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The typograohy was insane

Hello, native Chinese speaker here, I would just like to correct a few things the first thing being that the word in Chinese for library is not actually related to Maps the word you said was for maps actually means picture 圖and the word for map 地圖 means floor, ground or terrain picture. And so it means picture book place.

English poetry: Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet and so are you. Chinese poetry: Shíshì shīshì Shī Shì, shì shī, shì shí shí shī. Shì shíshí shì shì shì shī. Shí shí, shì shí shī shì shì. Shì shí, shì Shī Shì shì shì. Shì shì shì shí shī, shì shǐ shì, shǐ shì shí shī shìshì. Shì shí shì shí shī shī, shì shíshì. Shíshì shī, Shì shǐ shì shì shíshì. Shíshì shì, Shì shǐ shì shí shì shí shī. Shí shí, shǐ shí shì shí shī shī, shí shí shí shī shī. Shì shì shì shì.

你的视频做得很好！视频使用的字体也很棒。很高兴你学习了我们的语言，并澄清了许多误解。欢迎来中国玩！

Great video, and the Chinese font is really nice. What font is it?

(your voice is so sexy)

but木is wood 树is tree

THE DUALITY OF THE CHANNEL 😭😂

The end part on Pinyin is so interesting! It’s the same idea with trope in chanting Biblical Hebrew. Trope are adornments on the letters in a Torah scroll that indicate tone :-)

Nigga really said "Poo Tong Hwah" 😆😆😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

4:36 图 probably means "Pictures" in this context tho

圖 not necessarily maps. the most famous 圖 in China may be 河圖、太極圖, which carries knowledge just as books, it‘s visualized knowledge.

傳 literally means life writing.

身為一個會講中文的美國人，世界上最難學的語言就是日本語

More than Chinese as a language, this is about the script. And yes, it is very different from pretty much any other writing system used on Earth.

I don’t know why I’m watching this video. I’m Chinese. 😂😂😂

"library"or"图书馆" in chinese used to have a different representation which is in just one character. That is 圕. It is quite straight forward to understand for chinese speakers. Beacause it is literally books(書) surround by walls(口).

This is very fascinating

怎麼都是簡體中文？ 繁體中文呢？

A well-edited video by a small channel? me likey

I like your style!

I really love this video! You summarise so succinctly what fascinated me about the language when I was first curious about it and what got me hooked when I started learning

Chopin at the end. Nice touch

Correction 1: 传(zhuan4), as in 自传, means the story of; so 自传 literally means the story of oneself. 传(chuan2) is to pass along. Correction 2: 图(tu2) in 图书馆 means pictures or drawings.

I'm learning spanish and whats hard about it is the conjugations, which means that there are technically different words for the same word depending on who is being spoken of and the tense. So "tener" (to have) is the "base word" so to speak, and "tengo" is the present tense first person talking about themselves. So there are also "tiene", "tienes", "teniendo", "tuve", etc. There are 5 tenses and 6 "perspectives" (i guess that's the correct term). And that's just the "indicative" voice. There are 3 main "voices" in Spanish. There's a tense in spanish that exists _just_ to talk about hypothetical situations! The big saving grace is that the tenses and perspectives are all similar for each word. So "I have", which is "tengo", is similar to "I work", "trabajo". And the main base word is always at the beginning of the word as far as I'm aware. I'm only familiar with the present tenses. :(

That was ace

When I was studying Mandarin, we fondly referred to it as Yodaspeak, at least when talking about the grammar. Because while subject -> verb -> object order is maintained, there are a lot of other grammatical/word order differences between Chinese and English. LOVE the total lack of conjugation, though! When I was learning German, by far the hardest thing for me to wrap my head around was the various cases and genders of words. The conjugation itself wasn't that hard, barring a few special verbs (like 'to be'), but it was an added layer of complexity to an already complex system of grammar. Chinese grammar is extremely simple, and like you said, elegant.

I could get this channel has a lot of experience and videos. Excelent job! This video is a jem!

Good video! (Chinese native) Also wanna note something here: If you did research a bit, you'll find there's actually 2 type of transliteration being used today, one is most famous and widely used pinyin, the other is zhuyin, in which perhaps only used in Taiwan nowadays.

I myself am also a horse radical.

I lived in China 7 years. Nice video. Not all characters are pictures, however. That's just pictograms. There's also idiograms, from ideas. 但是：加油，哥们儿✌️

Awesome and very educational ❤

7:23 stopped me in my tracks.... I grew up not far from that courthouse

Not only is this video informative and interesting for people interested in languages, but also it is just so satisfying to watch...

your ending scene is so cool

I'm disgusted by your use of commie simplified characters 🤮

Great video. I went to check what other cool linguistics stuff you might have, and holy shit did I have a surprise 😂😂

Good video! 4:27, “图” in this case means picture/image. Map is one of that kind.

What an awful language

Even though 图 means map (sort of), but here 图 more like means pictures. So that 图书 means books with pictures on them. So 图书馆 means the house/place where we store picture books.

sometimes i come across a youtube video that makes me think: i want to create now

Iirc while it is not a hardest language list the state department does have languages brokwn down into how lingthey will take a native english speaker to learn based on a number of factors Lvl 1s are french, spanish , italian, etc Lvl 3 is indonesian and other languages with either similar grammer but different sounds or the other way around. Lvl 5 has mandarin, arabic, japanese The funniest oart of the list in my opinion is that there is only 1 language in the lvl 2 slot....German.

Wrong, the hardest language is Bonerese. Non-native speakers find the mixture of waggles and ejaculations very difficult indeed.

Wait till you learn arabic!

viet is similiar

Very cool video! How long would you say it took you to be able to be somewhat fluent in mandarin?

Hello, Nanjec, I loved the video. I have an urge of translating it to my native language, so that more people would know about the topic and the content you are creating. Please, if you don't mind, let me know, I'll be glad to cooperate with you, since i'm in love with linguistics and the content describing the details of this science.

Excellent video. Lived in China back in 2013, just for 6 months.

I think you forgot to mention one thing, Chinese use huge amount of 成语, basically four-character words from ancient time that carry a whole story or cultural meaning. Those are kinda impossible for non-native speaker to learn. Just imagine English speakers use words from Shakes Spears' time

How would you recommend i begin learning?