The BIGGEST Advantage of Mandarin Chinese

most of science terms (western science) are derived or composed from Latin origins, so maybe latin will be closer to mandarin in understanding meaning of words

Radiator radiates. Radiating is often coupled with heat. Bad example to suck someone into the video.

I agree with your general point, but your first example is ill-chosen. The Chinese disperse-heat-device describes the FUNCTION - what it's for - but the English describes the PROCESS - how it does it. A radiator isn't the only way to disperse heat, but the Chinese doesn't distinguish them. Meanwhile, the English tells you what it's actually doing, regardless of what you use it for. For example, a car radiator is used to cool the engine, but a room radiator is used to heat the room! This opposition is at the base of many, many words in both languages. For example, a telephone pole is structurally a pole, but functionally for telephones. So when we coin new words, we should try to pair up the WHY and the HOW, not just one of them. Chinese diannao has both - good!. English computer has only one - bad.

Learning Chinese isn’t easy 😅
I’m a native speaker， happy to help anyone who really wants to practice speaking

i mean, for romance language speakers the etymology is easier than u might think to guess
we can still roughly kind of get latin

plenty of engineers are base of supply chain, supply chain is base of manufacturers

So, to build supply chain needs cultivating engineer first

Chinese language is much easier to cultivate engineer, compare to English, the Chinese students don`t need to learn new words/characters before learn engineering knowledge

English has not "lost its identity." 这是一个愚蠢而傲慢的观点。

radiator is a pretty bad example because in English radiate basically means to disperse heat, but there are many other better examples

i thought he was gonna say 2026 and not 2023 lol then i checked the video and it came out in 2022 lmao (its december too btw)

I'm a native German speaker and I don't know what "wallz" is supposed to mean in German.

Strictly according to scientific indicators: the natural language closest to the "best language" is characterized by high information density of ideographic/pictographic+phonological mixture, flexible grammar, simple form, compatibility of abstract concepts with visual/embodied cognition, strong expansibility, easy learning, high efficiency, and high efficiency. In the real world, Chinese (especially the writing system) is the closest to the comprehensive advantages of all indicators. Chinese ranks first in the world in terms of "information density+world structure mapping+low-burden grammar+multimodal symbols"

Chinese can construct words like that because meanings are embedded in the characters. In English meanings are embedded in the sounds. Concepts are delivered in way fewer syllables in Chinese than English. Saying “smokeless coal” is way too many syllables

0:26 totally so simple it totally does not take a English speaker over five years to learn it that’s because of the pronunciation and when you hear how to say it, a lot of Chinese characters is the same sound

I relate with what you mean, I speak natively french and it is a difficult language to write. It really hurts our education. People also judges other based on if you write well or not, but the writing is shitty in the first place

As a native Chinese and someone who’s been learning and speaking English fluently since I was 2, I always wondered why other languages (such as Spanish) had so much unnecessary rules like a different conjugation for every single situation and male and female words, then there’s special cases and stuff, like bro how do you memorize all that??? It’s like memorizing 50 variants of every single word, in Chinese we just memorize 1 and how to write it.

literaly almost the same as in german

The problem is to know the character.

er- water dragon head?

Chinese language makes people smarter, because it speed up your memory, understanding and thinking. Like the "Number Memory" on human benchmark, untrained people like me can easily reach 14 digits. It's just easier to learn or remember with chinese, not only math, but also physics, chemistry, medical and more.

The primary elements that Westerners consider language to be pronunciation and communication.
The primary element for Chinese to view language is recognition and understanding.

So both sides will see each other's shortcomings and ignore their strengths.

In the West, writing is an accessory to pronunciation, and writing serves pronunciation.
In China, pronunciation serves words, and pronunciation can vary greatly, but the meaning of words will not change.

The English language also has one big problem : Huge number of jargon words for different fields of knowledge. Mandarin Chinese has way less jargon. This causes an individual who is a subject expert being kept to one's own silo of knowledge for most of one's lifetime, as learning other fields means learning more jargon.

I'm a little obsessed with hànzì! And somewhat reliant on it to help me learn speaking.

If a language can't come up with a word to represent a particular thought or emotion and instead needs to recycle the same word but vocalize it differently, then your language is primitive verbal slop and glorified animal grunts.

26 letters anyone can learn and are easily deciphered even with horrible penmanship vs overly complex pictograph that drastically changes the meaning with the slightest change to a single stroke. Letters are superior than pictograph. Its no brainer.

The biggest advantage in learning Chinese is that they don’t conjugate verbs. They use particles like 会、后、在、以前、以后、后来、就、上次、下次, and 了to understand if you’re talking about the past, present, and future. This isn’t possible in a language like English, Spanish, or Tagalog 😅.

6:12 me, a Pole:

English is a germanic language not a romance language

Are you kidding me? Written Chinese maybe easier because 汉字 hold meaning. But spoken Chinese is the total opposite, how many meanings can Shì have for example? Add to confusion, southern pronunciation where Shi and Si and Xi are pretty much pronounced the same way, specially when talking fast. CHINESE IS DIFFICULT AS HELL

i speak cantonese and am trying to learn mandarin and how to write. i love your video. here the first time.

Chinese, to me, is a lot like Latin.

Even when you consider that Latin has no native speakers (unlike Chinese), it was used as a scientific, philosophical, liturgical, and theological language for more than a millennium and added vocabulary. Languages like English borrowed from it, either directly or by proxy from French, as did other western languages (even Finnish, which is not even Indo-European). Thus, when English needs to create a new word, even today it either makes it from English origins or from Latin origins (usually the latter if you want to appear smarter).

Chinese did something similar to Latin. Although I do believe there is an intent to keep the language pure that is similar to what can be seen European Spanish (where for example "emprendedor" is more commonly used for "computer" instead of "computadora" like in Latin America) or Icelandic, we also have to remember that Chinese is sort of the Latin of eastern Asia. When you consider this, you realize that Korean or Japanese are better comparisons to English. While both Korean and Japanese have recently borrowed a lot of words from English, historically they borrowed more words and concepts from Chinese in a similar way to how English borrowed from Latin.

With this understanding, why wouldn't Chinese make terms that come directly from Chinese morphemes, rather than borrowing words from another language?

That’s what I love about the German language. It’s similar to English in a lot of ways but most long words are descriptive through smaller components 😁🤞🏼

Doctors and lawyers are much less paid jobs in China compared to the West. Do you know why? Because they are easy in Chinese.

There’s no need to overhype the benefits of learning Chinese. Chinese accounts for only 1.1% of all content on the Internet, falling not only far behind English but also French and Japanese—languages with a much smaller user base. While learning a new language is always advisable, you are not missing much, if you don't learn Chinese.

This is exactly why Chinese cannot be the language of science. Intuitive and easy to understand, maybe, but less accurate and prone to multiple meanings. That’s why scientific nomenclature relies on Latin and English.

I always hear that Chinese is very easy and "logical" because of examples like the radiator. Yes, "scatter heat device" makes sense. But you only see the logic once you learn the word. It is not useful to think that a language works like that because there is no logical way to form words. For example, is "pen" a "writing stick device" in chinese? No, it is 笔 (Bi). Is "television" a "see images"? No, it is 电视, which is "see electricity". People can't say it is easy since some words are formed by the junction of two logical meanings because you have to learn the word in the first place.

please make it clear between “文(纹)” and “字”.