How Chinese Sounds to Non-Chinese Speakers?? Is Chinese Really Difficult to Pronounce??

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Today we Figure out How Chinese Sounds to Non-Chinese Speakers!

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KR Hyunjeong @leehyunjung64
PH Anica @anicadoll
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KR Wonhee
CN Songshin

[leontnf]

😂 A friendly reminder to the producers: When dealing with the Mandarin language, remember to include the Chinese characters for the native speakers. The Latin-alphabet transcription is only meant for understanding the pronunciation of the words. It can be time consuming or slightly annoying even for Mandarin speakers to decipher whole sentences using that. It's like asking Koreans to read out Korean in its 'Romanized' form, or asking Japanese to read their texts fully typed in 'Romaji'. We are not used to doing that. I had the same reaction as the Chinese girl at 5:40 😂

[Krenisphia]

The tones is what gets most people more than the actual words.

[nbo]

The 16 word one is super simple, literally every Chinese knows that by hearing the first 3 words.

[johnchen]

I understand Chinese and it was funny how they turned it to something totally different
At least for some of them 😅

[nathanspeed]

I was choking 😂, laughed so hard with the tongue twisters! The pronunciation is so difficult for me at least. Niki was impressive pulling the correct answer out of the hat 😮! This was a fun one, all of the participants tried their best and was respectful of the Mandarin language. ❤

[benjifoxtronaut]

finally, game like this with tonal language. lol. at least Chinese people that I met when I went there is kind enough to understanding when I speak their words with no tone at all 😅

[iqbang]

I guess every language has its tongue twisters, just like "She sells seashells by the seashore..." in English.

[andybaker]

Interesting that here in the UK, that game is called "Chinese Whispers"!

[PolineChan]

I like how they messed all that up and the chinese girl was like i got it.

[alistairt]

I love how people where being respectful and such a sport considering how difficult Mandarin is.

[choybo]

the filipina girl actually saved the day a couple times

[schooltechnology]

I want a slavic language video like this 😭😭😭😭😭

[egustchen]

I still remember, when I said 四是四，十是十，十四是十四，四十是四十 in a very fast speed, all my colleagues went crazy. They said they just heart random si shi si shi sound and had 0 idea what was going on. 🤣

[DEV-]

I love that PH girl . She stand up and took the fault . So brave.

[weigeeng]

The explanation at 7:26 is wrong! It literally means that the old man brought soup up the tower, the tower was slippery, the soup spilled, and scalded either the man (ta1 他) or the tower (ta3 塔). It's not clear without the actual Chinese words.

[百合仙子]

5:45 As a native Chinese, I need to read the English translation to figure out what those pinyin are

Edit: the translation seems wrong. 塔 (Tower) wouldn't be hurt by hot soup, but 他 (him; referring to 老头, the old man) would be hurt.

[Bunnyyoutube]

Fun fact : The “hai mian bao bao” actually means spongebob

[Wesmin]

I hope they do more videos like this with many different languages as well in the first/last position, this was fun to watch.

[GoodCitizen-gmtl]

the laotou one is even difficult for us native speakers to memorize it fully by being told once.

[karllogan]

Just try to remember the first several words of a lengthy tongue twister in a language you're unfamiliar with, forget the rest of the words and hope for the best.
There's no way my brain could remember more than 6-8 words in a language I can barely pronounce, so I wouldn't even try.
I mean as an English speaker all someone would have to say is 'how much wood' and I would know immediately what tongue twister they're referring to I wouldn't need them to say the whole thing.