How Good Is Steven He's Chinese?

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  • @StevenHe
    @StevenHe Před rokem +7393

    哈哈我看这个视频有点紧张啊。。。我的确感觉太久没说中文了。我是出生到8岁和11到14在中国长大的。 Thank you for making this video! Very soon I will have more opportunity to speak mandarin more in public!

    • @StevenHe
      @StevenHe Před rokem +1539

      哎我在国内也有名吗?哈哈有3年没回国了

    • @ChinesewithJessie
      @ChinesewithJessie  Před rokem +1353

      @@StevenHe Oh my god I can't believe you actually watched this! 你在国内也超有名的,B站和抖音超多你的视频,大家都很喜欢你!明年回国会方便很多了,欢迎回来看看呀~

    • @zepellion6284
      @zepellion6284 Před rokem +279

      你在国内超有名! 我刚在b站上看到这个视频然后就直接来CZcams上看了没想到看到本人回复哈哈哈

    • @cloudsrise_
      @cloudsrise_ Před rokem +81

      Omg he commentedddd!!! :O

    • @martingin6937
      @martingin6937 Před rokem +85

      我去,大师球,捉!

  • @Xetron1978
    @Xetron1978 Před rokem +3028

    I don't doubt that Steven speaks good Chinese, since he's a native speaker and has spoken Chinese for most of his life. I am more amazed by how well his English is, and how well he can talk in a Cantonese accent. I've been living in the U.S. for like 10+ years, but I still have a Chinese accent. I quite envy him ngl.

    • @iaaf_nw2367
      @iaaf_nw2367 Před rokem +164

      He also has a very good American accent. He is a very talented speaker indeed.

    • @petergreen1994
      @petergreen1994 Před rokem +14

      His dad speaks English right?

    • @kryllykomar6851
      @kryllykomar6851 Před rokem +62

      i cheated to get rid of my chinese accent by not knowing chinese. my redneck accent though... it's still here...

    • @Abibi1412
      @Abibi1412 Před rokem +58

      he spent a part of his life in Ireland,so he learnt most of his english there and sometimes his english has that irish accent as well

    • @chopinetudeop.25no.5
      @chopinetudeop.25no.5 Před rokem +28

      i think he said once that he listened to lots of american english recordings so he could get an american accent

  • @argonwheatbelly637
    @argonwheatbelly637 Před rokem +2496

    I love listening to the broken Japanese spoken at my local Japanese restaurant, especially when the guests try to speak it to the waitstaff and hibachi chefs. Ummm, the music on the overhead is all in Mandarin, and the staff speaks Fuzhounese. The guests have no idea, because, well, everyone looks (East) Asian.

    • @KANIME
      @KANIME Před rokem +218

      All my local Japanese restaurants are run by Chinese people lol

    • @keyboardmanyoutube3189
      @keyboardmanyoutube3189 Před rokem +72

      @@KANIME here by Korean and Chinese…. Lol

    • @TheDiamondBladeHD
      @TheDiamondBladeHD Před rokem +57

      Same here in a lot of cities in germany, except they're vietnamese. Though some cities like Düsseldorf it's 99% a japanese person

    • @hanng1242
      @hanng1242 Před rokem +8

      More common than one would think.

    • @fireflieer2422
      @fireflieer2422 Před rokem +3

      @@KANIMElol yeah

  • @elyfel1183
    @elyfel1183 Před rokem +595

    Jessie: I'm gonna review Stephen's Chinese.
    Steven: (Speaking Chinese like the native that he is)
    Jessie: (...Emotional Damage)

    • @xSouIess
      @xSouIess Před 6 měsíci +2

      😂😂😂😂

    • @vicsar
      @vicsar Před 4 měsíci +1

      Nailed it!

    • @wdhehao
      @wdhehao Před 4 měsíci +2

      🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @k.p.8955
      @k.p.8955 Před 4 měsíci +1

      haha! why would she be emotionally damaged if he is speaking Chinese well? You're silly but funny

    • @davidharlow5642
      @davidharlow5642 Před 4 měsíci +2

      How is this not top comment?

  • @kasperilse4878
    @kasperilse4878 Před rokem +471

    I think he was 8 when his family moved to Ireland, and he has told he didn't got any English lessons in the start, he was just dropped right in school while only being able to speak Chinese, so it makes sense he's still a fluent speaker.

    • @jyashin
      @jyashin Před rokem +49

      No it isn't that natural. His parent (singular, unless his Irish side happens to speak Chinese) will need to put a lot of effort to make sure he still speaks fluent Chinese. Steven must have also gone back to China multiple times and interacted with his folks.
      He sounds nothing like the Chinese who came to US/West at a young age and thus did not practice their Chinese. That said, it doesn't take that long to regain native level fluency if Chinese was indeed your first language (took me about 5 years just using it casually) but at times you'll still struggle to find words that you don't know the translation of.

    • @Killerbee4712
      @Killerbee4712 Před rokem +15

      @@jyashin Can immensely relate lol, after going back to Chongqing from immigrating to the west I was surprised how quickly I picked up my dialect despite never speaking a word of it in my life

    • @labadaba5088
      @labadaba5088 Před rokem +9

      @@jyashin Depends on how old you were. I stopped speaking it on a regular basis when I was 5 and so it is a struggle. I basically have the Chinese vocabulary of a 5 year old.

    • @huaiwei
      @huaiwei Před rokem +6

      @@labadaba5088 it is amazing what the environment can do to language proficiency though.
      I am Singaporean and hated learning Mandarin in school. Barely passed Chinese in the examinations.
      But when I visit Taiwan for short one-week holidays, my CL standard will suddenly improve, so much so that some locals even think I am Taiwanese. Even my accent changes along with the improved vocabulary. lol.
      It is hard to describe just how amazing this is, as I cannot quite emphasize just how bad my Chinese actually is lol.

    • @OneKnifeYeHand
      @OneKnifeYeHand Před rokem +2

      @@huaiwei Writing vs speaking is always very different.
      And it also depends on the environment. I'm a language guy and expert myself, but I can relate on another level. For example, I hated learning history from school books, but after I graduated high school, I suddenly found a real love for history and it's now one of my favorite things to read about/watch!

  • @libbyrodriguez
    @libbyrodriguez Před rokem +339

    I didn’t know that Steven He is popular in China too!! I’ll have to talk to my Chinese students when we do our next video lesson. Thanks Jessie!!

    • @MaximSupernov
      @MaximSupernov Před rokem +20

      No. I don't think anybody in China knows him. Only Chinese who are raised in the west knows him.

    • @Steambunbun
      @Steambunbun Před rokem +13

      @@MaximSupernov Singapore, Malaysia too...

    • @Xetron1978
      @Xetron1978 Před rokem +5

      Yeah, and Uncle Roger as well

    • @Gutraidh
      @Gutraidh Před rokem +52

      @@MaximSupernov You can often see Emotional Damage in bilibili bullet comment...

    • @alvinnnliu
      @alvinnnliu Před rokem +21

      @@MaximSupernov Emotional damage这个梗还是很有名的吧

  • @LouisSubearth
    @LouisSubearth Před rokem +176

    I remember from the Haiyaa podcast that Steven mentioned something about frequently flying between Ireland and China as a kid, so he spoke both languages during his entire childhood.

  • @HighAdmiral
    @HighAdmiral Před rokem +63

    I like how she answers the title within the first minute and then just tells us curiosities about the Chinese language for the other 5.

  • @kitsura
    @kitsura Před rokem +653

    Just a quick note. 幸苦了 is not a Mandarin only phrase. The Japanese also say お疲れ様 (otsukare sama) which means the same thing.

    • @edoalva48
      @edoalva48 Před rokem +71

      I just thought about that too!
      Korean also has similar things for same purposes. The phrases are 수고했어요 and 고생해주셔서 감사합니다 which pretty much translate to "good job" and "thanks for your hard work".

    • @Nossimid
      @Nossimid Před rokem +60

      Sorry to point it out, but it's 辛苦了. Thanks. 辛苦您了🙂

    • @jeffrey2326
      @jeffrey2326 Před rokem +91

      @@charleszern9892近視嗎?明明是用不同的字寫
      這也不叫抄襲,這叫borrowing
      你用的script也是從Latin文來的而Latin也是從Greece,Phoenicians,以及Egypt借用來的
      那你說這叫抄襲嗎?
      這只是文化交流

    • @simoncho2570
      @simoncho2570 Před rokem +12

      Let's just say it's a Confucian thing where pain and suffering are necessary for self-cultivation

    • @sasino
      @sasino Před rokem +17

      辛苦了:辛 is not 幸

  • @samsatogardner
    @samsatogardner Před 11 měsíci +56

    Confirmed: Even when Jessie isn't playing or making a comedy video but is instead doing explanatory work, she's incredibly cute.

  • @Yuunarichu
    @Yuunarichu Před rokem +125

    Jessie, in a lot of English-speaking Netflix shows or CZcams videos, they don't have people who translate any foreign languages in the show sometimes, so they just use "Speaks in [language]" as a lazy filler. 😂

    • @tree427
      @tree427 Před rokem +21

      I was watching a show where a character went on this long speech in korean but nobody else spoke korean in it and I'm really not sure if the subtitles were says [Speaking Korean] because all the characters wouldn't understand or if they just didnt have a translator. why even include the scene?

    • @jyashin
      @jyashin Před rokem +23

      No, that "laughs in Chinese" is a play on a memetic mutation arising from "cries in Spanish". The original phrase arose due to automatic closed captioning on US broadcasts of Mexican telenovelas (Maria le del barrio in this specific instance), which sometimes wrote "cries in Spanish" when the actress Soraya Montenegro would have overly long dramatic crying scenes.

    • @manubishe
      @manubishe Před rokem +6

      @@jyashin oh, I thought it started with 'laughs in mexican' of the Big Sombrero guy.

    • @koharumi1
      @koharumi1 Před rokem +10

      Hate how Netflix does not add subtitles when characters speak english in subs translation for shows.

  • @crockurworld
    @crockurworld Před rokem +47

    Wow! My favorite Mandarin Instructor/Entertainer, and my favorite Comedian/Actor on the same channel. Fantastic Job, Jessie!!

  • @meekmeads
    @meekmeads Před rokem +39

    His parents, would not have allowed him to lose his Mandarin.
    I am 100% sure Steven would not dare, to give his parents E M O T I O N A L D A M A G E

  • @anniebell1977
    @anniebell1977 Před rokem +25

    That was awesome. I appreciate you doing this video. It's nice to see people not losing their native tongue just because they've come to English speaking countries. I just love the way Mandarin, Korean, and Japanese sound. They are such pretty languages.

  • @xindadu4007
    @xindadu4007 Před rokem +5

    OMG, I'm living in China speaking Mandarin for most of the time, but some of points you mentioned like the usage of “个” are still new to me. Great video!

  • @LW78321
    @LW78321 Před 11 měsíci +1

    I love your videos Jessie!! You're such a great teacher, informative and entertaining!

  • @john-chung-hsuanwu8766
    @john-chung-hsuanwu8766 Před rokem +29

    I've had a bottle of Maotai with a friend from the states, it was quite unique and we eventually made some western cocktails with it 😂

  • @Uchiha_Madara_125
    @Uchiha_Madara_125 Před rokem +36

    Steven He can speak both Chinese and English at the same time.....without moving a tongue....while chewing food. That's how supernatural he is😂.....Anyway, loved your lesson miss.

    • @umoreira2008
      @umoreira2008 Před rokem +8

      Of course. His father had to walk to school uphill both ways on one foot as the other foot was starting a business. It runs in the family.

    • @Uchiha_Madara_125
      @Uchiha_Madara_125 Před rokem +2

      @@umoreira2008 Yes man, that's some insane genetic hereditary. I wished I could have some of those genes😂

  • @noxteryn
    @noxteryn Před rokem +55

    You should definitely review 39daph's Chinese, I would absolutely love to watch that! She spoke some in her playthrough of The Bridge Curse: Road to Salvation (Part 1), at around the 58:55 time mark. From what I know, her parents are from China and Hong Kong, but she's Canadian.

    • @anthon_tmk9788
      @anthon_tmk9788 Před rokem +5

      I listened to it and tbh it's pretty bad lol. She was basically speaking word by word in a very broken manner. Can tell that she seldom uses it even within her family.

    • @noxteryn
      @noxteryn Před rokem +8

      @@anthon_tmk9788
      Which is why it would be so funny for Jessie to react to it!

  • @sannrei692
    @sannrei692 Před rokem +14

    That “laugh in Chinese” thing probably comes from that “cry in Spanish” meme 😂

  • @ClaraCleary2005
    @ClaraCleary2005 Před rokem +9

    he said in a q&a video that he grew up fully in china and it took a few years of just voice coaching to get such a convincing American accent not to mention the multiple years it probably took him to become fluent in English in the first place.

  • @davidsanders5652
    @davidsanders5652 Před rokem +20

    Have you ever seen a film called "Comrades: Almost a love story"? It is set before the mainland reclaimed HK and, in the beginning, centres on a man from the mainland trying to learn Cantonese to be understood/fit in. Stars my favourite Chinese actor EVER -- "Maggie" Cheung Man Yuk. It then turns into a romantic tragedy like so many HK films of the period - 1990s.

    • @hanng1242
      @hanng1242 Před rokem +4

      I get a kick out of how the Chinese title (Tian mi mi) suggests that it is a biopic of Theresa Tung, but it isn't.

    • @davidsanders5652
      @davidsanders5652 Před rokem +2

      @@hanng1242 Thanks for that. I didn't know.

    • @t.castro4493
      @t.castro4493 Před rokem

      I love HK Cantonese. Thanks for the recommendation. Always hear about Maggie Cheung. I may have watched a film she starred in.

  • @FashionDesignwithHannah

    Love this breakdown! I would also 100% enjoy learning Mandarin from Jessie!

  • @itsxqinmeiyi4403
    @itsxqinmeiyi4403 Před rokem +2

    Jessie video makes my day 💜💜💜

  • @VictorGWang
    @VictorGWang Před rokem +9

    And here I am, a native speaker watching a native speaker reviewing a native speaker.

  • @MrJgracias
    @MrJgracias Před rokem +25

    Man i am latino and apparently spanish is such an appealing language to speak. No one ever says chinese is appealing. But i love the way it sounds. It is very appealing to me. 我喜欢中文

    • @AndrewMystx
      @AndrewMystx Před rokem +4

      Thank you for loving our language ❤️

    • @t.castro4493
      @t.castro4493 Před rokem +1

      I'm Latino as well but my native language is Portuguese (so you can guess where I'm from). I see a lot of people praising Mandarin recently, and apparently there are many schools teaching it. I've always been a huge fan of Cantonese, especially from HK.

    • @MrJgracias
      @MrJgracias Před rokem +1

      @T. Castro I don't know Cantonese but if you need any help learning mandarin I can point you in the right direction.. or at least what I used

    • @t.castro4493
      @t.castro4493 Před rokem

      @@MrJgracias Thanks for the offer, I might learn Mandarin too... I want to watch Taiwanese dramas.

  • @LostInSpace._.
    @LostInSpace._. Před rokem +2

    I’m native in Mandarin Chinese, and I love your vids!

  • @Ismael46934
    @Ismael46934 Před rokem +3

    Hi Jessie, love your videos.

  • @glanguish9390
    @glanguish9390 Před rokem +39

    As a westerner, I bought Moutai in a China Town. It raised eyebrows and questions "are you sure?".It was about 15 years ago and cost about £40.
    I've only ever bought one bottle. Wouldn't again. Not too pleasant, but not much of a neat spirit drinker. I think it's fermented with rose petals but not floral tasting

    • @TheeMsFrizzle
      @TheeMsFrizzle Před rokem

      I think Moutai tastes disgusting too. Maybe people drink it because it’s super strong….

    • @PancakezXD
      @PancakezXD Před rokem +4

      It's moreso a status symbol (owing to the price) than something that people purchase to enjoy. There's also rampant imitation (there's probably more fake bottles in circulation than real ones).
      Also, the original company is very loose with regard to IP/trademark use, which results in a bunch of products made by a plethora of different other companies being legally sold with their branding.
      So chances are any moutai you can get your hands on that doesn't cost and arm or leg is probably either terrible, fake, or both.

    • @MaximSupernov
      @MaximSupernov Před rokem

      It's overrated alcohol. It's basically an industrial spirit. Not a pleasant taste nor sophisticated. Don't let yourself have high expectations when it comes to commie spirits.

    • @filiplou74
      @filiplou74 Před 4 měsíci

      the price has gone up by a lot so give it to a Chinese friend. The older they are the more they'll like it.

  • @tjongdavid1921
    @tjongdavid1921 Před rokem +11

    Dang, I should've just told my teacher that I was using the southern china accent during my speaking test. Much easier. LoL

  • @luminos9447
    @luminos9447 Před 5 měsíci

    Hey I've been living in Shenzhen as a foreigner for 9 years now and I love your vids. I can really recognize how both of u speak as southern lol. I've been to places like Shanghai and it's very different up there!

  • @enchantedgoldrush
    @enchantedgoldrush Před rokem

    Jessie's english is almost perfect! Love her so much

  • @winniehoo1705
    @winniehoo1705 Před rokem +6

    No. He won't forget the mother language. I left my old hometown at age 6 and still can speak the dialect as fluently as the locals in my hometown. 😊

  • @LingYiMaster
    @LingYiMaster Před rokem +17

    Notice: the Chinese language that Jessie introduces is Mandarin, but not Cantonese. Even though Jessie mentioned that she was negatively from Shenzhen (Shum Chun), which is a City of Canton province, she doesn't speak any Cantonese in her video. So if you are learning Cantonese culture, traditional Chinese or the Chinese language used in oversea-chinese communities', please search Cantonese lessons instead or kindly ask Jessie to create more Cantonese videos for your Chinese learning 🙋🏼

    • @juanguillen51
      @juanguillen51 Před 11 měsíci +10

      I wish there was such a program like Canto to Mando but in reverse. I know quite a bit of Mandarin and would like to see how I could utilize that to learn Cantonese.

  • @-gabrielaesteves8558
    @-gabrielaesteves8558 Před 3 měsíci

    Wow, how come I have never seen this channel before. Very good.

  • @user-cz8pg8vu1p
    @user-cz8pg8vu1p Před rokem +2

    chinese language sound so complicated yet fascinating i wanna learn how to speak chinese because of you

  • @sunrise_weng
    @sunrise_weng Před rokem +3

    I can speak chinese because my parents grew up in Beijing but i was born in the UK along with my older sister (middle child) but i spent my 10-11 years in england

  • @sleepingpaws6449
    @sleepingpaws6449 Před rokem +21

    I'm Chinese who grew up in Malay, I cannot understand Steven's chinese but I as soon as I hear you say it, I fully understood each word of the sentence. I don't know why but I find it so difficult to understand mainland Chinese's accent and the speed they talk at.

    • @NiumaYa
      @NiumaYa Před rokem +3

      It may mainly be caused by some different language habits.

    • @tiewkiat
      @tiewkiat Před rokem +1

      Plus I think the clip recording is a little muffled.

    • @absi2715
      @absi2715 Před rokem

      Le menteur. Kamu tionghua lahir dan asal indonesia. Jangan bohong. This guy is lying about his country. He is from indonesia grew up in tht country. Kamu jatuhkn martabat negara sendiri. Lupa nkri ke

    • @samgyeopsal569
      @samgyeopsal569 Před rokem +1

      @@absi2715 gimana tau bahwa dia bukan org Malaysia?

  • @SiriusV23
    @SiriusV23 Před rokem +1

    I feel like i'm back to school and listening to these lessons gives me clouded thoughts, nothing came through.

  • @jaxpianoteacher
    @jaxpianoteacher Před rokem +1

    Wow! I’m currently learning Chinese so explaining what your saying about it really helps with the learning process, is there any way you have a Mandarin to Cantonese app?

  • @wheresmyeyebrow1608
    @wheresmyeyebrow1608 Před rokem +16

    Omg I love your look so much

  • @BrockMak
    @BrockMak Před rokem +20

    3:36 Ah! He pronounced 呢 in Cantonese instead of Mandarin. My mother tongue is actually Cantonese, so that was rather striking.
    4:17 There lies the irony. It's also true with me. I can read Simplified Chinese, but I can only write in Traditional Chinese. Yet when I type in Chinese, I use pinyin system.

    • @jeffrey2326
      @jeffrey2326 Před rokem +1

      For me it’s I can read both, I can barely write neither, and I use Pinyin, hand write for complex words I have no idea how to pronounce, and sometimes Bopomofo

    • @carlsonliaunady7907
      @carlsonliaunady7907 Před rokem

      Same with my mother side family

    • @newname3718
      @newname3718 Před rokem

      how is that ironic hahahah that is definitely normal. I can read Traditional Chinese, but writing i can only do Simplified, typing probably both :P
      so long as you can read both that its enough to equip the input function and so long as your can write one of them, you have the output function working. But if you are telling me that you cant speak mandarin but you can do pinyin, then it's pretty surprising 😂

    • @masterli8859
      @masterli8859 Před rokem +1

      Interesting! I struggle to read traditional Chinese. I cheat a bit by copying to WeChat and it has a function that turns traditional to simplified and vice versa when you long press to select all and long press again to call it out.

  • @saraleetaiwan1572
    @saraleetaiwan1572 Před rokem +1

    我好喜歡妳的頻道🎉
    新年快樂💞

  • @jamesfarquhar8507
    @jamesfarquhar8507 Před rokem

    Halfway through this video and I cannot appreciate it enough.

  • @siringc
    @siringc Před rokem +6

    In the end, Steven He did not receive Emotional Damage from this video after all

  • @goldfries
    @goldfries Před rokem +6

    The southern accent one is like how we talk in Malaysia, the curl tongue is not as pronounced.

  • @mr.yalauz1497
    @mr.yalauz1497 Před 2 měsíci

    My native languages are Cantonese , Hakka and Mandarin . I love watching ur videos 😂
    期待類似的影片❤

  • @zealandia5668
    @zealandia5668 Před rokem

    I was wondering about this recently and CZcams somehow recommends this video to me today 😲

  • @lacivertumutkazankaya2042

    Actually from Manto to Canto would be useful too. Hopefully I will eventually get to the level to think about Canto...

    • @jl63023
      @jl63023 Před rokem +4

      It would be good if they expanded in that direction too cause it shouldn't be too hard to reverse the learning process

    • @lacivertumutkazankaya2042
      @lacivertumutkazankaya2042 Před rokem +6

      @@jl63023 this program sometimes makes me wonder who they potentially want to attract. Cantonese speaking ABCs? I mean if they are targeting overall Chinese learners, Manto to Canto would make more sense. The idea sounds interesting: a fast track to Mandarin if you already speak Cantonese. But why not the other way around considering the fact that there are more people who initially learn Mandarin instead of Cantonese.

    • @jl63023
      @jl63023 Před rokem +3

      @@lacivertumutkazankaya2042 I actually saw when Sheldon first advertised C to M Blueprint on CantoMando, their YT channel, and it did seem targeted towards ABCs and Overseas Chinese who are native Cantonese speakers but want to learn Mandarin for various reasons. It did seem to me that was the original target demographic, even though I agree, they'd get more interest from people who already know Mandarin to jump into Cantonese which would be beneficial, knowing how little good and publicly available Cantonese resources there are. The Mando to Canto pipeline yet remains an untapped gold mine of potential

    • @GL-iv4rw
      @GL-iv4rw Před rokem +7

      Most of the western born Chinese have Canto background, however those in South East Asia are Mando speakers. If you wanna go for the westernized Chinese (ABC/CBC/BBC) pick Canto. Not only that, ABC/CBC/BBC are only semi-fluent/conversational in their own language at best (at least from my experience).

    • @t.castro4493
      @t.castro4493 Před rokem +2

      I have nothing to do with mainland China or HK, no ancestors or friends from these places, but I've always wanted to learn Cantonese. Sadly, there aren't many resources out there.
      And most of ethnic Chinese I find in my country actually speak Canto.

  • @sakitoby1581
    @sakitoby1581 Před rokem +5

    My favorite is his English, when he says EMOTIONAL DAMAGE!!! hahhahaha it's so funny, makes me laugh every time. Cute guy. Btw this pretty lady Jessie speaks very good English too! : )

  • @jamesfarquhar8507
    @jamesfarquhar8507 Před rokem

    After hearing how a tone affects the context it would be interesting to hear how the same words can be interpreted to mean different things in a sentence.

  • @mingfanzhang8927
    @mingfanzhang8927 Před rokem

    Love the video ❤

  • @ore-oluwaosinowo4858
    @ore-oluwaosinowo4858 Před rokem +16

    In Suzhou, Jiangsu "sh" is pronounced as "s". Back then when I initially arrived in Suzhou it was so confusing, until I understood it was the 苏州 dialect. So 十块钱 的 十(shí) 会说成 (sí). It took me a while to adjust. 我觉得所有的 方言 除了北方方言都跟普通话有较明确的区别,尤其是在发音方面。

    • @AsiaLoverBoy_87
      @AsiaLoverBoy_87 Před rokem

      哇塞!你会说中文。你也知道如何打汉字。恭喜你。

    • @1111kila
      @1111kila Před rokem +2

      因為現代普通話是以北平方言作為基本所以才有zhi chi shi及兒化音現象,民國時期以及現今台灣的國語是以南京官話作基礎所以讀音是zi ci si及不加上兒化音

    • @pig1800
      @pig1800 Před rokem +1

      @@1111kila 可是听说过一个台湾留学生在南京留学,学到一口标准南京口音,回去台湾却被骂“说大陆话”唉

    • @laplacianeigenvectors
      @laplacianeigenvectors Před rokem +1

      @@pig1800 不奇怪,你可以听下七八十年代的台湾播音员的声音,非常标准的国语,现在嘛,只能说已经在地化了

    • @Arsenic-xg2gi
      @Arsenic-xg2gi Před rokem

      其实北方方言也有区别:胶东人r和y不分。最直接的例子就是油和肉一个音(you=rou)

  • @beanieboo9923
    @beanieboo9923 Před rokem +5

    你好大姐姐或者老师Jessie, 我是小妹妹Amelia. I dare you to do "Can Jarrad Seng speak Mandarin(Chinese)?" please?!, he's the Australian Photographer and Australian Survivor's contestant too. 🙏🙏 And he's a half of Malaysian and a half of Chinese like Uncle Roger. 谢谢你再见老师Jessie🥰😇

    • @chongleongchua4059
      @chongleongchua4059 Před rokem +4

      Uncle Roger (Nigel Ng) is actually Malaysian ethnic Chinese, not half Malaysian & half Chinese. Both his parents are ethnic Chinese华人, pure Chinese race. You can call him Chinese Malaysian.

  • @priscillajimenez27
    @priscillajimenez27 Před 4 měsíci

    I had a Chinese friend in college who came to the States when he was three, and he spoke Mandarin, Cantonese, and English (writing it grammatical was rough), and was starting to learn Spanish. I miss him.

  • @AYuxlin
    @AYuxlin Před 5 měsíci +1

    Also, our southern tone is because most of us speak Cantonese. Especially in areas such as Guangdong (Where I'm from) and Hong Kong.

  • @minglu3323
    @minglu3323 Před rokem +8

    I'm a Taiwanese. i have to say,when you mimic the southern accent, it just sounds like how we speak Chinese in Taiwan 😂

    • @NicoDoesLP
      @NicoDoesLP Před rokem +1

      Funny enough when I lived in China in 2013-2014 I adopted the southern way of speaking even though Zhejiang is technically not south China. It sounds better to my ears and easier to pronounce. Plus loads of folks in Zhejiang use southern accents.

    • @negative_woman
      @negative_woman Před rokem +1

      @@NicoDoesLP I'm genuinely wondering why you think Zhejiang isn't a part of the south? It is a part of southern China.

    • @NicoDoesLP
      @NicoDoesLP Před rokem +1

      @@negative_woman thought it was eastern and not considered southern

    • @negative_woman
      @negative_woman Před rokem +1

      @@NicoDoesLP Oh, technically it's both.

    • @NicoDoesLP
      @NicoDoesLP Před rokem +1

      @@negative_woman either way it's sure hot enough there. Did not enjoy that part lol

  • @jessicag630
    @jessicag630 Před rokem +3

    Please make a How Good video on this next time:
    We Tried Teaching Violin Speaking Only Chinese!
    From this channel:
    TwoSetViolin

  • @ohh.cindyy
    @ohh.cindyy Před 5 měsíci

    omg u both have very good chinese me i don't have great chinese because i left china when i was a baby so my chinese is not so great but i do have classes and re learning it and i know ur tips/tricks help so much

  • @yun1666
    @yun1666 Před rokem

    了 is usually thought as slimlar to present perfect in English than past tense. When used as grammertical particle

  • @bear2s232
    @bear2s232 Před rokem +4

    作为一个北方人这个片子里提到的南北方卷舌音差异我都不怎么了解,看完这个视频一个母语者都学到了点东西,哈哈😃

    • @user-qh7fi8gd6t
      @user-qh7fi8gd6t Před rokem

      在评论区居然看到汉字,你也是翻墙玩油管吗。😭

  • @natalizthanh7019
    @natalizthanh7019 Před rokem +8

    Oh wow... My parents tongue is Cantonese so I know there are words that spell differently from Chinese, but I didn't know the grammar is somewhat different too. My parents used to berate me for not able to learn their tongues and push me to learn Chinese which result in me hating it since 6. They told me I have to learn Chinese to retain the tongue, but damn they don't even know they speak Cantonese not Chinese 😑

    • @winstonacousticstudio445
      @winstonacousticstudio445 Před rokem +7

      Utter ignorance.. Cantonese is Chinese, mandarin is also Chinese. It's truely a shame for not learning ur mother tongue when you had every opportunity and support you would possibly need. It's also a disrespect to the culture, your ancestry origin, and especially the parents since they repeatedly express desire for you to learn. Sorry if it gets too personal, but it's the truth, and truth can be harsh sometimes. There's always time to make up things tho.

  • @microcolonel
    @microcolonel Před rokem

    The 個 insertion thing in some of these sentences seems like it could be translated as "a little" or "a bit"; in the 散步 to 散個步 example, it seems like "take a walk" vs "take a little walk" or "take a bit of a walk".

  • @derickgannon
    @derickgannon Před rokem

    Wow.. wow.. i thought you are a youtube entertainer. I was surprised by your detailed linguistic knowledge.

  • @christopherculler1390
    @christopherculler1390 Před rokem +3

    All I got from this was emotional damage in all languages
    Like me or I turn right

  • @chinesewithben
    @chinesewithben Před rokem +3

    我知道他是为了搞笑,但是真是有点儿受不了他的中文发音😂😂❤

  • @MGilberts
    @MGilberts Před rokem +2

    I'm always amazed when there are letters in this world but not the alphabet... I mean, they're like pictures in words

  • @joebaumgart1146
    @joebaumgart1146 Před rokem +2

    I'm from Philadelphia and we also have a bit of an odd accent. Our O's sound like a Canadian OU sound. We almost never pronouce T's, but almost always pronouce R's. We also mash alot of our words together as in "Jeet" meaning "Did You Eat?"

    • @AshArAis
      @AshArAis Před 4 měsíci

      That (jeet) happens in ireland too

  • @joybhowmick7970
    @joybhowmick7970 Před rokem +9

    I laughed in Chinese as well 🤣

  • @JustNotHim001
    @JustNotHim001 Před rokem +4

    Bro wtf am i seeing at 3 am

  • @BrockMak
    @BrockMak Před rokem +2

    3:51 I've only had it once before. It's like vodka but distilled from fermented sorghum.

    • @TheeMsFrizzle
      @TheeMsFrizzle Před rokem +2

      That’s a pretty good description, from what I remember of Moutai!

  • @thejinn99
    @thejinn99 Před 4 měsíci

    That's really interesting about the zh ch sh r sounds with the tongue curl and without it. Both sounds are intimately familiar to me because I grew up learning bopomofo/zhuyin fuhao. I do notice however that due to my Taiwanese accent, when I speak Mandarin I do tend not to curl my tongue as much.

  • @wmk5566
    @wmk5566 Před rokem +8

    Emotional damage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @RubLox_Live
    @RubLox_Live Před rokem +2

    I might be tone deaf because I can’t tell the difference between standard mandarin and southern accent

    • @argonwheatbelly637
      @argonwheatbelly637 Před rokem +7

      It's not a tone thing. It's the lack of complete retroflexing of the consonants, "ch, zh, sh, r", so it sounds less dark, and more buzzy.

    • @ChinesewithJessie
      @ChinesewithJessie  Před rokem +6

      Haha I feel you, I actually had a session with my English tutor this morning, she said I like to put a little stop in words like "pronunciation" "unavailable" "disinfect" and I need to work on my "dark l", yet I still couldn't tell any difference after she showed me the correct way to say them. I guess my English ears aren't that sharp either, it takes practice.

    • @ChinesewithJessie
      @ChinesewithJessie  Před rokem +4

      @@argonwheatbelly637 Very well-explained! "r" is the only vowel out of these four though.

    • @tarmaque
      @tarmaque Před rokem +2

      @@ChinesewithJessie Jessie's American accent is all but perfect. If I didn't know better I would just think you were a second generation American immigrant (i.e. brought to the United States as a very small child with your parents) who grew up speaking American English at school and among friends and Mandarin at home with your parents. I know native American English speakers who's "Standard Educated North American" accent is much worse than yours. If anything you have a touch of a Californian lilt to your pronunciation, but it's perfectly understandable to anyone.

    • @Cherodar
      @Cherodar Před rokem

      @@ChinesewithJessie Oh, is "r" considered a vowel?

  • @Meilinhuang72
    @Meilinhuang72 Před rokem

    我爱这个视频 I had to keep the sentence simple my Chinese speaking skills had been affected, because when I arrived at America, at the time when my English was getting good, I started speaking Chinese less and less.

  • @jonathangable127
    @jonathangable127 Před rokem +2

    That's one long advertisement for Canto to Mando blueprint

  • @ado-404
    @ado-404 Před rokem +4

    We don't need proof for Steven He's capabilities of speaking Chinese,but we should focus on that dude Sora The Troll who thinks he's Japanese.He's definitely American and his Japanese is bad.I bet he's some cringe weeb.

    • @pig1800
      @pig1800 Před rokem +1

      You trolling? Sora definitely a native Japanese speaker bro. Do you even speak Japanese?

  • @kimpeimunthang6075
    @kimpeimunthang6075 Před rokem

    I am amazed by your English Jess..

  • @raghavdhyani5739
    @raghavdhyani5739 Před rokem +2

    As a person who can understand laugh in Chinese fells very sophisticated

  • @eden4744
    @eden4744 Před rokem

    Hi, I am interested in the program you've promoted in the video. I wonder who are the target learners of the program that uses English as an instructional language to help with the learning of two Chinese language varieties.

  • @daryldaryll3153
    @daryldaryll3153 Před rokem

    where ever you go, who ever you've become never forget for native language/home language

  • @derekeano
    @derekeano Před rokem

    老师你的头发好看,谢谢你做了这个视频

  • @rachelleclarabelle
    @rachelleclarabelle Před rokem +2

    I am fluent in both Mandarin and English, I did not expect to come here get extra Mandarin lessons 😂 (Mandarin lessons are hell at school)

  • @NekoJoyT
    @NekoJoyT Před 10 měsíci

    Hi Jessie! I just watched an anime series called revengers, and there were some episodes that had people talking in Chinese! I'd love if you can review it :D, I think there are some that are natives, while others that weren't. It'd be nice to know who is and who isn't. Thanks to that anime I also learned the difference between asking 是谁?and 什么人? Which I think it'd be a very interesting topic since we only learn about 是谁 but not 什么人 in Chinese classes. Thank you!

  • @Xantexhunter
    @Xantexhunter Před rokem +1

    thats cool. I'm studying Japanese and I noticed the southern dialect is smiliar to how the Japanese pronounce 'r' and 'ch'.

  • @gaemer3967
    @gaemer3967 Před rokem +1

    Today I learnt I've got a southern accent, didn't even know that was a thing but Tbf I grew up south and probably just thought it was normal.

  • @JennieKim4Eva13
    @JennieKim4Eva13 Před 6 měsíci

    Im from Hong Kong and his Chinese is incredible!

  • @Snow-Willow
    @Snow-Willow Před rokem

    /me sitting over here as a Japanese language learner mind blown by how complex the Chinese sounds are. Very cool to see some language characters that I recognized used in a similar fashion to their Japanese counterparts though.

  • @shakichouquelos
    @shakichouquelos Před 6 měsíci

    Where does the original video by Steven He come from? (I can't find it on his channel)

  • @theradplanet
    @theradplanet Před 10 měsíci +1

    嘿,傑西,你能製作一個關於約翰·塞納的這樣的視頻嗎?那真是太棒了!

  • @Shakysugar
    @Shakysugar Před rokem +1

    Probably the best advertisement that I have seen for a language speaking program I don’t think this was about Steven at all. Lol.

  • @LunaWingz
    @LunaWingz Před 4 měsíci

    Considering I speak mandarin... I never actually thought of grammar... and tenses... or why the heck I put certain words there until you mentioned it... 😂😂😂

  • @2000nhan
    @2000nhan Před rokem

    This is my first time watching your channel and apparently we are name twins!
    And yes my name is Jessie

  • @VicJang
    @VicJang Před rokem

    So funny, love this!

  • @benlechner6352
    @benlechner6352 Před rokem +1

    It's 2 AM and I'm watching you correct mistakes in chinese like I know exactly what's hoing on

  • @nutsforjeeps1
    @nutsforjeeps1 Před rokem +1

    Where would you recommend getting started for a English speaker to learn mandarin?

  • @vincentxie3090
    @vincentxie3090 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Steven He actually know how to speak mandarin that well, that great!

  • @awfully.average
    @awfully.average Před rokem

    in Singapore we do not pronounced the SH ZH sound at all, and we like to say 等灯as den

  • @subtome10892.
    @subtome10892. Před 5 měsíci

    As a Filipino, I’m getting better at Chinese and I’m still learning it though

  • @Hxney_sause
    @Hxney_sause Před 5 měsíci

    Omg I also lived in China, shenzhen for 4 years!!