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[@StevenHe]

哈哈我看这个视频有点紧张啊。。。我的确感觉太久没说中文了。我是出生到8岁和11到14在中国长大的。 Thank you for making this video! Very soon I will have more opportunity to speak mandarin more in public!

[@StevenHe]

哎我在国内也有名吗？哈哈有3年没回国了

[@ChinesewithJessie]

@@StevenHe Oh my god I can't believe you actually watched this! 你在国内也超有名的，B站和抖音超多你的视频，大家都很喜欢你！明年回国会方便很多了，欢迎回来看看呀～

[@zepellion6284]

你在国内超有名！ 我刚在b站上看到这个视频然后就直接来KZbin上看了没想到看到本人回复哈哈哈

[@cloudsrise_]

Omg he commentedddd!!! :O

[@martingin6937]

我去，大师球，捉！

[@Xetron1978]

I don't doubt that Steven speaks good Chinese, since he's a native speaker and has spoken Chinese for most of his life. I am more amazed by how well his English is, and how well he can talk in a Cantonese accent. I've been living in the U.S. for like 10+ years, but I still have a Chinese accent. I quite envy him ngl.

[@iaaf_nw2367]

He also has a very good American accent. He is a very talented speaker indeed.

[@petergreen1994]

His dad speaks English right?

[@kryllykomar6851]

i cheated to get rid of my chinese accent by not knowing chinese. my redneck accent though... it's still here...

[@Abibi1412]

he spent a part of his life in Ireland,so he learnt most of his english there and sometimes his english has that irish accent as well

[@chopinetudeop.25no.5]

i think he said once that he listened to lots of american english recordings so he could get an american accent

[@elyfel1183]

Jessie: I'm gonna review Stephen's Chinese. Steven: (Speaking Chinese like the native that he is) Jessie: (...Emotional Damage)

[@xSouIess]

😂😂😂😂

[@vicsar]

Nailed it!

[@wdhehao]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@k.p.8955]

haha! why would she be emotionally damaged if he is speaking Chinese well? You're silly but funny

[@davidharlow5642]

How is this not top comment?

[@argonwheatbelly637]

I love listening to the broken Japanese spoken at my local Japanese restaurant, especially when the guests try to speak it to the waitstaff and hibachi chefs. Ummm, the music on the overhead is all in Mandarin, and the staff speaks Fuzhounese. The guests have no idea, because, well, everyone looks (East) Asian.

[@KANIME]

All my local Japanese restaurants are run by Chinese people lol

[@keyboardmanyoutube3189]

@@KANIME here by Korean and Chinese…. Lol

[@TheDiamondBladeHD]

Same here in a lot of cities in germany, except they're vietnamese. Though some cities like Düsseldorf it's 99% a japanese person

[@hanng1242]

More common than one would think.

[@fireflieer2422]

@@KANIMElol yeah

[@kasperilse4878]

I think he was 8 when his family moved to Ireland, and he has told he didn't got any English lessons in the start, he was just dropped right in school while only being able to speak Chinese, so it makes sense he's still a fluent speaker.

[@jyashin]

No it isn't that natural. His parent (singular, unless his Irish side happens to speak Chinese) will need to put a lot of effort to make sure he still speaks fluent Chinese. Steven must have also gone back to China multiple times and interacted with his folks. He sounds nothing like the Chinese who came to US/West at a young age and thus did not practice their Chinese. That said, it doesn't take that long to regain native level fluency if Chinese was indeed your first language (took me about 5 years just using it casually) but at times you'll still struggle to find words that you don't know the translation of.

[@Killerbee4712]

@@jyashin Can immensely relate lol, after going back to Chongqing from immigrating to the west I was surprised how quickly I picked up my dialect despite never speaking a word of it in my life

[@labadaba5088]

@@jyashin Depends on how old you were. I stopped speaking it on a regular basis when I was 5 and so it is a struggle. I basically have the Chinese vocabulary of a 5 year old.

[@huaiwei]

@@labadaba5088 it is amazing what the environment can do to language proficiency though. I am Singaporean and hated learning Mandarin in school. Barely passed Chinese in the examinations. But when I visit Taiwan for short one-week holidays, my CL standard will suddenly improve, so much so that some locals even think I am Taiwanese. Even my accent changes along with the improved vocabulary. lol. It is hard to describe just how amazing this is, as I cannot quite emphasize just how bad my Chinese actually is lol.

[@OneKnifeYeHand]

@@huaiwei Writing vs speaking is always very different. And it also depends on the environment. I'm a language guy and expert myself, but I can relate on another level. For example, I hated learning history from school books, but after I graduated high school, I suddenly found a real love for history and it's now one of my favorite things to read about/watch!

[@libbyrodriguez]

I didn’t know that Steven He is popular in China too!! I’ll have to talk to my Chinese students when we do our next video lesson. Thanks Jessie!!

[@MaximSupernov]

No. I don't think anybody in China knows him. Only Chinese who are raised in the west knows him.

[@Steambunbun]

@@MaximSupernov Singapore, Malaysia too...

[@Xetron1978]

Yeah, and Uncle Roger as well

[@Gutraidh]

@@MaximSupernov You can often see Emotional Damage in bilibili bullet comment...

[@alvinnnliu]

@@MaximSupernov Emotional damage这个梗还是很有名的吧

[@LouisSubearth]

I remember from the Haiyaa podcast that Steven mentioned something about frequently flying between Ireland and China as a kid, so he spoke both languages during his entire childhood.

[@HighAdmiral]

I like how she answers the title within the first minute and then just tells us curiosities about the Chinese language for the other 5.

[@samsatogardner]

Confirmed: Even when Jessie isn't playing or making a comedy video but is instead doing explanatory work, she's incredibly cute.

[@crockurworld]

Wow! My favorite Mandarin Instructor/Entertainer, and my favorite Comedian/Actor on the same channel. Fantastic Job, Jessie!!

[@Yuunarichu]

Jessie, in a lot of English-speaking Netflix shows or KZbin videos, they don't have people who translate any foreign languages in the show sometimes, so they just use "Speaks in [language]" as a lazy filler. 😂

[@tree427]

I was watching a show where a character went on this long speech in korean but nobody else spoke korean in it and I'm really not sure if the subtitles were says [Speaking Korean] because all the characters wouldn't understand or if they just didnt have a translator. why even include the scene?

[@jyashin]

No, that "laughs in Chinese" is a play on a memetic mutation arising from "cries in Spanish". The original phrase arose due to automatic closed captioning on US broadcasts of Mexican telenovelas (Maria le del barrio in this specific instance), which sometimes wrote "cries in Spanish" when the actress Soraya Montenegro would have overly long dramatic crying scenes.

[@manubishe]

@@jyashin oh, I thought it started with 'laughs in mexican' of the Big Sombrero guy.

[@koharumi1]

Hate how Netflix does not add subtitles when characters speak english in subs translation for shows.

[@kitsura]

Just a quick note. 幸苦了 is not a Mandarin only phrase. The Japanese also say お疲れ様 (otsukare sama) which means the same thing.

[@edoalva48]

I just thought about that too! Korean also has similar things for same purposes. The phrases are 수고했어요 and 고생해주셔서 감사합니다 which pretty much translate to "good job" and "thanks for your hard work".

[@Nossimid]

Sorry to point it out, but it's 辛苦了. Thanks. 辛苦您了🙂

[@jeffrey2326]

@@charleszern9892近視嗎？明明是用不同的字寫 這也不叫抄襲，這叫borrowing 你用的script也是從Latin文來的而Latin也是從Greece，Phoenicians，以及Egypt借用來的 那你說這叫抄襲嗎？ 這只是文化交流

[@simoncho2570]

Let's just say it's a Confucian thing where pain and suffering are necessary for self-cultivation

[@sasino]

辛苦了：辛 is not 幸

[@anniebell1977]

That was awesome. I appreciate you doing this video. It's nice to see people not losing their native tongue just because they've come to English speaking countries. I just love the way Mandarin, Korean, and Japanese sound. They are such pretty languages.

[@meekmeads]

His parents, would not have allowed him to lose his Mandarin. I am 100% sure Steven would not dare, to give his parents E M O T I O N A L D A M A G E

[@xindadu4007]

OMG, I'm living in China speaking Mandarin for most of the time, but some of points you mentioned like the usage of “个” are still new to me. Great video!

[@LW78321]

I love your videos Jessie!! You're such a great teacher, informative and entertaining!

[@noxteryn]

You should definitely review 39daph's Chinese, I would absolutely love to watch that! She spoke some in her playthrough of The Bridge Curse: Road to Salvation (Part 1), at around the 58:55 time mark. From what I know, her parents are from China and Hong Kong, but she's Canadian.

[@anthon_tmk9788]

I listened to it and tbh it's pretty bad lol. She was basically speaking word by word in a very broken manner. Can tell that she seldom uses it even within her family.

[@noxteryn]

@@anthon_tmk9788 Which is why it would be so funny for Jessie to react to it!

[@john-chung-hsuanwu8766]

I've had a bottle of Maotai with a friend from the states, it was quite unique and we eventually made some western cocktails with it 😂

[@itsxqinmeiyi4403]

Jessie video makes my day 💜💜💜

[@Uchiha_Madara_125]

Steven He can speak both Chinese and English at the same time.....without moving a tongue....while chewing food. That's how supernatural he is😂.....Anyway, loved your lesson miss.

[@umoreira2008]

Of course. His father had to walk to school uphill both ways on one foot as the other foot was starting a business. It runs in the family.

[@Uchiha_Madara_125]

@@umoreira2008 Yes man, that's some insane genetic hereditary. I wished I could have some of those genes😂

[@ClaraCleary2005]

he said in a q&a video that he grew up fully in china and it took a few years of just voice coaching to get such a convincing American accent not to mention the multiple years it probably took him to become fluent in English in the first place.

[@Ismael46934]

Hi Jessie, love your videos.

[@FashionDesignwithHannah]

Love this breakdown! I would also 100% enjoy learning Mandarin from Jessie!

[@LostInSpace._.]

I’m native in Mandarin Chinese, and I love your vids!

[@davidsanders5652]

Have you ever seen a film called "Comrades: Almost a love story"? It is set before the mainland reclaimed HK and, in the beginning, centres on a man from the mainland trying to learn Cantonese to be understood/fit in. Stars my favourite Chinese actor EVER -- "Maggie" Cheung Man Yuk. It then turns into a romantic tragedy like so many HK films of the period - 1990s.

[@hanng1242]

I get a kick out of how the Chinese title (Tian mi mi) suggests that it is a biopic of Theresa Tung, but it isn't.

[@davidsanders5652]

@@hanng1242 Thanks for that. I didn't know.

[@t.castro4493]

I love HK Cantonese. Thanks for the recommendation. Always hear about Maggie Cheung. I may have watched a film she starred in.

[@sannrei692]

That “laugh in Chinese” thing probably comes from that “cry in Spanish” meme 😂

[@enchantedgoldrush]

Jessie's english is almost perfect! Love her so much

[@user-cz8pg8vu1p]

chinese language sound so complicated yet fascinating i wanna learn how to speak chinese because of you

[@MrJgracias]

Man i am latino and apparently spanish is such an appealing language to speak. No one ever says chinese is appealing. But i love the way it sounds. It is very appealing to me. 我喜欢中文

[@AndrewMystx]

Thank you for loving our language ❤️

[@t.castro4493]

I'm Latino as well but my native language is Portuguese (so you can guess where I'm from). I see a lot of people praising Mandarin recently, and apparently there are many schools teaching it. I've always been a huge fan of Cantonese, especially from HK.

[@MrJgracias]

@T. Castro I don't know Cantonese but if you need any help learning mandarin I can point you in the right direction.. or at least what I used

[@t.castro4493]

@@MrJgracias Thanks for the offer, I might learn Mandarin too... I want to watch Taiwanese dramas.

[@sunrise_weng]

I can speak chinese because my parents grew up in Beijing but i was born in the UK along with my older sister (middle child) but i spent my 10-11 years in england

[@-gabrielaesteves8558]

Wow, how come I have never seen this channel before. Very good.

[@mingfanzhang8927]

Love the video ❤

[@winniehoo1705]

No. He won't forget the mother language. I left my old hometown at age 6 and still can speak the dialect as fluently as the locals in my hometown. 😊

[@VictorGWang]

And here I am, a native speaker watching a native speaker reviewing a native speaker.

[@luminos9447]

Hey I've been living in Shenzhen as a foreigner for 9 years now and I love your vids. I can really recognize how both of u speak as southern lol. I've been to places like Shanghai and it's very different up there!

[@SiriusV23]

I feel like i'm back to school and listening to these lessons gives me clouded thoughts, nothing came through.

[@sakitoby1581]

My favorite is his English, when he says EMOTIONAL DAMAGE!!! hahhahaha it's so funny, makes me laugh every time. Cute guy. Btw this pretty lady Jessie speaks very good English too! : )

[@ore-oluwaosinowo4858]

In Suzhou, Jiangsu "sh" is pronounced as "s". Back then when I initially arrived in Suzhou it was so confusing, until I understood it was the 苏州 dialect. So 十块钱 的 十(shí) 会说成 (sí). It took me a while to adjust. 我觉得所有的 方言 除了北方方言都跟普通话有较明确的区别，尤其是在发音方面。

[@AsiaLoverBoy_87]

哇塞！你会说中文。你也知道如何打汉字。恭喜你。

[@1111kila]

因為現代普通話是以北平方言作為基本所以才有zhi chi shi及兒化音現象,民國時期以及現今台灣的國語是以南京官話作基礎所以讀音是zi ci si及不加上兒化音

[@pig1800]

@@1111kila 可是听说过一个台湾留学生在南京留学，学到一口标准南京口音，回去台湾却被骂“说大陆话”唉

[@laplacianeigenvectors]

@@pig1800 不奇怪，你可以听下七八十年代的台湾播音员的声音，非常标准的国语，现在嘛，只能说已经在地化了

[@Arsenic-xg2gi]

其实北方方言也有区别：胶东人r和y不分。最直接的例子就是油和肉一个音(you=rou)

[@saraleetaiwan1572]

我好喜歡妳的頻道🎉 新年快樂💞

[@jamesfarquhar8507]

Halfway through this video and I cannot appreciate it enough.

[@tjongdavid1921]

Dang, I should've just told my teacher that I was using the southern china accent during my speaking test. Much easier. LoL

[@LingYiMaster]

Notice: the Chinese language that Jessie introduces is Mandarin, but not Cantonese. Even though Jessie mentioned that she was negatively from Shenzhen (Shum Chun), which is a City of Canton province, she doesn't speak any Cantonese in her video. So if you are learning Cantonese culture, traditional Chinese or the Chinese language used in oversea-chinese communities', please search Cantonese lessons instead or kindly ask Jessie to create more Cantonese videos for your Chinese learning 🙋🏼

[@juanguillen51]

I wish there was such a program like Canto to Mando but in reverse. I know quite a bit of Mandarin and would like to see how I could utilize that to learn Cantonese.

[@zealandia5668]

I was wondering about this recently and KZbin somehow recommends this video to me today 😲

[@joebaumgart1146]

I'm from Philadelphia and we also have a bit of an odd accent. Our O's sound like a Canadian OU sound. We almost never pronouce T's, but almost always pronouce R's. We also mash alot of our words together as in "Jeet" meaning "Did You Eat?"

[@AshArAis]

That (jeet) happens in ireland too

[@lacivertumutkazankaya2042]

Actually from Manto to Canto would be useful too. Hopefully I will eventually get to the level to think about Canto...

[@jl63023]

It would be good if they expanded in that direction too cause it shouldn't be too hard to reverse the learning process

[@lacivertumutkazankaya2042]

@@jl63023 this program sometimes makes me wonder who they potentially want to attract. Cantonese speaking ABCs? I mean if they are targeting overall Chinese learners, Manto to Canto would make more sense. The idea sounds interesting: a fast track to Mandarin if you already speak Cantonese. But why not the other way around considering the fact that there are more people who initially learn Mandarin instead of Cantonese.

[@jl63023]

@@lacivertumutkazankaya2042 I actually saw when Sheldon first advertised C to M Blueprint on CantoMando, their YT channel, and it did seem targeted towards ABCs and Overseas Chinese who are native Cantonese speakers but want to learn Mandarin for various reasons. It did seem to me that was the original target demographic, even though I agree, they'd get more interest from people who already know Mandarin to jump into Cantonese which would be beneficial, knowing how little good and publicly available Cantonese resources there are. The Mando to Canto pipeline yet remains an untapped gold mine of potential

[@GL-iv4rw]

Most of the western born Chinese have Canto background, however those in South East Asia are Mando speakers. If you wanna go for the westernized Chinese (ABC/CBC/BBC) pick Canto. Not only that, ABC/CBC/BBC are only semi-fluent/conversational in their own language at best (at least from my experience).

[@t.castro4493]

I have nothing to do with mainland China or HK, no ancestors or friends from these places, but I've always wanted to learn Cantonese. Sadly, there aren't many resources out there. And most of ethnic Chinese I find in my country actually speak Canto.

[@goldfries]

The southern accent one is like how we talk in Malaysia, the curl tongue is not as pronounced.

[@jamesfarquhar8507]

After hearing how a tone affects the context it would be interesting to hear how the same words can be interpreted to mean different things in a sentence.

[@priscillajimenez27]

I had a Chinese friend in college who came to the States when he was three, and he spoke Mandarin, Cantonese, and English (writing it grammatical was rough), and was starting to learn Spanish. I miss him.

[@wheresmyeyebrow1608]

Omg I love your look so much

[@ChinesewithJessie]

Thank you❤️

[@beanieboo9923]

你好大姐姐或者老师Jessie, 我是小妹妹Amelia. I dare you to do "Can Jarrad Seng speak Mandarin(Chinese)?" please?!, he's the Australian Photographer and Australian Survivor's contestant too. 🙏🙏 And he's a half of Malaysian and a half of Chinese like Uncle Roger. 谢谢你再见老师Jessie🥰😇

[@chongleongchua4059]

Uncle Roger (Nigel Ng) is actually Malaysian ethnic Chinese, not half Malaysian & half Chinese. Both his parents are ethnic Chinese华人, pure Chinese race. You can call him Chinese Malaysian.

[@ohh.cindyy]

omg u both have very good chinese me i don't have great chinese because i left china when i was a baby so my chinese is not so great but i do have classes and re learning it and i know ur tips/tricks help so much

[@mr.yalauz1497]

My native languages are Cantonese , Hakka and Mandarin . I love watching ur videos 😂 期待類似的影片❤

[@BrockMak]

3:36 Ah! He pronounced 呢 in Cantonese instead of Mandarin. My mother tongue is actually Cantonese, so that was rather striking. 4:17 There lies the irony. It's also true with me. I can read Simplified Chinese, but I can only write in Traditional Chinese. Yet when I type in Chinese, I use pinyin system.

[@jeffrey2326]

For me it’s I can read both, I can barely write neither, and I use Pinyin, hand write for complex words I have no idea how to pronounce, and sometimes Bopomofo

[@carlsonliaunady7907]

Same with my mother side family

[@newname3718]

how is that ironic hahahah that is definitely normal. I can read Traditional Chinese, but writing i can only do Simplified, typing probably both :P so long as you can read both that its enough to equip the input function and so long as your can write one of them, you have the output function working. But if you are telling me that you cant speak mandarin but you can do pinyin, then it's pretty surprising 😂

[@masterli8859]

Interesting! I struggle to read traditional Chinese. I cheat a bit by copying to WeChat and it has a function that turns traditional to simplified and vice versa when you long press to select all and long press again to call it out.

[@sleepingpaws6449]

I'm Chinese who grew up in Malay, I cannot understand Steven's chinese but I as soon as I hear you say it, I fully understood each word of the sentence. I don't know why but I find it so difficult to understand mainland Chinese's accent and the speed they talk at.

[@NiumaYa]

It may mainly be caused by some different language habits.

[@tiewkiat]

Plus I think the clip recording is a little muffled.

[@absi2715]

Le menteur. Kamu tionghua lahir dan asal indonesia. Jangan bohong. This guy is lying about his country. He is from indonesia grew up in tht country. Kamu jatuhkn martabat negara sendiri. Lupa nkri ke

[@samgyeopsal569]

@@absi2715 gimana tau bahwa dia bukan org Malaysia?

[@yun1666]

了 is usually thought as slimlar to present perfect in English than past tense. When used as grammertical particle

[@microcolonel]

The 個 insertion thing in some of these sentences seems like it could be translated as "a little" or "a bit"; in the 散步 to 散個步 example, it seems like "take a walk" vs "take a little walk" or "take a bit of a walk".

[@glanguish9390]

As a westerner, I bought Moutai in a China Town. It raised eyebrows and questions "are you sure?".It was about 15 years ago and cost about £40. I've only ever bought one bottle. Wouldn't again. Not too pleasant, but not much of a neat spirit drinker. I think it's fermented with rose petals but not floral tasting

[@TheeMsFrizzle]

I think Moutai tastes disgusting too. Maybe people drink it because it’s super strong….

[@PancakezXD]

It's moreso a status symbol (owing to the price) than something that people purchase to enjoy. There's also rampant imitation (there's probably more fake bottles in circulation than real ones). Also, the original company is very loose with regard to IP/trademark use, which results in a bunch of products made by a plethora of different other companies being legally sold with their branding. So chances are any moutai you can get your hands on that doesn't cost and arm or leg is probably either terrible, fake, or both.

[@MaximSupernov]

It's overrated alcohol. It's basically an industrial spirit. Not a pleasant taste nor sophisticated. Don't let yourself have high expectations when it comes to commie spirits.

[@filiplou74]

the price has gone up by a lot so give it to a Chinese friend. The older they are the more they'll like it.

[@bear2s232]

作为一个北方人这个片子里提到的南北方卷舌音差异我都不怎么了解，看完这个视频一个母语者都学到了点东西，哈哈😃

[@user-qh7fi8gd6t]

在评论区居然看到汉字，你也是翻墙玩油管吗。😭

[@kimpeimunthang6075]

I am amazed by your English Jess..

[@BrockMak]

3:51 I've only had it once before. It's like vodka but distilled from fermented sorghum.

[@TheeMsFrizzle]

That’s a pretty good description, from what I remember of Moutai!

[@siringc]

In the end, Steven He did not receive Emotional Damage from this video after all

[@jessicag630]

Please make a How Good video on this next time: We Tried Teaching Violin Speaking Only Chinese! From this channel: TwoSetViolin

[@derickgannon]

Wow.. wow.. i thought you are a youtube entertainer. I was surprised by your detailed linguistic knowledge.

[@AYuxlin]

Also, our southern tone is because most of us speak Cantonese. Especially in areas such as Guangdong (Where I'm from) and Hong Kong.

[@minglu3323]

I'm a Taiwanese. i have to say,when you mimic the southern accent, it just sounds like how we speak Chinese in Taiwan 😂

[@NicoDoesLP]

Funny enough when I lived in China in 2013-2014 I adopted the southern way of speaking even though Zhejiang is technically not south China. It sounds better to my ears and easier to pronounce. Plus loads of folks in Zhejiang use southern accents.

[@negative_woman]

@@NicoDoesLP I'm genuinely wondering why you think Zhejiang isn't a part of the south? It is a part of southern China.

[@NicoDoesLP]

@@negative_woman thought it was eastern and not considered southern

[@negative_woman]

@@NicoDoesLP Oh, technically it's both.

[@NicoDoesLP]

@@negative_woman either way it's sure hot enough there. Did not enjoy that part lol

[@chinesewithben]

我知道他是为了搞笑，但是真是有点儿受不了他的中文发音😂😂❤

[@jonathangable127]

That's one long advertisement for Canto to Mando blueprint

[@derekeano]

老师你的头发好看，谢谢你做了这个视频

[@natalizthanh7019]

Oh wow... My parents tongue is Cantonese so I know there are words that spell differently from Chinese, but I didn't know the grammar is somewhat different too. My parents used to berate me for not able to learn their tongues and push me to learn Chinese which result in me hating it since 6. They told me I have to learn Chinese to retain the tongue, but damn they don't even know they speak Cantonese not Chinese 😑

[@winstonacousticstudio445]

Utter ignorance.. Cantonese is Chinese, mandarin is also Chinese. It's truely a shame for not learning ur mother tongue when you had every opportunity and support you would possibly need. It's also a disrespect to the culture, your ancestry origin, and especially the parents since they repeatedly express desire for you to learn. Sorry if it gets too personal, but it's the truth, and truth can be harsh sometimes. There's always time to make up things tho.

[@christopherculler1390]

All I got from this was emotional damage in all languages Like me or I turn right

[@rachelleclarabelle]

I am fluent in both Mandarin and English, I did not expect to come here get extra Mandarin lessons 😂 (Mandarin lessons are hell at school)

[@MGilberts]

I'm always amazed when there are letters in this world but not the alphabet... I mean, they're like pictures in words

[@joybhowmick7970]

I laughed in Chinese as well 🤣

[@RubLox_Live]

I might be tone deaf because I can’t tell the difference between standard mandarin and southern accent

[@argonwheatbelly637]

It's not a tone thing. It's the lack of complete retroflexing of the consonants, "ch, zh, sh, r", so it sounds less dark, and more buzzy.

[@ChinesewithJessie]

Haha I feel you, I actually had a session with my English tutor this morning, she said I like to put a little stop in words like "pronunciation" "unavailable" "disinfect" and I need to work on my "dark l", yet I still couldn't tell any difference after she showed me the correct way to say them. I guess my English ears aren't that sharp either, it takes practice.

[@ChinesewithJessie]

@@argonwheatbelly637 Very well-explained! "r" is the only vowel out of these four though.

[@tarmaque]

@@ChinesewithJessie Jessie's American accent is all but perfect. If I didn't know better I would just think you were a second generation American immigrant (i.e. brought to the United States as a very small child with your parents) who grew up speaking American English at school and among friends and Mandarin at home with your parents. I know native American English speakers who's "Standard Educated North American" accent is much worse than yours. If anything you have a touch of a Californian lilt to your pronunciation, but it's perfectly understandable to anyone.

[@Cherodar]

@@ChinesewithJessie Oh, is "r" considered a vowel?

[@jaxpianoteacher]

Wow! I’m currently learning Chinese so explaining what your saying about it really helps with the learning process, is there any way you have a Mandarin to Cantonese app?

[@VicJang]

So funny, love this!

[@JustNotHim001]

Bro wtf am i seeing at 3 am

[@forestgirl9233]

Me too and I also subscribed. 😂

[@wmk5566]

Emotional damage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Meilinhuang72]

我爱这个视频 I had to keep the sentence simple my Chinese speaking skills had been affected, because when I arrived at America, at the time when my English was getting good, I started speaking Chinese less and less.

[@JennieKim4Eva13]

Im from Hong Kong and his Chinese is incredible!

[@ado-404]

We don't need proof for Steven He's capabilities of speaking Chinese,but we should focus on that dude Sora The Troll who thinks he's Japanese.He's definitely American and his Japanese is bad.I bet he's some cringe weeb.

[@pig1800]

You trolling? Sora definitely a native Japanese speaker bro. Do you even speak Japanese?

[@daryldaryll3153]

where ever you go, who ever you've become never forget for native language/home language

[@theradplanet]

嘿，傑西，你能製作一個關於約翰·塞納的這樣的視頻嗎？那真是太棒了！

[@2000nhan]

This is my first time watching your channel and apparently we are name twins! And yes my name is Jessie

[@thejinn99]

That's really interesting about the zh ch sh r sounds with the tongue curl and without it. Both sounds are intimately familiar to me because I grew up learning bopomofo/zhuyin fuhao. I do notice however that due to my Taiwanese accent, when I speak Mandarin I do tend not to curl my tongue as much.

[@Snow-Willow]

/me sitting over here as a Japanese language learner mind blown by how complex the Chinese sounds are. Very cool to see some language characters that I recognized used in a similar fashion to their Japanese counterparts though.

[@Xantexhunter]

thats cool. I'm studying Japanese and I noticed the southern dialect is smiliar to how the Japanese pronounce 'r' and 'ch'.

[@NekoJoyT]

Hi Jessie! I just watched an anime series called revengers, and there were some episodes that had people talking in Chinese! I'd love if you can review it :D, I think there are some that are natives, while others that weren't. It'd be nice to know who is and who isn't. Thanks to that anime I also learned the difference between asking 是谁？and 什么人？ Which I think it'd be a very interesting topic since we only learn about 是谁 but not 什么人 in Chinese classes. Thank you!

[@raghavdhyani5739]

As a person who can understand laugh in Chinese fells very sophisticated

[@Shakysugar]

Probably the best advertisement that I have seen for a language speaking program I don’t think this was about Steven at all. Lol.

[@gaemer3967]

Today I learnt I've got a southern accent, didn't even know that was a thing but Tbf I grew up south and probably just thought it was normal.

[@vincentxie3090]

Steven He actually know how to speak mandarin that well, that great!

[@subtome10892.]

As a Filipino, I’m getting better at Chinese and I’m still learning it though

[@Dory_VM]

I didn't know Steven was popular in China. That is really cool, though, haha 😁

[@ElatedHanabi]

厉害厉害，把中文解释得很清晰，同时英文又这么好，都不知道哪个才算是你的母语

[@awfully.average]

in Singapore we do not pronounced the SH ZH sound at all, and we like to say 等灯as den

[@0000Mojo0000]

1:12 - so this is how a Chinese truck backing up sounds like!

[@benlechner6352]

It's 2 AM and I'm watching you correct mistakes in chinese like I know exactly what's hoing on

[@nutsforjeeps1]

Where would you recommend getting started for a English speaker to learn mandarin?

[@eden4744]

Hi, I am interested in the program you've promoted in the video. I wonder who are the target learners of the program that uses English as an instructional language to help with the learning of two Chinese language varieties.