Da Shan - Learn Chinese

[LearnChineseWithEase]

I loved watching DaShan's program in China, but I'm so glad I still have the chance to watch it here!

[hellahotdude]

this guy is awesome..damn!!!

[hellahotdude]

mike's got accent

[catherine20080811]

I love Him, his chinese and his Canadian accent! lol

[minghan05]

If a non-native english teacher who has achieved a high level of proficiency in English can teach the subject (and that's common considering Eng is the lingua franca), I don't see why a non-native mandarin teacher who has achieved a high level in Chinese (speak, write and read) can't teach the subject, esp to the non-natives, because he can also share his own experiences and difficulties while learning the lang

[MrAndreaspower]

XIE XIE...:)

[brightlongpham]

great ! Jiu shi wo xiang xue de !

[SchwarzerMannn]

how does anyone make that sound at 7.56 that's amazing

[krishall001]

@yazalamaful Shame? Are you being serious?! Lol. So you're saying that a guy whose first language is english and who has been through the toil of learning chinese to a native level is unqualified to teach other people whose first language is also english..... you're a fool.

[mvirtuallyhere]

@krishall001 You're right, but here is something ironical. While they think it is a good idea to have someone whose native language is English teach Mandarin, they are slow to accept a person to teach them English who is fluent in English but whose native language is not English.

[Spart1c1s]

lol, us white peoiple suk at ping pong

[yazalamaful]

the chinese are making a big deal of this but when people realise how easy it is to speak chinese, the hype will be over....reading and writing, of course, is another story.

[XMaYueMingX]

你是一个大傻瓜, 哈哈 你觉得发音很容易但是读写很困难吗 ？ 放屁！

二百五

要是读写难，你不能发音好。

好多美国人学中文，但是大山特别, 他的中文太好了。

我非常喜欢他。

[iCamiloTV]

"my name is Mark Roswell, also known as DaShan" this, I always am familiar with when I watch travel in Chinese on CCTV9!

[EvilDave1309]

HAHAA I love him

[zincnitrate]

I love Dashan! Even though I don't study Chinese, I love watching his videos. They make me feel more like I can learn another language just like a native speaker. I hope my Spanish can some day be as good as his Chinese. :D

[deathcrypt]

haha my dad knows him XD

[ixiedin]

I think Dashan is very talented. He can speak both languages not only fluently but on a native level (yes, including Mandarin), which most of the ABCs, native Chinese(me myself as well) and westerners aren't able to do.

[trunkdk]

Dashan is in lots of Canto commercial in Canada speaking Cantonese. Amazing and talented person.

[eatfastnoodle]

he's what he is right now mainly owing to his talent as a performer and something deeper that I know it's there but can't put into words. Many people become famous overnight, few people can sustain their fame 20 years after their initial rise to stardom. Many non-Chinese speak perfect native level Chinese, many of them appear on Chinese TV regularly. But none of them come even close to Dashan's influence and recognition. There is something much deeper going on here.

[negooog]

弧圈球?

[lbb2r]

haha u understand yao, ni, ping pang, and think u can speak chinese

[menglinhai]

哈哈，你知道不知道，他是谁？他是外国人，但她不是外人。他的中­文比很多的中国人的中文好。

[menglinhai]

对不起！我没有明白。你不想，大山的中文不好，　你想，ｍａｖｅｒｉｃｋ的中文不好　－　对不起啊，我写错了！

[bo123bi]

i be seeing this on t.v all the time....

hehe and ya no i be watching that :D

[defelipec]

Adding caption for new words would´ve been specially helpful.

[maverick3110]

I've been learning Chinese for about 2 months and I can understand this.

[crouchtig]

That's because they added subtitles ;)

[maverick3110]

I meant I could understand it without the subtitles, mostly. There's a lot of technical terms in there.

[Nags]

I've studied Japanese. I've been waiting to combat Chinese and Korean as well, I think Mandarin is too...tough for me.

[andoruJapan]

I've studied Japanese too and I find Mandarin infintely easier. Japanese grammar is more complex, rigid and ambiguous than Chinese, what with multiple meaning adverbs and agglutinative verb forms. Mandarin is simple, grammatically speaking. No inflected endings and flexible word order (similar to English). Pronunciation is not too hard (or even essential to master as in such a large country there are inevitably differences) and kanji are mostly single-reading, unlike in Japanese.

[Hikkairu]

Sorry, but I have to disagree.

Having studied Japanese for 8 years, Mandarin is very difficult, for me at least.

[maverick3110]

Not true, many Chinese characters have multiple pronounciations, even common characters such as 长, 了，教，行 and so on. Also pronounciation is absoloutley vital with Chinese. For instance 要是 and 钥匙, or 这是 and 这时, have very similar pronounciations, but mean completely different things.

[maverick3110]

For example, 你去哪儿？我去中国银行。and 你今天怎么样？还行。 In the first instance 行 is pronounced hang, but in the second it is pronounced xing, and both mean completely different things.

[GoLeafsGoBaby]

I speak Taishanese (a dialect of Cantonese) and I would love to learn mandarin!!! It is China's official language!!

[sk84urlife18]

haha i speak mandarin and i've always wanted to learn cantonese or any other language spoken in china!