There is a Chinese guy walking around London telling English people how to read and write English

@Monkeyabroad

7 жыл бұрын

I'd watch that video

@hongxia2708

7 жыл бұрын

Where do I find that video?

@monpetitgarcon

7 жыл бұрын

Alpha i know! Crazy right?

@truezyf

7 жыл бұрын

what an world we r living.

@andy4an

7 жыл бұрын

I'd watch that video if the chinese guy was as respectful and encouraging as this white guy.

I’m Chinese and I always correct Americans with their, there, and they’re.

@iant419

4 жыл бұрын

My dad asked me how to spell 'unit' the other day 🤨. I grew up reading constantly so not knowing there, they're and their is just a mind boggling display of incompetence.

@daywalker3735

4 жыл бұрын

Fair enough lol

@lgeiger

4 жыл бұрын

Native German speaker here. Not to forget about "then" and "than".

@theblueskyisstolensunlight

4 жыл бұрын

Do not forget about your and you’re

@audiogeneral

4 жыл бұрын

to,too,and two

The kid's reaction to the huge word is so cute!!

@PuNicAdbo

3 жыл бұрын

Its is

@user-cf3jy7wk2s

3 жыл бұрын

Ikr

@nicoleraheem1195

3 жыл бұрын

Yes it made me laugh such an hideously, boisterous laughter.

@CIA_Killed_JFK

3 жыл бұрын

Yesssss

@Glassandcandy

3 жыл бұрын

Genuinely made me happy to see it

5:45 Kid: 下面还有个“心” Dude: *pats head*

Respect to the people that dont get disrespected because a foreigner is telling them how to speak their language and just take in the knowledge

@TheRealKealane

6 жыл бұрын

Gabriel J even though that calls for disrespect.

@shad0wmech

6 жыл бұрын

No it doesn't. :/ if a german guy who went to school for years learning english and he corrected the way I said something, I would thank him and be impressed. Just because you are a sad sack that doesn't like being wrong doesn't mean you gotta hate the person who is right deandra.

@TheRealKealane

6 жыл бұрын

shadowmech first of all. If I'm born hearing my language and talking the way I do do not correct me. Its disrespectful and I will smack you.

@shad0wmech

6 жыл бұрын

deandra cheese than you must be an immature child

@TheRealKealane

6 жыл бұрын

shadowmech no I'm a grown woman who doesnt like to be disrespected.simple & sweet

This dude got so much goin on with his languages, it's amazing... He sounds like a British guy who grew up in an American metropolitan city studying Chinese all his life lmao

@codusmcginty

7 жыл бұрын

YuuTang I was thinking the same thing!

@peter3337

7 жыл бұрын

Damn brah you just analysed this guys whole life

@jonasherbstritter3520

7 жыл бұрын

I think he is from GB, cause, the Chinese Character on his arm is LONG LIVE THE QUEEN.

@list67

7 жыл бұрын

yes where did he learn his traditional character chinese ?? In Taiwan?? Maybe ???

@sqiao841

7 жыл бұрын

Offset It's ok as he is like 20 or even 30 years older than that kid

You know when you're native you're bound to make mistakes except if you're a professional or something because the dialects vary too much,but when you are an outsider you learn exactly from the book not from the people surrounding you that makes the difference. But no matter the difference in dialects the common term pronunciations must be known. Traditional is the way to go to get the exact essence of this beautiful culture. By the way I'm Indian I don't know shit about the language but I love China and feel connected somehow.

@zvezdoblyat

4 жыл бұрын

Shawn Thomas do you know Sanskrit?

@alantan9863

4 жыл бұрын

@@zvezdoblyat lol. Sanskrit is akin to Latin.

@mpforeverunlimited

3 жыл бұрын

You feel connected because you share a border lol

@solarlunar689

10 ай бұрын

I think it’s because both India and China are extremely old civilizations with over a billion people. I am Chinese and feel like I can relate so well to Indian culture. For example both Indians and Chinese people are extremely family oriented and good at math 😂 I think Hindi is a beautiful language. I do not understand any Indian languages but I feel like we are cousins in terms of our lifestyle, population, values, etc.

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@culllol

5 жыл бұрын

alZiiHardstylez damn he really loves chinese culture and chinese etc anything chinese damng

@GraysonMMO

5 жыл бұрын

Hes not European is he? sounds American to me.

@alZiiHardstylez

5 жыл бұрын

I

@alZiiHardstylez

5 жыл бұрын

G

@alZiiHardstylez

5 жыл бұрын

G

Lol it must be like "wtf" for these locals to have some white guy correcting them.

@icedearth3332

7 жыл бұрын

TUBESTEAKNIG they were wtf whole day.

@davidtaylor4989

7 жыл бұрын

Probably more than wtf for them. I live in China too. I can't tell you how many Chinese people have told me it's impossible for a foreigner to learn Chinese because Chinese is the hardest language in the world. So to have that kind of mindset, that only a certain race can really know a language, and then to have someone from another land correct you on it has to be like the ultimate humiliation for them.

@icedearth3332

7 жыл бұрын

David Taylor Yeah. Can you tell how worse thing is that kind of so called humiliation for chinese? Becose in western world is not so big deal. They not seem react very hard. Of corse this man talks chinese like the native language.

@enchongliu4339

7 жыл бұрын

Iced Earth o

@karolajohnson9284

7 жыл бұрын

i dont think so ... it's just shows that who appreciate chinese and who has passion for the language more ... i guess

5:03 when your chinese is so good that natives ask if you're chinese

@mikeatgoogle501

6 жыл бұрын

When they see and ask you a stupid question like "are you chinese", you know your chinese is good and can feel confident to say "yes". Lol.

I appreciate you making a translation for people like us to watch your videos.

nang made me laugh out loud it’s like this CRAZY insane long character and it’s said “nang” 💀

wow, this dude has superb Chinese proficiency

@nicfreeman4582

7 жыл бұрын

ka hing Shum I've lived in China for like 20 years . But this dude has a better pronunciation than me. Incredible!!!

@BeepBeep72

7 жыл бұрын

Nic Freeman 你知道我说什么吗？

@nicfreeman4582

7 жыл бұрын

你觉得呢？

@user-rl2qf4vo1d

7 жыл бұрын

His chinese is just so-so.

@jesseshum1388

7 жыл бұрын

wow, dude, you are really good at being critical. hats off to you

Two things I can't believe: how damn good his Chinese is, and that our names are the same

@JaymeLawman

7 жыл бұрын

Jayme Wheeler little secret: my passport name is James but I wanna be just like you🤗

@skux20

7 жыл бұрын

Jayme Wheeler I'm pretty sure you're the Jayme in the description lol

@drowswolley4661

7 жыл бұрын

你的声音跟王力宏很像，厉害了我的哥！ 另：纹身“天佑英王”？ 没听出你有英式英语口音。

@cny463

7 жыл бұрын

not that good really, but he isshowing off indeed

@layslifestyle2265

6 жыл бұрын

Jian Huang 一个英国人在一个英国的美国人聚集地长大，然后在此基础上学习中文

This was really wholesome. The sharing of knowledge is always a beautiful thing.

I like how he says “ if you tested me on my English spelling i would mess up too.” I agree 100%

Damn gotta say his Chinese pronunciation is really good

@monpetitgarcon

7 жыл бұрын

Tong Liu no they r not

@jakel3812

7 жыл бұрын

lol, as a guy from Beijing, I think it's pretty good. I don't know how good is good in your standard

@monpetitgarcon

7 жыл бұрын

Tong Liu there are a very few caucasian work n live in China as an entertainer one of them is Da Shan. Do u see him walk around in BJ educating the locals? No he doesn't even though his Chinese accent is 100 times better than this dick in the video

@JaymeLawman

7 жыл бұрын

Chloe Cheung sounds like you really need a hug

@MrBlue-ib7oi

7 жыл бұрын

+chloe - wow, you sound salty as hell!

That biang character is just pure evil, I tell you. Evil!

@Correctrix

7 жыл бұрын

It was the only one I knew! Haha.

@DesertDweller31

7 жыл бұрын

None of my Chinese friends are able to write it (obviously I can't either).

@jaloe02

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, most of us cant write that character.

@ra1nyl515

7 жыл бұрын

but we can read it lol

@Jorg

7 жыл бұрын

Write it in a 1x1cm square, the one we learn Chinese on, I guess it will be a black dot :)

That proves those characters are extremely dificult even for local people. Imagine for us, dealing with it. I was really impressed watching the guy on video teaching they.

@mz0g

5 жыл бұрын

no it just means that natives forgot things as they grow older. students of a language can actually correct natives because grammar is still fresh in our mind and because we are trying to speak and write like official textbooks. whereas natives are more colloquial and used to slang and spoken structures. don't give up!

@vejamoxdan

5 жыл бұрын

@@mz0g I already speak portuguese, english and spanish. I also studied french, but it doesn't enter in my head. Maybe I should try harder in the next year. But chinese or japonese? I know that I never will learn those ones. I do not have any chance even to use it. I'm get shocked when I see a foreign speaking clearly like this guy in the video.

@shamanbeartwo3819

3 жыл бұрын

I mentioned to a neighbor once about Mandarin having 3,000 characters to learn. He just smiled and said it was about 50,000.

@marshy_5406

3 жыл бұрын

It is more you just need 3000 characters to function everyday life so thee is no point learning all of it

@littleidiotka

2 жыл бұрын

It's not remembering it, as we get older, we will forget some things and don't use it in our everyday life

Mad respect for this vid. Def memorizing all these videos. Fill in the blanks is a good challenge

this dudes speaking and writing chinese meanwhile im here on youtube watching random videos...makes me wanna do something with my life

@kekw9928

7 жыл бұрын

lol

@ando1135

6 жыл бұрын

i believe he grew up in china from another video...or at least lived there for a long time.

2:49 that reaction!

@poptartzz1989

6 жыл бұрын

INTPWorld also the dude at 4:52 😂😂 his face is priceless lol

@afarasmr764

6 жыл бұрын

thelilvoiceinarmysheadthat makessureuknowurbtstrash omg he was like “what? what’s happening?”

@matthewxue3608

5 жыл бұрын

INTPWorld 简体字的好处是显而易见的，降低了交流成本，更容易让13亿人脱盲。更何况，简体字只是简化了一些字的写法，对汉字体系根本没有影响。与时俱进不光是文字上，更应该是思想上。学中文请学简体字，因为中国没人用繁体字了

@axrpad1228

5 жыл бұрын

Me when I look at Chinese in general.

@miguelmarquez4192

5 жыл бұрын

That really was cute

literally everyone: xiao xang the guy: no it's xiao xang

@RogueEvasion

4 жыл бұрын

Omar 去る you want an Oscar?

@froggiesandkitties

4 жыл бұрын

Omar 去る well it’s a tonal language so the wrong tone means the wrong meaning or even a different word

@prima808

4 жыл бұрын

@Alexandra Petri, ikr, like the #4 in Cantonese could also mean die if said in a different tone. My grandmother's favorite joke is about the white guy giving a speech in Chinese, who tried to say "I want to know you all" but ended up saying " I want to eat you all" 😆

@2ixu4nana

3 жыл бұрын

Its xiao xiang tho, u missed the "i"

@makelong8674

3 жыл бұрын

It's the tone that's wrong .

You know wut guys? I just improved my english listening and a lil bit traditional chinese just now haha. This video is really really great. Thumbs up 👍👍

Dude. How long have you been studying Chinese? I am Chinese but damn! You speak and write better than I do. I am 57 years old and living in the U.S. Awesome man. Keep it up. Cheers!

@juandenz2008

5 жыл бұрын

It says he lived in China for 9 years, and I guess maybe started studying before that. He is obviously a true scholar of the Chinese language.

@TooChillery

5 жыл бұрын

USPInx he is speaking Mandarin :)

@YummYakitori

5 жыл бұрын

USPInx Most people in China speak Mandarin. It’s the national language for inter-ethnic and inter-dialectal communication. Cantonese is merely one of many Chinese dialects that are all not mutually intelligible with one another but it’s very popular amongst overseas Chinese communities because most overseas Chinese originally migrated out of Cantonese speaking areas along the coast of southern China. Just about everyone can speak Mandarin in China but only about 80 to 90 million people can speak Cantonese in China. I speak Southern Min (aka Taiwanese dialect in Taiwan) for instance, which is mutually unintelligible with Mandarin Chinese, Shanghainese or Cantonese

@eamoncat

5 жыл бұрын

I think he is not only good at language skills. Have you watched his another video about how is he learning Chinese? His efforts and methods of self-education reached a level that average people can't even imagine. I think he is capable of doing anything very good without an expert's coaching. I learn English kinda like him, I've never taken formal English courses. But my efforts are nothing comparing to him. Wonderful dude.

@brandonneumann5294

5 жыл бұрын

I never heard of a guy named grant Smith that was chinese? Did you grab your friends account

This isn't surprising. In many cases, native speakers of any language may not consciously know about the little nuances and aspects of their own tongue simply because they take what they speak for granted. Meanwhile, non-native speakers may have studied the language in detail due to high interest and motivation, so they're passionate enough to actually learn deeper. In fact, there is a Chinese game show now where non-native Chinese speakers compete against each other to test their knowledge of Chinese, and some of those questions are so deep that the everyday native speaker wouldn't be able to answer them.

@sjappiyah4071

6 жыл бұрын

ZhangtheGreat Very True, Although I’d say it’s especially harder with a Ideographic/Symbolic writing system like Chinese because the symbols don’t tell you ‘how’ to pronounce it. At least in English or most other latin based languages, *most* of the time you can ‘say it as it is spelled ‘

@chatnoire89

6 жыл бұрын

Actually the characters do give an idea of how it should be pronounced, based on their most basic form's sound, so characters like 辉 and 挥 are pronounced the same while 绷 and 棚 are pronounced similar. There are many exceptions, of course, but you can guess your way to pronounce a character if you know enough characters.

@daireen_anya

6 жыл бұрын

Ooh shows like what? That'd be interesting to watch

@gcnubian

6 жыл бұрын

Yep! Like 请清青情晴 哈哈哈哈哈

@Alusnovalotus

6 жыл бұрын

ZhangtheGreat yes. Generally foreign students are pressured to learn the proper way I. Writing and grammar. Native speakers generally forget or ignore the lessons.

I just found your video literally today, and I'm enjoying it. I'm part Chinese but never really learned the language 😭. Thank you, you give me hope

This was really fun to watch. Thank you for doing something different!

As a Chinese, I have to say that Jayme speaks brilliant mandarin.

@whythissucks829

7 жыл бұрын

naive 121 well he should. hes been living in china for 9 years.

@SarangKdancecovers

7 жыл бұрын

i've lived in Britain for 12 years and my spoken english is still very crap. considering english is different to mandarin by a mile, he's done well

@bakeryssoul

7 жыл бұрын

Definitely does. It sounds like Taiwanese mandarin too.

2:50 the kid is so cute

@AndegaHV

5 жыл бұрын

Mmm hello fbi, i think i found this one.

@okaeritr

5 жыл бұрын

Ikr XD

@turtlepetal

5 жыл бұрын

Yes he is

@BothHands1

5 жыл бұрын

Omg right?! He's really smart too for a kid, he was getting ones right that the adults messed up :o

@Odinsday

5 жыл бұрын

That kid made my day.

2:50 exactly my reaction when i see the first question in my examination.

@user-qg4kn4zx3c

5 жыл бұрын

slaywee 2333333

@khai3024

4 жыл бұрын

💀💀💀💀 I'm dead

that kid is sooooo cute. his shocked face at 2:39. omg never change kid. you so cuuute

Man I have to say your Chinese amazed me. You almost have no accent. I really wish my English can be as good as your Chinese.

@salty1467

5 жыл бұрын

Brother Big he still has a bit of accent but pretty good considering he's not chinese

@salty1467

5 жыл бұрын

Kikai Shinobu I don't hear any Taiwan accent from him

Imagine a white dude teaching Asians. New achievement unlocked 😂

@zkb5429

5 жыл бұрын

Big deal?who the hell uses biang word everyday?

@user-qr6gi1dj7k

5 жыл бұрын

A Well prepared guy makes no sense

@cooliipie

5 жыл бұрын

Stupid comment, stop believing stereotypes. They're not smart

@user-bh6cz8kp4q

5 жыл бұрын

FEMINISTS and SJWs are terrorists we’re smarter than white people statistically

@user-bh6cz8kp4q

5 жыл бұрын

Lmaoo look at all these white people getting pissed cuz they cant accept the truth

2:49 me everytime see a chinese character😂😂

I really enjoy this video I wish yall would do another one of these

His English is very confusing.. He has a very americanized British accent

@keir92

6 жыл бұрын

요하너ᅵ스ᄋ he has an American accent full stop

@tonyspecv3445

6 жыл бұрын

Keir no he does have a alight british accent

@JasherClark

6 жыл бұрын

I don't get how it is confusing

@AlliRayy

6 жыл бұрын

Sounds Australian to me

@jancovanderwesthuizen8070

6 жыл бұрын

Keir No he doesn't. Australian could be right, but I still think it's a very americanised British accent

Oh shit his Chinese pronunciation is fucking perfect

@markli6065

6 жыл бұрын

dont think so,chinese can hardly speak english without accent.

@markli6065

6 жыл бұрын

especially those chinese who speak Mandarin as mother tongue

@L33tw0rk

6 жыл бұрын

Why would he be mocked?

I woule LOOOOVE to see an episode 2 on this topic.

The little boys reaction to nàng was priceless 🥰

In The U.S., if you're a foreigner and correct a native on how to speak English, prepare for some sort of confrontation. I know that there are cultural differences, but I don't see how these people aren't responding with a "who the fuck is this guy?"

@monke9746

6 жыл бұрын

Caleb G because we aren't ignorant like most Americans, and also because we don't give a fuck

@albertliu1217

6 жыл бұрын

We’re gentle man.

@sbakernyc5761

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah I was thinking the same thing. Then again it would be harder to do this test as we have an alphabet not a character system where you have to know a few thousand individual characters just to read a newspaper... I guess the closest thing would be a spelling g test but even that is not really the same thing

@noobycuber4128

6 жыл бұрын

QUEENSNYCKID Chinese is way harder, coming from someone who is fluent in both languages.

@mng8680

6 жыл бұрын

Caleb G That's because Chinese don't have as much ego and aren't as easily provoked as Americans in general. I also know some Chinese doctrines talk about willingness to learn from all people, including people subservient to yourself. Americans are more individualistic and often hates to feel underestimated or looked down on, while also having lots of pride and assumes they know everything better than foreigners who comes to their country.

But you know, the "standards" of Mandarin is also updating.. Some of the "wrong" pronunciations have become correct in the most updated dictionaries just because too many people make "mistakes"...

@susannemeier6160

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly and why would anybody in his right mind examine people to write an alphabet they have not learned! Simplified Chinese is the one being used and taught in China!

@Meijimack

5 жыл бұрын

which is an intrinsic part of any living language. But maybe there is no more living language than Mandarin (Standard Chinese), which is spoken by one in six people globally.

@udownwito.p.p4153

5 жыл бұрын

Then thats a mistake in itself then aye 💪

@L-mo

5 жыл бұрын

dumbbirdvip conversate got into the English dictionary the same was

@Meijimack

5 жыл бұрын

@@L-mo Not necessarily. Although it sounds wrong, the current sense of conversate dates from the early 19th century and is probably a back-formation from conversation.

so fun to see this, that's awesome dude.

As a dense cabbage of an Englishman I wouldn't even know where to start with learning this. OMG Respect to all that learn this language well. 👌🏽👍🏽

@Monkeyabroad

3 жыл бұрын

Never met a cabbage that could operate a keyboard. PROPS

Man. A lot of westerners act like their Chinese is good, but it’s actually terrible. This guy is actually super good.

@fishmut

2 жыл бұрын

They are probably proud they got as far as they did, Chinese English is sloppy as well and it’s understandable as it’s not their native language after all , same as foreigners that are not Chinese , I don’t think it’s realistic for everyone to be perfect not even Chinese get it right in their own language or English speaking country’s in their own country’s, I think because we know what we are talking about so it doesn’t matter .

@LoLFilmStudios

2 жыл бұрын

4:18 can’t even write in order :0

@fionkolnz2835

Жыл бұрын

wò～yóu～ bìng~ jí~ lìn~，hēn~ duó~ hèn~ duó~ bìn~ jí~ līn~~~

This dude writes in traditional Chinese!

@filmhk177

7 жыл бұрын

yes, mainland China now uses simplified Chinese only, the traditional is too hard and complicated for them.

@zachjarsle4606

7 жыл бұрын

60 years ago, in order to reduce the illiteracy rate, government simplied the character. Now simplified Chinese is commonly used in mailand China. However, mainland people do recognize some of the traditional Chinese but probably write them imprecisely.

@AQuestioner

7 жыл бұрын

He wrote 粗獷 instead of the simplified 粗犷 cū guǎng.

@minge9

7 жыл бұрын

Zachary Ji Commonly used all over the world** apart from Taiwan, HK and Macau.

@blee04524

7 жыл бұрын

Film too hard? you dont even know the reason kid

Love the show! You guys speak great Chinese! Keep up!

I learned so much watching this. Thank you!

as a chinese i have to say that we all know there exist loads of mispronunciations in our daily life but almost every people speak that way and we are taught that way over the whole school days not helpful but literally interesting thanks for your post

Your buddy's Chinese is insanely good..

@sfo2615

7 жыл бұрын

我妈的错。

@koreanG6

7 жыл бұрын

帅到惊动惊合国

@Logan-nf3fz

7 жыл бұрын

can we see more of this guy

@richardfan5321

7 жыл бұрын

帅到惊动联合国。 why you copy my face you idiot, I will report you as I can or do you want to end it?

@sfo2615

7 жыл бұрын

use VPN

I like that you're keeping the traditional chinese alive! :) so impressive!

Thank you for your passion about our language. It’s a fun way to learn Chinese.

That was really interesting to watch. Also made me miss China. Great video.

@Monkeyabroad

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@rachaeldugan2025

7 жыл бұрын

Figureight I also missed Taiwan as I watched this! :(

@user-rr4wf2mn4w

6 жыл бұрын

Uvuvwevwevwe Onyetenyevwe Ugwemubwem Ossas 你的头像，哈哈哈哈哈，是那个

@ManHeyuan

6 жыл бұрын

Taiwan is a part of China. 😁

@ManHeyuan

6 жыл бұрын

I think using a "Western pen" to write traditional Chinese is ugly. 😋 Also, wearing Western clothes is ugly. ☺️ Just trying to follow your logic on traditional Chinese. Remember that it is Qin Shihuang who unified the traditional Chinese writing systems, which had evolved through millennia of history. But, why create such a fuss when it comes to simplified Chinese? Punctuation marks also did not exist in traditional form of Chinese writing.

They are not wrong. It's just how people pronounce it in conversation, not dictionary pronunciation. It's called connected speech. These are not wrong pronunciation in my opinion.

@questionreality6003

5 жыл бұрын

yes, 'free use' - he's just being fun and I hope spreading good will - nice he loves Chinese so much

@tonsofskelly2751

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly. It isn't wrong it's like an accent. It's just like in London we pronounce "Water" Without the "T" This is technically wrong pronunciation but it's our accent. and it makes sense to us just like it does to them.

@aidanchambers6317

5 жыл бұрын

Heath Sims yeah fck off, we don't except you as an Aussie

@James-mn2pk

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly, chinese is a living language, that is the language that people actually speak. You can't say what everybody says is wrong, it's a nonsens. In that case, by definition, the dictionary is wrong.

@alexgandy2488

5 жыл бұрын

It’s like telling someone from Liverpool they’re wrong how they pronounce words when I’m from London. Don’t make any sense

I’m so jealous of you😭 how I wish I could speak Chinese like you danggg

Man, you're awesome. You speak zhong wen so well, much better than me trying to read pin yin. Nice that you're schooling the locals there. Hao de!

It's like asking someone to spell supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

@aurelialucinus744

7 жыл бұрын

w23857980 that's not hard if you're a native English speaker. There's no silent letters so it's easy to say if someone pronounces it properly.

@bird718

7 жыл бұрын

KarKar MuddaPuckar its not easy its to long a word to work out and most everyone will give up or get it wrong on purpose to end it. spelling "playwright" and "playwrite" also "idiosyncrasy" and "idiosyncracy" figure out the one that is spelled incorrect.

@jinglezhang5642

7 жыл бұрын

like hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia in English

@Samo1228

7 жыл бұрын

w23857980, haha!! good analogy!

@avagueblur

7 жыл бұрын

+Mase11888 think that word is no longer used cuz fuck lol

Let me walk around the American streets and asking everyone GRE vocab

@thugasaurusrex6004

5 жыл бұрын

鍾益飛 except that he's not.

@prestokrs1

5 жыл бұрын

Go for it

@PrimetimeNut

5 жыл бұрын

At least we could probably pronounce it/say it?

@PrimetimeNut

5 жыл бұрын

鍾益飛 none of those examples you just gave are true English words. One is French, one is Welsh, and one is Zulu/From South Africa. That being said I could still pronounce them. I get your point, but clearly the whole pictograph/character + tonal system adds unnecessary complexity to a language.

@sergio4660

5 жыл бұрын

@Crispy Cream Graduate Record Examinations on analytical writing, quantitative reasoning and verbal reasoning.

Respect to the interviewer. What a down to earth dude!

This dude is so fascinating it's crazy!

Chinese calligraphy is beautiful

If I write in traditional Chinese during test, I will definitely fail it😂😂😂 My pen will run out of ink and my hands will be numb

@alexanderle1610

6 жыл бұрын

You lazy bum.

@jasonsalz7185

6 жыл бұрын

Nowadays the pen are not as trained/built for writing traditional Chinese anymore 🤣

@calforrai

6 жыл бұрын

Jason Salz We use 0.38 or finer pens and have no problem writing legitimate Chinese....

@jasonsalz7185

6 жыл бұрын

just kidding my friend, i am oversea born chinese

@tatto9001

6 жыл бұрын

Girl my ink would’ve increase cause I won’t even write a single stroke

That's one of the most impressive things i've seen. A foriegn guy testing native Chinese about Chinese writing. One tiny suggestion for this video, it would've been really cool to get their reaction afterward (i.e. every person you tested). I think getting people's reaction afterward in any impressive action is always priceless.

Wow that little boy is Amazing Bless him very smart🤗

Dayum! Dude speaks, writes better chinese than me! A white guy teaching chinese people chinese in China. Sounds about right.

"are you chinese" lmao so cute

@MaximusFelinusXVI

5 жыл бұрын

Fresh_Water the notion of ethnicity is quite something else in China

@Sam-py9qq

5 жыл бұрын

@@MaximusFelinusXVI eh, they just mean if it's his native language

Fascinating! The Chinese language is so complex!

This video was SO GOOD.

2:49 That reaction killed me 😂😂

@jackxiang1305

6 жыл бұрын

lmao

@KDD8

6 жыл бұрын

Me when I open my final exam and see the first question

@Nicholas-yi6rl

6 жыл бұрын

that kid was the bomb, his reactions were the best!

Lol....that's rich......white guy in china teaching them chinese lol

@ritajn1689

5 жыл бұрын

nop not teaching them...

@ghostferatu6241

5 жыл бұрын

why are you people so obsessed with race?

@sjwilkin

5 жыл бұрын

@@ghostferatu6241 What do you mean 'you people' ....... :P

@NotMe-yh5gi

5 жыл бұрын

@@sjwilkin probably Americans

@fawnrot

5 жыл бұрын

@@NotMe-yh5gi It's a reference. kzread.info/dash/bejne/a2190bBroNzTlqg.html

this is the kind of question i hate most in the Chinese test paper when I was back in middle/high school, they are designed to fail you.

Very entertaining video and people seemed to be enjoying it as well 👍

2:50 OMG THAT BOY. SO CUTE AHAHAHHAHAH.

To be completely honest when I first saw your friend in the thumbnail, I was expecting him to have a thick foreigner Chinese accent. I guess never judge a book by it's cover, haha. His Chinese accent, pinyin, writing are all superb!

As a Chinese, your handwriting is very beautiful and clean. I love the every character you wrote in this video!

2:50 the kids reaction... hahahahah I was laughing out loud. From India. Yindu.. Peace!!

"You wrote "biang biang noodles" in simplified Chinese. They should have a horse, a moon, and a knife in them as well."

"whats this word ?" " too calm " ..."too calm? oh its not too calm, its too calm (4th note) "

@memphishe4386

5 жыл бұрын

Joshua Martyn genius hahah u made my day.

@Au16227

5 жыл бұрын

Its their accents.

@slycordinator

5 жыл бұрын

This would be like if a Chinese guy saw me in the States and said I was saying "route" wrong because I said it as "r+out" instead of "root".

@jennaluhur

5 жыл бұрын

Joshua Martyn some dialects have more to 15 sound notations, it’s crazy. Not just that, many words/phrases sound the EXACT same so context is super important

@lyhthegreat

5 жыл бұрын

it's like how some people would say toe-mah-toe while others would say toe-may-toe for tomatoes but in chinese a difference in tone could mean a totally different character.

Awesome channel just found it, learned a lot from you, ty will definitely sub

Respect, so much respect for you brother! Keep the traditional Chinese alive!

i'm japanese. and we also can't write 龜 too. in japan, we write 亀. i'm studying chinese. i want to speak chinese fluently like Jayme.

@tao9770

7 жыл бұрын

Try to watch Chinese tv, i think you can.

@FalconWindblader

7 жыл бұрын

I'm the other way around. I'm a ethnic Chinese (nationality being Malaysian) who speaks Chinese, & learning Japanese instead. & i second Franco Fang's comment, as i myself got conversational with Japanese (not quite yet can call myself fluent) from watching thousands of hours of Japanese movies & tv & anime.

@huihui8235

7 жыл бұрын

Franco fang yes, i will. actually i really like to watch chinese variety tv since before. watching chinese tv is good to learn i think so! thank u〜

@huihui8235

7 жыл бұрын

Falcon Windblade yes. i'm studying chinese from chinese variety tv. it's very good way to learn foreign language. i will keep trying my best! thanks for your comment. 日文加油！

@ra1nyl515

7 жыл бұрын

中文勉強！I think you can understand it~wwwwwww

im a 100% chinese and i found chinese frickin hard, not only the commonly mispronounced characters, but the tests on chinese are also really tricky. i ranked among the top in subjects like math n english in high school n failed almost every chinese test. Wtf

@randomwanderer3715

6 жыл бұрын

vexilligera ve hahaha this is so funny.

@slamdunk406

6 жыл бұрын

vexilligera ve 對不起

@kyumixsleek

6 жыл бұрын

me too

@StrangerHappened

6 жыл бұрын

The fact you were top in math proves that you are Chinese, not the level of your Chinese language. J/k, though I love positive racial prejudices. :) BTW, I also think that Chinese is super hard so I have to hopes to learn it, really. But at least I can appreciate just how beautiful the hieroglyphs are, and how cute it sounds.

@chengwengcw8813

6 жыл бұрын

The only thing Chinese is hard in is the vocab, there's unlimited of words apart from the dictionary and we won't even know some of them, feeling lucky I'm born Chinese lmao… 木 林 森 四个木谁知道我不知道哈哈 火 炎 And more and more fuck I don't even know how to read damn hhahhaa

Great stuff dude! Totally agree with you for traditional character! Have you ever take calligraphy lessons?

Oh my. The way these guys talk in Mandarin is stunning. It makes me feel envious having studied the language in high school and have not reached this level of proficiency and fluency. Well done. Bravo. 😍

I'm think what's gonna happen if a Chinese dude goes around American streets and teach American how to speak and write their own language. I think most American would be not interested and tell that Chinese guy "you don't tell me how I speak my own language"

@vandamme6379

7 жыл бұрын

That's where you will notice a difference in cultures. Chinese people wouldn't tell him to go get fxxxed. In America or England though they just might, because westerners are not as enduring.

@daleykun

7 жыл бұрын

I'm British and I will always defer to my non-native speaking friends when asking about grammar etc. as I understand how different colloquial English is from how it should be properly and I know they were probably taught better than I was.

@vandamme6379

7 жыл бұрын

Daley That's a good idea, like asking a learner driver about small things in a driving test. Honestly, my English improved when I moved to Asia, simply because I had to re-learn a lot of things.

@georgina4811

7 жыл бұрын

actually there alot of asian youtubers who did that..and every american was nice :) as long as u speak the lang good, y would people be rude?

@jongzhao4689

7 жыл бұрын

That's right. I wish some Chinese guy would've just told this idiot to go f*** himself.

I love how friendly the chinese people are.

@jeanjasmine

6 жыл бұрын

As long as you can speak Chinese yep

@killak5106

6 жыл бұрын

Cuhh he white

@lordhoboofsavior36

6 жыл бұрын

Agreed. If they met any foreigner. Westerner especially white people, their attitude toward you can change drastically. Learning their language can improve both country relationship.

@luana.desousa6398

6 жыл бұрын

Ikr when i went to US i could smell the racism and rudeness in the air

@mydearleader

6 жыл бұрын

if you speak Chinese, they are friendly. if you cannot speak Chinese, they treat you like shit. son forget, Chinese are the racistest people in the world!

KZread Randomly recommended me this video. What a great video I must say

Love this video!! Thank you. Ausgezeichnet, ich hab' alles genoßen, Vielen Dank!

Just proves that no one is perfect-whatever language you speak/write or whether you are a native speaker or not. This shows that even native speakers are not perfect on their own language.

@amirbenshams3550

6 жыл бұрын

panerai123 because nobody can master their own native language (speak/write) 100% all of words that exist in their language.

@spikebaltar5071

6 жыл бұрын

Not everybody can master 100% on their language just like how english people don't know very long english scientific words

@Mintshake_bunny

6 жыл бұрын

Exactly, my native language is one of the most difficult ones in the world (Finnish, there are not many languages with the same grammar structure) and I have never met a person who would speak it perfectly. I speak my own language wrong most of the time so all my sympathy is with those learning it!

@lintsivideot

6 жыл бұрын

Mint C mitä tarkotat sillä et puhut muka väärin? :D

@kahhowkon6139

6 жыл бұрын

Funny thing is, mandarin is not even a native language for most people in china, because the dialects they speak don't even sound like mandarin most of the time. It's just something they can speak, because it is required. Doesnt mean it is pronounced perfectly most of the time.

Dude your handwriting is prettier than mine! I'm chinese and my handwritings are ugly

@lordsnow4029

5 жыл бұрын

Well you learn it cuz you need to in school and this guy love the language and he is passionate about it there is a difference. I am from Croatia and our grammar is a bit complicated so I always get 2 or D grade. So i belive that there is a guy who would like to learn my language and could get an 5 or A grade which is better than me obviously 😂

@momowednesday7735

4 жыл бұрын

Do you have fb

@jordanquezada7233

4 жыл бұрын

@@lordsnow4029 i want to learn croatian Teach me dude. See ya

@helenliu7410

4 жыл бұрын

no worries. when ur handwritings is fairly ugly (not the out of place ugly) it means ur handling the language pretty well

@alantan9863

4 жыл бұрын

I'm too reliant on pinyin though.

I like how u got the kid to test.. teaching the young generation that the world is trying to learn their language and is ending racism 🥰 thank you everything about this video is amazing....

China seems like a really great place. It seems very strict but that's great also. I'd like to go to china or Japan someday. I totally envy this man.

His Chinese is better than me.And i was born and raised in China.

@degaldo4apek

7 жыл бұрын

Lucas S what?! ahahaha im malaysian chinese n I struggle with the language itself. bt I found that english is easier. do most china chinese know english? im curious

@MaxLohMusic

7 жыл бұрын

better than MINE*. Asian grammar nazi reporting for duty

When you know a foreigner can write chinese character better than you do, you know you fvcked up.

@Monkeyabroad

7 жыл бұрын

Haha

This is so cool!

The interviewer deserves my deep respect for his level of mastery of Chinese, I don't even know how to write BIANG in Chinese, way too complicated.

2:15 this kid is impressive, he knows better than adults lol

@joventlk7300

6 жыл бұрын

that doesn't mean he knows more than adult just becuz he know some hard words haha

@cathyhe2881

6 жыл бұрын

becuz generally kids learn the proper pronunciations in their primary schools, its a thing to do, i used to always show off my 'proper' chinese to my parents lol

@KarlyKitten

6 жыл бұрын

HiMyNameIs What 2:49 Lmao

@shawnl7923

6 жыл бұрын

The reason is he is still learning this in school, the adults never use most of these words after graduating. Is like people testing you traditional British words in Shakespeare, you learnt it in high school but never used it again.

@PewPewPlasmagun

6 жыл бұрын

But those are wondrous words worthy of being used. I for one deem the effort worthwhile.

Holy Christ Dude.. Not sure how I stumbled across your page but I'm glad I did. My wife, (Taiwanese), has been "encouraging" me to learn 中文. I guess I have no excuse now. Thank-You for providing the motivation I needed. Cheers!

@Monkeyabroad

7 жыл бұрын

Glad you're feeling motivated man!

@shaolin89

7 жыл бұрын

Good luck, may I recommend you try out Glossika (Glossika.com) It's a bit expensive, but really effective!

@PhilipHowson

7 жыл бұрын

I'm learning 普通话 currently and this definitely motivates me to keep going. My finacé was amazed at this guy's speaking as well as writing, she says he speaks with virtually no accent (if anything I find his English accent a bit odd). My recommendation would be Yoyo Chinese. I think that's this is pretty much the definitive beginners course, although once you get to intermediate level, there's a lot of choice and a lot of good courses out there (you might just want to swap to traditional HSK3/4 syllabuses for example).

@SocialistMafia

7 жыл бұрын

Johnny Allison You mean your wife （Chinese）？

@JohnnyAllison

7 жыл бұрын

zjs kju Taiwanese, wife is Taiwanese..

awesome video!!!

THE FIRST LITTLE BOY IS SO CUUUTTTEEE HIS REACTION TO THE BIG WORD ALCJKSKDKS