5:59 ten thousand success

I loved the explanation about pauses being integral to fluency. It's not something books will teach you. The part about speeding up the 是一个 was especially interesting and something I'll have to keep in mind.

Apparently Jimmy O.Yang spoke Shanghainese with his family, learned Cantonese in school, and learned Mandarin by watching dramas.

Whenever friends ask me if there are anyone in Hollywood that can speak proper Mandarin. I always point to Jimmy O. Yang.

I love when you teach us modern-day uses in Chinese (e.g., app and ppt)! I don't think my mom would understand me if I tried to use loan words with her since she's from the older generation though :P

Jimmie O Yang was born in Shanghai, and grew up in Hong Kong. He has both Shanghai accent and Cantonese accent. Oh, his parents are from Shanghai, and he was born in Hong Kong. Learned new thing today. And you should watch "Crazy Rich Asian" the movie. xD

I love watching these as a Cantonese speaker.

So much helpful vocabulary in this one, thank you!

Ed Chen (played by Tim Chiou)'s accent sounds a lot like a Chinese immigrant who grew up in the US speaking only a little bit of Mandarin. I grew up in the US, but exclusively spoke Mandarin at home growing up, so while I have a natural accent and cadence (how I speak and pause, etc), I sometimes make odd word choices that sound natural to me but sounds awkward to fully native mandarin speakers

I think this may be one of your best videos, thank you for all the for your hard work and effort! 非常感谢，你的努力很重要的

hi, always great to hear your honest breakdown of pronunciation, I loved hearing about partitioning the sentences and emphasizing the important points. Nice, you finished firefly! I liked when you made a video on the show, you didn't judge them too harshly, the time when it was made it was much less common to use any form of foreign language as part of a series, probably why the actors didn't find too much time to learn proper pronunciation. Ah, don't forget there is also the movie, Serenity (made after much demand from both the fans and the actors to get some sort of conclusion to the series). anyway, thanks very fun and informing videos!

"What. Was. That?" That was comedy; though 1) it sounded a bit like cantonese 2) he was speaking while moving his mouth as little as possible which IS a good tip for speaking with a better accent. The Chinese mouth is generally closed or nearly so while speaking, so others don't see your teef, your foodz, or smells ew ur breath. Chinese ventroliquism is easy level ventriloquism!

Hello, Eric Bachman? This is your mom and you are not my baby.

So, you finished the Firefly, polish it up with Serenity and proudly declare yourself a browncoat. And thanks for clear and helpful videos as always.

I love your personality and how you present your videos. I would love to see more videos focused on Mandarin grammar.

wow, I never think about tones to this degree. I do do that sometimes. Never realized till now. Thank you.

An analogy is comparing something to something else like this: "Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get". A metaphor is using a word or phrase that means one thing to describe something different like this: "She stole my heart". Literally: she cut out the heart and took it. Figuratively: He fell in love with her.

It was an amazing show

姐，实不相瞒我是跟你学英语的，你的英语清晰又流利。

Considering I've never learned more than a few French phrases (and that's my country's official other language), I doubt I'll learn Mandarin. However, your videos will teach me how to detect when someone is speaking bad or fake Mandarin. 🤣 Thank you for the entertaining content!

Great video! Love ur emphasis on how intonation (sentence flow) makes you sound more native. It’s true 💯 %. Metaphor and Analogy AREvery similar. In my mind metaphor is a longer example where you substitute 2 or more different objects to represent another idea. Analogy is more a simple, direct 1:1 comparison. So yeah, analogy is right!

yeah Firefly was really good ;) love your content thanks for the videos :)

There is a TV series from the US which has some Cantonese spoken, I think there is only 1 character that can actually speak Cantonese, and it also has a lot of martial arts in it. The series is called "Warrior" it's based on the writings of Bruce Lee. You may like to check it out. It is set during the Tong Wars in the late 1800s, Ah Sahm, a martial arts prodigy from China, immigrates to San Francisco and becomes a hatchet man for the most powerful tong in Chinatown.

Love your videos. Great works!!

“He doesn’t love you at all.” Ouch.

I have no current desire to speak Chinese at all (I'm learning enough languages that I can barely wrap my head around lol) but I love watching these videos 😋🙌

You should make another channel where you react to your favorite clips or scenes. I would love to see your reaction to Silicon Valley just as a viewer of the show.

i love these reaction video keep them coming! would love to hear you speak more Cantonese :P

THANK YOU the second Ed said “app” I was so confused because I don’t think I’ve ever heard a born-and-raised-in-China Chinese person say that; they usually say “A-P-P”.

jian yang was the unseperable part of silicon valley. He was hilarious :D love him !!

Your videos are so amazing!!! What a beautiful language. Have you see the film Big Trouble in Little China? I watched it MANY MANY times when I was young. It would be interesting to see your perspectives on the film. 😁😁😁

No idea why KZfaq want me to learn Chinese. But it's nice to see you break down so funny clip I enjoyed.

jessie you are so sweet and cute..enjoy the videos

Very nice video🤙🤙🤙

wow your top is so pretty! where did you get it :o also, love your videos!

“ Jimmy O. Yang is a Hong Kong-American actor “

When I watched a similar video I felt discouraged because I'm learning Chinese since one week. With other languages I could speak from the get go. But with Chinese you have to take a step back and start with the absolute basics. Now I feel the struggle of learning a language that's not even remotely close to the languages you already know. Studying alone I try my best to do it right but I'm not sure whether I do it right even when recording and hearing myself.

YES, you got A-P-P! My son teaches English at a prestigious international high school in Beijing. He does speak Mandarin and yes he calls it A P P.

8:23 - The most accurate term for this is "simile", which is a type of metaphor.

Other words I’ve noticed people say in English when speaking mandarin is party and fan (like a fan of something)

In Toishanese, the posterior is "see-food".

He spoke good mandarin in the latest tv series American Born Chinese

硅谷很好看！推荐！

I'm mixed Thai and my bf is from Hong Kong, I speak Thai and English and he speaks cantonese and English but we decided we should both learn mandarin, because why not? 😂

A metaphor is a type of analogy. All metaphors are analogies but not all analogies are metaphors ("similes" for example)

I need to catch up on Silicon Valley.

Jimmy is not a native speaker of Mandarin, he has mentioned this alot. Cantonese/Shanghainese is better. He's just good at imitating mainlanders. Also The other character is an ABC (in the show and real life) so actually i think the way he speaks mandarin is quite fitting for the show.

Analogy! You have great English

根本 It meant (originally/at first) kind of connotation. Eg. 我根本沒做過。I never did it. (It also has a sense that they never did it in the first place) 我根本不愛你。In fact I don't love you. Or it could be expressed as I never really loved you. The 根本 ads a sort of time length to it. This phrase is mainly used when someone assumes that you love them and generally spoken with the addition of 過。past tense. 我根本沒愛過你。Also 不愛 is replaced by 沒愛。

Jessie can get it

Hey Jess, I've watched some Africans sang mandarin songs, pretty good in my ear, but what do you think? I hope you find the videos on Tiktok or/and KZfaq

I’m just seeing this now, so not sure if you’re still looking at the comments, but the actor (Tim Chiou) that plays Ed Chen is in fact Taiwanese. Also, he speaks English with an American accent, so he’s playing a Taiwanese American character rather than a Taiwanese character in America. In that context, English without an accent and decent but somewhat off sounding Chinese with a couple missed tones is spot on for the character en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Chiou

Hi Jessie! Could you review Sabrina the Teenage Witch S1 E 20, Meeting Dad's Girlfriend? The family of witches have a Chinese meal and speak what I guess is Mandarin during the meal

I can't focus because she is so beautiful ☺️

Your english pronounciacion is very good even than mine

Have you discussed the Chinese language in the latest Dune movie?

I think Jimmy O Yang is v cute too. 👍🏼

In Hakka backside is literally pronounced as si fut…

I only hear: G a y W o m a n - when u say: gei wo men XD

Ed Chen-ren 😂😂😂😂

“Wait, not Ed Sheeran. Ed Chen.” LOL

Silicon Valley is really funny! Just know the humor is pretty crude

I've actually spoken Mandarin with Jimmy O Yang's father before.

As a Chinese native speaker I found your channel to be so interesting and informative! As I’ve been living outside China for more than a decade now, my Chinese has definitely become worse! Sometimes I struggle to find the exact word to express myself.

Jimmy讲中文好帅啊怎么回事

do one on Stu Jay Raj's Chinese, you can search his youtube channel

Silicon valley really gives you that cringy feeling (in a good way). Definitely one of my favorite modern comedy series. Funny to see the Taiwanese accent on the big screen! Once you mentioned it I heard it too, the softer SH/CH/ZH -> S/X/Z makes it a little gentler. I've heard it's considered a feminine accent? Is that true? Also I wonder how easy it is to understand traditional characters for mainland chinese. I've been learning the traditional characters and I definitively recognize some simplified characters. But the brain is much better at simplifing complex stuff than complicating simple stuff so it might be easier to go traditional -> simplified than vice versa. Typing characters on a keyboard is still a pain no matter the character set. 天啊！我認為寫中文太難！

Did you do reaction videos of Firefly or were you just watching it for fun?

If topic but at 3:52 it sounds like, "me eating y'all get women".

his cantonese is even better if you watched his videos.

Hi Jessie! Is 酷毙了 still used or is that an old expression? Laoshu505000 always used to say that and Chinese people always had an interesting reaction, like, "wow this black guy knows 酷毙了? lol"

我喜欢你穿的衣服。

The Gei 给is close to how Malaysian chinese speaks it. Our southernish accent

Dude really said "gay woman"

Her face at 0:45.

my bro really said : ni yi ding yao GAY wo men yi ge you li ke tu de app

My god, I just wanna say that you're gorgeous

Didn't know Ed sheeran is famous in China I mean why wouldn't

Are those tattoos I see peaking out? 🥰

I have no idea why KZfaq recommended this to me, but 2 things. Firstly, Silicon Valley is a great show, you should watch it. Second, you’ve piqued my interest in learning Mandarin.

"Just like rap" would be a simile, because you are using "like."

That's good to know how people in China refer to an app. Could I ask you what visual effects is in Chinese?

If you hide in China town you can live in Chinese in the USA but once you leave it life would get tougher.

Lisa?

在语境上， ”根本“和”并“一样吗？我记得中文老师说这两个词你可以用着重说对于某事的negative aspect，但是我还不知道在语境上有没有区别。

Only Toisanese know whats 'seafood' 😝

The show starts off great then it goes into a pattern. Big problems then a convenient solution . Rinse repeat for 6 seasons.

Silicon valley is amazing. Stupidity hilarious

Silicon Valley is based on Nvidia's actual technologies. The Nvidia ceo is taiwanese. All the tech has come true. It's kind of sad it silicon paints bad light on us chinese. Lisa Su perfect english. Jensen Huang perfect English. The whole show should be english speaking chinese that would be more real. But whatever. LOLs. Jin Yang is more like the CEO of Binance Changpeng Zhao or Justin Sun. So there are two polar sides of it. Chinese chinese. American chinese. Silicon valley. Plus that Razer CEO singaporean chinese. Don't get me started on the whole computer hardware business. That's 100% chinese. Except apple.

ED SHEERAN PLSSS💀💀💀

The gay women wants an app. That’s the Chinese I learned thanks.

是谁的屁股?

At 3:21, you speak about the strange choice of words. But the words, in English, sound like "gay women... you like". Perhaps that is a play on words by the scriptwriter.

Be careful to differentiate "immigrated" and "emigrated" when you speak. They mean different things.

I don’t think Shanghainese elders are good at speaking Mandarin lol

Yau gay women?

Gay woman 😳