A Chinese Love Affair 🀄️ This is Why Chinese Will Change Your Life

[@dobryden8558]

"If you talk to a man in a language he understands that goes to his head , if you talk to a man in his own language that goes to his heart" quote Nelson Mandela.🙏

[@MrTraveller.]

Totally agree, great view point, perspective & description of the various Chinese languages. I live in Taiwan 🇹🇼 & have been speaking Mandarin & some basic Taiwanese here for 10 years. I Love learning about new languages, cultures, food, customs & traditions in New countries. Especially here in Asia 🌏

[@Cinderella-Cindererilla]

No! Taiwanese languages are similar with Philippine languages!

[@MrTraveller.]

@@Cinderella-Cindererilla The Taiwanese language originally came from Fujian, China known as “Fujian-hwa”. In Taiwan it’s known as “Tai-yu” ( Taiwanese) Since you mentioned, The Philippines 🇵🇭 has 7000 Islands & its 3 regions speak various languages. In Luzon they speak Tagalog & various other languages. In The Visasya’s & Mindanao they speak Visayan & many other regional dialects. The languages of the Philippines 🇵🇭 has some Spanish Influence for sure in it aswell. I’v visited The Philippines 🇵🇭 many times & always enjoy it there. Feel free to elaborate if you wish

[@MrTraveller.]

@@Cinderella-Cindererilla can you explain ?

[@superpowerdragon]

@@MrTraveller. taiyu is just referring to the language that is spoken in taiwan, not the name of the language. The official name is Minnan

[@ddobefaest9334]

@@MrTraveller. Perhaps he is talking about the Polynesians who first colonised the Philippines from Taiwan(obviously before it was called Taiwan or Formosa.) over 2000 years ago and their root language which they brought there?

[@lisaishere0919]

I am Chinese native speaker, damn this video makes me want to do some handwriting

[@donkeymonkey7151]

I see your point. Latin has prevailed for hundreds of years, globally. It would be fun to see, that one day, English/German, etc. would be transcribed through Hanzi. Thanks to your encouragement, I have been learning Vietnamese. I am surprised to find that the differences between Vietnamese and Chinese are even smaller than the differences between German (Deutsch) and Dutch. Regarding the Chinese bridging function, you were right. I crashed A1 Vietnamese in just a couple of weeks. I now find it essential to learn Chinese-related languages after work to relax my brain. Take care and keep us updated please. Thank you.

[@Paljk299]

Cool video thanks! You're lucky to have that early exposure to languages, it's a great thing. I know just a little Mandarin it's a great language. I'll take the opportunity to learn more when I can over the upcoming years. Not sure about other Chinese languages there's never enough time to investigate them all, especially at my age with all the other commitments. It's all good though.

[@seanaroundtheworld1463]

Stu, your on a role brother. This is a great video, very inspiring!

[@haruzanfuucha]

Burmese IS related to Chinese, though! They are both a part of the same language family, the Sino-Tibetan languages!

[@jennyyip8456]

Hello 王懷樂语言导师你好! 🙋Well like many others, particularly being a Chinese native myself; I marvel and am really impressed by your great passion, hard work and 坚持不懈 attitude toward learning and even mastering the various Chinese languages as well as other Asian languages.👏 Oh I think you are that one-in-a-million" guy to be sure. Thank you so much for your videos and really appreciate sharing your professional point of view and experiences; especially the wonderful skills and techniques in learning languages 👍 Hey, one thing I am quite curious to know though 😉...is your feat in the "Indian languages" just as good 🤔...since you're half Indian by descent right? 😇

[@deacudaniel1635]

As a Chinese learner, I have a more ambiguous relationship with the 漢字.I love to study their history, evolution, structure and different calligraphy styles but I'm lazy to exercise handwriting because at least for me it's too much time-consuming, so I spent most of my effort in exercising reading and typing, being more focused on composing sentences and essays rather than writing the same character 100 times. I feel it's more practical that way because we mostly type on our phones and computers now so it's too much effort and time for too little use in learning handwriting, while directly typing texts as an exercise helps me to improve the way I express myself in Chinese and memorise more words and sentence structures than separate characters. I'm also passionate about the history of Chinese language in general and I've touched the more obscure ancient Chinese phonetics topic too but I feel that is much harder to understand than the history of 漢字

[@TheArtofEngineering]

It reminds me of the split brain hypothesis in Mcgilchist’s book “The Master and his Emissary”. The Western mind is rational and linear and the Eastern mind sees the big picture …. Without necessarily understanding it in a conscious way…. It is a Zen like way of living and thinking 🤔

[@polyglotdreams]

The ad that started at the beginning was in Aussie speech ... just a coincidence?

[@sulandelemere]

Nice video, I’m always wanting to start Vietnamese. What chunom resources did you use to learn？

[@Seantorky3]

Worst mistake I learnt with both Thai and Mandarin was putting of learning the writing. Should have started on day one. The intermediate plateau in sole destroying.

[@ohwong102]

Is Chinese grammar easier to grapple with, without all those conjugations?

[@happyhappynuts]

Yes

[@力士大-c1s]

Seriously without pinyin i dont remember how to write some complicated words....for exp....辣椒。。。。 😅 too much rely to tech nowadays.....😭

[@ohwong102]

Thais living in Hong Kong speak much better Cantonese than those Northern Chinese does, strangely enough As I have never studied Thai, I guess if Thai also have more tones as Cantonese, and Thai also have -p -k -m or similar endings like Cantonese？

[@murrayisarobot]

I think there's a lot more shared pronunciation features between Cantonese and Thai. Phonetically, Cantonese sounds more like an SE Asian language, to me anyway. I live in Guangzhou and I joined a Muay Thai gym for exercise and I'm always so amazed at how good the Thai instructors are at speaking Cantonese to the locals.

[@Andsowhat-o8m]

Thai has 5 tones, I’m Thai native speaker who is learning Chinese.

[@soweli3033]

我爱中国人们

[@另奇]

Several words show high similarity in pronunciation among Korean, Japanese, and several Chinese dialects, while modern Chinese lose the traits. School=> Korean: hak-kyo; Japanese: Gakkou; Hokkien: hak-hau Mandarin: XueXiao/HsuehHsiao World=> Korean: se-gye; Japanese: se-kai; Hokkien: se-kai Mandarin: shi-jie/shih-chieh

[@toothpasteboy1763]

學校 Hakka = hok gau Cantonese = hok hau 世界 Hakka = se gai Cantonese = sai gaai

[@chicoti3]

Classical Japanese: 學校 gakukau

[@bringbackmy90s]

Putonghua was always kinda boring for me. We should promote Hokkien, Cantonese, Taishanese in the West again

[@overasiainadrone6017]

👍👍👍

[@corinna007]

I have a similar experience learning Finnish. I started learning it eight years ago, and it's given me so much. My original goal was to learn enough for a short conversation, but the more I learned, the more I fell in love with it.

[@Justinthai]

Keep the content coming ! You’ll be at 100k before you know it. สู้สู้ครับ 加油

[@yourlinguisticlatebloomer9893]

You are far ahead of me in Chinese. You know so much more than me and yet I can completely relate to what you’re saying here.

[@CLOUDSINTHEKITCHEN]

I did a month of Chinese here in Chiang Mai and she was teaching in Thai. Apparently, I have a clear accent in both , but I forgot my Thai (and never recovered). After the first class I was physically sick after I got home as I had 2 hours of doing all the phonetics in Portuguese and English and learning Chinese it in Thai and it was a nightmare. I ache to go back to Chinese, but so far all I can remember is the Pinyin for the acupuncture points .

[@力士大-c1s]

Oh my god, previously i was so curious some of my thai friends speak chinese so well and now i guess they went chinese school since child....rian pa saa jean dii mak gwa 😁🤟👍

[@chinkhewng3742]

Syabas !

[@gaemlinsidoharthi]

Can you imagine if Egyptian hieroglyphs had survived to today the way Chinese has.

[@andrewdunbar828]

Also Mayan hieroglyphs. And cuneiform actually worked on a similar principle too. They all have a mix of phonetics and meanings.

[@gaemlinsidoharthi]

@@andrewdunbar828 Good point. More recent too.

[@ericm7358]

genius stuff!

[@olegabbatini7015]

Hi Stud, did you learn Chinese mostly in a Chinese speaking environment or abroad? I don't remember in your videos you saying that you ever lived in China or Taiwan....

[@olegabbatini7015]

I mean Stu, damn cellphone autocorrect!

[@soweli3033]

Ikr

[@cuzz467]

Why would you love a dictator? Obviously your passionate about learning Chinese, but why include xi?

[@StuartJayRaj]

Because speaking Chinese allows me to open my mind up to a world of language spoken by the people directly - not via translations or interpretation. I included Xi as I did Tsai and Lee - Chinese allows me to listen to them directly. I never said I love Xi ... All I have said throughout is that I love the language. It's sad that we live in an age where people just seeing the image of someone jumps to such conclusions.

[@boon5174]

@@StuartJayRaj Why do you love Xi?

[@happyhappynuts]

Fuck me dead it's always got to be political apparently

[@boon5174]

@@happyhappynuts yeah, apparently. He definitely should of left Xi\politics out of it.

[@superpowerdragon]

you are clearly brainwash by anti-china propaganda, go learn some Chinese to get new perspective, its beneficial for you