I would say their language proficiency level is fairly modest, likely between A2 and B1.

Lmao 🤣

Hahaha

ya ma dei，yi go😊

@@MarleneBohr NO, first two girls almost hit the bottome line of C1

@@helehelexx____5924 Where do you get that percentage from? I'm really curious.

I’ve never actually heard an English native belittle some else’s accent. Accents are very common in English. It is the language of trade and immigration.

@@A-ID-A-M you haven’t met one yet. I used to work with an English who makes fun of our accents in a degrading way. At one point he must have been fed up already and say it to my face I need an interpreter to understand what you’re saying. I don’t know if you’ve noticed but I think I communicate well in English, in written (and the same orally and thru reading). But will never be able to adopt a native English speaker’s accent.

@Helehelexx ____ you can speak with minimal accent if you are good at phonetics and you learn a proper pronunciation. So it's not the accent we talk about but rather improper pronunciation like sink instead of think as an example or dat instead of that.

Hahha this takes me back to 2012, last time i went on trip to Darwin, Australia. The airport officer yelled at my face "Do you not speak any english?" For I was not heading to the appointed gate, I was actually throwing away thrash right next to the gate! I just yelled back "I speak english, german, french, bahasa and a little bit of arabic! How many languages are you able to speak? Have a nice life!" Fun times 😂

Exactly, interview primary school kids in Shanghai, and you will be amazed at their English.

@@hmily880 well in Shanghai a lot of them go to international schools

And is English related to economic development? Is it not good English or English majors in English language? Of course, first-tier cities such as Shanghai and Beijing have more contact with foreigners and English speakers than other cities.

@@RavenousPotato So speaking English is something to be proud of? International schools do not teach science talents that China needs. The most powerful high school in Shanghai is a public school, just like any other area.

​@@user-hc5cg3jc3i 教学资源不一样啊，在上海能够请到家教甚至外教，与老师日常交流，偏远地区就只能死记硬背，做做卷子还行，听力可能也可以，但是说英语就不行了。

I wonder if foreigner finds it surprising in Singapore and Malaysia speaks English well.

​@@ckokloong I bet it will be more surprises for the foreigner to found out if the Singaporean can speak other languages besides english😊

@@ribos2762 Well, in Singapore, we have varying degrees of proficiency depending on the educational levels of our people. My parents definitely didn’t grow up with English so they couldn’t speak it fluently. However, those aged 50 and below should have a good grasp of the language. Throw in a substantial pool of foreigners and new citizens and it’s impossible to gauge off the streets how proficient is our English.

@@serriajohn They may not be good in oral English, but they are definitely pretty good in written and reading English.

I agree

Thanks! Definitely one of my top 5 awkward handshakes ever

@@aznm3 😄😄😂

It doen't mean that you can enter into Fudan with good grades only in math. You need to be great enough in all subjects to earn yourself the entry offer from Fudan

They are Asians. What do you expect? They are not like us in the U.S.!!

而我们必须知道，复旦大学是数一数二的名校😊。

@@szvqorwnpstahskypfwmp9821 光自信是不够的，没有实力，别人很快就知道是吹牛，这样落差就更大了。中国人谦虚是留着后路，不要把话说死。😊

@@hwoilingtan7172是这样的

各有各的好

yeah

Remember that many of those people are probably planning to go to the west to further thief studies or find work. They are the elites among elites. So good English for them must be enough English to go study abroad. Rarely would you have that as a target when learning a language in the US.

fudan is top 10 in China

yeah, we studied English for so many years, mostly reading and writing, seldom speaking.

@@benchow3025 fudan is absolutly top 5, and chinese normal university is not like this, their english level just allowed them to watch some article or primary writing just like me. Both of their speaking is so poor, because there aren't enough chance for them

Bro, it's not seldom. it's very rare.

My whole experiences of conversation are less than 15 minutes

wow you are so beautiful

amazing! which two?

Keep on learning until our hair turn white

Glad you enjoyed it

@@aznm3 Sure. Thanks

Thanks Jacob! Will do!

People from all cultures tends to prepare English. I am from China, but also lived in South America, I can tell you that parents in both parts are the same when it comes to forcing their kid learn English. Everyone knows that with more English the more of the world you can access. Even if you go to China, you can get away with only English, but if you only speak Spanish then it won’t be good.

@@samhu5878 yeah, that's true, in my opinion if you come from a non-english speaking country, and you don't know english, then you can probably survive only in your motherland (with some exceptions, e.g., knowing Mandarin can be beneficial in Taiwan and Singapore too). English should be (and in most cases is) numer 1 school subject

Im surprised how ignorant you are to think Asians are just East Asians , and think that English is so hard for Asians in general. Most of us have to learn it from a young age (thanks colonialism) and you’d survive on your veeeery good skills on being monolingual with English around Asia. So dont worry 😁

Although I'm a Taiwanese, I don't consider English is tricky to Chinese language users. English is one of the easiest languages around the world, and there are many similar grammars between them.

@@user-gj1gg2gz9n I'm from HK but English is my first language, looking from the point of foreign speakers, English isn't as easy as it seems. I can't explain much because again I never learnt English in school(therefore I don't know anything about grammar), so here's a video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o9OEo8xilpjUgas.html&pp=ygUUd2h5eSBpcyBlbmdsaXNoIGhhcmQ%3D that explains my point more or less

Glad you liked it!

Why are you so proud of them? Can you explain, please?

Cheers!

Thank u!

Yes, English has come a long way in carving a path through China. Everyone's realizing the importance of the language on the international stage

Yes! 100% agreed

@@matthieuschmitter6676 Thanks awesome man. Next challenge for you: 8 languages.

Dream on. English proficiency is rather going backwards in Greater China. By the way, you must have missed the whole sense of the clip: "Can TOP CHINESE STUDENTS Speak Fluent English? Bilingual or multilingual? Hahahahaha... Please tell me you are not being serious. There are few countries like that, mostly in Europe, which more or less have achieved that and the underlying reasons are mostly related to history and ethnicity.

I am Chinese, but most of students don't have the ability to communicate fluently, the English is just exam oriented. The fudan university is the top top top university that normal student even cannot imagine to enter it. Btw my English is ok, bcs I am an international student

Half of Americans don't even have passports to go abroad. They have no inclination of learning another country's culture or language. To them, Murica is the best and only country that matters.

Yes, I promise to make more. A man's word should be worth it's weight in gold

Beautiful university that's for sure

@t3, thank you for your comment.

Hi there, I happened to see your comments and they truly warmed my heart. I'm also Chinese and I use English a lot due to my work in a global company, I can usually communicate in English fluently but still feel quite nervous and lacking in confidence especially talking about unfamiliar topics or speaking in front of large groups. But your comment are so genuine and give me more courage to express myself maybe more bodly in English. THANK you for your kind words and your wonderful spirit.

😂😂😂

So you have the chance to live in China , many are really interested to know if censorship is really bad in China or just media misinformation

@@cheontham3265 censor what exactly, I wonder?

​@@cheontham3265 You need have a visit to China for the facts of cencorship.

@@feisfwliu6556 Maybe you like to tell all of us what happened to Ma Yun or Jack after he severely criticized the CCP government

@@feisfwliu6556 What about the female world tennis champion who accused a very high ranking minister of sexual assault , what happened to her after

When it comes to English and Chinese grammar, their word order is quite similar because they both are SVO kind of language meanwhile languages like Japanese is a SOV kind of Language

@@afiqite1921 The SVO/SVO bit is a very tiny portion of grammar difference. Most people who speak mandarin will find it easier to learn Japanese than English for example. In general there are just a lot of foreign concepts in any western languages that simply do not exist in Chinese or any asian languages. Tense, gender in pronouns and nouns, singular/plurals, etc. There are a lot less grammar restrictions in Mandarin, but require a lot more memorization.

山外青山楼外楼

Thank you

I don't agree with you, the situation changes in recent years. Children are confident enough to communicate in English.

加油，if you can make some friends from China, it is very helpful to improve your Mandarian in a short time. Don't be shy, and trust me that all Chinese you met will be friendly and kind to help you in learning Chinese

I can tell you English is easier to master than Chinese!

@@ggginawong689I disagree, the vocabulary of English is massive and still increasing, like it might be difficult for a sparky to know the terms from medical areas, whereas Chinese combines existing characters to form a new word, which makes users lot easier to understand the articles beyond their specialties.

Chinese only difficult for writing the word, for me as a chinese native speaker, I can't write a lot of word even though i know how to read most of the word😢😢

I do agree ..

Glad to hear that!

Great!

be confident, the experience told me that language is used for high-efficiency communication. A few words accompanied with body gestures will help you finish a successful communication. In addition, you are in China, Chinese people is very kind and friendly to help you solve any kind of questions

Thank you!

All Americans can also speak fluent Mandarin Putonghua

Those are haters making fun of the Chinese. They are trolls. They have no idea if you ask them to speak Chinese.

Considering how harsh is chinese education system, I believe that most of them can read english fluently. It's just quite unfortunate that they don't have as much opportunity to practice their speaking.

From the perspective of Chinese, it can be deemed as "good in English" is reaching the same level as native speakers.

​@@xepinephrine4743 Yeah, I can see that. There are many problems with nativespeakerism though. Cultures and businesses manipulate and profit off people trying to reach the esteemed level of the 'native speaker' (which somehow always seems to lean towards sounding like old white elites, weird that). People are led to believe they need to sound 'native' to fit in, to be accepted amongst their peers as professionals. Discriminatory and stress-inducing.

100%

That's awesome!

@SalukiLove, Sound like, "it's pearls before swine" on you.

Which languages did you learn? Where do you live?

How can I say this, it is possible in China there are many kinds of options. But only English teachers have the most.

But what for reason? It took many many years just to master a language beyond communication. Chinese language is a great example. As a native speaker, I still couldn’t master this language, specifically in literature field which uses old Chinese

In fact, at the secondary level, you can choose the language of study freely, but English is relatively simple.

😂 it's all for the education resources. There are not many teachers of other languages in China. Technically, you can learn English， Russian, Japanese, French, Dutch or Spanish for college entrance examination but in reality, schools can only provide English courses usually.

Indeed

Thank you

Its call the Wukang mansion in Shanghai... i believe it was designed by a famous european architect

Really glad you're learning Chinese. As a native speaker of Chinese, I can responsibly tell you that Chinese grammar is much simpler than English Lol.Don't be afraid of your accent and speak more，like when I first started learning English💪

thanks!

Can't agree more... these students are top of the top.

Not necessarily top 3. They are no higher than #3 but no lower than #10. But yes it is very hard to get into.

True

Let's continue learning and improving ourselves!

Wow

Actually there are quite a few Chinese speaking tourists in Cambridge or Oxford…..

@@willlee7147 😂😂😂

Well I mean if Mandarin is being used in international communities and organizations a lot I'm pretty sure there would be a lot of students speaking Mandarin, at least basic Mandarin because it's one of the hardest languages to learn

@@myvarya3800 that should be so. but oxbridge are having difficulty filling modern language courses so my contention is that the percentage of fluent or semi fluent Mandarin speaking students attending oxbridge would be significantly lower

Appreciate it!

No big deal... proficient in English is only a tiny factor of someone's success if it is any.

Haha, go try this interview in Japan top universities, you be surprised.

Honestly, never noticed that in my half year in Shanghai. Maybe bc I was in the east side.

It is said that every admission letter for Tsinghua University students has a line that reads: "Tsinghua, the pride of your life."😶

@@user-bj2xv7tf9i :o Didn't know that. Thanks for sharing.

@@user-bj2xv7tf9i "Tsinghua, the pride of your life.", well, if that's really what they put on their admission letters, then they are arrogant, since, how do they know that the recipient's son or daughter isn't the pride of their life?? Besides that, the whole point of going to Tsinghua is to accomplish things in the world, which means that those after-Tsinghua accomplishments are bigger/more important than Tsinghua, so, once again, Tsinghua is wrong. Tsinghua seems to have a narcissistic mentality.

@@terryadams2652 Use common sense. Of course a youtube commenter made that up. If you believed that so easily how can you maintain your sanity in this era of social media and misinformation.

Spanish would be a better metric. Chinese isn't as important as Spanish

NO

@@Nandinandito wow that is those are the falsest words i've heard all day. True, the US might have some hispanic neighbors, but in no way does that make Spanish more "important" than Chinese, per se. Both languages are one of the three most spoken languages in the world, with Chinese being first. And think about it, Mandarin, being the most spoken dialect of Chinese is very valuable because of the people you can potentially connect with as China become more and more relevant on the global scale.

@@keizee100 there is no "dialect of Chinese". There are Chinese languages. Spanish is 100% more important than Chinese in the US. Plenty more speakers and plenty more chances to use it. No matter how relevant China becomes, most people are not going to do business with Chinese people directly. Most people will interact with Spanish speakers. Obviously Mandarin, the representative of what we call Chinese, is an important language, but it will probably not become as useful as Spanish is in the US in your lifetime. It is absolutely too different compared to a language like French.

​@@Nandinandito So... I'm not trying to start a war or an argument with you, I hope you understand that. I'm a high school senior in the US and I've studied Spanish since 6th grade. I could have chosen Mandarin, but I chose Spanish because I value its versatility and I definitely recognize its potential globally. That alone was a decision I've never once regretted since middle school, which should show that I don't view Spanish any less important than Mandarin/Chinese. So please, I implore you to have patience and read what I have to say. I am Chinese, and I am certain that I would be able to understand what someone speaking a different dialect is writing even if I can't understand what they might be saying, because they're writing and speaking the "Chinese language." If you need an example, my mother speaks a dialect I cannot understand because I was never taught it, but I am able to figure out certain phrases due to its Chinese roots despite some differences in pronunciation. I would agree that yes, Spanish might feel more relevant to US citizens because of our hispanic neighbors and the rapidly increasing hispanic population in the US, but the value of Chinese is the breadth of opportunities it could present you with. One example being employment and communication... if you were an immigrant from any country that did not know English, Chinese business owners are your best bet of finding quick and relatively stable employment (i.e. as janitors or handymen), if we discount white collared professions that may require an education to get hired. Furthermore, the connections you may establish because of Chinese is visibly far wider and higher than connections you can make with Spanish, currently at least. Though I must admit, hispanic politicians in the US are much more commonplace than Chinese politicians, but politics are about the only sector where Chinese is rather limited. Also, I do not mean to offend you with any of what I am saying, but objectively speaking from current day affairs, China's relevance in the global scale may shift the importance of Chinese as a language. This could be seen through the rise of the US as a superpower globally, which has made English a must-learn for many country and its citizens. With China's current development, it's hard to commit to the statement that Chinese won't be as mainstream as English is now.

那不会发生的！

@@lastlast1186 It won't be long before you're proven wrong

this student has the capability of independent thinking and insight, this mindset is gonna help him successful in the near future.

It’s so true that it’s much easier to understand tech documents if you can understand English, I’m really impressive for it , so I’m also trying to improve my English by any means , for the language shift, I don’t think it will easily shift to Chinese in the future, maybe it can be more popular, but it’s quite hard to learn for most non-Chinese people,the pronunciation the spelling have no relationships, and many times totally the same sentence means differently😂, so it’s better to use English to communicate as universal language

It's a big if. As unstable as the US seems, it is far more stable than china and that's just socially talking. While prior to the 2020s china was growing faster it is not the case currently, the US's economy actually outgrew China's. Furthermore, english is already standardized around the world, even if china outgrows the us, the dominance of English is somewhat independent of the US. The longer the western world and therefore english remains dominant, the more engrained english will be worldwide. Additionally one of the reasons english became an international language is because of the immigration policies of the US and the cultural openness to foreigners to come to the US. Economy is a separate thing, people are not going to china to receive and education and furthermore I'm not even sure the citizenry of china would at all be amicable to that being the case. Regardless of if China surpasses the west in economic importance there is a long road before chinese can even grow as a language. English isn't just used because the US is the largest influence, it's also used because every aspect of english speaking culture is extremely open to anyone and even post US, those facts will still remain. There is a world where the US collapses and english still continues becoming more and more dominant, there is no world where china collapses and chinese as a language grows in any capacity. There's so many If's to chinese becoming a more prominent language. If china survives in a recognizable state, if it continues growth, if after doing this manages to completely transform itself successfully to start integrating people into it's culture.

Yes, I have come across many. At one point in time, Malaysia was the same. The point is don't give up your mother tongue, and learn a new language doesn't mean you have to give up your own language.

Yes, but more and more English is used in the workplace, especially in finance sector or international firms.

@Huang Laughing, If others could manage it, then why can't you? They are chinese, living in China and learning English too. Make more efforts to improve your English instead of excuses.

I've found immersion learning is very good for those who feel they didn't get enough language proficiency from their education. Many people have become fluent in a second language off of immersion learning.

@@jamo2735 you are right!

But you need to recognize that English is just a tool for studying advanced western world technology and knowledge, speaking in English is not necessary for many Chinese.

Coming from a billingual, it’s weird how when I do direct translation from Malay to English, it will not make sense

Will do :)

Finally someone that speaks the truth...

i think you need to improve your english mate

Considering how harsh is chinese education system, I believe that most of them can read english fluently. It's just quite unfortunate that they don't have as much opportunity to practice their speaking.

@@Mzuagip this is a fair comment, and I can tell you’re mostly right. It’s actually the same across all North Asia: Japan, China, S.Korea. Their English studies are aimed at gaining proficiency for tests whose tasks are mainly reading, comprehension and basic writing, which well suit college book studying and passing multiple-choice tests. Another avail is the Chinese proficiency test HSK which one may pass without speaking a single word and, if you do perfectly fine the other two parts, you may even score zero in the first one, listening. Of course there’s a spoken version, but it’s nowhere near in popularity…