They have a community in China, like over 100,000 Blacks from Africa. They buy cheap products and send it back home to sell. That also includes the black market though. Like fake designer stuff.
Maybe its just me but I feel like the target audience for people interested in Japanese culture is alot more wide and diverse(from modern pop culture to traditional culture, martial arts, outdoor activities etc.) compared to Korean, whos main target is younger people who specifically likes kdrama and kpop. In Japan, you’ll see tons of foreign tourists ranging anywhere from group of young college students to families with little kids to elderly couples whereas in Korea, it was mainly younger people in their 20s or 30s.
Nah I would not live there they were only put on the map because of games and anime, or else they would be in the back ground like Singapore. Maybe the most popular to western white people, but ask Africans they would say the USA, but they would put china before Japan because china is more popular to Africans than Japan. They are not anime crazy in Africa, they are football mad the idea Japan is the most popular country is a western idea. If it was not for games and anime I would have 0% interest in Japan.
@@uludak8468Lets keep it real mostly white people think this way, in the Arab lands they don't think Japan is the most popular country. White people hype up Japan because it is white that are worried about Japan's birth rate 😁, if it was not for the games and anime people would not even mention Japan. I am not going to lie back in the 80s, the only think I knew about japan is that they did karate that was it, and that was because of the film the karate, at this point I never heard of Korea. In the 90s I know Sega and Nintendo are Japanese, but if you would have asked me about japan being popular, I would have looked at you confused. Social media is powerful it has made people think different.
@@jameswatson5807 Why hating on Japanese so much? Relax...Japan is more than just anime or games. Theres food- sushi, ramen- most expensive restaurants in US tend to be all Japanese. Their dried ramen noodles are found every corners on earth. You have movies/films - godzilla, samurai, ninjas. Brands like Sony, Toyota, Nintendo, Honda etc..are globally recognized/coveted. Then you have sports figure like Shohei Ohtani conquering American baseball and considered to be the greatest baseball player ever played. Next to US, Japan is pop culture mecca
HI from Okinawa Japan! Still struggling to speak Japanese because friends want to learn English and my Japanese husband speaks English. I would like to speak Chinese to the Taiwan people as they live close (1hr30min flt) and always kind to us when we visit.
They don't speak Chinese. They speak Taiwanese Hokkien and Taiwanese Mandarin for the most part. About 6% speak Taiwanese Hakka and around 1% speak various Formosan languages. Probably not smart learning a Chinese language to speak with people from a different country.
@@R3WIREDI live in Taiwan and I’m still confused at what you mean by Taiwanese mandarin? There’s Taiwanese yes, mostly spoken by the older generations.
@@dennischen8887 Taiwan is Chinese.. Taiwan wants to be leader of China. Until they can do that, they pretend to not be Chinese. Same with Hong Kong, they all want to lead China from communism. We will always be Chinese though. Regardless of what you pretend to call yourselves.
For Thailand, passport bros do exist, but aside from that, Thailand is usually ranked pretty high on Asian countries/cities to visit with Bangkok being the most visited city in the world, so it would make sense for people to wanna learn the language. Thai food and culture has been popular and our entertainment has been getting notice too.
shouldn't this trend be true for other asian ethnicities too?. their numbers should be higher because their second or third generation wanting to learn the language of their parents or maybe khmer people are just more proud.
For a time in the 90s, Georgia had a lot of Cambodians and Vietnamese. The Vietnamese stayed, not sure about Cambodians. Like 15% of my elementary school was Cambodian
Japan is number one on the list because of many factors: Most popular Asian country to visit, Safest country to visit, Great Food, Anime/Manga, JRock, Kawaii, Shinkansen(Bullet Trains), Inexpensive right now(the Yen is a great value), Very nice people, etc. A lot of people want to learn Japanese, so they can understand when they visit, understand Anime, understand JRock, etc. Japan is leading the rock/heavy metal comeback & a lot of these groups are females! Band-Maid/Nemophila/Asterism/etc(you can find them all over UA-cam).
Actually, Japan ranks about 3 or 4 on most popular or most visited Asian country from the lists I’ve seen. I agree on all the things that make it a great country tho.
I think a huge number of people were scrambling to learn Mandarin like 10-15 years ago when it was obvious that they would be one of the biggest economies in order to do business. But in that time ironically, most of the business people from China actually learned English so it's not as necessary to learn Mandarin for that purpose anymore. At least that's what my friend from China told me.
Japan has more universal appeal amongst the 2 genders but for different reasons. Korean is behind because (anecdotally) the gender I see that is more interested in the culture is usually women. They're missing out on the male appeal compared to Japan.
@@curumipon7089. Nope .... it had to do with American fear of being surpassed by ascendant Japanese economy . Plaza accord put an end to that, putting US back to #1
@@asj685 Um yea, thats what I meant when I said Japanese culture and exports were massively popular in the US at that time. Japan wasn’t going to surpass America without selling their popular exports over there lol
It's cause of Anime lol I'm like 99% sure. I'm also really impressed by people who can learn a language just from watching shows. I watched a whole series and only remember like one word Tatakae
If you’re constantly consuming the media it starts to happen. I’ve been watching a lot since I was like 12 and now I know a bunch of random stuff in japanese cause of it
It is also one of the countries that ACTUALLY attacked USA head on. No other country ever tried to attack the USA except for the Revolutionary war (British) Japanese people are strong enough to be recognized in the USA. Also talk about Japanese cars and their Industrial Revolution. No wonder USA wants to make allies with Japan.
LOL at "diu lay lo mo pok gai!" And I am surprised Korean hasn't overtaken Japanese yet. But I guess there are more anime fans and men looking for waifus than k-pop/k-drama fans.
A big part of it is the fact that Korean entertainment and Korean people in general speak a lot more English, so you don't necessarily need to learn the language to enjoy the culture. Japanese people very rarely speak English since they are a very insular population so you would need to learn Japanese to participate in their culture outside of watching anime with subtitles.
Im suprised that you said Korea hasn't overtaken Japanese yet . You really think this way. wow. please dont compare other clutre from ur view. It is all about Harmony to others yo. They have never thought and talked about other clutre down. This is why people like them.
Anime and games made Japan famous if they did not have dem 2, there would be no interest in Japan, I only know about Korea 10 year ago. Before them if you have asked me about Korea, before then I could only tell you they have 2 Korean man in tekken. And one Korean man in soul edge, and they have a martial art where the kicks looks fancy, but now I know about Samsung and Netflix have some good Korean show. But still I won't waster time and learn Korean I keep things dub.
@@jameswatson5807You have to take into account the military relationship the U.S. has had with Japan post WW2 as well. That’s how I learned about Japan and ended up living and marrying there.
@@jameswatson5807 Yeah that’s true but not as many. I went to Korea as well and kinda liked it. I wouldn’t like the cold weather though. I bought a T-shirt there in 2015 that said “The best kept secret in Asia”. It was fitting because I knew nothing about Korea at the time. But now they’re moving to almost being the media powerhouse of Asia throughout the world with entertainment. Remember it was America that forced Japan to open up to the world in the 1800s, the history is just longer. Imo
@@jaredmackey4511 Yes longer history but no real connection until WW2, because even before WW2 Germany and Japan have strong connection. Yes you are right they are a media powerhouse of Asia, Netflix has lot of K shows, Netflix has been good for Korea.
Oh yeah for sure. But if we are to consider Western K-pop/K-drama fans, there are definitely WAY more females than males ratio. Haha. Im sure alot of females want to learn Japanese ofc@@P.90.603
I have always believed Japanese people were America’s favorite Asian and felt like I was the only one in the world to believe this. I’m glad you guys are covering this topic because I was starting to believe I was delusional 😂
Media has always been influential across many countries. Anime from Japan and K drama/K pop are much more popular than even Mandarin when it comes to media exposure. It is only naturally the reason why these 2 are the more learned/popular Asian languages as a result.
i think you have the order reversed. usually the pop culture of the country gains widespread attention first and then the language becomes popular. the korean language's popularity only exponentially grew about a decade after the hallyu wave
@@1stHalf I think it is when they went political, making films where Chinese man the hero and the white man the bad guy. They made that shit to racial I hear, that is one part but the Chinese moves and TV series is not on the level. Of the Koreans most people watch Netflix for the Korean stuff strange but true, even a few Japanese shows have been good. But Chinese martial arts films from the 70s and 80s 90s that is gold is untouchable. I notice in black countries Chinese martial arts films are very popular, more popular than even the west.
@@P.90.603 Nah more blonde hair and blue's eyes I watched kengan ashura, Lihito is Japanese how his guy is tall blonde with blue eyes, with 80s white guy hero hair, man looks nothing like Japanese. And purple in anime is rare.
@@curumipon7089 They had this thinking in WW2 era I hear, they want to be more western and less east Asian. They used to draw themselves with slanted, but I after they went western they cut dat out, in some anime they make sure Japanese look white but, they make Chinese look Asian, some one pointed this out to me. don't for get Japanese people have 2 faces they won't telly you how they really feel unless they drunk, so they won't confess they simp for white. Don't forget they have to save face, china called them out the other told them stop, trying to be western that will never happen 😁. China should not really talk because they used to simp for white, but this Chinese leader cut out that style, in fact they make films where Chinese man the hero but western man the villain, they like pushing that in china these days.
What the commenter might be referring to specifically when he's describing Mandarin as "nails on a chalkboard" is the Beijing accent. It's much rougher sounding, for sure.
Idk, but I guess Japan's anime, porn, and social media PR makes the country so popular with Americans but same goes with South Korea for Kpop and Kdrams (Korean beauty products also)....while I guess Mandarin is studied mostly as a business language because the west still do business with China, Taiwan for the electronic chips in particular. Maybe with Singapore too. If looking at the passport bros phenomena (god I am iffy towards them as a Filipina) but Philippines and Thailand are top destinations of these Americans too.
Thai BL dramas (and even regular dramas) is considered one of Thailand’s soft power too and more women are becoming obsessed with them as much as Kdrama.
Next to Korean tourists in Japan, American tourists are the second-largest amount of tourists going to Japan now. I think this is the major reason people want to learn the Japanese language to communicate with locals.
I think ppl in the west r attracted to the safety, cleanliness, efficiency, along with the food, the various tourist attractions, combined with the favorable exchange rate. They'll welcome tourists from anywhere. In that sense, it may seem welcoming to the left. But if u live & work there, u will find that Japan is very strict & conservative. But before u start throwing your race cards, u have to honestly ask yourself if the positive aspects of Japan would stay intact if it adapted western woke standards. Bc in contrast, being strict with Americans seems to be completely off the table. Everyone in the US is a superstar, & anyone who is not is automatically a victim. U also have to consider the irony of newer western nations who've only been around for a few hundred years telling Asian countries (some with thousands of years of history), how to best run their countries.
My favorite tones to hear are Viet, Japanese & Khemer. People don't realize that Japanese don't sound or talk like anime. There's also videos of people disappointed learning Jp because it's hard to make friends with them & some cases, tatemae. Still, Jp chick is one of the eastern Asians I don't mind being with
So I am South Indian and half Telugu. I think I know why it made it in the Top 10 list. One reason is that Telugu is the primary language of the city of Hyderabad in Telangana and the city is well known as being a large Tech Hub in India. The other reason is because of the breakaway international success of RRR in 2022 which is a Telugu film that has been dubbed in other languages. Those are my two cents.
Cantonese is not just underrated but it’s the best sounding language in the world. Korean and Japanese are just another variant of boring Latin. Where can you find a cool language like Cantonese? Vietnamese is the only other one close to it
tbh its normal I think its the same in France . Japan is awesome by any metric. The perfectionism and stuff. They are just unique all population considerated. The culture and so on.... Of course if you only consider money chinese is better. But culturally speaking .... it's a no brainer.
Manhwa is Chinese. I am also making a prediction that China will start dominating the gaming market in the next 15-ish years. Big budget games have been outsourcing art, mocap, and other aspect of visual effects to Shanghai studios.
The only way to learn Japanese is to live in Japan and learn the spoken language with all its slang its dialects its contractions the language of the streets. After taking the advanced course the professor said the only way to learn Japanese is to get out there and put it to practice.
I learned Japanese twenty something years ago because Japanese culture was “cool” then I found out Japanese people themselves were wet blankets. I was shocked and kinda depressed.
This is mostly Tokyo, Osaka or in the Kansai Prefecture(which most of comedians come from) are more outgoing and "loud" and "rude" (in comparison to Tokyo people). Doesn't attract as much of the western people but definitely breaks this "wet blanket" stereotype of Tokyo
@@RKKY-mf7fe what exactly were you hoping they would be? 20 years ago was like what Bleach and Naruto debuts? You were hoping for a bunch of immortal ninjas fighting with the power of friendship?
Behind every anime is a team of artists meticulously drawing each frame. Behind every tasty Japanese dish are chefs who spent years training as an apprentice while also getting verbally & possibly physically abused by their masters. Although the final product may seem fun & spontaneous, J-Pop stars rehearse every word & every move thousands of times. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Shohei Ohtani is a virgin. He is that dedicated to baseball. Japan wouldn't be what it is without that meticulous attention to detail & discipline.
There was a time when Cantonese music and movies influenced and inspired Japanese media and was the envy of all their Asian neighbors. People in the west don’t know about this.
Probably why Japanese is number 1 is because of the media they are available and how scarce translations are. They have anime, manga, web and light novels many of which does not come with english subtitles or translation.
11:05 I believe that VN stereotypical accent are mostly from people who speak the Mekong Delta (Miền Tây) accent since most VN-Americans usually Saigonese or the Mekong Delta
Quite the opposite actually. Japanese media and pop culture is very inward looking and is mainly catered domestically. Thats why from an American perspective, it feels more “foreign” compared to Korean culture where its purposely altered to favor American tastes.
thats what i am talking about. unlike korea japan knows how to promote its unique culture and purposely promote itself that way. don't make the mistake to think japan does nothing to promote the country. japan spends billions of dollars in promotion of a japan that attracts people.@@curumipon7089
thats what i am talking about. japanese know how to promote their unique, sometimes weird culture that has a more lasting impression that what korea does with kpop which is a trend. don't make the mistake to think japan does nothing for their image and promotion of their country. japan spends billions of dollars for promoting the image of the country.@@curumipon7089
I wonder if there was a window to learn Cantonese when C-Pop was in its height in the 80s and 90s. Was it like how Japanese was cool then, and how could it be revitalized? That said, I do learn Mandarin out of hopes to get a career in China (initially), but I've wanted to improve so I could read others' works and write my own.
There prolly would be if the tech back then was comparable to what it's like now. Social media is very effective at making things spread like wildfire.
I'm a Chinese American and whenever I am watching Japanese anime in public or at work, people ask me if I'm Japanese. I wonder if I should just say, "yeah, I'm Japanese." I wonder if that lie would help me get laid.
@@kenyup7936 How here in the UK, the east Asian people we have is Chinese, where I come from Jamaica we have Chinese there for a 100 years. I am going to honest with you, it was not until 5 year ago, after conversing with an American in the UA-cam comment section. I had no clue you called far eastern people Asian, in the UK we just called them Chinese or oriental growing up Asians are Indian, Pakistani and middle east people are all Asian. When the racist say shit about Asians, it is about Indian looking people they never say anything bad about oriental far eastern people. They knew nothing about them to hate any hate, but because of covid now they have self awareness of them and they have said racist stuff. I am more open minded and not stereotypical the woman at the noodle house near me, I had a conversation so I asked are you Japanese. No way could I say Chinese it would look hot, but I doubt she would be offended but i really did not want to make it stereotypical. But there is not a lot of realistic choices, it would look odd for me to say are you from Vietnam. But she said she is from Mongolia that blew me away, the next thought that came to mind was genghis khan riding with an invading army 😁. Yes that is very stereotypical sometimes you cannot help wondering stereotypical thoughts😁. But if had to bet money I would have said she is Chinese, why would I want to lose money even an A.I would have bet Chinese.
The title of the video should be why is Korean so popular and Chinese so utterly unpopular language to learn in the US. S. Korea with the pop. of 50 millions which is about 1/3 of Japan has been punching far above its weight while the popularity of China with the population of 1.4 billions has been abysmal.
Its not the material, its cuz cantonese speakers dont want to speak it or teach their kids because of how bad cantonese has been mocked and has become the default "asian noises". Not to mention it only ever gets spoken in a harsh cursing way and never just smooth and educated way.
interesting how Americans just ignore the atrocious underbelly of the organizations that runs Anime and K-Pop world. It's really no different than buying blood diamonds.
Anime, food, culture, music.. I’m Korean all we have is damn K pop and K Dramas Of course Japan is their favorite Also I think mandarin and Korean are just not seen as useful to the white man
Korea has music, tv and films, food. Be proud what you have even if they're not your interest. Millions even billions non-Koreans listen/watch them regularly all around the world. Here's an interesting fact, after English and Spanish, Korean is the third highest streamed language music on Spotify.
Ok, my opinion might be super biased here based on my experience. But I think Japanese is way harder than Chinese.Tbf, I started Chinese when I was really young, did a Chinese language degree and lived in Beijing for 10 years, whereas with Japanese I only took jlpt2, but the grammar took me way longer to get my head around and use coherently with Japanese.
It’s because you learned Chinese since you were young therefore you find it easier. All languages are easier to learn when you’re a child, but if you learned Japanese as a child it would have been way more easier than learning Chinese.
@@Xyniss I get that but it just feels like even reversed I would have found Japanese a bit harder. The biggest advantage to learning Chinese young was the tones weren’t as difficult (or more importantly you i didn’t get care if I made a mistake) but I can still remember easily being able to string sentences together cause basic sentence structure was quite simple. But with Japanese it took me all the way up until I passed n2 to feel comfortable talking
15:25 I also think that's gotta be the biggest factor. Potentially doubling the pool of interested learners would explain huge gaps like that. Most of the rich attractive Chinese guys live in Western countries anyway, and I don't think any non-Chinese girls are gonna want to move to a communist country or CCP-lite Hong Kong or about-to-be-invxded-by-cxmmies-any-year-now TW, and Singapore is cool but not really marketing itself as hip to young, impressionable girls and whatnot (Singapore is more popular with higher-class corporate professional types, I think, and they speak English anyway).
Cantonese have a choppy sound to it so it's not very popular. Mandarin is not a language it's a simplified language of all the mixed ethnic in China languages to make it easier for everyone to communicate
You can’t find a language like Cantonese and Vietnamese in this world. Only those two are within their own league. Every other language just sounds like variants of Latin. German and Danish and and Russian are exceptions. And that’s why they sound beautiful
@@xt3916 Yes, I listened to every language by studying Elsa and Anna singing. ALL of them sound the same except those European languages I listed and Cantonese and Vietnamese against the other Asian languages.
Well in my opinion it can sound choppy if the person was speaking loud and fast in Mandarin. In Cantonese it sounds harsh because people usually yell lol, speaking as a American born Chinese
@@Xyniss no, it's harsh because they have this drag at the end when they speak. if you understand canto then it might not sound harsh but if you don't understand it, it literally sounds like "ling bing long ahhhh bing ling ting ahhhh" LMAOO. That "AHHHH" that drags on at the end is fucking aids to my ears. I'm convinced when people make fun of Chinese in the States they're actually mimicking Cantonese and not Mandarin simply because there's more Canto peeps here than Mando speakers.
@@ponuni I speak Cantonese fluently and not everyone drags their words like that. When they do drag their words sometimes it’s a pause before another sentence is spoken. This is common in Korean as well. They actually have a good amount of mandarin speakers now especially in NYC after they kept coming over from China.
No they’re superficially polite it doesn’t mean they are genuinely trying to be nice. They were brought up in the culture to always be polite despite what they feel.
All Asians are nice and polite to westerners (notice I didn’t say they are nice or polite to other Asians, which is a shameful thing). Once you get to know someone for 20 years then you truly know if they are a good person
Can we break down the demographic of those who are pursuing Japanese? Just curious. I am letting you know that Korean and Japanese sentence structures are similar. The Korean writing system is the most efficient by most linguists.
Yes, they are so similar. Korean have so many Japanese word and even Korean alphabet has Japanese letter in it ,such as イロハニホへト。And also Korean and Japanese eat same kind of rice in Asia . It calls Japonica rice. Most of people knows about this before .
I hate to break it to this audience but Japan is the favorite Asian country for the whole world period. I really really appreciate that the Fung Bros brought the stats but it doesn't matter, Japan still has decades & decades of coolness associated with it, that no Asian country still has.
Chinese is the most useful language but it is very hard to learn therefore people choose to learn Korean or Japanese. I learned, English, Chinese and Korean that’s why know the difference. Most difficult language for me to learn is Chinese. Also if you speak English and Chinese you don’t need to learn any other languages it is not necessary. Chinese is considerably as an English like international language nowadays based on huge number of people speaking it and also economically it is a strong country in the world. Korean is super easy to learn it has only about 40 some alphabets and Chinese Kanzi is endless 😅
tHAI language is getting popular because of Thail BL drama popularity.... passport bro is getting replaced by Western women who love Thai BL dramas....
Come on yo.. there's no way Korean would sound better than Mandarin.. Also I don't know how the stat could have Korean higher than Mandarin. If you look at all the colleges and universities across the US, there's far more Chinese language classes than Korean
China support North Korea. Japan help South Korea. Korean have so many Japanese word still now days and even Korean alphabet have Japanese letter in it, such as イロハニホへト。 please dont compare. Its all about Harmony. Why R u trying to be better or under? Pathetic!!!
When I watch Won Kar Wai movies, Chinese sound so smooth and eloquent but dont know if they're speaking Mandarin or Cantonese. Then when I hear everyday Chinese person on the street speak- OMG, I can't, gotta run.
Plenty Africans learn mandarin for business, this has been solid for about 25 years.
They have a community in China, like over 100,000 Blacks from Africa. They buy cheap products and send it back home to sell. That also includes the black market though. Like fake designer stuff.
@@1stHalf Yeah I saw a UA-cam video about this, but I never knew about the fake black market.
@@jameswatson5807 yeah it's actually pretty wild.
people hate Americans so they both can go to hell together.
Japan is the world's favorite Asian. Not just America. Even in Asia, Japan is the favorite. Number two is a very distance second place.
Japan is favorite due to their Video games/anime and porn. However, Thai people I think are the most loved.
Even all their crimes they committed in wwii? People have short memory?
@@quyenluong3705 Well, China is hated even though they didn't start WW2. That means you guys learned nothing from it.
Maybe its just me but I feel like the target audience for people interested in Japanese culture is alot more wide and diverse(from modern pop culture to traditional culture, martial arts, outdoor activities etc.) compared to Korean, whos main target is younger people who specifically likes kdrama and kpop.
In Japan, you’ll see tons of foreign tourists ranging anywhere from group of young college students to families with little kids to elderly couples whereas in Korea, it was mainly younger people in their 20s or 30s.
not just americans, japan is probably the most popular country in the world rn across all nations
Nah I would not live there they were only put on the map because of games and anime, or else they would be in the back ground like Singapore.
Maybe the most popular to western white people, but ask Africans they would say the USA, but they would put china before Japan because china is more popular to Africans than Japan.
They are not anime crazy in Africa, they are football mad the idea Japan is the most popular country is a western idea.
If it was not for games and anime I would have 0% interest in Japan.
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maybe africa is an exeption. but for the rest of the world it is probably the case
@@uludak8468Lets keep it real mostly white people think this way, in the Arab lands they don't think Japan is the most popular country.
White people hype up Japan because it is white that are worried about Japan's birth rate 😁, if it was not for the games and anime people would not even mention Japan.
I am not going to lie back in the 80s, the only think I knew about japan is that they did karate that was it, and that was because of the film the karate, at this point I never heard of Korea.
In the 90s I know Sega and Nintendo are Japanese, but if you would have asked me about japan being popular, I would have looked at you confused.
Social media is powerful it has made people think different.
@@jameswatson5807 Why hating on Japanese so much? Relax...Japan is more than just anime or games. Theres food- sushi, ramen- most expensive restaurants in US tend to be all Japanese. Their dried ramen noodles are found every corners on earth. You have movies/films - godzilla, samurai, ninjas. Brands like Sony, Toyota, Nintendo, Honda etc..are globally recognized/coveted. Then you have sports figure like Shohei Ohtani conquering American baseball and considered to be the greatest baseball player ever played. Next to US, Japan is pop culture mecca
@@jameswatson5807That’s not true Indians love Japan a lot more so than mainland China and Japan is so much more than just anime and Nintendo
HI from Okinawa Japan! Still struggling to speak Japanese because friends want to learn English and my Japanese husband speaks English. I would like to speak Chinese to the Taiwan people as they live close (1hr30min flt) and always kind to us when we visit.
Maybe you can learn to speak Taiwanese
They don't speak Chinese. They speak Taiwanese Hokkien and Taiwanese Mandarin for the most part. About 6% speak Taiwanese Hakka and around 1% speak various Formosan languages. Probably not smart learning a Chinese language to speak with people from a different country.
learn uchinaaguchi instead. an okinawan learning japanese is like an algerian learning french.
@@R3WIREDI live in Taiwan and I’m still confused at what you mean by Taiwanese mandarin? There’s Taiwanese yes, mostly spoken by the older generations.
@@dennischen8887 Taiwan is Chinese.. Taiwan wants to be leader of China. Until they can do that, they pretend to not be Chinese. Same with Hong Kong, they all want to lead China from communism. We will always be Chinese though. Regardless of what you pretend to call yourselves.
For Thailand, passport bros do exist, but aside from that, Thailand is usually ranked pretty high on Asian countries/cities to visit with Bangkok being the most visited city in the world, so it would make sense for people to wanna learn the language. Thai food and culture has been popular and our entertainment has been getting notice too.
Yes American love Japan people the most, they even told me that 2 weeks ago.
and Americans are the most hated so what does that mean.
I lived in Japan for 3 years took 3 years of college Japanese. It’s a difficult language but Mandarin is even tougher.
Khmer might just be high because of how many younger Cambodian-Americans are trying to learn later in life. That’s my situation too.
Younger Khmer Americans can't speak the Khmer language because they're so Americanized
shouldn't this trend be true for other asian ethnicities too?. their numbers should be higher because their second or third generation wanting to learn the language of their parents or maybe khmer people are just more proud.
For a time in the 90s, Georgia had a lot of Cambodians and Vietnamese. The Vietnamese stayed, not sure about Cambodians. Like 15% of my elementary school was Cambodian
@@Yumzynom My cousins and I do, they’re older so they speak more than I do.
Japan is number one on the list because of many factors: Most popular Asian country to visit, Safest country to visit, Great Food, Anime/Manga, JRock, Kawaii, Shinkansen(Bullet Trains), Inexpensive right now(the Yen is a great value), Very nice people, etc. A lot of people want to learn Japanese, so they can understand when they visit, understand Anime, understand JRock, etc. Japan is leading the rock/heavy metal comeback & a lot of these groups are females! Band-Maid/Nemophila/Asterism/etc(you can find them all over UA-cam).
NOPE, it's because PORN and ANIME. JRock did you just say? Even Japanese today don't listen to JRock as much as before.
But I can say Japan has various cultures than Korea so it’s open to any type of people
Be honest, it's cuz of sex tourism....
Actually, Japan ranks about 3 or 4 on most popular or most visited Asian country from the lists I’ve seen. I agree on all the things that make it a great country tho.
@@hiskandarJapan still loves rock.
I think a huge number of people were scrambling to learn Mandarin like 10-15 years ago when it was obvious that they would be one of the biggest economies in order to do business. But in that time ironically, most of the business people from China actually learned English so it's not as necessary to learn Mandarin for that purpose anymore. At least that's what my friend from China told me.
Japan has more universal appeal amongst the 2 genders but for different reasons. Korean is behind because (anecdotally) the gender I see that is more interested in the culture is usually women. They're missing out on the male appeal compared to Japan.
why Korea is like that?
Korea is ""behind"" because their women aren't culturally pimped out to foreigners to the extent of Japan and South east Asia.
Products made in Japan are most popular worldwide. Korea catching up pretty fast.
In terms of anime/porn/games and cars yes. Everything else has been overtaken by Koreans. Webtoon and Hyundai are catching up fast.
They weren't back in the 80s when America forced them to sign the Plaza Accords.
Why do you think they were forced to sign it? Its because Japanese culture and exports were massively popular in the US 😂
@@curumipon7089. Nope .... it had to do with American fear of being surpassed by ascendant Japanese economy . Plaza accord put an end to that, putting US back to #1
@@asj685 Um yea, thats what I meant when I said Japanese culture and exports were massively popular in the US at that time. Japan wasn’t going to surpass America without selling their popular exports over there lol
@@curumipon7089 👍
It's cause of Anime lol I'm like 99% sure. I'm also really impressed by people who can learn a language just from watching shows. I watched a whole series and only remember like one word Tatakae
Fighting
If you’re constantly consuming the media it starts to happen. I’ve been watching a lot since I was like 12 and now I know a bunch of random stuff in japanese cause of it
It is also one of the countries that ACTUALLY attacked USA head on. No other country ever tried to attack the USA except for the Revolutionary war (British)
Japanese people are strong enough to be recognized in the USA.
Also talk about Japanese cars and their Industrial Revolution. No wonder USA wants to make allies with Japan.
@@curly_bill Same i know some random phrases/words that will probably never be used in normal conversation.
And video games
They've gone from being heavily villainized as the yellow peril to heavily exoticized, fantasized and fetishized. Only took about 100 years
LOL at "diu lay lo mo pok gai!" And I am surprised Korean hasn't overtaken Japanese yet. But I guess there are more anime fans and men looking for waifus than k-pop/k-drama fans.
Kpopdrama fans for Korean guys
whereas Jart fans for the Japanese ladies
A big part of it is the fact that Korean entertainment and Korean people in general speak a lot more English, so you don't necessarily need to learn the language to enjoy the culture. Japanese people very rarely speak English since they are a very insular population so you would need to learn Japanese to participate in their culture outside of watching anime with subtitles.
Im suprised that you said Korea hasn't overtaken Japanese yet . You really think this way. wow. please dont compare other clutre from ur view. It is all about Harmony to others yo. They have never thought and talked about other clutre down. This is why people like them.
You should consider the size of population as well.
Japanese population is 2.5times bigger than korea
I the reason that Filipino is not higher up is that they speak English so well.
I think many want to speak Japanese like an anime character and sing in Korean like a K-pop star.
Anime and games made Japan famous if they did not have dem 2, there would be no interest in Japan, I only know about Korea 10 year ago.
Before them if you have asked me about Korea, before then I could only tell you they have 2 Korean man in tekken.
And one Korean man in soul edge, and they have a martial art where the kicks looks fancy, but now I know about Samsung and Netflix have some good Korean show.
But still I won't waster time and learn Korean I keep things dub.
@@jameswatson5807You have to take into account the military relationship the U.S. has had with Japan post WW2 as well. That’s how I learned about Japan and ended up living and marrying there.
@@jaredmackey4511 But South Korea have American solider man station there as well, from the 50s so same set up like Japan.
@@jameswatson5807 Yeah that’s true but not as many. I went to Korea as well and kinda liked it. I wouldn’t like the cold weather though. I bought a T-shirt there in 2015 that said “The best kept secret in Asia”. It was fitting because I knew nothing about Korea at the time. But now they’re moving to almost being the media powerhouse of Asia throughout the world with entertainment.
Remember it was America that forced Japan to open up to the world in the 1800s, the history is just longer. Imo
@@jaredmackey4511 Yes longer history but no real connection until WW2, because even before WW2 Germany and Japan have strong connection.
Yes you are right they are a media powerhouse of Asia, Netflix has lot of K shows, Netflix has been good for Korea.
Mongolia peacefully throat-singing away in the hills... xD
Of all the Asian language that I wanted to learn was Vietnamese.
I would assume more guys would probably want to learn Japanese while more girls would probably want to learn Korean. Just a hunch.
Oh yeah for sure. But if we are to consider Western K-pop/K-drama fans, there are definitely WAY more females than males ratio. Haha. Im sure alot of females want to learn Japanese ofc@@P.90.603
I thought most people knew this already. Looking at UA-cam videos you can see how much they promote Japanese culture. Then South Korea.
I have always believed Japanese people were America’s favorite Asian and felt like I was the only one in the world to believe this. I’m glad you guys are covering this topic because I was starting to believe I was delusional 😂
Media has always been influential across many countries. Anime from Japan and K drama/K pop are much more popular than even Mandarin when it comes to media exposure. It is only naturally the reason why these 2 are the more learned/popular Asian languages as a result.
If cantonese were to become popular there would be a strong pop culture to export it similar to how korean became popular due to media
Dem tek chiney for granted, dem was around for long long time.
I still believe cantonese is great. They will keep makeing good cantonese.
i think you have the order reversed. usually the pop culture of the country gains widespread attention first and then the language becomes popular. the korean language's popularity only exponentially grew about a decade after the hallyu wave
We had that already. HK movies were legendary. It all went downhill when China made some shady moves.
@@1stHalf I think it is when they went political, making films where Chinese man the hero and the white man the bad guy.
They made that shit to racial I hear, that is one part but the Chinese moves and TV series is not on the level.
Of the Koreans most people watch Netflix for the Korean stuff strange but true, even a few Japanese shows have been good.
But Chinese martial arts films from the 70s and 80s 90s that is gold is untouchable.
I notice in black countries Chinese martial arts films are very popular, more popular than even the west.
I'm Okinawan and when I mention that to some Americans they're like "oh I love anime!!" It's definitely because of anime lol.
Japanese and Korean are number one and number two in America because of anime and K-pop / Kdrama.
Korean history is much older than the Japanese.
Egypt is much older than the pretty much rest of the world. 😂
@@lizardking3979 No crap genius? Who the hell is talking about Egypt here? 🤦♂🤦♂
we love china... from zambia, brazil & england!
Let's be honest here, American men learn Japanese due to exposure to anime and Japanese adult films.
That's the truth.
Bukkake!!!
And video games.
Of course Japanese consider themeselves white for some reason and not Asian.
Of course they do that is why in anime they draw Japanese as tall blonde blue eyes European, they are hardcore to look white.
Hey dont foget Son Goku grew up in countryside of China with his grandfather Son Gohan. He tought him Ku fu yo.
@@P.90.603 Nah more blonde hair and blue's eyes I watched kengan ashura, Lihito is Japanese how his guy is tall blonde with blue eyes, with 80s white guy hero hair, man looks nothing like Japanese.
And purple in anime is rare.
I wonder where this stereotype comes from 🤔 I never actually heard anyone from Japan claim this but I hear it from other Chinese and Koreans…
@@curumipon7089 They had this thinking in WW2 era I hear, they want to be more western and less east Asian.
They used to draw themselves with slanted, but I after they went western they cut dat out, in some anime they make sure Japanese look white but, they make Chinese look Asian, some one pointed this out to me.
don't for get Japanese people have 2 faces they won't telly you how they really feel unless they drunk, so they won't confess they simp for white.
Don't forget they have to save face, china called them out the other told them stop, trying to be western that will never happen 😁.
China should not really talk because they used to simp for white, but this Chinese leader cut out that style, in fact they make films where Chinese man the hero but western man the villain, they like pushing that in china these days.
What the commenter might be referring to specifically when he's describing Mandarin as "nails on a chalkboard" is the Beijing accent. It's much rougher sounding, for sure.
Idk, but I guess Japan's anime, porn, and social media PR makes the country so popular with Americans but same goes with South Korea for Kpop and Kdrams (Korean beauty products also)....while I guess Mandarin is studied mostly as a business language because the west still do business with China, Taiwan for the electronic chips in particular. Maybe with Singapore too.
If looking at the passport bros phenomena (god I am iffy towards them as a Filipina) but Philippines and Thailand are top destinations of these Americans too.
English is one of the official languages in Singapore, you don’t need learn mandarin for that country though
Don't let passport bros near your women lol
@@kenyup7936 actually Mandarin and Malay is the two national languages. 80% are Chinese.
Thai BL dramas (and even regular dramas) is considered one of Thailand’s soft power too and more women are becoming obsessed with them as much as Kdrama.
@@1stHalf I know
Next to Korean tourists in Japan, American tourists are the second-largest amount of tourists going to Japan now. I think this is the major reason people want to learn the Japanese language to communicate with locals.
I bet biggest tourist to Korea are the Japanese. They love kpop are Korean food
Yes, they love each other in localy . But politics and media control to hate each other.
@@penname4764The largest number of tourists to South Korea are Chinese, followed by Japanese, and most of them are Koreaboo girls
@@penname4764The largest number of tourists to Japan are Korean,followed by Chinese and Vietnamese,Most of them come to travel and work
@@penname4764The largest number of tourists to China are Vietnamese,followed by Korean and Russian ,Most of them come to work
I think ppl in the west r attracted to the safety, cleanliness, efficiency, along with the food, the various tourist attractions, combined with the favorable exchange rate. They'll welcome tourists from anywhere. In that sense, it may seem welcoming to the left. But if u live & work there, u will find that Japan is very strict & conservative. But before u start throwing your race cards, u have to honestly ask yourself if the positive aspects of Japan would stay intact if it adapted western woke standards. Bc in contrast, being strict with Americans seems to be completely off the table. Everyone in the US is a superstar, & anyone who is not is automatically a victim. U also have to consider the irony of newer western nations who've only been around for a few hundred years telling Asian countries (some with thousands of years of history), how to best run their countries.
My favorite tones to hear are Viet, Japanese & Khemer. People don't realize that Japanese don't sound or talk like anime. There's also videos of people disappointed learning Jp because it's hard to make friends with them & some cases, tatemae. Still, Jp chick is one of the eastern Asians I don't mind being with
So I am South Indian and half Telugu. I think I know why it made it in the Top 10 list. One reason is that Telugu is the primary language of the city of Hyderabad in Telangana and the city is well known as being a large Tech Hub in India. The other reason is because of the breakaway international success of RRR in 2022 which is a Telugu film that has been dubbed in other languages. Those are my two cents.
Cantonese and Taishanese are underrated.
Cantonese is popular in Cali?
Bruce Lee is sad. 😔
Nah. Hong Kong films late 70s 80s 90s were dominating.
Cantonese is not just underrated but it’s the best sounding language in the world. Korean and Japanese are just another variant of boring Latin. Where can you find a cool language like Cantonese? Vietnamese is the only other one close to it
tbh its normal I think its the same in France . Japan is awesome by any metric. The perfectionism and stuff. They are just unique all population considerated. The culture and so on.... Of course if you only consider money chinese is better. But culturally speaking .... it's a no brainer.
as a person if you seek for personal growth learning japanese open in my opinion more interesting stuff than learning chinese for example.
Wonder if they considered Arabic and Hebrew as Asian languages for this survey
Had to look up Diu Lei. Learned my first Cantonese today!
Anime/Manga/Light Novel/Jpop/food =Japanese, Manhwa/Kop/food=Korean shopping/food/dimsum=Chinese... .most Americanized = Filipino/Samoan
Manhwa is Chinese. I am also making a prediction that China will start dominating the gaming market in the next 15-ish years. Big budget games have been outsourcing art, mocap, and other aspect of visual effects to Shanghai studios.
And they will put some good spirit on it.
@@x01021 Manhwa is korean, Manhua is chinese
Cantonese phrasebook and dictionary by Tuttle.
The only way to learn Japanese is to live in Japan and learn the spoken language with all its slang its dialects its contractions the language of the streets. After taking the advanced course the professor said the only way to learn Japanese is to get out there and put it to practice.
I learned Japanese twenty something years ago because Japanese culture was “cool” then I found out Japanese people themselves were wet blankets. I was shocked and kinda depressed.
Seriously? The Japanese are very serious people.
@@Nom_AnorVSJedi yeah too serious. That's why they are wet blankets.
This is mostly Tokyo, Osaka or in the Kansai Prefecture(which most of comedians come from) are more outgoing and "loud" and "rude" (in comparison to Tokyo people). Doesn't attract as much of the western people but definitely breaks this "wet blanket" stereotype of Tokyo
@@RKKY-mf7fe what exactly were you hoping they would be? 20 years ago was like what Bleach and Naruto debuts? You were hoping for a bunch of immortal ninjas fighting with the power of friendship?
Behind every anime is a team of artists meticulously drawing each frame. Behind every tasty Japanese dish are chefs who spent years training as an apprentice while also getting verbally & possibly physically abused by their masters. Although the final product may seem fun & spontaneous, J-Pop stars rehearse every word & every move thousands of times. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Shohei Ohtani is a virgin. He is that dedicated to baseball. Japan wouldn't be what it is without that meticulous attention to detail & discipline.
I think so. Despite the fact that Chinese is one of the least favorite Asian in America.
Depends. Hong Kong films were way more popular than other Asian films.
There was a time when Cantonese music and movies influenced and inspired Japanese media and was the envy of all their Asian neighbors. People in the west don’t know about this.
Yea and I still have no problem saying I’m part Chinese. Who cares about what others think.
Probably why Japanese is number 1 is because of the media they are available and how scarce translations are. They have anime, manga, web and light novels many of which does not come with english subtitles or translation.
11:05 I believe that VN stereotypical accent are mostly from people who speak the Mekong Delta (Miền Tây) accent since most VN-Americans usually Saigonese or the Mekong Delta
It’s Farsi not persian. Also mandarin is the most studied language in the world
That’s an Indian accent not korean LOL
japanese do alot for the image and know how to promote their culture
Quite the opposite actually. Japanese media and pop culture is very inward looking and is mainly catered domestically. Thats why from an American perspective, it feels more “foreign” compared to Korean culture where its purposely altered to favor American tastes.
thats what i am talking about. unlike korea japan knows how to promote its unique culture and purposely promote itself that way. don't make the mistake to think japan does nothing to promote the country. japan spends billions of dollars in promotion of a japan that attracts people.@@curumipon7089
thats what i am talking about. japanese know how to promote their unique, sometimes weird culture that has a more lasting impression that what korea does with kpop which is a trend. don't make the mistake to think japan does nothing for their image and promotion of their country. japan spends billions of dollars for promoting the image of the country.@@curumipon7089
I wonder if there was a window to learn Cantonese when C-Pop was in its height in the 80s and 90s. Was it like how Japanese was cool then, and how could it be revitalized?
That said, I do learn Mandarin out of hopes to get a career in China (initially), but I've wanted to improve so I could read others' works and write my own.
There prolly would be if the tech back then was comparable to what it's like now. Social media is very effective at making things spread like wildfire.
Cantonese was so impressive and big back then that it even influenced Japanese media. It was a shame that it Cantonese did not spread to the West.
@@mattparke4370cuz the British didn’t want it to spread lol
David sounds like he had a bit too much of the Smala sauce. 😂
You guys are having too much fun with these thumbnails lately 😂
I'm a Chinese American and whenever I am watching Japanese anime in public or at work, people ask me if I'm Japanese. I wonder if I should just say, "yeah, I'm Japanese." I wonder if that lie would help me get laid.
That is odd because odds are you would be Chinese, maybe they say Japanese as not to come off racist.
@@kenyup7936 How here in the UK, the east Asian people we have is Chinese, where I come from Jamaica we have Chinese there for a 100 years.
I am going to honest with you, it was not until 5 year ago, after conversing with an American in the UA-cam comment section.
I had no clue you called far eastern people Asian, in the UK we just called them Chinese or oriental growing up Asians are Indian, Pakistani and middle east people are all Asian.
When the racist say shit about Asians, it is about Indian looking people they never say anything bad about oriental far eastern people.
They knew nothing about them to hate any hate, but because of covid now they have self awareness of them and they have said racist stuff.
I am more open minded and not stereotypical the woman at the noodle house near me, I had a conversation so I asked are you Japanese.
No way could I say Chinese it would look hot, but I doubt she would be offended but i really did not want to make it stereotypical.
But there is not a lot of realistic choices, it would look odd for me to say are you from Vietnam.
But she said she is from Mongolia that blew me away, the next thought that came to mind was genghis khan riding with an invading army 😁.
Yes that is very stereotypical sometimes you cannot help wondering stereotypical thoughts😁.
But if had to bet money I would have said she is Chinese, why would I want to lose money even an A.I would have bet Chinese.
@@jameswatson5807 sorry for that bro, I deleted my comments
@@kenyup7936 huh? why is that. I am not saying anything racist just honest of how I thought of east Asian pre internet.
@@jameswatson5807 sorry
Definitely. Korean probably comes in second
The title of the video should be why is Korean so popular and Chinese so utterly unpopular language to learn in the US. S. Korea with the pop. of 50 millions which is about 1/3 of Japan has been punching far above its weight while the popularity of China with the population of 1.4 billions has been abysmal.
Its not the material, its cuz cantonese speakers dont want to speak it or teach their kids because of how bad cantonese has been mocked and has become the default "asian noises". Not to mention it only ever gets spoken in a harsh cursing way and never just smooth and educated way.
When I heard Elsa from Frozen speak Cantonese that was the sexiest sound to my ears
Their obsession with Japan or even Korea is weird and off-putting
Dem get mad over Japan.
No hate, but i think Vietnamese and Tagalong are the most funny sounding languages.
No hate to you, but --salbag ka, --engot, ---shi babain mo!
Learning two Asian languages like Chinese and Vietnamese together or in sequence can be super interesting
I would love to try and learn Khmer or Korean
interesting how Americans just ignore the atrocious underbelly of the organizations that runs Anime and K-Pop world. It's really no different than buying blood diamonds.
At least you're comment suits your prf name😂
Anime, food, culture, music.. I’m Korean all we have is damn K pop and K Dramas
Of course Japan is their favorite
Also I think mandarin and Korean are just not seen as useful to the white man
Because white man only care about anime him nuh business bout other Hey-sian's.
Korea has music, tv and films, food. Be proud what you have even if they're not your interest. Millions even billions non-Koreans listen/watch them regularly all around the world. Here's an interesting fact, after English and Spanish, Korean is the third highest streamed language music on Spotify.
Koreans have a monopoly on Zombie movies and tv series since Americans stopped making them
If you think Koreans only have Kpop and Kdrama, you’re not a real Korean.
You also have Korean BBQ and that will never go away
Japanese, well it’s a challenge!
Ok, my opinion might be super biased here based on my experience. But I think Japanese is way harder than Chinese.Tbf, I started Chinese when I was really young, did a Chinese language degree and lived in Beijing for 10 years, whereas with Japanese I only took jlpt2, but the grammar took me way longer to get my head around and use coherently with Japanese.
It’s because you learned Chinese since you were young therefore you find it easier. All languages are easier to learn when you’re a child, but if you learned Japanese as a child it would have been way more easier than learning Chinese.
@@Xyniss I get that but it just feels like even reversed I would have found Japanese a bit harder. The biggest advantage to learning Chinese young was the tones weren’t as difficult (or more importantly you i didn’t get care if I made a mistake) but I can still remember easily being able to string sentences together cause basic sentence structure was quite simple. But with Japanese it took me all the way up until I passed n2 to feel comfortable talking
It also helps a lot to live in the country where the language is spoken all the time.
Even in Philippines in general except those crazy in kpop, coz they're super polite. 😁
15:25 I also think that's gotta be the biggest factor. Potentially doubling the pool of interested learners would explain huge gaps like that. Most of the rich attractive Chinese guys live in Western countries anyway, and I don't think any non-Chinese girls are gonna want to move to a communist country or CCP-lite Hong Kong or about-to-be-invxded-by-cxmmies-any-year-now TW, and Singapore is cool but not really marketing itself as hip to young, impressionable girls and whatnot (Singapore is more popular with higher-class corporate professional types, I think, and they speak English anyway).
The BOJ's monetary policy after the decreases in Japanese asset prices to stop inflation was unprecedented.
Japan has the 2nd largest defense contract with this country.
lmao your Nebraska accent sounded like Texas
Not just americans most westerners are fascinated by japan like me with my avatar. Arigatō gozaimasu
Screaming pok gai has me rolling
Growing up, I always wanted to throw Hadokens, Shoryukens, & Tatsumaki-senpu-kyakus. Then give in to the Dark Hado and bust out a Shun-Goku-Satsu. 😈
That was regular life for me I used to be mad over street fighter.
Easier to travel around Asia if you speak mandarin since many tourist places cater to Chinese tourists
It's probably because of ANIME if anything! I really thought it would be Korean because of the K-pop phenomenon.
Its bcuz of WEEBS.
Cantonese have a choppy sound to it so it's not very popular. Mandarin is not a language it's a simplified language of all the mixed ethnic in China languages to make it easier for everyone to communicate
No, just the northern Chinese dialects.
You can’t find a language like Cantonese and Vietnamese in this world. Only those two are within their own league. Every other language just sounds like variants of Latin. German and Danish and and Russian are exceptions. And that’s why they sound beautiful
@mattparke4370 have you even heard all the different ethnic group speak to group them with Danish, Dutch, Germany and Russian?
@@xt3916 Yes, I listened to every language by studying Elsa and Anna singing. ALL of them sound the same except those European languages I listed and Cantonese and Vietnamese against the other Asian languages.
@mattparke4370 you heard ALL southern Asian dialect??
Khmer? Did they take this pole in Long Beach?
Khmer is on the list for the same reason thai is.
Mandarin is not a harsh language lmao if anything Cantonese sounds way harsher. I swear some of these yts got it twisted with Cantonese no cap.
Well in my opinion it can sound choppy if the person was speaking loud and fast in Mandarin. In Cantonese it sounds harsh because people usually yell lol, speaking as a American born Chinese
@@Xyniss no, it's harsh because they have this drag at the end when they speak. if you understand canto then it might not sound harsh but if you don't understand it, it literally sounds like "ling bing long ahhhh bing ling ting ahhhh" LMAOO. That "AHHHH" that drags on at the end is fucking aids to my ears.
I'm convinced when people make fun of Chinese in the States they're actually mimicking Cantonese and not Mandarin simply because there's more Canto peeps here than Mando speakers.
@@ponuni I speak Cantonese fluently and not everyone drags their words like that. When they do drag their words sometimes it’s a pause before another sentence is spoken. This is common in Korean as well. They actually have a good amount of mandarin speakers now especially in NYC after they kept coming over from China.
@@Xyniss LMAO you're talking about FJs?
@@ponuni there’s a lot of FJ’s in Queens for sure lol but I like Taiwanese Mandarin the most, even my parents do too
Japanese are nicest east asians for sure.
They’re just nice superficially.
No they’re superficially polite it doesn’t mean they are genuinely trying to be nice. They were brought up in the culture to always be polite despite what they feel.
All Asians are nice and polite to westerners (notice I didn’t say they are nice or polite to other Asians, which is a shameful thing). Once you get to know someone for 20 years then you truly know if they are a good person
I'm biased but I actually like Khmer sound wise 😅
Can we break down the demographic of those who are pursuing Japanese? Just curious. I am letting you know that Korean and Japanese sentence structures are similar. The Korean writing system is the most efficient by most linguists.
Yes, they are so similar. Korean have so many Japanese word and even Korean alphabet has Japanese letter in it ,such as イロハニホへト。And also Korean and Japanese eat same kind of rice in Asia . It calls Japonica rice. Most of people knows about this before .
@@bkazz8116 lol Yes Japan invented the whole universe before they were handed with iron by people from Korean peninsular 😂
@@hlcapa China support North Korea. Japan help South Korea.
Japanese? Don’t know why the word dog comes to mind.
I hate to break it to this audience but Japan is the favorite Asian country for the whole world period. I really really appreciate that the Fung Bros brought the stats but it doesn't matter, Japan still has decades & decades of coolness associated with it, that no Asian country still has.
I’m Japanese live in NY. I feel Japanese are nothing special.
White people don't feel that way they think you is very special.
You think Shohei Ohtani is nothing special?
@@kimckawa Ohtani is Japanese but I’m not Ohtani.
You have Tenchu the game series!!! Play part 1, 2, and Wrath of Heaven!
Chinese is the most useful language but it is very hard to learn therefore people choose to learn Korean or Japanese. I learned, English, Chinese and Korean that’s why know the difference. Most difficult language for me to learn is Chinese. Also if you speak English and Chinese you don’t need to learn any other languages it is not necessary. Chinese is considerably as an English like international language nowadays based on huge number of people speaking it and also economically it is a strong country in the world. Korean is super easy to learn it has only about 40 some alphabets and Chinese Kanzi is endless 😅
Lol, I mean if you need validation.
tHAI language is getting popular because of Thail BL drama popularity.... passport bro is getting replaced by Western women who love Thai BL dramas....
Uh veryu honorabru uproad.
Thai BL series have a huge impact rn tho.
lol i don't.
its cause anime
Anime
Chinese is hard to learn without understanding the culture. John cena's chinese is horrible
Give john a break man did his best learning Chinese won't be easy, it don't matter if his Chinese is rough at least he can communicate in Chinese.
First
Come on yo.. there's no way Korean would sound better than Mandarin.. Also I don't know how the stat could have Korean higher than Mandarin. If you look at all the colleges and universities across the US, there's far more Chinese language classes than Korean
Korean sounds a million times better, korean is the fastest growing language right now and will take over Japan in the next Few years
China support North Korea.
Japan help South Korea.
Why R u trying to be better or under? Pathetic.
China support North Korea.
Japan help South Korea.
Korean have so many Japanese word still now days and even Korean alphabet have Japanese letter in it,
such as イロハニホへト。
please dont compare. Its all about Harmony.
Why R u trying to be better or under? Pathetic!!!
Mandarin sounds like someone eating and farting while driving tbh
When I watch Won Kar Wai movies, Chinese sound so smooth and eloquent but dont know if they're speaking Mandarin or Cantonese. Then when I hear everyday Chinese person on the street speak- OMG, I can't, gotta run.