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Patreon Exclusive! Mandarin Chinese is hard.
🕑 Added 2025-02-13 01:20:47 +0000 UTCAs most of you know, I'm an American living in Taiwan. My wife and kids are American/Taiwanese duel citizens. All three of my kids have natively fluent English & Chinese. This is my 6th year living abroad and let's just say my Chinese is...lacking. Unlike English, Chinese is a tonal language, which means, the emphasis you put on the sound changes the meaning of the word. In my day to day life, most people can understand what I'm trying to say contextually even though I have garbage tones, but I wanted to be as accurate as possible for the Chinese New Year special, so I asked my daughter, JeeShing to help with my pronunciation. The following ensued...
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Fiona MacLean
TIP OF THE SHOE BAYBEEEEE
midori_notori
DT IS THAT YOU??
TJ
BWAHHHAHAAAA!!!!!
Cody Stork
That was very sweet.
sokrispy media
Like Swedish says “Som toppen på en sko”
midori_notori
now say 就像鞋尖一樣！
APN
Just the EUGH sound was enough to make me cry laughing. Just imagining I love my pet fish turning into something like "I love my *almost throw-up noise*" is hilarious to me. Thanks for the laugh TJ
Eddie xd!
Man, why can't I speak Chinese
TJ
You kind of just did.
TJ
Fair question. I know the words. I just don't know the tones. She can't mess with me too bad.
Splash Of Color
Please tell me this means we'll be getting translations for the Chinese New Year's Special.
Nick Korey
TJ, honestly, how do you know she's not getting you to say something like, "I love Mom more and you should play with Sony Playstation 5!" ?
TJ
It was this many.
CFMayorKingsley(s)
How many outtakes was it one two or more? 😂
