5 Reasons Chinese is the Easiest Language

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[@lbsyc]

CCP should at least fund you a better quality camera, what's with this BS low budget sponsorship eh? Seriously you need to lodge a complaint.

[@dayuen1001]

I don't get why people call this satire, it's pretty accurate. Even children speak Chinese, it's not that difficult.

[@sameash3153]

based

[@audreysheng5121]

its hard i could have learned it super fast as a kid i had like 5 years of life before kindergarden before i stopped speaking it, and i cant anymore. If it was easy i could have re learned it by now

[@ronniejamesdio6889]

A kid could learn any language if you put him in the right environment.

[@aircloud1795]

dayum

[@sameash3153]

@@ronniejamesdio6889 Yeah but Chinese kids learn faster because the language is so easy

[@zombiepegasus]

Already learned Chinese. Took about a day. Thanks for the inspiration. I'm planning on learning Brazilian next.

[@taiwanisacountry1010]

you should learn New Zealandish or Australian next. I heard that they are not too different from American, but the accent is hard to perfect i dunno

[@catinthehatworshipper1160]

@@taiwanisacountry1010 I'm New Zealandish! It's really hard compared to Australian though.

[@kartikpoojari22]

Bro please also try to learn Indian 1.8 billion people speak that (if u count the speakers in Indian subcontinent)

[@gab2277]

I learned Chinese in like a hour!!

[@matheusd.rodrigues429]

You mean Mozambiquean?

[@alt6877]

So many people are falling for this satire, it’s insane

[@RichieLarpa]

Me either, I fell so hard I "accidentally" gave dislike for misinforming me about a topic that is actually important. Remember that the more you use satire/irony/sarcasm, the bigger the chance people will people take you less seriously and call you an idiot.

[@ertasdcvb6420]

I actually wanted to learn Chinese but I switched to Italian cuz I couldn't find a good course for free so I switched

[@blache24]

@@RichieLarpa bruh, this isn't "misinformation" lol - i think you still don't understand what satire is because it's not "misinformation." also, a lot of satire is about important topics. you just sound salty you fell for something that's so incredibly obviously satire.

[@lucasouza4846]

@@RichieLarpa this was the dumbest take i've ever read in my entire life good job

[@RichieLarpa]

@@blache24 You want to tell me that the title of the video is a clear satire from the first sight and does not look like a clickbait? Either I do not "apparently" understand satire, which I didn't say or you didn't understand my comment nor read it completely.

[@Shahram19702010]

Sorry dude but Arabic is the easiest language. You put an “Al” in front of every word and vola: Algo, Alcome, Alsleep, Alwake up, Alkiss, Aldesk, Alfridge, Almilk, Alcomputer, Alcar..

[@xXJ4FARGAMERXx]

Al- can be put before verbs? I didn't know that. al-Arabic is al-Most al-Ez al-Language to al-Learn! Boom now I speak arabi habibi.

[@Ash-gk8jp]

That's actually incorrect. It's sad seeing you be so ignorant about a language as beautiful, complex and old as Arabic. Everyone knows you can also add Ul, Ya, Ma, and Al-habibi at the beginning and end of every English word.

[@Shahram19702010]

@@zorgons677 No, that’s completely wrong. “ The” in English is “Al” in Arabic not vice versa.

[@kartikpoojari22]

AlI am from AlHind would Allike to Allearn Alarabic Allove You AlHabibi

[@shouryajain8847]

@@Ash-gk8jp this is all satire, they all are joking

[@fogheta]

You know you've made a good satire vid when all the dense people gather to prove you wrong. Good shit bro, found your channel recently and this is gold

[@crazygoat2594]

Lmao thought the same

[@chibiromano5631]

These dense people still think French is a Romance langauge, still think Grammar is the end all be all. ' I want to learn Japanese but i'm afraid I will have hard time because i speak SVO, japanese is SOV. therefor i should just stick to SVO and semi synthetic langauges like Latin, Xosha, Nahuatl .

[@snowlynx1585]

@@chibiromano5631 I can't tell if you;re being satirical but french is by definition a romance language

[@chibiromano5631]

@@snowlynx1585 French is like the Kaitlyn Jenner of the Romance langauge. It looks and dresses like a romance(girl) but at end of the day...the dude is a dude (germanic). Only a fool would believe the Kaitlyn is a she just as only a fool would believe that French is a Romance. C'mon Romania, lets go... French is just being salty...leave him be . If he wants to speak in pig latin that's his fault.

[@gilangcahyopanyuluh8361]

I saw a lot of comment like this, talking about how so many people dont get that this is satire. And yet.. I'm still searching for comment like those for 4 minutes straight and still found none.

[@fortissyncz2071]

as a chinese person i can confirm that chinese really is the easiest language to learn! take the character 龘 for instance: its just 3 dragons sitting on each other. All you have to do is memorise 54 strokes in their exact position while writing them in the correct order and bam you've written a chinese character! wasn't that so easy

[@Alya-hq2lu]

I wonder why some people keep saying 龘孨淼蟲犇 (and more) it’s hard but they’re the same characters it’s easy

[@Alya-hq2lu]

I don’t know if you ever heard of a character called huang and no it’s not 黄 it’s a character with 172 strokes and it’s the most hardest chinese character in the entire universe it looks easy to me

[@fortissyncz2071]

@@Alya-hq2lu yeah chinese is the easiest language in existence after all (I heard that the hardest character is biang in "biang biang noodles" or something like that, im not exactly sure)

[@Alya-hq2lu]

@@fortissyncz2071 biang is really not that hard

[@equilibrum999]

no, actually need to learn 1 and learn to write them 3 and to remember that the 3rd needs to be on top of other 2

[@zandkingdom]

It’s so weird how people aren’t getting that this is satire lol. He’s calling English, “American,” and having an alphabet is obviously easier lol. And looking at his other videos, it’s obvious he does comedy stuff. It’s obvious, how are people not getting it

[@johannesziaether3916]

Wdym he's obviously serious

[@zandkingdom]

@@johannesziaether3916 you're right my bad

[@jjj-qj8lu]

There are so many dumb people out there thats why.

[@tiagocapelo2700]

Having an alphabet doesn’t necessarily make it easier when you have the complexity of grammar but English in this case doesn’t have a complexed grammar so it’s much more easier

[@kezako6783]

It became obvious half the way (I haven't seen his channel before). But I was about to hit thumb down for how stupid it seemed, and I rarely do.

[@musixx7563]

This has the same energy as a high schooler who forgot they had a presention and did it all the morning of.

[@arogueburrito]

The confidence to override the bullshit

[@junye4963]

@@arogueburrito speak with confidence

[@alexshi9320]

Reasons why I think Chinese is easier than most people think (non-satire): 1. Has no grammar, tense, or gender. These can all be replaced based on context. 2. Makes mathematics surprisingly easy. Imagine counting in French vs in Chinese. I even found Chinese to be beneficial when learning concepts from fractions all the way to calculus. It’s like the language was designed to be used for math. 3. Every complex word is just a compound word. E.g electric brain = computer, electric speech = telephone, electric shadow = movie, electric spin = drill, and the list goes on. And thats just for words starting with “electricity”. 4. Every simple word is just a single syllable. Plus there are a ton of rhyming words. Imagine how easy it is to write a song or poem in Chinese. This is the language of song and poetry. Nothing else comes even close. 5. Rarely will you need to look up what a word in Chinese means since it’s self-explanatory for the most part. This is especially true for medical vocabulary and scientific nomenclature. You don’t need to be an expert in Latin to talk to your Chinese doctor. 6. Written Chinese is language independent. Chinese characters are logographs which are essentially icons describing concepts rather than phonetic sounds. This means that you can theoretically speak any language orally but adopt Chinese as your written language. The Vietnamese, Koreans, and Japanese have done this. 7. You can probably find someone to practice your Chinese with regardless of where you live because the diaspora is practically everywhere.

[@fyfiidleo5486]

中文的基本字是象形文字，但是大部分词汇都是形声字（phono-semantic compound character）在百分之九十左右

[@tongjordon9116]

I'm Chinese but seeing 電鑽 （電轉？in your words）translating literally to electric spin is hilarious

[@Music-qb2wm]

If you have to compare anything to France's numbering system then your language is anything but easy to learn. French numbers were a mistake. The french should be forbbiden from math.

[@s1mple_cyan]

definitely right

[@micro107]

Main reasons for me to study chinese is grammar, and word that very easy(as you tell us that dont need to be expert at latin or anything, but i haven't start it seriously

[@omp199]

I didn't believe you when I started watching this video, but I tried opening Chinese in a new tab and found that I was fluent in it by the time the video ended. It is actually insanely easy. Ni hao!

[@LanguageSimp]

Subscribe if I educated you

[@Wowyouexist1234]

No replies for a comment from the creator?

[@NicholasTheSpeedster]

Nope

[@EllaEllaAudios]

This comment section really watched a video where the guy said "Number 5 reason to why Chinese is the easiest language, I'm being funded by the CCP" and went "There is no way this is satire this guy is definitely serious"

[@RingsOfSolace]

For real

[@danielhuang2488]

plot twist they didn't watch the video haha

[@OrangeUtan1]

I cant find any of these comments lol. Only comments like these talking about those comments

[@theduke2447]

🤣

[@williampennjr.4448]

When he said " I don't speak it but what's your excuse?" Then "I don't speak Chinese but I could learn it in a day"

[@thecakemuffincrew9987]

I dont think anyone here realizes this is sarcasm This guy, as a polyglot, would know that having an alphabet actually makes the language EASIER to learn lol

[@ANN-ug2hd]

Yeah, this guy is nice, but everyone is mocking him and making such a fuss, bruh.

[@RichieLarpa]

Yet I still gave him dislike for misinforming me about such an important topic. This channel and type of humour is not for me, but I understand that such "antilinguistic" topic gains some viewers.

[@senorliamy17]

But logographies like in Chinese is very information dense. Tang and Song Dynasty poems can wrap up symbolism, emotions, environment and location in 20 to 28 characters. What can you write with 20 something letters? Basic facts on something.

[@thecakemuffincrew9987]

@@senorliamy17 Uhhhh what? Some of the most beautiful pieces of artwork in history were made in letter based scripts.

[@senorliamy17]

@@thecakemuffincrew9987 That is artwork, not writing. Chinese Hanzi is writing.

[@dhaneshshirodkar365]

This is so inspiring. I already learnt Chinese in couple of minutes. By the next hour I’m planning to learn Japanese too 😇 Thank you so much for the motivation 🙏🏼

[@faclonx6275]

This is helpful

[@legoboyplayz.]

liar lol

[@equilibrum999]

and then should thou learn thy Nahuatl tlahtolli, its easy, a words from this language arleady known are: chilli, chocolatl, ocelotl, axolotl and probably more i doknt know,

[@wandew7057]

@@legoboyplayz. r/woosh

[@legoboyplayz.]

@@wandew7057 I know it’s a joke, but what about the ppl who don’t understand the joke? They will be depressed because they think others are zooming ahead of them

[@rey-qw1rj]

No, cause you actually convinced me to start learning mandarin. It's actually really fun to learn, a lot more fun than learning Korean, English or Japanese. Also, learning to write the characters is fun too, and trying to pronounce them properly. Not gonna lie, it's a lot harder to pronounce stuff in Chinese than in Korean or Japanese (because of the different tones), but that's what makes it fun! (Also the thing that really convinced me to learning was when you said something along the lines: "1.3 billion people learned it but you can't? " I got this feeling from that, that if that many people can speak it and write it, so can I!) Edit: Also yeah I do know that this video was satire.

[@spanishguy]

Real Chad

[@stillnotstill]

Honestly I've had a lot more fun trying to learn Mandarin vs. Something like French, I took Latin in school and I'm a native English speaker so you'd think that French would be easier for me but man I absolutely hated the conjugations and the awful awful awful awful pronunciation rules oh my God they just made me so freaking angry. I'd rather enjoy tones because Timmy that does given element of enjoyment to it, and the not having to worry about so many word endings in Chinese versus French is a weight off my shoulders. And I think any language that you have more fun learning is going to be a little bit easier for you versus if you don't enjoy it and feel like everything's a slog through learning it

[@pvg95]

Thanks to your videos I achieved fluency in Chinese and Russian in less than 20 minutes, god bless 🙏🏻

[@ahmedkudo8743]

what?! is this possible? how? 😱😱😱

[@NicholasTheSpeedster]

🧢

[@elcascodehades1345]

As a Spanish speaker I can confirm his Chinese is at native level

[@markusketonen2412]

@@MikhailRiyaz2013 موي بيان

[@markusketonen2412]

@@MikhailRiyaz2013 Learn quickly

[@gavv_8_8]

him trying to read 妈 is probably the funniest thing i’ve ever heard. ‘close enough right?’ lmao no

[@kuliekukubird]

"impress people" 💀💀 pls when they try to speak it they sound stupid cuz they don't actually speak it

[@tiaraqwq594]

he sounds stupid trying to prove that “chinese is easy”

[@hazelcheung7540]

The 3rd tone sounded weird

[@gdaxe3439]

@@tiaraqwq594 racist...

[@Ruich]

@@gdaxe3439 how is that racist...

[@sunjichoi3290]

Um guys, you know he’s joking right

[@raeplaysval]

难个屁 中文太容易了

[@bjorns.9887]

@@raeplaysval 是是是、图片容易说中文

[@raeplaysval]

@@bjorns.9887 确实 认图片可以难到哪里

[@nitaseely6830]

xxs啊

[@ElTopo_o_]

簡單到我想不會都不行啊

[@manchoiho]

As a Chinese person, I can accept that Chinese is very easy to learn, just remember everything

[@sp4823]

I learned Chinese three times while watching this video. But because it was so easy, I decided to delete it from my memory for now. Whenever I need it, I can just learn it in two minutes, then delete it from memory again when I am done. Best language ever, doesn't take up any space in your brain.

[@grubbygeorge2117]

Thanks I didn’t know any Chinese before this vid and now I’m basically a native speaker

[@feddy1103]

I love how this guy just casually nails the tones like he’s fluent in chinese

[@jinan827]

Dude, you’re beyond funny! Thumbs up

[@liamaclellan3024]

Laughing at all the people in the comments who don't know what sarcasm or deadpan humor are

[@christophernuzzi2780]

How are people supposed to tell the difference between sarcasm and someone who is just a moron? The internet is full of them.

[@user-mz9uw5vz7e]

“The Chinese characters look exactly like what they mean.” I haven’t laughed this hard in a while.😂😂

[@pass3d]

汆、氽 氏、氐 盂、孟 翟、瞿 末、未 口、囗 汩、汨 姬、姫 采、釆 壸、壶 ...... different characters.

[@zachariemelanson485]

@@pass3d EZ, all the characters on the left have a comma

[@pzwang4109]

You can go check out the evolution of Chinese characters, it is really interesting.

[@pallingtontheshrike6374]

they used to. shut up, it doesn't matter that 'used to' means 3000+ years past, ok?

[@csrupbxpan2711]

一二三,口,吕,品,日,昌,晶,人,从,众,木,林,森,火,炎,又,双,叒,叕...chinese character structure is very simple

[@Kexis.]

I've never laughed so hard in my life XD

[@ummm.4685]

As a person who is Chinese was born in China and speaks the language you did pronounce it good for a person who doesn’t speak it😂

[@amelaumusic]

HAHAHAHA I've had a good laugh lol Edit: I'm shocked by how many people not realizing that this video is just a joke. Well some points towards the end are legit, but it's quite obvious that he was just joking at the beginning of the video And bruh just look at his channel, he makes funny content. It just amuses me that so many people typed long paragraphs explaining how hard Chinese was, like, duh, of course he knows🙄

[@tom5379]

This is very eye opening!!! Thank you for your wise words!!!!

[@paiwanhan]

If we put aside the characters and the tones, Mandarin Chinese itself is a pretty easy language to learn for English speakings. The sentence order is SVO. There is no conjugations. There is no verb tenses. Instead of He is typing; He typed; He has typed; you just say He currently type; He type finish; He already type. For those who knows music, they can think of tones as 1 to 3 notes in a syllable, and that might help them master it pretty quickly.

[@willwcbb]

Complements and particles… exist

[@notwithouttext]

but then there are multiple words with the same pronunciation

[@ahhhbalalalallaalalalla]

"just memorize the pictures, it's so easy!" yea just memorize over 50,000 pictures,easy af

[@MassachusettsTrainVideos1136]

it's satire

[@bohu1701]

there are over 100,000 pictures in chinese, but most of them do not be used any more nowadays. actually ordinary chinese people momorize about 5000 pictures, with 3000 you can read newspaper, so it's not that hard.

[@equilibrum999]

actually if y learn the basic pictures that form other words y can learn how to wriete other characters quickyll [llanfair][unrelated welsh sentence]

[@liuzhou]

Very few of the characters are 'pictures'.

[@allaroundnewsmedia8194]

Omg thank you I looked at the pictures and then spoke with pictures. Everyone made it look so difficult, it's a child's play.

[@astrospeedcuber]

He understood the tones SO WELL

[@theradiumgirl9298]

as a speaker of american and mexican and a learner of china-ish (because there is only 1 language in china) i totally agree with your difficulty rating. it took me so long to get the verbs right in mexican but after one day of learning china-ish on duolingo with the alpha male gigachad owl i could read the entirety of mao's lil red book in the original communistese

[@zoe80026]

China does not only have one language, in China they many different types of dialects there

[@DanGR023]

​@@zoe80026You clearly didn't understand the sarcasm.

[@theNnyelvira]

Well, he's encouraging ppl to learn Chinese, that's good.

[@ovocyrus3532]

As a Chinese, all I can tell you is that Chinese grammar is probably the most fucking simple thing in the world. We don't have tenses, we don't have plurals for our nouns, we only have one auxiliary verb, it doesn't have some weird variants, come and learn Chinese, don't be misled by what some people say :)

[@jonathancastro8487]

I Don’t want to memorize so mucho characters ;;;

[@ovocyrus3532]

@@jonathancastro8487 You can learn simplified Chinese, much easier

[@hkrohn]

@@ovocyrus3532 There are not fewer characters in simplified Chinese

[@ovocyrus3532]

@@hkrohn yes there are, for example, 乾(dry)，幹（working），榦（trunk）， They are three Chinese characters in traditional Chinese and become one in simplified Chinese（干）

[@Gengarnium]

@@ovocyrus3532 i think chinese is hard as even though it is easy to read, its not easy to write and there are words in simplified chinese like赢 which in my opinion are hard. Even though I learn english, I also learn chinese which I am very bad at compared to english. As a Singaporean, I learned both of those languages and I prefer chinese but its based on opinion ngl

[@rock078901]

If you learning Japanese and Korean, You will find Kanji in Japan and Hanja in Korean are highly connected with Chinese Character, especially Traditional Chinese. Like funeral Culture in Korea, They write "謹弔" , as being a Chinese, I don't know the Korean Pronunciation, but I can understand the meaning. Or another example, "Happy New year" in Japanese is "謹賀新年", I even don't know these 4 words Pronunciation, I still know the meaning.

[@ni5439]

It's funny how alphabet languages are exactly the opposite case. With alphabet, you know other languages' pronunciations, but not the meaning

[@theseeker8043]

@@ni5439 absolutely true

[@prezentoappr1171]

@@ni5439 cnemic vs pleremic

[@jurgenrudiger]

Wrong@@theseeker8043

[@EduardoOliveira-zw7kg]

This guy looks like an excluded character from The Office

[@lndig0684]

I’m Singaporean and I couldn’t stop laughing at this video! You are extremely funny!

[@learnurduwithsara1068]

This was so funny. Spilled my tea when I heard your first argument about English alphabet. Didn't expect this to be so funny hahha

[@Yoyo-ud7zl]

*american alphabet

[@definitelynormal6678]

@@Yoyo-ud7zl yeah,English is just a copy of American

[@Nalber3]

I'm learning Chinese, this is very inspiring 😁

[@johncrwarner]

As part of my Chinese Language and Culture part-time evening degree course I was doing in London I got to go to China for a month long course. I tacked on the end a short holiday and was in a hotel and got in the lift and said "五楼" (wu3 lou2) and all the Chinese speakers in the lift with me kept saying how well I spoke Chinese. I found it hilarious as I basically said "fifth floor" and that was it. Grammatically Chinese is very easy, with pinyin pronunciation is easy-ish the memory work is definitely the characters.

[@sasino]

But actually learning characters is not even that difficult, once you get a grasp of all the common radicals, and the basic characters, you can start reading free online material, slowly increasing the level of the text you read, and using an online dictionary to learn the words. This works a lot better for me than using other methods such as spaced repetition (i.e. Anki) because I actually get to keep the words and characters and I learn how to use them in their correct context

[@johncrwarner]

@@sasino I learnt Chinese before the mobile phone revolution so I wrote out thousands of character / word flashcards and used to spent a few minutes reviewing them every moment I got. The interesting problem is there were three elements character, pinyin and meaning. The sweet spot was knowing all three but sometimes you just knew two and the third eluded you.

[@snowlynx1585]

@@sasino There's a big gap between reading easier chinese texts and actually hard chinese texts, because there are thousands of idioms, historic phrases and connectives that you sometimes need to learn the history behind to know about, most chinese students have a big dictionary just with thousands of chinese idioms to look up lol

[@pass3d]

常用词语学起来简单。真要言简意赅，每个句子有条理，其实不容易。再不要说写作有文采了。再往上就是书法古文这些。你看看《滕王阁序》、《短歌行》这些，就知道这些人遣词造句有多牛了。

[@aircloud1795]

I mean 第五层 is more accurate

[@guywhoasked903]

wow, just wow. I managed to learn native level of Chinese just by watching this video alone. Thanks man you're doing alot of service with these videos

[@wachilawitteepukrong7902]

As a Chinese native speaker from Taiwan, I can’t fully understand Wikipedia until age 10.

[@Valentino016]

I've been learning Chinese and Chinese is so easy. I love Chinese so much and the grammar is also simple.

[@gyattrizzV]

Calling English American is comedic genius

[@looofplaying]

Every time another language is spoken other than American: 2:43 Chinese 2:50 Chinese 2:51 Chinese 2:57 Chinese 3:19 Chinese 3:29 Chinese Most Spoken: Chinese (6)

[@santiastronomo]

Thanks for the tutorial took me 21 hours to learn Chinese. THAT SIMPLE. I am planning on learning Mexican, Canadian, and even CUBAN! Thanks for the inspiration love you.

[@sshadyh]

Candian is much more difficult than american or english, good luck

[@puff6796]

@@sshadyh Yes, I tried learning Canadian, but then I accidentally learnt French. Pro tip: Do *not* visit Quebec.

[@thaimapping]

Canadian is just American, but add eh to every sentence.

[@gracebubblegumpop7340]

wow, you're awsome, memorizing 50,000 characters in a DAY! as a Chinese, it took me six years to learn some of them, you are truly amazing!

[@StormBK]

that was amusing and also i was surpised that by the end i was actually inspired. so thank you for the video. and i dont care about the low quality cam :) thank you

[@jinan827]

People in the comments please chill, this guy is clearly just joking if you watch the entire video. 这是一个搞笑视频，不要太当真😂😂

[@marinamaliutina2475]

I am a Chinese language teacher and interpretor. Teaching since 2018. And I can confirm it's very simple. The struggle for most of people is pronunciation, but even this can be trained well.

[@cia_zeuss4055]

The non-native speakers I know usually have trouble with writing more than anything else. But the pronunciation certainly is pretty hard too.

[@marinamaliutina2475]

@@cia_zeuss4055 most of the native Chinese people don't know how to write characters. I saw it quite often since I live in China for quite long. Handwriting not really required in China. Everything is digital. All you need to know how to write on the paper is your living address, name and nationality, nothing more. I can handwrite characters, btw. Just there is no need in it and waisting a lot of time in learning Chinese.

[@cia_zeuss4055]

@@marinamaliutina2475 You were probably in rural China. Where I live everyone writes

[@constantinazad2219]

@@cia_zeuss4055 where u live

[@cia_zeuss4055]

@@constantinazad2219 big city

[@fabmoneyy]

Managed to learn mandarin chinese in one afternoon! thx for the help!

[@grantfreeman8224]

you made 5 really good points in this video thakn you

[@Weeping-Angel]

Super easy. I just watched this video and I can tell I that I will be able to read Chinese soon

[@oakstrong1]

I agree, compared to Vietnamese I find Chinese so much easier to learn. In fact, when I was learning them both simultaneously, I ended skipping Vietnamese practice in favour of Chinese. (Thai also has more tones, but don't ask me about them, was only learning the alphabet a few years ago, as a game).

[@canngothi1781]

I mean, the only thing hard in Chinese is reading and learning words. For Vietnamese, well pronounce "stupid" in it.

[@oakstrong1]

@@canngothi1781 I did find the pronunciation of some sounds also challenging. I was never very good at twisting my tongue in knots when I was young either. I have tried - and failed - to say the digraph ch + ng at the beginning of the word for years even though it shouldn't be that difficult. 🙄😳 I'm getting quite good at avoiding words that has that sound. 😅

[@containternet9290]

@@oakstrong1 Vietnamese is like Chinese incorrectly spoken. You should know that Vietnamese borrows 60% of its vocabulary from Chinese and since they dropped out the characters over the Latin alphabet this makes learning Vietnamese much easier.

[@redcrusader5168]

This video made me laugh so hard. Thanks for the content!

[@bkr0127]

I'm glad someone finally had the courage to say this.

[@unicyclechinese3125]

As an American-speaker who is also learning Chinese, it took me way too long to realize you were kidding. Actually, Chinese is much easier to learn than many other languages, but not for the reasons you said. Non-native English speakers have said that English is a bitch to learn because it is a horrendous mish-mash of different languages.

[@PedroSilva-zq6nm]

What is an “American-speaker”? Do you speak Navajo?

[@Yamuimosannn]

@@PedroSilva-zq6nm Or probably Quechua...

[@chetecredivecachera9099]

对吧！

[@TinNguyen-rl2xr]

American= American English dialect Just like how Spanish has European and American Spanish

[@davidbarrientos2062]

@@TinNguyen-rl2xr American Spanish is like 10 types of Spanish El Mexicano, Chileno, venezolano, colombiano, peruano, argentino, ecuatoriano, boliviano, etc They are different like the Español Neutral compared to the Español de España

[@OkkkkOO366]

Why are so many chinese-speaking people mad about this video?? (Me myself speak mandarin and Cantonese too) He was O-B-V-I-O-U-S-L-Y being sarcastic. Get some impulse pass through the neurons in your brain before judging please 真的那麼難理解別人的梗嗎？

[@assyyn4139]

Great humor dude!

[@Focuz_]

I can confirm, I learned Chinese in -5 seconds. So fast I went back in time

[@chrislawton2248]

You're so right about Chinese being easy, yesterday I learned Chinese and have now progressed to the point that I can use Chinese characters to write an English sentence. 愛 麗可 測 的日可 火特.

[@panorama7654]

i like drink water？

[@chrislawton2248]

@@panorama7654 Exactly! 😁👍

[@yl3766]

Love pretty (alice?) can test the day can fire ver/special, ur Chinese sentence doesn’t make senses 💀

[@chrislawton2248]

@@yl3766 It doesn't make sense if you use the meaning of the Chinese characters. If you understand how to read the characters, listen to the sounds and see if it sounds like anything in English 😆

[@panorama7654]

@@yl3766 he's just using chinese character as phonogram.XD

[@DonVigaDeFierro]

I mean, jokes aside, you can tell what an unknown word in Chinese means just by looking at the characters, but you can't tell how it's pronounced. In Spanish, you can tell how an unknown word is pronounced, but not what it means. In English you can't tell what an unknown word means and sometimes you can't even tell how it's pronounced!

[@bjorns.9887]

I mean, you can derive the meaning of plenty of words you've never heard of before by knowing the meaning of prefixes and suffixes and some knowledge of Latin/Greek and whatnot

[@snowlynx1585]

" you can tell what an unknown word in Chinese means just by looking at the characters" That's only the case for maybe 10% of chinese words, most chinese characters are composite characters which actual meaning have close to nothing to do with the way it looks but rather the way it is pronounces

[@sharonzhong]

@@snowlynx1585 10 percent is not even close, there are tens of thousands of characters and the pictorial ones are probably less than a hundred, the rest are compounds from radicals. But saying the look of a character have more to do with it's pronunciation is also not quite right. Essentially chinese letters have 2 type of radicals, the pronunciation indicator and meaning indicator. But, you can't really trust these indicators either. And to whoever is saying "you can guess the meaning from the character" is speaking bullshit. It's more of a "I dont know what this means, but if you tell me and it'd realize it's so obvious". Really, when people says Chinese letters that represents objects, they immediately thinks it must be iconic, but that's just a misconception. example, bone, if a person were to make a symbol for bone it should be quite obvious right? no, 骨 does that look like it represents bone? clouds? 雲. flowers? 花. stars? 星. ball? 球. Some of them are very pictorial, mouth口 fire火 wood木 bird鳥 ground土. But those are rare.

[@liuzhou]

Wrong. Many characters contain a phonetic element.

[@leonardojensenribeiro7252]

That was amazing. My mandarim teacher actually tries to explain the same way like...don't you see the thing here? The drawn matches perfectly the word!!! Hahahaha but your way about the 4 sounds was really good actually.

[@FruitlessRoaster]

Why did I wheeze at the incognito window? Am I that easy?

[@mikel.van.der.Kaasch]

Yesterday night I discovered you and I just spent my almost whole day watching your videos and laughing 😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂🤣🤣😂. Eres súper gracioso y no paro de reírme contigo!

[@nataaalia]

I don't know if the comment section is as sarcastic as the video or if it is legit lol

[@brigadierboa4864]

Thank you for this video, I now wanna learn Chinese. It should only take about a day!

[@alexcarmichael8946]

I learned it while standing in the line at airport

[@leechien6]

As a native Chinese speaker from Taiwan, here is my opinion. English is much much more difficult to learn compared to Chinese. There are more than a million of words (vocabularies) in English, but only 10 thousands plus words in Chinese. I also noticed that average toddlers in the U.S. can't speak English fluently but average toddlers in Taiwan definetely can speak Chinese very fluently.

[@spektree8448]

It is joke

[@SeaCryptWeave]

english has more intricacies. chinese is more fundamental

[@arogueburrito]

@@ThePersistentKoala Superb response.

[@huaninhkhanh1221]

Yeah , learn a thousand “picture “ a day just to read newspaper . In chinese , you can’t write very fast or ugly . Because it can change the meaning of words . In Vietnam , there are a story of a smart student who then become offical . He write a letter in chinese to send for a neighbor to send it to a local offical ask for stuff, but the authority can’t see his writing so they send his neighbor out and beat her . Then that smart student started to partice to write more careful .It took him about 10 year ,legend said that when he become offical in the royal house , he still partice to write .

[@xXJ4FARGAMERXx]

@@huaninhkhanh1221 bruh writing chinese is not that difficult you've just gotta get some artist-eyes or something. I'm good at writing chinese characters and I only have like, ~150 A4 papers filled with characters. I did them across a year so him taking 10 years is waaaay too slow.

[@themcbobgorge]

We need to halve the number of letters in the English alphabet

[@KuraSourTakanHour]

One personal criticism I have, despite knowing chinese characters myself, is that many suffer "compression death" when very dense characters are put into a block and the font is not large enough to render the strokes, a lot of the strokes mush together and become mess, or some strokes vanish altogether. 籠、蓄、鬱、電、穫 which can be a problem when you're trying to standardise to a small font. Always found it hideous

[@literallyh3093]

I love your comedy videos xD

[@kawaiicandy9510]

As a Chinese person who’s born and raised in china, I can ensure you that no one in china thinks Chinese is easy to learn. Even as a native speaker.

[@s0raa__]

This is so true

[@_1602]

I gotta agree even I am Chinese it I still hard for me to speak it 😩.

[@c.qyy_sea]

Yes I have been learning Chinese since I was 5 and its really difficult.

[@dekusbones7228]

I have learnt chinese for my whole life and I still stutter while speaking it

[@user-di8br6lo9b]

Yea this sh*t just showed off that he is nub beginner in learning Chinese

[@marselinusnugraha2207]

That hillarious

[@BlockyJonesshorts]

Yoo, I’m from Hong Kong, and I think Chinese/Cantonese has its easy parts, but it’s hard to memorize all the words that looks different from each other, but in English, you can guess the word by it’s word structure. But great content man

[@TakahashiQR]

Ciertamente, los caracteres chinos pueden ser reconocibles algunos, porque siguen siendo dibujos de lo que significan, lo que cambia es cuando se unen varios para formar palabras y ya cambia el significado a cualquier mmada, llevo año y medio con un amor-odio estudiando japonés xD

[@klutch2993]

“American Alphabet” 😂😂😂 he’s funny af

[@dazc9965]

why are all the top comments not getting the joke💀

[@alicesenz6374]

I've been learning Chinese for a couple years now and this is unironically how I talk to my friends.

[@copperII_]

He is so fluent in sarcasm

[@leneay9]

FUCKING DIED WHEN YOU SAID YOU'RE BEING FUNDED BY THE CCP LMAOOOO. THAT CAME OUT OF NOWHERE AND IT'S SO GOOD MAN, ESPECIALLY WITH THAT EXPRESSION

[@boopster4795]

As a truly avid Chinese learner I can confirm that this video is not true, it’s actually even easier probably took me 20 minutes to learn

[@odanobunagafan4964]

Bro, that's lame, I learned it in three seconds. Knee how.

[@eat2909]

Learned it in .1 second

[@axsemotel]

Same as a Chinese

[@peterlee9691]

"I don't even speak Chinese but I could in a day if I wanted to" This guy got the cheat codes

[@guy-]

Me at the start: hold on what the fuck why is he in incognito mode

[@tablab165]

Love how Simp just tries to explain the concept of rarity via Pokémon cards! Ahaha!

[@linguafiles_]

Ah yes, the Scythe of the Unity of the Trees. Elementary.

[@ALBERTALIMOVICH]

in addition, there's almost NO difference between simplified and traditional characters: 学 and 學 for "studying", or 梦 and 夢 looks very similar and mutually intelligible

[@KaysonChew-is5cz]

But these don’t 屙 (lì) and 魯 (lǔ) They also have different pronunciations making this harder.

[@Agent-nj6wn]

No seriously, he killed the tone part, that was actually pretty accurate lmao

[@coolbrotherf127]

Cringe American speakers: Chinese is difficult to learn. The Chad Language Simp: Cope + Seethe + ᕙ(͡°‿ ͡°)ᕗ + look at pictures + no alphabet + Mao-y wow-y + L

[@gab_gallard]

Classification of comments by type: 1) "OMG I can't believe how so many people here can't see the satire! Are you guys DUMB? I am certainly not!" ... That's it.

[@matthewheald8964]

2:02 looking at all the different ways that word is used while he’s talking about how easy it is lmao

[@denniswilkerson5536]

“The scythe in the middle symbolizes the unity between the two trees” lol

[@bea5528]

Ah yes.. the American alphabet

[@sidharthvjain1023]

There are ten times more people in this comment section who think they are geniuses for figuring out this video is intended ironically and calling out people who don't get it, than people who actually don't get it.

[@kilaquill2537]

Facts lol

[@theseeker8043]

I don't know man, it scares me the amount of people who actually fell for this. If you switch comments to recent replies, you'll see what i'm talking about

[@angelicreinforcement3373]

Everytime I hear "just logically it looks like 'it'," I crack up xD

[@dismantledbrain5910]

I'll be honest, I didn't know what the character for tree in Chinese was, but after I saw it, it took me a few seconds to memorize it. Even if we round that up to a minute, that means you can learn 1440 Chinese characters in ONE DAY. Let's be realistic though, you'll also need time to sleep and other stuff, so a thousand characters a day would be more than enough. After two months you will know all the Chinese characters. EASY.