For non-Chinese speakers, she’s not just fluent, its like the way she say things and the way she forms a sentence sounds very native and natural. I feel like its really one of the highest level u can get in language learning.

@henry12h

4 жыл бұрын

Anyone can do it! Just commit to do so

@noname89636

4 жыл бұрын

@@henry12h ... Yes, but it is a strong and one he*l of a commitment. You have to LOVE that language you are learning and find an inner and deep internal value to it. That is why many people quit after the A2 level. It is why I quit after learning Arabic and Polish (I lived in Middle East and Poland due to my job). I tried to continue on with Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, and other languages, but my energy just isn't there because I know what I went through with Arabic and Polish. I have no clue why I just ranted under your comment. But yeah it is one strong a** commitment.

@niallahorana3377

4 жыл бұрын

It does not sound like a native lol.

@noname89636

4 жыл бұрын

@@niallahorana3377 .. Hater

@julietazubeldia

4 жыл бұрын

@@niallahorana3377 no, yeah. Thats what I thought. But shes fluent! Thats amazing, and thats what counts. This video makes me want to go and keep learning👏

Speaking as a native Chinese speaker with a linguistic background, I must say I am very impressed with her Chinese capability. I see some comments making a remark on how she doesn’t sound native. Granted. if we are to compare her Chinese to native Chinese she still got some room to improve, but is native fluency really the lowest bar for recognition? just imagine for a second how we sound when we speak English as a non-native speaker, those English speakers instantly know we are not natives - there are mispronunciations, there are inappropriate choices of vocabularies and unnatural syntaxes. But you don’t hear people say someone’s English isn’t native enough. It’s ridiculous! I know too damn well how difficult it is to learn a language, and how much harder it is to master a language. This lady really surprises me with some of the “markers” she has mastered that are so quintessentially Chinese.

@thryce82

4 жыл бұрын

its because there are a lot of petty folk out there. she does/doesnt speak fluently does really matter . Im a native english speaker as soon as peole talk about art or someone with a welsh accent speak i understand nothing. i would assume she is solid in 90%+ of converstaions that go on. think its more of A i cant do that so she sucks or B white people shouldnt have passable mandarin. B>>A i assume. i lived abouts in asia for ~7 years. asians everywhere are not very excited when u learn anything about their language in my experience. they know passable-- some english so once u start learning their language they feel they lose an advantage and take it kinda offensively. at worst they lost an english practice partner at most they have to watch what they say around u in their own language. Thai and japanese forrr sureee but i assume chinese folk too.

@JayA-rx3hi

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly!

@TheVivienne1990

4 жыл бұрын

chad moore I am not sure I can agree with you. I feel delighted when foreigners show an interest in learning my mother tongue.

@Pika-ck7ww

3 жыл бұрын

@@thryce82 but English speakers are really popular in China (for most part). People there love English speakers and encourage them to learn Chinese as well

@r0conscious

3 жыл бұрын

@@thryce82 I'm living in Beijing for nearly 3 years, people love it when I speak Chinese to them, I'm very social and talk to many people, haven't met a single person after all this time that seemed to somehow doesn't like or appreciate me speaking to them in Chinese

I'm a Chinese girl, from Beijing, with a neutral Mandarin accent. Her sentences are authentic and pronunciation is pretty good, just with a little bit foreign accent. I hope my English could be as good as her Mandarin.🐼

@lovezuzu4837

Жыл бұрын

I from Nanjing

@rockywu2625

Жыл бұрын

Me too!!

@user-fp9tj5mf1i

Жыл бұрын

我也北京的😁

@user-is3hd9un8q

Жыл бұрын

JiangXi

@wenwen1749

Жыл бұрын

im from shanghai hhh

Guys, it’s practically a impossible thing speaking exactly like a native when u are not grown up in the place of this specific language. Everyone has an accent speaking a second language at this point. I speak English for many years but i still have my portuguese accent. >Having an accent means nothin

@esterteixeira5857

3 жыл бұрын

@@thetruthalwaysscary that’s what I said (❓❔❓❔❓)

@nuoxy

3 жыл бұрын

True

@QuizmasterLaw

3 жыл бұрын

>Having an accent means sounding sexy there. that's better.

@crunchy_crop

2 жыл бұрын

@@QuizmasterLaw Yeah but I wonder what a western accent sounds like while speaking chinese. Like I can't even think of it since I don't know the language

@QuizmasterLaw

2 жыл бұрын

@@crunchy_crop let's hope Rita does a BAD ACCENTS series!

Her accent may be foreign but her pronunciation is really clear.

@luluorenge

3 жыл бұрын

tones are really hard

@Apetitegirly

3 жыл бұрын

@@luluorenge tones are the hardest

@taylorm6309

3 жыл бұрын

@@luluorenge I'm a complete beginner and tones are kicking my ass.

@purplegeek3228

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, Her accent is pretty impressive. Tones are really on key. She speaks fast because the Mandarin is a fast speaking language. She has wonderful sing voice, too.

@user-jg3fd3rc3t

3 жыл бұрын

@@purplegeek3228 tones and I queen of pop

Her main points I took away: - Memorize vocab, vocab, vocab. Grammar will come once you have words to say. - Watch tv/ movies in targeted language. Babies learn language naturally from listening, not from textbooks. - Talk to native speakers ( It's uncomfortable but just try it)

@ssabina3829

4 жыл бұрын

Yes

@ramblinwes7853

3 жыл бұрын

I teach English in China. The Chinese way to teach English is vocab, vocab, and more vocab. The children know hundreds of words and can't say a thing. Learning a language is not about words. You can say many things with very few words or not be able to say anything with many words. IMO

@CurrentChinese

3 жыл бұрын

Good take aways!

@nicoleraheem1195

3 жыл бұрын

@flxral 1.) Lichao Chinese - Hsk Centered 2. )Twin Cities Chinese- grammar points 3.) Chinese Zero To hero -HSK Centered 4.) Everyday Chinese (advance beginner -fluent chinese) 5. ) Chinese Pod( same as 4) 6. One lemon chinese 7) This: www.tuttlepublishing.com/elementary-mandarin-chinese-testbook 8) Chinese for us 9) Richard chinese learning And etc.

@alexleuchtenburg4841

3 жыл бұрын

@flxral I recommend Viki.com with the language learning option turned on - it shows subtitles in both English and Chinese at the same time. You can do the same thing with Netflix with a browser extention. Even if you just watch with English subtitles, the key is to watch many hours. I've watched about 2500 hours of Chinese language content, and I feel very comfortable conversing in Chinese.

her: spanish grammar is too hard also her: *learns language with tone system and thousands of characters*

@rodsalomon6524

3 жыл бұрын

It’s different type of learning.

@nicoleraheem1195

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂

@ydz6413

3 жыл бұрын

But with easier grammar!

@liyanarafidz

3 жыл бұрын

YA LIKE WTH HAHAH

@jodi-.-

3 жыл бұрын

I agree with her lol! I took spanish for two years and even to me its harder than learning chinese. I am learning chinese more faster and understanding it better. I also think it depends how motivated you are and if you have that connection to the language. I started learning spanish because I wanted to talk to people in my community who only spoke spanish. After only 2 years of Spanish in high school i can have a light conversation with them...which should be more but I lost interest after a while(at least my motivation got me to understand a good amount haha) Now with chinese, it has always been apart of my life. Growing up I would watch chinese movies and dramas so the vocabulary and phrases are more familiar. Also being a regular chinese drama fan helps me learn outside of studying time! It all just depends if its the right time and right mindset to learn a certain language :)

说的真的非常好，作为一个中文的母语使用者，非常尊敬 Mrs.雪莲 ！！！

Why do you wanna learn Chinese? Me: xue hua piao piao

@xinyuantao1626

4 жыл бұрын

What? 雪花飘飘？

@nonutemperor

4 жыл бұрын

@@xinyuantao1626 it's a meme

@nonutemperor

4 жыл бұрын

@Evan Xia Das right 🌺

@immzl3006

4 жыл бұрын

我以为是学画漂漂😂看了评论才知道是一剪梅

@user-vy7kt9jn5f

4 жыл бұрын

雪哎花啊飘哦飘哦，北风萧哦萧哦～

i am so proud of myself that i understand all of this video without subtitles 😊 我学习中文学了六年了！

@zarinaraxmatullayeva2967

3 жыл бұрын

How did u learn Chinese, I just started to learn and it's a bit difficult to remember words😔

@vendicci5443

3 жыл бұрын

@@zarinaraxmatullayeva2967 download various apps for learning, they're really helpful for me

@ethanlau8254

3 жыл бұрын

@@zarinaraxmatullayeva2967 find a Chinese speaker, and talking together, just talk

@ethanlau8254

3 жыл бұрын

@@vendicci5443 but you do look like a Asian people lol

@teaforthetiller.

3 жыл бұрын

@@zarinaraxmatullayeva2967 idk if i can be super helpful bc i learned it in school starting in 8th grade, but i recommend getting a chinese textbook and there are a bunch of free video resources online

I am a native English speaker, and she is speaking Mandarin Chinese so quickly that I realized that I have to work on speeding up my English subtitle reading. :P

I have a Chinese background, and I understand it. I am very impressed with her, especially when she said she loves writing the characters. It wasn’t the most fluent, and has some accents, but it was still very clear. I could still understand, and I’m very impressed! I also wanted to say that anyone can learn Chinese. You don’t have to have a background, all it takes is time and determination.

@rochuo7739

3 жыл бұрын

I am Mandarin speaker and want to learn more english and we can teach with each other,can i get yr skype or others?Tks.

Me: watches a few “how to self learn a language” KZread: How did I learn Chinese? FOR GOD’S SAKE IM CHINESE

@hiimcortana1568

4 жыл бұрын

Sameee. I was watching english pronunciation lessons and here I am .. learning how to speak chinese even tho I am alr speaking it.. (can't read write too much tho since I was born in abroad)..

@aladyknight1314

4 жыл бұрын

@@hiimcortana1568 same lol haha!

@abra238

4 жыл бұрын

i immediately had to reach for a tissue reading this. Snorted too hard!

@johnchoi9701

4 жыл бұрын

It’s even funnier when youtube suggests me to learn swear words in my native language. And i clicked on that video..

@maxyang7919

4 жыл бұрын

Well KZread can't possibly know if you can speak the language or not. Plenty of overseas Chinese can't speak Chinese and plenty of overseas Chinese kids go to Chinese class because their parents dictate it.

I’m a Chinese instructor in USA. I think your Chinese is extremely good. Even though your tones are not exactly as same as a native speaker, BUT it doesn’t matter cuz your tones doesn’t makes you, 不能被理解！！ your expression, what you tried to say to audience sounds very clear in a Chinese’s ears, and I can’t agree more about your opinion, about learning a second language. Learning a foreign language is a progress, the output can not be perfect, but every time you use it, you get the improvement. I’ll definitely recommend you to my students

@NanSilverin

4 жыл бұрын

I'm learning Chinese too. I live in Greece. I went to the Confucius Institute in Athens. For me the most difficult part is to find people to talk, to practice Chinese. In theory is not so bad. Also the characters. But if you don't talk a language...

@tapp3r109

4 жыл бұрын

@@NanSilverin uhh, there's literally a Chinatown in Athens, plenty of people to talk to

@user-wd8wx5md5z

4 жыл бұрын

The way she repeatedly says FAIL in English is really annoying in my opinion. And the words she says in chinese does not even totally match with what she writes in chinese. (In particular again : the case of "FAIL") Personally I cannot use it. Otherwise yes she is great.

@NanSilverin

4 жыл бұрын

@@tapp3r109 yes there are a lot of people who are learning Chinese. Greece has a good relationship with China and it will grow.

@user-ns8ry1ie8z

4 жыл бұрын

I think her tones are nearly perfect as an English speaker.The grammar and vocabulary are impeccable.

Thank you for this! I've recently started trying to learn Mandarin and you've really inspired me to keep persisting!

This honestly just motivated me a lot, I will do my best and try to stay motivated while learning, thank you! ^°^

when I heard her saying "各有利弊" (chinese idiom for "each side has its own virture and drawbacks" ) , I m like... Ok, she is a proooooo !

@shadowdragon007

3 жыл бұрын

then i saw her subtitle at 6:03 重视汉子. im like yeah she’s got work to do lol

@22Unlucky

3 жыл бұрын

@@shadowdragon007 what does it in reality mean?

@AZ-ee8vq

3 жыл бұрын

@@22Unlucky It means emphasis a male

@jadorejonas07

3 жыл бұрын

@@shadowdragon007 correct me if I'm wrong but don't Chinese native speakers make simple mistakes like that just how any native speaker can with their own language? I feel like she knows that that's not actually the right pinyin. I've seen it myself that Chinese people use the wrong 的， 得， 地 quite often. Just how English speakers use the wrong there, their and they're. We are more critical of someone that's not a native speaker because we are hyper aware of any mistakes they make. I think she's absolutely amazing and any foreigner who reaches that level of understanding of another language should be very very proud.

@Th3Vampir3Knight

3 жыл бұрын

谢谢， 我太懒惰自己查那个字。正好看到你的评论了。

I am a Korean who is learning Chinese, and I am learning how to learn Chinese by reading English subtitles hhh

@rossgv13

3 жыл бұрын

That's so funny XD

@user-rs3ri3pu1w

3 жыл бұрын

@@rossgv13 But English is also difficult 😹😹

@taylorm6309

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-rs3ri3pu1w I'm a native English speaker and I agree that English is difficult.

@kimberleychan4378

3 жыл бұрын

i'm a native English speaker but am Malaysian-Chinese trying to learn Korean by watching K dramas hahahah. Kinda given up on Chinese.

@user-rs3ri3pu1w

3 жыл бұрын

@@kimberleychan4378 一起加油吧 哈哈

雪莲说得太好了！非常自信流畅的表达！棒棒哒！Very confident and fluent expression! Excellent!

Interest is the best teacher. And practice makes perfect. Glad you found the language you love. Thank you for sharing! xx

As a Chinese native speaker and Mandarin teacher, your Chinese is extremely excellent. You master rich vocabulary and know how to use them correctly in sentences. I don't find any Grammarly mistake in your speech.

@missplainjane3905

Жыл бұрын

Still work on tone

I'm amazed when you talk chinese. Almost hypnotized... so good. Greetz from switzerland.

I love how you didn't learn Chinese until high school, but you can speak in it as if it was your mother tongue

Not bad! You're definitely getting there! 加油！ 😄

I’m just literally speechless... She’s so talented 🥺

@ducklingscap897

4 жыл бұрын

Most of it is hard work.

@danielseifert3371

4 жыл бұрын

Not talented but HARD WORK, like REALLY HARD WORK.

@maya_jones3411

4 жыл бұрын

You should see my friend, she can read, write and speak in over 18 languages including Chinese. She sounds like a native in all the 18 languages, it's crazy.

@singledog1807

4 жыл бұрын

@@maya_jones3411 Really? How can she made that? Can you introduce her to me ? I am chinese and really want to have converstions with native English speakers

@layzamedina1144

4 жыл бұрын

She is talented because she tried very hard, study very hard. And we all have that opportunity too. 加油！

She: So it doesn't matter if your first language is English or if it's chinese you can still enjoy the video Me: *first languaje is spanish* 👁👄👁

@Celi_Amor

3 жыл бұрын

Benjamín Ignacio Malverde Tapia Same for me :)

@nora565

3 жыл бұрын

Xd

@-niih.0505

3 жыл бұрын

jajajajaajaja

@vanessavasquez1099

3 жыл бұрын

Anda, pero si hablan en español, escriban en español.

@kasaneteto986

3 жыл бұрын

Presidente! Zong tong!

Loved your video a year ago, it was a great inspiration to sign up for a Mandarin class. So happy I can understand almost everything now!

@jjack9667

2 жыл бұрын

hello, are u still study chinese now? as a native chinese speaker i would like to teach chinese for english speaker, meanwhile i can practice my english. i have been study english pretty long so i can basically communicate with u in english, and if u wish i can also talk chinese with u, and i can explain some chinese grammars would like to study with me?

Omg! Your Mandarin is so good! Hahaha it's really my dream to get fluent in Mandarin. I've been studied since maybe 15 years old but never get fluent even after 15 years 🤣 definitely I dont put enough effort. Love to find your channel!

although she still has a slight accent, her fluidity and her precise speech is impeccable. I live in a Chinese speaking family and I can’t speak nearly as articulate as she can♥️

@nicoleraheem1195

3 жыл бұрын

Wow 😳

@englishlife222

3 жыл бұрын

Let's learn chinese language with me

@omgwerockhard

3 жыл бұрын

Duh like 99% Of people who learns a new language even if they moves and lives there is gonna have an accent. You gotta really learn it super early in life like 4 year old. I hear it all the time in Norway, foreigners speaks with accent even if they lived here 20 years but their kids speaks it perfectly

@user-er5qm2vy2q

2 жыл бұрын

It's good enough to be able to understand！ I still don't understand many dialects. 😭

@olliebearblu7783

Жыл бұрын

@@omgwerockhard for real, if someone in english has an accent i hardly even notice, i'm literally so used to it and it doesn't matter at all. they are fully articulate and speak well, that's all that matters.

Chinese grammar is easier than English, Spanish, French or German. Learning how to write Chinese is the most difficult part.

@Bobsob

3 жыл бұрын

You don't need to write anymore with mobile mandarin keyboards and the HSK test doesn't require writing by hand either, so not even that is difficult anymore.

@evest7829

3 жыл бұрын

Can you elaborate? I'm a native German speaker and to me it seems like English barely has any grammar rules (compared to German). So it's really hard to imagine that Chinese grammar is even easier lol

@Bobsob

3 жыл бұрын

@@evest7829 Let's say the grammar of Chinese is very flexible and culturally doesn't sound marked like English does when you make certain sentences or change then around slightly. No one would raise an eye lid like they would in English if spoken in a different sentence pattern. At least from my experience.

@sofiaromerogarcia5241

3 жыл бұрын

entonces solo voy a enfocarme en aprender hablar chino pero no en escribir XD

@adapienkowska2605

3 жыл бұрын

@@evest7829 Chinese doesn't have flexion (verbs don't conjugate, nouns don't change, etc.). All Chinese grammar is in word order and function words.

watching this video made me feel so happy and inspired, i subscribed to your channel ^^ you speak chinese so well, i am in the process of learning chinese and i hope to be as good as you someday!

I watched this around a year ago when I was first starting to learn Chinese and it’s nice to see how much more I understand. Love this video and agree with what you suggested! Off to study more vocab 😌

@gc3130

Жыл бұрын

Do you wanna learn English? I am Chinese, we can learn it together!

When you speak better chinese than me im half chinese what am i doing with my life

@arellanosamantha5196

4 жыл бұрын

Lwj🤘🤘

@bunbunthebunny6514

4 жыл бұрын

Sooyaa A ASdfhklj I see you're a fan of them too OwO

@arellanosamantha5196

4 жыл бұрын

@@bunbunthebunny6514 uwU

@erysyy

4 жыл бұрын

mood lmao but i can't even speak chinese i swear HAHAHAHAHA ooof wangxian my lgbt kingsss

@arellanosamantha5196

4 жыл бұрын

@@erysyy ❤️🤘😭

I have never heard a Westerner speak Mandarin so damn fluently and more importantly sound THAT NATURAL. I bet I wouldn't even tell it's a Western girl speaking if I didn't see.

@dumalun8388

4 жыл бұрын

@ozaunu jared who

@kiparis777

4 жыл бұрын

@@dumalun8388 sounds like a knock-knock joke.

@thepriceofsalt9003

4 жыл бұрын

imo it's a bit of an exaggeration lol, she definitely doesn't sound like a native speaker. i can tell she stumbles over some words and her tones aren't as consistent as native speakers' so it's not very natural, but she is hella good.

@thepriceofsalt9003

4 жыл бұрын

@ozaunu yes i am chinese

@thepriceofsalt9003

4 жыл бұрын

@ozaunu no i'm of (probably han) chinese ethnicity, 3rd/4th gen southeast asian.

you have an excellent experience in learning foreign language. I wish I had seen this program many years ago!

Great job in sharing your Chinese learning journey! Very interesting, inspiring stories!

i'm chinese american, with my parents being chinese and me being born here in the us. with chinese as my second language and growing up in a house when chinese is spoken 90% of the time, your pronunciation and understanding of the language is really good !! chinese is a really hard language and i admire you so much for learning it :)

@Bobsob

3 жыл бұрын

Do your parents speak English and if not, do you think they should learn it?

@4_mimi

3 жыл бұрын

@@Bobsob my parents do speak english :) my dad is more fluent than my mom but they've been living here for about 30 years now

@Bobsob

3 жыл бұрын

@@4_mimi 👍

@qqfeng7355

3 жыл бұрын

你回来过中国么？

When she said she fell in love with Chinese language, I was like “so was your teacher actually nice??” I think it’s just cuz a lot of ABCs growing up learning Chinese in a school environment always had mean teachers lmao

@katherinetutschek4757

4 жыл бұрын

Really? Did you learn Chinese at Chinese School or regular school? My teachers were pretty good, but the Saturday Chinese School ones were stricter.

@cassiopeiatong-zhou2656

4 жыл бұрын

For I went to Chinese school on saturdays and I think it was more that I was forced to be there than having mean teachers that made me start to reallyyyyy not like Chinese. Like speaking it is fine but I’ve been going to Chinese school for 9 years and my reading and writing still suck 😂

@Muppethobbit

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly! Being forced to go to weekend Chinese school as a kid, the environment didn’t interest me at all, especially since I looked like a foreigner (as a mixed-race kid). But now as an adult I’m interested in re-learning how to read

@brendonsforehead4961

4 жыл бұрын

hobbithands same

@ynntari2775

4 жыл бұрын

well, the teacher was taiwanese, they tend to be more modern. Mainlanders are still old school teachers.

说得很棒♥给你一个赞👍🏻

Thank you for sharing your experience JJ! I'm truly amazed because you started studying chinese on high school whist I have been learning chinese since I was small. It's not my mother language but I understand it pretty well. But the thing is, I'm a passive learner and I always feel rather panicked whenever I have to talk in chinese. I stutter a lot. I'm very bad when it comes to conversations. I'm very amazed of how fluent you are, like really. I have been really shy to talk in chinese to people, even to my grandpa who talks and watches tv shows mostly in chinese. I usually reply him back with Indonesian (my mother language) and I'm really disappointed of myself that I should've like answered him back in chinese but welp I was pretty much shy with what I've learned. This is my second video of you (I watched the cantonese first HAHAHA) and I'm very grateful that I came across your channel. Thank you so much, you are very inspiring. You also look very commited and you take less pressure in learning the language. I hope I can be as good as you one day. Have a nice day and thank you very much! You make my day! 🥰💗 English isn't my mother language so I hope you don't mind my grammatical mistakes (if there's any) ☺️

As a foreigner she is speaking Chinese at the highest lvl. She speaks like a nativ speaker grown up in mainland China or Taiwan.

@Deandzzzzzz

3 жыл бұрын

I was a bit surprised to find out that she went to Taiwan to improve her Chinese after high school because she doesn’t have Taiwan accent at all

@chochooshoe

3 жыл бұрын

if you spoke Chinese natively you'd quite easily detect she does not sound like a native speaker. her mandarin is very very good but definitely not at a native speaker level. when I visited Beijing a few years ago I met a Canadian lady who really did sound like a native speaker. she was in her 40s and had stayed in Beijing for 8 years. so it can be done but is very hard for most people.

@ryunsukeblue686

3 жыл бұрын

Nope, you can still tell

@marcbachelet2322

3 жыл бұрын

Nope

@indral6491

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds uncomfortable

Yes, more in depth about your Chinese language journey and learning about the tones and pronunciation!

This woman is amazing. What she has accomplished, and continues to accomplish is AMAZING. Full stop. My uncle sent me this video and said, "what's your excuse?" I was so tempted to turn this into family drama but that's all I'm going to say.

@vyentro29

3 жыл бұрын

Lol. Your family sounds entertaining. 😂😂 My mom shames me for not knowing her native language toooo. It’s so embarrassing at times.

@FruitsandCoffee

3 жыл бұрын

@@vyentro29 most of the time my family are pretty great 😂 thanks. My family, between my parents and both sets of Grandparents, is fluent in abt 22 languages. They were military interpreters in SE Asia. My uncles and aunts on my mom's side specializes in European languages whereas my dad, his brother and his dad was into old ass, nearly dead Asian languages

American : how I learnt Chinese Everyone : wowwww Asian : how I learnt English Everyone : ok....?

@gloriamartinez5540

2 жыл бұрын

I think it’s this way because in China students are taught English at a young age in school, but in the U.S. Chinese is rarely taught in schools it’s usually offered during high school (and my high school doesn’t even offer Chinese only Spanish and French). And English has a Latin alphabet, meanwhile, Chinese doesn’t.

I am 16 and just beginning my journey in Chinese, seeing that you were once in my place but know how speak this fluently gives me so much more confidence to learn 💪

@raexjl3008

3 жыл бұрын

加油！

@ikantuna6758

3 жыл бұрын

If anyone want to learn and can speak mandarin in 1 month with 4 perfect tone join my online class.im talented at teaching mandarin.i create my own tecnique call memory technique it can makes student can speak mandarin in 1 month.my teaching no need any text books.im teaching mandarin 17 years .i have 50 students,from course,private or private online.if you like contact me email zitufa@gmail.com.whatsupp +62895610022243.free fee for first time meeting.lie laoshi李老师。

@nicoleraheem1195

3 жыл бұрын

@Fattie from the block lol awww. Yes you do. You will be fluent by 18 if you learn correctly

@gc3130

Жыл бұрын

Do you wanna learn English? I am Chinese, we can learn it together!

你的中文很好👍

Thank you dear for being so amazing and wonderful person!!!! Thank you for the information you’ve represented here and thank you for inspiration!!!!! 谢谢亲爱的♥️♥️♥️

喜歡妳充滿自信的笑容！非常耀眼 期待妳分享更多關於學語言的經歷❤

As a Chinese, I would like to say that your accent still sounds like a foreigner but other than that you speak really good mandarin Chinese.

@karltorento3358

4 жыл бұрын

Would you say you still understand her perfectly well though? Just curious.

@Blessmywill

4 жыл бұрын

Her accent is pretty strong, some imperfections in terms of tones, but it is still ok. I wish to see her without clipping video. Plus Chinese level is average. In China, there is no 总统 but a 主席.

@okai739

4 жыл бұрын

Joel Lim as Chinese那你为什么要跟一个会中文的人说英文

@rodgerspenda3207

4 жыл бұрын

KAI O As me. 我不知道上面的人到底有什么问题。心理的问题，偏偏怎么问那道题啊。不过视频好像不真的。口音的重要性不是说快而是说准。视频太快了好像被人编辑到最快的地步。无论如何，她还是不错。不过还是说'its not how fast you speak that determines but its how flexible your tones are to fit in the languages tones and how wide you knowledge is to fit in any conversation.

@rodgerspenda3207

4 жыл бұрын

Blessmywill without clipping video😂😂😂. 我还能说什么？

The public: Beauty and knowledge cant exist in the same person. Xuelian: Hold my beer

You're so sweeeet thanks for the tips!

Thank you!!! You’ve inspired me to learn Chinese!!

你的中文真的很好了！！！虽然夹着一点口音但很可爱呀哈哈哈！！希望你不要尝试着改变自己的口音，这样才显得独特跟有个性。我也要加油学习英语💪

@paopaone

4 жыл бұрын

英语从娃娃抓起

@zey8263

3 жыл бұрын

I A · 人家毕竟是外国人，如果有一口字正腔圆的普通话才显得奇怪吧。不过确实有这样的外国人但也很少数呀

雪莲这个流畅度和词汇量也太棒了吧！！！！真的非常自然了！！！

@beichen5949

3 жыл бұрын

终于看到个说中文的了，你上面一堆中国人说英语

@f-o-lm2478

3 жыл бұрын

@@beichen5949 在外网用英语也很正常吧…不然怎么沟通🙄

@beichen5949

3 жыл бұрын

@@f-o-lm2478 就感觉很装

I cannot stop looking at your hair it’s so beautiful omg

Please keep doing some videos of you speaking in Chinese with subtitles! Love your channel!!

HELLO! As a native Spanish speaker, I really enjoy listening to you speak, you have too much charisma when speaking, your expressions, a lot of education, you are the person I want to become soon

@ehong3398

4 жыл бұрын

And I am a Chinese native speaker who is learning Spanish 😂salutos desde Alemania jajajjaa. Have fun

@ehong3398

4 жыл бұрын

​@@tationutube Hahaha Das ist so genial XD, ChinSpanEnglish

The amount of backhanded complements are insane. Accent isn't EVERYTHING!!! You know how many accents there are in the English language? There are probably over 15 different ways people pronounce and have accents changes to each word in the language depending on where they live, grew up, other languages they know, how they learnt it, etc. Just in America there are probably over 50 different dialects in terms of how people talk across the states, much less the different countries. Give her a damn break.

@alias_peanut

4 жыл бұрын

I spot a person of culture

@heyitskatharine

4 жыл бұрын

There are definitely dialects/accents that exist for Chinese, but she isn't using one of those. I don't think people would pick on an accent as you are describing. It's more so that for the Chinese language, tone is actually really important. Unlike in English when you can randomly choose to emphasize or not emphasize parts of a word, in Chinese if you emphasize a word in the wrong way, you end up with the wrong word, because there simply aren't that many sounds in Chinese - every syllable in Chinese is a whole word. Saying "hi" versus "HI" in English makes zero difference to the actual word; saying ma (1st tone) or ma (3rd tone) or ma (4th tone) make completely different and wrong words. Chinese is very context based and if you use the wrong 'accent,' your sentence will no longer make sense. A great example is the famous "Shī-shì shí shī shǐ" poem. And yes, it matters what accent you use to say all those different "shi"s, or none of it makes sense. She has great flow and good vocabulary, nobody can take that away from her, but for this language you can't compare it to English - tone is 95% of saying it correctly, not the 1% it would be for English. People aren't trying to be mean when they point out her tone could be improved upon, they're being helpful. Anybody who doesn't understand this does not know enough about the Chinese language. Trying to compare it to English is a misunderstanding of the culture. Chinese is pictographic and tonal. English uses an alphabet.

@ayszhang

3 жыл бұрын

Well, she didn't even pronounce "shi" (ten) correctly and instead she said "shi" (to be). So instead of saying "I started learning Chinese when I was eighteen" she said "It was at 8 years old that I started learning Chinese"

@ivm.aesthetic8458

3 жыл бұрын

PREACH

@ivm.aesthetic8458

3 жыл бұрын

Di Escombreria Umm...they’re not Hadjis they’re generally south Asians but go off of

You are so good at Chinese. Very proud of you! And please keep learning then maybe it will fill in the gap between our 2 countries’s culture:)

Just found you!! WOW!! You've inspired me!! Thank YOU!!

你超厉害啦！感觉表达力好强，也很地道！厉害厉害，加油啊！

@lm_lanming7660

2 жыл бұрын

这就很草

@bluecar2121

2 жыл бұрын

Yyy

@ah111815148199147

2 жыл бұрын

就除了口音之外吧， 一听就知道她的中文不是母语

This is fantastic, you sound great! Our Chinese language students would look up to you. Keep it up.

It is interesting to know how you have picked up the Chinese language. I believe interest in learning something is the first step and practice is another in achieving what we want. Thanks for sharing

你的中文发音很准，用词也很地道也很恰当！为你点赞！！

You literally remind me of my Japanese teacher during my Bachelor degree’s third year. He’s from Japan, and taught us in Japanese 100% during that whole academic year, (we communicate with him in Japanese and body language) .But when it comes to the final lesson, he really surprised us, for that 90mins , he speaks just in Chinese, sharing his thoughts and giving advises on friendship, life, relationship, family and career. None of a single word during his talk made me or my classmates feel he is not a local native speaker, his Mandarin is even better than mine. I really believe there are some human do have gifts in language learning like you two. Bravo!

@user-sv2be8qj9p

3 жыл бұрын

thats really impressive and i think its the best motivation he could show to his students...

@annb7016

3 жыл бұрын

UFO타고 은리더 찾음 Yes ，surely he made his best to convince all of us on lifelong learning spirit ，also learning foreign language which could overcome cross-cultural life experience，career opportunity and friendship etc. quite a role model to me.

@user-cb7os8ot9c

2 жыл бұрын

语言环境真的很重要！

天呐雪莲！我竟然在这里遇见了你！真是缘分！两年前你在italki上和我上过一节中文课，我对你的印象非常深：） 加油啊！棒棒哒！

妳的中文說得太棒了👏

Excellent command of the Mandarin language Jilian! I’m bilingual myself hence really appreciate your multi-lingual endeavor!!!

今天偶然发现了你的频道！太喜欢听你说话了，特别舒服，用词地道！祝你在学习中文的道路上越走越远！

重视汉子 哈哈哈 why a person like me who’s learning French is watching a video about Chinese learning. Anyway your Chinese is really good. 加油~

@passionlangues

4 жыл бұрын

学法语的话应该看看我的频道才对啦 😎😎 哈哈

@meisuipu7568

4 жыл бұрын

Terence Blomme Ahah t’as bien expliqué les expressions françaises. Bon courage~

@user-oy7zq9ol2v

4 жыл бұрын

重视汉子应该改成“重视汉字”汉子是男人的意思

@lmxqlmxq

4 жыл бұрын

@@user-oy7zq9ol2v have some sense of humor

@user-oy7zq9ol2v

4 жыл бұрын

@@lmxqlmxq OK I see

You are amazing. I am trying to learn Mandarin as well. You are so encouraging.

Proud of you. You did a good job!

我從小學習繁體中文，中文的確不容易學，但中文字和各種用法真的非常美～ 我很愛我的母語❤️ 妳中文說得很好👍 我也正在學習英文～一起進步吧！🥰

@veritasfx

3 жыл бұрын

繁体字很美。我的书法朋友写字都是繁体字而且偏好小篆。只是长期看简体字习惯了。读大段的繁体字有点累。

@steventseng2513

3 жыл бұрын

@@veritasfx 讀繁體字會類是因為看不習慣，就像我們非英語母語者，讀一大段英語也是很累一樣

Wonderful and beautiful! 雪蓮作為一個美國姑娘，說的漢語在發音(主要是聲調)上雖未致最完美，但意思表達的清晰、概念論述的完整，恐怕許多中國人也比不上她。 這反映出她是一位思路敏㨗、邏輯性強，對中文詞彙掌握得很好的人！

I think this is really beautiful. I enjoyed watching you. And as someone who's learning Chinese your video has given me hope that I can achieve it if you could do it. Thanks.

Well done! Hard work paid off!

All these "Chinese" speakers saying her tone is off blah blah “she doesn't sound like a NATIVE”, when is learning a language about "sounding perfectly like a native"? What's important if you can communicate well. And most if not all of you could understand her. I know many Chinese people who speak broken and not so native English but if you call them out it's "racism". To eradicate one's true origins by removing their accent is just as fake as denying your true origins. Everyone has their unique accent. Even Chinese people on TV or in fast conversation don't get the tone exactly perfectly because that would sound weird and not so native-like. Also to say someone isn't a native speaker is being ignorant as there isn't just 1 Chinese dialect: Mandarin (65.7%) Min (6.2%) Wu (6.1%) Yue (5.6%) Jin (5.2%) Gan (3.9%) Hakka (3.5%) Xiang (3.0%) Huizhou (0.3%) Pinghua, others (0.6%) And to me all of them are native speakers, whether "Standard" or not :p

@PhoenixfromChina

3 жыл бұрын

I totally agree with you that Jilian is a perfectly fluent speaker and a successful communicator. She has excelled in learning this hard language on so many levels, e.g. her fluency, her diction, colloquialism, etc. Honestly, I might say she's more articulate than some native speakers. (And trust me - I am Chinese.) However, it is also true that she carries an accent which is common to western language learners. I'm actually surprised that she doesn't have any Taiwanese accent. I didn't read other comments, and I'm trying to sideline with anybody. But the truth is she doesn't sound like a native speaker. I have seen western speakers with much better pronunciation and more natural tones and intonations. HOWEVER, that doesn't disqualify her as a successful language learner or discredit her capability to communicate in Chinese. Sounding like a native is usually not the end goal of learning a language, but there's nothing wrong to point that out in case some people are more interested in achieving that goal.

@PhoenixfromChina

3 жыл бұрын

I'm really glad you did research on Chinese dialects. Unfortunately, a common misunderstanding towards Chinese dialects is to liken them with Western accents. The dialects listed beneath Mandarin do not remotely sound like Mandarin. And quite honestly, a Chinese person would not understand regional dialects either if not born there. Two Chinese regional dialects could be more different than two Roman languages, say Spanish and Portuguese. While these people APPEAR TO BE native speakers to you, I wouldn't label a Min dialect speaker who can't speak Mandarin as a "native speaker" of CHINESE. 母语是中文的人. I would just say this person speaks only this dialect, which is super rare and incredible! I've never met anyone like this in my life because the simplified Chinese language has been standardized, educated in every school and publicly used for more than half a century... well maybe except that she's a very old person living in a far village somewhere. A lot of people do speak Mandarin with accents influenced by their regional dialects. That's probably want you want to talk about, but Jilian's accent definitely doesn't sound like those. The bigger issue about dialects in China is that some are extinct, and many are dying. It's a cost of modernization and development... Chinese language is very interesting and has a long history of development. I hope you like this language. =)

@naguoning

3 жыл бұрын

@@PhoenixfromChina I totally agree to not liken with Western accents in English. More like comparing different Europeans speaking English. I have met people who could barely speak Mandarin who were not that old at the time (about 25 years ago) I needed to have people translate local dialect to Mandarin in parts of Zhejiang near a place called 樂清 (not so far from WenZhou) or here in Taiwan I know of some Aboriginal people who are about a bit under 60 who can't speak Mandarin. I also encountered one customer a few years ago who would now be maybe 40 and he couldn't speak Mandarin to save himself... like really, really bad. I remember it because unlike about 70% of people in Taiwan I am not a Hokkien (MinNan) background speaker and for me it was difficult to talk to him.

@JayA-rx3hi

3 жыл бұрын

Phoenix Wang the title of the video is “how I learnt FLUENT Chinese”, (you even described her as “a perfectly fluent speaker”) - the video title is NOT “How I mastered the Chinese native accent”. So yes it is helpful to point these out, but she didn’t make any such claims that she has a perfect native accent, so I wonder why people are making her prove herself. Especially, as you mentioned natives are not perfect themselves, so why are you asking for perfection from foreigners learning your language? It is totally strange.

@naguoning

3 жыл бұрын

@@JayA-rx3hi "the natives" are not always native speakers of Mandarin. In fact many are not. That is why I say it is like Europeans speaking English. Mandarin acts as a link language within China between speakers of a huge number of dialects. Eg if you have a Shanghainese, a Cantonese, a Hokkien and a Hakka speaker and WenZhou dialect speaker... they will speak Mandarin to each other but it is like a French, an Italian, a German, a Swede, a Polish etc using English together.

your mandarin is really great! it's just that sometimes your intonation might not be 100% accurate but obviously it is still understandable and ur doing a great job!!!

你做的视频非常有用，谢谢你 😄

It's just so nice to hear her acing her pronunciation.

It’s been 3 years and a half since I started learning Chinese language, and I really find it cool even though it’s pretty hard and I have to practice very often to memorize the characters and the pronunciations. It’s definitely not easy 😂 I’m French and in my school, 95% of the students choose Spanish since it’s also a Latin language and it’s very similar to French. I didn’t want something too easy and I wanted to learn a completely different language with a different writing and grammar etc. , so this is why I decided to learn Chinese. And I do not regret it at all!

@Deandzzzzzz

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I totally get it. It’s like discovering your hidden self that you didn’t realize before. The way you behave, you perceive things also tend to diversify. That is just so exciting and driving you to keep learning it.:)

Was annoyed that Xiaoma never mentioned your channel when you were featured. Glad I finally found it!!

C'est vraiment adorable la vidéo. 谢谢雪莲。❤️🍵🍎

Thank you very much. Your Chinese is perfect. And many thanks for your effort to learn such a difficult language. I love your videos.

i watched the whole thing and the ENTIRE TIME ive been hypnotised by how GOOD you are and how fluent you sound im SPEECHLESS

太惊讶了！说和表达能力都好好！强！继续加油雪莲~

你的中文真好聽也好順！而且我更喜歡的是你附上的英文翻譯 -- 讓我了解中文對應成口語的英文是這樣子！(如果是我自己翻成英文實在沒辦法那麼口語！)

I'm impressed, hope to speak as well as you one day. Subscribed.

你真的是学到了中文的精髓。中文讲的很好很流利而且逻辑也很通！

This was really helpful to get my motivation back up in my Chinese studies!!!!!! I’ve been slacking a lot lately but I feel rly confident after seeing this video :) thanks!

@ikantuna6758

3 жыл бұрын

If anyone want to learn and can speak mandarin in 1 month with 4 perfect tone join my online class.im talented at teaching mandarin.i create my own tecnique call memory technique it can makes student can speak mandarin in 1 month.my teaching no need any text books.im teaching mandarin 17 years .i have 50 students,from course,private or private online.if you like contact me email zitufa@gmail.com.whatsupp +62895610022243.free fee for first time meeting.lie laoshi李老师。

你的3中文真的太流利了！so so impressive!

This is interesting to me because I had a similar experience. I took three years of Spanish and did okay but just didn't really enjoy it and I was not passionate at all about it. Then recently I decided to learn Chinese on my own and the experience is a 180 degree difference. Even though it's "harder" in some ways, the process is enjoyable and I look forward to learning every day. This makes sense to me now because a while back I watched a video on language acquisition and this guy in the video said he felt the number one key to learning anything-- but especially languages-- was being passionate about the language you are learning. There is no substitute for that.

This is amazing ! I am really glad to see that there also western people trying to immerse themselve in the east culture. That shows open mindness, which is a very likeably characteristic of a good human. keep going and thank you for the tips ! :)

I've been studying Mandarin by myself for about four years, and I could understand you without looking at the subtitles, so it was a good "check in " video for me to see where I am at. Thank you for that ! I only wish that you were speaking slower in this one. I don't think that most people speak that fast in any language, but thanks again !

@mexanbu

4 жыл бұрын

bro! the same for me, i have been learning for almost four years and i could understand what she said, maybe because the vocabulary she used was not that very specific, but anyways it feels great to understand, still a long way, but we are doing great, congratulations

@Bucherviews

4 жыл бұрын

What I do is use the feature in the settings on a KZread video (at the bottom of the video) to change the speed of videos and slow them down to 0.75x or even 0.5x. A really useful tip for language learners! My brain also struggles to keep up at full speed :P

@janetochoa4015

4 жыл бұрын

Can someone tell me how did you learn or where do you learn Chinese please ! Like what apps or what do you recommend me for that !!

@mexanbu

4 жыл бұрын

Tan Kin maaaan, is 2020, stop thinking about races, just follow your heart

@mexanbu

4 жыл бұрын

Janet Ochoa i started with courses at school for 2 years, then moved online, there are plenty of courses, duolingo, YOYO chinese, coursera have a few courses also, just google chinese courses, the key is to do it everyday

雪莲老师讲得很棒，也给我学习英文提供了很多灵感。

Your pronunciation is so good and clear. Amazing!

As a chinese, I'm really impressed by her Chinese capability. And i love her voice.💖

@gambitodegama

3 жыл бұрын

何以！ How old are you?

this is actually the best chinese i've ever heard a foreigner speak. like most of her words are actually in the correct tone only like one or two words out of each sentence she'll use the wrong tone. she speaks so much better than American/Canadian born Chinese people I know who actually GREW UP in China

@yunkeye7612

4 жыл бұрын

check out" 口语老炮马思瑞“ hes the god level

@iReed_wt

4 жыл бұрын

Xiaomanyc

@WreathStorm

3 жыл бұрын

@@yunkeye7612 Oh lord. You weren't lying! As a person only two months into learning Chinese, I'm so jealous of him and this lady. I speak so slowly, and my free time is limited, so I'm learning very slowly.

@naguoning

3 жыл бұрын

Her Chinese is very good but far from the best I have heard for a foreigner. listen to LeLe Farley on KZread. Although his China accent grates my ears (I live in and am a non-Chinese origin citizen of Taiwan) but it is about as spot on as any non-native speaker you ever hear.

非常實用的分享 Thank you for this video!

Very impressive! I support you . 努力學習， 支持您 .💋