Why Do Speakers of Chinese Languages Have An Accent In English? | Improve Your Accent

[@ImproveYourAccent]

Check out my Online English Pronunciation Course. It's tailored to your native language. Try a free lesson: improveyouraccent.co.uk/course/ Some people have commented that Jackie Chan is a native Cantonese speaker and he does not exhibit accent features that are representative of Chinese people in general. I would disagree. I have taught many Chinese speakers (native languages/dialects include Mandarin, Cantonese, Wu, Southern Min) and most people show the accent features that I describe in the main section of the video. Also please see the disclaimers in the video description.

[@jingyuhou3037]

I am a mandarin speaker. Jackie Chan's accent is from Cantonese which is quite different from Mandarin.

[@Li.Siyuan]

I don't understand why that is relevant. I speak Mandarin and understand a little Cantonese and still don't get the point.

[@adamonis6052]

Mandarin and Cantonese (Sinotibetian- Sinitic) are related in the same way that Spanish and Portuguese(Indo European- Italic- Romance) are. I’ve actually heard from speaks of Portuguese and Spanish that they can communicate at a basic level, however the Portuguese speakers understand the Spanish speakers better than the Spanish speaker understands the Portuguese speaker. I can read Spanish pretty well and i can tell you that Portuguese and Spanish are mutually intelligible in their written forms. Spanish and Portuguese descended from Latin mandarin and Cantonese from Classical Chinese. It would make sense that you’d be able to understand a little. From what I understand Cantonese has six tones as opposed to the 4 tones of mandarin, so Cantonese speakers understand mandarin better than the mandarin speakers understand Cantonese. I looked it up and according to Wikipedia Cantonese and mandarin split around 600 AD.

[@pirateman2702]

He's Hongkie it's normal

[@yuewenchang]

Mandarin是不是满大人的意思?感觉这个词对中国人有歧视

[@itshry]

@@yuewenchang 已经成为专有名词了，没什么歧视。China也是从"秦"的音译。难道也要叫他们改为zhongguo。

[@2chill2]

Jackie Chan learned English in an older age, he did very well. I can totally understand his English.

[@nicoleraheem1195]

I didn't know that. He's been speaking English all of my life lol 😆 and I'm a 90s kid. I just took up Mandarin a few months ago. I hope to speak as good as he speaks English.

[@jeremyxu6178]

I think he grows up in Australia

[@Tabris93]

@@jeremyxu6178 No, he grew up in Hong Kong, living at a Peking Opera training facility for ten years (aprx 8-18 years old). His parents moved to Australia during that time and JC moved to live with them for a short while when he was finished with the Opera training.

[@benjaminau4004]

I am a HongKonger, to be fair it was good effort from him. I reckon he started to communicate in English at his late 40s or early 50s. Especially his lack of education when he was a teenager.

[@ranger2383]

Mandarin speaker --->this = zis, think = sink Cantonese speaker ---> this = dis, think = fink

[@AC9123]

er what about someone who speaks both :')

[@lt4053]

You are absolutely right.

[@pschadlichemlarm311]

Mandarin: I think-> I sinker Cantonese: I think-> I fin

[@FairyCRat]

So a Mandarin speaker will pronounce th sounds like a French speaker from France, while a Cantonese speaker will do it like one from Quebec.

[@ShelliLoop]

Too bad. Both are sloppy. Spit pebbles OUT before you try to speak America English. British talk crappy English so they probably don’t notice. They COINED the phrase “butchered King’s English”.

[@jy1598]

as a Cantonese speaker trying to get rid of my accent while speaking english is very hard. This helps a lot especially the rhythm part. Thanks:)

[@blooddrunk4957]

Hope your progress is coming along nicely! English is a very hard language in the first place. Good luck!

[@lt2064]

youre a champing!

[@howardcheung8304]

每次上堂講英文真係笑死我

[@tomsd8656]

Getting rid of accent is near impossible, but learning to pronounce more correctly is very doable. You just have to make an effort.

[@fearlessali2852]

​​@@tomsd8656it is possible with much effort, observation, practice and interest.Not impossible at all.

[@songzhong1611]

1:07 For some Chinese people, especially the northerners, instead of deleting the final consonants, they emphasis them, making jump sound like jumper.

[@张雅伦-w5g]

i think jumpoo［pu：］ is more similar(/ω＼)

[@Svorpal]

lol

[@TheLucidDreamer12]

This is more specific to Cantonese speakers. Native Min Chinese speakers have overly nasalised vowels when speaking English.

[@megancress1384]

my parents turn the last consonant into a separate syllable all by itself

[@zijin173]

@@张雅伦-w5g exactly

[@conw_y]

Makes me curious how we English-native-speakers sound to Chinese people when we try to pronounce Chinese words!

[@nicoleraheem1195]

Hahahahahahha man when I try, they look at me like I called them something derogatory but I've only been learning for two months so I'm still in the toddler phase. I get No sympathy and no correction when I mess up 🤦🏾‍♀️😩 😂 There's this white guy, I forget his name, that trolls Chinese people. He's totally fluent in Mandarin and has videos on KZbin. Check him out if you haven't. He inspires me to get going.

[@lindaxiu4915]

I am a Chinese and I can say sometimes the accent seems strange as English speakers always pronounce with more strength in some words haha😉

[@user-pm2eu7rq4i]

@@nicoleraheem1195 haha, I feel you. Check out Chris口语老炮马斯瑞 on youtube, he started learning Chinese at 23, but gosh he speaks Chinese just like a native from Beijing, he really inspires me to learn new languages.

[@JustNuggie]

I don't know

[@relaxwhc]

Their main mistake is making the wrong tones, which distorts the meaning of the words

[@promurderer293]

As a chinese, this video helps me to pronounce “action” correctly🙂👍Thank You

[@chengzhisun8944]

成龙说action不说k这个音是因为成龙说的是美语，美语中很多单词中间的读音就是不发音。这哥们是英国人。

[@lirongchan212]

chengzhi sun 即使是美语action这个词也是会发出k的音的。成龙省略k的音是不是受粤语影响我不确定，但中式英语里更常见的情况应该是倾向于在k后面加个元音

[@BenTabulaRasa]

@@lirongchan212 普通话母语者是习惯在k后面加个元音

[@TheRacingWind]

the irony is that you make those statements about how Chinese doesn't have consonants at the end of words then pick a speaker from Cantonese, which is the only Chinese language that has ending consonants lol

[@dickiewongtk]

Yes. But it is also true that we (cantonese speakers, especially Hong Kong cantonese speakers) often skip the last consonants when speaking english. But, aren't there a lot of Mandarin words end with 'ng', which is a consonant?

[@keifyw7444]

@@dickiewongtk good point

[@zizhanwu9036]

Actually a lot of Sinitic languages end with consonants, namely Hokken and balamgu

[@idraote]

@@dickiewongtk I may be wrong, but final -ng usually represents a nasal sound. Nasals are consonants of sorts but they behave differently

[@WCiossek]

@@dickiewongtk In Mandarin, n and ng are nasals. Not really a consonant. In Shanghai the people have troubles to distinguish n and ng. For example: wan wang!

[@queenieyu970]

I am Chinese and Taiwanese, this video is very interesting and good observation. Many thanks.

[@hulenkius]

Chinese here! Have been waiting for this for a long time~

[@marciturner4980]

You could have made one yourself.

[@AQuestioner]

The title would be better if it was “Why Cantonese speakers sound Cantonese”. Please make a video called “Why Mandarin speakers sound Mandarin”, maybe using Jack Ma (but keep in mind he is from Hangzhou so he also has an accent)

[@puccarts]

I want to improve my Chinese pronunciation. I'm watching this so I can get some insights into how to help my Cantonese sound better!

[@methandtopology]

Samesies, sneaking in for that

[@yuzhaoguo]

I would say this only reflects how Cantonese people would tend to speak in English.

[@kaigeng2476]

well I am the mainlander and most of us cant pronounce the TH sound and hard to distinguish from N and L。。。 and we still use tones while we speak English which was the biggest problem

[@randiwong1847]

Makes it easier to get Chinese people to understand you when you're talking English to them if you know the tones

[@QuizmasterLaw]

your tones aren't a problem so don't worry about that. diction is important, not tones.

[@liqritrs8391]

Kai Geng northerners English was better than southerners

[@linzhao998]

@@liqritrs8391 southerns have difficulty to tell L apart from N, and northerns（I personally think,because Im northern）usually add too many stress in the sentence, and it has always been my biggest problem 😩

[@liqritrs8391]

lin zhao 嘎哈呀铁子

[@fangtom9128]

well... analyze Jackie's accent is a little bit controversial. not only his mother tongue is Cantonese, not Mandarin, but also those missing letter you pronounced is not that common in chinese speaking. i think the most difficult part to chinese speakers is double vowels

[@hk-ry5ic]

Agree! Sometimes I don’t open my mouth completely when pronouncing double vowels

[@jasminhussein149]

thank you for your special info about the Chinese accent because I find difficulty with this accent..

[@weirdowhisper]

6:58 fun fact regarding a Northern Vietnamese accent: most of the ppl living in the North of Vietnam tend to pronounce 'l' and 'n' interchangeably when words begin with these letters, eg. the Viet word for '(to) work': Even if it's actually written 'làm', many ppl say 'nàm'.

[@mariayoung694]

This video is quite interesting as well as educational. However, I have to point out that actually Chinglish accent is much more complex than shown on the video because we have quite a lot accents in China, thus different people living in different areas can speak quite different Chinese. Maybe more locals should be used as examples instead of only one.

[@smartwind330]

Thanks so much for the video! I was expecting a lesson based on the mainstream Chinese (Mandarin) which may not be a good reference to me. Surprisingly Jackie Chan is the model who shares the same mother tongue as me. Love from Cantonese speaker :)

[@-wil2013]

Hello everybody. 7:59, I understand why he said "Engliss", because of the word "so", ha said "English so fast", normally, he pronounce "sh" correctly. In fact, in interview, sometimes Jackie Chan don't pronounce some words clearly, but in movies, he does his best.

[@smylulula]

This is exactly what I need as someone who immigrated as a teenager and can speak English very fluently but unfprtunately still with accent! Keep it up!

[@vincentliu2110]

As a Chinese, I have to say your analysis is really to the point.

[@einodmilvado5436]

It was a very good video! So easy to understand, so practical! Thank you so much!!!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@katliu6169]

Chinese here. I think most of these problems can be avoided early on with careful teaching, but indeed there are dialects that don't really distinguish between n and l, and v isn't used in Chinese so even when speaking Chinese some people use w and v interchangeably. I wasn't sure how 'roll' and 'table' sounded different when pronounced by Jackie, but I could see the addition of vowel turning 'old' into 'owe'.

[@neurastenija1]

Polish speakers next, please! Your videos are amazingly educational.

[@movieis-the-best8364]

4:19 this is such a good example of how if you can't pronounce properly people won't understand you. btw i work at a pharmacy and many Chinese customers look at my asian face assuming i'm Chinese and just speak Chinese to me straight away without asking politely 'can you speak Chinese'? so even if i know how to speak it depends on my mood whether or not to say yes. Some would then try to speak english but i'm really having trouble to understand because of the accent.

[@huggle684]

OMG I genuinely love this so much!! I'm obsessed with accents and this is so flippin' interesting!!!

[@jeff__w]

One feature of the Chinese accent that I wish you had mentioned is that the initial _d_ in English as in _dog_ is partially voiced but Mandarin and Cantonese native speakers tend to pronounce it as unvoiced. It’s a noticeable but hard-to-describe difference. It was an interesting, informative video!

[@ebbhead20]

This is what i mean when i say.. I miss some pleasant voices in youtube. This is it. Clear and precise and intelligent sounding. Most youtubers tend to give me a headache. This guy wouldn't. I can tell.. 😊

[@R0adx]

Jacky Chan actually have a hong kong accent, because he's from Hong Kong

[@Peter_1986]

Well, in that case he basically has a Chinese accent, since Hong Kong is a city in China.

[@MeLlamoKi]

Laurelindo He has a Cantonese accent. Btw HK is not like the other places of the mainland China... Technically we are Chinese but culturally we are Hong Kongers, we are just different from the others of the mainland.

[@Herald_of_Perfection]

Jacky Phantom His point still stands

[@dickychan8610]

@@MeLlamoKi China has countless individual cultures, HK just has more time to develop into a international city, since it was colonized by Britain for nearly a century. However some ppl in HK tend to exclude themselves from the mainland Chinese citizens, dunno whether is ego or what

[@yuchenzeng7184]

@@Peter_1986 it's completely different thing

[@artugert]

0:43 "Chinese languages usually don't like consonants at the ends of words." Generally true, but words in Mandarin commonly end in N or NG. In Cantonese, which Jackie Chan (being from Hong Kong) speaks, in addition to N and NG, words also end in P, T, K, and (I think) M. I don't speak Cantonese, so not sure if I'm missing any. It should also be noted that some of these features apply to Cantonese speakers, but not to speakers of Mandarin, which is the majority language in Chine.

[@maggieqiu5645]

This is such a helpful video. Chinese audien(ce) here, love your video, so much detail and information that we can never notice ourselves.

[@nicholas9760]

Such a helpful video it is. That we have never be noticed by ourselves before. Sorry, I have changed you sentence

[@Bdmaurice]

I think another fascinating concept about this is how different the English language can be pronounced yet still be understandable.

[@c0t556]

Your first point is half valid. Yes, we Chinese people don’t like consonants at the end of the word, but we don’t just delete it, instead, we add a vowel like sound to it, kinda like what the Italians do. I have no idea why Jackie Chan delete it, maybe it’s a Cantonese thing, and he’s representative of Hong Kong accent at best, definitely not how the majority of Chinese people in mainland China speak.

[@kschell286]

Jackie Chan betrayed Hong Kong , so I blame mainland China for any of his faults...

[@qizhang5905]

I speak Mandarin and your video is super helpful.

[@cadidaddy]

This title reminds me of a Uber driver😂 Me: Be honest with me, do I have a weird accent? Uber driver: No, you don't have a weird accent, you have a Chinese accent. 🤣🤣🤣

[@jingcui1612]

Rainey Miracle haha

[@SnivyO.O]

*Oof, That hurt.*

[@2chill2]

Accents are normal. Nothing weird.

[@xihou1954]

@@SnivyO.O that hurts. 不用谢。

[@SnivyO.O]

@@xihou1954 I know chinese, lol

[@TheLittleColumbus]

The jump and stunt examples were not great because those stop consonants are not aspirated for native speakers as well.

[@dannyslammy4379]

then how would we hear the difference between stun and stunt?

[@winonadaphne6445]

ahhh makes sense. i never thought about it that way. my parents do the same thing and when i try to teach them how to properly pronounce a word, they really struggle

[@wavingcats1940]

jackie chan speaks with a very thick cantonese accent,

[@glennextics]

I'm of American-born Chinese, speaking clearly with an American accent, and I do understand Chinese accent growing up.

[@nblack7314]

i'm a simple human, i see jackie, i smash thumbs up *-* damn, i hope he will live till 200 years and i won't have to handle his death

[@winonadaphne6445]

everyone keeps pointing out that the guy mistook jackie's canto accent for a chinese one, but regardless this is very helpful and true information.

[@bryanlam3412]

I speak Mandarin, Cantonese and English, all without an accent. I strongly believe that most Chinese have an accent when speaking English, but certainly not all of them; much of my school is Chinese yet all of us speak English fluently, some with an accent, some without; if I had to hazard a guess, I would say the ratio is about 50:50.

[@待君歸]

Well around 3:20 the stressing part, I’d say most Americans do that, too; it’s just not as severe as what Jackie Chan was used to. You could say that in English, the difference of American accent comparing to British accent is just similar as that of Mandarin comparing to Cantonese

[@cmtwei9605]

As an ex-British Hong Konger who went to Britain in teenage I had great difficult pronuncing 'little'. I can tell the difference between mainland Chinese (and Taiwanese) Mandarin speakers speaking English from Hong Kongers. If you listen to Lang Lang (esp. with heavy rhotic sound from the north) he sounds quite different to Jackie Chan. In the past, that was decades ago in British HK schools English were taught by local teachers and even then I knew they couldn't pronounce English properly! One of my teachers would say loof for roof! One noticeable difference between Chinese and native speaker is Chinese people usually put the stress towards the end, so 'plasma becomes plas'maah. The monotonous rhythm pointed out in the video is because the Chinese spoken language puts almost equal stress on each word.

[@lpower5312]

Why do Dutch people sound Dutch? I'd love to see a video on that, as I'd love to improve my accent. Your videos are extremely useful

[@ankaschannel]

what I noticed with dutch speakers is they are not that good at pronouncing aspirated consonants e.g. top becomes dop, cave becomes gave

[@adanacaccentcoaching2685]

if you look up final devoicing, coda devoicing or consonant final devoicing you can find exercises that will benefit a Dutch accent in English

[@-wil2013]

Hello everyone. I think that Jackie Chan used to pronounce the word “action” with the “k”, but when he is speaking too fast, he says “ashon”.

[@wangsamuel9733]

You are such an expert. Really appreciate your break down explanation for the accent.I am from China and surely will keep an eye on these problems in the future when I speak English.

[@mohmeegaik6686]

So happy to see this video on my youtube feed. Thanks!!!

[@-wil2013]

Hello everyone. 7:57, he said the word "don't" , it sounds like "tong".

[@trevorjames7490]

Oh yeahh..

[@weirdowhisper]

These characteristics not only apply to Chinese ppl, but also to Vietnamese (or also Thai speakers, I think). My parents come from Vietnam, and when they speak German, it's just almost the same. Every word that ends with certain consonants (esp. '-s') is left out, since it is difficult for them to pronounce a 's' sound at the end (as in "audience") 😄. The same goes for 'r' sound, pretty hard as well.. and so on.

[@Eric-nh2yb]

Haha great vid! Love how you consistently used Jackie Chan through to demonstrate the problems

[@weizhou5626]

0:15 I like that you mentioned the variety of Chinese languages and dialects.

[@mq46312]

I left China when I was 10. The people that can sometimes tell I'm from an Asian background are usually Asians themselves or people who's had a lot of exposure to the international environment. However most people from a purely English speaking country or with less international exposure cannot tell that I'm from an Asian background. For Chinese in my opinion it's not necessary the pronunciation of the words (contrary to the video), but rather it may be the pitch and tone of the person's voice that gives it away.

[@misteranswer]

You should do a comparison between Jackie, a cantonese speaker vs Jet Li, a northern mandarin speaker.

[@RitenVagadiya-lb7lz]

Very insightful! Would like a similar video on insight into the Indian accent!

[@IbinikeIdowuAdegbesan]

I found this very interesting and also notice that some part in Nigeria particularly the "OYO" have some of these accent in common with the Chinese for instance the "English" is been pronounced "Englis.

[@FromDarkness2Light203]

I am learning Mandarin Chinese and I am always watching Videos about The Chinese Language. I stumbled into this Cute and Sweet Video. Thank You for The Video, the audience should remember the Native American Saying “Good Humor-Good Medicine”..lol..

[@JD-uj5cp]

I am honestly watching this video just to watch Jackie Chan and learn how to do a Chinese accent. I figure if I learn a Chinese accent in English, when I try to speak Chinese it will be easier.

[@taroimoapple4718]

I'm Japanese and found some of your observations are true for Japanese, too. However, there seem to remain unrevealed characteristics that are unique to Japanese English speakers. I hope you'll make them clear from a native's view.

[@sellalau2491]

Actually this is more like features of Cantonese speakers rather than Mandarin speakers. The most obvious distinction is Cantonese speakers tend to delete consonant after vowel, especially consonant ‘b’ ‘p’ ‘t’ ‘d’ ‘k’ ‘g’, while Mandarin speakers tend to add a vowel ‘ɛ’ to consonant.

[@Aasenzeng]

There are so many dialects in China and the majority of them are so vastly different from one another (I'm a native Chinese and most other dialects sound like foreign languages to me). You can't just take a Cantonese speaking person and generalize it as a whole. There are at least one hundred types of Chinese accents.

[@zoeyvivi4132]

Thanks for your sharing! I learned a lot that I've never noticed before!

[@becademarques]

You should do one of those with Portuguese speakers (PT and BR, among some smaller countries)

[@Cornflak3]

the nicest most imformative way...of explaining something we all laugh about.

[@jaquelineandrade6839]

It's a very interesting video, is good to know about it, it's a new knowledge, but... it's no problem at all, we all have accents even in our country in different regions. even native English speakers, Americans, British, Africans and us foreigners too, the accent makes us unique, it's beautiful and what matters is the "communication" to be understood and understand people speaking. A lot people are afraid to talk cause of their accents and that's sad, and the judgement is ridiculous, learning another language is already hard, but we learn to be able to communicate. If you know another language that's what matters.

[@9000leo]

I believe the reason a Cantonese speaker dropping the r from Bruce is more because of the way the accent handles r. They got dropped or turned into a /w/ sound.

[@TYapril]

Interesting! Would be nice if you could give a clearly demonstration comparing Jack Chen’s pronunciation and the correct pronunciation for those words.

I think that some Filipinos saying some words beginning with S come from Chinese pronounciation... It usually starts with an I (ee sound). I-style I-spaghetti I-school. Just an observation.

[@lavoxii]

Jackie Chen can not be represent majority of Chinese (Mandarin) speakers, his mother tongue is cantonese. It is kind of Scottish Gaelic and it’s totally different than the mandarin. I’d like to see you make a video is based on the standard Chinese which it is called “ Pu tong hua” to make an analytical comparison.

[@bluesky0515]

Very good! I learnt so much! Thanks!

[@linzhao998]

u r really so experienced! thanks for your video,I found many problems I haven't noticed before, thank you soooo much!!! 💛

[@OPTIONALWATCH]

I'm in the US, so I'm curious about this guy's accent. It is very thick imo to be talking about Jackie Chan's accent 😂

[@cicelyhu]

The thing is, after watching Harry Potter and other British/American films for numerous times, I have no Chinese accent (which I'm thankful for though, even Chinese can't understand Chinese accent.)

[@cyber1991]

I agree with most of what you said except that ending 'n' and initial 'w'. Chinese do have these sounds and can pronounce perfectly. Most Chinese except for Wu speakers can't pronounce 'v' . Chinese can also distinguish between initial 'n' and 'l' perfectly except for Hong Kongers with lazy tongue so don't generalise.

[@ImproveYourAccent]

1) Most Chinese students I teach (from various language backgrounds) cannot pronounce final /n/. Even though it "exists" in the mind of the speaker, it is not actually pronounced as /n/. I have asked my students to pronounce words in Chinese with final /n/ and they agree that it is not pronounced. 2) Chinese languages (like Standard Mandarin and Cantonese) tend not to have /v/ as a phoneme, so /w/ and /v/ may be confused. These languages do have /f/ but not /v/. Again, this is what I hear with Chinese students. 3) As I said in the video, only some Chinese dialects will not distinguish between /n/ and /l/. I specifically said that not all Chinese speakers will have this problem.

[@evasuser]

Jackie Chan is favourite actor and too many people like him, that makes his accent tolerable though not unnnoticed. Can you do a video for Germans, Georgians, Russians etc?

[@MikeS]

Thank god the best channel uploaded

[@WallFacerJonSnow]

Good video. Surprisingly none of the mistakes I expected showed up in this video. Common mistakes like "thank" is pronounced as "sank", vowels are put behind the consonants such as "Swift" is pronounced as "Si-we-fu-te" (because in Chinese language, consonants are always companied by vowels)

[@annxiao7721]

This video should be relabeled "How to Speak authentic LA/SF Chinatown Accent"

[@daniellez.3580]

I think it’s important to note that mandarin and Cantonese are very different. I can immediately tell when a Cantonese person is speaking English and vice versa.

[@李春林-h1w]

You are using the right Chinese map, thank you.

[@nathpakkhabongsetemthanapo225]

I agree only the rhythm and the tone. Here's why even Jackie pronounce the word correctly. It will sound Chinese. Just like u can tell someone that the person is British or American.

[@wowvelta5152]

Thank you so much for the incredible job you do! :) Could you do one on Russian/Finnish speakers?

[@等待春回大地]

very very instructive！I can not thank you enough！surely we are not sensitive to the sentence stress. hope you can teach us Chinese more on that.

[@sppremsarimella4915]

I'm going to china to teach. This shud help me to understand them well. Thanq.

[@NgocDuong-mk5xj]

Hi, i m vietnamese and realize that i have some pronunciation mistakes like the chinese such as omitting the end consonants or distinguising difficultly "l, n, s" . Thanks for your video, it helps me a lot to consider which mistakes i need to improve.

[@BA-hv5og]

Please do Vietnamese accent. Your videos are absolutely helpful

[@Sapphireia]

Words like ear and in often turn into year and yin for Mandarin speakers (excluding the Taiwanese).

[@Mike-yk7rl]

There is a glottal stop before "ear".

[@SnivyO.O]

I'm a Chinese, and currently trying to get rid of this accent because I find it cringy to hear our own voice. I don't even have the confidence to talk to native speaker online (or in-game). Any tips?

[@MandarinMania]

Excellent, excellent video. Thank you!

[@ExpiredToast11]

How do other languages mesh with other languages? Like Chinese and french.

[@xueyang44]

Sorry I can't tell the big difference between the two "Table". Need help here...will anyone illustrate it a bit more?

[@norali3559]

This is super useful for me. Thank you!

[@ivyshi9369]

I like this video because it reminds me of the little things I tend to forget and it's very clear. thank you. i like the other video about UK accents too.

[@ql4297]

nice video! I can learn so much!

[@matheuswerly5320]

Try making a video like this with Brazilian Portuguese speakers as well. I attended an event yesterday, and the Brazilians were speaking with a very strong accent, that I enjoy, but I think it may hinder the ability to speak fast. Great channel, by the way. Cheers

[@TalaySeedam]

Very accurate observations. Thank you for your work.

[@lkishere]

You are awesome dude. I was looking like a video like this

[@ShawnaGraham50]

Very cool video I learned something today. Mission accomplished