, but I know tone and inflection and the like were really important when differentiating between words for desk, edge and bridge for example.
this helped me understand a lot of pronounciations of common things i often see written in pinyin. i don't speak chinese at all nor am i learning but this is helpful for so many things even outside of genshin!
Thank you, It's very kind of your to educate us on pronunciation. I'm very proud to admit that I somehow have been pronouncing Liyue correctly, but I was very far off on the rest. Again, thank you!
Whenever I forget the pronunciations or to check myself to make sure if I’m saying the names right, I come to your channel (it’s so helpful so I thank you for taking the time to do this 🙏☺️)
Mandarin sounds so pleasing to the ear... almost melodic. It's beautiful.
Thanks for these guides.
I was especially surprised by how similar the first syllable of Ningguan is to the way we Italians pronounce the "gn" ("voiced nasal palatal", as in "campagna" which means "countryside"). I would have never guessed from the way it was transliterated.
Maybe the hardest thing for an Italian speaker in pronouncing these names is to remember that the "i" is actually voiced, like in Xiang Ling
You seem like the kind of person who makes everything fun.
Congrats on getting Kazuha! and thank you so much for making this video!
Thank you so much for this! I learned a bit of mandarin when I was in beijing, and I like to think my pronunciation is pretty good. But no one ever explained to me the differences in regional dialects which made it frustrating trying to sort out the differences with how my friends pronounce things as they are from different regions. The way you explain these differences were so clear and explain so much. Thank you again soooo so much!
Honestly, I adore these videos. I was taught Mandarin from ages 5 through 10, until I moved to a school that taught a different language. Its been over ten years now, and this game has reawakened memories for me and reignighted a passion. I'll admit to watching these videos a handful of times, partially because my Chinese teachers haunt me in the back of my head about inflections and tones, but also because of those nostalgic memories.
chinese is SUCHH a fascinating language. i'm a spanish speaker and i feel like it slightly helps pronounce some of the chinese names because of our pronunciation of our own words, so when you would explain how some of the words were supposed to sound, i kinda got it! our alphabet is basically the same as english except for like 2 letters. i one day want to learn a language with completely different alphabet from english/spanish. it seems a bit difficult to me but maybe i'll be brave enough one day to do it!
Thank you for making those guides. You've won a subscriber today. :)
I don't know anything about (Mandarin) Chinese (and other dialects) but I really like linguistics in general and I try to pronounce things the way they are supposed to be in their native language as much as possible. Salutations du Québec (en français)! / Cheers from Québec!
Went to school at 北大 for a year and a half, and I got really particular for accents/pronunciations; yours reminds me a lot of my teachers'. You're such a great teacher for native English speakers :)
*This is mainly for the comments section* there are literally 50+ ethnic groups in China.... each most likely has its own differences let alone the different languages in the country.
*for Ying* Thank you for making the tones really clear... I've just started my mandarin journey (while keeping my Japanese) and you make it really easy to hear what tones you are using.
Tysm for making this! It’s Very helpful!!
Yea I'm happy to see ppl learning the proper reading for liyue names good luck to ppl who are learning them
Thank you so much for making this, as someone who's trying to learn some Chinese this is great.
thank you for making a part two! as a filipino and a tagalog speaker, I naturally default to “how it’s spelled is how it’s pronounced” when reading unfamiliar words. Qingyun like king-yun, jueyun like juu-yun, and nantianmen like nan-shan-men. but when I watched your first video on this topic, my friends and I always try to pronounce it in proper mandarin as much as our tagalog tongues and “hard enunciation” would allow us to. excited to practice speaking this next time my friends and I co-op
I came intending to learn a bit about the pronunciations, then I also found you to be quite the lovely and pleasant person ^^
Oh another guide! Thanks a lot! I would love to learn Mandarin and it would be lovely for students to learn from teachers like you.
As a northerner I appreciate your interpretation on the accent differentiation, despite it was a little bit exaggerated (like the diphthongs). Overall this is a brilliant video! Keep up the good work!
Thanks for this! Ever since I watched your first pronunciation video, I've been trying to say Liyue the correct way (almost every day lol). It's still hard but I'm getting there. Trying to stay true to the shift in tones is difficult but I think it's cool. Chinese is beautiful. Appreciate you taking the time to break it down for us!
appreciate all your effort!!! I'm so glad you found these videos helpful 🥰
Videos like these makes me wish I spent more time learning how to read Chinese…
Also, the pronunciation… holy I’m northern Chinese and thanks to this video I now know why I used to speak English so nasally for the first 17 years of my life
the youtube algorithm legit wants me to be here for this
i have been seeing this in the recommended for a long time.. but not that i dont wanna watch it, its just that i watch abyss vids more but this was quite interesting when i first saw it
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Not only was that very helpful for gameplay immersion purposes, but I must add I could watch/listen to you for hours... you are mesmerizingly gorgeous..! ^^ Thanks for this video
I give you an A+
& a comment for UA-cam's algorithm!
Thank you for making great content.
This was so educational thank you
😊 I’m learning Mandarin (and also love Genshin) and feel like you gave some great advice ❤️
I dont even play genshin yet am very intrigued by this lmao
CONGRATS ON THE 50K!
Thank you so much for making this video !!!! You have helped me so much, with both this video and the last one you made
I nailed the americanized pronunciation of these with only knowing the x and q pronunciations just from hearing chinese in asmr videos lmao. Only a couple of em was I off. I really appreciate this video because now I can be confident in how I pronounce them. 😁
I can't stop thinking about the guy who pronounced Xingqiu as Zing Kwee
i've found this so coollll! love your videos