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Genre: Education
Date of upload: Jan 8, 2023 ^^
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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.
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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.
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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!
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I teach ESL at my local church & a couple of my students are from Hong Kong. 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.
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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?
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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.
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Wow... the part at the end about not fitting into weeb or kpop so picking Chinese was me lol. I took Chinese classes in high school and recently started learning it again. It's scary at first, but it really (seriously) is not that hard once you get the basics down. Duolingo has an okay Chinese program. It's not super fleshed out but I like it :)
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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
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Used to major in Mandarin before I quit to study fashion.
I think it can be quite easy to pick up the basics if you put a little bit of work into it and the tones are actually much easier than what they look like (I remember being immensely scared to mess them up just for my oral language practice teacher to say I had a fairly good accent). To me, the characters are what makes it so interesting however I’d like to learn more about dialects (mostly about Cantonese) but it seems kinda out of touch.
Also, what you said at the end of the vid is real, it’s pretty much the third way if you don’t wanna study Japanese or Korean. At least it was the case in my class at uni, even though almost every single person was a kpop stan.
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@niruhota6372
1 year ago
As a indian person who never heard of china or Chinese i can confirm that your Chinese is excellent.
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