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Steve's YouTube Videos, XiaomaNYC Uses His Fluent Chinese to Connect Cultures

XiaomaNYC Uses His Fluent Chinese to Connect Cultures

hello Ari hey Steve what's going on hey

hey what's going on you're in New York

no where are you mama do you're I'm in

New York

Rainy Rainy Rainy New York all right

well let me just differ though many

people know you you have a very popular

channel on YouTube and you speak Chinese

extremely well I looked at some of your

videos I found them very interesting and

so maybe I could begin by asking you

it says somewhere that you are also you

teach Chinese you do these videos where

you a showcase your Chinese skills but I

think more important in a way you

introduce aspects of Chinese food and

Chinese culture to people who know very

little about it so can I ask you a

little bit about your background

introduce yourself and then how you got

into doing all these things yeah so so I

would say my like my background as it

relates to Chinese I started studying

Chinese this sort of the summer after

high school I was a little bit bored

looking for something to do and so I

just kind of saw an ad in the paper for

a free Chinese class and I always knew

that I like studying languages and I was

good at it so I was like all right

Chinese sounds like a lot of fun so I

took that class and it ended up being a

really really great experience I

continued studying you know in college

sophomore year school I was like I ended

up getting a scholarship to go to China

learn Chinese can I stop you for a

second can I stop for a second so why

would someone offer free Chinese lessons

is this a way to get you in the door for

further Chinese lessons the wave is just

the way for the for the Chinese

government to promote the study of

Chinese international okay Chinese

government yeah right okay

so sorry so then so then you went to

China mm-hmm so they're handing out

they're handing out you know

scholarships to foreigners to go to to

go to China to learn Chinese I went to

China spent a year in Beijing I really

enjoyed my time there and this was my

year again it was it's like 2010 2009 mm

mm academic area mm-hm so yeah so laughs

it came back to the states and I kind of

have like the language learning book

at that point slash Chinese culture bug

so I started sort of started making like

videos on YouTube just like little

language learning videos and and accent

videos and just kind of like fun things

and I like doing that but I didn't I

never really kind of took it seriously

until maybe a couple years ago when I I

started doing this channel full-time

yeah so that's like the 30-second

elevator version but happened to happy

together like it's in more detail you

know what okay

yeah okay so before we get into your

videos which are very entertaining and I

think people will enjoy looking at them

um Chinese a lot of people think Chinese

is very difficult how difficult did you

find it and do you have any advice for

people who either are in the middle of

trying to learn Chinese or have

contemplated learning Chinese right yes

that's a great question so I would say I

think that in english-speaking countries

we tend to view Chinese as like the the

pinnacle of intellectual ability right

if you can speak Chinese then you must

be the smartest person on earth which

anyone like any non Chinese person who

spent time studying Chinese can tell you

it's kind of nonsense like Chinese is

not I guess learning to write is one

phlearn to write and read as one there's

a whole separate beast but actually

learning to speak Chinese is not really

the hardest thing on the planet you know

it's I think the biggest difficulty for

for non-native speakers getting over is

the tones initially you know but but I

think that like you you can you know the

grammar I would say relative to other

you know languages I've studied is

actually fairly similar to English the

there's a couple weirdness weird things

there but there's also a lot of things

that make it easy to learn so honestly

like it's not like I was I had spent

like I had learned a year of Chinese

before going to China but I was like

conversationally fluent in Chinese

within a few months I would say I've

started

okay but but the fact remains let me now

study Chinese and to me there's really

two issues one is the characters and the

other is the tones so I mean every

language has those things that are

difficult if you get rid of the things

that are difficult then it's easier but

you're still left with the things that

are difficult so eh how did you tackle

the tones and B how did you tackle the

carrot race so I would say with tones

with tones I kind of I kind of have a

like a jail what's it called get out of

jail free card with that one to be

honest like I've always been good at at

languages and accents and so that just

kind of came very naturally and easily

for me I will say and I know a lot of I

know it's very difficult though for a

lot of people and and something that's

helped me and other people in the past

get over that is it's like audio

repetition so listening to like

recording yourself speak and then

playing it back and with with native

references to whatever you're saying

it's super super helpful for for trying

to understand where your where your

tones are wrong and where your accents

wrong and you definitely need to do that

but you also just need a practice like a

time like if you want to get good at

tones I mean you you can speak like I

definitely know foreigners have spoken

Chinese for a long time and still have

really crappy tones but like that's the

first step right the first thing you

have to do is is speak and then you're

gonna notice that your tones are not

good so the way to get that the way to

get over that I feel like is through

deliberate practice with practicing your

own tones and comparing it to two native

speakers as far as as far as characters

that one that one definitely did not

come as naturally for me like first of

all my handwriting is really bad so I've

never been ate like I haven't been good

with with with with with just writing

things and like I to hand memory that's

not one of my strong suits so with that

I would say I just kind of tried to

focus on like I tried to I tried to like

separate what was important to me and

what wasn't so pretty early on I decided

like there's no way I'm ever

to be able to write Chinese well like

that's just not it's just not in the

cards you know like I am NOT a liquor

free guy so so you know what I was like

and I know that in introductory classes

they really try to stress like stroke

order and you know you got to get the

form ride all this stuff but like I I

was I just didn't want to focus that

because there were things that were more

important to me so I made kind of a

decision early on to not focus on that

and focus more on just recognition and

recall and so which i think is much more

important for reading and you know just

cuz all the stuff you do in day to day

life in Chinese even for even for

texting if you're typing in Chinese

you're probably typing with pinion which

which which is basically all recall all

you need to know is how the character

sounds and then when you type it in it's

gonna come up and as long as you can

recognize if that's the right character

you get so so I just kind of focus on

recall and the way that the way that I

got good at that and I'm still not like

the best at recognizing Chinese

characters and reading Chinese but you

know the the the way that I the way that

I got to the level where I am now which

is that I can comfortably read most

stuff that I want to read on daily basis

is one you know lots initially it was

lots of Anki just lots of straight

memorization of characters you know it

sucks but like you got to do it you just

got to just memorize a whole ton of

stuff and just using it in context you

know like when I would use certain

characters I like I think there's

there's some this one school of

philosophy that says all right you just

got to memorize the kanji is

individually and like you know it just

makes just like just like you know you

could figure out like what the original

meaning is and that will help you member

for me that never worked

I just tried to memorize the words like

and then I would learn from that I would

learn in context with the original what

were the individual characters would

mean you know cause Chinese language of

words not characters so like that that

was the way that I tried to memorize

things and then learn the characters

from there I mean now everyone has their

own approach I must say with regard to

the tones I focused a lot on listening

and in particular I listen to this sort

of Shang Shung comic dialogues where

they tend to exaggerate the

I didn't really try to listen to myself

too much because I didn't want to become

too self-conscious and I think you got

to be a little careful in terms of an

accent if you spend too much time

listening to yourself you get

self-conscious

whereas I found that if I just let it go

and but you have to do a lot of

listening if you if you just speak with

people every now and again you'll

continue to have poor tones but I think

you can train yourself to get better at

them and on the characters I agree with

you I have poor handwriting but when I

was studying Chinese we had to write we

had to write for my final exam I had to

be able to translate newspaper

editorials from English into Chinese so

the only the only you know objective was

to make sure people could read what I

had written it didn't have to look nice

but you're absolutely right nobody

writes today I mean I

similarly in Japanese or Russia and I

never write but I use my computer so I

can communicate you know writing on the

computer but but but I did find that

writing the characters out by hand

helped me learn them but I agree I had a

terrible terrible handwriting and I also

agree that that Chinese I mean I think

learning any language is not a matter of

intellectual achievement it's simply a

matter of allowing allowing yourself to

you know not resist the language and

allowing it to enter your brain and just

letting go and so none of these things

are necessarily a sign of great I'm sure

it wouldn't be hard to find some very

you know high IQ professors say

foreigners in the United States or

Canada who have who speak with a very

heavy accent for example so I don't

think fluency in the language is

necessarily a sign of a high IQ anyway

so you learn Chinese and now what got

you into these very entertaining and I

really encourage people to go and look

at them and you're getting like three

four five or more million views for

these videos and it's it's it's okay let

me ask you this - what do you attribute

the appeal of your videos yeah to be

honest I initially you know I was sort

of a little bit surprised by it I think

that I think that one thing one thing

that I've learned

instead I think I think people I think

people want some sort of inspiration

when they're they're learning languages

like they want to be able to see a goal

you know like they want to be able to

see like what what what what can't like

what's the point of learning the

language like why why should I even

bother spending all this time with these

textbooks and like listening drills and

like like why do I even care you know so

like I think what my videos let people

do is is give them a reason to care

right like if you learn a language if

you learn a new language you're getting

a new personality you're getting a new

soul you're getting a new way to like

like interact with the huge number of

people on this planet that previously

you just weren't able to do and so like

I think that my videos you know I'm able

to show like what it's like to to have

meaningful interactions and

relationships with people that free that

for someone like me just growing up in

the US with only English is my native

language would otherwise have been

impossible had I not learn this language

so so I think that I think that yeah you

know and people message me all the time

just just saying like saying saying that

these videos help them like inspire them

to want to learn Mandarin or other

languages and yeah so I keep doing them

I think yeah what I think is great in

them is that I think for the average New

Yorker walking down the street seems

some Chinese food vendor I consider them

to be sort of very distant very exotic

very strange may not want to even buy

anything from and so you bring these

people closer you you you approach them

and and they come across as being very

of course they're human but we see them

as very strange and we

minh a sort of a sense of familiarity

with chinese street vendors Chinese

culture Chinese food so I think that's a

really good a really good service it is

interesting to note though that for a

westerner to go and speak to some people

say in Chinese on the street is curious

interesting whatever I'm trying to

picture a Chinese or a Japanese person

goes to the states and does videos of

going around speaking to people in

English yeah I wouldn't be very

interesting at all nobody would be

interested in that so it does it is a

reflection of how I guess people in

China and Japan get much more exposure

to Western culture Western people

Western things and we get much less

exposure to them and their culture and

therefore they're perceived as more

strange and therefore when you go there

and you just you know really interact

with them naturally in their language

it's perceived as something interesting

whereas the reverse wouldn't necessarily

be the case

sure yeah I think that's very true I

think another I think another factor

contributing to this is that I I think

that I think that there's there's

whether it's due to the monolingual

status of English in you know many

Western countries or or what have you

the I think there's something about

language learning that is is kind of

prized as sort of like a good in its own

like regard in in Western countries

whereas in these videos I've noticed

like my Chinese were people and my Asian

fans from Asia are not as interested in

them as my Western fans and I think that

I think that there's something about

like you know sorry they're not

interested in in what like my like these

these types of videos where I you know

interact with people on the street in

Chinese oh I see what me yeah there are

less and less intermittent to a yes and

I think that part of that is is that in

Asia language learning is not

necessarily like it's it's regarding to

something

like you know you should learn English

because it can help you get Economic

Opportunity but it's not necessarily

regard to something cool or something

like just I I think there's a thing in

American culture where you know maybe

it's maybe it's all the movies you see

when like some guy busts out like seven

different languages and like you know

it's like James Bond speaks like French

Spanish or whatever like this is

something cool about it that I think is

is is sort of inherent to too you know

Western culture that is not necessary

like it's not necessarily regarded as

like a pinnacle of intellectual

achievement in China to be able to speak

really good English like yeah yeah so I

would say that I would have to disagree

I think that that in the West and of

course the West is not just North

America the West is Europe the West is

whatever speaking many languages is

valued and it's also valued in Asia we

had a polyglot conference in Fukuoka and

there were a lot of people there from

Asian countries Japan China Korea

Indonesia whatever who spoke many

languages I think the difficulty is most

people are not prepared to put the

effort in most people would like to

speed one other two other three other

languages and when they discover that

it's a lot of work or at least a lot of

time then a lot of people are

discouraged or because they use methods

that are not very effective

but I think generally I don't think

there's not much difference in my

interaction with people from Asia there

is appreciative of people who learn

languages yeah as as we are I don't see

a big difference there except that I

would even go as far as to say that in

North America someone who speaks a lot

of languages is considered a bit freaky

why would you want to do that to Zambia

to sound great but but hey everywhere

you got all kinds of different people

but at any rate you know I think it's

great to see and you're learning

Fujiyama or Taiwan Hong as well yes

Johan and Fudo haha yeah this one I've

been learning most recently which which

I think I think like back on the theme

of engaging with people's cultures like

for me right for me like the reactions

that I get from people

I can speak fuzhounese with them as

opposed to Mandarin are just so much

greater

I think the peep were you saying food

raha why are you saying in Taiwan no no

in New York or in food York

oh and no you are yeah okay yeah yeah

yeah yeah lots of people lots of people

in New York speak food Joanie is all I

say yeah okay which is kind of like one

of these weird accidents of geography

but yeah it just it just happens like

that so how about the Cantonese I speak

a little bit Cantonese to which I use in

my video sometimes just because there's

like in New York probably outside of

Mandarin the two biggest Chinese

languages that people speak or food

Rooney's in Cantonese okay yeah but so

okay no just to end up here we could go

on for quite a long time so where are

you gonna what do you do or intend to do

with all of this where does this lead to

are you just gonna continue making these

videos ever I see where you're teaching

Chinese on a voluntary basis in New York

yeah yeah yeah yeah that's that's just

kind of like for fun and you know it's

nice to giving back to the community but

you know yeah I don't that's a great

question I don't know I don't know where

it goes I mean I you know like if you

had asked me a year ago or two years ago

what I would be doing in a year from

that point mm-hmm I wouldn't have any

idea so to me trying to make long-term

plans is like it's like trying to nail

jello to a wall like I don't know what

I'm gonna be doing a month from now so

yeah so the only the only thing that

I'll say is just you know I want to keep

making things that you know that can

help share cultures and languages

throughout the world and just be able to

bring know kind of like inspiration and

joy to people's lives and and and

motivate people to learn Chinese or

other languages and you know for me I

got a lot of it you know like happiness

and and and probably I doing this so um

yeah well I recommend people go and

visit I'll leave a link in the

description box this is this Yama

speaking different languages and

bridging the cultural divide anyway

thank you very much for chatting with us

thank you so much see really appreciate

it okay bye-bye

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hello Ari hey Steve what's going on hey Hallo Ari, hey Steve, was gibt's Neues? こんにちはアリスティーブ Olá Ari, olá Steve, o que é que se passa? 你好 Ari 嘿 Steve 发生什么事了 嘿

hey what's going on you're in New York مرحبًا، ما الذي يحدث، أنت في نيويورك ei, o que se passa, estás em Nova Iorque 嘿,你在纽约,怎么了

no where are you mama do you're I'm in ||||mamá|||| لا أين أنت يا أمي هل أنت هنا Nein, wo bist du, Mama, wo bist du, ich bin da no where are you mama do you're I'm in ママはどこにいるの? em nenhum lugar está você mamãe fazendo você estou em 妈妈你在哪儿我在

New York نيويورك Nova York

Rainy Rainy Rainy New York all right 下雨的|||||| ممطر ممطر ممطر نيويورك حسنًا レイニーレイニーレイニーニューヨーク Rainie Rainie Rainie New York oké Chuvoso Chuvoso Chuvoso Nova York tudo bem

well let me just differ though many ||||不同意见|| ||||disagree|| ||||difiero|| حسنا اسمحوا لي أن أختلف على الرغم من الكثير Nun, ich möchte mich von vielen unterscheiden まあ、私は多くのことだけが違うようにしましょう bem, deixe-me diferir, embora muitos

people know you you have a very popular يعرف الناس أن لديك شعبية كبيرة conheçam você, você tem um canal muito popular

channel on YouTube and you speak Chinese ||||||中文频道 قناة على موقع يوتيوب وأنت تتحدث الصينية no YouTube e fala chinês

extremely well I looked at some of your جيد للغاية نظرت إلى بعض منكم sehr gut, ich habe mir einige Ihrer extremamente bem eu olhei alguns dos seus

videos I found them very interesting and مقاطع الفيديو التي وجدتها مثيرة جدًا للاهتمام و vídeos eu os achei muito interessantes e

so maybe I could begin by asking you لذا ربما أستطيع أن أبدأ بسؤالك então talvez eu possa começar perguntando a você 所以也許我可以先問你這個問題

it says somewhere that you are also you يقول في مكان ما أنك أنت أيضًا en alguna parte dice que tú también eres tú diz em algum lugar que você também é você

teach Chinese you do these videos where تعليم اللغة الصينية يمكنك القيام بهذه الفيديوهات حيث Chinesisch unterrichten Sie machen diese Videos, wo ensina Chinês você faz esses vídeos onde 教中文你在哪裡做這些視頻

you a showcase your Chinese skills but I ||展示||||| ||zur Schau stellen||||| أنت تعرض مهاراتك الصينية ولكني Ihre Chinesischkenntnisse zu präsentieren, aber ich di mostrare le tue abilità in cinese, ma io você mostra suas habilidades em Chinês mas eu 你展示了你的中文技能,但我

think more important in a way you أعتقد أكثر أهمية بطريقة لك

introduce aspects of Chinese food and

Chinese culture to people who know very الثقافة الصينية للأشخاص الذين يعرفون جدا chinesische Kultur für Menschen, die sich sehr

little about it so can I ask you a 對此知之甚少,我可以問你一個嗎

little bit about your background 關於你的背景的一些信息

introduce yourself and then how you got قدم نفسك ثم كيف حصلت

into doing all these things yeah so so I في القيام بكل هذه الأشياء نعم لذلك أنا

would say my like my background as it سيقول بلدي مثل خلفيتي كما هو würde ich sagen, dass mein wie mein Hintergrund 會說我喜歡我的背景

relates to Chinese I started studying bezieht sich auf||||| يتعلق بالصينية بدأت الدراسة

Chinese this sort of the summer after الصينية هذا النوع من الصيف بعد Chinês este tipo de verão depois de

high school I was a little bit bored المدرسة الثانوية كنت أشعر بالملل قليلا 高中時我有點無聊

looking for something to do and so I أبحث عن شيء للقيام به وهكذا أنا 尋找一些事情做,所以我

just kind of saw an ad in the paper for مجرد نوع من رأيت إعلانا في الصحيفة ل 只是在報紙上看到一則廣告

a free Chinese class and I always knew 免費的中文課,我一直都知道

that I like studying languages and I was أنني أحب دراسة اللغات وكنت كذلك

good at it so I was like all right

Chinese sounds like a lot of fun so I 中文聽起來很有趣所以我

took that class and it ended up being a tive essa aula e acabou por ser uma 上了那門課,最後成為了

really really great experience I 我真的真的很棒的經歷

continued studying you know in college

sophomore year school I was like I ended 二年級||||||| zweites Schuljahr||||||| second-year student||||||| sophomore||||||| كنت في السنة الثانية من المدرسة وكأنني انتهيت 二年級的學校我就像我結束了

up getting a scholarship to go to China |||獎學金|||| |||Stipendium erhalten|||| حتى الحصول على منحة دراسية للذهاب إلى الصين 獲得獎學金去中國

learn Chinese can I stop you for a تعلم اللغة الصينية هل يمكنني إيقافك لمدة

second can I stop for a second so why ثانية هل يمكنني التوقف لثانية فلماذا

would someone offer free Chinese lessons هل يقدم شخص ما دروسًا مجانية في اللغة الصينية 有人可以提供免費的中文課程嗎

is this a way to get you in the door for 這是讓你進門的方法嗎

further Chinese lessons the wave is just さらに中国語のレッスンを受けると、波はちょうど mais lições de chinês a onda é apenas Дальнейшие уроки китайского языка волна просто 进一步的中国教训浪潮只是 進一步的中國教訓浪潮只是

the way for the for the Chinese الطريق للصينيين 中国人的出路 中國人的出路

government to promote the study of ||促进||| 政府推动研究 政府推動研究

Chinese international okay Chinese الصيني الدولي طيب الصيني 中文国际还好中文 中文國際還好中文

government yeah right okay الحكومة نعم صحيح حسنا

so sorry so then so then you went to آسف جدا لذلك ثم ذهبت إلى

China mm-hmm so they're handing out |||||发放| |||||distribuyendo| الصين مم-هممم لذا فهم يوزعون それで、彼らが配っているのは China mm-hmm então eles estão a distribuir 中國嗯嗯所以他們正在分發

they're handing out you know que estão a distribuir, sabe 他們正在分發你知道的

scholarships to foreigners to go to to ||外国人|||| Stipendien für Ausländer|||||| 為外國人提供的獎學金

go to China to learn Chinese I went to

China spent a year in Beijing I really

enjoyed my time there and this was my استمتعت بوقتي هناك وكان هذا بلدي 在那里度过了愉快的时光,这是我的 很享受在那裡的時光,這是我的

year again it was it's like 2010 2009 mm العام مرة أخرى كان الأمر مثل 2010 2009 ملم 又是一年,就像2010年2009年一样 又是一年,就像 2010 年 2009 年 mm

mm academic area mm-hm so yeah so laughs ||||agreement sound|||| مم المنطقة الأكاديمية مم-هم لذا نعم يضحك

it came back to the states and I kind of

have like the language learning book لديك مثل كتاب تعلم اللغة の語学学習本が好きだ。

at that point slash Chinese culture bug |||斜杠||| |||barra|||error هذه النقطة خفض علة الثقافة الصينية その点、中国文化のバグを斬る

so I started sort of started making like لذلك بدأت نوعًا ما في صنع الإعجاب

videos on YouTube just like little ビデオ||||| أشرطة الفيديو على موقع يوتيوب تماما مثل القليل

language learning videos and and accent مقاطع فيديو لتعلم اللغة واللهجة

videos and just kind of like fun things مقاطع الفيديو ونوعًا ما مثل الأشياء الممتعة

and I like doing that but I didn't I وأنا أحب القيام بذلك ولكني لم أفعل ذلك

never really kind of took it seriously لم تأخذ الأمر على محمل الجد أبدًا

until maybe a couple years ago when I I حتى ربما قبل عامين عندما II

started doing this channel full-time بدأت في عمل هذه القناة بدوام كامل このチャンネルをフルタイムで始めました

yeah so that's like the 30-second نعم، هذا مثل الـ 30 ثانية ええ、それは30秒のようなものです

elevator version but happened to happy نسخة المصعد ولكن حدث للسعادة エレベーター版だけどたまたま幸せだった

together like it's in more detail you معًا كما لو كنت بمزيد من التفاصيل もっと詳しくあなたのように一緒に

know what okay أعرف ما حسنا

yeah okay so before we get into your نعم حسنا ذلك قبل أن ندخل في الخاص بك はい、わかりましたので、あなたの話に入る前に

videos which are very entertaining and I أشرطة الفيديو التي هي مسلية جدا وأنا

think people will enjoy looking at them

um Chinese a lot of people think Chinese أم صينية الكثير من الناس يعتقدون الصينية

is very difficult how difficult did you من الصعب جدا مدى صعوبة هل

find it and do you have any advice for العثور عليه وهل لديك أي نصيحة ل

people who either are in the middle of الناس الذين هم إما في منتصف

trying to learn Chinese or have تحاول تعلم اللغة الصينية أو لديك

contemplated learning Chinese right yes 考慮過|||| in Erwägung gezogen|||| 考虑|||| فكرت في تعلم اللغة الصينية بشكل صحيح نعم задумывался об изучении китайского языка, да

that's a great question so I would say I هذا سؤال عظيم لذلك أود أن أقول أنا

think that in english-speaking countries أعتقد أنه في البلدان الناطقة باللغة الإنجليزية

we tend to view Chinese as like the the نحن نميل إلى النظر إلى اللغة الصينية على أنها مثل الصين

pinnacle of intellectual ability right 顶峰||智力巅峰|| Gipfel intellektueller Fähigkeit|||| pinnáculo|||| قمة القدرة الفكرية الصحيحة o pináculo da capacidade intelectual correcta

if you can speak Chinese then you must إذا كنت تستطيع التحدث باللغة الصينية فيجب عليك ذلك se sabe falar chinês, então deve

be the smartest person on earth which يكون أذكى شخص على وجه الأرض الذي ser a pessoa mais inteligente do mundo, o que

anyone like any non Chinese person who أي شخص مثل أي شخص غير صيني alguém como qualquer pessoa não chinesa que

spent time studying Chinese can tell you قضاء الوقت في دراسة اللغة الصينية يمكن أن يخبرك بذلك

it's kind of nonsense like Chinese is إنه نوع من الهراء مثل اللغة الصينية это такая же ерунда, как китайский язык

not I guess learning to write is one не Я думаю, что обучение письму - это один из

phlearn to write and read as one there's phlearn||||||| phlearn||||||| "Phlearn" in diesem Kontext könnte als "Phlernen" übersetzt werden.||||||| phlearn||||||| 書読一体||||||| phlearn||||||| تعلم الكتابة والقراءة كواحد هناك phlearn om te schrijven en te lezen als er een is phlearn to write and read as one there's

a whole separate beast but actually |||eine ganz andere Sache|| |||cosa diferente|| وحش منفصل تماما ولكن في الواقع

learning to speak Chinese is not really تعلم التحدث باللغة الصينية ليس في الواقع

the hardest thing on the planet you know أصعب شيء على هذا الكوكب الذي تعرفه

it's I think the biggest difficulty for أعتقد أن هذا هو أكبر صعوبة

for non-native speakers getting over is لغير الناطقين بها الحصول على أكثر من ذلك

the tones initially you know but but I |音调|最初||||| ||最初||||| النغمات في البداية تعرفها لكني

think that like you you can you know the أعتقد أنه مثلك يمكنك معرفة

grammar I would say relative to other القواعد أود أن أقول نسبة إلى غيرها gramática eu diria que em relação a outros

you know languages I've studied is كما تعلمون اللغات التي درستها هي

actually fairly similar to English the في الواقع تشبه إلى حد ما اللغة الإنجليزية

there's a couple weirdness weird things |||奇怪的|| |||Seltsamkeiten|| |||奇妙なこと|| هناك بعض الأشياء الغريبة الغريبة há algumas coisas estranhas e esquisitas есть несколько странностей

there but there's also a lot of things هناك ولكن هناك أيضًا الكثير من الأشياء mas também há muitas coisas

that make it easy to learn so honestly مما يجعل من السهل التعلم بأمانة

like it's not like I was I had spent كأن الأمر ليس كما لو كنت قد قضيت

like I had learned a year of Chinese وكأنني تعلمت سنة من اللغة الصينية

before going to China but I was like قبل الذهاب إلى الصين ولكن كنت مثل

conversationally fluent in Chinese 会话流利||| يجيد المحادثة باللغة الصينية

within a few months I would say I've في غضون بضعة أشهر أود أن أقول أنني فعلت

started بدأت

okay but but the fact remains let me now |||||事实是||| حسنا ولكن تبقى الحقيقة اسمحوا لي الآن ok, mas o facto é que, deixe-me ver

study Chinese and to me there's really دراسة اللغة الصينية وبالنسبة لي هناك حقا estudar chinês e, para mim, há realmente

two issues one is the characters and the قضيتان واحدة هي الشخصيات و duas questões: uma é a das personagens e a outra

other is the tones so I mean every الآخر هو النغمات لذلك أعني كل outro são os tons, por isso quero dizer que cada

language has those things that are اللغة لديها تلك الأشياء التي هي a língua tem as coisas que são

difficult if you get rid of the things من الصعب إذا تخلصت من الأشياء difícil se nos livrarmos das coisas

that are difficult then it's easier but التي تكون صعبة فمن الأسهل ولكن

you're still left with the things that كنت لا تزال اليسار مع الأشياء التي

are difficult so eh how did you tackle |||||||angehen صعبة لذلك إيه كيف تعاملت معها

the tones and B how did you tackle the |||||||处理| النغمات و B كيف تعاملت مع 音调和 B 你是如何解决的

carrot race so I would say with tones سباق الجزر لذلك أود أن أقول مع النغمات

with tones I kind of I kind of have a مع النغمات التي أمتلكها نوعًا ما

like a jail what's it called get out of ||cárcel|||||| مثل السجن ما يسمى الخروج منه 牢獄のような......何て言うんだろう......外に出る

jail free card with that one to be بطاقة السجن المجانية مع تلك البطاقة その1枚で、刑務所から解放される

honest like I've always been good at at صادقة كما كنت دائما جيدة في

languages and accents and so that just ||口音|||| اللغات واللهجات وهكذا فقط

kind of came very naturally and easily لقد جاء الأمر بشكل طبيعي وسهل جدًا

for me I will say and I know a lot of I بالنسبة لي سأقول وأنا أعرف الكثير مني

know it's very difficult though for a أعلم أنه من الصعب جدًا بالنسبة لـ

lot of people and and something that's الكثير من الناس وشيء ما

helped me and other people in the past ساعدني وأشخاص آخرين في الماضي

get over that is it's like audio

repetition so listening to like التكرار حتى الاستماع لمثل

recording yourself speak and then تسجيل نفسك الكلام وبعد ذلك

playing it back and with with native اللعب مرة أخرى ومع مواطن

references to whatever you're saying إشارات إلى كل ما تقوله

it's super super helpful for for trying إنه مفيد جدًا للمحاولة

to understand where your where your لفهم أين الخاص بك حيث الخاص بك

tones are wrong and where your accents نغمات خاطئة وأين لهجاتك

wrong and you definitely need to do that خطأ وتحتاج بالتأكيد إلى القيام بذلك

but you also just need a practice like a ولكنك تحتاج أيضًا إلى ممارسة مثل

time like if you want to get good at الوقت كما لو كنت ترغب في الحصول على ما يرام

tones I mean you you can speak like I نغمات أعني أنك تستطيع التحدث مثلي

definitely know foreigners have spoken ||extranjeros|| أعرف بالتأكيد أن الأجانب قد تحدثوا

Chinese for a long time and still have الصينية لفترة طويلة وما زالت

really crappy tones but like that's the |malos||||| نغمات سيئة حقا ولكن مثل هذا هو tons muito maus, mas como se isso fosse o

first step right the first thing you الخطوة الأولى الصحيحة أول شيء لك

have to do is is speak and then you're ما عليك فعله هو التحدث ثم أنت

gonna notice that your tones are not ستلاحظ أن نغماتك ليست كذلك

good so the way to get that the way to جيد جدًا الطريقة للحصول على هذا الطريق

get over that I feel like is through تجاوز ما أشعر به قد انتهى

deliberate practice with practicing your 刻意|||| ممارسة متعمدة مع ممارسة الخاص بك を実践しながら、じっくりと練習する。

own tones and comparing it to two native النغمات الخاصة ومقارنتها بنغمتين أصليتين

speakers as far as as far as characters المتحدثين بقدر الشخصيات oradores até até até até personagens

that one that one definitely did not هذا الشخص بالتأكيد لم يفعل ذلك

come as naturally for me like first of تأتي بشكل طبيعي بالنسبة لي مثل الأول

all my handwriting is really bad so I've ||字迹||||| ||mi escritura||||| كل ما عندي من خط اليد هو سيئ حقا لذلك لقد

never been ate like I haven't been good لم آكل قط وكأنني لم أكن جيدًا nunca fui comido como se não tivesse sido bom меня никогда не ели, как будто я не был хорошим

with with with with with just writing مع مع مع مع مع مجرد الكتابة

things and like I to hand memory that's الأشياء وأود أن تسليم الذاكرة هذا вещи и как я для ручной памяти, которая 事情和喜欢我手记忆那是

not one of my strong suits so with that |||||Stärken||| ليست واحدة من بدلاتي القوية لذلك não é um dos meus pontos fortes, por isso, com isto Это не одна из моих сильных сторон, так что с этим

I would say I just kind of tried to أود أن أقول أنني حاولت نوعًا ما

focus on like I tried to I tried to like ركز على ما حاولت أن أحبه сосредоточиться на том, как я старался Я старался, как я старался

separate what was important to me and افصل ما هو مهم بالنسبة لي و отделить то, что было важно для меня, и

what wasn't so pretty early on I decided ما لم يكن جميلًا في وقت مبكر جدًا قررته что не так уж и рано я решил.

like there's no way I'm ever مثل ليس هناك طريقة أنا من أي وقت مضى как будто я никогда не

to be able to write Chinese well like لتكون قادرة على الكتابة الصينية بشكل جيد уметь хорошо писать по-китайски, например

that's just not it's just not in the هذا ليس مجرد أنه ليس في

cards you know like I am NOT a liquor ||||||||酒精飲料 ||||||||Alkoholisches Getränk ||||||||licor ||||||||酒精饮料 البطاقات التي تعرفها وكأنني لست مدمنًا للخمور карты, которые вы знаете, как я НЕ спиртное

free guy so so you know what I was like frei|Typ|||||||| رجل حر حتى تعرف كيف كنت 自由な男だから、私がどんな人間だったかわかるだろう。

and I know that in introductory classes |||||einführenden| |||||introductorias| وأنا أعلم ذلك في الفصول التمهيدية

they really try to stress like stroke ||||||Schlaganfall betonen ||||||golpe إنهم يحاولون حقًا الضغط مثل السكتة الدماغية eles tentam mesmo stressar como um AVC они действительно стараются подчеркнуть, что инсульт

order and you know you got to get the النظام وأنت تعلم أنك حصلت على الحصول على e sabe que tem de obter o

form ride all this stuff but like I I شكل ركوب كل هذه الأشياء ولكن مثل II Форма для езды на всех этих вещах, но, как я

was I just didn't want to focus that هل كنت لا أريد التركيز على ذلك

because there were things that were more لأنه كانت هناك أشياء كانت أكثر 因为还有更多的事情

important to me so I made kind of a مهم بالنسبة لي لذلك قمت بعمل نوع من 对我来说很重要所以我做了一个

decision early on to not focus on that قرار مبكر بعدم التركيز على ذلك

and focus more on just recognition and |||||Anerkennung| |||||reconocimiento| والتركيز أكثر على مجرد الاعتراف و

recall and so which i think is much more أذكر وذلك الذي أعتقد أنه أكثر من ذلك بكثير

important for reading and you know just مهم للقراءة وأنت تعرف فقط

cuz all the stuff you do in day to day لأن كل الأشياء التي تفعلها يومًا بعد يوم

life in Chinese even for even for الحياة باللغة الصينية حتى من أجل حتى

texting if you're typing in Chinese الرسائل النصية إذا كنت تكتب باللغة الصينية

you're probably typing with pinion which ||||小指| ||||Ritzel| ||||ピニオンで| ||||engranaje de piñón| ||||小指| ربما كنت تكتب مع الجناح الذي おそらく、ピニオンを使ってタイプしているのだろう。 Вы, вероятно, печатаете с шестерней, которая

which which is basically all recall all والتي هي في الأساس جميع أذكر كل شيء что, в сущности, означает все

you need to know is how the character عليك أن تعرف كيف الطابع

sounds and then when you type it in it's الأصوات ثم عند كتابتها فيه звуки, а затем, когда вы вводите его, он

gonna come up and as long as you can سوف يأتي وطالما يمكنك будет подниматься, и пока вы можете

recognize if that's the right character التعرف على ما إذا كانت هذه هي الشخصية الصحيحة узнайте, правильный ли это символ

you get so so I just kind of focus on لقد حصلت على ذلك لذلك أنا فقط أركز عليه

recall and the way that the way that I أذكر والطريقة التي الطريقة التي أنا

got good at that and I'm still not like حصلت على ما يرام في ذلك وما زلت لا أحب

the best at recognizing Chinese الأفضل في التعرف على اللغة الصينية 最擅长识别中文

characters and reading Chinese but you الشخصيات والقراءة الصينية لكنك

know the the the way that I the way that تعرف الطريقة التي أنا بها

I got to the level where I am now which وصلت إلى المستوى الذي أنا فيه الآن

is that I can comfortably read most é que consigo ler confortavelmente a maioria das

stuff that I want to read on daily basis الأشياء التي أريد أن أقرأها يوميًا

is one you know lots initially it was

lots of Anki just lots of straight много Энки просто много прямо

memorization of characters you know it 记忆|||||

sucks but like you got to do it you just

got to just memorize a whole ton of

stuff and just using it in context you

know like when I would use certain

characters I like I think there's personagens de que gosto Acho que há

there's some this one school of há uma escola de

philosophy that says all right you just

got to memorize the kanji is

individually and like you know it just

makes just like just like you know you

could figure out like what the original

meaning is and that will help you member |||||||成员

for me that never worked

I just tried to memorize the words like

and then I would learn from that I would

learn in context with the original what

were the individual characters would 各个角色

mean you know cause Chinese language of 意思是你知道因为中文

words not characters so like that that 单词不是字符所以像那样

was the way that I tried to memorize 是我试图记住的方式

things and then learn the characters 然后学习人物

from there I mean now everyone has their 从那时起,我的意思是现在每个人都有他们的

own approach I must say with regard to 我必须说的是

the tones I focused a lot on listening

and in particular I listen to this sort

of Shang Shung comic dialogues where |||漫畫||

they tend to exaggerate the إنهم يميلون إلى المبالغة في они склонны преувеличивать

I didn't really try to listen to myself لم أحاول حقًا الاستماع إلى نفسي

too much because I didn't want to become كثيرًا لأنني لم أرغب في أن أصبح

too self-conscious and I think you got خجولة للغاية وأعتقد أنك حصلت

to be a little careful in terms of an أن نكون حذرين بعض الشيء فيما يتعلق ب

accent if you spend too much time لهجة إذا كنت تقضي الكثير من الوقت

listening to yourself you get الاستماع إلى نفسك تحصل عليه

self-conscious |selbstbewusst |consciente de sí mismo الوعي الذاتي

whereas I found that if I just let it go mientras que||||||||| بينما وجدت أنه إذا تركت الأمر جانبًا mas descobri que se me deixasse levar

and but you have to do a lot of ولكن عليك أن تفعل الكثير

listening if you if you just speak with الاستماع إذا كنت تتحدث فقط مع

people every now and again you'll الناس بين الحين والآخر سوف تفعل ذلك

continue to have poor tones but I think الاستمرار في الحصول على نغمات سيئة ولكن أعتقد

you can train yourself to get better at يمكنك تدريب نفسك لتتحسن

them and on the characters I agree with عليهم وعلى الشخصيات التي أتفق معها

you I have poor handwriting but when I أنت لدي خط يد ضعيف ولكن عندما

was studying Chinese we had to write we كان يدرس اللغة الصينية وكان علينا أن نكتب نحن

had to write for my final exam I had to كان علي أن أكتب لامتحاني النهائي كان علي أن أفعل ذلك

be able to translate newspaper تكون قادرة على ترجمة الصحيفة

editorials from English into Chinese so 社論||||| 社论||||| الافتتاحيات من الإنجليزية إلى الصينية ذلك

the only the only you know objective was الهدف الوحيد الذي تعرفه هو

to make sure people could read what I للتأكد من أن الناس يمكنهم قراءة ما أقوم به

had written it didn't have to look nice لقد كتبت أنه لم يكن من الضروري أن تبدو جميلة

but you're absolutely right nobody لكنك على حق تماما لا أحد 但你说得完全正确,没有人

writes today I mean I يكتب اليوم أعني أنا

similarly in Japanese or Russia and I وبالمثل في اليابان أو روسيا وأنا

never write but I use my computer so I لا أكتب أبدًا ولكني أستخدم جهاز الكمبيوتر الخاص بي لذلك أنا

can communicate you know writing on the يمكن التواصل الذي تعرفه الكتابة على

computer but but but I did find that الكمبيوتر ولكن ولكن لكنني وجدت ذلك

writing the characters out by hand كتابة الحروف باليد

helped me learn them but I agree I had a ساعدني في تعلمها ولكني أوافق على أن لدي

terrible terrible handwriting and I also الكتابة اليدوية الرهيبة الرهيبة وأنا أيضا

agree that that Chinese I mean I think أوافق على أن الصينية أعني على ما أعتقد

learning any language is not a matter of تعلم أي لغة ليس مسألة

intellectual achievement it's simply a الإنجاز الفكري هو ببساطة أ 知的業績、それは単に

matter of allowing allowing yourself to ||permitiendo||| مسألة السماح لنفسك بذلك questão de se permitir a si próprio

you know not resist the language and تعلمون لا تقاوم اللغة و

allowing it to enter your brain and just السماح لها بدخول عقلك وفقط

letting go and so none of these things ترك وهكذا لا شيء من هذه الأشياء

are necessarily a sign of great I'm sure هي بالضرورة علامة عظيمة أنا متأكد

it wouldn't be hard to find some very لن يكون من الصعب العثور على بعض جدا

you know high IQ professors say كما تعلمون يقول أساتذة الذكاء المرتفع

foreigners in the United States or الأجانب في الولايات المتحدة أو

Canada who have who speak with a very كندا الذين يتحدثون مع جدا

heavy accent for example so I don't لهجة ثقيلة على سبيل المثال لذلك أنا لا

think fluency in the language is أعتقد أن الطلاقة في اللغة هي

necessarily a sign of a high IQ anyway بالضرورة علامة على ارتفاع معدل الذكاء على أي حال

so you learn Chinese and now what got حتى تتعلم اللغة الصينية والآن ما حصل

you into these very entertaining and I أنت في هذه مسلية جدا وأنا

really encourage people to go and look حقا تشجيع الناس على الذهاب والبحث

at them and you're getting like three عليهم وأنت تحصل على مثل ثلاثة

four five or more million views for أربعة وخمسة ملايين أو أكثر من المشاهدات لـ

these videos and it's it's it's okay let مقاطع الفيديو هذه ولا بأس

me ask you this - what do you attribute |||||||歸因於 أنا أسألك هذا - ماذا تنسب Я спрошу вас вот о чем - что вы приписываете

the appeal of your videos yeah to be |你视频的吸引|||||| جاذبية مقاطع الفيديو الخاصة بك نعم لتكون كذلك

honest I initially you know I was sort بصراحة أنا في البداية تعلم أنني كنت لطيفًا

of a little bit surprised by it I think مندهش قليلا به على ما أعتقد

that I think that one thing one thing أعتقد أن شيئًا واحدًا شيئًا واحدًا

that I've learned

instead I think I think people I think بدلا من ذلك أعتقد أنني أعتقد الناس أعتقد

people want some sort of inspiration

when they're they're learning languages عندما يتعلمون اللغات

like they want to be able to see a goal وكأنهم يريدون أن يكونوا قادرين على رؤية الهدف

you know like they want to be able to كما تعلمون أنهم يريدون أن يكونوا قادرين على ذلك

see like what what what what can't like انظر مثل ما وما لا يمكن أن يعجبك

what's the point of learning the ما الفائدة من تعلم

language like why why should I even لغة مثل لماذا لماذا ينبغي لي حتى

bother spending all this time with these عناء قضاء كل هذا الوقت مع هؤلاء не стоит тратить столько времени на эти

textbooks and like listening drills and ||||听力练习| الكتب المدرسية ومثل تدريبات الاستماع و

like like why do I even care you know so مثل لماذا أهتم حتى أنك تعرف ذلك

like I think what my videos let people كما أعتقد أن مقاطع الفيديو الخاصة بي تسمح للناس

do is is give them a reason to care ما فعله هو منحهم سببًا للاهتمام

right like if you learn a language if صحيح كما لو كنت تتعلم لغة إذا

you learn a new language you're getting تتعلم لغة جديدة تحصل عليها

a new personality you're getting a new شخصية جديدة تحصل عليها جديدة

soul you're getting a new way to like الروح كنت تحصل على طريقة جديدة لمثل

like interact with the huge number of مثل التفاعل مع عدد كبير من

people on this planet that previously الناس على هذا الكوكب الذي سبق

you just weren't able to do and so like أنت فقط لم تكن قادرًا على فعل ذلك وما شابه

I think that my videos you know I'm able أعتقد أن مقاطع الفيديو الخاصة بي تعرف أنني قادر عليها

to show like what it's like to to have لإظهار ما يشبه أن يكون لديك

meaningful interactions and significativas|| تفاعلات هادفة و

relationships with people that free that

for someone like me just growing up in لشخص مثلي نشأ للتو

the US with only English is my native الولايات المتحدة مع اللغة الإنجليزية فقط هي موطني الأصلي

language would otherwise have been ||de otro modo|| لكانت اللغة لولا ذلك a língua que de outra forma teria sido 否则语言

impossible had I not learn this language مستحيل لو لم أتعلم هذه اللغة impossível se eu não tivesse aprendido esta língua 如果我没有学过这门语言就不可能

so so I think that I think that yeah you لذلك أعتقد أنني أعتقد ذلك نعم أنت

know and people message me all the time أعرف والناس يرسلون لي رسائل طوال الوقت

just just saying like saying saying that مجرد قول مثل قول ذلك

these videos help them like inspire them تساعدهم مقاطع الفيديو هذه على إلهامهم

to want to learn Mandarin or other

languages and yeah so I keep doing them اللغات ونعم لذلك أستمر في فعلها

I think yeah what I think is great in أعتقد نعم ما أعتقد أنه رائع فيه

them is that I think for the average New لهم هو أنني أعتقد أن للمتوسط الجديد

Yorker walking down the street seems يبدو أن يوركر يسير في الشارع

some Chinese food vendor I consider them |||攤販||| |||chinesischer Essensverkäufer||| |||vendedor de comida||| |||摊贩||| بعض بائعي المواد الغذائية الصينية أعتبرهم

to be sort of very distant very exotic أن تكون نوعًا ما بعيدًا جدًا وغريبًا جدًا とてもエキゾチックで遠い存在になる

very strange may not want to even buy غريب جدا قد لا ترغب حتى في الشراء очень странный, может даже не захотеть покупать

anything from and so you bring these أي شيء من وهكذا تحضر هذه

people closer you you you approach them الناس أقرب إليك أنت تقترب منهم

and and they come across as being very ويبدو أنهم للغاية

of course they're human but we see them بالطبع هم بشر لكننا نراهم

as very strange and we كما غريب جدا ونحن как очень странные, и мы

minh a sort of a sense of familiarity 我||||||| Minh, ein Gefühl||||||| 親しみ感||||||| una especie de||||||| |||||||熟悉感 مينه نوع من الشعور بالألفة minh своего рода ощущение знакомости

with chinese street vendors Chinese |||小贩| |||Straßenverkäufer| مع الباعة الجائلين الصينيين الصينيين

culture Chinese food so I think that's a ثقافة الطعام الصيني لذلك أعتقد أن هذا هو

really good a really good service it is جيدة حقا خدمة جيدة حقا

interesting to note though that for a ومن المثير للاهتمام أن نلاحظ على الرغم من ذلك ل No entanto, é interessante notar que, para um

westerner to go and speak to some people 西方人|||||||

say in Chinese on the street is curious القول باللغة الصينية في الشارع أمر غريب

interesting whatever I'm trying to مثيرة للاهتمام كل ما أحاول

picture a Chinese or a Japanese person صورة شخص صيني أو ياباني

goes to the states and does videos of

going around speaking to people in

English yeah I wouldn't be very

interesting at all nobody would be

interested in that so it does it is a

reflection of how I guess people in

China and Japan get much more exposure وتحظى الصين واليابان بقدر أكبر من التعرض

to Western culture Western people للثقافة الغربية الشعب الغربي

Western things and we get much less الأشياء الغربية ونحصل على أقل من ذلك بكثير

exposure to them and their culture and التعرض لهم ولثقافتهم و

therefore they're perceived as more ||wahrgenommen|| por lo tanto|||| por isso são vistos como mais

strange and therefore when you go there غريب، وبالتالي عندما تذهب إلى هناك

and you just you know really interact وأنت تعلم أنك تتفاعل حقًا

with them naturally in their language معهم بشكل طبيعي في لغتهم

it's perceived as something interesting |wahrgenommen||| يُنظر إليه على أنه شيء مثير للاهتمام

whereas the reverse wouldn't necessarily mientras que|||| في حين أن العكس لن يكون بالضرورة 一方、逆は必ずしも

be the case

sure yeah I think that's very true I بالتأكيد نعم أعتقد أن هذا صحيح جدًا

think another I think another factor أعتقد آخر أعتقد عاملا آخر

contributing to this is that I I think 贡献||||||| dazu beiträgt||||||| المساهمة في هذا هو أنني أعتقد

that I think that there's there's أعتقد أن هناك هناك

whether it's due to the monolingual |||||单语的 سواء كان ذلك بسبب أحادي اللغة

status of English in you know many حالة اللغة الإنجليزية في أنت تعرف الكثير

Western countries or or what have you الدول الغربية أو أو ماذا لديك

the I think there's something about أعتقد أن هناك شيئًا ما

language learning that is is kind of تعلم اللغة هو نوع من

prized as sort of like a good in its own 珍贵的||||||||| valorada||||||||| تقدر كنوع من الخير في حد ذاتها

like regard in in Western countries مثل الصدد في الدول الغربية

whereas in these videos I've noticed بينما في مقاطع الفيديو هذه لاحظت

like my Chinese were people and my Asian مثل لغتي الصينية كانت الناس وآسيويتي

fans from Asia are not as interested in المشجعون من آسيا ليسوا مهتمين بذلك

them as my Western fans and I think that ||||fans occidentales|||| لهم كمشجعي الغربيين وأعتقد ذلك

I think that there's something about أعتقد أن هناك شيئًا ما

like you know sorry they're not كما تعلم آسف أنهم ليسوا كذلك

interested in in what like my like these مهتمة بما مثل هذه

these types of videos where I you know هذه الأنواع من مقاطع الفيديو حيث تعلمون

interact with people on the street in التفاعل مع الناس في الشارع

Chinese oh I see what me yeah there are الصينية أوه أرى ما لي نعم هناك

less and less intermittent to a yes and |||間歇性越|||| |||weniger intermittierend|||| |||断続的なものから|||| |||间歇性|||| أقل وأقل متقطعة إلى نعم و cada vez menos intermitente para um sim e um

I think that part of that is is that in أعتقد أن هذا الجزء من ذلك موجود في

Asia language learning is not تعلم اللغة الآسيوية ليس كذلك

necessarily like it's it's regarding to ||||respecto a| بالضرورة كما لو كان الأمر يتعلق بـ

something شئ ما

like you know you should learn English كما تعلمون يجب أن تتعلم اللغة الإنجليزية como se soubesses que devias aprender inglês

because it can help you get Economic ||||||经济 لأنه يمكن أن يساعدك في الحصول على الاقتصادية

Opportunity but it's not necessarily فرصة ولكنها ليست بالضرورة

regard to something cool or something consideración||||| فيما يتعلق بشيء رائع أو شيء من هذا em relação a algo fixe ou algo do género

like just I I think there's a thing in وكأنني أعتقد أن هناك شيئًا ما

American culture where you know maybe الثقافة الأمريكية حيث تعلم ربما

it's maybe it's all the movies you see ربما تكون هذه هي كل الأفلام التي تشاهدها

when like some guy busts out like seven ||||出現||| ||||platzt heraus||| ||||se sale||| ||||表现||| عندما ينفجر مثل شخص ما مثل سبعة 7人の男のように когда какой-то парень вырывает семь

different languages and like you know لغات مختلفة ومثلما تعلمون

it's like James Bond speaks like French يبدو الأمر وكأن جيمس بوند يتحدث مثل الفرنسية

Spanish or whatever like this is الإسبانية أو ما شابه ذلك

something cool about it that I think is شيء رائع حول هذا الموضوع على ما أعتقد

is is sort of inherent to too you know ||||固有的|||| ||||von Natur aus|||| ||||inherente|||| هو نوع متأصل أيضًا كما تعلم

Western culture that is not necessary الثقافة الغربية التي ليست ضرورية

like it's not necessarily regarded as ||||被视为| ||||considered as| ||||considerado| كما لا يعتبر بالضرورة

like a pinnacle of intellectual ||peak|| مثل قمة الفكر

achievement in China to be able to speak الإنجاز في الصين لتكون قادرة على الكلام

really good English like yeah yeah so I الإنجليزية جيدة حقا مثل نعم نعم لذلك أنا

would say that I would have to disagree سأقول أنني يجب أن أختلف

I think that that in the West and of أعتقد أن ذلك في الغرب و

course the West is not just North بالطبع الغرب ليس الشمال فقط

America the West is Europe the West is أمريكا والغرب هي أوروبا والغرب هو

whatever speaking many languages is مهما كان التحدث بعدة لغات

valued and it's also valued in Asia we ||||geschätzt und wertgeschätzt||| قيمتها وتقدر أيضا في آسيا نحن

had a polyglot conference in Fukuoka and |||會議||| |||||Fukuoka City| كان لديه مؤتمر متعدد اللغات في فوكوكا و

there were a lot of people there from كان هناك الكثير من الناس من هناك

Asian countries Japan China Korea الدول الآسيوية اليابان الصين كوريا

Indonesia whatever who spoke many اندونيسيا مهما تحدث الكثير

languages I think the difficulty is most اللغات أعتقد أن الصعوبة هي الأكثر

people are not prepared to put the الناس ليسوا على استعداد لوضع

effort in most people would like to

speed one other two other three other سرعة واحد آخر اثنين آخرين ثلاثة آخرين

languages and when they discover that اللغات وعندما يكتشفون ذلك

it's a lot of work or at least a lot of إنه عمل كثير أو على الأقل الكثير

time then a lot of people are الوقت ثم الكثير من الناس

discouraged or because they use methods 沮喪||||| بالإحباط أو لأنهم يستخدمون الأساليب

that are not very effective التي ليست فعالة جدا

but I think generally I don't think لكنني أعتقد بشكل عام لا أعتقد

there's not much difference in my ليس هناك فرق كبير في بلدي

interaction with people from Asia there |與|||| التفاعل مع الناس من آسيا هناك

is appreciative of people who learn |感謝している|||| هو تقدير الناس الذين يتعلمون ценит людей, которые учатся

languages yeah as as we are I don't see اللغات نعم كما نحن لا أرى

a big difference there except that I فرق كبير هناك إلا أنني

would even go as far as to say that in سوف يذهب إلى أبعد من ذلك ليقول ذلك في

North America someone who speaks a lot أمريكا الشمالية شخص يتحدث كثيرا

of languages is considered a bit freaky ||||||怪異的 ||||||ちょっと変な ||||||extraño اللغات تعتبر فظيعة بعض الشيء 言語というものは、少し気紛れなものだと考えられている

why would you want to do that to Zambia لماذا تريد أن تفعل ذلك لزامبيا

to sound great but but hey everywhere ليبدو رائعًا ولكن مرحبًا في كل مكان

you got all kinds of different people لديك كل أنواع الأشخاص المختلفين

but at any rate you know I think it's ولكن على أية حال تعلمون أنني أعتقد ذلك

great to see and you're learning عظيم أن نرى وأنت تتعلم

Fujiyama or Taiwan Hong as well yes Mount Fuji||||||

Johan and Fudo haha yeah this one I've Johan||Fudo|laughter|||| يوهان وفودو هاها نعم هذا واحد لدي

been learning most recently which which تم التعلم في الآونة الأخيرة والتي

I think I think like back on the theme أعتقد أنني أعتقد أنني أحب العودة إلى الموضوع

of engaging with people's cultures like من التعامل مع ثقافات الناس مثل

for me right for me like the reactions |||||||反应 بالنسبة لي الحق بالنسبة لي مثل ردود الفعل

that I get from people التي أحصل عليها من الناس

I can speak fuzhounese with them as |||Fuzhou dialect||| أستطيع أن أتكلم fuzhounese معهم Ik kan fuzhounese met hen spreken als

opposed to Mandarin are just so much معارضة لغة الماندرين هي مجرد الكثير

greater أكبر

I think the peep were you saying food |||人|||| |||gente|||| أعتقد أن الزقزقة كانت تقول الطعام Я думаю, что пипл хавает еду.

raha why are you saying in Taiwan no no 拉哈|||||||| "Raha, warum"|||||||| Raha|||||||| راحة لماذا تقول في تايوان لا لا

in New York or in food York في نيويورك أو في الغذاء نيويورك

oh and no you are yeah okay yeah yeah أوه ولا أنت نعم بخير نعم نعم

yeah yeah lots of people lots of people نعم نعم الكثير من الناس الكثير من الناس

in New York speak food Joanie is all I |||||Joanie's food||| في نيويورك أتحدث عن الطعام Joanie هو كل ما لدي

say yeah okay which is kind of like one قل نعم حسنًا وهو نوع من هذا القبيل

of these weird accidents of geography |||||地理 من هذه الحوادث الغريبة للجغرافيا

but yeah it just it just happens like

that so how about the Cantonese I speak

a little bit Cantonese to which I use in القليل من الكانتونية التي أستخدمها فيها

my video sometimes just because there's الفيديو الخاص بي أحيانًا لمجرد وجوده

like in New York probably outside of

Mandarin the two biggest Chinese

languages that people speak or food

Rooney's in Cantonese okay yeah but so Rooney's||||||

okay no just to end up here we could go

on for quite a long time so where are على لفترة طويلة جدا فأين هم

you gonna what do you do or intend to do |||||||beabsichtigen|| ستفعل ماذا تفعل أو تنوي القيام به

with all of this where does this lead to

are you just gonna continue making these هل ستستمر في صنع هذه الأشياء؟

videos ever I see where you're teaching أشرطة الفيديو من أي وقت مضى أرى أين تقوم بالتدريس

Chinese on a voluntary basis in New York |||自愿的|||| الصينية على أساس طوعي في نيويورك

yeah yeah yeah yeah that's that's just نعم نعم نعم نعم هذا فقط

kind of like for fun and you know it's نوع من المتعة وأنت تعلم أنه كذلك

nice to giving back to the community but جميل أن نرد الجميل للمجتمع ولكن

you know yeah I don't that's a great أنت تعرف نعم لا أعرف هذا شيء عظيم

question I don't know I don't know where سؤال لا أعرف لا أعرف أين

it goes I mean I you know like if you

had asked me a year ago or two years ago

what I would be doing in a year from ماذا سأفعل في سنة من

that point mm-hmm I wouldn't have any تلك النقطة مم-هممم لن يكون لدي أي شيء

idea so to me trying to make long-term فكرة لذلك بالنسبة لي أحاول أن أجعلها طويلة المدى

plans is like it's like trying to nail |||||||釘住 |||||||clavar الخطط تشبه محاولة الظفر планы - это все равно, что пытаться забить гвоздь

jello to a wall like I don't know what stick firmly|||||||| 果凍|||||||| Wackelpudding|||||||| 果冻|||||||| ゼリー|||||||| gelatina|||||||| جيلي على الحائط وكأنني لا أعرف ماذا 壁に向かってジェリー。 прижать к стене, как будто я не знаю, что

I'm gonna be doing a month from now so

yeah so the only the only thing that نعم ذلك الشيء الوحيد الذي

I'll say is just you know I want to keep سأقول فقط أنك تعرف أنني أريد الاحتفاظ بها

making things that you know that can صنع الأشياء التي تعرف أنها يمكن أن تفعل ذلك

help share cultures and languages |exchange|||

throughout the world and just be able to

bring know kind of like inspiration and

joy to people's lives and and and

motivate people to learn Chinese or

other languages and you know for me I

got a lot of it you know like happiness

and and and probably I doing this so um

yeah well I recommend people go and

visit I'll leave a link in the

description box this is this Yama |||||山 |||||mountain

speaking different languages and

bridging the cultural divide anyway 跨越|||| Connecting|||| unión|||| 弥合|||鸿沟| colmare il divario culturale in ogni caso

thank you very much for chatting with us |||||charlando||

thank you so much see really appreciate muchas gracias ver realmente aprecio

it okay bye-bye

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