John Cena Speaking Mandarin Chinese |||普通话|约翰塞纳讲中文 John Cena spricht Mandarin-Chinesisch John Cena habla chino mandarín John Cena parle le chinois mandarin 北京語を話すジョン・シナ 중국어 말하는 존 시나 John Cena mówi po mandaryńsku John Cena a falar chinês mandarim Джон Сина говорит на мандаринском китайском языке John Cena Mandarin Çincesi Konuşuyor Джон Сена розмовляє мандаринською китайською мовою 约翰-塞纳说普通话 约翰·塞纳讲普通话 約翰·塞納說普通話

John Cena's Mandarin chinese is an example of people who learn |塞纳的|普通话||||例子||||

a language for a certain purpose and pull it off successfully. ||||特定的|目的||实现|||成功地 ||||||||lo||exitosamente

Hi, Steve Kaufmann here, um, today, a bit of an unusual subject, maybe, ||史蒂夫·考夫曼||||||||不寻常的|主题|

uh, someone asked me how well does John Cena speak Mandarin Chinese. |||||how proficient|||||| ну, кто-то спросил меня, насколько хорошо Джон Сина говорит по-китайски.

So the title is John Cena speaking Mandarin Chinese, but I want to ||标题|||||普通话|||||

really talk about the importance of communicating when we learn a language ||||重要性||交流|||||

and then the relative lack of importance of perfect pronunciation or even other |||相对缺乏|缺乏||||完美的|发音||| 然后相对缺乏完美发音甚至其他方面的重要性

imperfections in our use of a language that we learn in order to communicate. 不足之处|||||||||||为了沟通||交流 我们为了交流而学习的语言的使用存在缺陷。

So someone asked me, and by the way, if you enjoy these videos, please subscribe,

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So a friend said, what do you think of John Cena's Chinese?

To be honest, I don't, didn't know who John Cena was CENA turns out ||老实说||||||||||原来是| 老实说，我不知道，不知道约翰塞纳是谁 CENA 结果

he's some kind of a pro wrestler. 他是个|||||职业的|摔跤手 ||||||Es un luchador profesional. 他是某种职业摔跤手。

Uh, I'm not a big fan of professional wrestling, uh, but, uh, whatever |||||粉丝||职业的|||||随便吧 ||||||||lucha libre||||

he is a well-known personality. ||||知名的|名人

So I looked him up. ||查了他||查找

So what do I think?

His Chinese is not what you would call phenomenal. |||||||称作|了不起

His pronunciation is not very Chinese. |发音|||| 他的发音不是很中国。

However, It's very pleasing. 然而|||令人愉快 然而，它非常令人愉快。

He communicates. |他交流。

You have the feeling that he wants to communicate, that he

likes the Chinese language.

He likes communicating with his Chinese fans.

Uh, there's something very positive. ||||积极的

Now, I'm not a native speaker of Chinese so I can't, I can't tell ||||母语者|说中文者||||||||

you how a Chinese person reacts. |||||反应如何

Maybe some of you who are Chinese can tell me your reaction to his Chinese. |||||||||||反应|||

But to me, it comes across as quite positive. ||||显得|显得||相当|积极的 但对我来说，它给人的印象是非常积极的。

Um, And, uh, so I, I thought of all these people that I know who ||||||想到|||||||| ||||||pensé en||||||||

communicate very effectively in a language that they speak imperfectly. ||有效地|||||||不完美地 |||||||||not fluently

Uh, we can start with, uh, former Canadian prime minister, Jean ||||||前任|加拿大的|前总理|前总理|让·克雷蒂安 呃，我们可以从，呃，加拿大前总理，让

Chrétien, and he speaks with a pronounced the French Canadian accent. ||||||明显的||||口音

And even his usage is not always a hundred percent yet he was very |甚至||用法||||||百分之百|然而||| |||uso|||siempre|||||||

effective, so effective communicating in English that he was prime minister 有效|||有效沟通|||||||

of Canada for I think 10 years.

And was very popular. |||很受欢迎

Uh, you know, I it's possible just as you know, John Cena uses his |||||可能的||||||||

Chinese it's part of his shtick of connecting with his Chinese fans. |||||噱头||联系|||| |||||gimmick|||||| |||||truco característico||||||

I think to some extent, or some people suspected that Jean Chrétien affected ||||某种程度||||怀疑||||

his, you know, Quebecois accent on his English, because it was part of his |||魁北克口音||||||||||

persona and he was a very successful uh, politician, but they both communicate. 人物形象||||||成功的||政治家||||交流 persona||||||||||||

Um, if you watch, uh, Mark Zuckerberg speak Chinese, my impression |||||马克·扎克伯格|扎克伯格||||印象

is that he may in fact speak Chinese better than John Cena.

I don't know.

But, uh, he's not tremendous either, but you have the impression that ||||了不起|也不|||||印象中| |||||tampoco||||||

he isn't really communicating so much as he's performing. |并不是|||||||表演

Uh, his attitude is, uh, speaking to his Chinese audience ||态度|||||||

in Beijing "oh, look at me. |在北京||||

I can speak Chinese.

Uh, I'm very clever. |||聪明 |||Uh, soy muy listo.

Aren't I?" 不是吗？|

Kind of thing.

Uh, so that the audience is kind of a prop, so at least that's the |||||||||道具|||至少|| |||||||||utilería||||| 呃，所以观众是一种道具，所以至少那是

impression that's created with me. ||留下的印象||

It may not be fair, but you know, I think the important thing in |可能|||公平|||||||重要的事|| ||||justo|||||||||

communicating is that genuine desire to communicate, to connect. |||真诚的|渴望||||

And, uh, as I've said, many times, I, you know, I remember I had a Swiss |||||||||||||||瑞士的

banker who spoke English so well, but had a pronounced Swiss accent, uh, all 银行家|||||||||明显的||||

the different people that I've, you know, done business with who spoke, but ||人们|||||做过生意|业务伙伴|||| |||||||hecho negocios con|||||

who communicated and they didn't for a minute, worry about their pronunciation |交流||||||||||发音

or the odd little error in their language. ||偶尔的||小错误||| ||pequeño|||||

And so that's where, you know, many of us, as we're learning a language, of ||||||||||我们在||||

course, we want to continue to improve, but whatever our level, whatever your 当然||||||||||||

level, whatever you are, you have to measure what you have achieved 水平|||||||衡量||||达到的水平 水平，无论你是什么，你都要衡量你取得了什么成就

against what your objectives are. 与...相悖|||目标| против ваших целей. 反对你的目标。

So if your objective let's say in learning Japanese is to absolutely |||||||||||绝对地 Итак, если ваша цель, скажем, в изучении японского языка, состоит в том, чтобы абсолютно

master the pronunciation to sound like someone on national radio in 掌握||发音技巧||发音像||||全国的|广播电台| освоить произношение, чтобы звучать как кто-то на национальном радио в

Japan, and you're going to work on your pitch accent and that's fine. 日本||||||关于||音调|||| Япония, и ты будешь работать над своим акцентом, и это нормально.

I'm not critical of that. ||批评|| Я не критично отношусь к этому.

But to suggest that everyone learning Japanese should put the ||建议说||每个人||||放置| Но предложить всем, изучающим японский язык, поставить

same amount of effort into mastering pitch accent is to my mind silly. 相同的|同样的努力||努力||掌握||重音||||在我看来|愚蠢的 ||||||||||||tonto ||||||acento tonal||||||ridículo столько же усилий для овладения тональным акцентом, на мой взгляд, глупо.

I have never, I was blithely for all the time I lived in Japan I never even knew |||||毫不在意地||||||居住过|||||甚至|知道 |||||unbekümmert|||||||||||| |||||carefree|||||||||||| |||||alegremente|||||||||||| |||||A la ligera|||||||||||| Я никогда, я был беспечным за все время, что я жил в Японии, я даже не знал 我从来没有，我在日本生活的那段时间都很快乐，我什至不知道

such a thing as pitch accent existed. 这样的||||声调||存在过 そのような|||||| существовала такая вещь, как тональный акцент. 存在音高重音之类的东西。

I'm sure that in trying to imitate Japanese as spoken by native speakers |||||||||||母语者| Я уверен, что, пытаясь подражать японскому языку носителей языка,

and of course falling short, but nevertheless, using that as a model |||quedarse corto|||sin embargo||||| и, конечно, не дотягивает, но тем не менее, взяв это за образец

I would not necessarily imitate some aspects of pitch accent. Я бы не стал обязательно имитировать некоторые аспекты звуковысотного акцента.

And similarly in speaking Persian, which I'm told is a language that has Точно так же и в персидском языке, который, как мне сказали,

pitch accent, if I tried to imitate the way the native speakers speak, to тональный акцент, если бы я пытался подражать тому, как говорят носители языка, чтобы

some extent, I will imitate that pitch accent, but I'm not going to study |certa medida|||||ento de entonação||||||| в какой-то степени я буду подражать этому тональному акценту, но я не собираюсь учиться

it with the intention of aceing it. |||||取得高分| |||||tirar uma nota máxima| |||||sacarla del estadio|

Uh, it's just part of my acquisition of the language.

And, uh, there will be imperfections, uh, as I've said before there, I don't

know what we have a Russian person that works with us and, uh, his, his articles 知道我们有一个和我们一起工作的俄罗斯人，呃，他的，他的文章

use of the article is very haphazard. ||||||随意 ||||||random and careless ||||||aleatória ||||||desordenado 文章的使用非常随意。

It doesn't prevent him from being a very comfortable communicator in English.

Um, you know, people make mistakes in gender in French.

I did my video, uh, about the difficulties of French.

Uh, it's, it's important to be aware of some of these difficulties

and work on some of them.

I mean, we can work on, on getting the 'r' right.

But if we can't quite do the guttural 'r' in French a hundred percent like the |||||||throaty|||||||| |||||||gutural||||||||

French, it doesn't prevent communication.

Uh, I think it's worth working on the 'eu' sound, the famous... ||||vale la pena|||||||

go 'ooo' and then try to say 'e' and you'll get 'eu' it's worth

working on it, but if you don't get it, it's not the end of the world.

Uh, similarly with the, uh, the nasal sounds.

I think they are worth working on, noticing them, trying to do as well as

you can with the nasal sounds because it will also help your comprehension,

but when you speak and when you are genuinely communicating, communicating

with someone, just communicate.

So if I get back to John Cena and his Mandarin Chinese, he does communicate. 所以如果我回到约翰塞纳和他的普通话，他确实会沟通。

I don't know, I haven't seen him discuss philosophy in Chinese, but

those things that he does talk about he communicates effectively, uh, I don't

know, uh, how many tones he gets right.

I think it's pretty haphazard, but he's happy doing it. ||||随意的||||| ||||willkürlich||||| ||||random||||| ||||desordenado||||| ||||desordenado|||||

And I think people listening to him again, I can't speak for Chinese 而且我认为人们又在听他说话，我不会说中文

people, but I have the impression that Chinese people are happy to see him

speaking Chinese to the extent that he speaks it and he is communicating. 说中文到他说中文和交流的程度。

So, uh, I guess where I come to in all of this is John Cena's Mandarin chinese is 所以，呃，我想我在这一切中来到的地方是约翰塞纳的普通话是

an example of people who learn a language for a certain purpose and pull it off

successfully and obviously enjoy it.

And really that's what language learning is all about enjoyment and of

course, communication or communicating with people, connecting with people.

So there you have it, a bit of um, you know, digression perhaps from |||||||||||题外话|| |||||||||||Abschweifung|| |||||||||||digression|| |||||||||||divagación quizás|quizás|

the title, but just talking about the importance of communicating without the||||||||||

worrying too much about perfection.

Thank you for listening. Спасибо за внимание.

Bye for now. Пока.