Chinese Americans Take A Basic Mandarin Language Quiz

Three Chinese Americans try to pass a first grade level Mandarin test. Will they disappoint their ancestors? Or will they succeed?

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[rhonda]

i felt this was a little harder for the cantonese speakers because they're almost separate languages, but still a very fun concept!

[jspihlman]

She was being waaaay too generous with those points.

[Echoechostar]

As someone who has studied mandarin but isnt of chinese origin, this was really fun to test my knowledge ^_^

[Kath]

as an actual bilingual kid fluent in both English and Mandarin, I'm fully enjoying this真的笑死我了

[tomfoley]

I’m teaching myself Mandarin (am Irish) so this was pretty fun to watch and test myself! I couldn’t help it notice that Kevin went from using Southern to Northern Chinese towards the end hahaha

[ButCritically]

4:37 norman and amber are speaking Canto for walk (行 / 行路), very surprised editors caught airplane (飛機) but not walk.

[busybeatravels]

This video made me so happy! I knew some of the answers but I really need to brush up on my Mandarin. Thanks for this A*Pop!

[ShpahlicEva]

As a Chinese American who grew up in a Cantonese family. Most Cantonese speaking ppl in the states dont know Mandarin. Norman at least knew a few words which is pretty good. You talk to some of my friends or brother they would just go...what?

[rebaconegg]

Those are some hard hitting questions for first graders LOL

[gustavovillegas]

I’m Mexican American and now I wanna see a channel do this but for us Spanish speakers 😂 this concept is great

[ruedesfleurs]

Amber is so funny. Kevin slayed. Norman is relatable.

[chockie_lingo]

I have been learning Chinese for a while, and felt like giving up a lot. But after watching this, I feel so much better The English subtitles were quite generous with translating their answers too lol. Oh, this video makes me feel so much more happy 😂

[abigirlll]

As a native English speaker currently learning Mandarin, I was thrilled that I knew some of these answers/words. 😄

[RCSlim]

Unfair for Norman because he literally was thinking in Cantonese

[NN-brxh]

the questions are so random. You be asking about apples and trees and suddenly drop what is NOSTALGIA hahaha

[johnchernabcinterviewandca]

So cringy and fun at the same time. though, its weird they got a few canto speakers to do mandarin

[trinidadinternational]

I wish I would have grown up speaking several languages including Mandarin. I work so hard but did well on this quiz. Proud.

[johnchernabcinterviewandca]

Kevin using beijing northern mandarin at the end lol

[Johntv]

enjoyed the format. Think it'd also be cool if the real answer was written

[vatnidd]

Why are they putting who's clearly a Cantonese heritage speaker through a Mandarin test? That's like giving a Spanish heritage speaker a French test. Poor dude.