6 Reasons Why You Should Learn Mandarin!

[@WODEMAYA]

My unforgettable Story in China..I took a wrong flight to another city because my Chinese tones were not on point..I went to xianyang instead of Shenyang

[@huili7519]

+WODE MAYA haha

[@wangmeifeng1284]

lol same story))

[@何家欢-o3d]

+WODE MAYA hahaha

[@bearbaxi1975]

was because you are a stupid bitch

[@bigfoot5092]

+Alex freeman Be a bit more respectful please.

[@ZhangtheGreat]

Everyone's probably heard about what makes Mandarin hard (the tones, the characters, etc.). Well guess what? Mandarin is much easier in some regards as well: 1) Mandarin is SVO (subject-verb-object) just like English (e.g. 我吃饭 "I eat meal"). 2) Mandarin has no subject-verb agreement rule (e.g. 我跑，你跑，他跑，她跑 "I _run_, you _run_, he _run_, she _run_," not "he runs" and "she runs" because the verb never changes). 3) Mandarin has no plurals (e.g. 一本书，两本书，三本书 "one _book_, two _book_, three _book_"). 4) The numbering system is straightforward and has no odd names like "eleven" and "twelve" (e.g. 10： 十，11： 十一， 12： 十二， 13： 十三). 5) Nationalities are super easy: just add the character for person 人after the name of the country. No need to remember which ones end in "-an" (Mexican), which end in "-ese" (Chinese), or which end in "-ish" (Irish). (e.g. 中国人 = Chinese person, 美国人 = American person, 日本人 = Japanese person). 6) Prepositions are super easy. The same preposition can be used in multiple ways, and preposition pairs with opposite meanings are always direct opposites with no exceptions (e.g. 上 = up, above, on top of, before, previous; 下 = down, below, underneath, after, next). 7) Mandarin has no verb tenses (e.g. 我昨天去公园，我现在去公园，我明天去公园 "Yesterday I _go_ to the park, right now I _go_ to the park, tomorrow I _go_ to the park"). 8) Questions and answers are in the same order (e.g. 他是谁？ 他是John。 "He is who? He is John."). Simply replace the question word with the answer and leave the structure alone.

[@kirk1968]

That's awesome information, thank you! I am about to dive into learning Mandarin, whew...

[@estevansanz5478]

There are several things for how to learn Mandarin Decide exactly why you wish to learn Chinese Try to speak Chinese everyday Decide which method works for you the best. (I discovered about these and more on Magic mandarin blueprint website )

[@SaretGnasoh]

Indonesian much easy....... the most simple language in the world.. It have all 1-8 you pointed at................. plus no tones and use latin letter. The tones is hell nightmare, much more for someone who have hearing problem like me. Learn 1 year, very good at writing kanji, but fucking suck at tones..... give up

[@katrinatown1485]

sKpDenis I would say Mandarin​ because almost 1 billion people are native speakers of Mandarin. It is the most common language in the world. The remaining people in China all learn Mandarin in school. There are 125 million Japanese speakers.

[@candice5192]

sKpDenis plus with Japanese you have to learn 3 different 'alphabets' all verbs have tenses and nouns, adjectives and verbs change when using polite or impolite forms of speech and when using some grammar patterns. Japanese is very difficult but I believe that mandarin is more useful than Japanese.

[@CantoMando]

A lot of people get sketched out by the thought of the learning Mandarin cause of all the characters. TIP to make life easier for yourself: Just learn to speak and to listen :) Mandarin is extremely easy to speak and is a much simpler language than English. Then, once you're decently proficient, you can start to learn to read and write if you want. But no one said you need to learn to read :) Focus on learning to speak and to listen. You'll find that as you learn more and more, you'll just start recognizing characters!

[@林小夫-g5l]

CantoMando 两年前的评论被我发现了😏

[@yassin7817]

My plan is to move to japan or china, so i kinda need to learn to read

[@Evan8787]

You might have just convinced me to learn Mandarin in the future. I'm learning Korean right now so I'll pick up Mandarin later so my head doesn't explode. Some people say Chinese languages are ugly, but I wholeheartedly disagree. Mandarin/Cantonese are beautiful langues. I love tonal languages (that goes for you too Vietnamese)

[@Yuuko1993]

+걸왜 에반 mandarin is a beautiful language~ also if you're studying korean right now, you might find learning the grammar of Chinese to be fairly easy. a few words sound very similiar too due to Korea using Chinese characters before hangul was introduced to the public

[@conho4898]

+걸왜 에반 wow, a comment praising vietnamese! cant remember how many people in the internet bash it like its the ugliest thing in the world.

[@Evan8787]

Tim Tran I have to hold back a smile when I hear Vietnamese. I love the sound of it.

[@conho4898]

glad you like its sound lol. not many people do. thats usually one of the main reasons why most people hate vpop.

[@Evan8787]

Tim Tran I just had to search that up. It's no worse than kpop or jpop.

[@xhe5649]

proud to have Chinese as my mother language

[@secala5540]

i have chinese has my mother language too…which is cantonese. haha

[@neverdie0001]

Nope

[@alexmr1030]

Mandarin is actually not as difficult as some people make it out to be. It takes time to memorize vocabulary but the grammar and the fact that you don't conjugate verbs makes it very simple. My pronunciation is very good and I would dare to say better than most chinese that learn here in NY. But I have been told by many natives that somehow my pronunciation is really good. Some friends think I just have that skill. I don't know but I do feel that mandarin is actually relatively easy to learn. It will make you smarter and it will improve your memory. That's for SURE. One thing you will ALWAYS ALWAYS get is that you are very smart because you speak. I encourage you to learn. It's not as hard as you think.

[@nakashima4251]

I started learning Mandarin about two weeks ago, and it really helped me bond with other people. It helped me a lot in Chinese stores, people get really surprised when I talk to cashiers; it leaves a good impression on people you know, and they learn to respect you more. I learned a lot while learning Chinese, it's really helpful! I'm glad my dad knows Mandarin, so he's harder on me than the teachers, and the best thing is, he often tells me stories in Mandarin, so I can learn to hold a conversation without sounding awkward while speaking Mandarin! Once you learn the tones, everything else is easy!

[@Cent4man]

I started learning Mandarin about a month ago. It's a very enjoyable process but, also very difficult. I'm 58 and it's harder to retain information that it was when I was young. I don't have any other Mandarin speakers to practice with but, I'm going to take a formal class starting in August of 2018. I live Chinese dramas and I'd love to be able to watch without subtitles.

[@YummYakitori]

The Dong language (侗語) in Southern China actually has 15 tones so...

[@annagong963]

Perfect timing, I'm trying to self-teach myself on how to speak mandarin. Turns out my cantonese isn't everyone's language in China

[@igot7-lu]

+annagong963 no but it is in hong kongxD

[@Evan8787]

+annagong963 Canto is just an islander language, Macau and Hong Kong. I can't remember if Taiwanese speak Mandarin or Canto

[@annagong963]

True,I forgot about those areas. I meant some people I know speaks more mandarin than cantonese. Also some shows has more mandarin than cantonese so I thought I should learn it.

[@tarekrahou6529]

+걸왜 에반 mandarin

[@YummYakitori]

+걸왜 에반 Most Taiwanese people speak both Mandarin and the Southern Min dialect (閩南語), known locally in Taiwan as the "Taiwanese dialect" (臺語) since more than 70% of all Taiwanese came from what is the southern part of Fujian Province (福建省) where this dialect is spoken. And no, the Southern Min / Taiwanese dialect is not mutually intelligible with Cantonese / Mandarin.

[@richardfila]

6 great reasons! I'm really enjoying learning Mandarin, especially learning to understand Chinese songs and the different styles of linguistic expression therein. Plus, having a musical ear is so useful for hearing tones - if only I could repeat them as well as I hear them lol. Add oil all Mandarin learners!

[@jose3866]

Cool! I started to dabble with it because of Taiwanese friends. It's a happy thing to meet native speakers and see how they're so glad you can have a short conversation in their language. Sometimes they are studying your own language (fairly common for English and Spanish). Those moments are always memorable.

[@nathanielmills4678]

I'm really enjoying OTGW and getting Double Chen in too. Best of both worlds! Felicia is a boss 😉

[@JitSuuO]

Right?!!

[@fredd722]

coward bitch

[@joemart6887]

awesoome video!!!!! i took mandarin in college and I aced that class, i loved every bit of it!!!

[@LadiesJournal]

I born and grew up at Indonesia. My parents don't really speak mandarin with me. And I am living in Singapore now, a lot of Singaporean quite confuse why I can't speak mandarin even my race is Chinese LOL

[@shinjid3705]

i just find it hard to memorize thousands of characters.....

[@LiaChinese]

You have to know how to "see" them first.

[@shinjid3705]

李梦婷 Well, I have already given up on that. I have passed all my chinese beginner courses and thats as far as I go. Not feeling motivated to study more xD

[@TheCsePower]

You have to see chracters like you recognise a human face. It s hard to explain

[@shinjid3705]

Chung David Try to remember thousands of human faces? Kinda hard lol

[@TheCsePower]

+Shinji D not remember exactly, but recognise. Actually, it s not only faces but objects as well. We dont realise it but we recognise a lot of stuff in our daily lives. With time, your brain gets used to the shapes found in chinese characters and it becomes easier.

[@pennyrain4778]

im taking Chinese in highschool but when ever people ask me they make fun of me for taking the class.

[@pennyrain4778]

thank you :-)

[@alfredshao5230]

Penny Rain Once you grasp this language, you would have more opportunities than others.

[@lamo543]

Make fun of them when you get a better paying job than them.

[@ZhangtheGreat]

Ignore the haters. What's better: knowing how to speak Mandarin or teasing someone because you're jealous and you don't?

[@jaydeerezvani6069]

you'll have the last laugh for sure :) I hope you're still learning and enjoying!

[@kenzafilali9115]

you did well in this video aaaaand dan was there somehow lol anyway keep up the good work

[@Versac3e]

i know english cause i was born in the U.S and lived there for 10 yrs, also now live in colombia so i know spanish, also i go to a bilingual school and im learning mandarin right now im gonna take the hsk3 if anyone knows what that is its a test provided by the chinese government.

[@concernedhermit7153]

Wow, you're good to survive! Lol

[@loganwetterling7331]

I'm already ahead of you! Been learning since 1st grade!

[@geoffrobinson]

I've been studying Mandarin for about a year, which is how I stumbled upon this channel. Based on my Internet history, Google is convinced I want to date Chinese women. I don't. I'm happily married. I guess Google is playing the percentages.

[@lythsian]

+geoffrobinson Don't stress, I get the same thing.

[@MPT-io8ml]

geoffrobinson Google also thinks that I love family guy. I just watch one Seth McFarland video and now my explore is full with quagmire, Meg and Chris. A lot of mature stuff.

[@tyan4380]

lel

[@edwardlow8275]

Best OTGW video ever!!!

[@corhydron111]

Ha! I just started my studies at the Mandarin major three weeks ago! I'm feeling lucky!

[@giaonguyen3799]

Seems like no Vietnamese out in the comment XD If I observe this right, Vietnamese has some very significant similar words to Mandarin or Chinese, I really cannot tell the tone of Mandarin apart, but I know that Vietnamese was famous for their "hard spoken" tones (which added to the normal abc alphabet) I'm willing to take Mandarin in High School because I found that yes, Mandarin is the second useful language other than English. Even though I heard about their writing and tones were hard, I like them over Spanish (which most California citizen learn because of large population of Mexican)

[@ritsuchan3617]

New hosts are great!!

[@mayfu6508]

proud of having madarin as my monther language-- eh eager to learn english well!

[@mysticalcatnip221]

You can use lang-8 to practice and learn English !

[@michaeltimmermans2159]

Great video,it really inspired me to keep learning Mandarin and showed me the true beauty of it.

[@concernedhermit7153]

Go deeper you'll definitely find more beauty in a different world :) good luck with your Chinese studying!

[@michaeltimmermans2159]

Concerned Hermit thank you

[@canineconundrum]

I should learn Mandarin. I live in one of the top four most populated cities and diverse. That, and a lot of the professors here speak Mandarin. Certainly convinced me.

[@gingerr8015]

I was adopted from China so I didn't really have my parents to learn from and now when people ask me if I speak I feel kind of ashamed. I want to learn

[@nathanielmills4678]

+Anoldanimefan I don't think ashamed of the languages, more like he's ashamed of not knowing how to speak either. +Ginger Ruparts - go for it, I know it will be hard but an intermidiate level is within reach. I'm black British of Jamaican descent but I'm learning Korean to speak with my in-laws.

[@akiko2289]

+Ginger Ruparts I have felt like this in recent years since I have received more and more comments from people about whether or not I can speak Chinese. However, I have been working to get over my shame as I was adopted from China and had no control over my circumstances. I also realize how fortunate I am to live in a good family that can support me in what I wish to pursue in college. There should be no shame in it. I started learning Chinese recently at my University and it really is wonderful being able to learn my heritage and birth country's language. If you want to learn, you'll find a way. And you never have to be ashamed for not knowing it, or at least not being fluent. =)

[@aurelialucinus744]

I want to learn manderin and cantonese chinese but yts so hard, I want to learn how to speak Greek and vietnamese aswell for family.

[@alfredshao5230]

+Lin Wang I wanna teach you mandarin!!!!!

[@akiko2289]

Ted Sthanm Ehhh? You know mandarin?

[@zemingliu4388]

hi,could you guys attached a subtitle for each video. I think it will attract millions of english learner to watch your videos and it is more interesting than other news

[@TheChiramu]

Haggling makes me think of Thailand more, my mum always told me you MUST haggle when in Thailand or you are insulting the shopkeeper :p.

[@mariahcareyswife719]

I learn mandarin at school! I find it a little difficult (fun though), but I've heard that it can be very rewarding and useful too

[@Evan8787]

+Olivia.Emo Bobb I'm learning Korea. East Asian languages are considered the HARDEST languages to learn for English speakers. So tough, but so rewarding after years of hard work. I love it

[@jamiethecommie546]

Ur not tot by the Confucius institute right but if u are don't believe anything thay tell

[@MCShvabo]

+FS Spring lol

[@David_Lloyd-Jones]

I took Cantonese lessons in Toronto a few years ago -- and was the only long nose in the room. Everybody else was Chinese-Canadian... sort of. The fact is they were all from Hong Kong, Cambodia, Vietnam, and there may have been one or two mainlanders. And they all spike different Chineses. They came into class thinking it would be an easy way to pick up a first on their matriculation papers, but they stayed to learn a valuable new dialect: Toronto Cantonese is an important one because Toronto is one of the world's Cantonese centres now.

[@嘿嘿-r8r]

2:51 the name of this film?

[@legaleagle7226]

Never heard of General Tsao until I started watching this channel... Oh, and nice to see the reprisal of Mike and the Yi and the ordering of the 包子 和 水饺。

[@haoweishi1340]

Love you guys xx

[@skippy742]

I am learning but once you start you open another bag full of dialects, Northern and Southern choice of words, and more poems like what Dan did

[@YichiLiu3]

Proud to be a Chinese.

[@108mtsan]

+Richie Liu 你的吗。

[@chevronso25]

+Michael Tsang din bu say!

[@108mtsan]

Matt Schwartz humans are killing the earth. Why are you proud? We humans are the reason for negative forces against nature.

[@108mtsan]

Hussein Kandil greetings from United States.

[@YichiLiu3]

Hussein Kandil Is that a butt at the end?

[@zenji2729]

Great video!

[@BobbyCrw]

Great vid very interesting ty

[@kirstyhill1493]

i learn mandarin heavily in my school, we are going on exchange because my school was very surprised at our fluency. once you have the pinyin and the basic writing of the characters understood, its really a fun language

[@pinkkittymusic]

The Cantonese scene happened to me a couple of times. I can read basic simplified but can only speak canto.

[@neverdie0001]

k

[@matthewwiederspan3025]

Thank you for this video! It is very fun and educational!

[@adaxiong1618]

I'm happy to watch this video,cuz I'm a Chinese.and if there r more people who r willing to learn mandarin,I swear to u that u won't regret doing so.welcome

[@sallyor4335]

Lol loved the video

[@pandemonium1018]

all of that is so true!!! there´s chinese everywhere and if you speak mandarin you´ll get a job quickly (story of my life) but I didn´t know about the #5.....btw Felicia is there any way you guys can make a video teaching the tones in cantonese?

[@LeftyConspirator]

Ooh, you mentioned Firefly. You're officially way cooler than that Ben guy over on that other channel...

[@sakuramikan28]

Well mandarin is most widely spoken because China's population is huge

[@zhizhengong6429]

Or you can say Chinese, there are lots of oversea Chinese

[@andybea6352]

The population is more important than the total number of countries that speak it. Hypothetically, let's say China split into 10 different countries. Does that magically increase the importance of Chinese even though the total number of speakers remains the same?

[@richardfila]

BTW, great classic style OTGW vid :)

[@kai2xin1]

ladies, you need more 默契. 加油!

[@alcyonecrucis]

+Kai Who are you?

[@alcyonecrucis]

Well, you need more 识相. jia you

[@TheLongshot1982]

I like how your hand gesture at the end told me it was ok to be crazy....lol

[@tianwenma8598]

finally someone admits 5000 year-long history of China

[@liabalmer6574]

I love your videos

[@lttseng1]

I'm originally from Taiwan & living in the States since I was about 15. I've met some strangers whom assumed I was a latino. At first, I'd ask them, "How do you know I'm a Latino?" After awhile, I'd ask, "How do you know Chinese speak Spanish?" Up to this point, their reaction was priceless. Now, I just ignore them, unless they speak English to me. When I was in college, I enlisted into US Army Reserve & planned to join ROTC as a MI linguistic in Mandarin. I was probably the only reservist among the national guards back then. But my plan didn't work out.

[@crayolaclouds2696]

I love that you used Firefly as a partial reason.

[@mg137b]

Mia I can relate to you, I'm Indonesian Chinese and never spoke to me in Mandarin. But I'm learning now because important for business.

[@Monkeywe]

Ever since duolingo released its chinese course I've been on and off with it, from what I've seen is that it is a very simply but very contextual language, as in structuring sentences is quite easy buy finding a word with a complex meaning can be quite difficult, for example the word for "student" is something similar to "growing knowledge", sure when you start you just think of it as one word but once you start seeing what words mean it becomes confusing, especially when you speak languages that prioritize being clear with what you want to say like in spanish or french.

[@misslonghair98]

I'm determine to learn Mandarin from now on. Thanks for the video 👍

[@AlexeyTokarev]

4:33 Can someone post link to this video please?

[@slypancake]

I'm taking Mandarin 1 at the moment, but I have also been studying Japanese and will be going to study abroad in Japan soon. I won't really be allowed to speak another language over there since it's complete immersion. Is it okay if I started learning Mandarin again while in college? For some reason I feel like I've started too late and I won't be able to speak well...

[@concernedhermit7153]

Never too late only if you care or not ;)

[@108mtsan]

+エメイ I started learning Japanese at 78 and I'm now 81 and fluent.

[@concernedhermit7153]

Michael Tsang Wow!! That's so impressive and respectful!! 致敬！

[@slypancake]

+Michael Tsang 素晴らしい！

[@cutekinoko_]

+Michael Tsang wow i am inspired. how did you learn? although i am learning mandarin, i hope to be fluent one day!!

[@ymb3138]

I learn mandarin at school, I enjoy learning it though, even if it's difficult and I forget the characters all the time. My class is a really small class so unfortunately I might not be able to take it any further once we stop :(

[@concernedhermit7153]

Why is that?

[@ymb3138]

Concerned Hermit because the school needs a certain amount of people to continue teaching it, but I don't think everyone in my class wants to continue it.

[@redstormmint7065]

+Your mums Bingu This doesn't mean you can't continue learning it outside of class.

[@ymb3138]

RedStorm Mint I know, I would like to :), it I'll just be difficult

[@mitchofficial337]

this year i was the only person in my class for mandarin, nobody chose it from last year except me haha. so it was just me and the teacher. try and convince your school to keep the class by telling them that you really enjoy learning it! it would be a shame to cancel the class because only one person chose it.

[@jecreangesutka8140]

and we can also study or learning chinese culture through CANTONESE, HAKKA, HOKKIEN , TEOCHEW, or even SHANGHAINESE！ 學習中華文化不一定得通過普通話mandarin, 學習中華文化可以通過閩南話 客家話 粵語 潮州話等等，而且真正能代表中華文化的是中國各個地區的地方語言。 the things that can really represent chinese culture is the regional language(hakka, teochew, cantonese, hokkien, taishanese, etc) from china！

[@trommelbiel]

Thank you very much. I am learning Mandarin now.

[@NowhereBeats]

Please do 6 Reasons To Learn Cantonese.

[@NowhereBeats]

Matt Schwartz But there's at least 6.

[@NowhereBeats]

Matt Schwartz 1. More widely used in overseas Chinese communities. In fact in the UK mandarin is only the third most common spoken Chinese language. 2. A more coherent romanisation system, designed for English speakers, as opposed to pinyin which was designed for Italian speakers. 3. Cantonese will help you get a job far more than mandarin, due to the fact Cantonese is spoken in Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Guangzhou. Other Chinese dialects are great, if you want to communicate with farmers. 4. Cantonese will also help you learn Chinese writing as many phones and computers accept pinyin, hence why many mandarin-only speakers are pretty weak at reading and writing. 5. So you can enjoy Cantonese movies and music (well maybe not the least one, we are all aware that most Chinese dialects don't sound good in music). 6. Cantonese holds many similarities with Thai and Korean, thus allowing you to have a good starting point for other east-asian languages. I do speak Mandarin, but purely by ear, I looked at pinyin once and was super confused. I now help many Chinese people write their names in ways that English speakers will understand. Change 'Wang' to 'Wong' and 'Li' to 'Lee' and so on. But frankly, you should just learn English, it's the most widely spoken language in the world and most people in professional business speak it. And most further education institutes use it. And apart from a few phrases, most foreigners working in Hong Kong or China can do well just speaking English.

[@mrtsiqsin2290]

+Matt Schwartz Mandarin doesn't represent real Chinese culture. It was originally formed by Chinese languages mixed with northern minority groups (traditional enemies to Han Chinese). And its history is not as long as other regional Chinese languages. It was chosen to be the official language by the authority during the mess period after the 1911 revolution, without voting and considering people's wishes. Under the strict control of the communist government, almost all the regional Chinese languages (which are the pure ones left by Han Chinese) are under serious threat and facing the danger of extinction. Whether to learn Mandarin or Cantonese is your own choice, but I just want to bring out the historical fact: Cantonese is one of the real Chinese languages by Han people, while Mandarin is a mixed one with foreign tribes, and Cantonese preserves the most features of Chinese languages, while Mandarin destroyed parts of the features. That's it.

[@dogedoge4062]

+MrTsiqsin why is there always some so-called "real chinese language" digital wildfires. no one is special among all chinese languages,you all got to mix some minority languages,how could mandarin mixed with northern minority groups and cantonese didnt mix with southern minorities?and how could cantonese preserves most features of Chinese languages?i mean which ancient chinese you are talking about?i guess you were saying the middle chinese which is the most case when people talk about this.there is noway that cantonese preserves most features of Chinese languages,even mandarin keeps head vowels and cantonese lost all all them.when we talk about cantonese,what are talking about the guangzhou cantonese,aka standard cantonese,and you know what,among all the cantonese,seiyap cantonese is"older“ than standard cantonese,“closer“ to the so-called "real chinese";,and why the standard one keep "destroying" seiyap?thounh i am not cantonese,i can speak cantonese and i love it,but i have to say,just stop that cantonese drama show,it keeps gaining haters for cantonese from other chinese,which is really harmful for cantonese.

[@mrtsiqsin2290]

Base on what you have said, I bet you don't know much about Cantonese and its history, that's why you can't compare the true differences between Mandarin and Cantonese, especially when you don't mention Cantonese has more TONEs and VOWELs than Mandarin. My major is Linguistics and I know there are sufficient evidence and theories to prove why Cantonese preserves most features from old Chinese. You said we are gaining haters? Why don't you say what the China government have done to Cantonese speakers??? The government has tried its very best to stop Cantonese generations to speak their mother tongue in schools and forbid the use of Cantonese on media. So you're now saying that we can't even defend the language by ourselves???

[@nurinainasyafiqah8652]

Really help me a lot...thanks..Ahmad ADzrie for introducing me this awesome video!!!

[@userwl2850]

number 1 for me is i plan to live there.

[@sadinesu]

How about best resources to learn Mandarin?

[@concernedhermit7153]

Yea, they should do this!

[@WODEMAYA]

+bae 48 get a chinese friend that is the best resource

[@johnnvodka]

let's learn cantonese!!!

[@terricajohnson4707]

took elementary and intermediate in college and now i cant remember most of it 😬

[@Surf38able]

The right side girl really look like Yui Hatano!

[@MoppetMage]

My teacher showed me this in high school today, great vid though.

[@frank5760]

yeah OTGW back on track on this eps.. do more on cantonese, Chen haven't covered this area yet.... btw I'm also Chen...

[@CaptianMajic]

Tones kill me. I need to work harder to say things correctly. Great vid.

[@fullmindstorm]

fine,I'll learn mandarin

[@snowflakebooks3012]

This is great! So interesting that 1/5 people speak Mandarin!

[@PL-lt3wz]

Everything....and I mean everything is going to be difficult at first before it becomes easy. It's the same for learning any language.

[@khalidmamayMY]

Awesome I did not know that

[@yazminvicario4851]

Im learning Korean at this moment, and since the Korean Write g system got some influence from the Chinese characters (writing system). I plan on learning Mandarin! I know it won't be easy but it's not hard to try!

[@Trex6932]

I have a question: Since Mandarin uses tones to distinct words does that mean you can not speak in a sarcastic way or is it just different or more difficult to get right?

[@PrinceOthman]

Frey Jäger The words you choose usually show your level of seriousness, I guess. Also at times, even Chinese would change the tone a little bit to show some sort of sarcasm, and you could most likely understand the conversation based context. Yeah, I know, it's weird as hell. They teach you tones, and then you find out sometimes you can't use them but will still be understood lool but anyway it's just rare cases.

[@nessagoesnippon]

How did I get here? I'm living in Tokyo, studying Japanese.. Now I want to learn Mandarin! ^^

[@alanguages]

I want to learn Mandarin, Cantonese and Hokkien/ Taiwanese.

[@doppen99]

i liked this because the firefly reference

[@ashleyman2733]

I was about to quit but not anymore SO THANKS

[@1600Awesome]

Amazing

[@handsome3953]

2:28 They said 5$ but she didn't pay ㅠㅠ

[@ZARAxELF95]

where can i learn mandarin on the internet? like the best site to learn from or something? :D

[@kalinsapotato]

+ZARAxELF95 Hmm, I'm always out to help people with learning Mandarin. I can't say there is one solve-all site, but there are few things that got me started! I pretty much started with KZbin. Such as the initial videos from LearnChineseNow, Fluent in Mandarin.com is doing a great job with Chris on his channel and setting up an account on Interpals is always a good way to supplement what you learn. It's a bit of a journey, but the people of the Sinophonic world are very kind and always willing to help!!

[@callmeHunny3009]

+ZARAxELF95 you can find lots of great channels on youtube that teaches you mandarin... good luck~

[@harryginnyalways]

i'm also ABC and wish i'd learnt chinese earlier. learning languages is harder when you're only fluent in one to begin with :( so scared the younger generation will be more resourceful than me (technology, speed, language ability)

[@ToffeeBlocks]

I know how to speak and hear Mandarin fluently and read/write a bit but my vocabulary range isn't very big xD

[@igot7-lu]

Too bad i didn't stay in China to study. Now i barely know mando in Canada xD i don't even know French cause i swear 5 years not enough when they make you learn mando in china every year>.> at least i know canto [even harder to learn than mando] now if i can get motivated to learn mando

[@JasonCtutorials]

+igot7-lu Mandairn is not that difficult to learn. It's the same thing as cantonese.

[@igot7-lu]

jasonc_tutorials lol, if u mean same as in writing yes, not speaking. its easier to learn than canto for foreigners but yeah mando isn't too hard to speak...when i took it for two years i had trouble with writing more than speaking:/ and piyin is deff a killer

[@orawanwiboonyan8819]

+igot7-lu pinyin, well in malaysia chinese schools are already teaching you pinyin when your 8 years old

[@igot7-lu]

Orawan Wiboonyan lol yeah thats what i mean...living in Canada, i don't learn it so when i learn it now in university is pretty hard

[@JasonCtutorials]

igot7-lu speaking wise. I speak 3 chinese dialects including taishanese. Taiwanese style mandarin is pretty much cantonese. Except with mandarin accent. I honestly do not see difference. If it's beijing style. Then yeah.

[@HCRAYERT.]

3:23 Wouldn't you need Classical Chinese rather than Mandarin to access most of what has been written in China's history?

[@GuanHuang216]

Trying to learn some more dialects though! Haha

[@ListersHatsune]

Counting to 3 in mandarin is one of the hardest things I've ever learned.

[@redstormmint7065]

lol

[@geopixels6886]

It's just -EE -ER -SAN

[@ListersHatsune]

KarateandClub It's the tones. You say that to your average english speaking person and they'd mispronounce it and ignore the tones.

[@aiqiguo3561]

我可以去老王哪儿。。。

[@梁圣泽]

。。

[@sophialoveswho]

+郭艾琦（Aiky Guo） 隔壁的老王

[@rosieparis7733]

我也发现到了😂😂

[@胡图图-t7e]

+郭艾琦（Aiky Guo） 哈哈哈哈哈 当时就笑了

[@yanli1871]

+胡图图 老王算出名了

[@Chr1551]

Im learning cantonese instead. I tried to learn a little bit of both, but mandaran is just to damn hard as far as pronunciation for me as a native english speaker. Most cantonese sounds are also in english whereas mandarin has all of these foreign sounds. I actually know a few chinese people who can speak both, but when i try to say something in Mandarin they look at me puzzled, but when i say them same thing in Cantonese they immediately know what im saying, so i frigured Id go with the easier one that came more naturally, where i am Canotonese is more common anyway... maybe when i become fluent in Cantonese I will attempt mandarin again.

[@jader4935]

Reason 0.5: Because I want to.

[@FattyMcFox]

So traditional or simplified?

[@DarthJF]

+FattyMcFox what I do is that I learn to write the traditional characters and to recognise the simplified equivalent. It's not that hard to do both.

[@ZhangtheGreat]

You can't go wrong with either. Once you become familiar with the language, you'll be able to recognize their equivalents relatively easily (not always of course). Although traditional has been well-established in most oversease Chinese communities, simplified is gradually making its way outside of Mainland China and into these communities with recent Chinese migration. If you're going to live and work in China or Singapore though, simplified is definitely more beneficial.

[@andyli7598]

like you guys so much

[@tahashlibek]

Anyone saying Cantonese had 9 tones is fooling you guys. It technically only has 6 that are in use.

[@PilotPerkins]

Nice video ladies

[@Gamyeon]

But giiiirls... it's sooooooo difficuuult!!! I took a level 1 class and I'll say that having to learn everything by heart was a bit discouraging. I like having references and mandarin doesn't seem to have so many compared to other asian languages. At least in the writing system.