If English had CHINESE tones...

成为我们的Bro! Become a Bro!: / @jaredfaa
我们外国人学中文最大的苦难。。。 “声调”！所以我决定了。。。要复仇！
Something that most if not all foreigners go through when studying Chinese. So I got my revenge...

[@livvy654]

the guy to the farthest right using his hand for tones is totally me in my chinese class

[@user-on6jv5op6t]

Me too!!😂

[@thatboikas2137]

Same lol

[@daisycrow9952]

Me too dude

[@keisschan4084]

same lmao

[@deewee965]

Livvy same T-T

[@xKIING_AGUSTx]

Love how the guy in the denim just said everything in a butchered Italian accent

[@candii10]

I can't unhear the Italian accent 😐🤯

[@anakyangbudiman8497]

SPAGHETTI!

[@koreanguyyoungwoo8026]

holy this is the funniest thing i read all day

[@edwardsmilk]

i'm italian and i can tell you that he sounds like the typical italian teenager boy during an english lesson in middle school

[@kandiikrushh3253]

@@edwardsmilk haha that’s hilarious

[@Gadekko]

Now I understand how Ron felt when Hermione corrected him.

[@Mortablunt]

"Hey I got it perfect, fuck you!"

[@d33p345]

its leviOsa, not levioSA

[@Hp-lc6mq]

@@d33p345 use something else than that please its to overused

[@NihongoWakannai]

Except what hermione was correcting him on was the emphasis of syllables, which *is* something already a part of english. Like DEfect and deFECT are different words.

[@anonymousaxolotl1757]

@@Hp-lc6mq no that was literally what the comment was about

[@quinnmartin4236]

This is actually a really good way of explaining tones to someone who doesn't know them

[@whalienpippa]

My dad knows Cantonese, and i wanted to learn. The first day and first class, he cringed so hard at my ""tones"" that he kicked me out of his one person class.

[@bahars305]

Come on dude! He saved you😁😂

[@shillinhite3911]

That is rough, ouch :|

[@l_m_a_o_]

If you can't do it just learn mandarin instead Canto has around 9 tones and one word basically means 5 different things and even more different things when spoken in different context ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ

[@ynntari2775]

also, sounds and tones changes because of the other words in the phrases more often than in mandarin

[@whalienpippa]

@@ynntari2775 tell me about it. The syllable "ma" only has SO many different variations and meanings in different tones and context still confuses me.

[@vanessachan1562]

The reason why it sounds funny is because English does use intonation, just on the sentence level instead of the word level.

[@danyliv2028]

Late but you actually do stress some syllables in words like PRESent and preSENT don't mean the same thing if you stress the 1st or 2nd syllables

[@danyliv2028]

@T K it is very common in English. But you just have 2 different tone (I had to learn English)

[@danyliv2028]

@T K well actually Idk how common it is in Mandarin so you may be right

[@kpoopie1093]

@@danyliv2028 I feel like that depends on where you live because at least where I am (eastern Canada) they're pronounced the exact same and it's commonly used as wordplay/jokes and actually causes confusion, and if you want your meaning to be clear you say "gift" and things like "the present day" instead

[@saoirsestark3903]

English has stresses as well.

[@scoobywho4574]

Inflection/Inotation is an interesting concept. Try saying this sentence while putting emphasis on one word. Then shift the emphasis to any other word. It has an entirely different meaning. I didn’t say we should kill him. I DIDN’T say we should kill him. I didn’t SAY we should kill him. I didn’t say WE should kill him. I didn’t say we SHOULD kill him. I didn’t say we should KILL him. I didn’t say we should kill HIM. Just some shower thoughts lol Edit: Apparently it’s Intonation, not actually inflection, so just keep that in mind if you want to be politically correct or something idk I didn’t expect anyone to see my post. Thanks for liking though?

[@ambersamusements5257]

I needed this as an example. Thank you.

[@dayanaraflores]

this was very fun

[@AugustTheStag]

Well, I killed him.

[@LomanLawson]

@@ambersamusements5257 here you go. watch fully, or just go to 3.50 mark of the video. kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5nZh52FptCSatE

[@krel3358]

I think whats interesting is that most men are very direct like if I generally literally mean exactly what I'm talking about while with women they communicate more with emotional intonation and generally have a sing songey way of communicating information like every word spoken is more of an emotional meaning rather than a literal one. This causes confusion between genders because women expect men to be psychic and men expect women to be logical. It gets even weirder when you add further complexities like race, religion, sexuality etc can all have very profound effects on the psycho-neurobiology of communication.

[@TheHarvestGoddessChloe]

Brings me back to the first days of learning Chinese. 哈哈，谢谢老师给我个笑。

[@user-sv6zn9dp2e]

How many years have you been learning Chinese ?

[@TheHarvestGoddessChloe]

@@user-sv6zn9dp2e Hmm, about seven years? Still not great at Chinese, but I do enjoy it.

[@user-sv6zn9dp2e]

@@TheHarvestGoddessChloe How many years need to speak Chinese?

[@TheHarvestGoddessChloe]

@@user-sv6zn9dp2e Hmm, I'd say it took about three years of really applying myself to be able to speak it. Even after seven years I'm still not fully fluent, but can have a conversation well enough. You never stop learning, just as with your own language. It becomes easier the more you are surrounded by it. I was fortunate enough to learn from actually going to China. Not everyone has that luxury.

[@Aqu24]

I am learning Chinese too! I got a Chinese keyboard. :) 我很高兴！再见。

[@claratc960]

Everytime I try to speak to my dad in Chinese and he puts on a disappointed face and corrects the tones

[@minalee7628]

Is it that important? Coz I am trying to learn but so disappointed

[@Ahshehmylove]

Amnah Al-towai yes it’s important.

[@kiwi9660]

Amnah Al-towai not at all if it is understandable then it is acceptable

[@lookingfortruth1930]

Cantonese, nah. We can still understand you since it has less homonyms than mandarin. Mandarin, boi you gotta be 90% correct

[@iceborne1061]

@@minalee7628 so many chinese words sound the same only with different tones.For exmaple,智慧zhihui（4/4) and 指挥 zhihui(3/1)，sound the same，but the first means wisdom，the second one is command.Without correct tones,the others could understand what you're saying sometimes, but not for everytime.

[@danielthrasher]

I don’t know how I got here but there’s no going back now

[@knightofkessler]

it1 happens1/2, unfortunately4/4/3/1/1

[@xilanceylan]

it4 aint2 familiar4!

[@smileyfacegr6691]

Ayyy

[@wonder3761]

If1 the1 piano1/4 had1 chinese2/3 tones3...

[@kennyzoelee]

bruh join us

[@opedromagico]

The Italian flag got me kkkkk 🇮🇹

[@GabbySutton23]

Kkkkk 🤣

[@Hyoungje]

Sooo true. I’m pretty good at languages but when I studied Chinese....😩....the tutor made me cry. LOL. We worked for 1 hour on the same tone. I feel proud I can hear tones in many languages and often get them right, but I couldn’t get that one tone to save my soul. Can you imagine 1 hour saying the same sound over & over, being told mercilessly, “No that’s wrong”? I was like can’t you just see my heart is in the right place?? 😂 I gave up.

[@Tatianetofolisilva]

Yeah hahaha it sounds like Italian. Cool!

[@NatureForce37]

SAME!!!!!!!!!!

[@mandy2917]

i have MAD respect for foreigners who learn Chinese and speak it fluently. i personally grew up with parents who spoke Chinese and i grew up speaking it as well so it was a lot easier for me, but even then it still has its difficulties.

[@Pensive_Scarlet]

"You're from the US? Which dialect do you speak?" "White Rapper Hip Hop"

[@jaygothejakehernandez8908]

It’s that or friends reruns “we were won a brarake

[@glowfishin1]

I'm fluent in "Florida Independent Baptist"

[@john091077]

Wiggerese.

[@eddyjuana2318]

Hahaha gotcha mom's spaghetti, you better lose

[@IPlayWithFire135]

Chinese student in Tennessee (where I'm not from): Does America have real dialects? Me: not really, all American english is perfectly understandable to other Americans. Tennessee local from the hills: *incomprehensible gibberish*

[@lala-kc3br]

Hearing a white man speaking in chinese so fluently boggles my mind Edit: guys i meant it in a good way, it's not everyday i see a caucasian person that's fluent in chinese

[@LeoSilvaworldchannel]

Me too

[@HaNa-hh8vd]

You have a narrow view of the world Edit: the original comment said “hearing a white man speaking fluent chinese disturbs me” which I found offensive but glad there was no ill intent behind it and that they changed the wording

[@lala-kc3br]

@@HaNa-hh8vd nah i mean this dude speaking chinese fluently is cool but i have never heard someone not asian speak chinese fluently

[@HaNa-hh8vd]

la la still, if you go around assuming that people only fluently speak the common language of the race you assume them to be then you are being narrow-minded and are disregarding all the intersections present in the world. An open-minded person wouldn’t have been disturbed at all. There are 7 billion people on this planet, there is probably someone of every race on the planet who can speak chinese fluently. If he disturbs you then Im assuming every other mixed, third culture, immigrant, or expat individual also disturbs you?

[@y.bowcat7782]

@@HaNa-hh8vd fam it's not that deep

[@MotiviqueStudio]

I want to walk into a Starbucks and say "Spaghetti" with a hand motion and have the whole place respond in kind.

[@violet2501]

You try it haha

[@LL-tr5et]

i do also

[@pirimpallopirimpalli4932]

then you try and do that in Italy and... nobody will understand what you're talking about.

[@Emil_Stoltz]

Mama mia, have-a you tha spaghetti for me-a? *hand motions intensify* MAAAMAAA, OOOH!!! DIDN'T MEEEAAAN TO EEEAAAT SPAGHETTIII!!! Don't ask me why I started singing queen, because I have no idea.

[@mirandam5194]

he's nervous.

[@Jeannek4493]

I love the third guy on the couch doing the motion of the tone with his hand and looking at it 😂

[@Spacesnakes474]

The heads are SO accurate. Anytime somebody is learning chinese tones their heads just go up and down like they're watching a vertical tennis match.

[@remy7663]

lol i used to do this in mandarin class it looks so dumb

[@hadifelani]

😂😂😂

[@anon2962]

lmao like every time

[@neozone6663]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA ABSOLUTELY YES

[@meylahugs2053]

I do it with my head but also with my hands 😭 I look ridiculous ! But somehow it helps, it gives momentum 😂

[@winkblue6851]

"Do you want to learn chinese?" Me before this video: No Me after this video: No3

[@gabrielrodriguesduartedini3309]

Well played

[@user-yo4pd7te3v]

hahhahahahha

[@RhezaAditya]

What's 3 means?

[@gabrielrodriguesduartedini3309]

@@RhezaAditya it's the tone

[@user-yo4pd7te3v]

@@RhezaAditya no no no

[@nickeldan]

My wife is from Taiwan. She laughs when I practice my Mandarin, saying that I sound like a five-year old. I feel this so hard.

[@user-zk9nd4fz2h]

5 years old is not a bad score for a beginner haha

[@lia.isjusbetter]

@@user-zk9nd4fz2h hi

[@janetmiller2980]

I'm learning Mandarin more out of interest in learning about the society where qi gong meditation originated, and perhaps understanding the Mandarin narration in a Shen Yun production. I'm afraid I'd 💯 mess up the tones if I was practicing with native speakers

[@truthtian123]

You are so great! My hubby doesn't even want to learn Mandarin!

[@troubledsole9104]

At last, "There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti." Is a sentence I finally get to use.

[@MajorSeventh]

The very first comedy sketch on _Saturday Night Live_ had English students learning the phrase, "I would like to feed your fingertips to the wolverines." I use that sentence every day here in Los Angeles.

[@uselesssheez561]

even if I’m Chinese I still think the language is hard af mad respect for foreigners even attempting on trying it let alone succeed

[@user-xt7ko3tp6c]

useless sheez do you speak Chinese tho?

[@uselesssheez561]

Victor Lau yep

[@user-xt7ko3tp6c]

useless sheez aight

[@tiffanyzhu9587]

Ahaha yeah same. He sounds more Chinese than I do and I’ve spoken Chinese since I learned to talk. His pronunciation is so much better than mine.

[@strony4983]

boomin system up up ty track ty track

[@aprilfarley6875]

The guy in the blue jean jacket is a mood 哈哈哈

[@vivvcat]

2:30 😂😂

[@jedjade4002]

He's going so hard, it's my favorite.

[@ADeeSHUPA]

@@vivvcat uP

[@-cookieberries-300]

*_laughs in Chinese_*

[@aduckinlingerie]

Is that haha in chinese

[@kevinmireles1]

*Top 10 rappers Eminem was too afraid to diss*

[@Emil_Stoltz]

HE's nErvOOOUUUS, bUt OOON the sUUUrfAce hEEE lOOks cAAAlm And rEEEAdYYY tO drOOOP bOmbs!

[@larajolie8758]

@@Emil_Stoltz but he keeps song forgeting

[@Pteromandias]

Well, you get a tone wrong in Chinese and it ends up being an entirely different word. Like if they said the wrong tones on spaghetti and it changed its meaning to tire iron.

[@emilyhouse2479]

Is no one going to talk about that guys fluency in Mandarin? Cause damn

[@LilyUnicorn]

Hes been in china for several years.... cant imagine why he wouldnt

[@tiffanyzhu9587]

Yeah it’s really impressive. He sounds more Chinese than I do and it’s the first language I learned 😂

[@lettucesmoke5604]

@@LilyUnicorn I know a white guy who lives here in Malaysia pretty much all his life and could barely speak the language

[@blackviper3889]

Susanne Eby That's a bad analogy, living in china doesn't necessarily mean your Mandarin is going to be perfect. This may not be the perfect analogy either but both my parents have lived in Ontario for 13 years and their english is still not even good enough for people to comprehend them when ordering in a drive thru. When I was in high school I had to do a play on assimilation, one of the characters was a french stay at home mom, her character was mainly defined by her lack of comprehension of english. Even though she lived in an english speaking country she was in the end unable to even communicate with her grown daughter due to her daughter being fully assimilated and her not learning the language. Tldr:This is simply to say that a person can live in a foreign country and learn little of the native language.

[@panner11]

Especially for Chinese, you see a lot of people live there for years and barely learn. Only the ones that truly immerse themselves speak this well.

[@rachelzhao4272]

The major difference is that getting the tone incorrect in English typically won’t get you misunderstood (although there are a few words that are similar), but in Chinese, if you mispronounce the tone slightly, you just said an entirely different word.

[@kirstenmuller4536]

I believe that's part of the joke. I guess the way Eminem emphasized the lyrics in that song are analogous to the tones

[@laurencefraser]

On the other hand, English Stress can completely change the meaning of a word (though admittedly, in Most cases it's the difference between two related words where one is a noun/adjective/verb and the other is a different one of those three options). Most languages have fixed stress patterns so they can't do that. English, if course, goes the extra mile: first, written English doesn't indicate this anywhere (though some of the spelling rules /exceptions that seem arbitrary turn out to instead be stress dependant) and second, most languages will have a single stressed syllable in a word, all others are unstressed. English has, depending on how you count it, either three or four degrees of stress, in a repeating sequence such that a long enough word could have two primary stresses, which is the equivalent of the stressed syllable in other languages, but no fixed starting point in that sequence save that you won't get a second Primary stress in a word of less than seven syllables. Stress also affects the pronunciation of vowels. A "long vowel" (archaic terminology, it's more like "vowels that were pronounced as long vowels literally hundreds of years ag in certain dialects") cannot appear in unstressed syllables, and schwa doesn't appear in syllables with primary stress (or possibly secondary stress for that matter. Don't quite recall). Oddly, people talk about a "sarcastic tone" in English... A few years back actual research was done on that matter. The conclusion? There is no such thing. Or at least, it's not in any way distinct from the tones indicating humour or derision (which one is used to indicate sarcasm is generally the same one that would be used for a non-sarcastic remark at the same point in the conversation.) Or so it was reported. Non-scientific reporting of scientific studies is always a bit of a crap shoot on the accuracy front.

[@cuddlezomenidel9327]

You can get misunderstood when you incorrectly pronounce a tone. That becomes sarcasm in most cases and can be very rude, or turn the sentence into the opposite of what you mean, again, another potential misunderstanding, though people can use incorrect tones to come off rude, it's not always intentional

[@BestKCL]

@@laurencefraser bro what be concise m8

[@AG-yv3ot]

@@laurencefraser The primary trouble with English stress isnt changing the meaning to a wildly different word, though. Prosody in English can make or break how fluent you sound but I am struggling to think of examples where itll make the content of your words completely out of place as mixing up tones in a tonal language would. I dont follow the research but ime stress in English is used for following prosodic convention just because, or breaking it for emphasis. Like how putting stress on each word in a sentence like "I never stole her money" gives a slightly different meaning/focus. Its verbal italics, basically. As someone mentioned you might come off as sarcastic but I have never seen an ELL habitually do this. Even native speakers do it from time to time. Its not something I'd worry about.

[@irmalair1]

the hand gesturing while you try pronouncing the tones is a MUST! Looollll 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@irmalair1]

Tones lesson was the most hilarious class I ever had in my life

[@christinemarie3622]

Suddenly became Italian

[@MatNefer]

what hahaha

[@mime3761]

"Suddenly became a terrible impression of a Sardinian accent" Fixed it for ya.

[@justsomerandomlad2356]

Christine Marie actually that is you asian people’s way of speaking

[@oikingwong2767]

Chinese and Italian can become very good friend then

[@questionablepersonwithques7338]

Suddenly became an Italian one day is also known as Who made me a Italian.

[@kykale]

"If English had Chinese tones" it would be just like Singlish.

[@CaptainZucker01]

Not exactly tonal but you're almost there. Singlish is semi-tonal

[@randompirates4824]

because most singaporean are chinese

[@fuyukirei3303]

Nah I’m singaporean and I honestly don’t think any singaporean speaks like that since like most singaporean chinese actually hate learning chinese and they struggle with the tone too but sometimes people do speak like that ngl 👀

[@evn4862]

For me it's more like 40%british 30%dusun 12%chinese 10%malay 5%american

[@DBT1007]

And it sucks. Singlish is one of the most annoying language. Thai too. Sinosphere languages probably. Except Japanese n Korean. You, ppl that use these languages maybe don't feel weird about it, but me, and maybe lot of ppl out there think your language annoying. Like.. "ewhh. WTH dude. Talk normally" Singlish annoying because there is Chinese element there. And yep all Chinese languages are annoying. Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, etc. Whatever. Except for Turk. Turk ppl also part of China, right? In East Turkestan aka Xinjiang region. Uyghur people. So i assume Turk also one of Chinese languages. But Turkish language is different from the real Chinese language HATE it or NOT, it's a fact. You can talk bad to me, but u can't change the fact. In East Asia region, the most pleasant language is Japanese. And that's why lot of Chinese games using Japanese dub instead of Chinese. Yea they also have Chinese dub, but it's less popular than the Japanese one Chinese n Japanese is like German and English. Both are Germanic language. German is harsher and less popular than English. But both surely better than Chinese languages

[@mag_zi3]

Bro. As a half Chinese, his pronunciation is so amazing, like, great! It’s really hard for foreigners speaking Chinese with all the correct tones and stuff, but dang- he’s actually pretty great!

[@aiiiia9971]

That's so cool! ^^

[@DanaCScott]

This is why I haven't learned Chinese. The feels. That evil smirk at the end was everything.

[@secretadmirer3815]

as a student learning chinese the chaotic class filled with people simultaneously talking and trying to get the tones right but terribly failing is VERY accurate 😌😅

[@---iv5gj]

it is absolutely baffling how people cannot get tones right. can you people not sing? put yourself beside a piano, a guitar, then just sing along

[@secretadmirer3815]

@@---iv5gj i guess some people are just simply tone deaf. or they have a hard time understanding the concept of tones as it isn't really emphasized as much in the English language.

[@---iv5gj]

@@secretadmirer3815 therefore my suggestion, it is perhaps as you said the lack of concept. most people can to some degree follow along musical notes, even if not in perfect tone, so sit next to a piano (actually a string instrument like guitar/violin works better).

[@secretadmirer3815]

@@---iv5gj i'll try this out, thank you for the advice!

[@user-yt2fz7um2x]

@@---iv5gj well not every one has accents in their language as English some are really flat and single pitched and of course not everyone can sing!!

[@exo-l3518]

The way they move their hands to get the tones right is literally how I do reading... But change the pinyin to Chinese character and it's all lost into the air.

[@jem5175]

😂😂😂 this is so true

[@sksks77]

Sameee I can just read pinyin

[@sixfeetundertheradar6080]

Calling me out tho

[@AC-qz3uj]

The struggle is real right? I did white out the pinyin quite fast in my chinese textbook after my chinese teacher asked me whether or not I was raving through chinese class.... the headbanging on the forth tone is such a struggle...

[@infires3042]

@@muhammadgaffar8744 unfortunately there's no method, it's really just up to dead memorising and practice :(

[@babydoll17x]

Oh my god...Eminem’s Lose yourself. I’m crying 💀😭

[@OrP100]

M Om's spaghetti

[@alex-fs9yt]

-HE'S NERVOUS BUT ON THE SURFACE HE LOOKS CALM AND READY

[@portal6347]

@S. Am HE OPENS HIS MOUTH BUT THE WORDS WON'T COME OUT

[@kyssedbyfyre915]

Damnit... Fine.... I'm going....

[@clobbleglobble7501]

0 Tone: monotone 1: im happy 2: yeah im fine 3: still alright. 4: *angry kirby noises*

[@JasonXYT]

REE4

[@thiagohenriquesimoes411]

POYOO!!!!

[@ggukiemonster]

_/\/\ what my preschool teacher taught me

[@lanceschmidt3047]

I'm dead - anyone who has ever studied Mandarin knows. The hand motions, the shengs, the fei chang haos.....you nailed it.

[@GameShaft]

Wo bu xi huan

[@xiaoxi7858]

I still move my head when reading in order to follow the directions of the tones

[@atirahyasim981]

@@xiaoxi7858 HAHAHHAHAHA me too! The hand and head moving 🤣

[@whyamihere4441]

Don’t get me started on how many shi there are

[@jau2687]

Awesome. Hen hao!!! 😂

[@maryhaucke-davis6695]

I haven’t laughed that hard since I tried to teach my students learning French how to say : très bien!

[@robinkinley6851]

Another French teacher here…almost as much fun as grading essays where the translations are truly horrific…🤣🤣🤣

[@kerryh3833]

Tray been

[@BigDaddyJinx]

Ah yes, three bean.

[@goblininabubblebath7154]

2:00 this man is adorable and MUST be protected at all costs 🥺

[@LyxYun]

I watched a video of him dressed in girl's clothing. He's even prettier than girls 🥺

[@RandomThings18]

The guy in the blue jacket is me when I'm trying to say things in chinese, with the tones. XD

[@xueyuki9082]

Dont forget the hand gestures for intonations lol

[@jewel56]

Lmfaoooo I was dying. That's me trying to speak Korean without using an English sing-song rhythm.

[@PlasticDoll.]

And if I can't do it with my hands, I imagine a wave in my brain linking with it how I say the tones lol

[@Nothingbutdust_]

Same 🤣

[@xinn_mh]

I died laughing at this 😂😂😂

[@nancyf7919]

I hsd some Chinese roommates who were constantly practising their English. Once they watched an old Madonna movie called Body of Evidence and were walking around the house reapeating "The witness is not on trial" in a multitude of intonations. This video brings it all back.

[@kuro758]

Haha that's a cute story

[@mena94x3]

😂😂😂😂 That’s hilarious. I would’ve been absolutely dying to witness that.

[@dgphi]

One of the worst movies ever made.

[@corpsefoot758]

You know what’s interesting? Depending on which word was stressed, it changes the meaning of the entire sentence lol

[@AlexsaurusRex]

I heard the accent in my head

[@That_Nightmare]

That smile at the end. Making learning fun is the best!

[@gomanfong4077]

This is so true, so many people I’ve heard when they say they learn chinese, their tone is so bad and sometimes it just makes no sense

[@madbrosheo1514]

I need a full version of Lose Yourself with Chinese tones now.

[@El-jf8fz]

We should @ Eminem and get him to record it.

[@inhle1688]

Mad Bro Sheo my1 mama2 dônt like1 you0 and0 she4 likes2 everyone2/0

[@looili1234]

@@inhle1688 That's Love Yourself tho😂😂

[@sppss914]

Inhle Cele that makes perfect sense

[@indecentanalyst]

Didn't find it. But to cheer up, here's the French tones version. Just click on play to hear it. translate.google.cz/?hl=fr&ui=tob&sl=fr&tl=en&text=Look%0AIf%20you%20had%0AOne%20shot%0AOr%20one%20opportunity%0ATo%20seize%20everything%20you%20ever%20wanted%0AIn%20one%20moment%0AWould%20you%20capture%20it%0AOr%20just%20let%20it%20slip%3F%0AYo%0AHis%20palms%20are%20sweaty%2C%20knees%20weak%2C%20arms%20are%20heavy%0AThere%27s%20vomit%20on%20his%20sweater%20already%2C%20mom%27s%20spaghetti%0AHe%27s%20nervous%2C%20but%20on%20the%20surface%20he%20looks%20calm%20and%20ready%0ATo%20drop%20bombs%2C%20but%20he%20keeps%20on%20forgettin%27%0AWhat%20he%20wrote%20down%2C%20the%20whole%20crowd%20goes%20so%20loud%0AHe%20opens%20his%20mouth%2C%20but%20the%20words%20won%27t%20come%20out%0AHe%27s%20chokin%27%2C%20how%2C%20everybody%27s%20jokin%27%20now%0AThe%20clocks%20run%20out%2C%20times%20up%2C%20over%2C%20blaow%0ASnap%20back%20to%20reality%2C%20ope%20there%20goes%20gravity%0AOpe%2C%20there%20goes%20Rabbit%2C%20he%20choked%0AHe%27s%20so%20mad%2C%20but%20he%20won%27t%20give%20up%20that%20easy%3F%20No%0AHe%20won%27t%20have%20it%2C%20he%20knows%20his%20whole%20back%27s%20to%20these%20ropes%0AIt%20don%27t%20matter%2C%20he%27s%20dope%2C%20he%20knows%20that%2C%20but%20he%27s%20broke%0AHe%27s%20so%20stagnant%2C%20he%20knows%2C%20when%20he%20goes%20back%20to%20this%20mobile%20home%2C%20that%27s%20when%20it%27s%0ABack%20to%20the%20lab%20again%2C%20yo%2C%20this%20whole%20rhapsody%0ABetter%20go%20capture%20this%20moment%20and%20hope%20it%20don%27t%20pass%20him%0AYou%20better%20lose%20yourself%20in%20the%20music%2C%20the%20moment%0AYou%20own%20it%2C%20you%20better%20never%20let%20it%20go%0AYou%20only%20get%20one%20shot%2C%20do%20not%20miss%20your%20chance%20to%20blow%0AThis%20opportunity%20comes%20once%20in%20a%20lifetime%0AYou%20better%20lose%20yourself%20in%20the%20music%2C%20the%20moment%0AYou%20own%20it%2C%20you%20better%20never%20let%20it%20go%0AYou%20only%20get%20one%20shot%2C%20do%20not%20miss%20your%20chance%20to%20blow%0AThis%20opportunity%20comes%20once%20in%20a%20lifetime%0AYou%20better%0AHis%20soul%27s%20escaping%2C%20through%20this%20hole%20that%20is%20gaping%0AThis%20world%20is%20mine%20for%20the%20taking%0AMake%20me%20king%2C%20as%20we%20move%20toward%20a%20New%20World%20Order%0AA%20normal%20life%20is%20borin%27%2C%20but%20super%20stardom%27s%20close%20to%20post%20mortem%0AIt%20only%20grows%20harder%2C%20only%20grows%20hotter%0AHe%20blows%2C%20it%27s%20all%20over%2C%20these%20hoes%20is%20all%20on%20him%0ACoast%20to%20coast%20shows%2C%20he%27s%20known%20as%20the%20Globetrotter%0ALonely%20roads%2C%20God%20only%20knows%2C%20he%27s%20grown%20farther%20from%20home%2C%20he%27s%20no%20father%0AHe%20goes%20home%20and%20barely%20knows%20his%20own%20daughter%0ABut%20hold%20your%20nose%20%27cause%20here%20goes%20the%20cold%20water%0AThese%20hoes%20don%27t%20want%20him%20no%20mo%27%2C%20he%27s%20cold%20product%0AThey%20moved%20on%20to%20the%20next%20schmo%20who%20flows%2C%20he%20nose%20dove%20and%20sold%20nada%0ASo%20the%20soap%20opera%20is%20told%20and%20unfolds%2C%20I%20suppose%20it%27s%20old%20partna%2C%20but%20the%20beat%20goes%20on%0ADa-da-dum%2C%20da-dum%2C%20da-da%0AYou%20better%20lose%20yourself%20in%20the%20music%2C%20the%20moment%0AYou%20own%20it%2C%20you%20better%20never%20let%20it%20go%0AYou%20only%20get%20one%20shot%2C%20do%20not%20miss%20your%20chance%20to%20blow%0AThis%20opportunity%20comes%20once%20in%20a%20lifetime%0AYou%20better%20lose%20yourself%20in%20the%20music%2C%20the%20moment%0AYou%20own%20it%2C%20you%20better%20never%20let%20it%20go%0AYou%20only%20get%20one%20shot%2C%20do%20not%20miss%20your%20chance%20to%20blow%0AThis%20opportunity%20comes%20once%20in%20a%20lifetime%0AYou%20better%0ANo%20more%20games%2C%20I%27ma%20change%20what%20you%20call%20rage%0ATear%20this%20motherfuckin%27%20roof%20off%20like%20two%20dogs%20caged%0AI%20was%20playin%27%20in%20the%20beginnin%27%2C%20the%20mood%20all%20changed%0AI%20been%20chewed%20up%20and%20spit%20out%20and%20booed%20off%20stage%0ABut%20I%20kept%20rhymin%27%20and%20stepped%20right%20in%20the%20next%20cypher%0ABest%20believe%20somebody%27s%20payin%27%20the%20Pied%20Piper%0AAll%20the%20pain%20inside%20amplified%20by%20the%0AFact%20that%20I%20can%27t%20get%20by%20with%20my%20nine%20to%0AFive%20and%20I%20can%27t%20provide%20the%20right%20type%20of%0ALife%20for%20my%20family%20%27cause%20man%2C%20these%20goddamn%20food%20stamps%20don%27t%20buy%20diapers%0AAnd%20its%20no%20movie%2C%20there%27s%20no%20Mekhi%20Phifer%0AThis%20is%20my%20life%20and%20these%20times%20are%20so%20hard%0AAnd%20it%27s%20getting%20even%20harder%20tryna%20feed%20and%20water%20my%20seed%2C%20plus%0ATeeter%20totter%2C%20caught%20up%20between%20bein%27%20a%20father%20and%20a%20prima%20donna%0ABaby%20mama%20drama%2C%20screamin%27%20on%20her%2C%20too%20much%0AFor%20me%20to%20wanna%20stay%20in%20one%20spot%2C%20another%20day%20of%20monotony%27s%0AGotten%20me%20to%20the%20point%2C%20I%27m%20like%20a%20snail%20I%27ve%20got%0ATo%20formulate%20a%20plot%20or%20end%20up%20in%20jail%20or%20shot%0ASuccess%20is%20my%20only%20motherfuckin%27%20option%2C%20failure%27s%20not%0AMom%2C%20I%20love%20you%2C%20but%20this%20trailer%27s%20got%20to%20go%2C%20I%20cannot%20grow%20old%20in%20Salem%27s%20Lot%0ASo%20here%20I%20go%2C%20is%20my%20shot%0AFeet%2C%20fail%20me%20not%2C%20this%20may%20be%20the%20only%20opportunity%20that%20I%20got%0AYou%20better%20lose%20yourself%20in%20the%20music%2C%20the%20moment%0AYou%20own%20it%2C%20you%20better%20never%20let%20it%20go%0AYou%20only%20get%20one%20shot%2C%20do%20not%20miss%20your%20chance%20to%20blow%0AThis%20opportunity%20comes%20once%20in%20a%20lifetime%0AYou%20better%20lose%20yourself%20in%20the%20music%2C%20the%20moment%0AYou%20own%20it%2C%20you%20better%20never%20let%20it%20go%0AYou%20only%20get%20one%20shot%2C%20do%20not%20miss%20your%20chance%20to%20blow%0AThis%20opportunity%20comes%20once%20in%20a%20lifetime%0AYou%20better%0AYou%20can%20do%20anything%20you%20set%20your%20mind%20to%2C%20man&op=translate

[@tinasenenssie]

The guy in the denim jacket is killing me

[@PixiiBomb]

that was adorable, and I need to see more

[@carbonmolecules4504]

Dude I’m so glad I’m here this was wholesome and hilarious 😂

[@tedros6917]

I feel like all languages have tones to some extent. The difference is in Chinese the tone will change the meaning of the word

[@MrsCurioCheerio]

I wouldn’t say “tones” because that has a pretty specific meaning in the context of Chinese language, but rather inflection/intonation.

[@AngelVazquez-vs9xp]

Tone is an important part of all languages, but just because a language has tone does not make it tonal. What makes a tonal language such as Chinese tonal is it’s frequent use of different tones for one word to give it different meanings. A nontonal language is a language that rarely use these types of tones, such as English.

[@ynntari2775]

also, chinese also uses intonation just like anglish. For this, all tones drops or rises depending on intonation.

[@baph0met]

In some languages you don't see tones and intonation very often, as a Czech person, it is quite hard for Czechs to speak English and don't sound "bored" cause most of the time we talk, we sound almost monotone.

[@disappearintothesea]

Angel Vazquez I agree. I think it’s hard for people who don’t speak a tonal language or study a tonal language to understand what it actually means.

[@gone4607]

The guy in black : actually taking this seriously The girl in red: confusion but still doing it The dude in gray/blue: * becomes Italian * Edit: ah jeez what has my stupid comment done

[@yama1687]

Hetalia's Italy: "I sooo glad, more people whos love PAAAAASTAAA! :3"

[@thatlibrarysmell720]

Someone say girl in red? Jokes aside that’s hilarious

[@chuman5103]

@@thatlibrarysmell720 ;)

[@diloiamwen]

Ahem Did someone summon me?

[@Isabel-vp4dg]

G i r l i n r e d 👍

[@Mioumi]

Tones are a huge block for me to learn Chinese for years. The trauma never fades away 😔😔😔

[@namename8004]

I've been learning Japanese and I had idle thoughts of learning Chinese after as there would be less to learn if I already have a solid kanji knowledge base. After watching this, the thought of attempting to learn Chinese fills me with NOPE.

[@birdyashiro1226]

come on lol

[@haltrei6525]

The students are so enthusiastic 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@ansonzhu6355]

Agree

[@AjieA]

Ha LT Rei ikrrrr 😂😂

[@JadeJFrost]

The guy in black jacket is cute haha

[@leonie7754]

English tones are more in how words are stressed in a sentence. My mother is a linguist and used to use this example in English: Did you wash the car? Depending on which part of the sentence is stressed changes the nature of the sentence and what is actually being asked. DID you wash the car? (was the action done) Did YOU wash the car? (were you the person who washed it) Did you WASH the car? (of all the things done to the car, was washing part of it) Did you wash the CAR? (of all the things washed, was the car one of them).

[@natsu7352]

i watched a video explaining pretty much the same thing a while ago [it was a video essay on voice tones used by actors, cant remember the title though]

[@graysonsoldahl]

You could even say "Did you wash THE car" and pronounce it like 'thee' to emphasize a particular car.

[@paulaarias2229]

To be honest it's incredible!

[@AtomicVertigo_Comics]

@@paulaarias2229 its so crazy how english might seem to someone who is trying to learn it! so many nuances

[@paulaarias2229]

@@AtomicVertigo_Comics Yes it's correct. In fact, English is not my mother tongue, and I had never thought about it, but it is still amazing hahaha

[@zylith9730]

THE WAY HE SAYS SPAGHETTI I’M CRYINGSKDKSKKSKDKSJEKKS

[@taylornoel]

This is actually very helpful from the perspective of someone who has always been curious about speaking toned languages.

[@Superb17C]

I rewatched this skit so many times that "There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti" sounds wrong to me now if it doesn't have tones.

[@linabingbing3881]

Same. Were nerds for rewatching it ...more than twice 😜

[@jumpander]

that's basically how chinese evolved

[@RedDeadRussian]

As someone who tried learning Chinese, I find this both evil and funny

[@Fenizrael]

I nearly spat out my coffee at the last bit you edited in

[@gabbysara1090]

This made me smile thank u for making that

[@MitchellWiggs]

2:15 the guy on the right was so funny i couldn’t stop watching him 😂😂

[@rileyking6097]

Me too

[@Yoon_Entertainment111]

So many likes but just 2 comments

[@teokuiching762]

Yeaa

[@sol534]

@@Yoon_Entertainment111 4 comment

[@sol534]

Chef 577867*7’5& 5 comment

[@jess_bounce]

I relate on a spiritual level to the one using his hand to help him use the “correct” English tones as he speaks

[@saehway]

I do that too 😞😞 English is my first language tho lmao

[@nicolebauer6622]

Omg SO TRUE! You did a really good job translating this experience into English.

[@CloudWithoutASky]

Oh god just hearing the lyrics makes me wanna listen to it right now. Its timeless.

[@kevinsu8145]

His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy

[@zura3395]

Kevin Su u forgot the tones

[@Keplerite]

WHERE ARE THE TONES

[@wanderingsoul4103]

Kevin Su no no no no all wrong

[@GG-nl9oy]

His paws are sweaty. Knees weak, tail is heavy. There vomit on the carpet already, scratch ma belly.

[@jameshuang2677]

His palms spaghetti, knees weak, arms spaghetti, mum's spaghetti

[@madisonjones3410]

OMG Jared, I’m a university student in year two Chinese. Your representation of students learning tones is too accurate bro 😅 My Chinese professor does that tone correction thing to other students in my class LITERALLY every 5 minutes. I suppose we’ve all been there before lol

[@EKnyc]

Matthew wiggles it's all about intonation.

[@juanchen8482]

If you know music theory you can try to use tones in stuff. 1st tone(yinping) for G, 2nd tone(yangping) for E-G, 3rd tone(shangsheng) for D-C-F and 4th tone(qusheng) for G-C.

[@juanchen8482]

of course it is not accurate to use music tones. or every chinese is good at singing XD

[@FruityHachi]

still better to be corrected every 5 mins than not and go to china and embarass yourself hard :D one of my german teachers always corrects our pronunciation so i like it but he always says some rude comment alongside it, so no one likes him

[@vanessaphanouvong5870]

I'm a language major taking Chinese soon this semester (: sounds horrifying, wish me luck

[@jerseymikhailamagtangob2619]

i love the guy on the right's hand moves sm

[@sumdumbmick]

it took me about 5 seconds with my first Chinese speaking ESL student in 2005 to realize that English pronunciation can be taught very well using the tones as an aid. If you look at it the right way English has exactly and only the 5 tones of Mandarin, they're just used a little differently than they are in Mandarin.

[@Tomasrrb]

But intonation and inflection are very different. Tones change the meaning of words individually and together, inflection changes the intention of the phrase but not its meaning. The words all mean the same, and the phrase still mean the same, it just has a different emphasis.

[@andyzhang7890]

The blue jacket guy is so engaged I love it

[@bernie8178]

I love how he says spaghetti with an Italian flair. 😂

[@lordsiomai]

gotta love the way he moves his arms hahaha

[@rochelimit55555]

I can’t stop laughing at him 😂

[@AlonsoMontero]

SPGETTY!

[@andyzhang7890]

you can practically see his chakras aligning with the melody 1:24

[@esterleng860]

Can we talk about his amazing Chinese, I’m of Chinese descent and he’s definitely studied harder than I did

[@Themusicalpuzzle]

Same u.u

[@kiwi9660]

he was raised in china

[@armoricain]

He sounded 100% Chinese... at least to me! Amazing!

[@user-nh3vj5qv4i]

he was born in Hainan province,he can sleak both C and E languages

[@SamChaneyProductions]

Well it seems like you know a lot about carboxyl groups!

[@intothekey]

Mom saying don't take that tone with me can mean something very different in Chinese.

[@jjjjjjjj56374]

🤣 Thanks for this stress relieving video! I just started trying to learn Chinese and it cracked me up so much.

[@zenyxx9789]

That smirk in the end seems like he's satisfied that he was able to take revenge😂😂

[@themedicallinguist6456]

You don’t say

[@eleanorweaverley1105]

Exactly my thoughts mate!😂😂

[@mchagnon7]

He just pulled the greatest prank of all time.

[@ritsmond]

1:52 The dude with the blue jacket had a perfect pronunciation. It radiates Italian! 😄

[@oldwolf3218]

This is awesome. Great work as this hits home...

[@sachiperez]

It’s nearly a miracle people ever understand each other at all!

[@xuminghaostolemyheart2466]

The one in black is like a non existent student in your class who is actually smart

[@dommyboysmith]

For those wondering he's teaching them a standard set of tones that's fairly universal, and taught in most high schools. The other, more difficult dialects to learn after, are known as "southern alligator fisherman" and "Texas-born Mexican cowboy". As with mandarin compared to, say, Fuzhounese and Cantonese, only the most experienced linguists can understand and speak all 3 fluently.

[@DarkAngelEU]

You forgot Tea-Spiffing Brit, Butter Biscuit Highland, Dragontongue and Tax Haven Islesma- err, I mean, Irish!

[@dommyboysmith]

@@DarkAngelEU ahhh a UK brother. I'm from the states. You guys have your very own unique set of language, that I'm unfamiliar with. Cheers mate!

[@dommyboysmith]

I was gonna learn Chinese, but German is so much easier 😁

[@DarkAngelEU]

@@dommyboysmith I'm from Belgium, but close ;)

[@user-qm6hk1zj7f]

@@dommyboysmith hochdeutsch is easier, but all those austrian, switzerland accents are.... not understandable. here's C1 owner

[@nancydiehl296]

The hand gestures had me rolling! 😂😂😂

[@ValleyData]

This was perfect timing 😂 Great video.

[@Travellight21]

This is fascinating! 0:28 when you put sad violin music about how hard the tones are 😂 😂 Great video. I miss China so much.

[@jwgaard9267]

I believe it is a song from Naruto actually. they have some sadies on there for sure.

[@thebeginningchq9689]

@@jwgaard9267 wait it's not just a joke song???

[@jwgaard9267]

@@thebeginningchq9689 I mean he used it in the context of joke and works, but yeah it sounds like a Naruto song. Could be wrong though.

[@toasterwafflestm5190]

@@jwgaard9267 that’s not from Naruto lol

[@jwgaard9267]

Username checks out, I trust you. You know what I'm talking about though!

[@sapphire962]

The more I hear about foreigners learning English, the more I realize I don't fully understand my own language

[@corpsefoot758]

And yet somehow we seem to manage lol Kinda like how I can ride a bike no problem, but can’t even begin to explain the actual physics involved 😅

[@nathanriver1556]

Learning a foreign language actually makes you re-evaluate a lot of things you take for granted about your native language.

[@ratherande]

@@nathanriver1556 Fr, I’m so thankful for the word “the” instead of having different genders

[@bryede]

Yeah, when you stop and look at how you actually use language, it's pretty messed up. English uses words in so many nonsensical ways that you just have to memorize.

[@nathanriver1556]

@@bryede as a native French speaker I never really appreciated how weird grammatical genders are before learning English.

[@istarzgirl]

I don't know why I got this in my recommended, but I have now happily subscribed.

[@Tj_Smeejay]

This video randomly showed up in my recommended videos, I even got a Chinese language ad before the video. I only speak English.

[@robbielosee]

Every language course ever: “We’ll teach you using common everyday phrases. . .”

[@amandataylor6434]

I can honestly say in German “do you drink milk?” It’s all I remember and I’m sure if I visit Germany I’ll use it daily! Lol 😂

[@amandataylor6434]

@@Gigacyy lol ty u made my day

[@dracodistortion9447]

Chinese: Tones are integral to meaning German: hoblen haufen glieben gleibenhofferschneiden

[@ineffablemars]

Same

[@isihosena635]

What does that even mean? I feel like I am not getting some inside joke D:

[@ZeckeGegenRechts]

Can you explain the joke?

[@dracodistortion9447]

@@isihosena635 German is a language with loose tone rules and is often viewed as an informal language, whereas Chinese is much different.

[@isihosena635]

@@dracodistortion9447 yeah, I was just confused by the extra letters 😅

[@javrich]

One of the best recommends of the year! I love it hahahaha

[@leannaerickson9745]

Bless you! I studied for 2years and never quite got it right. Revenge is so sweet!

[@eb.3764]

English doesn't have tones, but some words are inflected or have emphasis in a certain syllable and if said any different would sound weird, but I guess still understood

[@Arkylie]

Tone/stress is how we tell obvious sarcasm or incredulity, questions, and other things that don't transfer well to text. In Chinese, it changes the meaning of the word, but in English, it more often changes the context of the statement. Really? Really. Really. (dubious) Really! (enthusiastic) Really. (annoyed/deadpan) Really! (emphatic) Really? (put out) Really...? (timid/hesitant) Really!! (angry) etc.

[@r0ckinfirepower]

A good way of saying this is by calling English a "sung" language. We "sing" to some degree when we speak. This is also why we use so much punctuation when we write, in order note pauses, breathes, questions, interruptions, lists, etc.

[@bradbeattie]

The example phrase I always used: "I didn't say I stole her wallet." Depending on inflection, the sentence can carry a subtle second message. "I didn't say /I/ stole her wallet" implies I said someone else did.

[@Arkylie]

Oh, yes -- there's actually several distinct possible connotations there: *I* didn't say I stole her wallet. -- Someone else said it. I *didn't* say I stole her wallet. -- stronger protest I didn't *say* I stole her wallet. -- I merely implied it; you can't prove anything. I didn't say *I* stole her wallet. -- Admits that wallet was stolen, implies another person. I didn't say I *stole* her wallet. -- Admits that wallet was taken, implies that it was freely given or that the person "stealing" it had more right to it than the woman in question. I didn't say I stole *her* wallet. -- Admits that I stole a wallet, implies it was someone else's wallet. I didn't say I stole her *wallet* -- Admits that I stole something from her, implies that it was an object other than wallet. But it's all just a basic "stress the word that's out of place" tactic.

[@furynick4541]

@@Arkylie puurrrrphect.

[@trinitrojack]

This turned out to be way more amusing than I thought it would be.

[@Lisa-pb3qp]

You cracked the code dude! 👍🏼🌸

[@AliasEveWatches]

That evil smile at the end 🤣 非常好

[@froggiechair_4735]

I feel his pain at the beginning Chinese is so hard

[@kishima08]

Imagine them poor Chinese kids learning English getting trolled hard like this. 😂

[@jessicag630]

Jokes aside, my American lecturer did this in her pronunciation class. She put American accent tone in our L1 sentences. It surprisingly helped improve our understanding of the intonation and as a bonus it was quite fun as well.

[@peepeetrain8755]

their harmonisation on the his1 was beautiful.

[@Nothingbutdust_]

I thought this would be an interesting concept but in the end I just ended up laughing. This was just too funny and so relatable, since I'm also studying Chinese and I hate the tones... Really no matter how hard you try and you think you got it right it's somehow the wrong tone 😂😅😩

[@ladasodaexplains3355]

Rᴏʏᴀʟ Rᴀʙʙɪᴛ remember many common characters could also have multiple tones depending on the context 😂

[@ynntari2775]

you just wait. The big problem is not the tones, it's the so many words that all translates to single words in other languages.

[@CN-rw6dq]

Exactly my thoughts and reaction as well🙈

[@rosewater1862]

The guy with the jean jacket did a great job I laughed so hard

[@just_a_turtle_chad]

He was Turtle Approved 👍

[@sonofspaceghost_9290]

Dude, I can't even tell you why but had me trippin-full-balls I swear lololol!! And so the rabbit hole begins hahaha:-).

[@beatrixthegreat1138]

That was hilarious and deserved a subscribe.