Language Review: Chinese

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Thank you to @MildlyLinguistic for assisting with the series.

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[the_zsriverpanda]

Saying "我不說中文" (I don't speak Chinese) instead of "我不會說中文" (I can't/don't know how to speak Chinese) makes it sound like you're refusing to speak it (as in "I don't drink"), which honestly fits the gigachad energy way more.

[niruhota]

As a indian person who never heard of china or Chinese i can confirm that your Chinese is excellent.

[matthewheald]

I teach ESL at my local church & a couple of my students are from the Hong Kong area. One night after class a fellow student had asked them how to say something in Chinese & when they told him I decided to give it a shot as well. I had watched a couple videos on Chinese consonants & tones & had managed to reach a tolerable level of pronunciation. They absolutely flipped & continued to barrage me with phrase after Chinese phrase and showed the most joy I have ever seen from a human being whenever I stumbled through one of them. To this day they’re still trying to teach me Chinese & shower me with smiles & compliments when I do even tolerably well. I know he exaggerates about the native shock factor, but I cannot stress enough how real it is.

[LingoLizard]

With learning Chinese, at first it seems super hard, but then you actually dive into learning it and so many things seem so easy and straightforward, but then moving through the language there are unexpected bits that make the language harder, such as memorizing all the dozens of synonyms a word can have and homophones and words with MANY different meanings.

I agree that the varieties of chines sound beautiful, and I love the caterpillar diagrams you drew to represent the 5 tones!

[tskncheese]

The coolest thing about Chinese is that it's a perfect language for fast reading. Chinese speakers are never afraid of subtitles in movies since you just take a glance at a sentence and you will get the whole idea without even thinking about it. That's the power of logogram.

[markjpeg]

as a person who has been trying to learn Chinese for 6+ years, I can confirm that I'm dying inside

[lpldl]

As a Chinese person, I'd say that its difficulty depends on your target. If you just want to know the basic and impress some random native speaker, you can do it in just a couple of days. But on the way to a higher level, you will discover so many tricky things that it makes it almost impossible to archive a near native level. The problem is the vocabulary, especially the compound words. To pick the right one in the right context is even a challenge for native speakers. Because since the grammar system is so simplified, you need a gigantic amount of vocabulary to be able to make a good expression. So you can make yourself understood in Chinese fairly easily, sure. But to make your expression truly right and even beautiful is a totally different thing.

[DJTechYT]

As a native speaker of High Valyrian living on Mars, I can confirm that your Chinese accent is solid and is more than enough to shock natives and make them spontaneously combust

[刘星雨-ze]

Remember that the Chinese language has a really unique writing system compared with the latin languages, knowing how to pronounce the chinese doesn’t mean knowing how to write it, and the chinese characters are actually more closely related to the culture.

[Trolligi]

As a Chinese person I can confirm this videos accuracy without even watching it

[Raymon.miles.]

As a Chinese, I’d like to add a funny fact, we have so many dialect that different place people pronounce the same word different, and some is extremely hard to understand even for Chinese (the extreme situation happens in 2 villages, distance between them is less than 20km , cannot understand each other’s accent) but once we see the characters, we can find even in the ancient time, in the same period, people write almost the same style. This is what we call “write with the same characters, Drive with the same trail.” From qin’s 1st emperor.

[robertjenkins]

For your next video will you review the dialect of American known as "English"? It is a backwater dialect of American spoken in an island nation that is north of France — sort of the Japan of the West. But they don't speak Japanese; they speak a dialect of American — and instead of an emperor, they have a king. For unknown reasons these islanders spell the word "color" with an extraneous "u." They are disinclined to pronounce the letter "r." Also, they refer to cookies as "biscuits." Why do they debase the American language in this way?

[Notnick]

As a hyper polyglot giga chad white guy who speaks Chinese fluently. I was in a park in shanghai today talking to my friends and had 3 different locals come up to me and freak out over my Chinese.

I have taken the language to an extreme level where I now speak two dialects of Chinese (Shandongese and shanghainese) for additional shock factor

[Thedennati]

Third tone mark was upside down 😁 As a learner of Chinese, I found this video very funny, mostly correct. It's an amazing language, sounds beautiful and it is often very logical.
If you want a real challenge and a good language for your language review, try my native, Czech 😂

[mikeonthewall]

As a Chinese person I can confirm that if you can hold a Chinese conversation, we will gift you gold and dimond while doing backward somersaults.

[aria_]

As a Finn, thanks for calling our language a gigachad language. I am currently learning and also hoping to become a hyperpolyglot gigachadette

[gary]

As a Chinese, the most difficult part for the Westerners are the four and half tones, I have never met any foreigners that can manage the tones but the professor at UC Riverside, Perry Link(林培瑞). Go watch an interview of him and you will be shocked how good his Mandarin is. The second hardest part is the writing system. I have been living in he states for 10yrs and now there are a ton of words I don't even remember how to write/spell. The easiest part, like the vid mentions, is the grammar, probably the easiest grammar in the world. No gender words, no tense, no honorifics, no difference between subjects and objects, no BS.

[willyfan]

The hardest thing in learning Chinese in my opinion is that it's ambiguous all the time.
Take "wo我 hui會 chi吃" as an example, it can mean "I will eat" or "I know how to eat" or even "I would choose to eat", depending on the context.

[doggo]

please do german next, it’s the third language I’m studying and I’d love to hear your take on the language!

[semprequevoceleroscomentar]

Como um brasileiro que fala brasileiro, eu posso confirmar que o seu chinês é perfeito.