ENGLISH and THREE ASIAN languages Word Differences! (American vs Chinese vs Japanese vs Korean)

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[@Noah_ol11]

Put a Chinese , a Korean and a Japanese in a room and let them talking to each other their mother language and then it's OMG is so different than i expected

[@exzid]

its not that hard to tell

[@yogirlglitch_minsungmybeloved]

As a chinese thats currently learning japanese, we arent that different lmao, some words are stolen from the other language so its more similar

[@exzid]

@@yogirlglitch_minsungmybeloved same with korean and Chinese theres a lot of borrowed words since that was the language we used before

[@yogirlglitch_minsungmybeloved]

@@exzid mhm!

[@larshofler8298]

Yes, all three languages are actually unrelated. Unlike in Europe and Africa, where most languages are closely related to each other, East Asia is like a treasure house full of different languages, despite superficial similarities. Also I guess the ways Korean, Mandarin/Chinese and Japanese translate foreign words are also different, South Korean being similar to Japanese.

[@dylanting3969]

Out of all languages here, Mandarin Chinese is the only language that is tonal. Besides a few accents within Korean and Japanese, a specific word is usually still the same word even if you change the way you pronounce it. But for Mandarin, a simple tonal change can make you calling your mother sound like calling her a horse. XD

[@suzeel]

As I wrote Chinese language and Chinese Dialects are very precise!!👍👍👍😘😘😘

[@pia_mater]

Japanese is tonal too. 橋, 端, 箸 are all pronounced the same but have different tonal patterns. However tones aren't very important and Japanese speakers can usually guess what you mean even if you get the tones wrong

[@jumpvelocity3953]

@@pia_mater japanese is not tonal, it has pitch accent

[@pia_mater]

@@jumpvelocity3953 same thing

[@jumpvelocity3953]

@@pia_mater no, there is a very big difference.

[@gengarisnotfat]

we don't usually say stuff like "苹果无线蓝牙耳机" ("Apple's wireless Bluetooth headphone") here in China. (Sometimes “苹果耳机” (Apple's earbuds) or as people added, “蓝牙耳机” which refers to any Bluetooth headphones, but in general the name for AirPods is AirPods. It isn't the only headphone made by apple, nor is it the only bluetooth headphone, so if you want to refer to precisely AirPods, you'd either just say AirPods or use the term "苹果蓝牙耳机".) (It is also noteworthy that there isn't a official term for AirPods in Chinese. Most if not all apple products are just officially referred to as their English names.) The thing about Chinese is that transliterating foreign words with Chinese characters could be clumsy since unlike Kana used in Japanese or Hangeul used in Korean, Chinese characters aren't purely phonetic. Translating foreign words into Chinese characters often feels like spelling "Bon appetite" as "bone apple tea". In short, when we refer to, say, specific tech products named in English, we either have to give a description of them in native Chinese terms (hence 苹果无线蓝牙耳机) or we just use their English names instead. For example, AirPods are usually just referred to as "AirPods", and for terms like "Party" (as in a get-together). However, there is a transliterated word in Chinese "派对 Pàidùi", we usually just say "party" instead unless it is in a very formal scenario. (*EDIT*: Now that I think about it, in a very formal scenario you'd say "聚会 (Jyùhùi)" (roughly translates to "get-together" instead of 派对 (Pàiduì), so the word “派对” is barely ever used. It is usually just "Party" in English or "聚会" in Chinese.) People also mention political influences on how we translate stuff - it's not that much of a factor, not as much as you might think. Taiwan is mandarin-speaking and most translated terms aren't that different. It is way more of a phenomenon caused by limitations on how Chinese language works than how our government dislikes "the west".

[@Smppokman]

yeah

[@curious6528]

Agree

[@heatherzhang4745]

bro ikrrrrr

[@lsj971203]

In my circle, we do use 苹果手机 苹果电脑 苹果耳机 etc instead of the English word. I'm from the South, I think it really depends on where you live and your circle.

[@gengarisnotfat]

@@lsj971203 苹果耳机 is still more reasonable than “苹果无线蓝牙耳机” lmao I think at least people around me use "AirPods" and "iPhone" more often than “苹果耳机” and "苹果手机", and they are rendered as transliterations in speech (think "Airpaozi" or "Aifon" without tones). On the other hand "苹果电脑" is used in favor of "iMac" or "MacBook". That might be due to "AirPods" and "iPhone" when transliterated to fit the Putonghua phonology, both have fewer syllables than their translated counterparts (air-PAO-zi vs. píng-guǒ-ěr-jī, ai-FON vs. píng-guǒ-shǒu-jī), whereas "MacBook" doesn't share this same advantage (mai-ke-BU-ke vs. píng-guǒ-diàn-nǎo).

[@vosskh4744]

In conclusion, for the new-invented words, Chinese translates them into their own language system from the original words while Korean and Japanese just transliterating them. I think the difference in habit mainly due to the difference between ideographical language and phonetic language

[@nopperabosfathersasshole4944]

Which is why Koreans got so upset that Chinese calls kimchi “pao cai” (fermented vegetable) instead of some term that sounds like kimchi

[@NO1xANIMExFAN]

@@nopperabosfathersasshole4944 kimchi in Chinese is called hanguo paocai, which means Korean fermented vegetables. Paocai refers to any pickled vegetables, whether kimchi or not.

[@nopperabosfathersasshole4944]

@@NO1xANIMExFAN yes but Chinese people usually just call it paocai because it’s too bothersome to always include “Korean” before it. We don’t even consider paocai to be a traditional Chinese dish anyways. It’s like telling you I’m having “ice cream” right now. I don’t usually specify the flavour and I don’t think I necessarily have to

[@NO1xANIMExFAN]

@@nopperabosfathersasshole4944 true, and then koreans that are too prideful end up getting triggered over it

[@ijansk]

Perhaps because transliteration into Chinese is more messy so it is more practical to find a name for thing into meaningful combination of characters. I cannot say it for a fact but maybe Japanese prefers transliteration because Japanese has a reduced number of sounds and using kanji to give a name to new things could end up making more and more homophones.

[@henri_ol]

Make more videos with the "Asian Trio" , i wanna know more about some countries and cultures of Asia 🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

[@wonyoung_i]

Please don’t forget Hk 🇭🇰

[@seferino]

Orientals 🈷️

[@teacream8641]

Really interesting

[@NBS-rk8bl]

Asian trio? you talks like Japan China and Korea are only Asian countries...😂😂😂

[@courtesycall7746]

@@NBS-rk8blthey basically are

[@m3oytes7u]

Thanks to this kind of content, I am glad that people in other parts of the world can see that even among the three countries of Japan, China, and Korea, there are huge differences in language and culture.

[@the_wiki9408]

It's interesting to me how many English words made it into Japanese, but then the pronunciation changed so much that we can no longer understand them. I would imagine the French feel the same way about all their words we adopted into English.

[@impactframes6514]

>:)

[@Yuunarichu]

English has something a bit similar with Japanese, like with a little - in English it's a s'kosh, but in Japanese it's "sukoshi". Japanese people omit the "u" from the su sound most of the time so it got translated quite literally into English as s'kosh. If you say it fast I think the i gets omitted as well? 🤔 Not sure, as I kinda attempted to say it as native as possible but I can't remember if the i got omitted the way it does with u.

[@Mimi-or8zw]

this is so funny for me as a non nativ english speaker to hear... i can understand all (except for chinese) perfectly fine. just regular anglicisms. most languages have them

[@sheep4483]

​@@Yuunarichu​ neither of them are technically entirely omitted, but they aren't voiced because they're between voiceless consonants (s, k, p, t, h, f, ts, contrast with sugoi where it's voiced because of the g), and it can also happen at the end of words with voiceless consonants (desu, masu, not inu), it happens with both u and i, but I don't know any japanese besides some of the linguistics so I don't know if there are times it may or may not be devoiced at the end of words with speed or context either

[@feelsored3623]

I love this content. If you have tens of them 3 joining together just in the purpose of comparing their languages' words, I will watch all.

[@siopaoboy7550]

I say hello to my mom, and people think I'm Chinese. "Nanay." I ask for a fork "Tinidor.", and people think I'm hispanic (I'm half black and half Filipino, so sometimes people think I look hispanic.) Not to mention that the language has other words from other languages like English or Bahasa Malaysia. "Mahal" (Love / Expensive) "Kompyuter" (Computer).

[@ianchen6678]

Chinese translates the actual meaning of the word, not just by its sound.

[@SuperLol]

yeah cuz it's not phonetic in any way like japanese and korean usually are. And chinese also just likes give meanings to words (ask any chinese guy their names they'll explain the meaning behind them. Do the same with Japanese you might get kanji, which are their corresponding chinese names usually parents give too, and then explaini the meaning behind the kanji lol).

[@kianazhao2628]

汉字的表意性，创造性，都是最强大的。感谢老祖宗留下的伟大遗产！

[@Sunflower37.5]

I really love hearing people mixing two languages when they speak (Korean and English, Mandarin and Korean etc.) because as a bilingual, that’s learning a third language, I can relate so hard with them loll

[@Priyapriya-hs8pb]

Japanese girl kinda looks like Rosè of BP 😃❤️

[@yurysummy5545]

Chinese is a completely separate language, while Japanese and Korean are based on English and Chinese

[@Parkiy]

It is based on Chinese characters(hanja), not Chinese. Chinese is one of the languages used by the Chinese. It has nothing to do with Korean and Japanese. Korean uses Hangul, and Japanese uses Chinese characters(Hanja), Katakana and Hiragana.

[@containternet9290]

@@Parkiy Not really. About 60% of Japanese and Korean vocabularies are Chinese based.

[@courtesycall7746]

@@Parkiyif you actually spoke any of those languages you would realize that a lot of words are very similar both in writing and pronunciation in relation to Chinese

[@z344871531]

Chinese people tend to express foreign words in their own language rather than direct transliteration. Unless it is a person's name or there is no corresponding word in Chinese, such as McDonald's(麦当劳 maidanglao) and Cadillac（凯迪拉克 kaidilake）.

[@ilikeudonnoodles1626]

Then there’s Starbucks that got turned into 星巴克 (xing ba ke) I was very confused when my mum asked me to get her some Starbucks in Chinese lol

[@blenderpain8249]

@@ilikeudonnoodles1626 Yea, it's like a half translation. There's the word for "star" in chinese but no exact translation for "buck"...soooo....

[@liangma9601]

@@blenderpain8249 可口可乐是最妙的

[@blenderpain8249]

@@liangma9601 Yep. I actually think it's pretty clever. Thirsty Quenchy. It rhymes and it's the name of the brand.

[@NeerBeen]

For "popcorn" 爆米花 "bào mĩ huā", the middle word "mi" doesn't always mean "rice". It is shorten for "corn" "玉米" "yù mĩ" in Chinese in this particular circumstance. Because we do have "poprice" in China, and we call it 大米花 "dà mĩ huā", and actually "dà mĩ" means "rice" (the uncooked rice).

[@xww7930]

its great watching this understanding chinese , korean and english but idk japanese

[@Syiepherze]

4:16 The last vowel in ポップコーン (poppukōn) is long because it's meant to mimic the "or" sound in "popcorn". If it's shorter, it sounds like "pop-con"

[@sameperson5633]

はい。

[@LJBSullivan]

I don't get the rice in popcorn it's corn

[@mathimatiki]

​@@LJBSullivan well, corn is an American plant (as in native from the Americas). It's likely that there was not a Chinese character for corn.

[@pia_mater]

Do you know why they sometimes double the consonants in words borrowed from English? For example "dog" is usually transliterated as ドッグ "doggu" instead ofドグ "dogu". I never understood why they do this

[@summermcgrew8240]

This was so cute and fun to watch ㅋㅋ😂 I love how the common languages they spoke were English and Korean it was cool😂😝

[@kpizzleprice6649]

It's amazing that they understand each other sometimes. I knew it! They are so similar. It's like they Caribbean.

[@ohanaplayz880]

the Japanese person looks like Rosé

[@wangwinston6269]

I remember my Canadian English teacher once asked us how to say " office " in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, respectively. My Japanese classmate and Korean classmate said some words that were similar to English. Only me said " 办公室（ban gong shi）". which is totally different from English. My Canadian teacher was freezing. hahaha. I think it is because of the historical and political influence. Japan and Korea have been affected by US until today. They have so many borrowing words from the West. while China doesn't.

[@suzeel]

Chinese language is so sophisticated! :-))) ^^°^^

[@jaemmin942]

사무실

[@axelling_atk]

@@InFeCTi0N it’s pronounced like ofisu in japanese lol

[@FluffyHeartsGacha]

a word like hacker is quite similar in chinese

[@jackelinevalverde3270]

@@InFeCTi0N in Japanese is ofisu probably

[@edwink1467]

Chinese (Mandarin to be specific) tends to translate foreign words into their own words, while Japanese and Korean tend to just borrow the words directly. It's worth noting, however, Cantonese Chinese (like in Hong Kong) also borrow a lot of foreign words like Japanese and Korean. For example, the word taxi: Mandarin Chinese - 出租车 Chūzūchē / 计程车 Jìchéngchē Cantonese Chinese - 的士 dik si Japanese - タクシー Takushī Korean - 택시 taegsi All of them just borrowed the word "taxi" except Mandarin Chinese, which translated it literally to mean "car for hire" or "metered car."

[@user-cz8tz4qz8n]

Probably because the British colonized Hong Kong, the Cantonese in guangdong likely use the Chinese words instead.

[@jackelinevalverde3270]

It's because of the presence of USA in Japan and South Korea. And for Hong Kong is because of the British.

[@tactikamarte]

japanese girls is to pretty nice looking.

[@eugenemayer1129]

Japanese girl look like Rosé from Blackpink

[@sushamadevkota4950]

i was here to comment the same thing.

[@haechanlee3413]

This is my first watch the video from this channel, but i like it and i subs them bcs i like and i want to learn language or different culture❤

[@RoccosVideos]

Korean and Japanese have adopted more English words than I would have guessed.

[@Lu-yg5pr]

Chinese is more traditional

[@user-iy2ps7pg1h]

Japanese and Koreans just copy. In China, everything is tied to hieroglyphs. You can't just take and copy the sounds from the name.

[@Wonyoungmylov]

They only picked ones like that there’s a lot more words then what they picked

[@zeflute4586]

@@user-iy2ps7pg1h "copy" can be a little too aggressive, I'd say they borrowed the English words.

[@user-iy2ps7pg1h]

@@zeflute4586 By the way, it's funny with what awe all sorts of McDucks, BMWs, Coca-Cola, etc. choose Chinese characters for their names. For example, a BMW is not a BMW. The Chinese name for bmw is bao ma, which means precious horse.

[@PakYuHoe]

I do hear the differences and their similarities. Just diff in pronounciation. But base words basically the same. Sometimes i think korean has so much similarity with japanese and vice versa but also japanese and korean. Mainly beacuse of the invasion that happened amongst them. When u write in chinese, its high likely the japanese can read it in the same context but would say it differently. koreans who can read hanja might also. Like 人, 山、 月，日, 不 and numbers . But language is ever dynamic so they change the same with how they write words.sometimes i feel like chinese is the mother language since its the oldest 😂 buts its really hard to tell

[@yurvqi]

the Japanese girls side profile reminds me of Rose from blackpink

[@deanmcmanis9398]

It was interesting that both Japanese and Korean words for American brands or names sound like the English word, just with a regional pronunciation. Whereas Chinese has distinctly different words that can be a literal description of the items. A good example is AirPods, which would normally separate out into air (as in the air you breathe) and pods (like peapods) but the Chinese name is a literal description using the Chinese words of the device's technology.

[@aceace3794]

actually most chinese jist call it air pods most of the time. We do have corresponding term to call it in chinese but air pods is simpler.

[@loverose3964]

for me instead of interesting it was obvious since the Korean war... Americans were in South Korea

[@jackelinevalverde3270]

Well,the USA presence in Japan and South Korea is there since the end of ww2

[@jingzhi2898]

In China, it is usually referred to as Apple Headphones (colloquially), and the product name is the original name or Apple Wireless Bluetooth Headset.

[@minrain]

the blond japanees girl reminds me of rosé from blackpink

[@driesturkben9980]

this was so interesting to watch! great video!!

[@beautifulpakpk1594]

i am very interested on the fact that why East Asia like China, Japan and Korean are so developed comparing to other asian countries. These three regions all focus on the educations and science and technology. but whats reason behind??

[@seferino]

The same reason it happened in Europe . Adaption to environment, weather , diet, wars. That's why u see those differences From colder countries to tropical countries.

[@necromancerwu]

I think Jared Diamond's classic Guns, Germs, and Steel explains a lot. Basically, ease of travel and mortality rates determines development levels.

[@gilnahnu]

interested as well.

[@user-nw5bn9gi7c]

The reasons are complex. 1. From the perspective of education, these three countries (in fact, including Vietnam) attach great importance to education, because these countries have been influenced by Confucianism for thousands of years, so there will be many talents, which is indispensable for the development of a country. 2. From a military and technological point of view, Japan and South Korea are colonies of the United States, and the United States transferred high technology here, and then the people of these two countries, with their own wisdom and diligence, developed to the extent that white Americans feared, such as chips and cars, For example, in the 90s of the last century, the United States of Japan-hatred movement 3. China defeated the United States in the 1950 War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, guaranteed its own sovereignty, and then developed atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs in a poor and white situation, laying the foundation for industrialization, and then reform and opening up, coupled with decades of ordinary Chinese desperate labor, low-key slow development, and then quantitative changes caused qualitative changes, in the last 10 years of rapid economic, scientific and technological, military development, after the United States reacted, it was too late. In the first island chain, if the United States wants to fight with China, it is bound to fail, and will break the impression of the people of the world that the United States is "invincible", and the "god" in the eyes of many people will bleed, and the US hegemony will collapse (of course, the United States' science and technology, military strength, and natural resources will still ensure that Americans live well), because it is not a nation-state, so it will be much more divided than it is now.

[@limeishaokao]

日本是美国遏制中国的棋子，所以美国给日本转移了一些中端产业链，后来日本强大后，出于牵制日本的目的，又给韩国转移了芯片产业链，这就是两国富裕的原因。 至于中国为何强大，原因很简单，因为中国自古就是地区强国。中国领土人口足够大，主体民族占比95%，语言文化统一，内部足够团结。最主要的原因是体制优越，共产主义结合中国两千年的大一统中央集权制，创造了有利于中国的政治体制。 且共产党完成土地革命后，借助美苏矛盾，成功获得全产业链，完成了工业化积累，抓住了加入世贸的机会，成为世界工厂，由国家资本主义推动，产业链快速升级。

[@necromancerwu]

If comparing whole sentences, Chinese would stand out even more. Korean/Japanese/Mongolian belong to the same language family, and hints at possible prehistoric human migration routes in line with the out of Africa theory. On the other hand, Tibetan/Chinese/Vietnamese belong to a different family, perhaps taken a more southern route than the previous language groups in migration. Major difference between the two language families exist. One thing is the tone of course, which can be shown in single words. Chinese is the only one with tones among these three. But another tell-tale difference between these languages is their fundamental sentence structure. Japanese (and I think Korean, since I know Japanese but not Korean) follow SOV, subject-object-verb sentence structure. For example, they would say, "I" "apple" "eat" in their native language. While Chinese is an SVO language, Subject-Verb-Object, which is the same with Germanic language (which I would include English with), "I" "eat" "apple", structure. That is perhaps why it might be slightly more difficult for Koreans and Japanese to learn English even when they have "borrowed" way more words phonetically into their own language. If I remember correctly, Japan has the second lowest average GRE English scores in all of Asia! second only to North Koreans. (Of course, a lot more factors could have contributed to this) Also funny fact, if I remember correctly, Netherland has higher average GRE English scores than UK and U.S.

[@boltlighting]

The altaic language family has been mostly rejected in linguistic circles

[@user-cz8tz4qz8n]

The theory that Mongolian, Japanese, and Korean belong to the family had been rejected by most people, the 3 languages native words are COMPLETELY different and the only common words are loans from Chinese. Furthermore Vietnamese does not belong to the same group as Chinese or Tibetan. Vietnamese has completely different word orders, and it is only similar to Chinese in that it has monosyllabic words, is tonal, and has Chinese loans. This is mostly a result of being under Chinese rule for over a thousand years but it does not change its linguistic family. Anyone who reads this guys comment take it with a bucket of salt, talks like he is an expert but is not.

[@larshofler8298]

Korean, Japanese do not belong to the same language family, and neither of them belongs to the same language family with Mongolian. East Asian linguistic history is a lot more complicated and interesting than previously thought. What you are saying here is based on researches done 20, 30 years or even a century ago. Sino-Tibetan language did not originate in the south, they emerged in upper Yellow River, adjacent to modern Mongolia and Tibet. They are not directly related to Vietnamese. While Korean shows more Mongolic-ish influence, Japanese is completely unrelated to Mongolian. It is not related to any language, although I think it was more influenced by Austronesian than Mongolian. If we look at prehistoric East Asia, Austronesian language played a big role. I would argue Japan, Korea and coastal China all shared a certain level of Austronesian legacy, and some of that ancient influence might be seen in local languages. Genetically, though, East Asians are quite similar, pointing to prehistoric ancestry in mid-Yangtze region. Old Chinese is not even a tonal language, and its syntax very different from modern Mandarin. Not all Sino-Tibetan languages are SVO languages. The language that I speak (a non-Mandarin Sinitic language), for example, is more of a SOV, and is actually not tonal.

[@larshofler8298]

The Sinitic family is way too complicated to be represented by one language, because historically, many of those languages were non-Sinitic, and only git Sinicized gradually over the time.

[@user-cz8tz4qz8n]

@@larshofler8298 what language is that? I've never heard of a sinitic language that is not tonal.

[@jakobbauz]

These videos make the world a little smaller (in a good way). :) Love from Germany.

[@aimunsaeed5958]

Japanese girl look like rose`(blackpink ) .......... her face cut is very similar to rose....

[@Mike8827]

Its interesting how Sumin isnt able to pronounce the „ai“ in Mai Dang Lao , thats actually a sound change from earlier Korean to modern Korean, resulting in the lack of falling diphtongs like „ai“ and „oi“ . There are other examples where the chinese and Sino Japanese „ai“ corresponds to Sino-Korean e ( spelt ae ) , like Tae-Kwon Do ( Tai Quan Dao in chinese ) or the city of Kaesong ( Kaicheng in chinese , Kaijō in japanese ) .

[@daenackdranils5624]

jaopanese are the worst person to get to know. they only swears about perfectly spoken japanese before understanding someone, and they will refuse to tell us feelings for some reason , i would just expect they tell us a little of their passion, showing us who they really are, instead of being overmysterious and behaving like a robot just because wer'ree not on their circles... most asians are the same unfortunately.

[@ilikeudonnoodles1626]

I’m guessing the Chinese is literally translating it for example ‘bluetooth’ is 蓝牙 with 蓝 meaning blue and 牙 meaning tooth. Very simple haha

[@xiaoz56]

You are right

[@sardarbahadar3868]

They all are so beautiful

[@jinphany.]

Think of it this way. English words have made it into Korean and Japanese just as french words have made it into the English language.

[@peopleentertainer9898]

Why isn’t anyone talking about how the Japanese girl looks like rosie from bp

[@hiitsxio]

Is it just me or the Japanese girl looks like Rosé from bp?

[@mary_minkevich]

Japanese girl looks like Rose from Blackpink 😻

[@mamemu3130]

Is the music from the series "Nana: Seven of Seven"? That's all I think about when I hear it.

[@banweibo]

关于爆米花的解释我觉得是有问题的，汉语不是简单拆字，不是简单的爆、米、花。爆是动作，解释如何制作，这个没问题。但是米不是rice，而是corn，是指玉米。花是指最终的形态，你可以解释成flower ，但其实这个字描述的就是popcorn 。一家之言，请网友指教。

[@GoogleAccount-ls3up]

its fun to learn

[@user-ef5ck6re1j]

1:18 We really don’t speak AirPods like hers 😅We usually just say AirPods as English or "Ping-gwo Erji( Apple Earphones)" Actually if a product or brand is mostly aim at young people and its name’s pronunciation is easy for Chinese people, we often don’t translate it into Chinese like AirPod, ZARA, WiFi …

[@Yamamotoseto]

Do one about Taiwan

[@roronoazoro5488]

I went to NYC like tow month ago and I was in a movie theater and ordered Popcorn. And it shocked me when they said that they only have salty popcorn or caramel. Here in Germany it is common to have sweet popcorn (with sugar). Is it all over the US like this?

[@bnha]

i'm like 2 weeks late but yep thats pretty much standard :O ive never heard of sweet popcorn etc we commonly only have salty buttery and caramel variants!

[@roronoazoro5488]

Thats kinda sad. Because sweet popcorn is the best. If you didn‘t try it yet, you should definetly make some at home.

[@LJBSullivan]

At a movie theater you would normally only find salty, buttery popcorn. You would find the sweet and Carmel popcorn baģged at the grocery store.

[@LJBSullivan]

@@bnha kettle corn

[@bnha]

@@LJBSullivan omg kettle corn slipped my mind thank u for reminding me its so good LOL

[@fatimabalarabe134]

They r really good.

[@Ctmk_]

4:42 she said in pronunciation is "mektunaldu"

[@T0m41_08]

If you don't know why Japanese is close to the English word is cause of it's katakana, katakana is used for loan words. Also if you don't understand Korean "mul tisyu" it's saying "water tissue"

[@thegreatbufan6158]

Chinese：Batman is called “Bianfu Xia 蝙蝠侠” Xia means those who fight with bad guys, help people but often hide their name or choose to keep low-key

[@Weeping-Angel]

I guess it means kind of like “vigilante”

[@jasons4045]

Just like spiderman 蜘蛛zhizhu 侠xia （zhi Zhu = spider)

[@user-qb6nf9kn2h]

yes,absolutely right,xia yi (侠义)people like to help weak ,usually low key

[@user-kk6ec4mj4g]

侠之大者，为国为民；说实话，经中文翻译后，比之前的原英文从意境和准确性上都提高不少；原文逐字翻译是蝙蝠人，一个“人”译为“侠”，不得不说中文译文更加精准和地道

[@larshofler8298]

@@Weeping-Angel Some kind of lone, low-key vigilante. I think it's close to the Japanese Ronin, except a Xia is supposed to do good things and uphold the righteous way.

[@julioduan7130]

The Chinese girl may have not realized that Popcorn in Chinese means exploded(爆）corn(米) flower(花). 米 in Chinese can be Corn(玉米) instead of the literal translation of Rice(大米).

[@qplin8504]

Have u never seen the popcorn which is made of rice? When i was a kid, rice popcorn is much more common than corn popcorn.

[@julioduan7130]

@@qplin8504 Corn is popular in the north while rice is more common in the south.

[@LJBSullivan]

Thank you. I left that question. I couldn't get past rice flower.

[@larshofler8298]

True, but considering corn was not introduced into China until Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica, 米 traditionally refers only to rice. Even today, when you say 米 as an individual word, people would immediately think of rice, not corn.

[@aviatorsound914]

Tho, I would say that there is no direct translation for these individual words into English and The meaning of the word itself changes sometime if it’s the same word by its pitch and tone.

[@ii.hxnako]

I can tell the different easily, because Chinese uses “ia” and “zhi” in words Korean has a lot of long ooo sounds on words pronunciation Japanese sounds easy because they speak only easy syllables like “te” “be” “chi” rather than “th” or “zh”

[@meejinhuang]

Korean and Japanese are very similar languages. Mandarin is very different. However, all three nationalities can read most Traditional Chinese writing, so they can actually write to each other, but not understand their spoken words.

[@jasons4045]

Not at all. Koreans have the worst literacy in traditional Chinese.

[@Pineapple438]

Chinese and Japanese can read traditional Chinese, but not Koreans. They already abandoned it a long time ago.

[@belle_24]

@@InFeCTi0N I’m Korean teenager but I’ve never learned Chinese character in school. I can write only one, two, three in Chinese character. Also my friends, they can’t write their names.

[@mangomango2364]

I'm korean and I dont know how to read chinese...

[@barbiebarbie1813]

You are wrong. ancient Korean and Japanese don’t understand Chinese characters even if they learn to write Chinese characters(If they haven't learned ancient Chinese language). Because the grammar of Chinese language is completely different from Japan and Korea language. Only those who speak fluent Chinese language and those who have in -depth understanding of Chinese characters can write reasonable Chinese articles. In ancient Japan (early) and Korea's rulers and nobles were Chinese immigrants and descendants. So they would wear Chinese clothing. They would speak fluent Chinese language (and Chinese dialects), and they could communicate with the Chinese. That's why they can write reasonable Chinese grammar and historical records. And these historical records need to be reviewed for the Chinese emperor.

[@huangyu1683]

救命 这位中国姐姐也太好看了吧！

[@curerose0630]

Oh my god they were talking to each other in 4 languages? That means they can understand each other’s languages!

[@jimimswooyoungie]

They were talking to each other in 2 languages. English and Korean. One of them also spoke Chinese and the other one Japanese. T

[@kazuhuia7531]

Here comes someone who cant differentiate between the three languages

[@suxzne]

@@kazuhuia7531 fr

[@suzeel]

Chinese is very sophisticated, maybe enen the most sophisticated! ♥♥♥

[@Pikachu-ez1rm]

Popcorn in Spanish varies by country. Palomitas, Chivitas, Cotufas, Rosetas etc. Roseta makes reference to a flower, (rose) similar to what the Chinese girl said.

[@dreammfyre]

Everything the Chinese girl says sound friggin adorable lol.

[@Fatima-xf8xp]

The Chinese girl is so beautiful🤩

[@user-py8uo1xl8s]

love beautiful Chinese❤

[@larshofler8298]

Fun fact: the Chinese for Mcdonald's is based on Cantonese, not Mandarin. In Cantonese, it is Mak-dong-lou, and it sounds like Mcdonald in Cantonese.

[@eiyonlee3114]

When it comes to the writing system, besides the character used there is merely difference between written mandarin and cantonese，麦当劳 has a meaning of wheat ought labor, which can be understood as Food are produced by hard work.

[@edwardk8477]

A bit off topic but this Chinese girl is so pretty, model/actress material indeed

[@nokpaikatwangshuwangsa1222]

I need to learn Chinese language it's so sweet😊

[@nicoleliu7933]

你真的很棒！ *:ஐ٩(๑´ᵕ`)۶ஐ:*加油！

[@mohdamjad1094]

The Korean lady is so beautiful ❤️

[@Great_Duke_Astaroth]

If there was a name for "McDonald's" in my language would be either "Ben Sar Tebel" (lit. "[of the] Son [of the] Ruler [of the] World", which is a literal but less likely translation of McDonald) or "Ben Sar Olam" (literally translated as "[of the] Son [of the] Ruler [of the] Age", a figuritive but more likely translation thereof).

[@cuihan6217]

Actually, Macdonald has been renamed Jin gongmen (Golden Arch) in China since several years age.

[@blenderpain8249]

Good to know.

[@jingzhi2898]

The company name was changed to Golden Arches, but the store market name remained the original name.

[@Priyapriya-hs8pb]

1:17 her : **** Wuxian La***ji I heard Wuxian lanwangji lol 😂 If you know you know 😁 Forever Wei wuxian & Lan wanji❤️

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

Wonderful episode!

[@MiseryKira]

I gotch' u Illa, you remind me Yoohyeon from Dreamcatcher

[@Bo_ru_mi]

Uka🥰

[@Noah_ol11]

The chinese version of Airpod is like "dude , break that Thing down , it's too long for only one thing"

[@timothy1949]

😂😂actually its more like APPLE - WIRELESS - BLUETOOTH - EARPHONE

[@KinLee919]

most people just call them Pingguo erji (apple earbuds)

[@helenahai6260]

actually most Chinese young people just say the English name 'AirPods', or simply er3 ji1 (earphone), the long one in the video is just the formal product name they print on labels, no one in real life use it

[@hailiangzeng3434]

It's not what u think,in fact.we call it er ji directly

[@suzeel]

A long name makes it more precise and of course Chinese language is a very sophisticated language! ^^°^^ :))) Chinese language don´t just copy the sound, it´s about the meaning! 👏👍❤‍🩹❤💞💕❣💯

[@Haochiet]

The Mandarin word “麦当劳(simplified Chinese)/麥當勞(traditional Chinese)” of "McDonald's" is from Cantonese, so it sounds very different from English. In Cantonese, “麦当劳/麥當勞” sounds like "mak dong lou" which is more like English pronunciation. The last "k" of "mak" don't have a pronunciation but you need to make a "k" sound action.

[@kyriel8]

makudonarudo guguru toiretto kitto-katto dizunirando

[@siopaoboy7550]

I don't understand the words, but I sometimes sing in Japanese. The language is syllabic like Filipino. The difference is that we always separate our vowels. In Japanese, sometimes they don't do this. Two 'i's get seperated in both, I think. "iiwan" "ii". So that's "E-E-wan." "E-E." 'A's don't, I think. "Obaasan." It's pronounced like a long A in Japanese. "Ob-ahh-san". What about two 'a' sounds in Filipino? "Maari." Not like "Ay Ay", but more like "Ah Ah". "Mah-ah-ah-ri."

[@mashasavageml8894]

Wow 🤩, that is women hair look like mikey or takuya hair from anime called tokyo revengers 🤩😲

[@SL1_]

I expected these three women to speak English when they explain so I was kinda confused 😂 didn't know this is Korean channel (is it?)

[@_FairyChan_]

I'm Korean

[@GAENODAP]

6:40 ??? Japanese friend has a totally wrong perspective of English sounds. Japanese Kana has only one sound per character, and Japanese sounds match the letter as written. Imo that's why she said like that way in this video. Rather, I think it's normal for Korean friend to ask the Japanese friend, "Why do you change the pronunciation of A to [a] sound only?" Batman sounds in English = [ˈbætmən] McDonald's sounds in English = [məkdɑ́nəldz] As you guys can see, Batman and McDonald's do not sound [a]. Many English sounds do not correspond to written letters, so the letter A does not refer to the [ɑ] sound written in script in many cases. A can be pronounced as [æ, ə, a, eɪ] as you know. Not just [a]. Although there is a difference in the number of syllables, the Korean pronunciation is closer to the English pronunciation than the Japanese pronunciation when looking at the vowel pronunciation itself.

[@alexa_depphil7542]

Wow the korean girl rock menswear 💯

[@Pabloyellowboy]

Airpods is "Qidian" in chinese

[@sarib1999]

It would be nice if you would add someone from Thailand too ☺️

[@Kashiiii]

I always have this song in my head. 😅 Makudoonarudo, guguru, toiretto, kitto katto, dizunirando😂😂😂😂😂❤️ more of the Asian trio pleeease ✌🏼

[@Ctmk_]

3:18 so she said"팝콘" there is no letter in Korea that have r sound and the "ㄹ" is sounded like an "L" so Korean makes the letter r soundless So she said"papkon" "popcorn"

[@seominsa3960]

The Korean girl looks like sunoo

[@eunoia8848]

Wait........... I THOUGHT THE SAME THING!! 😳😳😳

[@tokoakash6028]

Interesting🙂

[@user-hn2wc3fy7y]

Uka is freaking hilarious. Her deeper tone in Korean makes it even funnier when it comes right after her textbook Japanese pronunciation.

[@laristocool5601]

Wó thian yuan shwei tonggūi yû àjutsī kandį midā. Thaï qwen zeñ 🇨🇳 japines 🇯🇵 coreas🇰🇷 swei coreas🇰🇵 talk😁

[@freelance7692]

In Jamaica we say "Battyman"

[@RaissaLayene]

One day I'll speak these languages...

[@archerzzy]

Yay for globalization

[@majestc2941]

when you understand all 4 of these languages be like, my brain: english, korean,chinese,japanse,english,korean,chinese,japanse

[@gregmuon]

It's funny that Japanese doesn't just translate Batman into their own words for bat and man. Then again, we US English speakers always say tsunami now instead of "tidal wave". It's just a better word! Next please do "gung ho", which is an American word/phrase derived from Chinese apparently. That would be interesting. And where is Kotoha?! I miss her hipster hair.

[@Wisconsin222]

I think these 4 are great together. Like watching them I feel like the trio is impressed not only what’s she’s willing to learning to learn but what she already knew

[@aisonliang-lr8zm]

i also speak american

[@yaocui3488]

2:52 zhinjin means tissue, not paper, to be precise

[@johnnykentucky8642]

The japanese girl looks like Rosé from blackpink wtf

[@alikhantenizbai87]

Well, now i am waiting a central and west asian speakers

[@fatimabalarabe134]

By the way which language r they speaking