are they reading pinyin or chinese characters? they sound really great! i'm taking chinese right now in college and currently learning, "wo shi xuesheng. ni ne?" haha
technically i learned chinese before english. heck, i could recognize chinese characters at age 2. then, i grew up and didn't want to be so "asian" and unfortunately forgot about 75% of what i learned in about 6 years of chinese school. oh, i was born in canada too. my parents talk to me in chinese i talk english back. it's sad :( anybody been to a similar situation?
@ryuu304 Same for me. I used to talk vietnamese with my family, but then I went to french school so I don't speak anymore, they speak to me in Viet but I answer back w/ french... =l
its really intresting because when i was 3 i was learning mandarin and english and at 5 i was pretty fluent but i stopped speaking when i was 7 because i stopped speaking with my family and english was my dominant language im going to chinese school again not fun and i actually found out that i still have my accent a little bit
Haha those dumb little girls are talking in Gibberish! they are making up their own language and it sounds funny, those 5 year olds have such an imagination but they aren't smart enough to learn yet.
I remember doing all of this when I was around their age. Go to chinese school at 8 and leave at 12. It was a very tiring way to start your Saturday mornings xD.
@PrometheanRunGood Me too. We use to live in Germany when I was little and I could understand what they were saying but then we moved back to the states and I forgot that shit pretty quick. But for some odd reason I can still read certain words and I can pronounce German words like a pro.
@PrometheanRunGood Me too. We use to live in Germany when I was little and I could understand what they were saying but then we moved back to the states and I forgot that shit pretty quick. But for some odd reason I can still read certain words and I can pronounce German words like a pro.
@PrometheanRunGood Me too. We use to live in Germany when I was little and I could understand what they were saying but then we moved back to the states and I forgot that shit pretty quick. But for some odd reason I can still read certain words and I can pronounce German words like a pro.
@PrometheanRunGood yeap i can vouch for that, i cant even remember how i learned english and korean while juggling mandarin and shanghainese dialects all at once but i manged to do it when i was a kid.......
If you want to speak Chinese without a foreign accent, you have to start young like these kids. The USA should offer Chinese classes at kindergarten level.
@llephillips That would be cool, but that is not going to happen. The inclusion of Chinese as a Bilingual course at the kindergarten level would be 疯了。 Spanish is still unavailable at many locations. You know what I mean.
I'm not sure if this is true or not, but my sister told me that in Louisville Kentucky they teach it in kindergarten. They're starting to add it to more highschools(including mine, but I live in a big town), so maybe after many, many years it will be offered to elementary school students in some schools....
If you want to speak Chinese without a foreign accent, you have to start young like these kids. The USA should offer Chinese classes at kindergarten level.
I suppose there's potential economic sense regarding teaching American kids Chinese but I think too much time would be required to invest. You can't start teaching at kindergarten then not continue into primary education and further.
today i learnt chinese for the whole day because my teacher is chinese and she is really nice she is called suewai but we have to call her miss man it is not funny and wipe that smark off your face and stop laughing
"are borned"?!! "what the big deal"?! You're criticizing two little girls who can speak two languages so well at their age, and here you are, barely able to speak one. I think you should give them a little more credit, and learn your English grammar better, before commenting posts like this.
I hate to say it but it is some TRUE shit . . . Americans, [in the wholesale of most of our purview and saddly this scope extends to for the most part of those who govern us] are some lazy, greedy bastards and inurned in being lazy that they have no desire to do ANYTHING else . . . except line their pockets, with our paper . . . . and some parts of the rest of the world have, in their attempts to become more modern or American, eclipsed us . . ..
that is true, saddly true, I was a military brat who was raised in Germany, during those integral years of my life . . . and when we would have functions at the German Schools and would meet with them, they had at least seven other languages which they could rudimentarily read and comprehend, due to their young age age . . .
to simply say American one rightfully expects to see a child so completely and pervasively black, white, or any other race, to the disclusion of Chinese, that you are given reason to pause and applaud the presumed acumen of those Children, (so young), rather than their enviornment . . .Do you see??? 他们是中国，虽然他们拥有聪明的这个优势It is the enviornment,chinese or no, of THESE Children which facilitate their ability to speak and read Mandarin;)):
Good job by the kids but the title is misleading, it should really say ABCs reading in Chinese. Yes they were born in the states but lets be real here folks, if you see a white kid in a cowboy hat learning english you wouldnt be that impressed. The big difference is that their homes (or mother) speak chinese at home so they have an added advantage. Post a couple of white kid videos for this title to be accurate.
it MAY be misleading, but it is 100% accurate to assume that when one refers to "American Kids Reading in Mandarin Chinese," [to a Native born American or to one who knows the endless racial implications that that can have . . . .] that for this to be a novelty of any REAL importance, that they are not obviously ASIAN . . . or not Children of Chinese parents. . . . even one!!
It would be even more momentous if the article were to say Japanese or Korean American Children reading in Manderin Chinese, because you do not automatically assume that they have the home court advantage of having a Chinese Parent.
But to simply say American one rightfully expects to see a child so completely and pervasively black, white, or any other race, to the disclusion of Chinese, that you are given reason to pause and applaud the presumed acumen of those Children, (so young), rather than their enviornment . . .Do you see???
What makes you think those kids speak Mandarin at home just because they are Chinese? There is no such thing as "Chinese". It's "Mandarin" or "Cantonese" or whatever. Not all Chinese people speak Mandarin and there is no reason why they should. It's as ridiculous as saying that all white people should speak German.
@ieatpeoplehate "It's as ridiculous as saying that all white people should speak German." -- nobody said all white people should speak German. All Germans, however, should.
It's wrong to assume that they speak Mandarin at home just because they're Chinese. There's no such language as "Chinese". It's Cantonese, or Mandarin, or whatever. Not all Chinese people speak Mandarin, and there is no reason why they should. You might as well say that all white people should speak German.
to pondsofwonder . . . because they are, I presume, at least in part Chinese Americans . . . living in America . . . and as such, are also not only required to attend an AMERIICAN School, [in which ENGLISH, is the primary language] but are also expected to do well and stay current with their assignments . . . so that their level of Manderin, with respect to their age group and their necessity for fluency . . . is laudable . . . GO GIRLS!!!!;))))))
@kenichiku american is a not a race ,american means you were born in america which is western culture. if they have chinese blood ,then im not impress comrade
true, they could be reading pinyin, but who cares, their tones are quite good, only a few tone mistakes, but who cares.
its easier to read characters than pinyin to get tones right, because at the end of each word there is a number indicating the tone. for example: wo3 yao4 li2 kai1 jia1... but to read 我要離開家... 又簡單又更快.. its faster and easier.
That's so cool of them. If they ever want to go to China someday they'll have no problem fitting in, unlike some of my other American-Born Chinese friends.
I saw a news story where the American students were in a Chinese immersion Magnet School on the east coast. This third grade girl said "Oh, I hated it when I was in first and second grade, but then in third grade I understood it and it all makes sense to me know."
I agree. This isn't particularly amazing. There are plenty of overseas kids who learn how to speak Chinese, whether it be mando or canto, completely fluently.
It is good to see that these kids are starting when they are young though.
A huge amount of American born Chinese kids can't speak, read or write Chinese because they grow up in an English-speaking country. It's great to see people are making an effort to keep the language alive.
Chinese language is s*** ! It is no because the language itself, it is the Chinese government made it like s***, a lot of websites have been taken down in china, and it is very hard to publish your own personal articles on the web with strong opinions that not in the way of those politicians want. Only a small portion of information is written in Chinese compare to English on the internet. As a result, even though you are good at Chinese, what is chance that you can publish on the internet.
As long as china stays strong and its people prosper, you talk about china, what about other goverments, people that invade sovereign nations and kill fck millions, the world is not a simple place dude, things are the way they are there and there order. your sentiment is real thou.
@aacv Yeahhh well. |: People who know different languages can get better jobs. They don't have to live in China. My uncle has trade going in his business in Taiwan and knowing Chinese helped his career. I know that China's government itself is complete shit. The language is fucking fine and not completely useless.
most young kids these days can speak chinese but cant read. its great their starting to read when they are still young. i regret doing that when i was younger. its difficult for me to learn now.
The truth is that in the older generation of Chinese Americans (those born in the 50s to 80s,) kids were not encouraged to learn even a modicum of Chinese. Just look at Roger Tsein and Steven Chu (the new Engegy Secretary of the US,) they can't say boo in Chinese. But the younger ones in the US are trying to change that. In the UK, all BBCs (British Born Chinese) can speak Cantonese or Mandarin and they go to Saturday Chinese school.
Meh, not really impressed. I mean with the literature that is available today it is possible to teach pretty much anyone mandarin. It may look hard but it is not as hard as it looks, studied a year of mandarin in high school btw. The hardest part is learning the different tones, struggled with those for a long time :P
I agree about the tones. I have been learning on my own for 10 mo. and I can type just about any thing in Chinese. I am still having trouble speaking it because I can't find anyone to talk to me so I can practice speaking.
At one time I could speak about 500 to 1,000 words and phrases but after seeking to a native Chinese they told me I was speaking tone all wrong so I had forget what I known and start over.
I also struggle with tones, what you fail to realize is that while IT IS possible to teach anyone Manderin . . . IT IS NOT POSSIBLE for everyone to actually take the time and learn . . .most people do not take the time to adequately learn it . . . you being a prime example . . . with 1 year . . . WTF???!!!!! if chinese were your only language . . . you would be retarded for all of your comprehension in it.
They look Asian to me. O.o Certainly very good at Mandarin, but I suspect that they didn't have to learn it from outside sources, but that their parents spoke it to them at home.
However, if my speculation is incorrect, my heartfelt congratulations to these two. Their ability to read in such a different language is astounding.
To me they look mixed, cocasian + asian. Maybe their mother or father is chinese and is teaching them chinese. Also it's alot easier for a child to learn 1-2 langauges at a time than an adault.
you see i cant read Chinese but i can speak it Perfectly :( the girl in the read seems soooooooo boredd :D
KawaiiLuber 3 months ago
lol...the girl in the pink can speak beter than the red one...
MrSmile888 1 year ago 6
are they reading pinyin or chinese characters? they sound really great! i'm taking chinese right now in college and currently learning, "wo shi xuesheng. ni ne?" haha
mysteriouscamaro 1 year ago 12
@mysteriouscamaro They are reading in Chinese characters.
yuhogan 1 year ago
她们能明白自己说的是什么吗。。。
JPLucipher 1 year ago 14
@JPLucipher
她们懂她们读的故事。
yuhogan 1 year ago
they are adorable..
yousurehuh 1 year ago
nostalgic...
technically i learned chinese before english. heck, i could recognize chinese characters at age 2. then, i grew up and didn't want to be so "asian" and unfortunately forgot about 75% of what i learned in about 6 years of chinese school. oh, i was born in canada too. my parents talk to me in chinese i talk english back. it's sad :( anybody been to a similar situation?
ryuu304 1 year ago 15
@ryuu304 Same for me. I used to talk vietnamese with my family, but then I went to french school so I don't speak anymore, they speak to me in Viet but I answer back w/ french... =l
MoonfulBlue 1 year ago
its really intresting because when i was 3 i was learning mandarin and english and at 5 i was pretty fluent but i stopped speaking when i was 7 because i stopped speaking with my family and english was my dominant language im going to chinese school again not fun and i actually found out that i still have my accent a little bit
avie1995 1 year ago
lol.. their chinese is better than mine
BathingGorillas 1 year ago 3
右边这个更像老外的小女孩念的更好、。。看得出有些时日的功力
左边这个是不是混血？要加油。。。口音比较重
huanghao4861 1 year ago
#LOL these girls maybe be born in america, but they're not caucasian, look at their eyes...nice try though. they're halfers, so why not mention it?
gatorvalle 1 year ago
ooo cool i i am chinees too and when i was 5 i can very good speak chinees but now not very good more
mariane556 1 year ago
so cute
wjx70918 1 year ago
你们是很好！
kronprinsensvej 1 year ago
i'd guess one of the parents is Chinese.
theoark 1 year ago
they're pretty good but still a little bit of accent
aaronz8 1 year ago
OMG! ba ba boo yao. lol
TreeHooker11 1 year ago
these kids are chinese of couse they can speak chinese
eason2000 1 year ago
Haha those dumb little girls are talking in Gibberish! they are making up their own language and it sounds funny, those 5 year olds have such an imagination but they aren't smart enough to learn yet.
JesusChristRulesYOU 1 year ago
Now American and European can speak Mandarin Chinese well now.
andyhwang2009 1 year ago
I remember doing all of this when I was around their age. Go to chinese school at 8 and leave at 12. It was a very tiring way to start your Saturday mornings xD.
mrderekcu 1 year ago
cool!!!
MatMadik 1 year ago
coooll!!!
MatMadik 1 year ago
kids pick up languages MUCH MUCH faster than adults unfortunately they also can forget language pretty fast
I learned German when I was 4 and promptly forgot it when I started using english exclusively
PrometheanRunGood 1 year ago 10
@PrometheanRunGood Me too. We use to live in Germany when I was little and I could understand what they were saying but then we moved back to the states and I forgot that shit pretty quick. But for some odd reason I can still read certain words and I can pronounce German words like a pro.
Every1luvzME 1 year ago
@PrometheanRunGood Me too. We use to live in Germany when I was little and I could understand what they were saying but then we moved back to the states and I forgot that shit pretty quick. But for some odd reason I can still read certain words and I can pronounce German words like a pro.
Every1luvzME 1 year ago
@PrometheanRunGood Me too. We use to live in Germany when I was little and I could understand what they were saying but then we moved back to the states and I forgot that shit pretty quick. But for some odd reason I can still read certain words and I can pronounce German words like a pro.
Every1luvzME 1 year ago
@PrometheanRunGood yeap i can vouch for that, i cant even remember how i learned english and korean while juggling mandarin and shanghainese dialects all at once but i manged to do it when i was a kid.......
KoolJayJ 1 year ago
Five stars for yawning at 0:42 LOL
SongCore555 1 year ago 9
they don't look like americans....
yooutubename 2 years ago
@yooutubename: There is no "American look." 'American' is a nationality, not an ethnicity.
GreenGretel 1 year ago 3
@yooutubename just tell me wat does an american look like...
6ftdwn 1 year ago
@yooutubename im sure you don't look american either unless you are a native
akbarmohammed4eva 1 year ago 2
@yooutubename you are a complete idiot.
rammy15 1 year ago
@yooutubename what do Americans look like?
tritonraider 1 year ago
If you want to speak Chinese without a foreign accent, you have to start young like these kids. The USA should offer Chinese classes at kindergarten level.
llephillips 2 years ago 2
@llephillips That would be cool, but that is not going to happen. The inclusion of Chinese as a Bilingual course at the kindergarten level would be 疯了。 Spanish is still unavailable at many locations. You know what I mean.
MyMemories19 2 years ago
@MyMemories19 its not that amazing cuz i bet these kids are chinese.... dont they look chinese??? or they could be korean or jap
llHyRaXll 1 year ago
I'm not sure if this is true or not, but my sister told me that in Louisville Kentucky they teach it in kindergarten. They're starting to add it to more highschools(including mine, but I live in a big town), so maybe after many, many years it will be offered to elementary school students in some schools....
dankevie 1 year ago
If you want to speak Chinese without a foreign accent, you have to start young like these kids. The USA should offer Chinese classes at kindergarten level.
llephillips 2 years ago
I suppose there's potential economic sense regarding teaching American kids Chinese but I think too much time would be required to invest. You can't start teaching at kindergarten then not continue into primary education and further.
PaulyPlz 1 year ago
oh god...brings back memories when I was a kid...
bballgirlj955 2 years ago
woah perfect accent respect:p
ulleule 2 years ago
today i learnt chinese for the whole day because my teacher is chinese and she is really nice she is called suewai but we have to call her miss man it is not funny and wipe that smark off your face and stop laughing
Lj0121 2 years ago
ok they are BORNEd in usa but ok you know the language ok ok . what the big deal>?
Lilbluerocket 2 years ago
"are borned"?!! "what the big deal"?! You're criticizing two little girls who can speak two languages so well at their age, and here you are, barely able to speak one. I think you should give them a little more credit, and learn your English grammar better, before commenting posts like this.
kittenwithagun 2 years ago 81
He he lovely, I wish I'd studied lang when I was a kid. keep it up :)
ScrambledPie 2 years ago
Education is One of the most basic and egregious examples . . . though there are many
fagUrrific 2 years ago
I hate to say it but it is some TRUE shit . . . Americans, [in the wholesale of most of our purview and saddly this scope extends to for the most part of those who govern us] are some lazy, greedy bastards and inurned in being lazy that they have no desire to do ANYTHING else . . . except line their pockets, with our paper . . . . and some parts of the rest of the world have, in their attempts to become more modern or American, eclipsed us . . ..
fagUrrific 2 years ago
that is true, saddly true, I was a military brat who was raised in Germany, during those integral years of my life . . . and when we would have functions at the German Schools and would meet with them, they had at least seven other languages which they could rudimentarily read and comprehend, due to their young age age . . .
fagUrrific 2 years ago
to simply say American one rightfully expects to see a child so completely and pervasively black, white, or any other race, to the disclusion of Chinese, that you are given reason to pause and applaud the presumed acumen of those Children, (so young), rather than their enviornment . . .Do you see??? 他们是中国，虽然他们拥有聪明的这个优势It is the enviornment,chinese or no, of THESE Children which facilitate their ability to speak and read Mandarin;)):
fagUrrific 2 years ago
Good job by the kids but the title is misleading, it should really say ABCs reading in Chinese. Yes they were born in the states but lets be real here folks, if you see a white kid in a cowboy hat learning english you wouldnt be that impressed. The big difference is that their homes (or mother) speak chinese at home so they have an added advantage. Post a couple of white kid videos for this title to be accurate.
nyc10ken 2 years ago 2
@nyc10ken For this title to be accurate? So you instantly assume 'American kids' means 'White kids'? Wow. How ignorant of you. 傻屄.
auctusfilms 2 years ago 2
you racist swine shut up!
Chinese can never be Americans! Chinese are Chinese!
TheSunmanho 2 years ago
it MAY be misleading, but it is 100% accurate to assume that when one refers to "American Kids Reading in Mandarin Chinese," [to a Native born American or to one who knows the endless racial implications that that can have . . . .] that for this to be a novelty of any REAL importance, that they are not obviously ASIAN . . . or not Children of Chinese parents. . . . even one!!
fagUrrific 2 years ago
It would be even more momentous if the article were to say Japanese or Korean American Children reading in Manderin Chinese, because you do not automatically assume that they have the home court advantage of having a Chinese Parent.
fagUrrific 2 years ago
But to simply say American one rightfully expects to see a child so completely and pervasively black, white, or any other race, to the disclusion of Chinese, that you are given reason to pause and applaud the presumed acumen of those Children, (so young), rather than their enviornment . . .Do you see???
fagUrrific 2 years ago
他们是中国，虽然他们拥有聪明的这个优势It is the enviornment,chinese or no, of THESE Children which facilitate their ability to speak and read Mandarin;)):
fagUrrific 2 years ago
quite right!
Americans are such a scumbags on the planet I am Chinese myself and I hope the USA will be destroyed soon!
TheSunmanho 2 years ago
What makes you think those kids speak Mandarin at home just because they are Chinese? There is no such thing as "Chinese". It's "Mandarin" or "Cantonese" or whatever. Not all Chinese people speak Mandarin and there is no reason why they should. It's as ridiculous as saying that all white people should speak German.
ieatpeoplehate 2 years ago
@ieatpeoplehate "It's as ridiculous as saying that all white people should speak German." -- nobody said all white people should speak German. All Germans, however, should.
tritonraider 1 year ago 2
It's wrong to assume that they speak Mandarin at home just because they're Chinese. There's no such language as "Chinese". It's Cantonese, or Mandarin, or whatever. Not all Chinese people speak Mandarin, and there is no reason why they should. You might as well say that all white people should speak German.
ieatpeoplehate 2 years ago
O.O easy now, you're splitting hairs.
bummerbable 2 years ago
omg they'e better than me and I'm half Chinese... =(
MixMeAdrink 2 years ago 3
i don't think they're chinese. they must be american. otherwise, why would they be at that level at that age?
pondsofwonder 2 years ago
are you dumb or stupid?
Generalvaldez 2 years ago
to pondsofwonder . . . because they are, I presume, at least in part Chinese Americans . . . living in America . . . and as such, are also not only required to attend an AMERIICAN School, [in which ENGLISH, is the primary language] but are also expected to do well and stay current with their assignments . . . so that their level of Manderin, with respect to their age group and their necessity for fluency . . . is laudable . . . GO GIRLS!!!!;))))))
fagUrrific 2 years ago
they're huen4 xue3...mixed
WinterHalloweenRose 2 years ago
she sing in russian!!! :)
sonoacqua 2 years ago
Oh yes, Beijing accent!! Very prestigious!
GrandPatzer 2 years ago 3
they are chinese not american..
SuddenCatharsis 2 years ago
If they're born in the USA they're American.
kenichiku 2 years ago 110
Nationality is of ones own choice and upbringing, not a piece of paper
nyc10ken 2 years ago
@kenichiku american is a not a race ,american means you were born in america which is western culture. if they have chinese blood ,then im not impress comrade
mytran80 2 years ago
who made that girl wear a traditional red dress?...that is just painful.
theredmars 2 years ago
you've worn one then?
carbonlaminate 2 years ago
They're half Chinese. They probably speak it at home.
CodenameLan 2 years ago
why the hell are they wearing qipaos? >__>
they looks chinese too.
misslily101 2 years ago
a little bijing accent
sue0325 2 years ago
They are halfies?
DrKeforce 2 years ago
did she say "fire" as in a gun?!
RacoonBurglar 2 years ago
the thing is they are chinese anyway..so........
chris12121 2 years ago
她们的老师估计是南方人，讲话怎么南方口音
99b2146 2 years ago
i don't speak chinese
jasonblake97 2 years ago
Their pinyin pronunciation is better than mine, and I took two classes in university...wow!
releitse88 2 years ago
OH GOD this reminds me of Saturday morning mandarin classes my parents forced me to attend when i was a kid. yuck.
cute kids.
MilkByCow 2 years ago
that's great, training kids to be multilingual at an early age
marinafart 2 years ago
she's yawning while reading, so cute!
billzy1982 2 years ago
they look mix
ataryo 2 years ago
tian a. ! ta men hen hao le.!!!
meishuo10 2 years ago
i think there chinese
angelryuzaki 2 years ago
i cant even speak mandarin ahha! awesome!
PhilipJDM 2 years ago
not bad!
DarkAndTwisty1991 2 years ago
thank God some people like them are learning thier native language
ivan351 2 years ago
true, they could be reading pinyin, but who cares, their tones are quite good, only a few tone mistakes, but who cares.
its easier to read characters than pinyin to get tones right, because at the end of each word there is a number indicating the tone. for example: wo3 yao4 li2 kai1 jia1... but to read 我要離開家... 又簡單又更快.. its faster and easier.
cptstubing 2 years ago
It's easy to learn both languages fluently if you're chinese and born in an english country like america or australia.
jessumsss 2 years ago
cool
ndnsoldierboy 2 years ago
读的不错，读音基本上是准的，但是语调还需要练习！
xjduke 2 years ago
Amazing!!!
applepiebeyond 2 years ago
孩子真可爱！
flning 2 years ago
They are mixed I think...
animefanforever01 2 years ago
its good they learn
in my town the chinese restaraunt Kids dont speak chinese & there like 6-8 yrs old, I know more mandarin then they do.
MetalHeart8787 2 years ago 2
ah ah, i'm 24 but their mandarin is much better than mine
fox2026 2 years ago
soooooooo adorable
skayne008 3 years ago
lol. they r chinese? whats so great about it?
At least their parents were wise enough to know not to let their kids lose their heritage.
There is no ethnic pride in being american.
XpiR3d 3 years ago
That's so cool of them. If they ever want to go to China someday they'll have no problem fitting in, unlike some of my other American-Born Chinese friends.
vsak1 3 years ago
I think they are mixed.
ndw0122 3 years ago
LOL this video doesn't impress me.
Look up the videos:
"JOE ALEXANDER SPEAKING CHINESE"
"BLACK MAN SINGING IN CHINESE"
FuckThemFilAms 3 years ago
噢那个女孩是逗人喜爱的 我认为她欧洲或美国？ 她的口音不是好她仍然给了她提供它的最好~! 好工作
unlovedgurltan 3 years ago
I saw a news story where the American students were in a Chinese immersion Magnet School on the east coast. This third grade girl said "Oh, I hated it when I was in first and second grade, but then in third grade I understood it and it all makes sense to me know."
Jibbie49 3 years ago
呵呵
Ll219 3 years ago
how cute！
gracelovesmile 3 years ago
They might be Chinese American. (Borned in America but their parents from China)
MyV3i 3 years ago
I detect a slight beijing accent in the mandarin, interesting...
xingfenzhen 3 years ago 31
Cool. How can you tell?
I speak Japanese and I still don't recognize accents from different parts of Japan.
MiyaviSama96 2 years ago
Are they half chinese? It is good to see half chinese people keeping it up also.
doubleestark 2 years ago
那个华裔小孩反而没有黄头发的小孩说得好，华裔那个口音很重。
zero2zhu 3 years ago 5
how is it amazing that they can read Chinese
when they R Chinese!?
CookiezXMilkXD 3 years ago
i know right? But still i'm chinese and i don't speak a lick -_-
socgeo 3 years ago 17
read the vid description, they're born in US, and English is their primary language, they're doing great reading CHinese
xuci111111 3 years ago 21
doesn't mean they are not chinese
whitneycoolface 2 years ago
I agree. This isn't particularly amazing. There are plenty of overseas kids who learn how to speak Chinese, whether it be mando or canto, completely fluently.
It is good to see that these kids are starting when they are young though.
Owner46 3 years ago
A huge amount of American born Chinese kids can't speak, read or write Chinese because they grow up in an English-speaking country. It's great to see people are making an effort to keep the language alive.
mystique115 2 years ago
Chinese language is s*** ! It is no because the language itself, it is the Chinese government made it like s***, a lot of websites have been taken down in china, and it is very hard to publish your own personal articles on the web with strong opinions that not in the way of those politicians want. Only a small portion of information is written in Chinese compare to English on the internet. As a result, even though you are good at Chinese, what is chance that you can publish on the internet.
aacv 2 years ago
As long as china stays strong and its people prosper, you talk about china, what about other goverments, people that invade sovereign nations and kill fck millions, the world is not a simple place dude, things are the way they are there and there order. your sentiment is real thou.
toycityworld 2 years ago
@aacv Yeahhh well. |: People who know different languages can get better jobs. They don't have to live in China. My uncle has trade going in his business in Taiwan and knowing Chinese helped his career. I know that China's government itself is complete shit. The language is fucking fine and not completely useless.
Kunoinoi 2 years ago
they look mixed.
didUhaveNorgazm 2 years ago
most young kids these days can speak chinese but cant read. its great their starting to read when they are still young. i regret doing that when i was younger. its difficult for me to learn now.
chinksftw 2 years ago
how is it amazing when their both CHINESE!
(well they look like they R)
CookiezXMilkXD 3 years ago
The truth is that in the older generation of Chinese Americans (those born in the 50s to 80s,) kids were not encouraged to learn even a modicum of Chinese. Just look at Roger Tsein and Steven Chu (the new Engegy Secretary of the US,) they can't say boo in Chinese. But the younger ones in the US are trying to change that. In the UK, all BBCs (British Born Chinese) can speak Cantonese or Mandarin and they go to Saturday Chinese school.
cabbagemintor 3 years ago
The Chinese language isn't somehow built into Chinese DNA - it's just as difficult for them to learn as for anybody else.
It's good to see kids learning more than one language though!
batlin 3 years ago
Do they know the meaning?
lovelyllisquartz 3 years ago 3
who knows there might be there's han yu pin ying on the paper
kaplonkmoo 3 years ago 4
it's pinyin not pin-ying. 他们中文很好！！
ajmartino 2 years ago 6
哈哈，应该说她们not 他们" their two little girls not boys.
toshaugh77 2 years ago
Chinese American kids?
Cute kids.
myg0tBUTTPLUG 3 years ago
Drink a cup of coffee 1st b4 study
firethinker 3 years ago 2
Meh, not really impressed. I mean with the literature that is available today it is possible to teach pretty much anyone mandarin. It may look hard but it is not as hard as it looks, studied a year of mandarin in high school btw. The hardest part is learning the different tones, struggled with those for a long time :P
Gfer 3 years ago
I agree about the tones. I have been learning on my own for 10 mo. and I can type just about any thing in Chinese. I am still having trouble speaking it because I can't find anyone to talk to me so I can practice speaking.
At one time I could speak about 500 to 1,000 words and phrases but after seeking to a native Chinese they told me I was speaking tone all wrong so I had forget what I known and start over.
MrHord 2 years ago
at Gfer
I also struggle with tones, what you fail to realize is that while IT IS possible to teach anyone Manderin . . . IT IS NOT POSSIBLE for everyone to actually take the time and learn . . .most people do not take the time to adequately learn it . . . you being a prime example . . . with 1 year . . . WTF???!!!!! if chinese were your only language . . . you would be retarded for all of your comprehension in it.
fagUrrific 2 years ago
i think they are mixed.
his father could be chinese.
ndw0122 3 years ago
They feel sleepy , Dont push them too much
sue0325 3 years ago
omg
they could speak chinese so much better compared with chinese ppl themselves
gorillazfeelgoodinc1 3 years ago
很高兴看你们说中文啊！
Mikazo654 3 years ago
hao ke ai :)
pcgab 3 years ago
They look Asian to me. O.o Certainly very good at Mandarin, but I suspect that they didn't have to learn it from outside sources, but that their parents spoke it to them at home.
However, if my speculation is incorrect, my heartfelt congratulations to these two. Their ability to read in such a different language is astounding.
werewolf327 3 years ago 2
To me they look mixed, cocasian + asian. Maybe their mother or father is chinese and is teaching them chinese. Also it's alot easier for a child to learn 1-2 langauges at a time than an adault.
KonnichiwaX 3 years ago
你们太棒了！真牛啊！
（真牛=awesome)
wszgr86 3 years ago
great work
many of abc don't know how to speak chinese
simply suck...
rayyipei 3 years ago
不錯!
bdot21 3 years ago 3
I'm jealous. These girls can read mandarin far better than I can read Vietnamese and I'm in my mid 20s!
RisingToGreatness 3 years ago
Damn I'm jealous. These girls read Mandarin better than I can read Vietnamese and I'm in my mid 20s!
RisingToGreatness 3 years ago
噢!我很喜欢!你们很漂亮!太好了!
super636vibes 3 years ago 2
Nimen hanyu hen hao.
joemb1977 3 years ago
xie xie
yuhogan 3 years ago
bu ke qi
msane4XX 3 years ago
hi, great!
i u come to china, u will be very popular, because they are so cute!
liurw 3 years ago
wa，that so good
callppppp 3 years ago
wow, impressive!
dxy12 3 years ago
Ah... I wish I knew Mandarin...
LocalStrawberry 3 years ago
really good!
很好很好!
altachlo 3 years ago
good
shen61 3 years ago
those girls are really good
STRIKE4LUV 3 years ago
Very good. One problem is that the character 果 is in the third tone, not the fourth tone as is pronunciated by the kids.
sunwukong1984 3 years ago
good thing that they are learing young
PoppinDingy 3 years ago
They know pinyin well enough to help them sound out corrcetly, but they are not reading pinyin.
yuhogan 3 years ago
I think they are reading pinyin.
And also think they are born to Chinese parents.
That is all I have to say.
And they are pretty good.
jasleil 3 years ago
不错不错
zgwycjh 3 years ago
actually my mom can speak great chinese. She lived in china for a long time. I'm an adopted chinese by my "white" mom. no offense
Ecoean 3 years ago
cute girls with cute mandarin ^^
PaulNaoki 3 years ago
i will let my kids learn japanese , korean and chinese. This three lanuage is AWESOME.
PirateKing1256 3 years ago