I still remember watching this interview of Axelson many (10?) years ago when Lin Dan and LCW were still dominating the badminton world. He had just started playing professionally and talked about how he wanted to learn Mandarin and wished for opportunities to play and train with the Chinese players. He could barely finish a sentence in Mandarin at that time and seeing how fluent he is now, he has definitely come a long away and it's very impressive. Hard work pays off, whether it's playing a sport or learning a language.
The translator has tried his best, he gave us some laughs. Appreciated. he should learn chinese from mike老師.
@ruili82023 жыл бұрын
LOL
@sherrimaltby35983 жыл бұрын
hahaha, i don't know how did he get his translating certificate, this feeling is like when i look the Chinese students' translating in their CET4 and CET6, very interesting and unbelievable.
@Alex-bb1xn3 жыл бұрын
@@sherrimaltby3598 he’s not a professional translator. He’s actually a professional umpire and they got him to interpret at short notice.
@weilee11553 жыл бұрын
I think Catherine Tate might be doing a better job than him
As a native Chinese speaker, I can tell that Fukuhara and Ishikawa (the 2 Japanese Table Tennis athletes) speak Mandarin natively. Axelson speaks fluently despite the slight accent. The Liu twins are native too but one of the brothers speaks with a thick accent of Northeastern China.
@zyrob34352 жыл бұрын
No lol both Fukuhara and Ishikawa picked up the language after they went to China so it's definitely not a "native language" for them. Fukuhara picked up Mandarin after spending a lot of time with Chinese coaches. She says she never studied it formally (which is why she's so impressive). Ishikawa's Mandarin isn't as good as Fukuhara's as there's still a slight accent, although it's already very good.
I would award the gold medal to 安塞龙 definitely. 福原和石川的中文确实很地道,but Japanese have a great advantage over westerners in learning Chinese. They use nearly a thousand Kanjis in common Japanese writing which gives them an entry level start instead of zero.
@deerfordzh10133 жыл бұрын
haha,even though Japanese is still another language , from Japanese to learn Chinese also a zero start
@twist777hz3 жыл бұрын
Not much of an advantage tbh. It's like how most British people speak crap French.
@light800503 жыл бұрын
Reading, writing and speaking, listening are totally different. Normal Japanese people cannot speak Chinese at all.
@deerfordzh10133 жыл бұрын
@@light80050 what's the point? you mean, Japanese who can speak Chinese, are not normal?
@caijunxu33003 жыл бұрын
I agree!
@magiclife23033 жыл бұрын
石川,说了两段话,只有接发球里面的接,发错音,其他都非常完美,就像一个母语者
@leeweinan19193 жыл бұрын
是口音 东北口音
@鄭啟明-p7f3 жыл бұрын
影片一開頭就把我笑翻了!
@etow80343 жыл бұрын
Hungarian speedskaters Shaolin and his brother Shaoang are lit, they won the first ever gold medal for Hungary in the 2018 Winter Olympics.
@ezrayap73473 жыл бұрын
These 2 boys are handsome...
@bobl91173 жыл бұрын
Gold medal goes to 安赛龙, what a nice guy and good language student. I love him.
Ai Fukuhara Gold, Kasumi Isikawa and Victor Axelsen can both share Silver! Axelsen is really exceptional, because he learnt Chinese by himself without the environment the Japanese girls have. The Hungarian brothers speak close to perfect North-Eastern slang Chinese, but they were half-Chinese, therefore I think it would not be fair to compare them with the other three!
I don't speak Chinese but I could tell the translator at the beginning had no idea what he was doing. Good on the girl for trying her best with a translator that didn't seem very confident.
The two Japanese girls speak Chinese like a native speaker. However, they both have certain regional accents. The Danish badminton player has foreigner accent, but he speaks very fluently without grammatical errors.
Best way to study a language. Go to a country of that language when you’re a teenager for a few years, or if you’re older in age, stay in a remote area of that country (where no one can speak your first language) for more than 10 years.
@Oleander33333 жыл бұрын
You’d be surprised how much you can improve in that language just in one year if you’re totally embedded in that language only.
Jim Rogers daughters are the best in speaking Chinese.... ;-)
@jeffk28223 жыл бұрын
安塞龙绝对冠军,口音很舒服很纯真,只是发音有点老外
@Joe_1U3 жыл бұрын
@@jeffk2822 拜拜了拜拜啦
@jimzhou53813 жыл бұрын
Can I ask what's the difference between 口音 and 发音?😜
@jeffk28223 жыл бұрын
@@jimzhou5381 pronunciation and accent
@jimzhou53813 жыл бұрын
@@jeffk2822 yes, therefore you should say 发音很舒服很纯真,只是口音有点老外
@jeffk28223 жыл бұрын
@@jimzhou5381 不是的,我觉得他口音是对的,只是发音点抓的不够准
@rosiekan63083 жыл бұрын
ai chan wins gold, she sounds just like a native. ishikakawa san has the silver. she still has a little bit of japanese accent. if you listen carefully when she says “I” or “me”, she pronounces it exactly the same as the japanese を, which is in between “wo” and “o”. anxelon gets bronze. indeed very fluent, but still has a bit western accent.
I'm 100% agree with you as a Mandarin teacher to foreigners. Actually, all of them speak Chinese pretty good. In my opinion, the Danish guy maybe learn Chinese through a normal way. For example, he should followed some videos and books. These two Japanese girls can speak very fluent Chinese, it looks like they learn it during their training and daily life. Anyway, I am proud of them and feel shy about my English.
The two Japanese ladies and tbe two Hungaria brothers speak native level Mandarin, Fukuyama speaks like someone from Shenyang area. Axelsen has Danish accent but he is fluent.
@w伽音3 жыл бұрын
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@miked82533 жыл бұрын
应该是福原爱吧,不但流利,还有亲切的东北口音, 最主要是长得可爱,一下就秒杀其他所有对手了吧
@aquielos3 жыл бұрын
It is really hard to distinguish Japanese and Chinese look, I did not know that the female athlete interviewee was Japanese until someone told me so.
@Alex-bb1xn3 жыл бұрын
She looks totally Japanese. Doesn’t look Chinese at all. And come on, she’s got a huge Japanese flag on her shirt. Pretty obvious she’s Japanese.
@tongmanng95433 жыл бұрын
跟我們亞洲人一樣,看西方人也是差不多.......
@vincentbao16953 жыл бұрын
@@Alex-bb1xn i don't see her nationality from her appearance, the flag on her jersey tells
@zyrob34352 жыл бұрын
In terms of speaking ability, gold medal definitely goes to Ai Fukuhara. Not only does she speak perfectly, she's integrated with Chinese culture very well. She's even taken part in Sino-Japan foreign relations events on several occasions (playing ping pong with President Hu, visiting the Chinese embassy), and not to mention she's friends with almost everybody in the Chinese Table Tennis team (including the coaches) while she was active lol. She can even switch between North Eastern Chinese dialect and Putonghua lol. Ishikawa's Mandarin ability is also very impressive for a Japanese who never studied it formally, but she does have 1-2 words off on occasion so she's not as good as Ai Fukuhara. But for me Axelsen is the most inspiring since he picked it up by studying. I would say his Mandarin is better than 99% of foreigners who claim they can speak Mandarin in terms of tones and vocabulary.
@zzlee793 жыл бұрын
The first Japanese ping long player went to China for training at a very young age. In fact, most of life is spent in China rather than Japan.
@user-rk3ub8ql5d3 жыл бұрын
I would give it to victor, maybe bcos im also a badminton fan, but he's rarely been inside china, he's practicing a lot on his own.
@ngkhoonhing48333 жыл бұрын
No, Teacher Mike is the best than those athletes。。您的中文也是一级棒......
@MichaelChan3 жыл бұрын
I'm asking the exact same question. Who hired this guy? And Kasumi sounds exactly like a native speaker indeed!
9:50 Since Japanese language borrows a lot from Chinese(and vice versa especially during the late 19th century), Ai Fukuhara definitely improves alot. Axelsen is ok, and the Hungarian sounds quite legit.
@xwah50163 жыл бұрын
The Hungarian dude is half Chinese
@light800503 жыл бұрын
But pronunciations are totally different. I can tell you don't speak Japanese.
@SS-jf8qd3 жыл бұрын
Indeed Japanese borrows alot of Chinese characters but only in terms of writing system however speaking wise is totally different lol for eg. Name is pronounced as "namae" in Japanese and "ming zi" in Chinese. Totally diff lol
@The_Art_of_AI_8883 жыл бұрын
To be precise, Japanese borrows a lot Chinese Hanzi characters and use those characters to combined/ invented/translated many modern concepts... Then Chinese also uses those Chinese Hanzi words for modern concepts too... not Japanese characters. So even in writing system, both language are mostly different, only some words have the same meaning.
The two Japanese girls speak perfect Chinese, no Chinese would suspect they are not native Chinese
@LimJiaKim3 жыл бұрын
Mr. Viktor Axelsen from Denmark is surprisingly good. 👍👍. An exceptional professional badminton player.
@ql77373 жыл бұрын
In this video, Golden: Ishikawa Silver: Fukuhara Bronze: hard to say lol In reality, maybe Gold: Fukuhara (she stayed in China longer than Ishikawa and knows more vocabularies)
@feizai2453 жыл бұрын
Kasumi hands down the best. Her Mandarin is indistinguishable from native speakers.
Ishikawa is 2nd best to Fukuhara, but the most talented among them. . these 2 are the most natural speakers. Ishikawa didn't spend any time taking any chinese lessons or self study any chinese languages. Her once chinese table tennis trainer said she picked up all that purely from and while learning table tennis during a very small period of time, picking up word by word, zero to 100, and all table tennis. She also did not spend a long time practing or training in China or at a very young age or play in the Chinrse Super League like Fukuhara. She's real smart and really uses the language as a tool
@tongtong75323 жыл бұрын
安塞龍不管在哪裡都很受歡迎,尤其有華人的地方,好像馬來西亞,台灣,中國,和香港,他很有親切感。
@jjm28743 жыл бұрын
Gold: Kasumi (2nd japanese girl) Silver: Ai (1st japanese girl) Bronze: Viktor (badminton player)