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Shena Easton ……. Her normal voice is almost unintelligible to me. An old yank here

Paused @ 0:00 -- the reason they sound like that is mimicry- they don't hear godawful singing from America... they won't sound godawful like how they normally do...

awesome accents man, espescially the roadman

We could say borrowed French words pronounciation between the US and UK is... _coupé-décalé._ So, let's dance! En tant que français, cette scène de répartition m'a fracassé les méninges et transformé ma matière grise en fricassée !

Awesome video. I studied Chinese for many years, but not having lived in China, except for a couple of months, has hindered my learning process. Let me pick on a couple minor points, as an obsessive language learner that I am. The gender for the french word 'beurre' is masculine. And you can definitely say 'una leche' in Spanish, in a familiar context. At a bar, you can order 'a beer' after all, right? Anyway, it was still a brilliant introduction to the concept of measure words. Thanks for the video.

A touch of Basil Fawlty.

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Great explanations - thanks! Paul McCartney has acquired a BBC accent. over the years. His Liverpuddlian accent has disappeared.

Only one that sounded wrong was ice I’d say it normal not like a:s more i:s

How are you defining "vowel"?

Anyone else here after listening to the voice actor for the character Erenville in Final Fantasy XIV?

A bachelor could also be measured by 条。 一条光棍。

老胡， 你好牛逼， 居然还知道54和vernacular。

I'm planning a trip to the Scotland Highlands and then on to the Hebridean Island chain with a friend coming up soon. This video is great information about how to break the language down overall in a quick session, maybe not to speak it, but at least understand what I'm hearing. I love the relation to German as I took 4 years in high school and college and had no idea the strong connection. It makes it more interesting because I can already understand the German, so I can apply what I already know. I love the video at the end with the view of listening to speakers flowing into another accent and talking about how it is speaking and keeping languages.

what nonsense... context always wins. tones dont matter!

Your chinese language is so good! Even better than local Hong Konger who mother tongue are Cantonese

Wow, New video ! Big fan here. Greetings from Mexico !

There are a number of reasons to call Mandarin "Mandarin" rather than "Chinese". 1) English is not Chinese, so how they refer to things in Chinese doesn't need to affect English speakers. (And I recognize that English speakers can also call Mandarin "Chinese".) 2) American and British Englishes are dialect groups, not languages. Mandarin is a separate language, no matter its designation in Chinese. Cantonese, Yue, Hakka, and others are different related languages, like Romanian when compared to French. But the various of dialects of Mandarin across China do form a more or less mutually-intelligible language, like various English dialects around the world do. 3) Yes, an authoritarian regime does not want any sense of sub-national sentiment, that's clear. That doesn't mean we have to follow along. 4) Aren't you the same guy who called Scots a language, when I could understand everything you were saying in that video, yet a Mandarin speaker would have no idea what a Hokkien speaker is saying?

I also don't think you have to think to sing in a different accent... singing must access different connections. My mother had a stroke and could not speak but she could sing ...and I notice my driving skills improve tenfold when I am singing...all stress disappears.

one of my new fav edutainment vids on Chinese) .......................................................... p.s. would you care to learn Tatar?

Beurre is actually masculine. "Le beurre", not "la beurre". Great video tho

哇 你是第一个区分了官话和普通话的人诶 我周围的人可能也就默认官话是国语 但四川话 西北话可能也是官话 但不是普通话 你很棒🎉

11:14 It seems not Guangxi dialect. It's Mandarin in a broad Guangxi accent.

01:30 Note: In Québec, we actually do this instead.

I'm a Hong Konger and I personally prefer saying "Chinese" to mean a family languages instead of "the Chinese language". Just because Chinese people do it, it doesn't mean it's a good argument to do the same thing in English. I definitely prefer saying "Mandarin" because I want to go against Mandarin-centrism and draw attention to the vast linguistic diversity.

No, we don’t call it 国语 in Singapore. We call it “中文” or “Chinese” in Singapore. We rarely call it Mandarin either and we almost NEVER say it “普通话” in Singapore

I`m from Ukraine and we sometimes say keejiv and sometiomes keev

When were the Turks not running their own country? I don't understand that part, to be honest.

2:40 it's actually 目标 mùbiaō

the IPA (pronunciation slide) for Wu and especially Cantonese need to be fixed 人人生而自由在尊嚴和權利上一律平等 ȵiŋȵiŋ səŋ ə z̩jɤ tsɛ tsənȵi wu dʑiøli zaŋ ɪlɪ biŋtəŋ jɐnjɐn sɐŋ ji tsijɐʊ tsoi tsynjim wo kynlei sœŋ jɐt lɵt pʰɪŋtɐŋ

Your Chinese pronunciation is great!

We don't pronounce the word as 'pronounciation' but as 'pronunciation'. That may be Irish accent taught by Rosetta.

I wonder why 100 years after the collapse of the Ottomans. Turks realized they were not turkeys. they should have changed the name to the original name Byzantine.

I am a Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese user, when we read the standard written texts, we can automatically read and translate them in Cantonese, changing just a few words and verbs with those more often used in Cantonese. Because there’s no common standard for Cantonese texts, reading them is really challenging, especially those published in Hong Kong, they prefer to casually combine characters with similar pronunciations and radicals to write Cantonese characters. However, these characters mostly have original characters still used in standard written language, which are more commonly understood by most people. Additionally texts written in standard language are often written in shortest way possible, with more information, I’d rather write in standard language.

Really interesting to think about this, especially on how Gen AI can help with endangered languages. My personal take is that linguists (and language learners) will need to remain resourceful and critical while Gen AI still spews out these incorrect things like "chatte" being the feminine word for "cat"! 🤣

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How come I hadn't heard about you earlier?

In Singapore, we call it 华语 （not 国语）

Thank you, very interesting and informative. Solely on a technical point, i found the zooming in and out a little disconcerting. The L/R displacement less so. I'm probably a minority of one, though.

Your videos are always hilarious; your French-accent pronunciation of Chinese is the best haha. Your Irish sounds fantastic btw, far better than most Irish people, Lol

We've been calling it Mandarin for a long time, and I don't see any good reason to stop doing that. In fact, I prefer calling it that instead of "Chinese".

Nobody would mistake "Mick" for "Mike" because both names are pronounced as they are spelled . I'll agree to pronounce "Aussie" "correctly" when they quit calling us all "Yanks", since it is a fact that Yankees only come from the American north-east region, I am not a "Yank" or 'Yankee". Or better yet, people can just chill out and accept that English(and it's pronunciation )is different everywhere you go.

What is your accent, Mr Huxtable?

Genius!

4:44, that ish is hilarious. oh the irony.

A good intro to the language