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With the advance in technology in future, the Chinese character would no longer need to simplify, in fact it would be goes back to the traditional system.

对于中国人来说，学会两种及以上的国内语言并不算双语，中国人认为这都是中国话，如果这个人会说普通话和英语，那么中国人觉得他会双语。

indonesian has the best writing and spoken system

Grate information. As a westernised Chinese. Proud of my heritage. Overseas Chinese should learn more about their history n heritage….

IT IS VETY WRONG OF THIS VIDEO. I AM CHINESE

unified language is good for communication but the native is your root should never forget at least should document and keep them so these who want to practice and learn should be able to and that people will remember there was a this language which was spoken by the people of this region this was their culture From history we know many parts are missing or dont have much credibility so we should always keep record of everything we never know when some culture/thing might totally vanish in this fast pacing world

Makes me miss learning and speaking Chinese

华人历史悠久原因是我们的语言也不断的在进步统一，固然我们失去了很多，但至少我们是不断往前迈进的，方言可以理解地方语言，是不会消失的，放心吧😂

I’m half Hakka on my mother’s side but have enough trouble trying to be more fluent in Mandarin since it was spoken at home and being raised in New York, it makes it harder to learn both, much that I wanted to and nearly all my friends with Hakka heritage can’t speak Hakka fluently either. I do respect the Hakka ways and wish I was younger and had time to learn since my mom told me it wasn’t that hard but she didn’t live long enough to make time to teach me. At least I can further explore my Hakka heritage more as I find it very fascinating.

China has 57 official ethnic groups. To unify the country u need a common written & spoken language. This was done by Emperor Qin the 1st Emperor who conquered & united the other 6 different states to form China under Qin Dynasty its 1st dynasty back in BC 221, almost 2500 yrs ago.

真搞笑，我一个中国在油管看一堆老外用英语讨论中文哈哈哈It's funny, I'm a Chinese watching a bunch of foreigners discussing Chinese in English on youtube hahaha

Thank you for the research and video

Very informative and well structured video. I do understand that people want to preserve their culture by keeping their regional language, but Mandarin seems to be a lot more practical. I guess you can't have both and eventually either the regional languages will slowly die out in a few hundreds of years or there will be another big change in geopolitics

The communist party eill NEVER stop oppression on people speaking local dialects because they fear diversity will inflict local revolution and separation movements.

MTSU REPRESENT! I graduated from there and work with Dr. Jun Da in the Foreign Language Computer Lab.

first nations in America can speak english well，even forget their own language.Well done。

It's not so different in indo European languages and also about non indo European languages in fact it's often happening to found two same words origins in one

如果在中国去旅游，问路问价格却完全听不懂的时候，我想还是先推广普通话吧，先保证交流便利，推广完了再保护方言。其实方言消失更多的是人们懒于学习，我会说家乡方言，但我也考了普通话一级乙等。没有什么难的。在家说方言 在学校说普通话，多棒的语言环境。

Whoa i had no idea Mandarin was so new. Great video!

This video was very informative, great work!

Fantastic video, keep up the good work!

I think the official language of China which is now called Mandarin was already spoken more than three thousand years ago, same time with the introduction of six thousand five hundred Chinese characters as written letters. However China territory is so vast with high mountain ranges, high plateaus, deserts and plains, there's not enough teachers to reached every corners of the empire. Therefore, the official language spoken evolves in different tones and dialects in every corners of the empire like Mandarin, Shantongese, Shanghainese, Cantonese, Fujianese, Zechuanese, Hakka etc... The written words remain the same although with some modification.

Title should be: How CCP killed most of the languages in China!

如果你真的学会多种方言，你会发现它们在语言上没本质的区别，而不像外语一般完全不同

我不想在饭店吃饭。 Thank you for the video. You're an amazing teacher. ❤🔛🔝

I am so glad that, unlike many uninformed people and RUclipsrs, you call those Chinese LANGUAGES instead of dialects because all those are indeed languages from the linguistic perspective. This fact has to be repeated again and again and again until more and more people are informed and fewer and fewer people make mistake about.

To eradicate cultural diversity should be considered a crime against humanity. Language and cultural diversity is a treasure of humanity.

已经在中国5年了，普通话真的越来越容易的 就是好像 ancient 希腊语 - 火山 fire mountain - volcano 完全一样的翻译。very logical. very straight forward.

Thanks so much for your work.

English is a Germanic language and not romance. The romance languages are: Romanian, french, Spanish and Italian

This was awesome. I am learning Mandarin and very much appreciate this lesson. Thank you.

Wah.. Thank you for such an elaboration..

that's why the amount of Mandarin podcasts popping up is so recent, 10 years ago there were none like wth....

Terrible for non-native Chinese language users, like yourself. Japanese and Koreans tried to get rid of the Chinese writing system completely, with both efforts failing significantly

I get the history and advantage of simplification, Japan did it as well but to a lesser extent (Korea and Vietnam did away with it). My personal preference is traditional. It mostly comes down to which version you learn first, if you learn traditional first you wouldn't think it's hard, if you learn simplified first it'll look fine to you. To me, simplified always looks somewhat unwieldly or uneducated, because it made shorthand official, sure words like cuz or gonna are spelled with fewer alphabets than because and going to, but they are colloquial and shouldn't replace the formal ver. Other than politics, it comes down to branding as well. In Chinese, it's actually called the complex form and simplified form, but the eng translation is traditional, which automatically makes it the "legit" version. While japan calls it the new form and old form, and new sounds better than old or outdated. Different countries went thru (lazy to type through lol) different language reform process. It is what it is...

I love the Chinese language and American English, I always try to study!

No Chinese Mandarin is a lauguge which forcefully distroy many other lauguge like Tibetan etc And never forget after China's occupied territories get freedom Mandarin has been lost his seat

One example of this, not really useful or anything, but blew my mind is 灰姑娘, Cinderella. It made me see the name Cinderella as cinder + ella. Turns out this was intentional, but many of my friends and I didn't know this

Your Manadarin is awful. Please improve it before you try to teach.

HELLO ...Cantonese is the most flowery and common dialect well spoken all over the world!.

Very informative ❤ Thanks for sharing 😊

Bopomofo or Zhuyin looks interesting as a way of writing Chinese.

The thing you said about the silhouette thing is due to how Hanzi is taught. If one wants to learn Hanzi effectively, one should deconstruct what the characters are and why it looks like that because of the logical system behind creating Hanzi characters. The thing is that unlike spoken language where words are a bit arbitrary, Hanzi is rational. Hanzi is more akin to emojis rather than a Latin alphabet.

Isn’t the writing system pretty logical when deconstructed?

I do believe Hanzi was created as a solution to China having multiple languages so that the literate could communicate with each other without having to learn a lingua Franca. Hanzi was the lingua Franca. The other things is due to efficiency. Mandarin and all the other Chinese languages have tones and homophones, so a phonetic system would be incredibly inefficient. Also, it saves space.

本部雖然到底值得等這麼久，但我還是覺得等了太久了。讚

Speaking as a Korean-American currently residing in Ankara 🇹🇷, doing research on Ottoman history - neither English nor Chinese is free from critique, but in order to really make a proportional comparison, wouldn’t it be necessarry to compare (i) *the Chinese writing system*, employed by speakers / hearers / readers / writers of all languages currently or recently based on it (including obviously Japanese but certainly Cantonese, Hokkien, and Chu Nom, Idu Korean, etc.) with (ii) another writing system, such as Arabic - inclusive of Urdu, Persian, Ottoman, Pashto, Kashmiri, and so on? Formally educated users of these languages can recognize Arabic derived sematic roots such as the one for “love,” without knowing the precise definitions, spelling, pronunciations, etc. Similarly for Latin-based scripts, North Indian (Hindi Bengali Punjabi etc.), South Indian (Tamil Kannada Telugu Malayalam), Thai Lao Khmer, and so forth and their respective cases

Hurray for Cantonese!