Who is the best at their Mother Tongue? : *CHINESE* vs malay vs tamil 

Who could answer everything correctly? Stay tuned for next week's episode!

It surprised me to know Thomas's Chinese proficiency

6:35 "suo liao" is the old mandarin version came out in 1913 aka 老國音 which is based on the peripheral dialects of Peking. In 1923 a newer version of mandarin came out as 新國音 changed parts of the pronunciation hence "su liao". p.s. im taiwanese *fun fact: 老國音 has been widely preserved in taiwan due to unknown reason and 新國音 is the unanimous version of pronunciation in PRC.

Honestly, I think the uncle did a great job. He was able to answer all the questions and also the ½ Chinese and German guy also did a great job too.

"Suo Liao Dai" is kind of Sichuan accent, In standard mandarin, we call the plastic bag "su liao dai"

The white shirt uncle is the MVP lol

Malaysian Chinese said: Kindergarten level 😂

Too easy for Malaysian.

Here‘s Taiwan version： 1.吸管 2.美食中心 3.保鮮盒 4.塑膠袋 5.環保袋/購物袋(平常人常用詞) by a malaysian lives taiwan ten years～

the one in yellow seems to have just graduated from a kindergarten two days ago in her early twenties.

I bet if they're searching job in Malaysia they also will have trouble to see "mandarin/cantonese speaker only" requirement

I’m malaysian malay, and i speak Mandarin & Hokkien 💕

My sister-in-law is Chinese but she only understands Malay, if you talk chinese with her..her will talk malay with you .lol

5:42 Container should be 容器 / 器皿 ; 盒子 = box , in this situation we also call it 飯盒 lunch box . So only in this situation, container is default as 飯盒 / 盒子 but not direct Chinese translation

I as a Malaysian Chinese, the 重用袋 really made my day sia... So creative 🤣

Old generation are very good to their mother tongue and also malay. This is a good for young generation

So am I the only one who calls plastic bags as "zhidai紙袋"？？（as a Malaysian😂）

Now I know why people are surprised that I can speak mandarin well when I told them I'm from Singapore 😅

Not surprised how bad chinese is spoken or answer by the younger generation nowadays, Thomas the german chinese(If anyone know him from WahBanana!), yes he is half german and chinese but the way he talk and answer is very good in fact far better compared to locals(gotta to admit that) and the hawker uncle in white got my respect(Uncle talk and answer in excellent fluent chinese as he is a veteran), both of them speak and answered very fluently😊😎👍 The girl in yellow umm what i am going to say... cmi X8 liao😅 Good content TMTV😎👍 Nice😎

container is more like 容器 box is 盒子 but when they’re used on food, the same thing.

The 'suo liao dai' is not wrong tho, anyway finally can see Jmiah back in the street interview series again, best lahh 😂

Finally the kind of content i subbed TMTV for. 🤣. Can't wait for next week!

The girl in yellow don't know chinese nvm, she don't even know the difference between 3 words and 4 words 小饭圆???

I think aside from the comedic scenes from the video, I think that this approach does help in raising awareness in using more recyclables and reusables as utilising them reduce monetary cost to both the vendors and us as consumers! It also helps reduce the amount of plastic waste on Earth and projects Singapore into a more sustainable country! Thank you to Tropic Monsters TV and ZeroWasteSG for the initiative 🙏

That half Chinese guy even know the Szechuan “Plastic Mandarin” He said Suo Liao Dai🤣🤣🤣That's pretty native lah

50% German puts Jeremiah to shame! Everytime I see Jeremiah is like how did he pass his Chinese in JC, thought it’s a pre-requisite for Uni admission

Rachel is trying too hard to be bad at Chinese, cringe AF, not like her English is any better.

I encountered stalls that do not let you use your own containers. They cite hygiene reasons and need to pay extra to use their containers.

还是老阿伯的华语流利。德川混血的小哥也很棒

when i hear the uncle say that "we have to save the environment ,we have to change our mind", suddenly I find out why Singapore will do the best in most of the things 👍(at my country, uncle auntie will not think open minded like that...😅)

that german-chinese guy actually has good pronunciation and he's trying hard enough! meanwhile the girl in yellow uh.... a bit cringe ngl some answers really cannot make it leh not sure if she's trying to seem funny or really don't know lmao

Hawker Center can be 熟食中心 also

Nice one Thomas!!

Whoa now I know Thomas Chinese soo good sia!! Nice one Thomas! U ACED IT1️⃣🔥🔥👏👏

Very nice Collab, keeping your entertainment and also meaningful

are u guys serious!? this is like a primary school level of difficulty... what happen to our generation sia zzz gg.com

"8:41 Whoa decompose bro." 😂 He just dug a grave for himself.

wahh i saw myself in grabfood attire 😂 3:55

Hahahas when i saw Thomas, i thought Keiji would be here too. I got all KorLeck.

Disgraceful af. Simple daily Chinese also fail.

You know that uncle has been waiting his whole life for this moment LOL

The girl in yellow is really embarrassing. It’s not a laughing matter and nothing to be proud of.

Having watched your language test series, I am curious about where did you find these people who could not show fluency in any language.How can they lead a life without mastering any language? The Singaporeans I came across were all proud of the country's multilingualism and spoke very good English and Mandarin.

How i call them as a Malaysian hokkien 1. Straw - Zui Chao 2. hawker center - jiak guan (chan guan for restaurant) 3. container - zua (paper) / ti (metal) ark (box) 4. plastic bag - zua lok 5. reusable bag - wan boh lok

i think theres a clear explanation for this. Many tend to speak in english at home and in their daily lives, so the only time they come in contact with chinese is during mother tongue lessons in sch. And everyone knows you cant be fluent just through examinations and memorisation, you need to use it daily in conversations. Thats why Thomas was better since he probably speaks mandarin at home with his mom. Its the same with China learning englishm since they don't use it at all in their daily lives and only learn it though memorisation and for examinations, they end up forgetting most of it and not being fluent. So either the education system gets a reform or family/friends have to start speaking mandarin tgt

I think container can be translated into 容器(a more general term), for a plastic bag, we say 塑膠袋 in Taiwan, 塑料 sounds more like raw materials.

Keep up the good work!

No disrespect to anyone but it was agonising to watch how some of them struggled with those really basic Chinese words. The most capable person was the son of a German. Supposedly having a proper Chinese speaking mother made the difference. Yet again it could just be for show lah.

Lady in yellow trying very hard to be funny . Girl pls

wah seh bro its a QUADRUPLE WIN. watch your channel can also learn Chinese

I know several words mandarin. Still learning with my wo de popo.. Ta shi zhoungguoren.. Wo bu shi huaren

I watched all 3 series and found the good looking half Chinese should be proud of as the mother still teach him Mandarin successfully.. in Malay episode I could say the winner is again another good looking boy who can answer most of the questions correct, better than the makcik2 🤦🏽‍♀️... in Tamil episode, yeah.. I think only the siblings and the young girl not doing well. This is a very good program to appreciate our own mother tounge... It shows who are we inside ourselves..btw we still can learn and learn guys

Lots of dialects in Mainland China pronounce 塑 as Suo (including my native tongue) so there should be no problem at all.

Chinese is a race … Mandarin is the language … sigh …

塑料袋 (sù liào dài)，"塑” for standard pinyin is (sù liào dài)，for daily life, "su" or "suo" are acceptable from my understanding 😃 any wrong please correct me☺️

Where is the uncle or hawker come from?

10:36 goreng pisang , is singaporean malay language similar to indonesian language? example indon use sepak bola , while malaysian use bola sepak and pisang goreng. do you guys also say goreng ayam ? or ayam goreng?

I also learn something, liked and subscribed and opened the notification

actually i think it's very hard for oversea chinese because many words like "reusable bag" or "plastic bag" are modern words, oversea chinese didn't have these words when they left china.

There are a few of errors in Chinese subtitles......

Nice content bro lmao as a chinese beginner, this is funny and beneficial for my learning growth 😂

If a language is your mother tongue it means your parents spoke to you in that language from young, so everyone can speak their mother tongue.

10:36 Pisang Goreng btw

1. Straw = 吸管 2. Hawker Centre = 小販中心 3. Container = 飯盒 / 外賣盒 / 打包盒 4. Plastic bag = 塑料袋 ( Suo Liao Dai ), the German guy is correct 👍 5. Reusable bag = 環保袋 / 循環袋

Alamak, all of those words were so easy as ABC.

Is that tampines hub?

Singaporeans' lack in proficiency in the language is a result of the lack of a chinese speaking environment in school, work and probably home where the main language used is still English. It is generally also widely acceptable in our society to use language interchangeably to express ourselves. Unless we are expected to use Chinese and with good consistency to converse at work, it will always be a challenge to keep up with the Chinese speaking cities in the world. Practice makes perfect!

that super funny video lol!! 'xiao gong yuan"!!!!

Lady in yellow is such a turn off.

anyone help me verication my code qr wechat please

Why don't make a video an ask Eurasians how good they are at Chinese and Malay even though it's not their mother tongue lol I'm Eurasian and I speak mandarin Cantonese and hokkien.even though I'm only quarter Chinese. Good video by the way

y'all know tht when he said xiao as hint I was like ohhh that rlly helpsss

this thomas is from Wah banana right?

Learning new words here is fun

what is container？ I only know Tupperware

I think you interview at the wrong centres.. next time try the west side of Singapore. Our market aunties here very 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

Please make more videos about this topic.

I'm appalled at the standards of young Singaporean's chinese...

That "save the earth" = 救命？地球 🌏 。。。 Bro that's soooooo hilarious, really laugh die me!

Actually the ambassador on the right side speaks pretty decent mandarin as well based on his open ended responses but I think many attention goes to the uncle and half German guy. 我的个人看法是考查名词不一定能精准地反映出掌握华语的真实水平，而是要看他是否能以通顺的句子，并适当的运用关联词来持续一个对话。The irony thing is as much as our conversational Chinese standard dropping, the requirement of local oral examination levels up. Not only they are required to narrate the video content fully, but also to use good phrases 俗语+好词好句 to score.

Those 3 mans got Lord skilled Mandarin 🙏🙏🙏🙏 and the Uncle is the God

I somehow sense that Ms Yellow is proud of her inability to master more than 1 language, or trying to play up her "bimbo-ness" in front of the camera.

I just love looking at the lady in yellow facial reaction when she was ask to translate in mandarin. She’ll be like ha what the hell..🤣🤣🤣

hahaha for other people i say "su" but at home I say "suo" cause that's what my parents pronounce it as. tho my "su" has a bit of "suo" sound in it if I don't pay much attention

Chinese? Not Mandarin? Or Cantonese etc?

我本身是土生土长的新加坡人，我既然没有想到现在的年轻人中文越来越差劲。。看到这个视频的这一刻我的心真的寒了😭😭😭😭

那些连这些字眼都不会的，真的需要找个洞钻进去…而且不会还在那儿装可爱，一笑而过…明明就不是什么值得骄傲的事。我们新加坡的华文教育真的有待加强

其實塑料袋"suo liao dai"不是標準的發音，有點四川的口音 標準的發音就是su liao dai

WHATSUPPPPPPPPP TMTV J n T

10:37 goreng pisang ❌ Pisang goreng✅

I managed to get all 5 correct 😂😂 But honestly, if my bf and most of my close friends in Japan are not from Taiwan/China/HK, I would have probably forgotten all those words since we don't usually speak only in Chinese when in Singapore. Mostly rojak everything with majority of the words in English.

Suka tengok channel ni 😂

winning statement "ni men you mei you straw lah"

Really ?? How come chinese don't know how to speak mandarin? Does singapore don't teach chinese subject in school ?

Fun fact:a country in asia+chinese, saying chinnese is hard???

Hello, Can You Teach How to Speak Mandarin Language!!! 😀😁😀

I work with students from Japan, Korea, Germany, India, China, Indonesia etc etc. The parents are the ones who insisted to speak their mother tongue at home and only mother tongue. No English at home. Most of them are bilingual/ trilingual fluently. Some Singaporeans too. Unfortunately, only the real 'atas' profile ones, tries to preserve their mother tongue. Most of the middle class/ lower class will try to act atas by speaking English /Singlish and thinks that English is the way to go. Can you imagine all the family members, friends and relatives are all with Chinese speaking background and speaks fluently, but when they talk to a young kid in the family, they auto switch to English /broken English (they tried to avoid Singlish, but didn't master proper English). In the end, the kid Mandarin Cmi, English 'half bucket'. What's with speaking in mother tongue? Feel low class/ less atas/ inferior or what? Then throw the task to the Chinese tutors when the child have free resources around them. Speaking from a local Singaporean Chinese family, where my parents from kumpung don't speak English/ Singlish at home- Pure proper Mandarin cuz they don't know English (from Chinese school), won't jiapalang mix Mandarin and English in a sentence. So naturally we speak in proper sentences - meaning, won't add English to Chinese sentences or add Chinese words to English sentences. Where did I learn my English? Proper English from school teachers. Got an A for O'levels and B for English, no tuition at all. I'm fortunate to grow up with my grandparents who speaks pure Hokkien to me. Not like some grandparents trying to follow the trend of their kids, totally don't speak dialect or mix Chinese and broken English. - honestly, some young parents think it's low class for the little kids to learn dialect and looked down on it. Sadly, the grandparents played along, thinking that they should have better English environment and by speaking more 'English' (broken English) helps the grandchildren. Grasping one more language = the ability to help or reach out to one more community. When I volunteered at an old folks home with other peers, they were nice, but couldn't understand well even with simple words like water when the elderly asked for it. At the end of the day, I received decent command of Mandarin, English and Hokkien. Singlish, it's just a natural what.... Don't even need to learn it specially lah. Was chosen and outstationed to Shanghai as I was bilingual pretty fluently as compared to my colleagues of similar profile/or even when I'm a junior at work. Got chosen largely due to my command of Mandarin- need to do training in Mandarin with professional lingos- I seem to be the one that need the least effort to groom for this area wise. In China, I met a local Fujian person and he was surprised that as a Singaporean, I can hold a conversation with him in Hokkien! Not even his local colleagues from Shanghai or Nanjing could do that as they have their own set of dialect. How much can you pass down to your next generation? In school, only 10% of the entire year x 10years is taught in Mandarin, in Chinese class. 90% of their awake time is in English/ Singlish. For parents who make effort to preserve mother tongue, at least push it to a 30% of their time, for sure, the kid will definitely perform much better than the people in the video. Especially those who can speak proper mother tongue, I highly encourage to carry the practice of speaking in mother tongue with your child. I have elite Indian parents from India asking if I teach my class in Chinese hor.... Don't complain why big companies don't choose locals. Ask what we lack and lose out in this global market lor. Btw, with my A in Singapore Chinese standard, I sounded like a primary school level in China. So... These people just lost a big pie and a bunch of opportunities. 1 language = 1 more market. I don't know why the young kids are 'proud' for being not good in their mother tongue, but proud that they know English- the more 'atas language'? My colleagues of other races are having the same complain that they have to send their kids to tutors for Malay and Tamil, saying how poor they are in their mother tongue. Hello??? How to be good when their own mother don't speak mother tongue to the kids? Poor kids. Kanna blamed and pressured for problems that are not truly their fault. Come on lah... How bad can mother tongue go as compared to broken English. Talking about those who can speak proper mother tongue but choose not to speak ones...

I really don't know why all dk chinese like wtf seriously what have they been studying haha

hawker centre这个词在英美一般会说food courts of which is also used in Tamil Nadu。小贩中心在中华区应该也没有这样表达，在中国会说美食广场=美食街=小吃街=排挡，在香港叫大排档或者茶餐厅，不知道台湾那边怎么说。

When he asked what is plastic in chinese, my lil brother far away at the back proudly said 'su liao dai!' hahaha