为什么要学中文 Why Learn Chinese? |

[@Thelinguist]

If you are learning Chinese, what are your reasons? The app I use to learn languages -> bit.ly/3r5kKJD My 10 FREE secrets to language learning -> www.thelinguist.com

[@erikdahlstrom3561]

Since it is the most spoken language in the world I'm sure there is lots of knowledge that can be accessed by speaking Chinese. I am an aspiring scientist and I think it would be great to be able to work with scientists in China, even the ones who do not speak English. I also like some of the Chinese philosophy and spirituality, like Confucius. Thank you for your videos Steve, you are very inspiring.

[@davidlericain]

因为我想要一个挑战。

[@patricktuorto]

It's a bucket list thing for me, I always wanted to understand Mandarin, but man it's hard!!!

[@hslifechange3963]

I love Chinese girl for my future wife

[@mikedaniels3009]

Why learning Chinese? “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.” So here's to having valuable things to say likely to go to 1+bn people's hearts.

[@LincolnClay98]

Steve must have one of the healthiest brains on the planet.

[@former_junk_eater]

He should definitely talk about his diet and general lifestyle!

[@deutschmitpurple2918]

I totally agree with you. I am proud of you

[@fimashavin]

Lool, I appreciate your comment, this man is flexible to acquire and speak a new language in a way you might say is a native speaker.

[@belstar1128]

He has been learning Chinese since the 1960s that is 2x longer than i have been alive it was around the time my dad was born.

[@Eruptor1000]

He's a very intelligent man and just has used his mind a lot and doesn't do bad habits that we have nowadays.

[@孟繁彬]

史提夫先生的中文水平惊艳了我们晚辈。当遇到学习外语困难时，您是我们的学习榜样。

[@johnsparegrave5996]

My reason for learning Chinese was to recover from cognitive impairment post covid. It worked extremely well which says a lot about how learning languages can protect the brain. Eventually I just loved it and wanted to know more about China.

[@linglingchinesespace91]

加油加油加油：)

[@garywang4041]

Welcome to China one day!

[@mindhunter8772]

How do someone learn quickly

[@johnsparegrave5996]

@@crabgreen7039 the wall country?

[@johnsparegrave5996]

@@mindhunter8772 I don't think you can, it is a difficult language to learn.

[@TanNguyen-iv5yh]

Finally understand this conversation after 4 months of learning. Dang!!! Thanks Steve for the inspiration

[@former_junk_eater]

As a Taiwanese whose native language is Mandarin Chinese I can easily understand every thing you say. You are amazing Steve!

[@NippleBack]

No Taiwanese in the world, you are still a Chinese cause you were born in China Taiwan. That's why your native language is Chinese. And now people only learn simplified characters, which have been promoted by our great Chinese Communist Party. As you can see, this channel also uses simplified, cause they recognize our great Chinese Communist Party. No one cares about the outdated traditional characters that used in China Taiwan.

[@hyan8657]

That's because his Chinese is excellent

[@YingMingxiu]

能不能有点骨气，不要用我们的语言和文字，跟韩国学习一下，把汉字废除掉😂

[@chuan6682]

@@YingMingxiu 你是指？

[@Mrwhite-nk8sy]

@@YingMingxiu 你們的什麼？笑死 你們才該把殘體字這種不入流的東西廢掉吧

[@zhijinguo3734]

In fact a postgraduated person, commonly used about 3000 Chinese character. Many foreigners even Chinese do not realize that. So as you see, it is really helpful to spend more time to study Chinese on writing, reading and listening, instead of speaking. After knowing many characters then will easy to accumulate more words of phrase in Chinese. Pity, many people quite scared of Chinese writing. But the beauty of Chinese is writing, that's why it is called pictograph 象形文字.

[@frankwill5582]

我不这么认为，一个字会有很多意思，只有作为词的时候意义才比较具体。我正在学英语，我的体会是，听是非常重要的一环，听得多，其它方面就会变容易 I don't think so , one chinese words has many means . a group words has a single means.

[@satin.bunnii]

My family is from China and I think u speak well! Your attitude towards learning is really inspirational ❤❤

[@puravidaen]

I've been studying Mandaring for the last 7 years, i'm amazed the way you just got more fluent throught out the whole converstion.. congrats

[@aoeu256]

最近怎么办，你得到了一个中国女朋友吗。会分享你喜欢的中文材料。

[@yzhang2008]

You learned Mandarin for just one year and have reached your current level. That is amazing!

[@tkrdg7885]

I have been learning English for 3 decades, my English level accent is still lower than Steve's chinese ❤😂🎉😢

[@yummydragon8533]

he hasnt done it for just a year, he did a little bit at 23 and has resumed it now

[@ruiseartalcorn]

I am learning Chinese but only at a very basic level. I love the sound of the language and have always been fascinated by Chinese culture and history :)

[@babytiny5807]

我不知道，这是我的爱好。我的女朋友是中国人，所以可以跟她练习一下 I find combining two vague concepts into one to become a word very satisfying. I don't think people need a good reason to learn a language, it's good for you and your brain. A far better alternative to scrolling social media all day

[@davidlericain]

I agree. I'm a language nerd and I enjoy learning languages for its own sake. I don't scroll social media all day OR even play video games. I got too much else to do anyway. Yes, language acquisition is a lot of work, but it's also very satisfying and fun in its own way. I suppose that's true of a lot of things though.

[@gayusschwulius8490]

I'm so proud of myself right now that I was able to read you sentence without any help, hahaha.

[@fimashavin]

Steve, you're a speaker of the speaker. Incredible acquisition of language.

[@mousedynasty4953]

If you have free time, you can also learn traditional characters. They are very fun and it will help you read calligraphy works that you see at important places like on steles, paintings, door signs, or monuments.

[@hanziforever3836]

yeah a tonne of China Towns in the world all have traditional characters everywhere on the signs. I assume the menus inside have both types though.

[@hrmIwonder]

Today is one year exactly since I started learning Chinese, I've listened to about 400 hours.. I watched the whole convo without subtitles and it's just a touch out of reach, I was able to follow along for much of it, and lost a bit in other parts, maybe around 60% understanding give or take, but if I had the transcript in lingq I could probably work with it. I'll keep coming back to this video as my yard stick.

[@Tehui1974]

Depending on how your motivation is, and how many hours you put in, it sounds like you'll reach a good comprehension level in about two more years.

[@High_Priest_Jonko]

It's a good yard stick

[@thenaturalyogi5934]

加油! 加油! I learned Mandarin in school for 13 years and Im at best a lower intermediate. I'm always impressed with people who learn Mandarin because it is a one character one word and nothing tells you how to read it language, and for me who picks up langauges fast Im currently learning Russian, French, and Portuguese and grew up already using 5 other languages. I can still say Mandarin is difficult AF. I spent sleepless nights during school due to this language and I forgot how to write 90% of what I learned in those 13 years and we wrote a lot! So anyways good luck and keep going 😂

[@robertkukuczka9469]

As a Pole I love the sound of Mandarin so much. I do not understand a word of it but still listen to this with pleasure. I managed to learn Hungarian well.

[@Henry-teach-Chinese-in-jokes]

Hi, I’m Henry Guo. I was born and brought up in China. I’ve been spending more than 100,000 hours studying English humor and culture and spending more than 100,000 hours studying Chinese humor and culture. I can supply endless English/Chinese jokes for you to laugh. I’m teaching Chinese language in jokes. Hope you like my way of teaching Chinese.

[@nargroup3306]

Steve 中文水平已然惊人，但他的思维逻辑能力更强！没有废话，句句都在点上。

[@意志陈]

看你的这个视频真有种引人入胜的感觉，越看越想看。赞！

[@sodds3599]

Fantastic... Steve is a heroe! What a formidable force of nature and inspiration this man is!

[@npwy1408]

As we all know that there are 1/5 people who speak Chinese, there are many other Chinese teachers teaching Chinese well but at least she's qualified as Mandarin is her native language. I like Steve because he's very innovative, his hunger to learn new thing makes him looks young even at age 70+

[@honoraryamerica5943]

Steve is an inspiration. Without question in my opinion, I believe motivation (and capacity) is the most important determinant to ones success in learning a new language. This can be applied to most new skills to be honest. If one has a real reason to learn a language, they will do so more rapidly. If it's just a hobby, they may "get around to it" from time to time but the focus ad passion won't be there.

[@Islamberdi]

I have been learning Chinese for two weeks and I can say that it's so cool. Before I had no idea about learning Chinese and for me it was so strange. But as soon as I started learning it, realized how different we are. And I am just amazed at the creation of the Almighty

[@garywang4041]

Come on, Chinese is not hard to learn.

[@hyan8657]

As a Chinese I am reading this comment and thinking maybe it is the same as that when you read my English comment haha

[@Islamberdi]

@@hyan8657 did you at least understand what you wrote? 🤔

[@hyan8657]

@@Islamberdi 无所谓了，不重要

[@SuAmazing]

@@hyan8657 Oh, have 자 there : 子 (자)

[@CrisOnTheInternet]

I started to watch k-dramas in 2019 I think, then I moved to c-dramas, at the beginning I wanted to learn Korean but I realized that many dramas are now produced by Netflix but only the Korean ones are dubbed into other languages. So the reason why I'm learning the language is because I want to watch c-dramas without subtitles. I never thought learning Chinese would be that fun, I have been learning it for six months taking lessons twice a week, I'm not gonna lie besides that I rarely spent time studying, if anything my time goes to practicing writing hanzi. I'm aware though that I need to put more effort to learn quickly and not be left behind. Mandarin is challenging but it was so satisfying being able to listen to a sentence or read it and being able to understand that without a direct translation. I feel like I'm playing with a jigsaw puzzle.

[@Yangpeiling-de-zhangfu]

Where are you from? Are you not a Westerner? Because only Asians watch Cdrama. Westerners rarely watch Cdrama

[@hannabeit0316]

Don’t you feel Cdrama super phony, fake and cringy ? I can’t never watch even 1 min

[@CrisOnTheInternet]

@@Yangpeiling-de-zhangfu I'm from Central America. Might be not common but I watch them.

[@CrisOnTheInternet]

@@hannabeit0316 hahaha well that's you, I for example can't stand shows portraying narcos as heroes.

[@onlysongqian7813]

@@Yangpeiling-de-zhangfu I'm not Asian but I love Chinese dramas too

[@gab882]

Although his pronunciation isn't perfect, his ability to converse and vocabulary is awesome. Makes me ashamed to be a Chinese who neglected my Chinese studies growing up.

[@brunomilhomens2676]

I'm Brazilian and I was facisnated by the idea of a language without alphabet and I love the beauty of the ideograms.

[@jacksonklinger4398]

Me, too. I am learning chinese from zero.

[@deutschmitpurple2918]

This is really great. Chinese is very different and beautiful language

[@npwy1408]

I always tell people, Chinese is just different but not neccesarily hard.

[@deutschmitpurple2918]

@@npwy1408 🥰🥰🥰

[@gayusschwulius8490]

@@npwy1408 Exactly. The basic grammar of Chinese is much easier than that of most other languages. There are mainly two things in Chinese that are hard to grasp for westerners: Characters and recombination of words to form new concepts. But both are abstract concepts that, once understood, will be very logical.

[@michaeldarbyandsmile862]

She speaks clearly! Great guest! : )

[@Emmanuelle351]

It’s impressive 😮his Chinese accent is perfect 👍🏻

[@yzhang2008]

You speak very fluent and accurate Chinese. Cool!

[@antoinedesfeirs9210]

"Tea time chinese", great channel to practice when you are beyond the basics, but not quite intermediate yet

[@azerbaijanipolyglotelnur9804]

OMG, that girl is so cute. Steve's Mandarin is amazing..

[@luzimarmendessouzavisintin9466]

I don't understood nothing, but I'm glad head that, because you are incredible. Loved

[@gaming4K]

Subtitles 😂

[@deutschmitpurple2918]

Me too 🤗🤗🤗

[@gary-ju5ox]

Me too I didn't understand anything but it was still very inspirational

[@luzimarmendessouzavisintin9466]

You are wonderful, I love this. Thank you for the video.

[@ernestorevollar3632]

Wow, Steve Kauffman is an outstanding polyglot, he amazes me anytime. His Chinese is excellent and let's say perfect. He's definitely a big inspiration for us, for so many language learners of course. He's still amazing, persistent and wise at the age of 77. How wonderful ❤!!! In my case, I don't like Chinese because it's a complete unfamiliar language and it's unrelated to what we know in the Western world or near-western world. Whether it's Mandarin or Cantonese, learning Chinese means knowing and getting involved into a different culture, a different world, really. Furthermore, it's absolutely tough to learn, whereas learning English, Spanish, French, Italian or any western language is much easier, more comfortable and it turns out to be straightforward to get used to it effortlessly.

[@thepchaipoo6577]

Steve Kaufmann , you are marvelous indeed. 有志者，什麼都會學成功。

[@efgfkfxg5555]

有志者事竟成 翻译 真正想去学习的人做什么都会成功

[@monkeynorn]

Why learn Chinese: 1) The sheer number of Chinese speakers worldwide, 2) Business and career opportunities, 3) Five thousand years of culture and history, 4) the beauty of the Chinese language.

[@equim7363]

Did you know there are plenty of languages in China? Not only standard Mandarin (i.e. Beijing Chinese)

[@ragnarbluechip8795]

I agree with all points, except for 2). Unless you're quite fluent, it won't land you many additional career opportunities.

[@josephqu579]

美女回答的真实高水平啊，说的很好。

[@kyarib]

If Chinese people can read Japanese to some extent, it is not only because Chinese characters (Kanji) are used in Japanese. The vocabulary of the modern Chinese language includes many kanji compound words created by the Japanese at the end of the 19th century. This is a great help to Chinese in reading and understanding Japanese.

[@jierbangyingjiera5059]

I deeply agree with you.

[@user-tl1bw4wp1c]

It was Japanese Chinese language scholars who invented new Chinese words based on ancient Chinese.

[@chadvader974]

Steve I am in awe of your skills

[@klanas40]

One of the hardest languages to learn and understand.

[@thepchaipoo6577]

最难学习和理解的语言之一。

[@gemmahan9795]

您的普通话讲的太标准了❤❤❤

[@两岸一家亲-n1h]

汉语是世界上信息传递效率最快的语言（同样的书汉语版比英文版要薄），它有23个声母35韵母和四个声调总共可以组成3000多种发音，对比英语的二十多个元音和二十八个辅音有400多种发音。而且字与字之间相互组合会更好记忆。

[@aoeu256]

不是越南言语，因为他们有了6声调和很简单的音节.

[@salvatorelivreri]

Because the world is changing.

[@พิมพ์ศีณฐ์ลัคก์พันธ์กสิกรรม]

非常感谢您老师好我很高兴老师分享了。🇨🇳💖🇹🇭🥰😁

[@tommysiharath6988]

Understood 90% of the conversation except for some words which I could easily guess. I learned Chinese from living in China currently for the past 10 years (never really studied it). After a while, it just took one of the years for it to click. Also, Steve called subtitles 文章 which means article or essay instead of 字幕. But his Chinese was pretty impressive none the less. Probably better than mine. Then again, I never really studied Chinese. Environment definitely helped. But what they said is right. You can be in a place and never learn the language. I put myself out there, joined events, proactively conversed with people, and had a girlfriend who spoke little English so we defaulted to Chinese. so that helped a lot. Of course, you won't get better unless you use it and Steve talking to Jenny was a way of practicing as well. I practiced my listening while he practiced his speaking. But the funny thing is, it isn't practice. It's USING the language. Practice is just the benefit of using it, not the other way around. When you change your mindset like that. It becomes easier.

[@aoeu256]

你那里得到了给你说中文的女朋友。

[@ARTBREAL]

El canal de ella es increíble me gusta sus podcast y cuando sale a mostrar su cultura

[@somethingfromthere9777]

The chinese language is hard as hell as Arabic which my native tongue I prefer English as the WWL (world wide language)^-^

[@juliakrystal19]

I have been learning chinese for the last 16 years and I always compare it to the iceberg theory. When you start learning you only get a glimpse of what’s ahead of you. You won’t feel overwhelmed and think:“Actually Chinese isn’t that hard as everyone says!“ But the longer you study, the higher your level gets, the deeper you dive into the water. Once you broke through the surface you finally see the huge complexity of the language. It‘s something you can’t see in the beginning when you stay at the surface.“🧊🏔️

[@alisaundre93]

老师刚开始跟Jessie打招呼时候，可以说：“你好，Jessie”

[@Thomas-zs1ui]

Glad you have say that.

[@mrwifi1206]

Wow, fascinating conversation. Thanks for sharing!

[@deutschmitpurple2918]

True 👍👍👍

[@zhu6001]

真的牛 steve

[@dr.gaosclassroom]

What a wonderful interview!! Love this video!! Please keep the great work!!🥰🤩🤩

[@valentina_fantasy]

AMAZING! BRAVO!

[@willalves21]

Wonderful speech.

[@albeirogaitan1125]

Steve your brain is wonderfull

[@mikedaniels3009]

Thank the good Lord God for these transcripts & subtitles and thank y'all guys. As a polyglot myself i can only recommend this reverse acquisition method, if U will. I'd like to compare it to acoustic learners learning how to play the piano by ear and have a sneak peek at sheet music each time they get stuck. Or the visual learner can work from the score = the hanzi, to find out what it's supposed to sound like. Invaluable contribution, Steve and thanks for endorsing Jessie's channel.

[@FilipP88]

7:09 I'm pretty sure he wanted to say 每天五六个钟头 every day 5-6 hours

[@federicohu01]

很高兴认识你

[@cristianhcm1914]

Thank you. Excellent information. By the way, she is gorgeous!

[@jayelguerrero]

This is very inspirational Steve 💪🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

[@pexat]

Thank you for your videos! Большое спасибо!!

[@hopperhelp1]

I don’t speak Mandarin but I have materials for it the day I wish to tackle it. Hopefully one day I get stuff for Cantonese as well. But personally I see no reason why someone wouldn’t want to learn it. Sure it looks like it has some difficulties but that’s part of the fun.

[@npwy1408]

Cantonese is more like southern Asian language. Now I start learning Thai and found that the pronounciation part is quite similar.

[@hopperhelp1]

@@npwy1408 neat. Good to know.

[@aixnkdn7529]

I can teach you Chinese.

[@carlossolipaz4432]

Steve eres un genio, sin duda alguna. 👌

[@armandovillamizar9052]

Sir, you’re amazing 🤩

[@sarminalexandr]

good movie to practice 很好学

[@Elvenlijk]

谢谢你的视频♥️

[@Yandere_Sim_Player2023]

我來自中國，住在德國

[@Phantom_tw]

我是臺灣人人

[@chao-enchung4917]

Mr Kaufman, are you a German? In 1968, I was a 3 year old boy living in Hong Kong, New Territory. I never thought I would speak Mandarin at that time.

[@FitProVR]

谢谢！ 很有意思！

[@learnchinesewithkhc6225]

真的很有意思

[@lirichard275]

老爷子中文说得真好

[@SD-lr7sq]

Dude the fact you’re communicating with such an attractive woman in her language *IS* the reason to learn Chinese 😂

[@gpanda397]

哇喔，所以我也要该好好的学习英语！

[@joshmilkshame9312]

motivation说不出来。 你可以说 学习中文最大的motivation是什么

[@learnchinesewithkhc6225]

真的很好👍👍

[@sauron8278]

Dear Steve. Talk to me how you learned chines?

[@blancagarciahernandez5190]

He has a video

[@Liliquan]

Did you bother to look it up before asking for other people to service you?

[@satchycollins3985]

Thanks

[@Ayden9705]

Excellente idée pour apprendre les langues

[@OlmoLungring]

Nice to see Steve in the "opposite role" being the interviewer instead of the usual interviewed guest. I´d like to see more of these instead of the recent focus of LingQ Chinese on Taiwanese Chinese

[@yamtaylor6621]

😂欢迎老师来挑战高棉语

[@stevenzhang6971]

感谢老师分享

[@raokramer]

Steve, how come you can speak Mandarin? How long did it take you to learn it?

[@bluesky9808]

I am a native Chinese who want to go abroad to English speaking countries for bachelor degree,If there is anyone wants to learn mandarin chinese,leave a message to become friends,make progress together.

[@SupremeDP]

Hey! Nice video. I don't know who edits these, but why is it stretched? It looks pretty bad, unfortunately.

[@billsun780]

哇 这个中文水平真的可以的👍

[@comceptmaniarchitectual8091]

I can help you learn Chinese. My mother tongue is Chinese, but I want to learn English. Can I exchange learning?

[@asadiqbal1231]

HELLO SIR, REALLY GREAT AND IMPRESSIVE, 很棒， 很羡慕你了， I WANNA ASK THAT HOW CAN BE SPECIALIZED IN CHINESE TRANSLATION, LIKE I WANNA BE SPECIALIZED CHINESE TRANSLATOR, KINDLY GUIDE ME IN THIS REGARD, ACTUALLY I WANNA BECOME A FREELANCE TRANSLATOR, WITH SPEICALIZED KNOWLEDGE ITS IMPOSSIBLE, I WANT SPECIAL IN 上午汉语，请帮我选择一个好办法吧还是推荐什么好用的Plate form吧， 谢谢

[@sadamenglish]

I am one of her student🖐

[@สุวิทย์เรือนแก้ว-ฌ2อ]

I study Chinese because interest.

[@MMM-jr2hu]

since you talk about the chinese history, Cantonese is actually is the main language in China. you can do some research on the chinese poems in Tong dynasty. if you don't agree, don't even mention about the history

[@dwwu3409]

广东话只是接近。如果你要震惊一点，就用现在的越南语朗读汉字，他们已经不知道是什么意思了，但是还有汉字的音。朗读起来比粤语更接近古汉语。太有意思了，最接近古汉语的读音居然在越南。

[@yamila1472]

每种中国方言都一定程度上保留了一些古音，广东话只是其中一种，每种方言保留了不同的字的读法也同时改变了另一批字的读法。有的诗用其中一种方言更接近古音另一首则是用另外一种方言更合适。所有方言都是对古中国语音的继承，都是平等的，广东话只是其中一种

[@publikumsorientiert]

每天五六個小時 一年 哈哈 好厲害

[@hhl176]

i'm chinese.i learning english now,but it's difficult...maybe someone wanna lerning chinese.we can help eachother😊let me know

[@thomasrsgame]

我也要找这样萌萌哒的语言伙伴练习外语

[@winniehoo1705]

Am waiting for Steve to teach English .

[@weaversong7021]

hahah, what a good comment

[@Nicko974]

How's your routine to learn Chinese?

[@BRAGA23]

Quero muito aprender Mandarim Antes dos 25 anos de idade 🎉🎉😢😢

[@vmffkspt4396]

Good

[@Bjorn7342]

Learning Chinese is to make money for me

[@mmaxine1331]

if i can put one kuai in my piggybank everytime i hear 5000年历史， I hate people who don't learn from the past yet still dwell in it