Foreigner Tests Chinese Locals on Their Chinese 

I'd watch that video

Where do I find that video?

Alpha i know! Crazy right?

what an world we r living.

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

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.

Fair enough lol

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

Do not forget about your and you’re

to,too,and two

Its is

Ikr

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

Yesssss

Genuinely made me happy to see it

Gabriel J even though that calls for disrespect.

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.

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.

deandra cheese than you must be an immature child

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

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

Nic Freeman 你知道我说什么吗？

你觉得呢？

His chinese is just so-so.

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

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

Hes not European is he? sounds American to me.

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Shawn Thomas do you know Sanskrit?

@@zvezdoblyat lol. Sanskrit is akin to Latin.

You feel connected because you share a border lol

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.

YuuTang I was thinking the same thing!

Damn brah you just analysed this guys whole life

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

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

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

TUBESTEAKNIG they were wtf whole day.

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.

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.

Iced Earth o

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

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.

Tong Liu no they r not

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

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

Chloe Cheung sounds like you really need a hug

+chloe - wow, you sound salty as hell!

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!

@@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.

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

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

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

lol

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

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

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

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

Me when I look at Chinese in general.

That really was cute

Omar 去る you want an Oscar?

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

@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" 😆

Its xiao xiang tho, u missed the "i"

It's the tone that's wrong .

slaywee 2333333

💀💀💀💀 I'm dead

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

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

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。

not that good really, but he isshowing off indeed

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

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.

USPInx he is speaking Mandarin :)

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

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.

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

It was the only one I knew! Haha.

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

Yes, most of us cant write that character.

but we can read it lol

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

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

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

Definitely does. It sounds like Taiwanese mandarin too.

요하너ᅵ스ᄋ he has an American accent full stop

Keir no he does have a alight british accent

I don't get how it is confusing

Sounds Australian to me

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

Mmm hello fbi, i think i found this one.

Ikr XD

Yes he is

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

That kid made my day.

我妈的错。

帅到惊动惊合国

can we see more of this guy

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?

use VPN

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

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

Big deal?who the hell uses biang word everyday?

A Well prepared guy makes no sense

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

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

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

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

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.

He wrote 粗獷 instead of the simplified 粗犷 cū guǎng.

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

Film too hard? you dont even know the reason kid

Thank you

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

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

Taiwan is a part of China. 😁

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.

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

especially those chinese who speak Mandarin as mother tongue

Why would he be mocked?

nop not teaching them...

why are you people so obsessed with race?

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

@@sjwilkin probably Americans

@@NotMe-yh5gi It's a reference. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-99IoN2pymfE.html

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 ‘

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.

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

Yep! Like 请清青情晴 哈哈哈哈哈

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

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!

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.

Then thats a mistake in itself then aye 💪

dumbbirdvip conversate got into the English dictionary the same was

@@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.

You lazy bum.

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

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

just kidding my friend, i am oversea born chinese

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

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.

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.

like hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia in English

w23857980, haha!! good analogy!

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

Fresh_Water the notion of ethnicity is quite something else in China

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

Never met a cabbage that could operate a keyboard. PROPS

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 .

4:18 can’t even write in order :0

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

鍾益飛 except that he's not.

Go for it

At least we could probably pronounce it/say it?

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.

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

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 😂

Do you have fb

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

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

I'm too reliant on pinyin though.

Joshua Martyn genius hahah u made my day.

Its their accents.

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".

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

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.

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

We’re gentle man.

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

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

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.

Mack Zhang my channel is mostly basketball ;)

Jayme Lawman well I'm into the nba ☺️

i'm interested in how you learn Chinese! you seem to have very solid background knowledge of the characters! your handwriting is good as well. i've been quite bummed out on learning Chinese recently but I just feel motivated again after this video :D

Minah Guo stick at it. Language learning is never a steady road. You're going to see huge improvements some days and then none for months. Keep at it!

That's a very cool way of thinking about it, I ave been practicing for 4 months and still barely understand whats said, I have hope that there'll be some improvement soon.

As long as you can speak Chinese yep

Cuhh he white

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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

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.

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

Try to watch Chinese tv, i think you can.

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.

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〜

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！

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

lmao

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

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

Haha

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

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

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!

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

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.

panda dragon do you know what type of pen is it?

unfortunately, no

Calligraphy pen.

I think it's a Sakura pen

Thanks! Yep it looks like a Sakura pen Pigma 2/3/brush ^^

What the hell is British accent?

He's British but now he sounds more American

He sounds Australian, he doesn't sound British whatsoever.

He’s British

He's got a 天佑英王"God bless the Queen of the UK" tattoo on his arms lolol

Glad you like it

Lolll, recently!

i reccomend the channels serpentza, laowhy86 and avd china also

wong fei hung

The Jayoe Nation is much better than the Winston trio.