oh okay before I start I just need to
announce this video what you're about to
see this is for me I'm making this video
for myself
perhaps that sounds egocentric but I
need to do this let me explain you see
I've been wanting to pick up a new
language for years now but I for some
reason can't get myself to do it I know
how intimidating that first step is and
it's holding me back from actually start
you see I've been wanting to learn
Chinese for a long time now and I can't
give you exact reason why I want to
learn Chinese just this year a lot of
people who speak it natively around the
world perhaps it's just the drastic
contrast between my native language and
Chinese that intrigues me so much either
way it's calling my attention and I want
to jump into it question can you make
sure I don't leave my room for the night
do you want to know why no I'm learning
Chinese
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I understood me how so the 24 hours
start right now where do I start
I no plan this is I'm just gonna go
alright so for the last hour I've been
absorbing as much Mandarin as I possibly
can to me it all sounds so robotic and
it all sounds like gibberish however I
did notice a repetition of some words la
la and I feel like I understand the flow
and and how it sounds and better than I
did before I have no idea what's going
on I feel as if I'm ready to learn some
vocabulary this is going to be brutal
all right so I got a list of about 35
words that all have to do with
restaurant eating so I guess the next
thing is to do one of my favorite things
in the world and that's memorized that
was sarcasm I don't like to memorize la
la la to drink he hey hey cha cha juice
go IG no I think it's safe to say that
I'm butchering this Swan and I promise
I'm not trying to make fun I promise I'm
not trying to be funny be jewy I am
actually trying tom-toms
but the problem running too is this I
have the words written here however I
don't know how they're pronounced I
don't understand how to read this I know
these lines represent the tones but I
don't know how to I don't know how to
pronounce then I don't know how to do
this so in Chinese allegedly there are
four tones so I've learned these lines
follow the tone basically if the tone is
going over the you and my name Lou it
would be Luke this would be blue this
would be blue this would be Luke is that
right cha Lu Zhi hua ji hua ji so in
summary of this last hour Mandarin
pronunciation is extremely hard for me I
want some wood I need some gorgeous cha
cha cha I have fear that every time I
say a word people want to assume I'm
making fun of them whoa yeah good job
even if they know that I'm being legit I
don't know they're getting you don't
understand what I'm saying so far this
has been a challenge so I think so far
what's been definitely known as
difficult are the tones in Chinese this
isn't something that we really have in
English homes are hard man tones are
difficult because for me honestly
learning vocabulary isn't hard it's
something that I can do quite quickly
and quite proficiently but the tones man
the fact that every word has it has a
different tone the fact that if you
don't use the correct tone it's gonna be
understood as something different
Mandarin is hard I'm finally and
yeah ma ma ma ma mom and so they get
idiot ya know so I just got back from
dinner and I'm going over all the words
and I memorized earlier and I'm finding
it hard to remember a lot of them yeah
it's made me realize that maybe the
result of this experiment is that it's
not good to do so much in such a short
amount of time it's better to space
things out and I'm curious to see how
much I can actually remember and retain
hopefully during the nights it will
cement in my brain and I'll remember
something in the morning tomorrow I'm
gonna talk to people all right good
morning so first thing in the morning I
went over my list was a bit of it I
couldn't recall my short-term memory
great long-term memory as in the next
day not so great Kim mom well yeah I'm
tied up but I think my focus on today is
less vocabulary based and actually learn
how to have a basic conversation I can
learn how to say dog I can learn how to
say corn but putting that into context
is more important than the actual word
itself can point you can say well yeah
[ __ ] instead of what yeah corn you know
what I mean now I will give you a brief
demonstration of everything that I've
learned this morning this is a
reenactment of a conversation that could
happen near how Neha initial upma
Buescher was sure Tommy
Tasha ukemi' Buescher Tasha are no
Washee look ma the way Nisha
look sides n sides Yin they you ever
come into my presentation hope you enjoy
it
well that's not overwhelming at all I'm
not gonna lie I feel like I have some
sentences and I have some structure feel
like the next step is is to talk to
somebody I know in terms of
communication I'm not there yet
however the best way to learn a language
by far is to is to use okay so I this
app where you can meet foreigners that
are trying to learn English
and in my case I'm trying to learn
Chinese so this girl wants to talk she's
learning English giving you really bad I
have the cheap words up there to help me
throughout the conversation she call me
Nihao
mija ma neaten mom easy Isabel what was
Luke I don't I don't have I don't have a
Chinese name look Luka washer washer
look up sorry this is my this is my
first time nochang nollie like what she
won John whoa yeah something right
without shoes on choo choo choo choo
thank you
she's yeah okay zài jiàn
oh that was that was a cringe sesh that
was bad but guys I said things I
communicated she liked she understood
what I was saying right did I understand
anything she responded with absolutely
not did I use Google Translate for half
the things that I asked her absolutely
however the goal is to communicate first
and we had a conversation sort of okay
well that's it that's the end of 24
hours I I did it but I feel good maybe I
don't have like a final product to it
and to impress my viewers with or myself
but I accomplished my goal I made the
first step okay and now that was it and
this is day one of hundreds and hundreds
and hundreds language-learning not the
most forgiving hobby I'd like to quickly
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