Speedrunning Duolingo Chinese (and then it escalates) 

bienvenidos, hostage

@@digiiiii bienvenidos, master duolingo is esperándolos 😃

This isn't that much difference from what modern Internet monopolies like Google or Facebook have done and are doing. Soon what you say or search online will be used against you in the real world if you don't align with their political agenda That's why monopoly in information is so dangerous, specially with ones that openly practice surveillance like the aforementioned. Information and the internet need to be fragmented without anybody controlling it or surveiling people

@@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess k

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Yeah, and those same Asian moms will also shake their heads like: "He only plays sports, he doesn't like to study." 😂😂😂

@@michaelheliotis5279 And then "he only studies he doesn't help me do the house chores"

@@michaelheliotis5279 And then "he only studies he doesn't help me do the house chores"

@@mylifehasbeen99betterafter57 me when I do all of those things and there’s nothing to scold me about so she just makes something up

@@mylifehasbeen99betterafter57 and then “he only does the house works, he doesn’t help me earn money tsk tsk tsk”

I think duolingo does this on purpose to make learning more entertaining😂

As a Swede. if I shared a bed with a Norwegian I'd immolate myself

I’m a writer and I wrote and mailed a poem to my boyfriend that morning. Not even a full hour later duolingo gives me this bad boy: “no one wants to read your romantic poems” absolutely killed me 😂

@@purplenurple6278 yes he does actually and it works, he is very famous because of the memes. More than the purpose of learning another languages

I'm learning German. I've said too many times that my name is Heidi Klum. Also stuff about Frau Merkel...

Lmfao

YES!!!! Chai kya hai? Panee kya hai? Main kaun hu??? That never gets old for us. We bust it out all the time. Wil probably never learn Hindi properly, but we'll always remember that line.

NAHH FR, AS A INDIAN I HAD TRIED DUOLINGO HINDI TO SEE HOW IT WORKS AND MY GOSH, IT HAS THE MOST BIZARRE SENTENCES

YES LMAO i laughed out loud every time it asked me that

HELP ME LMFAOOO

I always get "the cat is on the fridge" or "the dog eats the food"

"There's a HORSE, LOOSE in the hospital!"

in dutch duo, “He’s just a child!” (that question made me BEG for context)

German duo: he is not funny.

Welsh duo: Owen is going to swim across the Mediterranean Sea

wait omg why tho??

@@wissalmetir7840 there are thousands of characters in the language

Chinese isnt the only language without an alphabet xD

@@Valkyrie-zd7nr ik but the other languages are off topic lola

What do you think about the concept of "alphabet"? Chinese has an alphabet the fact to be a tonal one doesn't matter at all, khmer and vietnamese languages are even more tonal and they have alphabet.

I'm Wasian and I relate too!! My mother always spoke Mandarin Chinese but never taught me anything other than a few words, and my dad made no attempt to learn either :( I hope to learn it soon

same

Fellow white asian✋ I’ve started learning mandarin recently and the grammar is quite simple, but cHaRaCtErs

I’m in this situation too! My accent and speaking skills are fine, but when it comes to reading and writing, a literal toddler could beat me.

I'm a 3rd gen Chinese Wasian so I know 0 Chinese. 😭

LMAO

🤣😭🤣

get that bread get that head and leave

i was learning korean on duolingo a while ago (stopped because it’s very bad to be honest, it only helped with the alphabet) and the phrase “men aren’t people” kept popping up, it always made laugh

@@hyeromies yeah I’m working on learning Ukrainian and I only use duolingo to help get the alphabet down. Duolingo can be odd in how it tries to teach honestly 😅

ikr, and when she said she can understand almost everything they speak, but when she's asked to speak she sounds like a toddler, i felt that. Like i relate SO much.

ugh i have that but with sentence structure and i keep forgetting words talking to my parents is so embarrassing bc of it

I can speak and hear Chinese but reading and writing on the other hand...

me but in vietnamese 😩😩

The writing system is inherently challenging. In ancient China, almost only upper-class people knew how to write, but obviously everybody knew how to speak. In 1949, the illiterate rate in China was 80% and it was more than 95% illiterate rate in suburb and rural area. The compulsory education instituted later drastically decreased the rate. Unlike alphabetical languages such as English, one just cannot learn how to write in Chinese without receiving a systematical training.

No informal way around that at all.

I learned Japanese from duo too. I could real the sumemasen and watashi wa and also desu but not the that translates to Apple 😂

@@hazelene_ it's sumimasen fyi

@@codelyo_ko9123 spelling mistakes sry

i think think dutch duolingo has the same sentence (pardon, ik ben een appel)

Me too! I have hispanic people come up to me speaking Spanish all the time cause of my "obviously Mexican" appearance. They get so disappointed when I make a face and go "idk what u just said, ion speak spanish"

@@rudoartista1493 LOL my family calls that "cara de nopal", you look really hispanic but looks could be as far as it goes.

Same with blacks. I'm not a white black like tom Dubai but I'm not from the hood either. I was just raised to be respectful and I dont necessarily listen to rap

BAHAAAAAA this comment is amazing

Same I’m like those plastic cups that looks like glass I’m an exuse of an Arab 💀

Damn, that's kinda dumb on the part of your dad. I'm sure he just didn't consider it and u didn't say what age u were when this happened. But even an English speaker would think it's a given that u have to teach your kid to read. Shits not magic, if you pick that up on ur own thats an exception not the rule

@@maxnibler6090 i just think it is a funny situation :)

I had the same situation: "just spell it out!" "....with what??? there is no alphabet..."

@@maxnibler6090 I think it happens to a lot of bilingual people. I’ve had friends could speak and understand Spanish yet not know how to read or write it because they grew up speaking two languages and hearing it yet not having to read much in one language.

@@handleless986 OH MY GOD YES AHAHAHAHA

Whenever I returned to school after the long summer break, I had to "relearn" how to write legibly (in English) to take notes in class and it always felt like a strange handwriting lag due to not writing for 2-3 months. I can speedread perfectly fine though. It makes sense that this phenomenon is worse in more complicated writing systems. I couldn't even remember how to write hiragana and katakana after putting off learning Japanese for years but can read them just fine.

people forgetting how to do something doesn't mean it's "increasingly impossible" lol

As a native Chinese speaker, I honestly can’t memorise the way to type Chinese. Like you had to separate a word into parts, insert them in correct order and then pick the right word from the given ones. I use the touchscreen keyboard to write it out instead, and that’s also why I got a C for my third grade computer class

It also makes learning Japanese (and Id assume Chinese) as a foreigner a COMPLETE BITCH. I may just never even try handwriting Japanese. Im honestly prepared to never achieve any acceptable level of skill in handwriting.

@@placeholder5041 just use pinyin…?

She's actually really nice, and am I allowed to say cute as well? She's engaging in that I'm not bored in just watching them do whatever on stream since she's a natural conversationalist that gives more than generic non-responses and interacts with her audience warmly

Right? It's hard to imagine anyone hating her

This is my first time watching her video and Im so into it. I usually get bored and leave early.

So gay

@@chodie293 fellas, is it gay to be polite and complimentary? Edit for context: someone previously commented “so gay” and has since deleted their comment

LOL

PLEASE i relate with this so much, i was a badass at age 4 and knew FOUR languages. now i only speak 1 and a half.

this is SUCH high praise omg ;; I'm so glad you think the vibe here is comfy!!!

As a Spanish Chinese with an a lot lower level of Chinese than hers, same 😂

@@vhh1992 Damn wish I was a Spanish one too, German landscape is kinda boring

I'm a german Chinese and my chinese is far behind the level of her.

Hey there~ Italian Chinese here^

@@gaodacheese4691 you can always come to visit 😄

Also, that The baseline language for getting into college is about pre-preschool level, and that I severely over estimated my skills thinking I could write like a 1st grader.

Hope it's not like that for the other languages more closely related to English lol

@@charlietian9843 nah it gets way harder and they also test you on spelling and speaking,you can also read short stories in some languages c:

@@siiluviilu yeah I'm doing Spanish and it's fine. Seems like the less related ones are still kinda bad then

@@charlietian9843 you definitely need more than Duolingo though. I'd say I’m an intermediate German speaker, so I’d barely survive in Germany, but I can complete the Duolingo course fairly easily.

No same I spent EIGHT of my formative years in China, I can just barely survive now probably maybe in China with my language skills

提筆忘字 character amnesia hits hard

Felt this on a spiritual level

i've ben trying to find a phrase to describe "character decay" and now i finally found it thank you

This! I learned some Chinese in highschool without characters, just pinyin in my freetime in a group class and then went on to learn it during uni, went to study abroad in China for a year, then changed uni and made Chinese my major and now I'm keeping my Chinese alive with Duolingo and Du reader, etc. At this point I feel like I've learned and forgotten Chinese 3 times 🤣😅 It's good to know I'm not the only one and thanks for giving us this word that describes this so perfectly: character decay. Sometimes it's just like: have I ever even seen this character before?! (Especially when it comes to traditional characters as I've learned simplified first and my brain usually translates 繁体字 to 简体字 first and then to English or German in my brain. There's only a few characters my brain immediately accepts in traditional character without that additional step.) And sometimes it's like: I know what this character means, but please don't ask me how to pronounce it. 😅 With some words I somewhat remember the pronunciation or at least something close to what it actually is.

Learn another language or I'll kidnap your family

@@chocobear4078 oh shit i wondering why i learning Chinese language with no one ordered me, so this is the reason

@@petrayt5486 yes

HELP

@@shrimp3480 is Duolingo holding you hostage?

Du bist ein Deutscher 🇩🇪

Wow it is almost the same for me, my parents emigrated from China to Germany when I was 3 years old, but they only spoke the Shanghainese dialect with me, so that's the only passable Chinese I speak. I've tried several times to learn Mandarin before using VHS courses, at uni, etc. but my level still isn't good. I'm starting a new attempt this year just watching a ton of Mandarin media and writing with Chinese people online using a translator, but I am not confident at all that I will reach the degree of fluency that Ying has any time soon 🙈 I mean at least today you can get by with only writing Chinese on the computer/phone, so I don't worry too much about having to actually write something by hand, but it's still a tough journey!

Omg same! I'm Filipino and whenever I hear my mom talk on the phone with family I can understand what they're saying perfectly but when they try to talk to me whether it be on the phone or texting I'm like "uhhhh how do I respond?"

same for me but for belarussian/russian, my family also mixes belarussian into russian lol

LOL it really be like that even me as someone who lives in the Philippines. I can speak filipino and bisaya just fine but I can't speak my parents' native language which is maranao but I can understand most of what they're saying. I guess I just really have to force myself to speak it. I can help anyone here with Filipino if you guys are interested in speaking it lol.

relatable

Literally every time someone speaks German to me in Texas. I either respond in English or my brain goes to mush

If you can understand then it's easy to speak, it's just going to be very painful and you need to accept making mistakes. In a couple of weeks you would be decent.

I haven't spoken in Russian for years and now i struggle English words pop up in my head TT good thing i still understand it like before

im a Finnish person living in Russia and i struggle with writing alot

@*O MITO* what's so surprising about that

Because if you're born and raised in a country you should speak the language fluently.

God, ikr? why does kun-yomi have so many pronunciations :'D

i’d think of them like pictures 😭 “this one is the person jumping with four arms” somehow that made sense in my mind

@@TPNsBiggestFan It's recommended to use mnemonics to learn kanjis actually, otherwise there are too many confusing and similar kanjis when you reach upper grades

My god, I had learned over 200 kanji by the time I got to my last year of high-school, back then I had intermediate Japanese skills. Its been five years since then and I can barely introduce myself in Japanese now 😭😭

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Actually not for English speakers since it’s not a Latin language

exactly since saying “just learn english if it’s not your first language” gets complicated when english is one of the hardest languages to be fluent in when it’s not your first language lol

This is true! I know Spanish from taking it for years in school, and over the past few months I’ve been learning Italian and it’s been fairly easy!

@@mariejmch "Actually not for English speakers" First of all, while not a Latin language, both English and Spanish still fall in the Indo-European family. Secondly, English was my first language and I learned Spanish relatively quickly because of all the similarities between words. Just because it's not a Latin language, doesn't mean it's not easy. Seriously, around *FORTY PERCENT* of English words have a related word (cognates) in Spanish (20,000 cognates total). The Spanish alphabet is also the easiest to learn for an English speaker. Mostly all of the same letters as English. If you continue to make silly excuses instead of actually learning, you won't be able to evolve your mind When there are similarities like there are between Spanish and English, it goes a long way!

@@mariejmch French isn’t a Latin language either

Probably before that, with the advent of UNIcode symbols on keyboards.

that really reminds me of the hiragana/katakana above japanese kanji in manga dang

Ah I remember that from a half as interesting video

rightt :O once i started using it more it was js a matter of convenience 😂

@@thatpengman yeahh lol although its helpful sometimes

Ah yes, 아이, 우유

Duolingo taught me how to say the pink avocado and mark marks the mini market in Greek

same lol 아이,우유

I took spanish and i saw woman milk lol

The Italian duo taught me to say the women drinks oil like

Lol, I think we have the same fourth language.

@@KRYoung_dev 😂😆

🥺 honored that you enjoyed this, thank you for watching!

hyu my #1 cheerleader

Lol same

@@idkmen5443 omg I'm crying why can't I read Spanish anymore help??

hyurno gringo

@Alexx Claxton I still really love his patchwork staccato cover

💀

Duolingo is crap and on a veeeeeery basic level. The test for second graders was harder than the one in doulingo. I tried it for Japanese and it tought strange wordings no one will ever use (like she encountered in her test) and no Japanese would understand and plain wrong vocabularies. I than tried the one for German as a native German and it wasn't as bad as the one for Japanese but honestly: You won't learn the language. You'll learn some phrases so a native speaker would possibly have a chance to understand what you want to tell/ask him. And some of the phrases are completely absurd.

This app was made for complete beginners of a language. It’s also not built to make you fluent. It’s to give you an idea of structure and vocabulary. It’s a good side learning tool that should be used with other tools to learn a language.

​@@rainbird2002 Duolingo is for learning as a foreign language. The test for 2nd graders was a test for native speaking. Worlds apart. The tools and methods used to learn a language as a foreign speaker are totally different from those used by a native speaker to learn to read and write a language that they already speak from birth. A foreign language student can take months or years just to learn the basics of grammar and pronunciation let alone learning to write Chinese.

You see her fail in second grade and realize duolingo is ABSOLUTELY no enough

Yeah it's weird "knowing" a language but when you have to actually translate it you start thinking about the words and grammar that, at least personally, have no idea how it works. Like you're used to thinking about the words one way but trying to go any deeper breaks my brain.

SAME, im a first generation immigrant from china so my parents speak chinese to me and i speak english back. I can understand them great but i cant even order food at a restaurant. i cant read or write at all lmao

what about reading it?

@@esen677 oh I can't read another language at all.

Bro same

What does this have to do with the video

@@stankatoot9353 duolingo can be pretty bad with teaching languages properly and messes up the phrasing sometimes

Me too, i just learning Chinese and this video come in my RU-vid recomended and then i love to watch it because i learn Chinese but i don't know what she talking (with chinese language)

ahh, your profile picture! T^T

@@stankatoot9353 I'm planning on learning Korean in Duolingo and the thing I realize Is being Asian is a cheat code. I speak three languages(English,Hindi,Nepali)all from just living😂 Korean will be the one I myself put an effort to(learnt English cause of school)

if you didnt see im replying so you can see that you have 100+ likes.

@@crying.sobbing.throwingup 163 at the time of this comment. I can't say why, but I'm happy that people like the comment, haha

@@BakaTaco thats great

Same, i didnt know her at all. Imma dig the channel ahah

Same

Yep same here

you'd be surprised at hong kong and its language abilities! most of us here can speak cantonese, mandarin and english fluently :)

@@superhuffpuff i'm talking about the authenticity of her accent :) she speaks english like an american and mandarin like a native chinese

@@windywendi many of us can do that here too! it's actually not that uncommon! of course, still impressive, but yeah! you'd be surprised!

She has a slight accent when she speaks English.

I am in reverse. I understand when they write in Portuguese which my native language is Spanish from Puerto Rico. I know when you guys are laughing, you write kkkkkk while Hispanic write jajajaja instead of English writing it like hahaha.

similar situation, my native language is english but my mom’s family’s native language is spanish,, i can understand her yelling at me about my laundry from across the house but i nearly failed spanish 2😭

I’m the same! Welsh second language here and I have a qualification in it, but I cannot speak or write out welsh for the life of me. Can read and understand it close to perfect tho

Imagine being born in Uruguay (Spanish) live in Brazil, go to school in Uruguay, learn everything in Spanish yet my day to day live is in Portuguese. Eventually move school to Brazil, then go back to Spanish. Bro, I kid you not, I will always have an error when writing, because I always get both languages mixed up. Seriously, fuck my parents, who decided that was a good idea

@@dxdafs8136 That honestly sounds so stressful im so sorry

I lived in Shanghai as a kid too! We were their for four years, I went to the SAS Puxi campus

@@imjustdandy9799 Omg i went to SCIS HQ

I swear, most of the Chinese you meet before learning Chinese or going to China for the first time, are weird af. Might as well be autistic. They have a hard time to work with our social queues or relate to our sensitivities. Of course, different culture. We're as weird to them, probably.

Lol

ㅋㅋ

I don’t see it, Chinese is so loose u can say whatever u want and it still delivers

Chinese writing is well known to be hard, but the grammar is a lot easier than English

The writing part is quite easy

only chinese writing is difficult but chinese is more condensed because of its writing . radicals pile together and u can read it faster. btw the mainland chinese is much more simplified

@@okaeri80 are you okay

Ti bi wang zi.

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I can relate 🤝

same

How about using a whole sentence to describe the word that you forgot how to write in your 作文

@@EricChien95 thats what I did

When I forget how to write a character but I like kinda know the shape but forgot what is actually in it I just scribble word so it kinda looks like the right writing but it’s actually just scribbles and the teacher would just think I had bad hand writing and let me pass😭

and the feeling when you THOUGHT you remembered it but didnt and is just staring blankly at the paper

KANJI IS TRULY ITS OWN LEVEL OF HELL

Yes. Can we not like just use hiragana and katakana? I really can't learn kanji! Hopeless!

As a high school student living in Japan, I agree. I barely even passed the 漢字検定 level 3. Those 四字熟語s are killing me.

@@ying_verse Agreed x1000

But kanji is soooo convinient. It helps me differentiate between雨 and 飴

accidentally tricked all of genshin fandom

@@ying_verse as someone who gets constantly blamed for using a username based on the game's artifact set instead of the actual damn French phrase, I thank you for giving the Fandom a rough time for a bit. A bit of a sadistic form of catharsis, but I'll take what I can get. Still a great vid either way

@@noblesseoblige319 That is super hilarious! XD RIP your poor soul, lol

yea 😂 her pronunciation is 👌 tho half relate

@@noblesseoblige319 Noblesse oblige, je dois dire que tu n'es qu'un simple paysan

我以前还是数学语文双科学霸呢, 现在字都写不好

@@Syuvinya跟我一样 :(

@@Syuvinya 但是你写的比我写的好哈哈

lol the French duolingo course literally has sections on flirting

@@Mantha8225 so does german!

Same as the Japanese it's so much fun.

Jeg kan ikke svensk, men jeg kan engelsk og litt norsk. hvor like er språkene? kan du forstå noe av dette?

I had that when I learnt Swedish too lol

Russian is at least written in an alphabet, and has far more consistent pronunciation than English, so I think that with practice it gets a lot easier. Chinese and Japanese, however use these crazy friggin logographic writing systems, and you have to memorize thousands upon thousands of individual characters.

@@ikemoon127 well, japanese at least has hiragana and katakana so there is some sort of phonetic script that is used in the language

a whole paragraph in katakana and hiragana is fine but when there are no spaces it's horrible. it's better to read sentences/stories with kanji but furigana. Learning kanji is a nightmare since you need to learn how to write it and memorize how to read it by the original Chinese based sound and the native Japanese one.

Lmao

I can read japanese. Don't ask me to pronounce kanji tho. Cuz ya gonna get a lot of things I wouldn't use with my dad. I love how ppl just tells me that 廻 is used way more often nowadays, like 2 days ago I didn't knew that kanji, cuz 1 Am a fucking idiot And 2 I can't read for shit. My kana skills are godlike tho. But my kanji is just slowly going higher, bit by bit as I restart getting familiar with the language. Than ppl ask me to translate whole written instruction and I be like Uh? Uh? What? I recognize Ame I recognize Iu Oh that 日 is the sun 日本 that together is an adjective refering to stuff having to do with japan. Than after am like, why don't they just use more simple words. ;-; UwU

happy i was able to make you laugh!!!

same lmao

Girl same, I never learnt to read or write Chinese but both my parents are Chinese so I can speak and understand it 😅 I'm currently trying to learn to write it but it's so damn hard it's driving me insaneee, Ive been learning it for about a month and a half and know about 250(?) or so words. I want to take Chinese for my Leaving Cert in two years (Im 16) and I'm kinds scared because that's the final exam for college and my Chinese would have to be reallyyy good so needless to say I'm freaking out 😙

@@emilychen1120 im able to speak exceptionally well and understand it but after not brushing up my skill i can only read a few words now, i tried to remaster the basic characters and their sounds first then i tried to make sentences but i always mix them up especially with harder words and writing the characters are indeed a pain since missing one stroke on a letter will means the entire sentence id gibberish now. 😂😂

@@lollmao1497 this is gonna be me in 5 years when I don't need to take Chinese anymore HAHA

@@emilychen1120 girl don't do it it's awful to mug for and as u learn more u only find out more and more words u don't know. it's INSANE. ive been trying to exempt myself for years

INTERESTINGLY i actually learned bopomofo before I ever learned pinyin :o a product of being raised in a region of the US where we had more taiwanese immigrants than mainlander immigrants for a while haha

@@ying_verse as a Malaysian/Singaporean we learnt bopomofo for like a week in kindergarten anddddd never again

@@ying_verse I learnt zhuyin first also but sometimes it just be easier to write pinyin since English is my native language so it’s still more intuitive for me to translate chinese to Latin characters

I'm Taiwanese, and I find it difficult to read simplify Chinese characters. Feels like the sentences are wobbling.

@@niconiconii4561 we did?

;)

In the Russian course it keeps talking about blood and bloody things.

@@Robin-jk6wz in French there are sentences like “you are a cat”

@@lunar2391 There's also "You are a horse"

"Dafuck?"

Few of the amazing sentences I came across in Duolingo: The Australian that eats the globe I am afraid of myself The Dog speaks Korean too The green lizard flies The only one I wholeheartedly agreed with was: Duolingo is strange

now i want to hear this guess hahahah

​@@ying_versebased on my limited understanding of Chinese accents i would say the 东北 area, or somewhere close to it Then again from gut feeling its seems a bit unlikely but as someone from that area there were a select few moments where the 东北accent could be detected

@@ying_verse gonna guess canada . Or somewhere in cali using my Chinese born American intuition

Is it still like good to learn Chinese from duolingo, or is there a better app

@@sprig441 You shouldn't use apps at all, only for the complete basics.

its on purpose, they do it so that you'll remember the words in weird sentences

@@leorantila9302 yeah that makes sense. My first year or so of learning Spanish I didn’t really learn what separate words meant, only what common sentences meant. (Pero mi espanõl es muy mal. Lo siento :’)

?!?!?!? WHY HAHAH

@@ying_verse IDK LMAO-

@@vvelveta Yeah kinda jealous of you ngl

honestly same I wish she was

The other way makes sense too: big number = big discount !

Meanwhile in Brazil: Big item = big price Small item = big price

it's based on how fractions are done in Chinese. Bigger numbers go first. For example, 1/4 is 四分之一 in Chinese - literally four parts to make one.

This is Mandarin though...

@@DorabellaTheWolpertinger yea I know that. But to someone who doesn’t understand either they sound similar enough that I can’t distinguish between the two and it still has that nostalgic property to it even if they are two different languages

@@desperatlystupid9299 Ohh wig. Yeah as a Canto speaker I can somewhat understand Mandarin if I try REALLY hard

@@DorabellaTheWolpertinger yeah there are loan words and then there’s the pure confusion when you process the word as being one thing and it actually being completely different in Mandarin. Cantonese is fucking weird

@@pergys6991 lmao we cantonese speakers think the same thing about mandarin, like how it only has 4 tones or how in some chinese literature or just daily life, like 聲聲慢, the words 凄凄慘慘戚戚 sound different in cantonese, so it's easier to distinguish, but in mandarin the first and last two sound the same

Meanwhile me a chinese(until reading this comment) : 一门语言is 一门语言 what's the big deal- Srsly though, I sometimes think we take a lot of the quirks in our language for granted. Like how someone learning mandarin once mentioned how it was so adorable that we refer to kids as 小朋友(literally small friend) and I was like OH I NEVER NOTICED bc I was so used to using it in that context... And another time I was writing in English and wanted to use 鼻子一酸 (literally "nose became sour) before realising the expression didn't exist in English. (It means the feeling you get when you're about to cry btw, the moment you feel the tears coming and realize you can't stop them basically. I still haven't found another way to describe it in English and it's pretty neat) So thanks for teaching me something about the language I grew up speaking ig :)

@@hayley9066 For "The feeling you get when you're about to cry" in English would be like, "Tears are welling up."

@@hayley9066 That feeling for when you're about to cry in English is also described as your "eyes pricking [with tears]".

@@yogawarriorgirl thanks！

@@weisshxc thanks!

I know a bit more than her and I’m the same as you but started Chinese school in 4th grade now 8th and I SUCK at writing literally my little sister knows more AHHH

Wow Cantonese, where r u from?

But why cantonese? My parents are from Hong Kong (Main Cantonese speaking place) and the chinese does not respect them or treat them as Chinese citizens.

@@adrianvicente9676 its more like the other way round

@@adrianvicente9676 No offense here . As I am from China, I was thinking it is because lots of Hongkongers, they do not want to be categorised as Chinese rather than mainland Chinese does not treat Hongkongers as Chinese.