German Tries Learning Chinese | Get Germanized Language Challenge
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- Опубліковано 12 кві 2024
- Join me on an epic language journey as I, a native German speaker, dive headfirst into the intricate world of Chinese with the help of a leading language learning app! 🇩🇪📱🇨🇳 Watch as I navigate through tones, characters, and phrases, sharing my real-time reactions and insights. Will I master the basics or get lost in translation? Let's find out together!
👉 What's in the video:
My first impressions of learning Chinese as a German speaker
Challenges I face with pronunciation, writing, and comprehension
Hilarious moments of language mishaps and breakthroughs
Tips for German speakers trying to learn Chinese
A look at how technology makes learning Chinese accessible and fun
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See the learning process of a German speaker tackling Chinese
Discover cultural insights as I explore the connection between German and Chinese
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🔎 In This Episode:
Kickoff: Learning Chinese
First Lessons: Impressions & Struggles
Pronunciation Practice: The Tones Challenge
Speaking Chinese: My First Full Sentences
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Ich bin Amerikaner, ich spreche chinesisch und jetzt lerne ich deutsch. Danke für das neue Video!
Thanks for the new video. It seems that remembering the characters is quite difficult, but it’s easier to focus only on listening and speaking.
My son uses Duolingo Spanish, as it helps him with his job as a nurse in south California. I use Duolingo to refresh my German and Italian. My 2 year old grandson likes to play with the app. He thinks it's fun. If he is learning..who can say.. vielleicht.
The romanization used above the Chinese characters is hanyu pinyin (or just pinyin) and it is something I learned in school. The alphabets have very standardized pronunciations, so it helps a lot. However, due to the various regions in China and the various diaspora having different accents, the words might sound like they are pronounced differently. For example, where I am from (Singapore, where a lot of ethnic Chinese ancestry comes primarily from southern China), we have a bit of difficulty with the "r" and the "h" sounds when we speak standard Mandarin, and replaces "r" with "l" or skipping the "h" sound (so "ch" sounds just like "c"). This is in part because the various Chinese dialects might have missing sounds and so on. It is getting lesser in the younger generations as dialect use fades out (which is a bit sad, and I can only speak a few lines in my own dialect).
EDIT: The accent marks are actually very consistent in the way they should be pronounced too, and it applied to almost all syllable, if it helps.
That's really insightful! Pinyin indeed serves as a great tool for learning standard Mandarin pronunciation, especially with its standardized approach. It’s fascinating to hear about the variations in pronunciation due to regional influences and ancestral dialects, like those you've described in Singapore. The evolution and slight fading of dialect usage among younger generations is a phenomenon observed worldwide, and while it's practical for global communication, it's also bittersweet as those unique linguistic traits become less common. Thanks for sharing your experiences and the nuances of Mandarin as spoken in different communities-it really highlights the rich tapestry of the language.
@@GetGermanized One more clarification I would like to add regarding Chinese dialects is that they are all called different names. I think this might be something significantly different compared to Europe (to my understanding, a person speaking a dialect of Swedish, for example, would still be speaking Swedish). To my knowledge, Mandarin itself is actually a dialect that originates somewhere close to modern day Beijing, but I might be wrong. My personal ancestry is a bit mixed, but primarily from the Chaoshan (or Teochew) region within Guangdong, and my grandparents mostly speak Teochew (although only 1 of them is really from China, the rest having been generations in Singapore).
Even within the dialect, I believe there is variations, as, according to my mother (so it is a bit anecdotal), her father (the one from China) speaks in a more "sing-songy" tone compared to my paternal grandfather. My paternal grandfather's lineage does come from a different Chaoshan region than my maternal grandfather, so that could either be a dialect continuum within the Chaoshan region, or impact of being in a diaspora.
If you want to hear what I think is "clean" way to speak Mandarin, I would recommend a documentary on Netflix called "Flavorful Origins". It might be a good way to learn Mandarin to listen to it with subtitles on (at least this method worked for one of my Malay friends who learnt Mandarin unintentionally this way and can hold some basic level conversation).
Chicken eight = huhn acht=鸡巴