Just over a year ago I was fantasizing about speaking Chinese or Japanese fluently. I've been in China just over a year and have built a functional base in Chinese, I now use the language everyday at work. I'm happily watching your Chinese videos and understanding with ease. Being immersed in Chinese has accelerated my learning so much. I may get the opportunity soon to spend a year or more in Japan. I hope I am able to. Thank you, Steve!
As a Cantonese speaker, I think learning English is easier than learning Japanese. I would suggest Chinese people to learn English if they want to learn a second language. On learning Japanese, Chinese have the advantage of able to learn Japanese Kanji very fast. But Japanese is more difficult than English mainly due to the following two reasons. Firstly, the 26 English letters (alphabet) is easier than the 50 Hiragana and 50 Katakana. But more importantly, both Chinese and English use the form of Subject +Verb +Object in most of the daily language. In Japanese, it uses a completely different system. Therefore we can usually understand the meaning an English sentence by just translating all the words of the sentence. For example, if we translate the words "thank" as "謝“ and "you" as "你“, we can understand what "thank you" mean. To understand why the Japanese phase "ありがとうございました” means "thank you very much" is more difficult.
I agree, although I learned 日本語 first, and reading Chinese is my stronger suit. One has to do a lot of listening in order to get a grasp of spoken Chinese.
Hi Steve, I am a bilingual Taiwanese. Who migrated to Sydney at the age of 10 now 29 I'm trying to learn Japanese. I was hoping a guide to be pointed to the right direction. 特別像你說得句子構造，我真不知道該用哪一個語言來學習日語文法。 有點困擾，rather confused.
Hello.I just discovered your channel, and I think your are awesome.Your videos inspired me to learn more languages (I actually was studying Japanese and Korean )Thank you very much. *Tengo curiosidad por saber si sabes español,en tal caso te mando saludos desde España.Gracias.
Steve, you mention that there are a lot of words that came into Japanese from Chinese. I think it should also be mentionned that a large part of Chinese words come from Japanese. Words like: 社会 经济 革命 哲学 科学 电话 历史 and many many more are all originally Japanese words dating from Meiji era. To me that is something important to understand.
Livingtree32 This is true. However, these words are known to the Chinese speaking learner so the effect on the learner is the same. The fact that many modern Kanji based words were created in Japan doesn't affect the learning process.
Hi Steve! I have been living in Australia for over 5 years now and I understand English pretty well, but the problem is my mind is still thinking in Chinese, like when I listen to the native radio, I always have to translate things that I heard into Chinese, otherwise I will miss the information. I wonder is that what you do too when you are using another language? If not how i can improve?
zhongming wen Just spend more time with English speakers and this will gradually change. You have to want to be part of the new language society, in many ways. Go for it and don't second guess yourself.
Hi Steve! Your Chinese is really impressive. In your opinion, what will be the most important languages in the future? say, 30 years from now? I know it's a hard topic since it not only depends on the number of speakers, but also geopolitics as well. What do you think? Thanks!
Ming Ju I don't see any change to the importance of English, but expect that regional languages may increase in importance as they become easier to learn via technology.
+Steve Kaufmann - lingosteve But at the same time, that same technology will make English easier to learn making other languages less useful as everyone will just know English.
Hi Steve, I was wondering if you could do a video or write a post about the other way around. I am proficient in Japanese and I'd like to start Chinese very soon. How much can you benefit from knowing a kanji based language when approaching Chinese?
PuzzleMessage Knowing Japanese kanji characters helped me a lot in reading/learning but spoken and heard Mandarin is a whole another beast. ( I'm a native Finnish speaker) Chinese has tones, Japanese has 高低アクセント 雨 A'me (high'low) 飴 a'ME (low'high)
It will benefit you significantly, especially if you plan to take on the Traditional characters of Chinese. Still, myself just knowing simplified characters, i can understand alot of the Japanese Kanji!
真的真的厲害謝謝你
我也是西方人，已經開始了學中文了。我以前的想法是「我應該先把中文學完了，然後開始學日文」但看你的視頻以後我發現學語言沒有什麼「結束」。所以我想謝謝你，你對我的影響不但讓我想學多中文，而且讓我想學日語
太厉害了，总觉得很多外国人讲中文的语调特别奇怪，会让人很难理解，但是steve老师完全没有，语言大神了属于是！我学日语的初衷之一就是觉得有这么多汉字，不学会的话太亏了吧！
非常赞成您的观点，您的汉语真的非常好！
私も中国語、日本語、英語が話すので、このチャンネルに出会えて本当に嬉しいです〜
实在太厉害，一个澳洲老头居然用中文给大家讲日语@.@ Muy bian!
gracias, 谢谢
He's Canadian
Mao Simin 纳尼
加拿大人
强大
Just over a year ago I was fantasizing about speaking Chinese or Japanese fluently. I've been in China just over a year and have built a functional base in Chinese, I now use the language everyday at work. I'm happily watching your Chinese videos and understanding with ease. Being immersed in Chinese has accelerated my learning so much. I may get the opportunity soon to spend a year or more in Japan. I hope I am able to. Thank you, Steve!
您汉语讲的好棒！正在学日语 加油！
牛，中文说的真好，竟然还教日语………………佩服佩服！
Steve Kaufmann先生，您好，我是来自中国的高中生，明年将要去日本留学，正在学习日语，听了您的演说，让我感觉对学习日语充满了信心，谢谢
qibin wang 你将要到日本留学。我欢迎你在我国念书。日本人比较内向怕羞，所以外国人跟日本人打交道要有耐心。总之，我要你加油！
Dear Mr. Kaufmann,Your talk is very insightful. My greatest respect to you.Please keep on sharing your views on language study.Thank you so much.
好棒，您真是东西方文化的穿越者，中文真好，谢谢您的视频。
爷爷好！我觉得您是语言大神，哈哈。自己学习日语三年了，听您一言豁然开朗受益匪浅，看来语言的学习方法也是没有国界的。
你是哪国人？
老爷子太厉害了，真的是榜样，我也要继续加油学习。
As a Cantonese speaker, I think learning English is easier than learning Japanese. I would suggest Chinese people to learn English if they want to learn a second language. On learning Japanese, Chinese have the advantage of able to learn Japanese Kanji very fast. But Japanese is more difficult than English mainly due to the following two reasons. Firstly, the 26 English letters (alphabet) is easier than the 50 Hiragana and 50 Katakana. But more importantly, both Chinese and English use the form of Subject +Verb +Object in most of the daily language. In Japanese, it uses a completely different system. Therefore we can usually understand the meaning an English sentence by just translating all the words of the sentence. For example, if we translate the words "thank" as "謝“ and "you" as "你“, we can understand what "thank you" mean. To understand why the Japanese phase "ありがとうございました” means "thank you very much" is more difficult.
我想说，你太牛了，而且牛的很让我心服口服！
这个我的打开眼界。您说中文这么好。
太佩服你了，我希望自己在四个月内能够学会基本对话，有勇气的去交流
Thanks Steve! That's very helpful!
感谢外国老爷子给学日语的中国人的鼓励！
谢谢分享，很久没听你说中文！赞！
您的中文说得真标准
屁啊
@@conbrio127 丢脸，不要乱BB
@@conbrio127 傻逼，你上你的狗嘴
感谢分享您的理解。
谢谢你分享的看法
人才，人才…佩服佩服…
我非常同意，谢谢你的视频！
非常感谢您的建议
最近在大學學習日文，會中文和英文幫助真的很大
这老哥您真牛！
我学习中文学了四个月了。 我来看一下这个录像的时候，我想我一定听不懂你说的，但是我看完了觉得很高兴因为我百分之九十都听懂了。我希望我的中文会一直进步。
IkiReos 加油
你的中文程度相当不错啊！
你是哪个国家的？
Genial !!!
中文很容易，2个月就能流利的说，2年就可以写
这种一字一顿的汉字读法，已经很地道了。很多英语国家的人并不习惯一字一顿的说话方式。
谢谢，很有用的视频。
老師我是台灣人我學過法德西意俄日語我的總結的心得是所有的毆語系國家只有意大利語跟日語很像只是意大利語是用英文字母表現文字出來而我覺得真正有文字感是中文因為他是象形文字而西方的文字只是拼音方式做成文字因此有很多日本人喜歡學意大利語因爲跟日語很像只是歐語系的R 的發音中國人日本人很難發因為在中文日文沒有抖音這個音所以要常常在嘴巴裏裝水像漱口一樣發生來練習其他的毆語系及俄語最難的是在文法方面的陰陽性及中性的指示代名詞如法語的la,le名詞前面要加很麻煩有的覺得很累干脆不說la直接講名詞我相信對方看的懂在來就是文法的現在進行式過去式未來式同一字在不同的式裡面這個字又變成另一個字不像中字很簡單如現在式我正在吃飯過去式我已經吃飯未來式我將要吃飯整個吃飯沒有改變但歐美日文中吃飯的這個字在不同式裡面吃飯常常用不同的文字來表示吃飯 以上是我的心得
老爷子 您好厉害哦
老师太棒了
很佩服！！！
好厲害，一個外國人，能用流利的中文教中國人說日文，贊
哇~~ 中文说的真好。
I agree, although I learned 日本語 first, and reading Chinese is my stronger suit.
One has to do a lot of listening in order to get a grasp of spoken Chinese.
yeah, you really have to understand 4 tones(音调) we have in Chinese，when I try to teach my friends, this is where they often struggle
好厲害！
谢谢你的视频。Merci.
pierre watson De rien.
很強呀！
受教了。谢谢你
好有用!
这个老头真厉害👍🏻谢谢
谢谢，收获很多
有东北味奥 以后注意了 哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈 老爷爷汉语说得很好 点赞
Steve 你语言天份好厉害👍
您的中文真好呐
你在你的日语网页上说过，英语应该快快乐乐地学才对。不瞒你说，我很讨厌英语。因为一谈起英语，我就联想到预备应考的煎熬和苦楚。我现在搬到台湾天天和朋友用华语聊天。我觉得华语越学越快乐。如今我才感觉到学习外语的乐趣。
快快乐乐学不会什么东西的吧
Артемий Суворов 至于俄语，我只知皮毛。俄语太难学了。当然不可能快快乐乐地学。俄语我只学了半年就不学了。
お節介じい 又来到你啦！！很想认识你啊！或许有时间我们可以交流下语言学习，因为我对英语、日语有些兴趣。另外韩语日常交流没问题。
多看美剧。。。
在这里也能遇到你，真巧
谢谢分享🎉🎉
Steve爷爷，您真是太厉害了。我感觉我学习英语的方法和你差不多。
谢谢你~
您太厉害了
谢谢，link里面的文章非常有帮助
您太帅啦！
这个题目真好
中文说的很标准哦 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
佩服
厉害👍
确实如此，对于中国人日语读写比英语简单不止一点点
Hello Mr. Kaufmann. Thanks for your video very much. However, the link you shared expired now, could you please share that again?
谢谢建议。我正好也在学韩语，作为初学者感觉两门语言，基本的文法非常相似。请问学日语的话，会对韩语的文法有帮助吗？
Hi Steve,
I am a bilingual Taiwanese.
Who migrated to Sydney at the age of 10 now 29
I'm trying to learn Japanese.
I was hoping a guide to be pointed to the right direction.
特別像你說得句子構造，我真不知道該用哪一個語言來學習日語文法。
有點困擾，rather confused.
您的中文这么6，我服了，决定上您的网站学习日语和西班牙语
什么网站
厉害
哇，一个人能够会这么多语言真的很厉害哦
Hello.I just discovered your channel, and I think your are awesome.Your videos inspired me to learn more languages (I actually was studying Japanese and Korean )Thank you very much.
*Tengo curiosidad por saber si sabes español,en tal caso te mando saludos desde España.Gracias.
Fabio Sermukhamedov Claro que hablo español, hombre! czcams.com/video/EfcgMMlttGI/video.html Saludos desde Canada!
+Steve Kaufmann - lingosteve Teacher Steve,you speak in chinese is so good^-^
文化大师啊，中文真的好棒
谢谢您( ´▽｀)我会加油的
谢谢你^_^
人才！！
Des vidéos étonnantes m'ont ouvert l'esprit. En tant que Chinois, je ne m'attendais pas à ce qu'apprendre le japonais soit facile.
Oh un francophone 😮😂
老人家理论一套套，犀飞利
总觉得爷爷是在北京呆过的～听到了北京味儿 儿化音都好准啊 厉害～
这个很有意思，但是有的词我听不懂因为我还学习。
你觉得日本人学了中文比别的语更容易，对不对？
谢谢你
Steve, you mention that there are a lot of words that came into Japanese from Chinese. I think it should also be mentionned that a large part of Chinese words come from Japanese.
Words like: 社会 经济 革命 哲学 科学 电话 历史 and many many more are all originally Japanese words dating from Meiji era. To me that is something important to understand.
Livingtree32 This is true. However, these words are known to the Chinese speaking learner so the effect on the learner is the same. The fact that many modern Kanji based words were created in Japan doesn't affect the learning process.
Servers , 请问如何选择dictonary?
太牛了
老师好
學日語有四個階段 : 初級，中級，高級，高級以後 ; 一個階段完成後，再看 興趣 或 實際需要 決定是否進階 下一個階段 ( 漢字 苦手 的 西洋人 要學日語，大概是 初級階段 完全不學漢字，中級階段再慢慢學漢字 )
哇!!!好崇拜Steve老师！！！！！中文日语都说这么棒！！！！！喜欢哭！！！
Violinist YANG Google
牛逼！
我觉得啊，如果up再出个教日本人学中文的视频，😂😂😂😂就会有跟我一样心情的日本人了
谢谢Steve的讲解：）在中国有种说法，南方人学起日语来是最容易的，因为南方的方言（尤其是江浙方言）与日语最接近。但是对于讲Mandarin的人来说就不那么容易了，因为Mandarin已经失去了入声。比如一到十的数字里，一、六、八、十的声调是入声，在日语里会发生“复古”的现象（比如“八百”读はっぴゃく，而不是はちひゃく）。讲Mandarin的人没有这些概念，学起来就会困难一些。
这个视频讲得比较清楚：
czcams.com/video/3P7luUNFVM8/video.html
Nauyiat hutu 对于南方人平时很少讲普通话的人来说 我感觉日语发音比普通话要顺口不少
thank you
其實中文翻來覆去都可以組合理解，太自由了
Hi Steve! I have been living in Australia for over 5 years now and I understand English pretty well, but the problem is my mind is still thinking in Chinese, like when I listen to the native radio, I always have to translate things that I heard into Chinese, otherwise I will miss the information. I wonder is that what you do too when you are using another language? If not how i can improve?
zhongming wen Just spend more time with English speakers and this will gradually change. You have to want to be part of the new language society, in many ways. Go for it and don't second guess yourself.
wow！会中文，日文，英文，和西班牙文！4 languages!so good!
He speaks 14 languages
Dictionary?
Hi Steve! Your Chinese is really impressive. In your opinion, what will be the most important languages in the future? say, 30 years from now? I know it's a hard topic since it not only depends on the number of speakers, but also geopolitics as well. What do you think? Thanks!
Ming Ju I don't see any change to the importance of English, but expect that regional languages may increase in importance as they become easier to learn via technology.
+Steve Kaufmann - lingosteve But at the same time, that same technology will make English easier to learn making other languages less useful as everyone will just know English.
Hi Steve, I was wondering if you could do a video or write a post about the other way around. I am proficient in Japanese and I'd like to start Chinese very soon. How much can you benefit from knowing a kanji based language when approaching Chinese?
PuzzleMessage Knowing Japanese kanji characters helped me a lot in reading/learning but spoken and heard Mandarin is a whole another beast. ( I'm a native Finnish speaker) Chinese has tones, Japanese has 高低アクセント
雨 A'me (high'low)
飴 a'ME (low'high)
It will benefit you significantly, especially if you plan to take on the Traditional characters of Chinese. Still, myself just knowing simplified characters, i can understand alot of the Japanese Kanji!
I study chinese and I dont how to elaborate frase, give us a tip Teacher !!!
你对加拿大大选怎么看？
你学了日语多久才到流利呢？每天学多久？
您真牛比很多中国人说普通话都要清楚
steve你好，谢谢你的分享。我想请教个问题：如果我想学日语和法语是不是可以同时学习呢？还是专门学一种语言一、两年，再开始学习另外一门比较好呢？如果你会10门语言，又是怎么保持每门语言都在一个较高的水平呢？因为我在德国说了多年德语，用英语比较少，就说不利索了。谢谢你！
兄弟，语言只是个工具，学那么多干嘛用？应该把有限的生命时间拿去拓展自己的专业或兴趣啊。
日语语法的难点：助词・敬语・授受被动使役和自他动词的搭配。。能熟练使用的话，恭喜你已经能学会了。要说日语最难的地方就是【说写日本人的日语😂】。这门语言绝对入门容易难精😂
你太牛了，老爷爷。澳洲人教中国人学日语。。。。牛逼
chinese so good
实在太佩服，我爸妈比您的年龄小那么多，连英语都不愿意学。
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这样的老师不服不行
好
hao