How China Convinced Everyone to Speak ONE Language

In this video we cover how Mandarin Chinese developed through history.

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[HenryNgo]

You have a brilliant dissertation of this subject. Thank you.

[poheng]

Thanks so much for making and sharing this video. A lot of effort has been put to it. Appreciate it.

[darren]

Please refrain from using AI images in the thumbnails. They distort history. Those are not real Chinese garments from any dynasty.

[JeffafaYaYa]

Thank you for the informative video! I've always wondered how Mandarin came to be. Hopefully Cantonese will continue to flourish though in the future.

[patriotthrunthru]

Full on! Massively informative! Thank you 🎉

[dennisng]

Thank you for such an informative, engaging & entertaining video on how Mandarin became the official Chinese language upon my ( &, I’m sure, many others) request from your previous video on Cantonese. Looking forward to seeing your future videos.

[thejellyfish]

Thanks for summing up all the significant points of time! You have done excellent research.

[YanJoe-tk]

Thanks for the informative video! I find it very useful as a Chinese Cantonese native speaker and I am impressed by your in depth knowledge in Chinese language and culture!

[Arthurkh]

Wow, that's a lot of research done for this video clip.
Thanks so much for sharing.❤

[zhiqutv]

In addition to Mandarin, a large number of dialects are still preserved in China. In some areas of southern China, the dialects even vary from village to village.

[brendagordon]

❤, Thank you for sharing. I am still working on my Mandarin language. Time and patience 🙏 😊

[jingshen]

My wife is from a small (in china sense, in Australia sense it would be a really big one) city in Sichuan, and when she talks to her relaives on phone I could understand less than 20%, and she couldn't understand my native dialogue at all. I could understand more in Spainish that her native dialogue. It is the fact that dispite the massive difference in pronoucation, vocabulary, tone and even grammar, all chinese dialogues share a unifying written language that made people believe that we have one language and Europe has at least 40

[johnfreitas]

Been watching you from the beginning, and his is your best!

[CoweatsCow]

Listen, Cantonese speaker here. What the language/dialect you speak, the language/dialect is yours. You are the ones who is supposed to put in the work to preserve and grow it, not your government. Make an effort to speak it with your friends and family members, write songs with it, tell stories with it, or make entertainment, documentary, or news videos with it. If no new content is being produced and enjoyed, the language /dialect will die off. Again, we are all responsible for continue the language and culture.

[nicolassantossanchez]

Amazing! Thanks for sharing this video 👍

[MrDnong]

well, I speak cantonese and zhuang dialect( 壮，sound like Thai language) at home, but when i communicate at workplace with someone maybe speaks some other dialects, i may speak mandarin, so that we can understand with each other. the same with communicating with americans in english.

[AndreThebobs]

Awesome video! Thank's from Brazil!!!

[songkh]

You speak Mandarin perfectly! That's amazing.

[zoeliu]

Thank you for this video. As a Chinese, I finally learned some basic knowledge that I should know.😊👍👍

[verasinn]

Cantonese was not the only dialect spoken in Hong Kong before mid 1960’s. A lot of refugees rushed into Hong Kong after the Japanese invaded China starting in 1931. Especially since 1945. So in the 40’s, 50’s and into the 60’s, we grew up with both mandarin and Cantonese movies, and songs. By mid 60’s, many mandarin speakers moved to Taiwan and abroad, and Cantonese took over especially with popularization of television.