Speedrunning Duolingo Chinese (and then it escalates)

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Man. Why does it feel like I got hazed?
Timestamps:
00:10 Intro
00:40 Starting Duolingo
04:31 What is Baijiu?
06:29 Finished placement test
06:54 How does Chinese discount labeling work?
07:59 I get baited into taking the Chinese national college entrance exam
09:14 I give up and take an elementary school exam instead
13:26 How to use a Chinese dictionary
#Duolingo #Chinese #Mandarin

[@pitohi11]

Just like in the pronunciation guides, I learned something today: that the term"heritage speaker" exists and can be used to sum up the idea of "we speak it at home but my writing is trash."

[@adir6094]

ikr, and when she said she can understand almost everything they speak, but when she's asked to speak she sounds like a toddler, i felt that. Like i relate SO much.

[@unitymask]

ugh i have that but with sentence structure and i keep forgetting words talking to my parents is so embarrassing bc of it

[@Pompom-xy3uu]

I can speak and hear Chinese but reading and writing on the other hand...

[@angelvu]

me but in vietnamese 😩😩

[@JohnTan]

The writing system is inherently challenging. In ancient China, almost only upper-class people knew how to write, but obviously everybody knew how to speak. In 1949, the illiterate rate in China was 80% and it was more than 95% illiterate rate in suburb and rural area. The compulsory education instituted later drastically decreased the rate. Unlike alphabetical languages such as English, one just cannot learn how to write in Chinese without receiving a systematical training.

[@MonumentToSin]

"He doesn't play sports, he only likes to sleep" Duo Chinese is being written by Asian moms, confirmed

[@michaelheliotis5279]

Yeah, and those same Asian moms will also shake their heads like: "He only plays sports, he doesn't like to study." 😂😂😂

[@mylifehasbeen99betterafter57]

@@michaelheliotis5279 And then "he only studies he doesn't help me do the house chores"

[@mylifehasbeen99betterafter57]

@@michaelheliotis5279 And then "he only studies he doesn't help me do the house chores"

[@dp_wynn5392]

@@mylifehasbeen99betterafter57 me when I do all of those things and there’s nothing to scold me about so she just makes something up

[@flowersforshera]

@@mylifehasbeen99betterafter57 and then “he only does the house works, he doesn’t help me earn money tsk tsk tsk”

[@martinaandersson]

My aunt is learning Swedish with Duolingo, and once got this sentence: "Why is there a Norwegian architect in my bed"

[@purplenurple6278]

I think duolingo does this on purpose to make learning more entertaining😂

[@dibuk123]

As a Swede. if I shared a bed with a Norwegian I'd immolate myself

[@corneliastreet2491]

I’m a writer and I wrote and mailed a poem to my boyfriend that morning. Not even a full hour later duolingo gives me this bad boy: “no one wants to read your romantic poems” absolutely killed me 😂

[@I-luv-sharks]

@@purplenurple6278 yes he does actually and it works, he is very famous because of the memes. More than the purpose of learning another languages

[@myself0510]

I'm learning German. I've said too many times that my name is Heidi Klum. Also stuff about Frau Merkel...

[@karinashah3628]

Duolingo hindi once got all existential and asked “what is chai? What is water? WHO AM I?”

[@N_ei_L]

Lmfao

[@saliadee2564]

YES!!!! Chai kya hai? Panee kya hai? Main kaun hu??? That never gets old for us. We bust it out all the time. Wil probably never learn Hindi properly, but we'll always remember that line.

[@hoaxstage]

NAHH FR, AS A INDIAN I HAD TRIED DUOLINGO HINDI TO SEE HOW IT WORKS AND MY GOSH, IT HAS THE MOST BIZARRE SENTENCES

[@sarahkefalas5754]

YES LMAO i laughed out loud every time it asked me that

[@royalteabagels]

HELP ME LMFAOOO

[@quietdevious1]

Meanwhile Duo French is like "There's a cow in the house!"

[@atlas6359]

I always get "the cat is on the fridge" or "the dog eats the food"

[@user-ys5cy7md6g]

"There's a HORSE, LOOSE in the hospital!"

[@xelaphun7300]

in dutch duo, “He’s just a child!” (that question made me BEG for context)

[@guppykid3535]

German duo: he is not funny.

[@inkypaws9110]

Welsh duo: Owen is going to swim across the Mediterranean Sea

[@user-qx1om2wj1h]

The Duolingo bird wants to know your relationship with your family so that he knows whether or not he should hold them hostage when you skip your lessons.

[@digiiiii]

bienvenidos, hostage

[@Ligb]

@@digiiiii bienvenidos, master duolingo is esperándolos 😃

[@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess]

This isn't that much difference from what modern Internet monopolies like Google or Facebook have done and are doing. Soon what you say or search online will be used against you in the real world if you don't align with their political agenda That's why monopoly in information is so dangerous, specially with ones that openly practice surveillance like the aforementioned. Information and the internet need to be fragmented without anybody controlling it or surveiling people

[@user-cw7se6rs4v]

@@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess k

[@hermes2064]

@@user-cw7se6rs4v k

[@showtime1235]

“my reading and writing is passable” “my reading and writing is an absolute mess” how quickly her confidence dropped was too relatable for me

[@kirac2219]

Mixed Chinese person here, I did Chinese School every week until I was in 5th grade and never retained anything beyond a Kindergarten level because we never spoke Mandarin at home due to the fact that my dad is American. It was always really hard for me, and now I know the BASIC basics (if I'm lucky). You are way more advanced than me but it feels super nice to know that this is a universal experience :)

[@lemonqvartz]

I'm Wasian and I relate too!! My mother always spoke Mandarin Chinese but never taught me anything other than a few words, and my dad made no attempt to learn either :( I hope to learn it soon

[@kara.drawss126]

same

[@marinKem]

Fellow white asian✋ I’ve started learning mandarin recently and the grammar is quite simple, but cHaRaCtErs

[@Sma4]

I’m in this situation too! My accent and speaking skills are fine, but when it comes to reading and writing, a literal toddler could beat me.

[@makkimix9535]

I'm a 3rd gen Chinese Wasian so I know 0 Chinese. 😭

[@JayAlcala23]

"I'm a fake chinese person!" Yo, I say the same when people ask me about spanish. Bruh I'm a cardboard cuttout of a mexican. Looks right until you get up close.

[@rudoartista1493]

Me too! I have hispanic people come up to me speaking Spanish all the time cause of my "obviously Mexican" appearance. They get so disappointed when I make a face and go "idk what u just said, ion speak spanish"

[@bearkub]

@@rudoartista1493 LOL my family calls that "cara de nopal", you look really hispanic but looks could be as far as it goes.

[@ultrachadstinctgoku7579]

Same with blacks. I'm not a white black like tom Dubai but I'm not from the hood either. I was just raised to be respectful and I dont necessarily listen to rap

[@pickme7307]

BAHAAAAAA this comment is amazing

[@Novaenyy]

Same I’m like those plastic cups that looks like glass I’m an exuse of an Arab 💀

[@gaodacheese4691]

"I'm a fake Chinese person" As German Chinese, I can totally relate 😂😂😂

[@vhh1992]

As a Spanish Chinese with an a lot lower level of Chinese than hers, same 😂

[@gaodacheese4691]

@@vhh1992 Damn wish I was a Spanish one too, German landscape is kinda boring

[@sta_er]

I'm a german Chinese and my chinese is far behind the level of her.

[@elenaxu5769]

Hey there~ Italian Chinese here^

[@vhh1992]

@@gaodacheese4691 you can always come to visit 😄

[@midnight4685]

As someone who's used Japanese Duolingo in the past, the crazy sentences are great. One will always stick out to me:「すみません、私は林檎です。」 "Excuse me, I am an apple. (Formal)"

[@randomyoutubebrowser5217]

No informal way around that at all.

[@hazelene_]

I learned Japanese from duo too. I could real the sumemasen and watashi wa and also desu but not the that translates to Apple 😂

[@codelyo_ko9123]

@@hazelene_ it's sumimasen fyi

[@hazelene_]

@@codelyo_ko9123 spelling mistakes sry

[@1nan3]

i think think dutch duolingo has the same sentence (pardon, ik ben een appel)

[@fangy3514]

Japanese Duolingo once had me type out: “When can I sneak inside?” I haven’t laughed that hard in a while

[@jacque6583]

i love how this video started with "we're gonna judge how well you can learn chinese with duolingo" and ended with "i am but a mere child, a former shadow of who i once was"

[@hopper6094]

LOL

[@coagulatedsalts4711]

PLEASE i relate with this so much, i was a badass at age 4 and knew FOUR languages. now i only speak 1 and a half.

[@TheUchihaRin]

This makes me flashback to learning Japanese kanji. recognizing a character is one thing, but remembering how to write it is another 😩

[@dakuten7883]

God, ikr? why does kun-yomi have so many pronunciations :'D

[@TPNsBiggestFan]

i’d think of them like pictures 😭 “this one is the person jumping with four arms” somehow that made sense in my mind

[@koushuu]

@@TPNsBiggestFan It's recommended to use mnemonics to learn kanjis actually, otherwise there are too many confusing and similar kanjis when you reach upper grades

[@Amorfis]

My god, I had learned over 200 kanji by the time I got to my last year of high-school, back then I had intermediate Japanese skills. Its been five years since then and I can barely introduce myself in Japanese now 😭😭

[@shehankaluwila889]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/aaqap4SAlL6hhqM

[@hebneh]

Her experience is the same as most Chinese and Japanese adults in their home countries now. Their writing proficiency peaks in college and then plummets, because they almost always type characters and no longer write them by hand. There are KZbin videos of random people on the street being asked to write things, and they can’t. This is how these languages are going to evolve from now on - legible to the native speakers, but increasingly impossible to physically write.

[@iamoliverblake]

Whenever I returned to school after the long summer break, I had to "relearn" how to write legibly (in English) to take notes in class and it always felt like a strange handwriting lag due to not writing for 2-3 months. I can speedread perfectly fine though. It makes sense that this phenomenon is worse in more complicated writing systems. I couldn't even remember how to write hiragana and katakana after putting off learning Japanese for years but can read them just fine.

[@user-vw3ey1xr1s]

people forgetting how to do something doesn't mean it's "increasingly impossible" lol

[@placeholder5041]

As a native Chinese speaker, I honestly can’t memorise the way to type Chinese. Like you had to separate a word into parts, insert them in correct order and then pick the right word from the given ones. I use the touchscreen keyboard to write it out instead, and that’s also why I got a C for my third grade computer class

[@michaelcherokee8906]

It also makes learning Japanese (and Id assume Chinese) as a foreigner a COMPLETE BITCH. I may just never even try handwriting Japanese. Im honestly prepared to never achieve any acceptable level of skill in handwriting.

[@maowtm]

@@placeholder5041 just use pinyin…?

[@danielleelliott7963]

Everyone sharing their funny Duolingo sentences meanwhile Japanese Duolingo is just like… “it’s a store and a train station”

[@foolisnoteighteenyet]

As a non-Chinese who studied Mandarin for my major a loooong time ago, I've never seen a more relatable video. The character decay is REAL

[@kezibeeart3552]

No same I spent EIGHT of my formative years in China, I can just barely survive now probably maybe in China with my language skills

[@CIEMniak911]

提筆忘字 character amnesia hits hard

[@michelstephanygarces9431]

Felt this on a spiritual level

[@MrTinkerDoodle]

i've ben trying to find a phrase to describe "character decay" and now i finally found it thank you

[@CarinaCoffee]

This! I learned some Chinese in highschool without characters, just pinyin in my freetime in a group class and then went on to learn it during uni, went to study abroad in China for a year, then changed uni and made Chinese my major and now I'm keeping my Chinese alive with Duolingo and Du reader, etc. At this point I feel like I've learned and forgotten Chinese 3 times 🤣😅 It's good to know I'm not the only one and thanks for giving us this word that describes this so perfectly: character decay. Sometimes it's just like: have I ever even seen this character before?! (Especially when it comes to traditional characters as I've learned simplified first and my brain usually translates 繁体字 to 简体字 first and then to English or German in my brain. There's only a few characters my brain immediately accepts in traditional character without that additional step.) And sometimes it's like: I know what this character means, but please don't ask me how to pronounce it. 😅 With some words I somewhat remember the pronunciation or at least something close to what it actually is.

[@Thunder-00]

What is worse when you unsubscribe from Duo’s pushy emails? 1. Him crying & being sad 2. Him staring, emotionless, into your eyes without blinking I’ll tell you from experience, 2. It’s flipping creepy

[@chocobear4078]

Learn another language or I'll kidnap your family

[@petrayt5486]

@@chocobear4078 oh shit i wondering why i learning Chinese language with no one ordered me, so this is the reason

[@chocobear4078]

@@petrayt5486 yes

[@shrimp3480]

HELP

[@chocobear4078]

@@shrimp3480 is Duolingo holding you hostage?

[@livganxie6366]

Girl, having a first grader level of Chinese is still better than me lol. I’ve been born in China but only lived 5 years there before moving to Germany. I’ve grown up, graduated and studied in Germany and my mom, who’s also Chinese, never practiced with me. I never learned how to read or write and at this point I can’t even speak Chinese anymore cause I’m just lacking the necessary vocabulary to express what I’m trying to say. My mom always tells me how I’m not a real Chinese person anymore and my ancestors are judging hard, dishonor on my cow

[@DyrQ]

Du bist ein Deutscher 🇩🇪

[@leparraindufromage366]

Wow it is almost the same for me, my parents emigrated from China to Germany when I was 3 years old, but they only spoke the Shanghainese dialect with me, so that's the only passable Chinese I speak. I've tried several times to learn Mandarin before using VHS courses, at uni, etc. but my level still isn't good. I'm starting a new attempt this year just watching a ton of Mandarin media and writing with Chinese people online using a translator, but I am not confident at all that I will reach the degree of fluency that Ying has any time soon 🙈 I mean at least today you can get by with only writing Chinese on the computer/phone, so I don't worry too much about having to actually write something by hand, but it's still a tough journey!

[@snowangelnc]

When starting with French from scratch I did ok. The pronunciation was different of course, but at least it was an alphabet I was familiar with. Then I tried Japanese. This time I was learning a new writing system before I had any foundation with vocabulary or sentence structure. It got frustrating very quickly as I was asked to click on character after character while listening to what to me was still just a series of sounds that didn't have any meaning attached to them yet. It felt like expecting a toddler to start reading and writing at the same stage that they're learning to say their first words.

[@LisMuler]

girl, i relate SO MUCH. i once was asked to read a chinese simple instructions and i just realised i couldnt read AT ALL. "but you speak just fine!", my dad says, and i am like "yeah, but you never taught me how to read" and he looked really dumbfounded because he then noticed that speaking and writing/reading mandarin are two completely different things, which does not happen too much in non-character languages

[@maxnibler6090]

Damn, that's kinda dumb on the part of your dad. I'm sure he just didn't consider it and u didn't say what age u were when this happened. But even an English speaker would think it's a given that u have to teach your kid to read. Shits not magic, if you pick that up on ur own thats an exception not the rule

[@LisMuler]

@@maxnibler6090 i just think it is a funny situation :)

[@handleless986]

I had the same situation: "just spell it out!" "....with what??? there is no alphabet..."

[@lexdraws1729]

@@maxnibler6090 I think it happens to a lot of bilingual people. I’ve had friends could speak and understand Spanish yet not know how to read or write it because they grew up speaking two languages and hearing it yet not having to read much in one language.

[@LisMuler]

@@handleless986 OH MY GOD YES AHAHAHAHA

[@austinluther5825]

I was helping my mom on French Duolingo (I speak French with my kids and she's been learning so she can speak French with them, too) and the phrase "Des chiennes mangent du pain," popped up. It means "The dogs are eating bread," but dog is generally masculine and they went out of their way to denote these dogs as female. My brain immediately translated it to, "Bitches eat bread." I couldn't stop laughing.

[@kyandi3498]

LMAO

[@LazyKingAus]

🤣😭🤣

[@sgcl8883]

get that bread get that head and leave

[@aisha-rr8gu]

i was learning korean on duolingo a while ago (stopped because it’s very bad to be honest, it only helped with the alphabet) and the phrase “men aren’t people” kept popping up, it always made laugh

[@screaming_cake_burner6138]

@@aisha-rr8gu yeah I’m working on learning Ukrainian and I only use duolingo to help get the alphabet down. Duolingo can be odd in how it tries to teach honestly 😅

[@girlwiththeblueglasses8284]

This kept coming up in my recommended over the course of several months, and I’m glad I finally decided to watch it!

[@Wolfpack_edits]

I like how Spanish placement test is a few words for each sentence or fill in the sentence while Chinese is out here being savage

[@nchan602]

This woman has such a lovely personality, like the exact right one for talking to twitch chat and making ppl feel comfortable

[@sunbae-nim]

She's actually really nice, and am I allowed to say cute as well? She's engaging in that I'm not bored in just watching them do whatever on stream since she's a natural conversationalist that gives more than generic non-responses and interacts with her audience warmly

[@puck6080]

Right? It's hard to imagine anyone hating her

[@deadneonthe4th945]

This is my first time watching her video and Im so into it. I usually get bored and leave early.

[@chodie293]

So gay

[@jmschaub12]

@@chodie293 fellas, is it gay to be polite and complimentary? Edit for context: someone previously commented “so gay” and has since deleted their comment

[@jatkin1720]

So what have we learnt? That duolingo teaches you enough to probably get maybe 60% on a second grade test. Nice.

[@jamesh684]

Also, that The baseline language for getting into college is about pre-preschool level, and that I severely over estimated my skills thinking I could write like a 1st grader.

[@charlietian9843]

Hope it's not like that for the other languages more closely related to English lol

[@siiluviilu]

@@charlietian9843 nah it gets way harder and they also test you on spelling and speaking,you can also read short stories in some languages c:

[@charlietian9843]

@@siiluviilu yeah I'm doing Spanish and it's fine. Seems like the less related ones are still kinda bad then

[@iain3713]

@@charlietian9843 you definitely need more than Duolingo though. I'd say I’m an intermediate German speaker, so I’d barely survive in Germany, but I can complete the Duolingo course fairly easily.

[@NoOne-yv2ei]

This is the first person I have seen to this day who has a perfect accent in English and a perfect accent in Chinese. I can also roughly guess where she come from

[@ying_verse]

now i want to hear this guess hahahah

[@NoOne-yv2ei]

​@@ying_versebased on my limited understanding of Chinese accents i would say the 东北 area, or somewhere close to it Then again from gut feeling its seems a bit unlikely but as someone from that area there were a select few moments where the 东北accent could be detected

[@allenwatch]

@@ying_verse gonna guess canada . Or somewhere in cali using my Chinese born American intuition

[@azearaazymoto461]

When you said I can't even read half of this, I felt that. I take a Chinese class, but 70% of the stuff on the tests isn't even in the curriculum.

[@PewPew_McPewster]

The mobile phone has certainly eroded almost every Chinese user's ability to write because just punching the pinyin in gives us the characters we want, so we only really need the ability to read Chinese in order to type Chinese, where as pre-smartphone days we actually had to store the character in our head and correctly recall and write them out. Don't worry Ying, you did great, I took Chinese as a Mother Tongue all the way to high school and I guarantee I'd do far worse than you.

[@Callimo]

Probably before that, with the advent of UNIcode symbols on keyboards.

[@thatpengman]

that really reminds me of the hiragana/katakana above japanese kanji in manga dang

[@simonair]

Ah I remember that from a half as interesting video

[@jletsgoo]

rightt :O once i started using it more it was js a matter of convenience 😂

[@wuhu0]

@@thatpengman yeahh lol although its helpful sometimes

[@Hyurno]

I'm so proud of you even when you couldn't read

[@ying_verse]

hyu my #1 cheerleader

[@bananakirb2803]

Lol same

[@yangqi]

@@idkmen5443 omg I'm crying why can't I read Spanish anymore help??

[@fandezabuza4482]

hyurno gringo

[@justpeachy6450]

@Alexx Claxton I still really love his patchwork staccato cover

[@brendanhenderson6999]

The best quick explanation of how the chinese dictionary works! Thank you so much! It opened the door to Chinese and Japanese dictionaries for me!

[@aojet]

First video I've ever watched and I'm just loving the chaotic energy

[@itschikken4132]

"It's like when you can understand a language but you can't speak it..." As a Filipino, I have never related to a KZbinr on this scale until now.

[@Cogshell]

Omg same! I'm Filipino and whenever I hear my mom talk on the phone with family I can understand what they're saying perfectly but when they try to talk to me whether it be on the phone or texting I'm like "uhhhh how do I respond?"

[@madmemer3470]

same for me but for belarussian/russian, my family also mixes belarussian into russian lol

[@sly0h484]

LOL it really be like that even me as someone who lives in the Philippines. I can speak filipino and bisaya just fine but I can't speak my parents' native language which is maranao but I can understand most of what they're saying. I guess I just really have to force myself to speak it. I can help anyone here with Filipino if you guys are interested in speaking it lol.

[@izzyiguana289]

relatable

[@wilhelmisaac]

Literally every time someone speaks German to me in Texas. I either respond in English or my brain goes to mush

[@AmethystFloverOrbit]

As someone who is 'multilingual' and whose mother tongue is supposed to be Mandarin, I relate to this so much. I'm best at understanding spoken Mandarin, followed by speaking it, and then reading it. Writing Mandarin characters is at the bottom of the pile, I saw you struggle with the writing bit and I felt so much of it. I speak much better than I write.

[@2696andrew]

Yeah it's weird "knowing" a language but when you have to actually translate it you start thinking about the words and grammar that, at least personally, have no idea how it works. Like you're used to thinking about the words one way but trying to go any deeper breaks my brain.

[@Andy-iq9pz]

SAME, im a first generation immigrant from china so my parents speak chinese to me and i speak english back. I can understand them great but i cant even order food at a restaurant. i cant read or write at all lmao

[@esen677]

what about reading it?

[@2696andrew]

@@esen677 oh I can't read another language at all.

[@jimmythegamer4245]

Bro same

[@pengoschwortz4734]

Just found your channel, definitely going to check out more of your content. You seem so entertaining and chill

[@realGBx64]

This went off the rails fast, and I loved every minute of it

[@applepussy7788]

For the non chinese speakers out there: Be glad your language has an alphabet. edit 1: can yall pls stop arguing in the comments?

[@wissalmetir7840]

wait omg why tho??

[@applepussy7788]

@@wissalmetir7840 there are thousands of characters in the language

[@Valkyrie-zd7nr]

Chinese isnt the only language without an alphabet xD

[@applepussy7788]

@@Valkyrie-zd7nr ik but the other languages are off topic lola

[@alancosta4760]

What do you think about the concept of "alphabet"? Chinese has an alphabet the fact to be a tonal one doesn't matter at all, khmer and vietnamese languages are even more tonal and they have alphabet.

[@kenny6912]

As someone who’s spoken English all their life (and is learning Spanish) this is really fun to watch

[@stankatoot9353]

What does this have to do with the video

[@julie-18]

@@stankatoot9353 duolingo can be pretty bad with teaching languages properly and messes up the phrasing sometimes

[@petrayt5486]

Me too, i just learning Chinese and this video come in my KZbin recomended and then i love to watch it because i learn Chinese but i don't know what she talking (with chinese language)

[@presleymcilwraith3737]

ahh, your profile picture! T^T

[@lalitthapa101]

@@stankatoot9353 I'm planning on learning Korean in Duolingo and the thing I realize Is being Asian is a cheat code. I speak three languages(English,Hindi,Nepali)all from just living😂 Korean will be the one I myself put an effort to(learnt English cause of school)

[@Louiza-06]

As a person who speaks almost 4 languages, each language has its own level Arabic: I can write, read, speak, I find it difficult only in ancient texts, I mean those that were written in the pre-Islamic era. French: I can read and speak, but with errors, and write also, but with many spelling errors. English: reading, speaking, writing, I can do all of this without a problem, just a few spelling errors . The fourth language: is a set of words that I know in German Russian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Spanish

[@KRYoung_dev]

Lol, I think we have the same fourth language.

[@Louiza-06]

@@KRYoung_dev 😂😆

[@danialBeard4653]

love your energy. I'm 2 month into learning Chinese I spend an hour learning Chinese and an hour on sounds and writing each day I'm loving it!

[@enoshrs]

I can kinda relate to the "can understand but not speak" thing, it's weird. I'm a Brazilian and my native language is Portuguese, I can understand and read Spanish, but if you ask me to write or speak I'll just fail it.

[@kyordannydelvalle523]

I am in reverse. I understand when they write in Portuguese which my native language is Spanish from Puerto Rico. I know when you guys are laughing, you write kkkkkk while Hispanic write jajajaja instead of English writing it like hahaha.

[@aninternetintrovert869]

similar situation, my native language is english but my mom’s family’s native language is spanish,, i can understand her yelling at me about my laundry from across the house but i nearly failed spanish 2😭

[@cez_is_typing]

I’m the same! Welsh second language here and I have a qualification in it, but I cannot speak or write out welsh for the life of me. Can read and understand it close to perfect tho

[@dxdafs8136]

Imagine being born in Uruguay (Spanish) live in Brazil, go to school in Uruguay, learn everything in Spanish yet my day to day live is in Portuguese. Eventually move school to Brazil, then go back to Spanish. Bro, I kid you not, I will always have an error when writing, because I always get both languages mixed up. Seriously, fuck my parents, who decided that was a good idea

[@PurpleUnicornBarf]

@@dxdafs8136 That honestly sounds so stressful im so sorry

[@beepboop1330]

As a native Russian speaker, this made me feel so much better about myself 😅 I'm the exact same way, I can understand Russian perfectly and can read it but I crumble when I have to speak it and or write it.

[@Perrirodan1]

If you can understand then it's easy to speak, it's just going to be very painful and you need to accept making mistakes. In a couple of weeks you would be decent.

[@jfarmerswatermelon6061]

I haven't spoken in Russian for years and now i struggle English words pop up in my head TT good thing i still understand it like before

[@coffeetarded]

im a Finnish person living in Russia and i struggle with writing alot

[@jfarmerswatermelon6061]

@*O MITO* what's so surprising about that

[@kgbcomrade5529]

Because if you're born and raised in a country you should speak the language fluently.

[@Zonker66]

First time I've seen her. She's funny, animated, and a joy to watch. This channel could be about anything she has a passion for and she'd have an audience.

[@azuredream9032]

Idk why but just listening to your voice is sooooo relaxing lol. U seem like a very chill person with a lovely caring personality and is funny, who i think we'd all feel comfortable to be around without the usual pressure of trying to make conversation with someone new xD

[@ying_verse]

this is SUCH high praise omg ;; I'm so glad you think the vibe here is comfy!!!

[@Kerosiin]

I just look at the Chinese characters and think to myself That definitely means *something*

[@Filiviana]

Lol

[@Imhungry36]

ㅋㅋ

[@twiceonce680]

The Korean duo lingo taught me how to say “child milk” 😀 so useful

[@psychosomaticstatic]

Ah yes, 아이, 우유

[@mothdied2241]

Duolingo taught me how to say the pink avocado and mark marks the mini market in Greek

[@lucymilligann]

same lol 아이,우유

[@emmajoe]

I took spanish and i saw woman milk lol

[@cristallantiguajimenez]

The Italian duo taught me to say the women drinks oil like

[@VivaciousElizabeth]

I love this! I’m learning mandarin.. and more and more I am running into 1st 2nd and beyond Chinese Americans reconnecting with learning to read and even some canto speakers doing the same. It’s really encouraging to know this is going to be a life long skill. Something to always have, enjoy and culture to explore ❤

[@poopybuttcheeks]

Im out here trying to learn more about the different ways us humans communicate, and i stumble on this wholesome and welcoming vid. You got yourself a sub, fren.

[@BoopSnootAndTroubleshoot]

Ying: "I can't read!" Ying doing Duolingo: *cleared 65% of the duolingo course in one sitting*

[@hopper6094]

💀

[@rainbird2002]

Duolingo is crap and on a veeeeeery basic level. The test for second graders was harder than the one in doulingo. I tried it for Japanese and it tought strange wordings no one will ever use (like she encountered in her test) and no Japanese would understand and plain wrong vocabularies. I than tried the one for German as a native German and it wasn't as bad as the one for Japanese but honestly: You won't learn the language. You'll learn some phrases so a native speaker would possibly have a chance to understand what you want to tell/ask him. And some of the phrases are completely absurd.

[@samday414]

This app was made for complete beginners of a language. It’s also not built to make you fluent. It’s to give you an idea of structure and vocabulary. It’s a good side learning tool that should be used with other tools to learn a language.

[@DerekHarkness]

​@@rainbird2002 Duolingo is for learning as a foreign language. The test for 2nd graders was a test for native speaking. Worlds apart. The tools and methods used to learn a language as a foreign speaker are totally different from those used by a native speaker to learn to read and write a language that they already speak from birth. A foreign language student can take months or years just to learn the basics of grammar and pronunciation let alone learning to write Chinese.

[@jesroe5842]

You see her fail in second grade and realize duolingo is ABSOLUTELY no enough

[@windywendi]

I admire how you can speak both Chinese and English with perfect accents.

[@blockyhour4224]

Yep same here

[@superhuffpuff]

you'd be surprised at hong kong and its language abilities! most of us here can speak cantonese, mandarin and english fluently :)

[@windywendi]

@@superhuffpuff i'm talking about the authenticity of her accent :) she speaks english like an american and mandarin like a native chinese

[@superhuffpuff]

@@windywendi many of us can do that here too! it's actually not that uncommon! of course, still impressive, but yeah! you'd be surprised!

[@KaylaMarie_]

She has a slight accent when she speaks English.

[@CarinaCoffee]

I learned Mandarin in uni and I'm using Duolingo just to keep it alive. I feel you on the "what my skills once were" thing, because at one time I studied abroad in China and then back in uni we translated 5 year plans (with dictionary help obviously), so yeah...

[@lilali9797]

i'm currently learning chinese on duollingo because despite being like, 1/64 chinese, i was never enrolled into a mandarin class. every single lesson, without fail, i think of ying and the college entrance exam-2nd grader exam bit and feel a little less ashamed lol but ying's pronunciation videos help me understand pinyin a LOT

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

"And the one with the most learners is Spanish" Duolingo Owl: *It's simple, Spanish or vanish* no surprise it's the most popular. It's so widespread and relatively easy especially for someone who speaks French, Italian, Portuguese or English, you might as well learn it to expand your palate

[@mariejmch]

Actually not for English speakers since it’s not a Latin language

[@aidanp9184]

exactly since saying “just learn english if it’s not your first language” gets complicated when english is one of the hardest languages to be fluent in when it’s not your first language lol

[@tabifiedler6944]

This is true! I know Spanish from taking it for years in school, and over the past few months I’ve been learning Italian and it’s been fairly easy!

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

@@mariejmch "Actually not for English speakers" First of all, while not a Latin language, both English and Spanish still fall in the Indo-European family. Secondly, English was my first language and I learned Spanish relatively quickly because of all the similarities between words. Just because it's not a Latin language, doesn't mean it's not easy. Seriously, around *FORTY PERCENT* of English words have a related word (cognates) in Spanish (20,000 cognates total). The Spanish alphabet is also the easiest to learn for an English speaker. Mostly all of the same letters as English. If you continue to make silly excuses instead of actually learning, you won't be able to evolve your mind When there are similarities like there are between Spanish and English, it goes a long way!

[@regis7-773]

@@mariejmch French isn’t a Latin language either

[@BakaTaco]

"I'm a FIRST GRADER! I'm gonna eat some crayons." Annnd, that's a sub from me.

[@crying.sobbing.throwingup]

if you didnt see im replying so you can see that you have 100+ likes.

[@BakaTaco]

@@crying.sobbing.throwingup 163 at the time of this comment. I can't say why, but I'm happy that people like the comment, haha

[@crying.sobbing.throwingup]

@@BakaTaco thats great

[@MyaMore-cb7zb]

Same, i didnt know her at all. Imma dig the channel ahah

[@marieramos638]

Same

[@natehanrahan1136]

watched this video before i learned any chinese, took an intensive course and now coming back to this is rlly interesting ! glad i didn’t use duolingo LOL but also cool to have that kinda progress measured. awesome vid :D

[@gpcheng87]

wow finding this super late but amazed how relatable you are. i was born in Taiwan but moved/raised in the US at a young age and despite going to Chinese school every weekend for years, have become basically illerate; speaking, pronunciation, and comprehension are very good like you due to being a heritage speaker. Was brushing up on my French with DL and was curious about the Chinese, but not jazzed that it's simplified... being Taiwanese, all my past reading/writing was in traditional Chinese. Wonder if there's anything out there to relearn that other than pulling out my dusty dictionary and elementary/middle school Chinese textbooks.Thanks for entertaining us Asian-Americans while letting us know we're not alone. 😅

[@rainbowquartz3875]

I'm studying Chinese as my major, this is making me feel much better about how bad I am at character recognition 😂

[@EthanParmetItsDaBunny]

Ti bi wang zi.

[@shehankaluwila889]

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[@trinhpvz3183]

I can relate 🤝

[@inkypaws9110]

I lived in shanghai as a kid and learned chinese for a good 2 years. i wish i remembered more, but all i can remember is that for some reason, during our travel unit, my teacher decided it would be a good idea to teach 3rd graders how to say terrorist.

[@imjustdandy9799]

I lived in Shanghai as a kid too! We were their for four years, I went to the SAS Puxi campus

[@inkypaws9110]

@@imjustdandy9799 Omg i went to SCIS HQ

[@Andreas-gh6is]

I swear, most of the Chinese you meet before learning Chinese or going to China for the first time, are weird af. Might as well be autistic. They have a hard time to work with our social queues or relate to our sensitivities. Of course, different culture. We're as weird to them, probably.

[@groovyhannah8517]

this made me laugh so hard. thank you ying!!!!

[@ying_verse]

happy i was able to make you laugh!!!

[@kyberkreeper]

I love your charisma! You've gained a sub today:D

[@ramen9141]

Omg the part with the writing is so relatable "Idk what's here *scribbles*" "I forgot the radical *writes one quarter of the word*" "I HAVE TO WRITE IT BEFORE I FORGET IT!!!" i have done all of these XD

[@Ice_Cream_Dispenser]

same

[@EricChien95]

How about using a whole sentence to describe the word that you forgot how to write in your 作文

[@Ice_Cream_Dispenser]

@@EricChien95 thats what I did

[@victorialam9044]

When I forget how to write a character but I like kinda know the shape but forgot what is actually in it I just scribble word so it kinda looks like the right writing but it’s actually just scribbles and the teacher would just think I had bad hand writing and let me pass😭

[@hayley9066]

and the feeling when you THOUGHT you remembered it but didnt and is just staring blankly at the paper

[@MrPicaxxo]

The writing part resonated with my soul Need to know how to handwrite 3000 words for this academic year's japanese exam 😬

[@ying_verse]

KANJI IS TRULY ITS OWN LEVEL OF HELL

[@eigrontopediax]

Yes. Can we not like just use hiragana and katakana? I really can't learn kanji! Hopeless!

[@halfnhalf5038]

As a high school student living in Japan, I agree. I barely even passed the 漢字検定 level 3. Those 四字熟語s are killing me.

[@justyourfellowduck]

@@ying_verse Agreed x1000

[@wagonsforever578]

But kanji is soooo convinient. It helps me differentiate between雨 and 飴

[@xiashuu]

the moment on 3:40 is so funny “do you 做 运动” like mixing languages is the best

[@IS2HaNoi1]

This proves how insanely difficult Chinese is

[@jinghezong6614]

I don’t see it, Chinese is so loose u can say whatever u want and it still delivers

[@cwk18]

Chinese writing is well known to be hard, but the grammar is a lot easier than English

[@okaeri80]

The writing part is quite easy

[@jjack9667]

only chinese writing is difficult but chinese is more condensed because of its writing . radicals pile together and u can read it faster. btw the mainland chinese is much more simplified

[@mn3io]

@@okaeri80 are you okay

[@lollmao1497]

I'm glad to see im not the only one struggling to regain my Chinese fluency. Also watching you go to the 7 stages of grief was an emotional rollercoaster 😂😂

[@paichlear]

same lmao

[@emilychen1120]

Girl same, I never learnt to read or write Chinese but both my parents are Chinese so I can speak and understand it 😅 I'm currently trying to learn to write it but it's so damn hard it's driving me insaneee, Ive been learning it for about a month and a half and know about 250(?) or so words. I want to take Chinese for my Leaving Cert in two years (Im 16) and I'm kinds scared because that's the final exam for college and my Chinese would have to be reallyyy good so needless to say I'm freaking out 😙

[@lollmao1497]

@@emilychen1120 im able to speak exceptionally well and understand it but after not brushing up my skill i can only read a few words now, i tried to remaster the basic characters and their sounds first then i tried to make sentences but i always mix them up especially with harder words and writing the characters are indeed a pain since missing one stroke on a letter will means the entire sentence id gibberish now. 😂😂

[@polarbear9131]

@@lollmao1497 this is gonna be me in 5 years when I don't need to take Chinese anymore HAHA

[@dylan4142]

@@emilychen1120 girl don't do it it's awful to mug for and as u learn more u only find out more and more words u don't know. it's INSANE. ive been trying to exempt myself for years

[@MM-go4nj]

I am you yi dian amazed how much positivity you spread. Thank you

[@siranimator9514]

This is the type of content I watch for comfort, just wholesome 😌.

[@illadiel6049]

I'm a teacher. Comprehension is always higher than production in pretty much every domain

[@emmckenzie4002]

I’m currently learning Swedish on Duolingo - yesterday it taught me how to say “do you come here often” 👀 definitely trying to hook you up 🤣

[@Mantha8225]

lol the French duolingo course literally has sections on flirting

[@theroyaljules39]

@@Mantha8225 so does german!

[@jodisoakenwolf1950]

Same as the Japanese it's so much fun.

[@HollyHummingbirdriver]

Jeg kan ikke svensk, men jeg kan engelsk og litt norsk. hvor like er språkene? kan du forstå noe av dette?

[@jodisoakenwolf1950]

I had that when I learnt Swedish too lol

[@WJuliet61]

Your personality gives me life. I like seeing someone who's just as quirky as I. :D

[@makotokino6381]

As a Chinese person, I feel you💀 I’m still learning to write and read Chinese (been doing it for years now) and I still forget half of the words in my lessons sometimes💀

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

Honestly, l've recently decided it's perfectly okay to say "l can't read!" if you're doing Russian or any Asian language. The amount of trouble l've had reading Japanese is staggering, and one of my proudest moments trying to read Russian is that l now can identify "Russia", "What?" and most importantly, "Cat" on sight.

[@ikemoon127]

Russian is at least written in an alphabet, and has far more consistent pronunciation than English, so I think that with practice it gets a lot easier. Chinese and Japanese, however use these crazy friggin logographic writing systems, and you have to memorize thousands upon thousands of individual characters.

[@heroofthe4-starmastersword526]

@@ikemoon127 well, japanese at least has hiragana and katakana so there is some sort of phonetic script that is used in the language

[@Mika88Kenichi]

a whole paragraph in katakana and hiragana is fine but when there are no spaces it's horrible. it's better to read sentences/stories with kanji but furigana. Learning kanji is a nightmare since you need to learn how to write it and memorize how to read it by the original Chinese based sound and the native Japanese one.

[@fukawadesu]

Lmao

[@fukawadesu]

I can read japanese. Don't ask me to pronounce kanji tho. Cuz ya gonna get a lot of things I wouldn't use with my dad. I love how ppl just tells me that 廻 is used way more often nowadays, like 2 days ago I didn't knew that kanji, cuz 1 Am a fucking idiot And 2 I can't read for shit. My kana skills are godlike tho. But my kanji is just slowly going higher, bit by bit as I restart getting familiar with the language. Than ppl ask me to translate whole written instruction and I be like Uh? Uh? What? I recognize Ame I recognize Iu Oh that 日 is the sun 日本 that together is an adjective refering to stuff having to do with japan. Than after am like, why don't they just use more simple words. ;-; UwU

[@leekaiwei]

this is hilarious, i too thought you were absolute master after the genshin vids 😂

[@ying_verse]

accidentally tricked all of genshin fandom

[@noblesseoblige319]

@@ying_verse as someone who gets constantly blamed for using a username based on the game's artifact set instead of the actual damn French phrase, I thank you for giving the Fandom a rough time for a bit. A bit of a sadistic form of catharsis, but I'll take what I can get. Still a great vid either way

[@cussundriakneal9904]

@@noblesseoblige319 That is super hilarious! XD RIP your poor soul, lol

[@jletsgoo]

yea 😂 her pronunciation is 👌 tho half relate

[@lilultime6555]

@@noblesseoblige319 Noblesse oblige, je dois dire que tu n'es qu'un simple paysan

[@matildawolfram4687]

My brother studied languages at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in California. The pace of study was intense. Students had to master the language course in 36-64 weeks. Psychologically it was very difficult, but fortunately he was helped by Yuriy Ivantsiv's book "Polyglot Notes. Practical tips for learning foreign languages”. The book " Polyglot Notes" became a desk book for my brother, because it has answers to all the problems that any student of a foreign language has to face. Thanks to the author of the channel for this interesting video! Good luck to everyone who studies a foreign language and wants to realize their full potential!

[@v1nnyvinvin]

I watched this video to see how Duolingo acts before i downloaded and now im terrified.

[@Syuvinya]

"As someone who used to have Chinese skills far beyond this, it's incredibly stressful to see how much my skills have degraded. " 深有同感

[@Syuvinya]

我以前还是数学语文双科学霸呢, 现在字都写不好

[@irismarek2756]

@@Syuvinya跟我一样 :(

[@irismarek2756]

@@Syuvinya 但是你写的比我写的好哈哈

[@gemz1179]

As someone who uses duo, i appreciate the simplicity of it, it’s just challenging enough to where you learn new words but easy enough that if i want to review something i can literally speed run through the review

[@christinechin8915]

I rarely watch random personalities do stuff and enjoy it but wow you are hilarious and have great content!

[@ying_verse]

🥺 honored that you enjoyed this, thank you for watching!

[@miyaw8997]

Omg I just discovered you and I LOVE your personality lol. I shall now subscribe 😊

[@mivvy]

i love the way she describes things. for example, when she was describing how the chinese dictionary works. i am fluent in chinese and english, but i'd never be able to express that into detail the way she did. really enjoy the atmosphere of her stream, it is so soothing, comfortable, and humorous all at once :)

[@hopper6094]

;)

[@shehmo]

It's interesting to see a "Chinese" Chinese test sheet. As Taiwanese, we don't use English alphabets. We useㄅㄆㄇㄈ instead. So it's refreshing to see ABCD in a Chinese test sheet.

[@ying_verse]

INTERESTINGLY i actually learned bopomofo before I ever learned pinyin :o a product of being raised in a region of the US where we had more taiwanese immigrants than mainlander immigrants for a while haha

[@niconiconii4561]

@@ying_verse as a Malaysian/Singaporean we learnt bopomofo for like a week in kindergarten anddddd never again

[@Yurio]

@@ying_verse I learnt zhuyin first also but sometimes it just be easier to write pinyin since English is my native language so it’s still more intuitive for me to translate chinese to Latin characters

[@undecipline3686]

I'm Taiwanese, and I find it difficult to read simplify Chinese characters. Feels like the sentences are wobbling.

[@user-jd3gf5xw1x]

@@niconiconii4561 we did?

[@LadyBloodOath]

this was my second time watching a video from you this was so fun and entertaining. made me glad I am learning Japanese hahahaha I feel its a lot easier to understand.

[@uHnodnarB]

The part where you spoke Shanghainese was really funny, I remember my aunt teaching me the last one lol. I would say I probably have a significantly better grasp on Chinese than most other American Born Chinese kids my age because I lived in Shanghai for 6 years, but writing is always the hardest part. Like I could definitely do the reading and speaking stuff, and I actually passed a HSK level 6 test when I lived in Shanghai, but yeah, I can't do writing either, like if you made me stare at pinyin and made me try to write characters, I would maybe get it like 50% of the time if I'm lucky, lol.

[@Hazlius]

The Chinese “sale” system makes so much sense. Small number = small price.

[@jayce8978]

The other way makes sense too: big number = big discount !

[@I-luv-sharks]

Meanwhile in Brazil: Big item = big price Small item = big price

[@weirdofromhalo]

it's based on how fractions are done in Chinese. Bigger numbers go first. For example, 1/4 is 四分之一 in Chinese - literally four parts to make one.

[@raisupon]

I loved when someone (I think it was Vera) said in chat "this exam can't hurt me because I can't read". From time to time when I'm studying Chinese I remember that and I start laughing out loud

[@theo630]

哈哈哈 很高興終於看到其他 chinese youtuber 拍片了 www

[@kimalynj6554]

This is the kind of energy I live for 👌🏽😂

[@jugemujugemugokounosurinantoka]

As a Chinese person who was born in China, came to America at an early age, with my parents only speaking Chinese, and went to (mandatory) Chinese school at a young age, I can proudly affirm that I only know less than 5% of what is being taught from this video because I only know Cantonese and even then I only know enough to pass off as a 6th grader if I am lucky.

[@vivaciousmyosotis]

I know a bit more than her and I’m the same as you but started Chinese school in 4th grade now 8th and I SUCK at writing literally my little sister knows more AHHH

[@Crystal-ss8vr]

Wow Cantonese, where r u from?

[@adrianvicente9676]

But why cantonese? My parents are from Hong Kong (Main Cantonese speaking place) and the chinese does not respect them or treat them as Chinese citizens.

[@kzhao4618]

@@adrianvicente9676 its more like the other way round

[@user-jw8dh6cj5d]

@@adrianvicente9676 No offense here . As I am from China, I was thinking it is because lots of Hongkongers, they do not want to be categorised as Chinese rather than mainland Chinese does not treat Hongkongers as Chinese.

[@vvelveta]

the fact you look like my chinese teacher is amazing-

[@ying_verse]

?!?!?!? WHY HAHAH

[@vvelveta]

@@ying_verse IDK LMAO-

[@BlinJe]

@@vvelveta Yeah kinda jealous of you ngl

[@novacentorium4943]

honestly same I wish she was

[@dabberhound9302]

I love it!!! Funny AND entertaining 😄

[@beltingtokra]

Fab video, I started Chinese on Duolingo in February 2020 (total beginner) and I can confirm it works, be persistent and you will get there 😃

[@slycordinator]

If you think those are savage, the Korean section has sentences translating "I don't study", "I don't learn", "I'm fat", "The woman is heavy", "Women are strange", "Yes, men are people", and many others. My favorite strange one was where the sentence meant "I don't throw my friends." Some people kept commenting that it was probably a Korean idiom, so I read the sentence aloud with my wife in the other room. She blurted out "뭐라카노?" ( "pardon?" in her dialect). Her tone said it was more like "The hell are you talking about?!"

[@Robin-jk6wz]

In the Russian course it keeps talking about blood and bloody things.

[@lunar2391]

@@Robin-jk6wz in French there are sentences like “you are a cat”

[@Robin-jk6wz]

@@lunar2391 There's also "You are a horse"

[@spakentruth]

"Dafuck?"

[@hogishim.]

Few of the amazing sentences I came across in Duolingo: The Australian that eats the globe I am afraid of myself The Dog speaks Korean too The green lizard flies The only one I wholeheartedly agreed with was: Duolingo is strange

[@goodmorningohio]

I have so much respect for people who can read and write Chinese, my brain is far too smooth

[@syniister7055]

i find your voice cute and relaxing. Also you are funny in a quirky way!

[@imawakemymindisalive13]

I may have already commented this… but this title is the most brilliant creation to exist. bravo

[@BradleyWong_]

As someone who has mandarin as their first language, Duolingo's sentences are so random sometimes 😂😂

[@sprig441]

Is it still like good to learn Chinese from duolingo, or is there a better app

[@casper14301]

@@sprig441 You shouldn't use apps at all, only for the complete basics.

[@leorantila9302]

its on purpose, they do it so that you'll remember the words in weird sentences

[@sylvie_on]

@@leorantila9302 yeah that makes sense. My first year or so of learning Spanish I didn’t really learn what separate words meant, only what common sentences meant. (Pero mi espanõl es muy mal. Lo siento :’)

[@HenryNWhite-zp5zp]

The ying paradox: watching this encourages me to learn chinese at the same time it scares the shit out of me to do so

[@kaymaylia]

I've never laughed so hard when she became so proud after writing 朋友 (friend in mandarin) 😂

[@rachelleean11]

this is first time watching your content, and i have to say i love the given art in the back lol :)

[@ying_verse]

GIVEN FANS UNITE

[@blockyhour4224]

Im in a similar position in French. I can read simple French sentences and understand them, but get me to do anything else and my brain's just like "what French lessons?"

[@EthanParmetItsDaBunny]

Hahahahaha I can write French somewhat well but when someone speaks French to me it's like "quoi? répetez-vous, s'il vous plait." like a million times

[@blockyhour4224]

@@EthanParmetItsDaBunny Lol

[@michaelidung9848]

This is me but with Spanish. I can read simple sentences but if you ask me to participate in a conversation, I'd be screwed lol

[@doctordestructo3360]

@@michaelidung9848 This comments section is making me feel so much better about my Spanish skill, or lack thereof. I can read a Spanish article and get a general idea of what they're saying but I can't speak a single sentence without losing my shit lol

[@michaelidung9848]

@@doctordestructo3360 Your not alone lol