I speedran a RANDOM LANGUAGE and ended up this close to entering an asylum | Duolingo Speedrun #27 

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"A square with a Y and a gun," "an L with a 7, and then an armor stand from Minecraft." You may not like it, but this is what peak linguistics looks like.

As someone who natively speaks both Mandarin and English as I was lucky enough to have grown up habitually using both, I often forget just how difficult it is for English speakers to learn Mandarin and vice versa. I’m no linguist, but to me, the languages literally could not be more different. It’s really interesting seeing how someone who understands so much about linguistics tackles learning Mandarin and seeing how you keep track of new concepts.

I've actually fully completed the Chinese course so this was very entertaining, I was impressed by how well you remembered the characters

When I started learning Chinese, I first got taught pinyin, tone pairs, and so much more. Now, I can recognize the characters by only seeing them twice. Maybe it's because I have a good memory, or it's because the more you learn, the easier it gets. Since you are learning characters first instead of getting the basics of pinyin, you will not learn in the best method. The first thing Chinese kids learn is pinyin. I recommend other websites/apps. Like Busuu, YoyoChinese, or even more. To all the people reading this comment, those websites that I mentioned worked for me. They are very effective for learning Chinese.

To be fair , japanese kanji is harder to use. chinese hanzi are harder only to write: generally they are made of two parts. The first gives a hint for the meaning, the second gives a hint for the sound. The hints are somewhat good in chinese. In japanese, not only they are outdated, but sometimes japanese invents new ways to use the characters: an example is 今日. If "今" is read "ima" and "日" is read as "hi" why "今日" is read kyou？ because they decided so! Detail: those weird readings are generally very common, so good luck learning common words! This doesn't happen in chinese: if you read the characters, you can read the word. To be fair, maybe writing by hand is harder in chinese. P.S: i wish i could have your imagination.thinking of "我" as a "pi with 4 lines" is pretty wild! I am learning japanese, and my mnemonics aren't as crazy as that! share some secrets of the crazy mnemonics next time, mnemonics lord!

After 20 minutes, this guy has better pronunciation than some foreigners I know living in China.

can’t wait for you to do more Chinese, this is actually so fun to speed-run LMFAOOOO

bro made more progress with duolingo than me in 2 semesters of chinese course on uni

as a chinese speaker, this was very brave of you to commit to doing

i wish cantonese was an option so i could watch you struggle with those 9 tones

As someone who has been learning chinese for a while, Duolingo’s way of teaching it is awful lol. If you actually want to learn I recommend Hello Chinese. Very good program imo. The teacher talks are really helpful in breaking down the lessons and explaining more complex topics

08:28 The left part is a "woman" radical. Originally it was a picture of a sitting woman with crossed legs. The one on the right is where the sound of this character comes from, and it means "giving birth". When combined, they mean "family name". 09:32 This approach will fail you. The flat line on the top has nothing to do with the tone. It means "roof". The square under it is "mouth". There's another one under the "gate". These characters are in fact compositions of simpler ones, bunched together, sometimes even nested. The reason for that is because originally they meant something. They were pictograms, or ideograms. But since many of them had the same pronunciation, they had to figure out how to distinguish which of the meanings they had in mind, so they started adding those "radicals" that provide a distinct meaning to the character that corresponds to the sound. The tones are another tool for distinguishing them, this time in speech. And since that wasn't enough either, they started bunching multiple characters side by side too. That's why in those multi-character words, it's often the case that both characters mean the same thing and support each other, but it allows for different syllable combinations for better distinction of meanings. 09:38 Same here. The character on top is a "tree" radical that provides the meaning, the bottom one is for the sound "li" and it means "child" or "offspring". Together they mean "an offspring of a tree", which is "plum" in this case. Also used as a common surname. 10:10 If it works then only by accident. The little dash is a part of the radical for "words" or "speech" (in traditional Chinese it looks like this: 言 and DuoLingo uses simplified characters). The other part is a picture of a walking human, and it gives the sound "rèn". Notice that there's another character on your screen (number 2) which also has the same radical for "speech", but this one doesn't have a falling tone. Quite the contrary: its tone is raising. BTW the other part 只 is also a simplified version of 戠 which means "to gather, collect". Together they mean "to understand" or "to recognize" (to piece together what someone said). And if you conbine both these characters, you get a word 认识 which means "to recognize someone" or "to know someone". This is an example of what I said earlier about combining characters of the same or similar meaning to make a multi-character word.

Bro ur channel is underrated af keep up the good work ❤

This format is not the best for a language like Chinese, given that characters are not representations of sounds. Gotta give ya credit for taking it on, though, it's definitely earned its reputation as not being an easy language to learn.

Surprisingly, Chinese is one second slower than Turkish. That's a pretty impressive coincidence

From what I’ve understood from Japanese Kanji (which takes quite a bit from Chinese), each character is built up by a bunch of other characters. For example, a character for human paired together with a character for bed would be “sleeping” (not an actual example, just showing how it works together) Unlike English, these characters aren’t after each other. Since Japanese and Chinese basically have no spaces, they use their unique characters to differentiate words. They’re smushed together into one lump of two characters (or even more!) Also unlike English, the sounds of the characters aren’t consistent. The character for human might be “ji” (it isn’t, just an example) and the character for bed might be “san”, but together they’re not “jisan”, they might be “migi” for example. In conclusion These languages are a pain in the behind to learn

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As a Chinese teacher, this was very funny to watch :)

Disclaimer, I'm not an expert, however I've lived in a Chinese speaking country majority of my life and am Chinese enough to give at least very simplified answers. Q: What is Feng Shui? A: It literally translates to "wind water". As you can already tell, Chinese is a pictorial language, and this has also influenced its naming of things. Feng Shui, putting it simply, looks at the _flow_ of "energy" of any given place or thing and depending on how good/bad the flow is, the effect on the things surrounding it can differ. For example, imagine a flowing pool of water suddenly getting stopped/stuck at a bend. Things would flood, which is generally a bad thing, and that logic can be applied to daily life things, such as placement of your bed (if you are facing directly in front of a door, you'd naturally feel uncomfortable-bad Fung Shui because doors bring in high energy-and logically because instincts has you aware of the possibility of the door opening suddenly because of a possible robbery and you'd be first seen when in danger, etc.). Q: Is there a way to remember the characters easier? What does each character mean? A: Honestly, I would say no, there is no singular easy way of remembering them. I'd just straight up say you just have to memorise each one. Each character can have its own meaning, but at times, when combined, it can be a whole new meaning and sometimes, with how you say the word can different too (e.g. 旅行 (lu xing; travel) and 银行 (yin hang; bank)). While some may argue you can guess from "radicals" (the small extra characters on a character i.e. 女 (nu; female) and 马 (ma; horse) put together to make 妈 (ma; mother, unfortunately, lol)), I'd say, you'd have to be *very* creative and *very* lucky to get those right all the time and some characters do not even have radicals or have any meaning tied to its name (e.g. 加拿大 (jia na da; Canada) literally named as such because it sounds like it). My memories of my kindergarten self literally consists of getting daily homework, typically involving me writing 3 characters ~20 times each on a grid booklet.

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I took three years of Chinese in high school, so I am very well aware of how this is going to go- we mainly used babble and Duolingo for homework… 😂 Edit: I’m thoroughly impressed- 😮

thank you for entertaining a chinese linguist

use night mode you madman (hilarious video btw. really liked)

No one: Captions: i also know meth

五 is when you write a cursive T and then write ユ on top of that

I am an Indian . Learning Korean from 50 days on duo . And I tried kinda mini speedrin Chinese yesterday . I have completed unit 2 in section 1 of Chinese . In 50 days of learning Korean , doing duo for 50 days and I have memorized 250 words I've never had headache. Yesterday night I tried the duo Chinese and completed unit 1 in the bed and my head was aching the next day . Chinese lang seems multiple times harder than Korean !!

Congrats!! Duolingo's Chinese course is still pretty bad. It doesn't teach you how to draw or even how Chinese characters work. (To answer you: yes, some characters have pronunciation hints, like 人 and 认. But no, the "tone indicators" doesn't work)

love the editing and content haha keep it up

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A little spanish slipped in there with "feesh" 😂

Ok your pronunciation was super impressive

i think ma at the end of a sentence is a particle which turns it into a question.

Fun fact: America in Chinese, Meiguo, literally means 'beautiful country', didn't expect that for China did ya?

The title, lol. 😂

I can also speak Chinese: House house house house house hut house house hut hut house

21:26笑死我了🤣

I enjoy your videos from england 🇬🇧☕️

I almost have 30.000 XP on Japanese on Duolingo and I honestly don't think I would have the strength to go to Chinese. Maybe Korean aswell, but not Chinese. I would rather stay with French, a bit Italian and a bit Korean, more Esperanto and Russian and a ton of Japanese

I am from Taiwan, and I am so impressed Good work 🎉

i’m curious to see if you can tackle cantonese. unlike mandarin, the way you write and speak are different which makes it all the more fun to learn.

the only reason i can read some of those characters is because of me learning japanese. i’m trying to learn chinese but tones mess with me sometimes 😅

It there's a square at the side of the word, it uses the mouth. Like "jiào", the word is called, calling someone uses ur mouth. The word "ne?" Is a sound that uses ur mouth.

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this made me realise how much ive forgotten in the past 4 years

This guy ks better than asmr

喜欢你的视频! Love your videos!

He got the last one wrong. it's They DONT eat fish

*gasps in chinese after seeing Chinese flag at the start* ：0！你好！！ ＜3

love the refrences

Holy fuck Chinese course is so hard

there is literally no relationship between tones and the shape of the character lol🤣🤣🤣

I love your videos!

We are almost getting to the end

These are the best Vida ever

2 and a half men 🤣🤣🤣

As a Chinese speaker this was really funny

tip: You can turn on pronounciation in settings in-leson

5:32 你叫张明。

when you say 元 is pi then what you call this 兀

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There are actually 7 vowel sounds: a,e,i,o,u,y,h

Tones are the worst, i think we can all agree

What will you do when you've done all of the languages? What's next?

0:52 0:49 0:44 2:14

We have intonations in America that changes the meaning of a word. We have a lot of them and why English is so hard to learn.

What annoys me so much about most most Mandarin Chinese learning apps, books, and other materials is how they describe the third tone as the old "fall then rise high" but it is 99.9% of the time not spoken that way in modern times. This misleads all beginner learners and this included me and leads to much confusion. In current day reality, It starts low then falls to the lowest part of your voice. It can be described as sounding similar to what we call "vocal fry" in the US.

hahahaha i semi forgo english on this one i was just picturing noodles in my head for the food one

I don’t hear the difference between the tones ig I’m tone deaf 😞

the L with 7 is 女 radical and it means a woman 🤣

can i use this idea too? making videos speedrunning duolingo stuff

What is the music in 16.02?

tbh your learning simplified chinese which the the easier version of traditional chinese which has harder characters

Do you recommend any languages to learn?

拼音是合外国人学的，那样中文更好学

Chinese characters in no way are the oldest writing system used today.

you've probably heard that cantonese is harder than simplified Chinese, As an native Chinese speaker, living in Guangzhou for over 10 years(which is somewhere people uses cantonese to communicate all time), I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEAS OF WHAT CANTONESE SPEAKERS ARE SAYING.

Could I please have a shout-out in the next video?