I showed this to my Mum who doesn't understand english! She love the video so much and it was always so nice to see her laugh so hard. She like to watch other videos as well but she couldn't understand. It would really be great to continue to put CHINESE SUBTITLES for the rest of the elderly to understand better. We may not notice but a lot of older people likes to know what we young generation up too.
there have been alot of stereotypes for the word banana to describe even asians overseas, even the local chinese educated seem to think they are mostly only english educated or brought up in a english speaking family, i would say people have studied though different types of schools locally or abroad and still receive the similar stereotype view which is ridiculous
I have a friend who's a 'Banana' He tried too hard to impress Chinese girls to go on a date with him.. Every time he fails he'll call me and tell.. Until he went to Russia to further his studied... That bastard brought back a Russian Girl.. Haha.. I still cant forget the mothers face when he said he's gonna marry her! p/s: chinese girls out there.. Eh! give this guys a chance la.. See now he go marry girl so tall like Menara KL
I've learned chinese for 9 years. Stopped learning it when I was 14. I can speak...kind of. I tend to continue my whole sentence in english after that lol. And everyone said the way I speak chinese is weird. I can totally relate to this whole video. To all the bananas out there, I feel ya 😂
Im 17 still learning malay because in the past dont really have the motivation and since some malay words are looong so hard to remember and i need to learn it quick man my english is good but malay is bad sucks caca doodoo saya taktau malay only know basics and alot of people says you dont have diploma you're doom youre done no future
I've been there before, where my friends would talk chinese and I wouldn't understand what they say since I'm not Chinese. Sometimes, they'd look at me, talk in chinese then start laughing and I'd always be so confused. Now that I've learnt basic chinese, sometimes I'd reply to them in chinese and would always be surprised for understanding what they said lols
Sometimes i think the term banana is offensive. I've got a friend who's a Sabahan and she spoke English, sabahan, mandarin, hakka and little mandarin. She knows hakka coz her family speaks hakka and personally i find hakka is beautiful. She didn't go to all chinese school so can't write chinese. She can only write it in pinyin. She had a friend who spoke mandarin (no other dialect if I'm not mistaken). Her friend called her a banana because some of her pronunciation wasn't right and she can't write in chinese. She was kinda offended that her close friend called her a banana. Just feel like letting that out of my chest. Nice video btw. Awesome. Wo shi malai ren. Xianzai wo xue zhong wen. Dui bu qi, wo de zhong wen bu hao. Xie xie.
I used to know the meaning of "banana", but now I'm not so sure if your friend been called as a "banana" is appropriate, cause she can still speak Hakka, which is one of a dialect of Chinese. So does your friend can still be called banana in this way? Not so sure lah...... :( I'm Taiwanese, and a half Hakka :) Just came back from Malaysia for less than two weeks. Miss almost everything there pretty much... :)
I think she shouldn't because she can speak hakka in my opinion. She just can't write in chinese and her mandarin is a bit weaker because its not her main language. Her friend probably teased her by calling her banana because her mandarin pronunciation wasn't good
I'm very new to the chinese language. I'd like to ask, why is the title called struggles of a banana but the chinese is written as "banana person". Shouldn't it be "xiangjiao de struggles"?
gula-gula getah sabah actually... yes, these two meaning are different, but it's not because they want to translate the whole thing, instead only the "banana" word. Also there's no need to translate each word to each word like "xiangjiao ren". Banana = 香蕉人, that's the main idea they wanna share, in my opinion :)
Hari tu pergi Hong Kong majority cakap Cantonese . Boleh bawak nangis bro :')) Nasib baik kat Malaysia cakap Mandarin although not much difference . Its so fun being a Malay that can speak and understand chinese lol k
haha, i feel that way when im out karaoke-ing with my college buds, but after going so many times, u kinda remember how to sing certain parts, the rest is jibberish. btw, that's a really cool pattern on that snapback Reuben
As a Chinese Indonesian, Im curious why Malaysia has banana? i mean, unlike us, you guys are awesome with your education and multilingual environment. Is being a banana considered higher in social status or you simply dont have the chance to learn it? when i went to malaysia, seemed like everyone speak Chinese, i really dont get it I do speak Chinese which i learned since very young, but very few of my friends speak the language even though almost every one of them ever learned it in their lifetime(perhaps because no one use it in daily conversation, some give up after learning for several years). Luckily now there are chinese schools in every city here and our young generation learn the language once was banned by government. Maybe it takes several generation to resurrect the language again but we do really appreciate it. I hope being banana is not sth people proud of, because it is shameful to not understand our ancestor s language. It is human nature to less appreciate things we take for granted. I do hope my people can speak chinese again (not to understate english, it is a must!)
Why is it shameful to not speak the ancestors' language? If your first forefathers came from Africa (that is what I heard according to science), would you learn African language? Language is first and foremost a tool. It is good to have more language capability, but if you don't, it is OK as long as you can communicate in daily life.
honestly i dont know why people glorify 'bananas"? isnt it better to have the best of both world ? the international language and your home language? im chinese and i can speak both chinese and english perfectly, together with the dialects like hokkien, cantonese etc.
not sure whether to laugh or cry at this... I mean it's funny, but the poor bananas.... and I'm a banana myself .. >.< dOES THAT mean I must start taking classes? ??????
+jokerkuwagata2 Ramai Orang Melayu berketurunan Bugis, Jawa dan Minangkabau di Semenanjung tapi sedihnya Bahasa itu tak diturunkan. Semua telah diasimilasi dengan Bangsa Melayu. Itu normal bruh. Tapi kalau boleh cakap Bahasa-Bahasa tu kira ok lah jugak. Boleh faham apa orang gaji kita cakap. Haha
After watching this video, somehow I'm kinda proud of myself that I can speak, read and write in Chinese....and other languages too...not pro level but at least able to communicate in different languages...Anyway like this video very much! Laugh die me! Haha!
i think all chinese people need to learn mandarin, to improve it. so the grand daughters/son also will learn mandarin. so mandarin will not extinct. i'm malay but i can speak mandarin very well.
@@muhammaddanialbinaminurras572 our mother tongue and language is cantonese,hokkien,hakka and etc. Not mandarin,don't let the chinese government fool you and secondly mandarin will never go extinct as long as there is China and Taiwan. Cantonese and hokkien the two biggest chinese language in Malaysia and in fact it is heading towards extinction. Why do you think you rarely hear cantonese in KL now?
You are a Malaysian and not mainland Chinese. So I don't see why you should be obligated to speak Mandarin. If they're gonna tell you that yes it is true that you are Malaysian but you are of Chinese decent so you must speak Mandarin, then ask them why are there still Chinese born citizens of American, European and South East Asian countries who still can't speak Mandarin. Ask them why African Americans can't speak their native language. If they are so proud of their Chinese pride, ask them why are they still living and working in Malaysia instead of migrating to China.
@@studswat87 This dosen't make sense. There is a Chinese Idiom going by the four words "饮水思源“. Figuratively translated, it tells one to remember his roots. And by that, are you going to throw away your origins (being Oriental Chinese)? In Singapore, where most of us speak English, I still feel a obligation to speak Mandarin or at least understand it. The same applies to the Chinese Dialects (or Languages in my opinion). What more, in Malaysia, where a larger majority speaks a form of Chinese Language. Signboards are in Mandarin. You order food in Mandarin. You can't escape it.
it turns me off Ian, because you are racially Chinese. it's in your blood. If i'm given a opportunity to master my mother tongue, I would. Malaysia is that place for opportunity. You didn't seize that opportunity ! Glad in Singapore most youth aren't Bananas. Mother Tongue is compulsory. At least be able to understand and order food from the kopitiam You can't escape it.
@@goldkwi The world does not revolve around your Chinese idiom though. Remembering your roots does not require you to practice it if you choose not to. You may remember and know it but who says you need to practice them? Which law said that you are required to practice them? By the way, where did you get your information stating that the majority in Malaysia speaks Mandarin and most of the signboards are in Mandarin? Clearly, you've never been there. Malaysia is a Muslim majority country and the signboards are mostly in Malay. Chinese Malaysians there are a minority.
Cantonese is a chinese dialect. What people (mostly chinese people) often refer to chinese is mandarin. So technically all the dialects can be called chinese, and most people in the west will also just think of any dialect as chinese.
JY Yew Wrong, it is politically correct to call Cantonese dialect of Mandarin. Chinese is not a langauge but rather a group of sinitic languages. A group of languages that can separate to 9 branches including Hokkien itself, Cantonese, Hakka, Wu and etc. When people say 'chinese' they usually mean Mandarin from Northern Chinese which base on Beijing dialect. Look at the map of Europe and then look back to China. Saying that Cantonese is a dialect is like saying Portuguese is a dialect of French. Cantonese itself isn't a dialect of any other Chinese language but itself have dialects. Same goes to Hokkien. For example, Teowchew, Amoy(Xiamen) and Zhangzhou is dialects of Hokkien(Min language group).
Why does it matters? Because if we group all Chinese languages as dialects, it will give mandarin an opportunity to be the 'only legit' Chinese language that is formal and writable, and other Chinese language will seems to be appear 'vulgar', 'old-fashioned', 'ugly' etc. Since China is now a uniform country and it is huge and densly populated, Mandarin is chosen to be the national language of China and a tool to 'unify' Chinese. Therefore, the rest of chinese languages are degraded as 'dialects' and government has been promoting speak mandarin campaign to eliminate other language group's culture. 'Dialects' were banned in school and within 50 years of effort, most of the youngsters nowadays are either can't speak, or not willing to speak their mother-tongues anymore. An evil conspiracy hidden for us to debunk. Some mandarin chauvinists discriminate other dialect groups by saying their language is not a true 'chinese' language since they pronounce things different and they are vernacular (cannot be written).
Gosh this is so me in some odd way. My mother is a chinese and my dad is not. But I was raised on non-chinese environment so I literally can't speak or understand chinese. Not one word. And when it's time for me to go back "home" . I could not understand anything they said. And thus become this Banana boy T.T . Great video Jin,keep it up. You guys are the best amongst the elite.
Most of Chinese Indonesian is "Banana", it's not by a choice but by oppression government in the past and anti Chinese by the native Indonesian. I'm envy you guys in Malay or in Singapore.
It's always nice to see people eager to learn Mandarin :) I also want to learn Bahasa Melayu, but now can only try to intimate singer singing Malay bahahaha XDDD
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"I picked him up from the rubbish bin" aunty never fails to make me smile 😂😇 great video!! love u guys
I showed this to my Mum who doesn't understand english! She love the video so much and it was always so nice to see her laugh so hard. She like to watch other videos as well but she couldn't understand.
It would really be great to continue to put CHINESE SUBTITLES for the rest of the elderly to understand better. We may not notice but a lot of older people likes to know what we young generation up too.
I was a banana until I have to force myself to learn mandarin and cantonese because if I don't .. how to do business lah?
+Jordache Wee there's still hope left!
+JinnyboyTV you don't have to force yourself to learn Chinese,but make sure that you are fluent in BM
Speak BM to another Chinese fler? Waa... paiseh man
+YU FU
why? can speak bahasa pasar okay already.
even malays don't take the time to learn proper BM, why should we?
there have been alot of stereotypes for the word banana to describe even asians overseas, even the local chinese educated seem to think they are mostly only english educated or brought up in a english speaking family, i would say people have studied though different types of schools locally or abroad and still receive the similar stereotype view which is ridiculous
I have a friend who's a 'Banana' He tried too hard to impress Chinese girls to go on a date with him.. Every time he fails he'll call me and tell.. Until he went to Russia to further his studied... That bastard brought back a Russian Girl.. Haha.. I still cant forget the mothers face when he said he's gonna marry her!
p/s: chinese girls out there.. Eh! give this guys a chance la.. See now he go marry girl so tall like Menara KL
haha lol ur friend story hilarious
#relationshipgoals
+Simon Kong lol
can Russian girl speak English?
your friend is danmm lucky!
the struggle is real.
#bananaproblems #samasikatpisang
+TheMingThing Dont tell me you also have banana problem eh?
so damn real.. for my entire life T.T
Banana Malaysia
Everytime I speak mandarin, there'll be this 'banana' accent and my Chinese educated friends will be laughing at my 'fluency' lol
Most probably it happens to that one Indian or Malay friend in a group ...
+Thanased Thans damn true
I've learned chinese for 9 years. Stopped learning it when I was 14. I can speak...kind of. I tend to continue my whole sentence in english after that lol. And everyone said the way I speak chinese is weird. I can totally relate to this whole video. To all the bananas out there, I feel ya 😂
Same for me, stopped when i was 13 and i still can speak but often use english words as placeholders for words in chinese that i dont know.
True respect to all those struggling out there because I stopped Chinese after kindergarten
U know the feeling like outsider. when your friends had Chinese conversation and u dont know what are they talking about...urghhh
this is my life. Second gen chinese, born in England, grew up and currently living in Australia. Can't speak Chinese
Well at least you're living in Australia, most people do speak English there (I'm not a banana though).
chinese isnt that hard to learn. I am indonesian chinese. Able to speak mandarin after 4 years of watching chinese dramas with eng sub every day.
@@andia968 Learning basic conversation is not hard. Learning Chinese writing is something else!
I am malay and I push myself to learn mandarin. from level 0 to level 10. and now I'm on level 3.5. still more vocabs to remember.
Bro I'm a banana myself. What's your method of learning mandarin? Any tips? Haha
speak. even though u only know few words
Jacky Chew coconut
Once a Malay guy speaks Mandarin, trust me, we all will respect you ..
Vrooo that's cool sia
I am actually trilingual. 100% English, 50% Mandarin, 50% Malay & 100% Sarcasm. Fellow Banana man here.
K
You need to relearn math. Cina taktau math is bullshit.
Im 17 still learning malay because in the past dont really have the motivation and since some malay words are looong so hard to remember and i need to learn it quick man my english is good but malay is bad sucks caca doodoo saya taktau malay only know basics and alot of people says you dont have diploma you're doom youre done no future
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+Ernest Ng Bro hahahaha!
Ernest Ng Bro HATE ALL THESE CRAP.........!!!!!!!
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Some can't speak but they can listen
Raises hand, and that include Mandarin, Hokkien and Hainan!
I can understand cantonese rly well but i can barely speak it 😅 not that i can't tho
Kawaii Cukie ditto
Exactly me with canto and mandarin... but I have have learning difficulties
Kawaii Cukie same..
I had no idea what a banana is, when I watch this video, I realised that I was one.
Well, at least I sound good ordering food in a restaurant.
John Yio unless youre at kedai mamak then siaplah
Ji fan yi ge! 😁
I can totally relate to the karaoke part. :S
+Nyonya Cooking yay!
I've been there before, where my friends would talk chinese and I wouldn't understand what they say since I'm not Chinese. Sometimes, they'd look at me, talk in chinese then start laughing and I'd always be so confused.
Now that I've learnt basic chinese, sometimes I'd reply to them in chinese and would always be surprised for understanding what they said lols
Banana! I get it! It's like a Mexican coconut.
Do those really exist?
That stare Jin and Reuben had after the SamWillows sang. Epic
+TheSaladShow lol
this is so relatable..i have that problem too..and my relatives sometimes look down on me becuz of that
That hurts...i wonder how this feels....
+xx xx (Quexkeh) well..lets say that i was very annoyed haha but i got used to it over the years
+Charissa Lim me 2 buddy :|
Well,i can say im one of the lucky ones
bro when are you gonna come out with your own film in Malaysia? You're great cinematographer and story-teller, 100% we all support you!!
Sometimes i think the term banana is offensive.
I've got a friend who's a Sabahan and she spoke English, sabahan, mandarin, hakka and little mandarin. She knows hakka coz her family speaks hakka and personally i find hakka is beautiful. She didn't go to all chinese school so can't write chinese. She can only write it in pinyin.
She had a friend who spoke mandarin (no other dialect if I'm not mistaken). Her friend called her a banana because some of her pronunciation wasn't right and she can't write in chinese. She was kinda offended that her close friend called her a banana. Just feel like letting that out of my chest.
Nice video btw. Awesome. Wo shi malai ren. Xianzai wo xue zhong wen. Dui bu qi, wo de zhong wen bu hao. Xie xie.
A little cantonese* not mandarin :p
I used to know the meaning of "banana", but now I'm not so sure if your friend been called as a "banana" is appropriate, cause she can still speak Hakka, which is one of a dialect of Chinese. So does your friend can still be called banana in this way? Not so sure lah...... :(
I'm Taiwanese, and a half Hakka :) Just came back from Malaysia for less than two weeks. Miss almost everything there pretty much... :)
I think she shouldn't because she can speak hakka in my opinion. She just can't write in chinese and her mandarin is a bit weaker because its not her main language. Her friend probably teased her by calling her banana because her mandarin pronunciation wasn't good
I'm very new to the chinese language. I'd like to ask, why is the title called struggles of a banana but the chinese is written as "banana person". Shouldn't it be "xiangjiao de struggles"?
gula-gula getah sabah actually... yes, these two meaning are different, but it's not because they want to translate the whole thing, instead only the "banana" word. Also there's no need to translate each word to each word like "xiangjiao ren". Banana = 香蕉人, that's the main idea they wanna share, in my opinion :)
When Ruben says kukujiao , i spit my water in my mouth😅😅
Hari tu pergi Hong Kong majority cakap Cantonese . Boleh bawak nangis bro :')) Nasib baik kat Malaysia cakap Mandarin although not much difference . Its so fun being a Malay that can speak and understand chinese lol k
well I think they can still understand mandarin
The first scene is super hilarious! This is no doubt one of the best videos from you all! 😍
I'm Chinese but my mandarin are weak
+丰陳錦 same here!
***** you're not Chinese
lol eventhough we malays hav different dialogs n the indonesians speak bm differently we still can communicate
+Anaz Azlan do you even communicate with indonesians
I can't even pronounce your chinese name... sorry :)
That "Fucking hell" laughing my ass off hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
haha, i feel that way when im out karaoke-ing with my college buds, but after going so many times, u kinda remember how to sing certain parts, the rest is jibberish.
btw, that's a really cool pattern on that snapback Reuben
This makes me a coconut...Brown on the outside white on the inside....LMAO
thank you representing the Bananas.
The last part was hilarious!! 😂😂😂
As a Chinese Indonesian, Im curious why Malaysia has banana? i mean, unlike us, you guys are awesome with your education and multilingual environment. Is being a banana considered higher in social status or you simply dont have the chance to learn it? when i went to malaysia, seemed like everyone speak Chinese, i really dont get it
I do speak Chinese which i learned since very young, but very few of my friends speak the language even though almost every one of them ever learned it in their lifetime(perhaps because no one use it in daily conversation, some give up after learning for several years). Luckily now there are chinese schools in every city here and our young generation learn the language once was banned by government. Maybe it takes several generation to resurrect the language again but we do really appreciate it.
I hope being banana is not sth people proud of, because it is shameful to not understand our ancestor s language. It is human nature to less appreciate things we take for granted. I do hope my people can speak chinese again (not to understate english, it is a must!)
Some of them didn't receive Chinese education.
Why is it shameful to not speak the ancestors' language? If your first forefathers came from Africa (that is what I heard according to science), would you learn African language? Language is first and foremost a tool. It is good to have more language capability, but if you don't, it is OK as long as you can communicate in daily life.
keluar notification 'JinnyBoy' dekat phone screen aku start gelak dah...padahal video tak tengok lgi
I CAN TOTALLY RELATE TO THIS OMG
hahaha funny one! jinny's mommy say reuben from rubbish tong LOL
honestly i dont know why people glorify 'bananas"? isnt it better to have the best of both world ? the international language and your home language? im chinese and i can speak both chinese and english perfectly, together with the dialects like hokkien, cantonese etc.
+abc def i only know enough to bargain and get me food
no one is glorifying bananas lol, a lot of us feel rlly insecure and sad. we r just relating to each other to feel less alone
@@HeeHaw101 aww
It will never be the same calling my kuku from now on. Tenks 😂
Pressed the like button before watching it😂😂
+EspeciallyStephanie wah, that trust!
+EspeciallyStephanie YES!! That so true!!~
the Beyond K killed me....lol... the MJ party was funny too
It's sad that I can relate so much to this
00:51 what you call me? 😂😂😂😂😂
When Chinese people say "lah", is that like Canadian people saying "eh" at the end?
Not quite but close!
Mike Morrison it is Malay language not Chinese these guys are Malaysian Chinese. .
^well technically Chinese languages have the 'lah' in their language too. It's what makes us uniquely Malaysian :)
Zhang Yi Xing and uniquely singaporean
Young PlaneSpotter singapore not same like malaysia
not sure whether to laugh or cry at this... I mean it's funny, but the poor bananas.... and I'm a banana myself .. >.< dOES THAT mean I must start taking classes? ??????
+Rebecca Chia Don't worry, I'm in the same boat too
I'm Malay and I can speak mandarin
i can speak malay mandarin and english that all
how about Hokkien?
me too bro
我也
im indian and i can speak chinese too
hahaha great video ... especially the 'gugu jiao ' part hahahah .. im partial banana !
+Marissa Wong thanks for watching!
me = lahir dari keturunan bugis + jawa,but u can't speak in that languages..the feeling too deep huhu
true~
tapi ic tulis bangsa apa bro?
+jokerkuwagata2 Ramai Orang Melayu berketurunan Bugis, Jawa dan Minangkabau di Semenanjung tapi sedihnya Bahasa itu tak diturunkan. Semua telah diasimilasi dengan Bangsa Melayu. Itu normal bruh. Tapi kalau boleh cakap Bahasa-Bahasa tu kira ok lah jugak. Boleh faham apa orang gaji kita cakap. Haha
+internet addict ic mne tulis bangsa n keturunan,tp klau kt borg ltak melayu huhu
+Staint12 betul,slh 1 sbb mak ayh pn xdidik bcakap pn punca jgk 2..semua dh pkai bahada melayu standard...bukan apa,mcm dlm video org 2 tgh perli tp kita xphm,lps 2 diaorg ketawa kita ikot jgk pdhl xphm apa..fake sungguh huahaha
Watching this feels like I'm being attacked HAHAHAHAHAH
I'm a BANANA :D
+Rachel Thian yay!
Me too 😂 not 100% but still.
what does meam bnana？
+rachael Lam a chinese who doesnt speak chinese
me too...a banana...:-)
spot on!! hope there is 2nd version
I will never go out with a girl who read 新生活报 :P
because 你的屁股太～小了
I can't read it...cuz Imma banana
Beyond!!! The best karaoke tracks!!!
After watching this video, somehow I'm kinda proud of myself that I can speak, read and write in Chinese....and other languages too...not pro level but at least able to communicate in different languages...Anyway like this video very much! Laugh die me! Haha!
+Wee Cher Wei as long as you're able to order food :D
samee
yes be proud :>
That newspaper whip was epic. Kudos to that girl.
i think all chinese people need to learn mandarin, to improve it. so the grand daughters/son also will learn mandarin. so mandarin will not extinct.
i'm malay but i can speak mandarin very well.
+beat up i just want to learn your language only ma... if i cannot learn, then y u learn bahasa melayu ? get out of malaysia la diu lei lou mei
Lainad I think it is now Cantonese that is going extinct lol
@@muhammaddanialbinaminurras572 our mother tongue and language is cantonese,hokkien,hakka and etc. Not mandarin,don't let the chinese government fool you and secondly mandarin will never go extinct as long as there is China and Taiwan. Cantonese and hokkien the two biggest chinese language in Malaysia and in fact it is heading towards extinction. Why do you think you rarely hear cantonese in KL now?
@@muhammaddanialbinaminurras572 btw diu lei lou mei is cantonese thx for learning our swear word XD
@@MineRevengeZ mother tongue is mandarin for chinese in general
Pretending to be a banana is much more amusing :)
Being a banana is like isolation :c
Basically my life... haha 😂
Amazing job once again guys!!
I am a banana all my life. what turns me off is that Mandarin speakers insist that you speak Mandarin just because I am Asian. that is not right!
Ian Ian shame on you for ur comment
You are a Malaysian and not mainland Chinese. So I don't see why you should be obligated to speak Mandarin. If they're gonna tell you that yes it is true that you are Malaysian but you are of Chinese decent so you must speak Mandarin, then ask them why are there still Chinese born citizens of American, European and South East Asian countries who still can't speak Mandarin. Ask them why African Americans can't speak their native language. If they are so proud of their Chinese pride, ask them why are they still living and working in Malaysia instead of migrating to China.
@@studswat87 This dosen't make sense. There is a Chinese Idiom going by the four words "饮水思源“. Figuratively translated, it tells one to remember his roots. And by that, are you going to throw away your origins (being Oriental Chinese)? In Singapore, where most of us speak English, I still feel a obligation to speak Mandarin or at least understand it. The same applies to the Chinese Dialects (or Languages in my opinion). What more, in Malaysia, where a larger majority speaks a form of Chinese Language. Signboards are in Mandarin. You order food in Mandarin. You can't escape it.
it turns me off Ian, because you are racially Chinese. it's in your blood. If i'm given a opportunity to master my mother tongue, I would. Malaysia is that place for opportunity. You didn't seize that opportunity ! Glad in Singapore most youth aren't Bananas. Mother Tongue is compulsory. At least be able to understand and order food from the kopitiam You can't escape it.
@@goldkwi The world does not revolve around your Chinese idiom though. Remembering your roots does not require you to practice it if you choose not to. You may remember and know it but who says you need to practice them? Which law said that you are required to practice them?
By the way, where did you get your information stating that the majority in Malaysia speaks Mandarin and most of the signboards are in Mandarin? Clearly, you've never been there. Malaysia is a Muslim majority country and the signboards are mostly in Malay. Chinese Malaysians there are a minority.
'picked up from rubbish bin' lmao
(Singing Chinese song)
Nah, it's Cantonese you know
Cantonese is a chinese dialect.
What people (mostly chinese people) often refer to chinese is mandarin. So technically all the dialects can be called chinese, and most people in the west will also just think of any dialect as chinese.
JY Yew Wrong, it is politically correct to call Cantonese dialect of Mandarin. Chinese is not a langauge but rather a group of sinitic languages. A group of languages that can separate to 9 branches including Hokkien itself, Cantonese, Hakka, Wu and etc. When people say 'chinese' they usually mean Mandarin from Northern Chinese which base on Beijing dialect. Look at the map of Europe and then look back to China. Saying that Cantonese is a dialect is like saying Portuguese is a dialect of French. Cantonese itself isn't a dialect of any other Chinese language but itself have dialects. Same goes to Hokkien. For example, Teowchew, Amoy(Xiamen) and Zhangzhou is dialects of Hokkien(Min language group).
Why does it matters? Because if we group all Chinese languages as dialects, it will give mandarin an opportunity to be the 'only legit' Chinese language that is formal and writable, and other Chinese language will seems to be appear 'vulgar', 'old-fashioned', 'ugly' etc. Since China is now a uniform country and it is huge and densly populated, Mandarin is chosen to be the national language of China and a tool to 'unify' Chinese. Therefore, the rest of chinese languages are degraded as 'dialects' and government has been promoting speak mandarin campaign to eliminate other language group's culture. 'Dialects' were banned in school and within 50 years of effort, most of the youngsters nowadays are either can't speak, or not willing to speak their mother-tongues anymore. An evil conspiracy hidden for us to debunk. Some mandarin chauvinists discriminate other dialect groups by saying their language is not a true 'chinese' language since they pronounce things different and they are vernacular (cannot be written).
Cantonese can be written, though
Gosh this is so me in some odd way. My mother is a chinese and my dad is not. But I was raised on non-chinese environment so I literally can't speak or understand chinese. Not one word. And when it's time for me to go back "home" . I could not understand anything they said. And thus become this Banana boy T.T . Great video Jin,keep it up. You guys are the best amongst the elite.
I'm half banana I know how to speak Chinese but I don't know how to write and see. I only can write those easy words and see those easy words
+Lydia Wong hi five!! same here.. haha
The karaoke part was damn funny la... "Oh no..." Great video! =)
Most of Chinese Indonesian is "Banana", it's not by a choice but by oppression government in the past and anti Chinese by the native Indonesian.
I'm envy you guys in Malay or in Singapore.
wonderful video guys as usual..and Rueban was the best if all..keep up the gd work guys..tc
You know what, you should probably do a video where chinese speakers dont understand much about English XD
to be exact, that's Cantonese though..lol I'm like Cantonese banana hahahah
i want to learn mandarin but there's no mandarin class in my town. and yyup, I'm malay
It's always nice to see people eager to learn Mandarin :) I also want to learn Bahasa Melayu, but now can only try to intimate singer singing Malay bahahaha XDDD
+Vicente Chen (甫) omg i imitate chinese singers too
KingSquid We all do the same thing even if we're staying in different places nor different countries :DDD
+Vicente Chen (甫) Truu :D
Whats the name of the song at the last part of the video?? I can't remember the name of the song.
fookin' hell XD I'm half banana since I don't know how to read Chinese :P
same lmao
Mannnnn the "struggle" is real LOL.
Old school beyond ! Rocking it yeah!
I face palm myself so hard and hide behind the pillow at the karaoke part. And I was like good God who doesn't know how to sing this?! Walaooooo!!!!
STARTING OF THE VIDEO ALREDY MADE ME LAUGH!!! (not the notification thing)
+Smelling Things thank you!
I've never related so hard to the karaoke scene 😂
that singing scene was the best in Shaolin Soccer!
That's absolutely correct hahaha. I think I'm half banana
Hahaha. I share it with my hongkies friend ... he laughed like hell. (Fry that stick) .. good one. 🤣🤣
You guy's are very very and interesting... Love it...
omg!! the last part!! I love Sandra!
reuben was so cute at the end when the sam willows thank jinnyboy~~~~
Totally pressed like before watching!
loved this video but you guys linked the wrong Pauline's ig in your description box
+lildevil872 fixed!
The karaoke part is exactly how I am haha
+bubuheartzallie but with Google these days, we can find the pin yin :p
what is the song they're singing at 3:04?
the karaoke part is me.. lol.. always wishing there is pinyin lyrics ... 😂😂
what's their channel on youtube? 2 girls 2 boys
100% Banana here! And yes..those are the things I go through DAILY! HAHA *cabuts*
It's The Sam Willows!!!!! They so gorgeous 😍
Any tips of learning Mandarin ? I think I should start learning from the scratch but I don't know what to started with. ☻
I tried so hard not to laugh 😆 but I fail
Jinny boy I really like most of ur videos it's good keep it up
When you wanna sing mandarin songs, but don't know how to read the lyrics.... #halfbanana xD
My face is red watching this because I embarrass myself as a banana too haha
Yup. I can relate to this alright.
I sympathize banana, because in Malaysia, Chinese have 3 main variety of languages some more: HK Cant Manda. Good luck!
What's that song arh?? The one Jin was made fun of one
Don't worry Jin. A lot of my friends here in Singapore are bananas too ;) We feel you^^
oh my Gosh!! thank you.. hopefully everybody respects banana now..
What's the title of the chinese song during the karaoke part?
can someone tell me the name of the song and singer of the last one