*Edit 7 months after posted: Kindly disregard what I've said. I've made a fatal error in reading.* Nah, Korean has their own alphabet. Yes alphabets, look them up. They are nothing like Chinese.
HakingMC dude, u r off-topic. U will get a D or F if this happened in an essay. Plus, Korean culture is historically greatly influenced by China. The reason behind their change of alphabet could be a product of the government trying to get rid of the influence of Chinese characters. Not just as simple as somebody later corrected me saying Korean people weren't able to master original Chinese characters. Everything is possible within this political and educational move. Stop @ me if you are not talking about the character (the cast )'s ethnicity. The topic is about the controversy of this show for using non-Chinese Asians to portray Chinese. If you think character only means the basic component of a word, stop using youtube and go buy a dictionary, plz.
"Screw it, I'm out. I've been wanting someone to pass me those dumplings for half an hour but I don't know how to say "Give me them dumps" in Mandarin."
That was the strangest thing to me. Most of the Chinese and Taiwanese people I know who are actually “fresh off the boat” would just reach over to get it themselves. Different set of customs, is all.
That's why the Chinese restaurant have a spinning round table where u can move the food closer to you. The concept of passing the food is the western way I think.
The mom’s calm stare at the end. I felt that in my soul. Don’t mess with her. She seems calm but it’s the calm intent of a rattlesnake ready to strike.
Thankfully they're still people letting them celebrate their culture inside a heavily Westernized country like the US Imagine if they banned that, being strictly Western No other languages, no non Western gestures, etc Then we're truly living in 1984
The accent you are hearing are the actors staying in character. The characters aren't supposed to have perfect accents, except for grandma. The accents reflect that.
i mean, if you spend the majority of your life learning a language and have a spouse that speaks the same one, you should have a pretty good understanding of it. not only that they lived in chinatown for a period of time. if this were real id expect much more chinese from all of them honestly. i think its just lack of language knowledge on the actors and scriptwriters part lol
Leonardo Westcott they ‘ve already quite good to spoke like that . I ‘m a Chinese, I know many Chinese people they don’t know how to praise others , if you can’t say something nice, please just don’t say anything.
I don't make a habit of commenting on videos, but as a third gen Chinese immigrant kid, I'm glad they don't speak properly accented Chinese. Not all Chinese will speak with the accent you'd find in mainland China, and many of us, having grown up in an English dominant area will often struggle at Chinese as well. Seeing how the society around us places importance on speaking proper English and blending in, it's not uncommon for us to place learning priority on English as opposed to our mother tongues. Even with my family, we speak in a mixture of English and Chinese, substituting words we don't know in english, so if we consciously attempt to make conversation in full Chinese, I can guarantee you it won't sound like something out of a Chinese drama. TLDR: Mother tongue doesn't equal to first language!
It's pretty common for 3rd generation immigrants to loose "the old language". It actually starts already with the 2nd generation. It's well documented in linguistic studies.
Never seen FOB. From what I can tell here, the actor’s fluency: Grandma: Fluent Native Chinese Mom: Didn’t really care to learn until college. ABC fluent with an accent. Dad: Korean kid in Chinese class that gets decent grades but can’t hold a conversation. Eddie: his parents spoke Chinese to him occasionally once every full moon. Emery: Only spoke Chinese to his grandparents Evan: Grew up speaking Chinese with aunts, uncles, cousins, parents, etc. ABC fluent.
@@oliviascarchughtai I don't think so, since majority of Taiwanese can speak Chinese fluently. However, u reminded me that her accent does sounds like Minnan accent ..... Even as a Chinese I can't really differentiate different accents of different dialects. It's her being pure Cantonese speaker or pure Minnan speaker
Lol I relate to the guy that only knows 'thats true' because I can barely speak my native language at all, much less understand it. Then my parents compare me to my younger cousin, who knows both languages quite fluently
Since everyone commented on the actors accents, I would say the grammar is also very "western", they basically wrote the lines in English and translate it word for word, which is not how it works.
The guy who plays the dad in the show left after the first season I think (Which ever was their last). He hated the fact that the characters had white people problems? Idk, at least thats what I heard.
Pls ✋😭 other that the grandmother- THEY SOUND LIKE THEY LEARNED FROM DUOLINGO- ESPECIALLY THE FATHER- HELP- ✋💀 plus- the "是真的" 😭😭😭 I wanna make it my notif I-
Reminds me of the ‘yes, no’ game I played a lot as a kid. The rules were simple - we weren’t allowed to say yes or no. It sounds easy, but many slip ups were made and honestly brought my many happy moments with my friends and family. To this day I still like to play it and try to catch out everyone with questions haha
@Arnór Róbertsson that sounds like it would be really fun to play. I noticed that there is an asker and the asked, so is it only for 2 players? Or maybe it can work with multiple people?
@Arnór Róbertsson in spanish we also play with yes, no, black and white. There are no rules other than just avoiding those words, you can try to trick the other person by asking specific questions or just wait and see how long it takes for you to forget that you're playing.
They are supposed to be a Taiwanese family but are portrayed as mainlinders. Grandma would know Taiwanese, Cantonese and even more Japanese than mandarin if it was historically correct.
So what if their Mandarin isn't perfect? All of them except the grandma was born and raised in America. Instead of nitpicking at their accents, you should be proud that an asian family is portrayed on an American tv show for once, I know I am.
Melanch0liac: it's coz ppl always have to give their 2 cents. It's a freaking show but they have to correct everything lol like some comments on here saying it's the year of the dog when they don't realize the show is portrayed during the 90's lol
Welp, I’m one of the people who kept and learned their mother tongue even if I wasn’t born in China, but I also know a lot of people who have heavy accents or completely lost their ability to speak cohesive mandarin. People can argue about the accents all they want, but at the end of the day It’s up to you and your family conditions.
the guy who just goes 是真的 is basically an accurate representation of every bilingual chinese who is forced to learn their mother tongue during chinese oral edit: i’m back here since i recently finished my chinese oral examination and the algorithm is apparently a psychic and i gotta say chinese does not get any easier
Don't speak Mandarin but i watch many Chinese or Taiwanese series n movies. so evn i can tell that only Nainai (Grandma) is speaking Mandarin fluently n without an accent. In others speech accent is so clear
A Quick fact: the family in the show are of Taiwanese heritage but the kids are from Chinatown in D.C. Hopes this helps if you haven't watched the show 😊
I used to watch this TV series to learn English. I’ve made many videos teaching Chinese language vividly and in a humorous way. I hope somebody can recommend my videos to those who want to learn Chinese. For beginners, Chinese characters may look complicated. But once you learn about 100 basic radicals, most characters become easy. I hope more people can learn Chinese to get comprehensive firsthand information about China and most likely seek more job opportunities. Know ourselves as well as our partners, competitors, adversaries…..
I'll just switch to sign language, good luck trying to win. The longest I haven't spoken was 2 years 8 months, all I did was use sign language and write on paper. My high school classmates thought I was mute untill one day I started talking and it mind fucked them for a week.
asro it means the same but in chinese it’s very complicated because it can mean the same exact thing but can still be wrong it just sounds better if you say 是的 I can’t really explain it I’m sorry
Everyone saying they have strong accents while speaking Chinese..well of course, they’re basically Americans speaking Chinese..how can one expect them to sound perfect..you can tell the kids had to practice those lines repeatedly just like a white kid would if learning Chinese. Chinese is as hard to learn for English speaker as is English to learn for Chinese person. Out of Asian languages I find Vietnamese and Korean easier to learn than Chinese bc Vietnamese uses alphabet which therefore is easier for us to read in a way..trust me. And Korean sounds are not as far off from English sounds which make it easier to learn as well but for me Chinese words all sound so similar that it’s very hard to learn..even for a ethnic Chinese person born in America.
Bruh, Chinese characters do not all sound the same, that's what tones are for. Also, the pinyin differentiates immensely depending on what you are saying. What makes Mandarin difficult for most people is the fact that they have to memorize both characters and tones, and different grammatical strictures.
Imo Vietnamese is harder than Chinese. It just depends on how willing you are to learn new characters. I know I would have an even harder time with Vietnamese tons and pronunciation, perhaps that’s just me.
I’m Asian and we learnt on how to speak at least 4 languages since young, namely Mandarin, English, Hokkien and Malay. Till this day it surprises foreigners that we have such good grasp in English and Chinese. It’s not an excuse tho.
As a Chinese I was BORN and RAISED in Australia with English at school and everyday life but I was still raised with Chinese at my home and attended extra Chinese classes on the weekend. This video is disgraceful. Imagine not being able to communicate with your Chinese grandparents or relatives properly. And to confirm, they ALL have terrible accents except for the grandmother. Kudos to the Korean dad.
People in the comments are ripping on everyone but the elderly woman because they don't sound fluent? This is why a lot of language learners are afraid to speak a new language. Don't make fun.
As someone who sees Chinese dramas yes. Some versions of Chinese are rather flowy and really emphasize the F and s and some vocals. So they sound choppy
True and her actress was born in china too. The rest are probably just reading English words on a script spelled as Chinese pronunciations while Lucille song’s lines had actual Chinese in it.
You can really tell if you listen closely, even if you're not a native Mandarin speaker, that the grandma is the only fluent native speaker, the others says everything so pronounced
Actually lots of people still do on the first day of cny, but it's more abt preserving the tradition than anything now hahaha. On subsequent days it's fine to wear other colors (except black)
The worst part is, everyone is speaking Chinese in English....the sentences they are using are not everyday Chinese...,but rather translated English....
I'd be happy to only have a 3% understanding of what the deeper language is here. I'm loving these comments. So is the grammar they are using "wrong"? Are they speaking like a foreigner would?
I've seen so many people comment on the kid's mandarin... He isn't speaking it all too wrong, he messed up a bit on one of his last lines, but he speaks with a Taiwanese accent. He was actually born to Taiwanese immigrants, but he's grown up a lot of his life in the states, speaking English. There's also people commenting about how most of them aren't even actually ethnically Chinese, when the only one who is not from a Chinese background is Randall Park, who is Korean. Even then, ethnic background does not determine how someone speaks a language. There are some subtle nuances that only a NATIVE SPEAKER can pick up on, but speaking ability has no bearing on ethnic background.
@@SYDAirlineEnthusiast my great aunt is a HUGE dumpling addict, it's actually the reason why she got her nickname 😂. Aunt Dump, for years I always wondered why we called her that
Same, thats why the grandma is out because shes a native speaker. Hhahahaha People sometimes go brain dead to be politocaly right then be wrong in the end.
For those that don’t speak Mandarin. The grandmother is the only one who sounds like she speaks it fluently. Everyone else sounds like they just learned the language off Duolingo.
