Only In Mandarin - Fresh Off The Boat

[@scholarlycat8180]

For those that don’t speak Mandarin. The grandmother is the only one who sounds like she speaks it fluently. Everyone else sounds like they just learned the language off Duolingo. (EDIT: For the record. It was easy to farm likes knowing native Mandarin speakers are extremely picky and a bit pretentious about accents. That got a lot of people to agree with the original comment it seems. Realistically, none of them sound that bad. Randall Park’s accent is very decent considering he’s not even Chinese. Now folks, it’s a 5 year old comment. Congrats if you still bother to weigh in your language learning expertise.)

[@samiw3565]

Scholarly Cat exactly !! in the last 2 lines u can really hear the western accent in them

[@charlietran4617]

The duolingo part hit me because I’m learning Vietnamese off it.

[@samanthacorber641]

And the kid says 早安媽媽 instead of 媽媽早安

[@apeiron1700]

Omg yes the others' accents are so off

[@iloveyou-pm4tj]

I don't know Mandarin but even i noticed the difference between the fluency of Grandma's speech and the others .

[@heirannn_012]

"there can only be one winner." said every Asian household ever.

[@axolotlchaoswow]

Can confirm. I am an asian.

[@rupertgarcia]

@@axolotlchaoswow. Same! Competition is a must! 😂😂😂😂

[@kibinv6104]

Competition is inevitable😂

[@cactusamber1703]

@@axolotlchaoswow are you malaysian? Or maybe singaporean? Lol

[@axolotlchaoswow]

@@cactusamber1703 Singaporean

[@Mezzy..]

"that's true." "Is that the only phrase you can say in Mandarin?" "That's true"

[@blob431]

r/technicallythetruth

[@violet_crow2341]

是真的

[@milk-zd4vk]

it’s bit weird that he said so many times “that’s true” because the meaning turned into “that’s reality”. what he should’ve said is “的确” (indeed) to sound less like google translated

[@alexcitovsky7389]

@@milk-zd4vk well, he is Indeed not Chinese Worf

[@vorsichtig1235]

确实

[@computernerd1101]

The guy who only knows one phrase in Mandarin somehow managed to win the bronze medal.

[@josephc.9520]

@@joe_z 😉

[@Ageoffernando]

Life imitates art.

[@NazriB]

Lies again? Mandarin Oranges

[@jin_cotl]

@@NazriB ???

[@someinternetdude8959]

That’s true

[@kardengl8182]

Kudos to the actor dad trying to speak Mandarin, he’s actually Korean, I think.

[@vanilla__roses9656]

@@RecordCheese Hahaha that's not funny 😂😂😂😂

[@AC-pk5qo]

I know right! He’s playing the dad character so well and he speaks perfectly too

[@whygoogle5100]

@@vanilla__roses9656 its a reference to the fact he played kim jung ung in a movie

[@Ray-mw1fx]

Yes he is korean. And he once played Kim Jong Un.

[@nath-wp7xp]

How good is his mandarin?

[@melitajay]

Everyone's dissing their accents but isn't the whole joke that they aren't fluent hence the competition lmao

[@SK-ps5el]

That's what i was thinking!

[@bosslu2768]

Right, someone even said they only knew one sentence

[@cheesecakelasagna]

Ikr! That's the whole point of the scene

[@jdair210]

That's true.

[@truthseeker7548]

Same, thats why the grandma is out because shes a native speaker. Hhahahaha People sometimes go brain dead to be politocaly right then be wrong in the end.

[@Heyyyyitsanya]

Me: Wow, this is impressive that all these actors speak Mandarin! Everyone: They suck at Mandarin! Me, a monolingual American: Oh.....

[@Lily-oj2yl]

Yea. It’s only the grandma that doesn’t have an accent 😂

[@bangbangsussybaka12345]

But its understandable that you dont understand chinese as Americans are not required to learn chinese but when it comes to me, someone who's half chinese...

[@yoholup19]

@@bangbangsussybaka12345 yikes in Mexico there is a Chinatown only been their once you hear a very good Mandarin accent and then there is the ultra mega Latino accent

[@lonelittlejerry917]

@Biracial Boy Most native English speakers are monolingual, especially Americans.

[@Heyyyyitsanya]

Biracial Boy um yes I’m American however I’m learning French at my university it’s my minor and I know basic Spanish and asl so yea

[@jeffhe1701]

He lost the game but won the dumplings. Seems like a win to me

[@SYDAirlineEnthusiast]

Too bad Google translate wasn’t a thing back then.

[@nikkimiddlekillsday5161]

Bet those dumplings were worth the loss 😋

[@SYDAirlineEnthusiast]

@@nikkimiddlekillsday5161 he was just really hungry and didn’t want someone else to eat them before he could

[@nikkimiddlekillsday5161]

@@SYDAirlineEnthusiast my great aunt is a HUGE dumpling addict, it's actually the reason why she got her nickname 😂. Aunt Dump, for years I always wondered why we called her that

[@SYDAirlineEnthusiast]

@@nikkimiddlekillsday5161 I love dumplings too.

[@averagejoey2000]

It's really impressive that John krasinski learned Mandarin for this show

[@molojee]

LMAOOOO PLS

[@carlymacchiato1562]

@@bouhemeli4047 fresh off the boat

[@bouhemeli4047]

@@carlymacchiato1562 thank you so much carly

[@beatrix2613]

took a while but- 💀💀

[@xinexinh]

I think the chinese voices were recorded in a studio

[@vivizhou2932]

“GIMMIE THEM DUMPS” (What my brother screams in English when he can’t say it in Cantonese or Mandarin)

[@NJ-wb1cz]

Today I learned that Chinese kids love to eat their mom's warm dumps!

[@depressionchan8394]

space in va der Please erase this from my brain

[@GDToast]

Why the hell would you comment that

[@aoifej9118]

wats-

[@bedazzlebeautykd6194]

给我饺子

[@Karen-fe9lu]

i love how most of the "chinese" actors are actually Korean and most "korean" characters are actaully Chinese

[@HakingMC]

*Edit 7 months after posted: Kindly disregard what I've said. I've made a fatal error in reading.* Nah, Korean has their own alphabet. Yes alphabets, look them up. They are nothing like Chinese.

[@BinBintheRiceCake]

@@HakingMC Uh......did you read the comment at all?

[@HakingMC]

@@BinBintheRiceCake what about it Edit : I've made a fatal error in understanding, kindly disregard this question and what I've said.

[@jcalvarez4407]

@@HakingMC he's talking about the actors*, not the alphabet.

[@John仰望十架的栋栋]

HakingMC dude, u r off-topic. U will get a D or F if this happened in an essay. Plus, Korean culture is historically greatly influenced by China. The reason behind their change of alphabet could be a product of the government trying to get rid of the influence of Chinese characters. Not just as simple as somebody later corrected me saying Korean people weren't able to master original Chinese characters. Everything is possible within this political and educational move. Stop @ me if you are not talking about the character (the cast )'s ethnicity. The topic is about the controversy of this show for using non-Chinese Asians to portray Chinese. If you think character only means the basic component of a word, stop using youtube and go buy a dictionary, plz.

[@aurexiia8925]

for the people who don't understand mandarin: the grandma is literally the only person who sounds like she can speak chinese fluently. everyone else sounds like they've just been taught only those lines.

[@rach101]

Even Emery?

[@aurexiia8925]

@@rach101 well sorta, he uses phrases that isn't commonly used in mandarin. he also speaks in a taiwanese accent

[@liamwilcox641]

@@aurexiia8925 they’re from Taiwan in the show

[@aurexiia8925]

@@liamwilcox641 yes i know but most taiwanese people can speak mandarin fluently, they cannot at all.

[@yty1941]

@@aurexiia8925 (I mean, 'Taiwanese accent' is basically Fujian dialect mesh style, so I'll count that as knowing mandarin as well💀)

[@II-im3wd]

Little bro: _Is that the only phrase you know in madarin?_ Big bro: 是真的！

[@zander4421]

I I 😂😂😂

[@centntn]

是真的!1!!!1!!1!

[@yourshizun5737]

是真的！

[@sasakihaise6299]

是假的！

[@Shittingbricks1111]

是真的!1!1!1!1!1!1!1!1!!11!!1!11!1!!!!!

[@sandikoo744]

The smallest kid and the grandma are the best at mandarin.

[@lisaishere0919]

Sandi Koo agree, but dad shows the effort and is actually not bad

[@eyeekou]

Lisa Ya-Han Chang they’re right, since the dad is korean (irl) i applaud him for his attempt at mandarin

[@kiwifruitkl]

The dad is played by an actor who is not even Chinese. He's an American of Korean descent. Neither Korean nor English is tonal.

[@sandikoo744]

I'm assuming the dad is a very popular actor considering how all the replies are attempts to defend him even though I never said anything about him.

[@Lucyk6]

Sandi Koo Lol

[@hemlock42069]

"There can be only one winner." "Yes. There can be only one." *Proceeds to add poison to her son's milk*

[@oujimandias6485]

_flashbacks to watching that certain tea kettle that pours either tea or poison_

[@sagartandon1917]

@@oujimandias6485 I saw one in The empress if China drama. So much poison there😂

[@ArcadiasPlanet]

🤣🤣

[@jonsimpson6240]

That just guarantees a posthumous victory as the child can never speak English.

[@shifajamal6283]

OMG ABLKDJBWAFKWLQABAA

[@stanleypines3626]

Man got bronze with one phrase and got dumplings. Eddie is the real champion.

[@SYDAirlineEnthusiast]

Except he called them dumps. Dumps is not even a slang for dumplings in any country.

[@stanleypines3626]

@@SYDAirlineEnthusiast I think it's a joke

[@jason8923]

The grandma is the only one who can speak decent Mandarin, the rest speak Mandarin as good as my French.

[@littlefishbigmountain]

Evan Ho *aussi Il n’y a pas un e après le i

[@littlefishbigmountain]

Evan Ho De rien, mon ami! 😉

[@nugget8612]

是真的

[@Arcxzal]

they sound like they learned off duolingo

[@yimo6232]

Lol

[@celesea3691]

The grandma: Has fluent mandarin Everyone else: Let's just say I have Duolingo plus

[@dwaynethewokjohnson6646]

是真的！

[@athirahsufyan7509]

i feel personally attacked

[@kandaSorata5527]

even the grandma doesn't sound decent. Her mandarin is indeed fluent but there's an accent

[@martinwatine3136]

@@dwaynethewokjohnson6646 i was about to make that joke

[@ht1022]

The little boy is probably the best duolingoist lol coz he probably was raised speaking it at home

[@CZORCH]

“Yes. There can only be one” *intense silence* kid: *sllllurpp*

[@08_enavale59]

ᴄᴢᴏʀᴄʜ.8083 nice scar you got there *sluuuurp*

[@emilson8191]

@@08_enavale59 nice reference

[@heartsforluci4]

Ena Elyza Vale *heh heh heh*

[@The_Beast_666]

ᴄᴢᴏʀᴄʜ.8083 ROTFFLMAO

[@honeyhernandez91]

The kid lost because he was suppose to slurp in Chinese.

[@yilsa]

As someone who speaks Mandarin, I can say that I am on the floor right now with these pronunciations...🤣

[@oliveyim5216]

they can’t say the “x” sound. 小 becomes “shiao” to them

[@NataliesMagic]

same and i don't even speak Mandarin

[@anasazhari4498]

Man, never knew my 1 semester of Mandarin class would actually be useful enough that I could agree lol. Yeah, only the grandma sounds natural and normal. The rest sounds very articulated.

[@SYDAirlineEnthusiast]

To be honest, everyone except for the grandma’s cast member was born in the us. Randall park is also Korean.

[@Unknownplsyer]

​@@NataliesMagic Precisely that's why you can't tell the difference.

[@GuyFromChina]

If your Chinese then you can relate to this when your parents say speak Chinese at home and English outside of home

[@the-bruh.cum5]

What has hanzi done to your brain poor soul😰

[@AWalkingSheep]

Can’t relate I just speak Chinese with parents and English with my siblings.

[@Puilooi]

yup and talking with siblings will be a combo of it

[@jayplayz4229]

I speak half english half chinese it's a nightmare to understand me

[@Ramirez_7651]

devono knabo If you’re ACTUAL Chinese, this wouldn’t be a problem at all

[@missdorito1421]

"but idk how to say gimme them dumps in mandarin" HAJAJJANSNKA

[@hirohunter2314]

When you learned Mandarin but you didn't master it and don't want to disappoint your ancestors " Gei wa zhe ke, hai yo zhe yi ge, gei wa na ke"

[@canofworms6730]

「我要餃子！！！」

[@fariesz6786]

and i always thought "gimme them dumps" in mandarin is "no. 32 please"

[@ayszhang]

He has failed already. You must at least know the food words of your parents' or grandparents' language 😂😂😂

[@xflove]

@@canofworms6730 .....幫我拿一下餃子

[@sillyduan1468]

The actor who plays the father is actually the only Korean haha... It’s great that he can pull this off.

[@mehspacedorito]

Korean gang!! 💚💚

[@monkey_kang]

I'm sure Eddie is Korean too

[@robsonneves6189]

@@monkey_kang No, he is also chinese (not born in China but has chinese ancestors)

[@monkey_kang]

@@robsonneves6189 yea I'm wrong lmao

[@pepperdayjackpac4521]

Robson Neves which really doesn’t add to his mandarin skills

[@Savagery21]

I am so proud of this family. Their not ashamed of their heritage. I’m only like a 4th Chinese, but I still wish I learned Mandarin and a bit of Cantonese.

[@User-metaphys08]

Are you Southern Han?

[@ellenbainprior4682]

What's stopping you?

[@alienlee7793]

"Screw it, I'm out. I've been wanting someone to pass me those dumplings for half an hour but I don't know how to say "Give me them dumps" in Mandarin."

[@chloe-gs6bq]

AlienLee 给我饺子 there I helped him HAHA

[@alisa9040]

That was the strangest thing to me. Most of the Chinese and Taiwanese people I know who are actually “fresh off the boat” would just reach over to get it themselves. Different set of customs, is all.

[@junejun8]

Truest thing ever.

[@glorynarong2507]

That's why the Chinese restaurant have a spinning round table where u can move the food closer to you. The concept of passing the food is the western way I think.

[@teabag3211]

AlienLee SO ME XD

[@edac.7847]

I like how this one clip suddenly turned everyone into a language professor.

[@annpow5672]

Yup

[@ronmin_yoongi3200]

Yasss:)

[@DJSCRMNGHST]

Dude!!!😂🤣

[@vodkat07]

是真的！

[@Stef-iq4dh]

They got a PhD in Duolingo 😂

[@lilithoo1511]

I love how he's eating cereal in a chinese bowl used for rice

[@MrPeanutJohn]

and he is using soy milk

[@ericklin347]

hhhha this is so funny

[@shellylu4200]

what the fuck there are bowls specifically for cereal?

[@MrThisucks]

A bowls a bowl

[@가주아-z1w]

Well... as an asian(South Korean), eating cereal in the bowl(we have kinda bowls in Korea.) Is very usual to me and also to every Korean. Whenever My mon gives cereal to me as my breakfast, she gives a bowl which is very similar to the bowl in the video. I am sure that it must be usual in any asian countries where people eat cereal. So, your reaction is very interesting to me😄😄😄😄

[@DesertFoxWITHAFREAKINGKNIFE]

I always were fascinated how chinese,japanese and koreans memorizing their languages,especially cantonese chinese

[@hithere640]

Korean is the easiest out of those. Probably easier than English

[@coolskeleton_95_]

I speak Cantonese and I have no idea how I learnt to speak it since I spoke it from a young age. Not to mention all languages keep evolving each day, sometimes there are some internet slangs that move over to real life conversations and I can't understand what my friends are saying lol

[@KaotikBOOO]

Why though? A mother tongue is a mother tongue, it doesn't matter which one it is

[@philbecker4676]

@@hithere640 All languages are easy to learn but difficult to master.

[@shuyuofficial]

@@hithere640 no wayyyy chinese is easiest bcz, apart from characters, the grammar is relatively similar to english compared to korean and japanese. Of course harder than romance languages tho

[@NashTheGreat]

Grandma won the game, she can't speak english.

[@FBI-fb1mv]

I forgot what my original comment was

[@lewismarco7505]

She's been speaking more and more english as the seasons go on.

[@dal2dalchu475]

She can speak English too

[@hondohcyang7734]

Yes she can,well kinda but yeah still

[@rsaxx018]

I haven't watched this in so long but I remember Grandma speaking some English back in one of the earlier seasons.

[@nathanbiller7662]

“There can be only one winner” “Yes, there can be only one” *Eats cereal menacingly*

[@dcarbs2979]

Not quite Highlander is it?

[@8L00D_M00N]

100th like XD

[@karankenZ]

Is he eating ramen in milk?

[@emperorlizZ]

Lol

[@Lalaball7]

Rice 米饭🍚

[@iliketurtles1104]

the legend has it... they’re still playing the game

[@L-S]

確實如此 That's true

[@SYDAirlineEnthusiast]

0:20, 0:26, 0:30; I will admit those were appropriate responses Eddie made based on what the last person said.

[@iliketurtles1104]

MegaAirplanelover lmao

[@marti3471]

@@L-S 🤣

[@swishup8264]

MegaAirplanel

[@Ranakade]

I can't believe I held off clicking this video for years. I regret not clicking, and I don't regret clicking. 🤣

[@damsie64]

Legend says he's still saying 是真的

[@lemon5501]

Damsie that’s true

[@yeah..]

那是真的!

[@chin_yi]

真的吗

[@windysolstice]

平台 灶

[@windysolstice]

Nah jk

[@marciavox8105]

The mom’s calm stare at the end. I felt that in my soul. Don’t mess with her. She seems calm but it’s the calm intent of a rattlesnake ready to strike.

[@markdunham9634]

Separately, she looks damn good for someone who just woke up

[@logi3622]

She looks like about to launch a hundreds paragraphs of arguments

[@CapSoo999]

Most Chinese think she is really beautiful

[@jackpow2004]

@@CapSoo999 why wouldn’t they? She is.

[@petrayt5486]

@@CapSoo999 so its bad for america, british, japan, korean, and all country? Btw im not chinese but have some blood of it and i think she beautiful.

[@Eden19867]

*Me who's learning mandarin* : omg i want to sound like them !! *Native Chinese speakers* : they suck ;-;

[@niseakira5238]

Gemstone Knight same like me QAQ a fully vietnamese girl can speak japanese and english and some of korean as well Me after watching video : 是真的！！

[@linhtran626]

Their accent is not really good, 是真的

[@vlnvlaclogbaerhpno]

They sound very Taiwanese. The older ones sound like native speakers but the younger ones definitely do not.

[@LeonardoCaida]

Just not really good? Their Chinese suck! I mean all of them... 听一帮不会说中文的人硬拗中文，听的我是浑身难受。。。

[@unknownrose2887]

Leonardo Westcott they ‘ve already quite good to spoke like that . I ‘m a Chinese, I know many Chinese people they don’t know how to praise others , if you can’t say something nice, please just don’t say anything.

[@briandominguez3594]

This show was gold 😩😩😩

[@felixlee9645]

Ugh

[@tylerredforge5563]

Ja

[@everyday.myself]

What’s it called?

[@briandominguez3594]

@@everyday.myself Fresh off the Boat 🤙

[@everyday.myself]

@@briandominguez3594 thank youuu

[@BankruptMonkey]

The accent you are hearing are the actors staying in character. The characters aren't supposed to have perfect accents, except for grandma. The accents reflect that.

[@ramenaia7076]

i mean, if you spend the majority of your life learning a language and have a spouse that speaks the same one, you should have a pretty good understanding of it. not only that they lived in chinatown for a period of time. if this were real id expect much more chinese from all of them honestly. i think its just lack of language knowledge on the actors and scriptwriters part lol

[@brandonmendoza4493]

@@ramenaia7076 Not to mention the fact that the parents both grew up in Taiwan

[@curerose6906]

In the father's actor case he is Korean, not Chinese.

[@AllenHanPR]

What on earth are you on about. It's obvious none of them are comfortable with speaking Mandarin, only Grandma.

[@archmaiden]

Cant believe they need that explained lol

[@sniblo]

*coughs in English* Everyone: You're out!

[@mich497]

Lol

[@crystalclear9020]

Lol

[@zigzag2441]

Lol

[@aisthetikz]

Lol

[@zbigniewgulbinowicz1431]

Lol

[@Itscalistarodriguez]

*Give me them dumps*

[@bestwl]

LOL That's not even English!

[@basic_focus1807]

给我这个饺子！

[@KoroSin777]

1k likes and 3 comments... Hmmm

[@SYDAirlineEnthusiast]

Dumps isnt a word. Lol, I am not even Chinese, and I say more mandarin stuff than Eddie can.

[@uniquerod52]

MegaAirplanelover u mean u speak more lmao and I'm full Chinese btw xd

[@bigress4300]

0:29 it’s funny how he keeps saying “that’s true” In mandarin

[@nicoleraheem1195]

是真的

[@mouthwaterin]

It's funny how you pointed that out

[@jadelegends5396]

When he can only said “ 是真的 “ I felt that

[@elizabethmok554]

i usually go with “對對對對對”

[@TheCubingMaster25]

@@elizabethmok554 hello i have a project that I wanted to use this dialogue for, would you be able to write out the conversation in mandarin?

[@The-Man23]

@@TheCubingMaster25 I can help but where you from

[@twicequeensofkpop315]

@@TheCubingMaster25 which part of it? the 是真的？

[@girl_diary08]

Ich kan deutsch

[@polyurethanes_3]

To this day, he still answers everything in mandarin with “是真的”

[@xxyy2597]

:))))

[@rinjswand2716]

could somebody please write the pinyin for this phrase?

[@subtitlewatcher3762]

Rinjswand shì zhēn de

[@rinjswand2716]

hamyハマカ thank you so much

[@subtitlewatcher3762]

Rinjswand 不客氣

[@mohaumofokeng5714]

It's weird how they're all speaking Chinese, but all of them have different accents

[@piggytsai2226]

Cuz grandma is the only actor who can actually speak Chinese.

[@goldenp3arl874]

bc non of them can actually speak it fluently I doubt

[@sydneyd.8261]

Mohau Mofokeng I’m pretty sure they’re not all Chinese. I know at least the actor plays the dad is Korean (I’m pretty sure lol)

[@younggodicarus]

The grandma is the only one Chinese Chinese like born there. The dad's Korean. Everyone else is American of Chinese descent

[@starstreamz523]

If you were wondering, their accent is really bad. The only one thats good is the grandma lol

[@leahPhan-l5c]

I can already see the sparks of rivalry🤣The resemblance is insane🤣🤣

[@NBARicky99]

That's true

[@maxomax9039]

Riccardo Abdine i want it

[@chloroplast8611]

MAXO MAX WTF DID YOU JUS SAY

[@maxomax9039]

nothing, chloroplast anyways you still learning chinese?

[@chloroplast8611]

FUCK YEAH I AM!!!!!!! but seriously, WHY DOES CHINESE HAVE TO HAVE SUCH DIFFICULT FUCKING PRONOUNCIATIONS???? AND WHATS THE POINT OF USING FUCKING TONES IN EACH WORD????? I MEAN LIKE JUST FUCKING INVENT A NEW CHINESE WORD INSTEAD OF LAZILY TONING IT

[@maxomax9039]

ikr??? such difficulty. welp, i guess the chinese are too used to their toning language. but i do think they should make it more like their little brother, japanese

[@curtispn9659]

Everyone: talking about learning mandarin Me: HEY THATS ASIAN JIM FROM THE OFFICE

[@adamsamuel4687]

That’s not Jim. Jim’s not Asian.

[@curtispn9659]

you seriously never noticed? hey hats off to u for not seeing race

[@akira-sx1fq]

Holy shit i didnt notice

[@FlashRey]

@@adamsamuel4687 That means you didn't watch the whole seasons of the Office!

[@aetheros1890]

@@FlashRey It's a joke on what dwight said

[@athenachen9141]

Everyone’s talking about the accent and all I can think about is that I have the same exact bowl as the kid at the end

[@meemee0-1]

same i feel like every chinese household has that exact same bowl

[@marclegum]

Same 😂

[@blankexpression34]

@@meemee0-1 Actually my family's Filipino but idk where we got our bowls

[@writingmusey]

same here

[@adellachristabel5317]

Me too lmao

[@ej3ek5pk3vup]

the grandma can speak Mandarin well. Some might argue she has an accent, but that’s how exactly my sister’ mother-in-law speaks Mandarin, she moved to and lived in NY for nearly forty years, now both of her English and Mandarin are with accent lol . Actually even I have accent when I speak mandarins cuz I used to live in Philippine for just five years.

[@mechadoggy]

“Some might argue she has an accent, but that’s exactly how my sister’ mother-in-law speaks Mandarin” As a Chinese-American born in the US, it’s pretty much how I speak Mandarin too.

[@ysf-d9i]

@@mechadoggy eh. I came here when I was 7, 23 years ago. None of my family or any of our family friends speak like this. Not only is her pronunciation off, the word choice and sentence structure is also really odd.

[@mechadoggy]

@@ysf-d9i Maybe it’s just a matter of different accents from different provinces of China. For instance, when I gave a tour of my high school to a bunch of teachers from mainland China, they could immediately tell I had a southern Chinese accent/pronunciation. As another example, I remember seeing a leaked video where a Wuhan nurse was admitting that they already had over 100,000 Covid cases back when the Communist government was officially claiming only 10,000 cases at the time. That Wuhan nurse had a very very thick Hubei accent that I could barely understand. Even my parents could barely understand her.

[@ysf-d9i]

@@mechadoggy there's a very clear difference between a regional accent and a foreign accent.

[@mechadoggy]

@@ysf-d9i What province are you and your family from?

[@Pumpkinss]

Everybody else at the table: *fluent chinese* Me: 是真的

[@tangy4413]

Pumpkin 是真的

[@sweatyskeleton7390]

Salut

[@eschell4564]

Yep that’s true

[@ashtonbanks27]

So is nobody gonna tell me what that says?

[@emiliegunder]

@@ashtonbanks27 That's true

[@arxibald5850]

Wait when did Jim from The Office learn to speak Mandarin?

[@aultorable]

Arxibald Underrated joke right here.

[@meganwoop]

Agreed

[@hoonkwon9484]

Such an underrated joke, I had a good laugh lol

[@ldive]

I’m dead

[@ericadeang]

dwight: IMPERSONATION IS A CRIME

[@nunabisness7191]

He’s not eating the cereal with chopsticks, he loses.

[@nunabisness7191]

Zach Johns That fact he didn’t try makes him the loser.

[@benjaminsandoval1920]

@@zachjohns6776 woosh

[@CalipsoSarah]

@@zachjohns6776 you don't say! What a genius! Nobody would have thought about it.

[@ramielfromoblock]

@Soham Sharma uhhh, r/wooosh?

[@lucy_lyy]

@@zachjohns6776 of course you can

[@musicsixtyseven]

I love how they each vary on their fluency based on how much western they are

[@mamobee]

Everyone is making a huge fuss over their accent but isn't it in character of them to have a bad accent? They're Chinese American immigrants and their kids are first generation I believe, as a first gen myself I never learned my native language because my family assimilated to American culture so we wouldn't be seen as foreigners. It would be common for them to lose their accent or even some of if not all of the language. My sister was born in the Philippines and Tagalog was her first language but she lost it when my parents made the move here. Idk I think y'all are just being really picky

[@karaccs0524]

Mariah B. I am a first generation immigrant and I know chinese I can read write understand and speak fluently

[@arabian8873]

You should never forget where you came from. I suggest learning your native language and getting more in touch with your origins. It is up to you but you need to remember that America does not have a culture of its own, it does have a culture but not it's own. In the future, you might regret the fact that you disregarded an important part of yourself, which made you unique. Of course, it is up to you.

[@lyn7069]

Mariah B. I'm totally on your side. I'm an adopted kid from China and completely lost my native tongue since I live with an American family. It's not easy to just "learn" a culture that you can't really connect to like others can. I would die to know my own culture and roots but it isn't easy, especially the older I get. I've tried learning Mandarin on my own ever since I was a kid, but I get self conscious that other Chinese people will think I suck and that I'm too "American" for them or something.

[@raggedyhaggity250]

it is a huge deal. don't know abt you but chinese families generally instill a deep value and sense of worth into the culture. yours might not think like this and its alright, but for most of us its an important part of the identity

[@niobiumplums]

the kids the fine. but constance’s accent is bad, even randall park (who’s Korean and doesn’t speak Chinese at all) sounds better than her no lie

[@princeelgango2163]

And the mother says in mandarin : You are adopted Boy says : WHAT and winner is mother 👩🤷‍♀️

[@snekbitesboop9643]

Mother: "你是 養子"

[@mr.person1219]

Boy: "什么?! 为什么，你现在说我?"

[@hoangphuc8375]

boy:Nani

[@Chris-sr2ib]

ラリーの景品

[@thygod4920]

@@princeelgango2163 r/wooosh

[@beck2127]

Meanwhile in America, "if you speak Spanish, you're out!"

[@Topunito]

Okay, whatever political opinion anyone has, that was a good joke. Get this to the top.

[@coolguyx14]

No in Spanish is no so if I say no am I out?

[@mr6ombastic]

Okay this one was actually good

[@brag_lisa]

Oof

[@c.a.3693]

Jajajjajaja 😂

[@stephaniekao8831]

one of the Best shows Ever

[@r34lest.rod05]

“The Duolingo Bird has entered the chat” “This family has left the chat”

[@trxphywaifalt]

Hahaha idk why I laughed at that

[@nobodythatyoushouldknow8196]

Why did the mother sound like she was gonna kill her son in the end like, dafaq? *cries in mandarin*

[@alexanicole3411]

btw that’s the girl from crazy rich asians

[@yosoyysoyyo]

She's fairly competitive on the show. Probably more determined than murderous

[@Greggers1516]

Dafaq you doing still using dafaq in 2019

[@asiansanta7743]

Rich Instinct dafaq dafaq dafaq dafaq dafaq dafaq, get over it

[@Greggers1516]

@@asiansanta7743 wow you totally got me there. never been destroyed like that before.

[@LEELOLKH]

1:21 his face😂

[@LEELOLKH]

😂

[@stephok7762]

Me after Netflix and chill with the homies:

[@nancyhv5397]

🤣🤣

[@darkx6869]

@@stephok7762 ayo

[@Emotive49]

😀😇😅☺😋🤗☺😙🤑🙃😐🤗😅😀☺👹😈😠👿😠😈🤬🥱👹💀😩😧😩😨😥😨😲☹😯🤢

[@MichaelXiong-jx7ke]

在夜深人静的时候想起他，送的那些花，还说过一些撕心裂肺的情话，赌一把幸福的筹码，在人来人往的时候想起他，他现在好吗，可我没有能给你想要的回答，可是你一定要幸福啊🎵

[@callmeshyn]

So are we all just gonna ignore the fact that the grandma was sitting on a gaming chair

[@mymeloluvs]

Uh idk if that’s a gaming chair some electronic wheelchairs are designed like that for the elderly

[@mymeloluvs]

So they can be comfortable in the chairs hence why it looks like a gaming chair

[@michaelnajoan5104]

Yes, also, their mom is kinda hot

[@user-mg7wh8zq6v]

@@michaelnajoan5104 asians man

[@michaeljayson968]

I bet you got this somewhere

[@kbs5059]

dont give a fck even if they sound weird. at least they made the efforts to try. and having accent is totally normal

[@mayu9882]

That is... Not the point of the video

[@kbs5059]

@@mayu9882 look at the comments of this video

[@mayu9882]

@@kbs5059 yeah, but the video just talks about how young chinese people are adapted to talking English nowadays and the grandma is the only one who speaks it without sounding as someone with accent.

[@squidwardcommunitycollege3733]

k bs Dumbass the video is about people not being able to pronounce chinese properly. Learn to joke, you fuckface

[@crashmatrix]

@@squidwardcommunitycollege3733 jezus man, you want some fries with that salt?

[@meilifenfang4791]

literally no one: that one dude: 是真的

[@ifrog751]

maplemoo that one dude: GIMME THE DUMPS

[@isaacyoong2634]

是真的！

[@randomperson-de1rs]

Lmao

[@chenelena2856]

你是假的！ Baby

[@snakes7303]

He’s the main character, by the way..

[@Rawr_XD_XP]

"There can only be one winner. " Legend says they're still speaking Mandarin to this day.

[@BearyBear]

Damn, now i just realized that the mother is in crazy rich asian 😂

[@user-ce1ns4xh9p]

omG---I kneW She lOoked lIke. HErr!!!

[@BearyBear]

@@ricecakedeer and in aquaman lol

[@natalyalindo982]

Y’all slow asf

[@mono4048]

@@BearyBear also in the interview

[@kazuhimi]

wasn’t the dad also asian jim from the office

[@jinsunkim9966]

No one: The kid: Eating cereal out of a noodle bowl

[@matthewpham9525]

ThePandaOfSushi 240424264 Asian households be like:

[@WildBlox]

I thought it just decorated

[@jolly3257]

I have the same bowl lmao

[@hooraayy]

But thats the bowl for every food that has soup in it

[@kuroejanairemi]

@@hooraayy Yeah yeah

[@zenequation]

What’s really weird is that most of the cast is actually Korean-American.

[@koraegi]

Chauncey Zen literally only the dad is korean Bruh

[@jinyboi]

Lmao I think most of us only recognize the actor that plays the dad anyway

[@ifrog751]

是真的! still can’t stop laughing lol

[@jinyboi]

@@S2C8509 you mean Asian Jim ;)

[@zenequation]

Hiram Abiff Who told you it is a common thing that Koreans know how to speak Mandarin? Who told you that?

[@ilhan691]

Hudson- The kid that plays Eddie is Taiwanese, Constance Wu is Taiwanese , Forest Wheeler who plays Emery speaks Cantonese and is learning Mandarin Ian Chen is Taiwanese and so is the grandma only Randall Park is Korean... ofcourse people who were born there speak it better second and third gen its what you hear and if you practice to preserve. Its never gonna be fully authetic.

[@playmakersmusic]

Grandma is from China, the rest I believe are Taiwanese(minus Randall).

[@YummYakitori]

@@playmakersmusic That's why they said 国语 which is what Mandarin is usually called in Taiwan instead of 华语 or 普通话

[@playmakersmusic]

@@YummYakitori Yep, I'm replying to Op's comment when he wrote "Ian Chen is Taiwanese and so is the grandma" because the comment implied than grandma is Taiwanese when she is from China.

[@timngim583]

Taiwanese are Chinese by ethnicity too. "Taiwanese" is just the nationality. So its wrong to call them "Taiwanese" here when they are all American. It should be "American Chinese". The nationality and ethnicity. None of them have Taiwanese citizenships. Even grandma is a US Citizen already

[@timngim583]

@@playmakersmusic Taiwanese are Chinese by ethnicity too. "Taiwanese" is just the nationality. So its wrong to call them "Taiwanese" here when they are all American. It should be "American Chinese". The nationality and ethnicity. None of them have Taiwanese citizenships. Even grandma is a US Citizen already

[@chloeo.8114]

I don't make a habit of commenting on videos, but as a third gen Chinese immigrant kid, I'm glad they don't speak properly accented Chinese. Not all Chinese will speak with the accent you'd find in mainland China, and many of us, having grown up in an English dominant area will often struggle at Chinese as well. Seeing how the society around us places importance on speaking proper English and blending in, it's not uncommon for us to place learning priority on English as opposed to our mother tongues. Even with my family, we speak in a mixture of English and Chinese, substituting words we don't know in english, so if we consciously attempt to make conversation in full Chinese, I can guarantee you it won't sound like something out of a Chinese drama. TLDR: Mother tongue doesn't equal to first language!

[@pqlasmdhryeiw8]

It's pretty common for 3rd generation immigrants to loose "the old language". It actually starts already with the 2nd generation. It's well documented in linguistic studies.

[@SakuraMoonflower]

So.... As my family speaks Spanglish.... You speak Chingles? XD

[@Mr.Prongles]

Chloe Oon same thing with me and Japanese

[@deqinwu]

Chloe Oon yeah except but they're supposed to be Fresh Off the Boat so if anything they should sound more native than 3 gen Chinese. *Logic*

[@M3GANiTE]

Candy Wu Candy Wu it’s just a tv show, it’s not that deep

[@ebunoluwataiwo9975]

*I sincerely hope the duolingo bird does **_not_** find this video* Edit: haha, it worked i got dem -dumps- likes

[@poppy-ph3vk]

Oh no... Oh god no...

[@Tshedza]

😂

[@pixiemarie8274]

*there can only be one winner*

[@duolingoowl2598]

What Was That?

[@willcipher1038]

@@duolingoowl2598 I've learnt chinese see 求你换回我的家人

[@darkscreen2121]

So many people addicted the chinese new year and chinese posts from facebook 💀 0:04

[@auf6856]

Evan : Is that the only phrase you know how to say in Mandarin? Eddie : That's true Evan : 👁️👄👁️

[@3rd-Wave_Rebel]

That’s true= 沒錯。Not 是真的。 沒錯literally means not wrong.

[@cactuslavie]

@@3rd-Wave_Rebel 對話裡ok了 不會差太多

[@extra8088]

That’s true

[@tedchupig]

沒錯 is more appropriate

[@Eradicator-jv9xr]

@@3rd-Wave_Rebel literally the same meaning in a conversation my man

[@jennyahaha1395]

is there any experience more "asian american child" that eating cereal out of THAT specific red bowl?? 😭😭😭

[@Byeodee]

The authentic chinese red bowl lmaoo

[@qwmx]

Asian Australian here. I use to use bowls that are the exact same pattern, but were smaller and are made of plastic.

[@SKongdachalert]

I think us half-Chinese southeast asians also have that red bowl lol.

[@jennyahaha1395]

@@SKongdachalert the red bowl and white soup spoons with the blue flowers on them

[@birb2197]

THE red bowl lmfao, we used to have so much but somehow the smaller ones disappeared and now we only use the big bowls

[@tristontejada3564]

I just realized...technically the grandmother won because she always speaks Mandarin. 🤔

[@masaki2351]

Triston Tejada thats why she wasnt playing the game

[@toukendanshiwarrior2846]

Yeah, but we don't know and can't tell if she's really playing the game.

[@GeneK]

For sure.

[@allysonestes]

Triston Tejada but like she's not included in the game cuz mandarin is her only language and the rest aren't as fluent like her

[@shelovelyxo]

HetaliaFan15 she isn’t because after the dad got out, the mom said it was down to three: herself and her two sons. That means the grandmother wasn’t playing.

[@guesthda]

as a chinese person, watching a whole chinese family not being able to speak chinese physically and mentally hurts me

[@KoreanwithMissVicky]

Haha as someone who's learning Chinese, this was very funny to watch 😂

[@hiddenmelodies9282]

谁不会同意的

[@arthurmassainidesantana8556]

They are really speaking chinese? Or just pretend it?

[@hiddenmelodies9282]

@@arthurmassainidesantana8556 他们是真的说华文。好像是他们背的。

[@arthurmassainidesantana8556]

RELATI0NSHIP GT thank you, for nothing. The bad part is that i can't put in the translator because i'm not able to select the text.

[@hiddenmelodies9282]

@@arthurmassainidesantana8556 hahaha don't worry. I also speak English. What I said was that they might have already know what to say as they have planned it

[@anjhe4920]

Lol I relate to the guy that only knows 'thats true' because I can barely speak my native language at all, much less understand it. Then my parents compare me to my younger cousin, who knows both languages quite fluently

[@magna8738]

An Jhe oh god I relate to this and at parties all the aunts look at me weird because I can't really speak my mother tongue

[@lauren8836]

omg same. after 5 years of taking chinese all i can say is "im sorry my chinese is not good" and " I don't understand"

[@hayatg9953]

I relate and what is your native language?

[@alexanderson4699]

You know my pain. I should really try learning more of my native language though.

[@Hisherly]

Lol samw

[@isda3314]

When he said "there could only be one winner" I felt that in a competitive Asian family

[@Aciyan]

OMG IDK WHY BUT THIS IS THE MOST WHOLESOME THING I SAW TODAY AAAAAAH

[@N3RDYG0GGLES]

I tried to learn Mandarin from a club back in high school. Our teacher was a lovely Chinese woman who said I did really well with what little we covered, but holy hell it was hard! I’m an autistic Brit, learning a language where every word has extremely specific tones when you tend to speak in a way not even fully typical of your country/region is ridiculously difficult. But it’s a beautiful language all the same

[@itsalyssabtw]

they took mandarin off of the world languages class list in my high school the year before i got there and i was so pissed because i signed up for it and was super excited about it

[@sidekic1109]

@@SomeoneC who knows, maybe too many complained it was too hard or something? that or the principal was just racist or something

[@upstander1233]

@@itsalyssabtw probably not enough support :P (like too few students signed up so it simply wasn't worth it anymore)

[@t.castro4493]

I'm autistic too, I wonder if I'm going to have trouble with Cantonese because of the tones. I don't even understand the concept of pitch accent in Japanese. Well, I can kind of differentiate sometimes, but not always. And my native language actually helps me with Japanese.

[@justbamsy9285]

바나나

[@SDFRiver]

0:41 Grandma laughing just cracks me up. It sounds so joyful!

[@hopper6094]

LOL

[@oof-rr5nf]

Fresh Off The Boat is so awesome. It deserves all the love. So, so very nice to see Immigrant American families in sitcoms for a change!

[@ItsJustJakieG]

Honestly my favorite family sitcom ever! It beat The Middle, and Malcom in the Middle! And i never thought something could beat those two shows!

[@quietstream8206]

It's like a more modern everybody hates chris.

[@ranireid9238]

Anybody know what episode this is?

[@evanderzufarsetiawan2511]

Arunima Tiwari i wish they could make a lot of a sitcom about immigrants

[@oof-rr5nf]

Evander Zufar Hey, they are among the ones facing the most adversity. Their stories would be super engaging. I totally agree with you.

[@Redeemed]

Since everyone commented on the actors accents, I would say the grammar is also very "western", they basically wrote the lines in English and translate it word for word, which is not how it works.

[@thatpeskyrat]

the bowl he’s eating cereal out of is part of every chinese kid’s childhood

[@tc2241]

My grandmother would bring multiple with her, never ran out (she was Vietnamese lol)

[@yoongiswife6173]

John Mista SAAME. My family has tons of those

[@noonxrs]

yes

[@Dastiel4ever]

I think it is an Asian thing because my Grandma had a ton of those as well and she's Korean.

[@gwendafindlay9952]

300

[@sligerateai5006]

Me: being amazed of how they speak Chinese Me: sees comment that only the grandmother speaks fluently Also me: wait what-?!

[@tetra2277]

I mean it makes sense if you watch the whole show

[@RA-il3rw]

tbh I thought the little kid was alright too

[@marcellotenarta5233]

Yeah, the rest has a 'different accent' actually..

[@notcaaaramels]

It sounds like they learnt one word at a time and desperately tried to string them together. Its not smooth at all lol

[@marcellotenarta5233]

@@notcaaaramels But it's actually easy, especially if you already know the pattern radicals and strokes. I myself am a Chinese speaker, and most characters are actually having some kind of pattern that if you analyse, actually can make the learning super easy!

[@Jackle919]

Never seen FOB. From what I can tell here, the actor’s fluency: Grandma: Fluent Native Chinese Mom: Didn’t really care to learn until college. ABC fluent with an accent. Dad: Korean kid in Chinese class that gets decent grades but can’t hold a conversation. Eddie: his parents spoke Chinese to him occasionally once every full moon. Emery: Only spoke Chinese to his grandparents Evan: Grew up speaking Chinese with aunts, uncles, cousins, parents, etc. ABC fluent.

[@eliseo5416]

Never seen FOB but you know all their names ?

[@hianghaochan9639]

I think the mom is a Cantonese, her Chinese accent really sounds like Cantonese accent

[@oliviascarchughtai]

I Forgot My Name She's Taiwanese I think

[@hianghaochan9639]

@@oliviascarchughtai I don't think so, since majority of Taiwanese can speak Chinese fluently. However, u reminded me that her accent does sounds like Minnan accent ..... Even as a Chinese I can't really differentiate different accents of different dialects. It's her being pure Cantonese speaker or pure Minnan speaker

[@DrowsyPaunch]

"There can only be one" "Yes. There can only be one... Feeling under the weather lately? That would be the ricin I gave you"

[@tripleminttt]

They forgot the grandma is playing lol Edit: THANK YOU FOR 4K LIKES, I NEVER HAD THIS MUCH BEFORE

[@kokolexx]

Nah,grandma is the game master.

[@레아-q4e]

How could they beat someone who has been playing for 80 years straight

[@tripleminttt]

@@레아-q4e why not?

[@lit4960]

The grandma was the final boss

[@ademjashari4725]

That’s true

[@djmonky4994]

People seem to be forgetting or don't know that the shows premise is a first generation Asian family living in America, the show in general Knicks at how both Americanized they've been yet how they still keep a few culture concepts. You can tell they've been Americanized just by how one of the sons only says "that's true " c

[@geetee2392]

SBread How do you say "Captain Obvious" in Cantonese?

[@rarevidz100]

I wish they would renew it for another season

[@googleacc7115]

Kevin Dimla who said they didn’t yet

[@Dualidity]

Kevin Dimla they are probably going to, it's a hit

[@trinityinjextion1722]

Just saying and no racist bullshit... chinese people is everywhere and 80% of the ratings probably chinese ppl

[@marieruiz1814]

The guy who plays the dad in the show left after the first season I think (Which ever was their last). He hated the fact that the characters had white people problems? Idk, at least thats what I heard.

[@raymondmesa8258]

What is this show called?

[@hmrhuang]

the ending of this clip is so ****ing hilarious!

[@daisakukuze9627]

Everyone’s discussing the accents and the speaking but i’m wondering why is this in my recommended??

[@dawnthatblazes9526]

Dusk Lugarugan!! Season 3862728378281 episode 27197482895 of KZbin Recommendations! Congratulations y’all!

[@TigerAlert]

it's because you watched some kpop videos again

[@zerobitcs]

This is like the 5th time it's been recommended to me

[@sierrastevens8035]

Cire ???

[@MD_2k23]

Ik samee

[@AcediaIX]

The Grandma didn't participate because they knew she was too Good, look at the Gaming chair Feels really good when you made 2k people like your comment, beats the introverted side out of me to oblivion

[@jinyao7564]

underrated 💀💀💀

[@smolpeepee9756]

I DIDNT NOTICE GRANNY WAS SITTING ON A GAMING CHAIR, HOW LEGENDARY FAHAHA

[@souju_13]

I thought the Gaming chair was a jome until i replayed it.

[@giselengimbi2705]

lmao

[@stinkyuglyfat6306]

AYOOO

[@lvmhr]

*shit got real* when she said “and then there were three”

[@mephtec]

Yes

[@hipposter5577]

Neon Cat omg yes that’s what I thought about lol

[@kellywlk]

She actually just said "now there's just three left".

[@dp19twn]

When I was a kid, I have to learn the essential phrases in Mandarin/Cantonese to get things done. Things like : " I am hungry", "Give me money", "Thank you", "Bye" etc. And also my parents made it a rule that we siblings can argue in Mandarin, so our quarrels are always verbally short, and we always end up being the house of "Eggs". Someone is always a stupid egg," ben dan", "wang ba dan", "chun dan" or "wan dan".

[@danielsau7599]

Everyone saying that they have different accents, while im hearing the same shit from all of them

[@skylovermc2146]

Daniel Său you aren’t alone

[@chalkandrubble5702]

Sameee

[@CgComic]

@@skylovermc2146 so am i

[@atin7151]

Haha same

[@walwal6449]

You can kinda hear the "accent" if you compare it to the grandma but i also didnt see a difference at first 😂

[@AI-bq8dd]

that bowl at the end omfg. brings me back home.

[@KenjiAsakura09]

Country Road...... Take me home.... To the place... Where I Belong~

[@tomking3989]

for native Chinese, this sound actually weird, very weird...

[@comoli8609]

为什么

[@TheLucidDreamer12]

他们口音不好，不准确

[@davidliu6263]

他们的发音太差了

[@kerry848]

Oui oui baguette

[@texmex321]

tom king maybe they are not native speakers give them a break they did great

[@johnsmith7298]

Celebrating your ethnic heritage is a beautiful thing.

[@zazomy8629]

"If you speak english you're out" Me: *starts speaking japanese*

[@arcaderabbit7788]

Yeah mood Ich kann deutsche sprechen auch!

[@SkippyZii]

Labas ikaw

[@jaydenlin3780]

Way to beat the system buddy, well done

[@love2000amglam]

いいね

[@Rinnie_sun]

Me: *struggles to pick one of the 9 languages*