Foreigner Tests Chinese Locals on Their Chinese
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- My buddy Jayme has been living here for ten+ years, and one of his favorite things to do is test Chinese people on their Chinese language skills. Today, we're on the super busy Nanjing Road in Shanghai, putting Chinese locals to the ultimate language test!
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There is a Chinese guy walking around London telling English people how to read and write English
I'd watch that video
Where do I find that video?
Alpha i know! Crazy right?
what an world we r living.
I'd watch that video if the chinese guy was as respectful and encouraging as this white guy.
I’m Chinese and I always correct Americans with their, there, and they’re.
My dad asked me how to spell 'unit' the other day 🤨. I grew up reading constantly so not knowing there, they're and their is just a mind boggling display of incompetence.
Fair enough lol
Native German speaker here. Not to forget about "then" and "than".
Do not forget about your and you’re
to,too,and two
Respect to the people that dont get disrespected because a foreigner is telling them how to speak their language and just take in the knowledge
Gabriel J even though that calls for disrespect.
No it doesn't. :/ if a german guy who went to school for years learning english and he corrected the way I said something, I would thank him and be impressed. Just because you are a sad sack that doesn't like being wrong doesn't mean you gotta hate the person who is right deandra.
shadowmech first of all. If I'm born hearing my language and talking the way I do do not correct me. Its disrespectful and I will smack you.
deandra cheese than you must be an immature child
shadowmech no I'm a grown woman who doesnt like to be disrespected.simple & sweet
The kid's reaction to the huge word is so cute!!
Its is
Ikr
Yes it made me laugh such an hideously, boisterous laughter.
Yesssss
Genuinely made me happy to see it
This dude got so much goin on with his languages, it's amazing... He sounds like a British guy who grew up in an American metropolitan city studying Chinese all his life lmao
YuuTang I was thinking the same thing!
Damn brah you just analysed this guys whole life
I think he is from GB, cause, the Chinese Character on his arm is LONG LIVE THE QUEEN.
yes where did he learn his traditional character chinese ?? In Taiwan?? Maybe ???
Offset It's ok as he is like 20 or even 30 years older than that kid
wow, this dude has superb Chinese proficiency
ka hing Shum I've lived in China for like 20 years . But this dude has a better pronunciation than me. Incredible!!!
Nic Freeman 你知道我说什么吗？
你觉得呢？
His chinese is just so-so.
wow, dude, you are really good at being critical. hats off to you
Damn gotta say his Chinese pronunciation is really good
Tong Liu no they r not
lol, as a guy from Beijing, I think it's pretty good. I don't know how good is good in your standard
Tong Liu there are a very few caucasian work n live in China as an entertainer one of them is Da Shan. Do u see him walk around in BJ educating the locals? No he doesn't even though his Chinese accent is 100 times better than this dick in the video
Chloe Cheung sounds like you really need a hug
+chloe - wow, you sound salty as hell!
5:45
Kid: 下面还有个“心”
Dude: *pats head*
Two things I can't believe: how damn good his Chinese is, and that our names are the same
Jayme Wheeler little secret: my passport name is James but I wanna be just like you🤗
Jayme Wheeler I'm pretty sure you're the Jayme in the description lol
你的声音跟王力宏很像，厉害了我的哥！ 另：纹身“天佑英王”？ 没听出你有英式英语口音。
not that good really, but he isshowing off indeed
Jian Huang 一个英国人在一个英国的美国人聚集地长大，然后在此基础上学习中文
Dude. How long have you been studying Chinese?
I am Chinese but damn! You speak and write better than I do. I am 57 years old and living in the U.S. Awesome man. Keep it up. Cheers!
It says he lived in China for 9 years, and I guess maybe started studying before that. He is obviously a true scholar of the Chinese language.
USPInx he is speaking Mandarin :)
USPInx
Most people in China speak Mandarin. It’s the national language for inter-ethnic and inter-dialectal communication. Cantonese is merely one of many Chinese dialects that are all not mutually intelligible with one another but it’s very popular amongst overseas Chinese communities because most overseas Chinese originally migrated out of Cantonese speaking areas along the coast of southern China. Just about everyone can speak Mandarin in China but only about 80 to 90 million people can speak Cantonese in China.
I speak Southern Min (aka Taiwanese dialect in Taiwan) for instance, which is mutually unintelligible with Mandarin Chinese, Shanghainese or Cantonese
I think he is not only good at language skills. Have you watched his another video about how is he learning Chinese? His efforts and methods of self-education reached a level that average people can't even imagine. I think he is capable of doing anything very good without an expert's coaching. I learn English kinda like him, I've never taken formal English courses. But my efforts are nothing comparing to him. Wonderful dude.
I never heard of a guy named grant Smith that was chinese? Did you grab your friends account
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alZiiHardstylez damn he really loves chinese culture and chinese etc anything chinese damng
Hes not European is he? sounds American to me.
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this dudes speaking and writing chinese meanwhile im here on youtube watching random videos...makes me wanna do something with my life
lol
i believe he grew up in china from another video...or at least lived there for a long time.
Imagine a white dude teaching Asians. New achievement unlocked 😂
Big deal?who the hell uses biang word everyday?
A Well prepared guy makes no sense
Stupid comment, stop believing stereotypes. They're not smart
FEMINISTS and SJWs are terrorists we’re smarter than white people statistically
Lmaoo look at all these white people getting pissed cuz they cant accept the truth
You know when you're native you're bound to make mistakes except if you're a professional or something because the dialects vary too much,but when you are an outsider you learn exactly from the book not from the people surrounding you that makes the difference. But no matter the difference in dialects the common term pronunciations must be known. Traditional is the way to go to get the exact essence of this beautiful culture. By the way I'm Indian I don't know shit about the language but I love China and feel connected somehow.
Shawn Thomas do you know Sanskrit?
@@zvezdoblyat lol. Sanskrit is akin to Latin.
You feel connected because you share a border lol
I think it’s because both India and China are extremely old civilizations with over a billion people. I am Chinese and feel like I can relate so well to Indian culture. For example both Indians and Chinese people are extremely family oriented and good at math 😂 I think Hindi is a beautiful language. I do not understand any Indian languages but I feel like we are cousins in terms of our lifestyle, population, values, etc.
His English is very confusing.. He has a very americanized British accent
요하너ᅵ스ᄋ he has an American accent full stop
Keir no he does have a alight british accent
I don't get how it is confusing
Sounds Australian to me
Keir No he doesn't. Australian could be right, but I still think it's a very americanised British accent
2:49 that reaction!
INTPWorld also the dude at 4:52 😂😂 his face is priceless lol
thelilvoiceinarmysheadthat makessureuknowurbtstrash omg he was like “what? what’s happening?”
INTPWorld 简体字的好处是显而易见的，降低了交流成本，更容易让13亿人脱盲。更何况，简体字只是简化了一些字的写法，对汉字体系根本没有影响。与时俱进不光是文字上，更应该是思想上。学中文请学简体字，因为中国没人用繁体字了
Me when I look at Chinese in general.
That really was cute
Oh shit his Chinese pronunciation is fucking perfect
dont think so,chinese can hardly speak english without accent.
especially those chinese who speak Mandarin as mother tongue
Why would he be mocked?
nang made me laugh out loud it’s like this CRAZY insane long character and it’s said “nang” 💀
This dude writes in traditional Chinese!
yes, mainland China now uses simplified Chinese only, the traditional is too hard and complicated for them.
60 years ago, in order to reduce the illiteracy rate, government simplied the character. Now simplified Chinese is commonly used in mailand China. However, mainland people do recognize some of the traditional Chinese but probably write them imprecisely.
He wrote 粗獷 instead of the simplified 粗犷 cū guǎng.
Zachary Ji Commonly used all over the world** apart from Taiwan, HK and Macau.
Film too hard? you dont even know the reason kid
As a Chinese, I have to say that Jayme speaks brilliant mandarin.
naive 121 well he should. hes been living in china for 9 years.
i've lived in Britain for 12 years and my spoken english is still very crap. considering english is different to mandarin by a mile, he's done well
Definitely does. It sounds like Taiwanese mandarin too.
Your buddy's Chinese is insanely good..
我妈的错。
帅到惊动惊合国
can we see more of this guy
帅到惊动联合国。 why you copy my face you idiot, I will report you as I can or do you want to end it?
use VPN
I appreciate you making a translation for people like us to watch your videos.
2:50 the kid is so cute
Mmm hello fbi, i think i found this one.
Ikr XD
Yes he is
Omg right?! He's really smart too for a kid, he was getting ones right that the adults messed up :o
That kid made my day.
This isn't surprising. In many cases, native speakers of any language may not consciously know about the little nuances and aspects of their own tongue simply because they take what they speak for granted. Meanwhile, non-native speakers may have studied the language in detail due to high interest and motivation, so they're passionate enough to actually learn deeper. In fact, there is a Chinese game show now where non-native Chinese speakers compete against each other to test their knowledge of Chinese, and some of those questions are so deep that the everyday native speaker wouldn't be able to answer them.
ZhangtheGreat Very True, Although I’d say it’s especially harder with a Ideographic/Symbolic writing system like Chinese because the symbols don’t tell you ‘how’ to pronounce it. At least in English or most other latin based languages, *most* of the time you can ‘say it as it is spelled ‘
Actually the characters do give an idea of how it should be pronounced, based on their most basic form's sound, so characters like 辉 and 挥 are pronounced the same while 绷 and 棚 are pronounced similar. There are many exceptions, of course, but you can guess your way to pronounce a character if you know enough characters.
Ooh shows like what? That'd be interesting to watch
Yep! Like 请清青情晴 哈哈哈哈哈
ZhangtheGreat yes. Generally foreign students are pressured to learn the proper way I. Writing and grammar. Native speakers generally forget or ignore the lessons.
Man I have to say your Chinese amazed me. You almost have no accent. I really wish my English can be as good as your Chinese.
Brother Big he still has a bit of accent but pretty good considering he's not chinese
Kikai Shinobu I don't hear any Taiwan accent from him
literally everyone: xiao xang
the guy: no it's xiao xang
Omar 去る you want an Oscar?
Omar 去る well it’s a tonal language so the wrong tone means the wrong meaning or even a different word
@Alexandra Petri, ikr, like the #4 in Cantonese could also mean die if said in a different tone. My grandmother's favorite joke is about the white guy giving a speech in Chinese, who tried to say "I want to know you all" but ended up saying " I want to eat you all" 😆
Its xiao xiang tho, u missed the "i"
It's the tone that's wrong .
In The U.S., if you're a foreigner and correct a native on how to speak English, prepare for some sort of confrontation. I know that there are cultural differences, but I don't see how these people aren't responding with a "who the fuck is this guy?"
Caleb G because we aren't ignorant like most Americans, and also because we don't give a fuck
We’re gentle man.
Yeah I was thinking the same thing. Then again it would be harder to do this test as we have an alphabet not a character system where you have to know a few thousand individual characters just to read a newspaper... I guess the closest thing would be a spelling g test but even that is not really the same thing
QUEENSNYCKID Chinese is way harder, coming from someone who is fluent in both languages.
Caleb G
That's because Chinese don't have as much ego and aren't as easily provoked as Americans in general. I also know some Chinese doctrines talk about willingness to learn from all people, including people subservient to yourself. Americans are more individualistic and often hates to feel underestimated or looked down on, while also having lots of pride and assumes they know everything better than foreigners who comes to their country.
5:03 when your chinese is so good that natives ask if you're chinese
When they see and ask you a stupid question like "are you chinese", you know your chinese is good and can feel confident to say "yes". Lol.
That proves those characters are extremely dificult even for local people. Imagine for us, dealing with it. I was really impressed watching the guy on video teaching they.
no it just means that natives forgot things as they grow older. students of a language can actually correct natives because grammar is still fresh in our mind and because we are trying to speak and write like official textbooks. whereas natives are more colloquial and used to slang and spoken structures.
don't give up!
@@mz0g I already speak portuguese, english and spanish. I also studied french, but it doesn't enter in my head. Maybe I should try harder in the next year. But chinese or japonese? I know that I never will learn those ones. I do not have any chance even to use it. I'm get shocked when I see a foreign speaking clearly like this guy in the video.
I mentioned to a neighbor once about Mandarin having 3,000 characters to learn. He just smiled and said it was about 50,000.
It is more you just need 3000 characters to function everyday life so thee is no point learning all of it
It's not remembering it, as we get older, we will forget some things and don't use it in our everyday life
Chinese calligraphy is beautiful
Man. A lot of westerners act like their Chinese is good, but it’s actually terrible. This guy is actually super good.
They are probably proud they got as far as they did, Chinese English is sloppy as well and it’s understandable as it’s not their native language after all , same as foreigners that are not Chinese , I don’t think it’s realistic for everyone to be perfect not even Chinese get it right in their own language or English speaking country’s in their own country’s, I think because we know what we are talking about so it doesn’t matter .
4:18 can’t even write in order :0
wò～yóu～ bìng~ jí~ lìn~，hēn~ duó~ hèn~ duó~ bìn~ jí~ līn~~~
Lol it must be like "wtf" for these locals to have some white guy correcting them.
TUBESTEAKNIG they were wtf whole day.
Probably more than wtf for them. I live in China too. I can't tell you how many Chinese people have told me it's impossible for a foreigner to learn Chinese because Chinese is the hardest language in the world. So to have that kind of mindset, that only a certain race can really know a language, and then to have someone from another land correct you on it has to be like the ultimate humiliation for them.
David Taylor Yeah. Can you tell how worse thing is that kind of so called humiliation for chinese? Becose in western world is not so big deal.
They not seem react very hard. Of corse this man talks chinese like the native language.
Iced Earth o
i dont think so ... it's just shows that who appreciate chinese and who has passion for the language more ... i guess
Lol....that's rich......white guy in china teaching them chinese lol
nop not teaching them...
why are you people so obsessed with race?
@@ghostferatu6241 What do you mean 'you people' ....... :P
@@sjwilkin probably Americans
@@NotMe-yh5gi It's a reference. ruclips.net/video/99IoN2pymfE/видео.html
2:49 me everytime see a chinese character😂😂
But you know, the "standards" of Mandarin is also updating.. Some of the "wrong" pronunciations have become correct in the most updated dictionaries just because too many people make "mistakes"...
Exactly and why would anybody in his right mind examine people to write an alphabet they have not learned!
Simplified Chinese is the one being used and taught in China!
which is an intrinsic part of any living language. But maybe there is no more living language than Mandarin (Standard Chinese), which is spoken by one in six people globally.
Then thats a mistake in itself then aye 💪
dumbbirdvip conversate got into the English dictionary the same was
@@L-mo Not necessarily. Although it sounds wrong, the current sense of conversate dates from the early 19th century and is probably a back-formation from conversation.
as a chinese i have to say that we all know there exist loads of mispronunciations in our daily life but almost every people speak that way and we are taught that way over the whole school days
not helpful but literally interesting thanks for your post
It's like asking someone to spell supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
w23857980 that's not hard if you're a native English speaker. There's no silent letters so it's easy to say if someone pronounces it properly.
KarKar MuddaPuckar
its not easy its to long a word to work out and most everyone will give up or get it wrong on purpose to end it. spelling "playwright" and "playwrite" also "idiosyncrasy" and "idiosyncracy" figure out the one that is spelled incorrect.
like hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia in English
w23857980, haha!! good analogy!
+Mase11888 think that word is no longer used cuz fuck lol
2:50 exactly my reaction when i see the first question in my examination.
slaywee 2333333
💀💀💀💀 I'm dead
Let me walk around the American streets and asking everyone GRE vocab
鍾益飛 except that he's not.
Go for it
At least we could probably pronounce it/say it?
鍾益飛 none of those examples you just gave are true English words. One is French, one is Welsh, and one is Zulu/From South Africa. That being said I could still pronounce them. I get your point, but clearly the whole pictograph/character + tonal system adds unnecessary complexity to a language.
@Crispy Cream Graduate Record Examinations on analytical writing, quantitative reasoning and verbal reasoning.
They are not wrong. It's just how people pronounce it in conversation, not dictionary pronunciation. It's called connected speech. These are not wrong pronunciation in my opinion.
yes, 'free use' - he's just being fun and I hope spreading good will - nice he loves Chinese so much
Exactly. It isn't wrong it's like an accent. It's just like in London we pronounce "Water" Without the "T" This is technically wrong pronunciation but it's our accent. and it makes sense to us just like it does to them.
Heath Sims yeah fck off, we don't except you as an Aussie
Exactly, chinese is a living language, that is the language that people actually speak. You can't say what everybody says is wrong, it's a nonsens. In that case, by definition, the dictionary is wrong.
It’s like telling someone from Liverpool they’re wrong how they pronounce words when I’m from London. Don’t make any sense
When you know a foreigner can write chinese character better than you do, you know you fvcked up.
Haha
The little boys reaction to nàng was priceless 🥰
"are you chinese" lmao so cute
Fresh_Water the notion of ethnicity is quite something else in China
@@MaximusFelinusXVI eh, they just mean if it's his native language
That was really interesting to watch. Also made me miss China. Great video.
Thank you
Figureight I also missed Taiwan as I watched this! :(
Uvuvwevwevwe Onyetenyevwe Ugwemubwem Ossas 你的头像，哈哈哈哈哈，是那个
Taiwan is a part of China. 😁
I think using a "Western pen" to write traditional Chinese is ugly. 😋
Also, wearing Western clothes is ugly. ☺️
Just trying to follow your logic on traditional Chinese.
Remember that it is Qin Shihuang who unified the traditional Chinese writing systems, which had evolved through millennia of history.
But, why create such a fuss when it comes to simplified Chinese?
Punctuation marks also did not exist in traditional form of Chinese writing.
That biang character is just pure evil, I tell you. Evil!
It was the only one I knew! Haha.
None of my Chinese friends are able to write it (obviously I can't either).
Yes, most of us cant write that character.
but we can read it lol
Write it in a 1x1cm square, the one we learn Chinese on, I guess it will be a black dot :)
As a dense cabbage of an Englishman I wouldn't even know where to start with learning this. OMG Respect to all that learn this language well. 👌🏽👍🏽
Never met a cabbage that could operate a keyboard. PROPS
A good video for Chinese. Chinese need to be written on the paper, not displayed by Pinyin on the mobile phone. However more and more Chinese people have already forgotten how to write Chinese because of using too much time on the mobile phone. Chinese is not like other languages, if do not write it down to the paper, you will forget how to write it.
That's a really great point.
Liu Thomas sometimes I practice writing in my mind. Usually when I am laying I bed before sleeping
This is a good way :). When I was in primary school, all the students are asked to write Chinese once and once again. This is how the Chinese people learn Chinese.
I started learning kanji 30 years ago in the traditional form and i can't fathom the simplified form alot of the time.. but i see alot of simplifed form kanji used on websites and scratch my head wishing there was a way to shift the text to Traditional form.
This website maybe can help you "xh.5156edu.com/jtof.php". You just copy the simplifed form into the box and click "转化为繁体".
i'm japanese. and we also can't write 龜 too. in japan, we write 亀. i'm studying chinese. i want to speak chinese fluently like Jayme.
Try to watch Chinese tv, i think you can.
I'm the other way around. I'm a ethnic Chinese (nationality being Malaysian) who speaks Chinese, & learning Japanese instead. & i second Franco Fang's comment, as i myself got conversational with Japanese (not quite yet can call myself fluent) from watching thousands of hours of Japanese movies & tv & anime.
Franco fang yes, i will. actually i really like to watch chinese variety tv since before. watching chinese tv is good to learn i think so! thank u〜
Falcon Windblade yes. i'm studying chinese from chinese variety tv. it's very good way to learn foreign language. i will keep trying my best! thanks for your comment. 日文加油！
中文勉強！I think you can understand it~wwwwwww
I am a malaysian Chinese,but i think that guys mandrian is top class
I even dont know the mandrian word, is extremely for me
Tao Lai im malaysian chinese too n I struggle with the language xD
Tao Lai me 2
Tao Lai hi sir..im from malaysia too..im malay..i just start to learn mandarin few weeks ago..its a lot harder than i think..i remember the sound of the words,but i keep forgetting how to write the word :(
Good luck broooö ıve been wantıng to learn Chınese myself tooo
Nyampuk aja Who Dis ni.
You know wut guys? I just improved my english listening and a lil bit traditional chinese just now haha. This video is really really great. Thumbs up 👍👍
2:50 OMG THAT BOY. SO CUTE AHAHAHHAHAH.
"whats this word ?" " too calm " ..."too calm? oh its not too calm, its too calm (4th note) "
Joshua Martyn genius hahah u made my day.
Its their accents.
This would be like if a Chinese guy saw me in the States and said I was saying "route" wrong because I said it as "r+out" instead of "root".
Joshua Martyn some dialects have more to 15 sound notations, it’s crazy. Not just that, many words/phrases sound the EXACT same so context is super important
it's like how some people would say toe-mah-toe while others would say toe-may-toe for tomatoes but in chinese a difference in tone could mean a totally different character.
To be completely honest when I first saw your friend in the thumbnail, I was expecting him to have a thick foreigner Chinese accent. I guess never judge a book by it's cover, haha. His Chinese accent, pinyin, writing are all superb!
I’m so jealous of you😭 how I wish I could speak Chinese like you danggg
I'm think what's gonna happen if a Chinese dude goes around American streets and teach American how to speak and write their own language. I think most American would be not interested and tell that Chinese guy "you don't tell me how I speak my own language"
That's where you will notice a difference in cultures. Chinese people wouldn't tell him to go get fxxxed. In America or England though they just might, because westerners are not as enduring.
I'm British and I will always defer to my non-native speaking friends when asking about grammar etc. as I understand how different colloquial English is from how it should be properly and I know they were probably taught better than I was.
Daley
That's a good idea, like asking a learner driver about small things in a driving test. Honestly, my English improved when I moved to Asia, simply because I had to re-learn a lot of things.
actually there alot of asian youtubers who did that..and every american was nice :) as long as u speak the lang good, y would people be rude?
That's right. I wish some Chinese guy would've just told this idiot to go f*** himself.
"You wrote "biang biang noodles" in simplified Chinese. They should have a horse, a moon, and a knife in them as well."
your pronunciation is very good..
that kid is sooooo cute. his shocked face at 2:39. omg never change kid. you so cuuute
2:15 this kid is impressive, he knows better than adults lol
that doesn't mean he knows more than adult just becuz he know some hard words haha
becuz generally kids learn the proper pronunciations in their primary schools, its a thing to do, i used to always show off my 'proper' chinese to my parents lol
HiMyNameIs What
2:49
Lmao
The reason is he is still learning this in school, the adults never use most of these words after graduating. Is like people testing you traditional British words in Shakespeare, you learnt it in high school but never used it again.
But those are wondrous words worthy of being used.
I for one deem the effort worthwhile.
Jayme should make his own channel!
Mack Zhang my channel is mostly basketball ;)
Jayme Lawman well I'm into the nba ☺️
i'm interested in how you learn Chinese! you seem to have very solid background knowledge of the characters! your handwriting is good as well. i've been quite bummed out on learning Chinese recently but I just feel motivated again after this video :D
Minah Guo stick at it. Language learning is never a steady road. You're going to see huge improvements some days and then none for months. Keep at it!
That's a very cool way of thinking about it, I ave been practicing for 4 months and still barely understand whats said, I have hope that there'll be some improvement soon.
Best video on China that I have seen recently
Glad you like it
Lolll, recently!
i reccomend the channels serpentza, laowhy86 and avd china also
wong fei hung
The Jayoe Nation is much better than the Winston trio.
Respect to the interviewer. What a down to earth dude!
2:49 That reaction killed me 😂😂
lmao
Me when I open my final exam and see the first question
that kid was the bomb, his reactions were the best!
Dude your handwriting is prettier than mine! I'm chinese and my handwritings are ugly
Well you learn it cuz you need to in school and this guy love the language and he is passionate about it there is a difference. I am from Croatia and our grammar is a bit complicated so I always get 2 or D grade. So i belive that there is a guy who would like to learn my language and could get an 5 or A grade which is better than me obviously 😂
Do you have fb
@@lordsnow4029 i want to learn croatian Teach me dude. See ya
no worries. when ur handwritings is fairly ugly (not the out of place ugly) it means ur handling the language pretty well
I'm too reliant on pinyin though.
His Chinese is better than me.And i was born and raised in China.
Lucas S what?! ahahaha im malaysian chinese n I struggle with the language itself. bt I found that english is easier. do most china chinese know english? im curious
better than MINE*. Asian grammar nazi reporting for duty
2:50 the kids reaction... hahahahah I was laughing out loud. From India. Yindu.. Peace!!
Chinese is such a beautiful language 😭😭😭
and you are just as beautiful as us :)!
Too hard
Nice lines @jeffrey chiu ^^
Carlos Arbizu It really isn't if you try studying for a little while, no conjugation is always a nice change of pace.
yuliana torres then y u cry, hahaha
im a 100% chinese and i found chinese frickin hard, not only the commonly mispronounced characters, but the tests on chinese are also really tricky. i ranked among the top in subjects like math n english in high school n failed almost every chinese test. Wtf
vexilligera ve hahaha this is so funny.
vexilligera ve 對不起
me too
The fact you were top in math proves that you are Chinese, not the level of your Chinese language. J/k, though I love positive racial prejudices. :) BTW, I also think that Chinese is super hard so I have to hopes to learn it, really. But at least I can appreciate just how beautiful the hieroglyphs are, and how cute it sounds.
The only thing Chinese is hard in is the vocab, there's unlimited of words apart from the dictionary and we won't even know some of them, feeling lucky I'm born Chinese lmao…
木 林 森 四个木谁知道我不知道哈哈
火 炎 And more and more fuck I don't even know how to read damn hhahhaa
Just proves that no one is perfect-whatever language you speak/write or whether you are a native speaker or not. This shows that even native speakers are not perfect on their own language.
panerai123 because nobody can master their own native language (speak/write) 100% all of words that exist in their language.
Not everybody can master 100% on their language just like how english people don't know very long english scientific words
Exactly, my native language is one of the most difficult ones in the world (Finnish, there are not many languages with the same grammar structure) and I have never met a person who would speak it perfectly. I speak my own language wrong most of the time so all my sympathy is with those learning it!
Mint C mitä tarkotat sillä et puhut muka väärin? :D
Funny thing is, mandarin is not even a native language for most people in china, because the dialects they speak don't even sound like mandarin most of the time. It's just something they can speak, because it is required. Doesnt mean it is pronounced perfectly most of the time.
unless you speak mandarin, i don't think it can be truly, fully grasped just how utterly amazing this guy's mandarin is.
what the *hell* man.
the dictionary may tell you what the correct pronunciation of a chinese character is , but if 99.99%the people pronounce otherwise ,maybe the dictionary is outdated and should be revised. 肖像 is one example..
臺灣最新版本（88年3月31日）國語一字多音審訂表中，血液一詞之讀音為 ㄒㄧㄝˇ ㄧㄝˋ
Amy Lee 不知道您是什麼時候出生的？由於我這一代從小一開始，國語課本皆是以前述審訂表為讀音標準，我的同學當中有一些人在實際說話時，是依照課本把「液」字讀作 ㄧㄝˋ，我本人也相當習慣唸 ㄧㄝˋ，記得國中生物老師遇到此字時，一樣唸 ㄧㄝˋ。當然啦，《教育部國語一字多音審訂說帖》就有提到：「一字多音是國語中常見的現象，而且各字音皆有源頭，無涉對錯。」
Amy Lee 感謝臺灣媒體，讓社會上充斥著「教育部常常修改國語讀音」的荒謬說法。事實上，中華民國自建國以來，主要的國音標準僅有：
9年 國音字典
21年 國音常用字彙
36年 國音標準彙編
57年 增補國音字彙
88年 一字多音審訂表
Amy Lee 《國語一字多音審訂表》從88年3月31日一直到今天，從未修改過，「仔」在該表中只有一個音 ㄗˇ。然後我並不是國文老師XD
Yea, dictionary is descriptive not prescriptive
People shouldn't take this video the wrong way like "Why the puck is there a laowai (or "gweilo" if you speak Cantonese) going around Shanghai disgracing Chinese on their Chinese?". You don't have a Chinese guy going around USA or UK asking the locals how to spell or pronounce words. Instead, it just shows you how freakin' difficult Chinese is. Trust me. I've been studying Chinese for over 20 years (from middle school, to high school, studied at Peking University and Peking Foreign Language University, majored Chinese language in college) and now working in China as a translator and I'm still learning new things everyday. Anyway, enjoyed the fun video! Gonna show it to my wife later. Haha
Meng Vang Actually, a Chinese guy walks around in London asking English speakers about English
Really? I'd like to check out THAT video. :)
Why don't Chinese go out in US or Europe and do this? It's a free world... :) Would be fun I guess
no, the gweilo and hakgwei will beat me up
I like this thinking... Show up in NY Times Square, and ask people to pronounce "comfortable". Hint: "comf-turble" is how nearly everyone says it, even though it's "com-for-tuble". Why? It's how everyone says it. (This is the same phenomena that happend with "nuclear", but people don't write dictionaries about the former, only the later, because it has hit meme status.)
I'm not at all surprised that various dialects have either different tone sandhi rules than the Standard Mandarin, or different tone production. Also the "kuang" vs. "guang" thing... like... dude, Americans say "chruck" not "truck"... and few even realize that they're saying it that way at all.
Getting all "righteous" about other people having different allophones than you, or the Standard Dialect is pretty lame...
Holy Christ Dude..
Not sure how I stumbled across your page but I'm glad I did. My wife, (Taiwanese), has been "encouraging" me to learn 中文. I guess I have no excuse now.
Thank-You for providing the motivation I needed.
Cheers!
Glad you're feeling motivated man!
Good luck, may I recommend you try out Glossika (Glossika.com) It's a bit expensive, but really effective!
I'm learning 普通话 currently and this definitely motivates me to keep going. My finacé was amazed at this guy's speaking as well as writing, she says he speaks with virtually no accent (if anything I find his English accent a bit odd). My recommendation would be Yoyo Chinese. I think that's this is pretty much the definitive beginners course, although once you get to intermediate level, there's a lot of choice and a lot of good courses out there (you might just want to swap to traditional HSK3/4 syllabuses for example).
Johnny Allison You mean your wife （Chinese）？
zjs kju Taiwanese, wife is Taiwanese..
Dude, your Chinese is on another level
A much better English analogy for simplified vs. traditional characters is print vs. cursive. To claim that simplified Chinese is "not real Chinese" is kind of ridiculous.
He has a mix of of a American and Chinese accent
And a hint of British
What the hell is British accent?
He's British but now he sounds more American
He sounds Australian, he doesn't sound British whatsoever.
He’s British
He's got a 天佑英王"God bless the Queen of the UK" tattoo on his arms lolol
wow.. he is so fluent like local people do😱👍👍
Great job but the 2nd set 2nd word is typed wrongly at the top right corner. 1:21
Cu2 Guang3
E.g. 狗 拘 looks similar but totally different.
I want to learn this beautiful language but can't...
? didn't get
Yeah you can. You just don't want to.
me too. I used to learn chinese language and culture before but i wasn't able to maintain.
Na Cadence dont assume, a lot of people have reading and language learing disabilities that make language difficult to learn. add on other restrictions like the said persons avalible time to spend learning a whole language, plus their willpower displays how this is a difficult task. when someone says they can't, dont say its because they dont want to; it doesnt take their status into considerstion, nor does their want to learn something become the only factor to learning.
OPULENT I'm not assuming. These same people learned their own language, I am a firm believer that despite your differences and disabilties you CAN learn another language. Also everyone has the ability to learn another language. There are always going to be challenges in life and with the right support and dedication you can learn a language. But you shouldn't ever say you can't learn something as an excuse not to even try.
Chinese simplified character is the tool that government uses to solve the illiteracy problem in the past. Rather than deprecating of the art of callgergiphy it's more of an adaption of the language. We are ultririans.
True. Thanks for watching
I agree with this perspective as Japan has also simplified many characters, although differently from the Chinese simplification. Man those were some difficult days when I went to 3rd grade in Japan as the teacher was correcting my Kanji writing and I was such a dumb defiant kid I'm like that shit's from my country how dare you hahahaha.
Porco Rosso ‘in the past’
Shawn Wang 汉字本来就是源于中国，但是亚洲国家都历史上使用过而且现在使用，并且都有自己的演化。他们觉得你蠢可能只是他们愚昧= =
Porco Rosso 那我不想和你说话了
I’m embarrassed . I’m Chinese and I go to a Chinese’s school but I don’t know any of these words 😶
That's not true.
I know all of them from school, except the 'biangbiangmian'. I saw this from a noodles store in Shenzhen(I work in that city during the time).
你是不是傻
Patrick Si 不是
Lyss Xx 那你确定你是一个都不会？？
Lyss Babyy sane
Minorities of China have white people too, they are Russian, Kazakh, Tajik, Uighur, Uzbek, Kirgiz, Tatar. And they are not immigrants, they just living there from ancient times. So Don't be surprised by that woman asked, "Are you Chinese?"
This guy has better Chinese than (maybe) my parents!
nah only better chinese than u. unless ur parents are already 2nd generation immigrants
when you're Chinese and this guy is soooo much better at Chinese than you
Louise Wang dude same
I am teaching Chinese to my Chinese Canadian born Chinese Nephew :) Vancouver is weird!
Jörg 历史老外 你会几种语言啊！真厉害👍我很喜欢德语，铿锵有力的发音和小舌音真好听
德英法中。欧洲人一般来说语言比美国人多。估计是因为国家小
🙃🙂🙃
don't worry 2nd generation chinese are known for being absolute shit at their mother tongue :)
I think that if 90% of the people actually pronounce a given word in a certain manner, this becomes the new "right way", no matter what the dictionary says. The point of a language is to communicate. If you communicate in the same way as 90% of the population, then you are doing the right way, even though it's not the right way by the book. This is debatable. :)
Sindarus very true. That's why dictionaries are updated every year!
Sindarus that's also how languages start getting broken up into dialects and how over time the dialects end up becoming new languages
This is also why there are so many irregular spellings in English. We kept the spelling but changed the pronunciation over time. "Dough", "cough" and "bough" used to all rhyme with each other (doch, coch, and boch, the same as Loch Ness is today)
Sindarus I disagree, we need to preserve the language and eliminate those who dare to change it for their own ''right (wrong) way''.
Any evidence of language change must be located and erradicated.
Román Paz How about we start with your misuse of the word "digress"?
This dude is so fascinating it's crazy!
Massive respect. You've inspired me to pick up learning again. Subbed before the 100k!
This guy is speaking perfect Chinese in the video.
I love the pen ^^
panda dragon do you know what type of pen is it?
unfortunately, no
Calligraphy pen.
I think it's a Sakura pen
Thanks!
Yep it looks like a Sakura pen Pigma 2/3/brush ^^
this is the kind of question i hate most in the Chinese test paper when I was back in middle/high school, they are designed to fail you.
I come from a family who only writes traditional haha. When I would ask them for help with my chinese hw they would be so confused bc it was in simplified. My grandparents and especially my mom emphasized that ‘simplified’ Chinese is the ‘lazy’ way and question why they’re teaching us simplified in school LOL. I find traditional so much more pleasing to read and satisfying to write tbh
Traditional characters hold the traditions and history of the culture. Not to write and not to know is to forget about your history and culture.
之前大陆人从繁体改简体是因为让更多不认识字的人更容易懂汉字。虽然我们没学繁体，但繁体字我们还是看的懂的。写可能不行。
Chinese can understand 'traditional' (not real traditional)and simplified characters. It has a little bit difficult to understand those real traditional characters甲骨文小篆等，but it's easy to learn, similar to modern characters.If it was not civil war, simplify work would be continued by KMT(Republic of China)
Holy fuck you guys have to write like this in school... I lost any hope of learning Chinese
Georgia Ray I'm learning chinese and I'm kind of in the middle. There are some Hanzi I like to write traditional and some I like to write simplified
Fun to watch but it does not really say much about their language skills as a whole. It's like you would study English for a few years then ask native Americans if they know words like "diaphanous", "impecunious" , "legerdemain", "pulchritude" or why not "Pneumfonoultramihcroscopicsilicovolcanfoconiosis". Just because some people does not know these difficult words does not mean that their overall language skill isn't far better than yours.
Meanwhile in China pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis*
The only problem to your point is that unlike it this video corrects common words that are commonly mispronouced/miswritten to show that what they though they always knew was actually wrong
It's akin to walking around Texas and "correcting" their pronunciation to what is "proper" British English of common words. Like what's been said, fun video, good on the guy for learning a hard language, I decide not to think think badly of it racially. I watch this like I watch Man vs Food, not exactly an educational How To.
Innit, cuz this Inuk is have'n such fun down here in the Lower 48. As American English really doesn't get much use on FB by Native Americans. lol ;) It's all good, just keep smiling.
katekyo JP those were not common words
If you do this exact test here in Singapore with the locals, im pretty sure we'll get it all wrong LOL
Daniel T really?? I think the Singaporeans' Chinese are really good... 你可以说中文吗？ 我认为新加坡的中文很好。 我可以说中文一点点不过对不起我的中文不好。^-^
Hahaha..malaysia as well
That's the thing about Singapore HAHA. Our founding father tried to implement this bilingual educational system in our country but I feel that it has compromised the standard of both the english language and every individual's mother tongue.
jinscupofcoffee omg hey C-ARMY as well!
新加坡学校教的是简笔字，他考的是繁体字。
As a Chinese, your handwriting is very beautiful and clean. I love the every character you wrote in this video!
1:27 it should be 犷instead of 扩
correct, my mistake editing
Wtf
Mi Zhi Ho wtf it’s the same shit
@@kg7708 the other one is bent XD
Same shit
5:40 lol, I felt like this boys said "what the hell?"
Khan Lakhno heheheheheheeheheheheheheeheheheheheeheheheheh I didn’t notice that till now
And 5:46 He said Hell Shit !
I thought I was the only one that thought that 😂
Amazing! How on Earth did you learn to read, write, and speak Chinese so well?! You even know both simplified and traditional characters!! Fact that even people in China have problems with some words goes to show how difficult a language it is to learn.
well even in spanish or english, natives struggle with some complicated words or difficult grammar, that is why there are orthography mistakes, redundancy on phrases, etc..
Chinese is the most fascinating language.
Some of the "wrong" Chinese pronunciations are actually not that "wrong". It's a Chinese language convention for the purpose of speaking with ease. For instance, 肖像, or Xiao Xiang in English spelling, can be pronounced in that seemingly wrong way because when the first character and the second character shares a "\" tone, it is convention to pronounce the first one in "-" tone. It's a bit familiar to the phenomena that native English speakers pronounce "all-in-one" collectively instead of saying "ALL" and "IN" separately for the sake of faster communication.
Thats not fair , it depend on dialog (accent), British people says water(woa terh) and american peaple says (wa-ler） like people from Beijing says 知不知道(Zhi BU-RI DAO )instead of (ZHI BU ZHI DAO) ,Yes , there is the perfect way to say it but they always tend to stay with there accent . and nobody writes chines ofter college , they all type on computer or phone , there is almost no occasion that Chinese writing is needed unless you are a teacher .
No, the stereotypical American pronunciation is wadder. However, a large amount of Americans say water (wot-ter). Which is correct. Many Brits say water with emphasis on the front sound and nearly drop the r. (wat-uh) almost. At the same time, Chinese is a tonal language. English is not tonal in the sense that as long as the word sounds similar it doesn't. I can say cat like *caught* and it's not really breaking any rules. Chinese people are pretty merciless about using the wrong tone. Saying 想 like 像 will more than likely not be understood nor forgiven.
tha ts is because american english has screw up many words,,though many words in english do not comply with the written version,,we just dont notice cause we learn by imitation
ForestSakan As I understand, many US accents are closer to pre colonial and colonial English than the modern posh British English accent, so Americans in essence preserved historical pronunciation rather than screwed it up.
ForestSakan wrong. A typical American accent's pronunciation is correct. After some Brits left to live in America, the UK wanted to change their accent into the kind of posh accent we hear from them now
jaeden Drake this is by far the funniest thing I've heard in my life.