Sounding bad has never sounded so good (Noun Town Language Learning)

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0:00 good thing i stream in the morning because i forgot what afternoon is. is afternoon zaiwoo or am i freaking out? am i freaking out? by the way, we're back with a little nountown. i do have to say we've been doing...
0:17 doing a little mandarin off stream. i'm taking a class with my wife. i'm using an app. i was originally using an app that was like silicon valley coded ie i got like five hours into using the app and then they were like you need to give us money and i went it's time to vindicate all of the people who say you should have a library card and i do get as someone who's had a library card since like age four and
0:43 i do get annoyed when people who are like 22 are like, you should get a library card. it's not that they're wrong, it's the presumption that they've discovered this incredible piece of technology and they condescend to me as if i haven't had one since like 1992. but regardless, i said let me go google if there's like a free language learning service from the vancouver public library by virtue of having a vpl card. and indeed, there freaking is.
1:12 it's called mango language learning app. so i've been using that as well. and it must be better than the silicon valley coded ones because it's so much more boring. it's so unbelievably boring as compared to the ones that are like, here's a, this is a word you already know, press the button. bring your experiences like climbing. you've unlocked a new, a new hat for your avatar, right?
1:40 but i do have to say, i think although i've gotten a little bit better at mandarin, especially grammatically, i think i've forgotten like almost all the words from mound town, but that's okay. we can work on our pronunciation at least. i even know, doesn't this, isn't this shui? doesn't this mean learn? this is like to learn, right? i even know some of the characters, bro. oh yeah, you see that? you see that? would you like to be my tong shui? would you like to join me in being a shui shun? i still gotta work on the pronunciation obviously, but
2:16 let's continue it up, bro. i forgot how to play the game completely. i completely forgot how to play the game. we need to, you know what? let's see. yeah, let's start with our revision. let's see what i remember, bro. yeah, i know this. chi chong. how would she not it's not it. li shi, she chung, she chung. ping show, guang pan.
3:08 it's guangpan. it's guangpan. why are you here? okay, i have absolutely no idea. why are you here? hmm... okay, they all have you in them. i can see that. this is about... this is like... who's your friend? zai is like, again. are you not something?
3:45 oh, wrong. i don't know northeast either, bro. hello? hello? it's this, because this is from my logo. donbei. huai zi. pi za. pi za. pi za. pi za. uh, shoes. shoes. i have no memory of this one. shoes. pi bao. xie? yeah. it's xie.
4:35 my friend. i don't know this one. this is too much. i don't remember these. whatever. i'm putting north in it as if that would solve the problem. why would north be in south? maybe it was like anti south, man. maybe they describe it as anti south.
5:23 rolling pin. i didn't think it would be every word that we've ever learned in this game. this is like beef or something. that's beijing.
6:05 inflatable row cash register pingsu
7:00 it's fucking ping tsu, man. ping tsu? it never ends. is there a way... nountown devs, if you were watching this, could i possibly at least get like a, how many are left? because i don't want to leave and not get credit for my revisions and then lose out on xp. my xp, i mean, that might put me below the threshold where i get hit master this season. otherwise i could just be doing this for every single word.
7:33 stairs. that looked like a staircase. mua hikke chuan bing. mua hikke chuan bing. mo xi ge zhuan bing. mo xi ge chuan bing. yi yao jiao. jin qiang yu. pi jiao. pi jiao. chardonnay.
8:21 don't fucking start with me, man. it is, it really is like, isn't this like, or something like that?
9:04 ah, i remember this is, uh, this is not sean bean. this is bean can. i don't remember pastry. i don't remember pastry.
9:45 why are you here? this is another one we had earlier. i don't remember. why are you here? i don't remember. why are you here? i don't remember. why are you here? i don't remember. why are you here? why are you here? why are you here? why are you here? why are you here? why are you here? why are you here? why are you here? why are you here? why are you here? why are you here? why are you here? why are you here? why are you here? why are you here? why are you here? why are you here? why are you here? why are you here? why are you here? why are you here? why are you here? why are you here? why are you here? why are you here? why are you here? why are you here? why are you here? why are you here? why are you here? why are you here? why are you here? why are you here? why are you here? why are you here? why
10:30 see none. dude makes perfect sense. see must be south and then add a non to take it to the west. it makes perfect sense. best, best, best. facing. sean pizza. call me and paul g. you son. guys, i'm never going to get inflatable inflatable. may he load he told you
11:11 that's a clock. most useful word to learn in chinese. yeah, maybe for you. stairs. it would also help if when i got it wrong, they actually went like, hey, here's what the right one is instead of just going. no, no, it's not. it's not. in front.
11:55 on the left it shows the correct one. you're so right, but then i don't know what these i know what this is because it's a vest but i don't know. i don't know what these are. i guess this is a low key. this is stairs. lao t. chong qi. what was chong qi again? it turns out it was not clock.
12:24 that all that's air. okay, low t low t low t because you're low t if you take the elevator, that means it's stairs showing me it. and sigh is like where right so i guess this is like an indicator of position pastry lip patties three chunzi go down. god the end. best
13:06 vest is now off the screen, i don't remember it. vest is now off the screen. vest. beijing. this is beer. beijing. motherfucker, man! inflatable. lao zi. that's stairs. chongqing.
13:47 okay, lao ti. hi, ngo. lo ti. lo ti. we're so fucking in, bro. we're almost done. tsai in front. tsai hou mie. i don't remember you. beijing. beijing. it's beijing. oh my god, the whole time. no wonder i got it wrong every single time. i thought it was beijing, but it is. i thought it couldn't be beijing because beijing was beijing, but beijing is best.
14:32 there's another session ready to revise. let's chill on that for a minute. that took like, that took like 10 hours. now after that, now we can actually see the opinion. so there might be like a, there might be hope for us yet. now that we can actually see tonal indicators.
15:10 even if i have a hard time telling them apart, there's like, hah, hah, hah, hah. dude, someone's gotta clean this fucking room up. this is crazy. who's just been throwing shit all over the floor? let's see what we got. what do you got for me in the non box? blender. mm hmm. jiao pang ji. jiao pang ji. jiao pang ji. let me see that one more time. let me see the...
15:52 it's not tone 3, it's tone 4 at the end. it's tone 1 at the end. ah dude we can do this. kinda fucked up the last tone, we get there though. drop that shit on the ground. breakfast! this is a fucking huge one! i know this is um... ooh, are you like... you're mourning!
16:32 are you like zhao? zhao! mian? zhao fan? zhao sun. zhao sun. zhao sun. i crawl like a viper through these suburban streets bro. put me down here. please never call someone a shao di di ever again. okay whatever you say, boa boa. lunch. this should be... xiu xiu san.
17:18 so, wu chan. huge. milk. i know this character. niu nae. niu nae. niu nae. niu nae.
17:55 cigarette. wait, wait, wait. let me call up ludwig. is he awake? is ludwig an early riser? he seems like he'd be awake by 9.31 a.m. pacific time. not quite my tempo. i feel like the end of luke's soundboard stream.
18:37 yen. yen. yen. yen. yen. okay, five nouns. breakfast. breakfast is zao san. zao san. lunch. this is a fucking crazy lunch by the way, but lunch is wu, wu san. wu san.
19:39 cigarette, of course, is... oops, i've thrown it on the ground. cigarette, of course, is yen. milk is niu. niu nai. niu nai. niu nai. niu nai. and blender is jiao ban ji. jiao ban ji. jiao ban ji. jiao ban ji.
20:21 let me try that one more time. we're scolding a dog. this is... okay, let's fucking do this bro.
21:03 let's fucking do this. testing available, i'm ready. i'm glad this is first. come on. that one hurt. we should have that one fucking locked up, man. what do you mean you got mo out of that? you got mo. brother, brother, i was 85% sure that one was gonna go.
22:28 yin that was really fucking good. you've reached the daily limit of words that you can learn please enter your credit card information to learn more. i'm just kidding. this game doesn't really do that wait, wait, you want to have a conversation with me? what's up? playa? zao sheng hao? zao sheng hao? wo yei zao sheng hao? let's chat. okay, obviously i have absolutely no concept of what that means ni hao
23:10 zhong, zhou, le, hen, dou. this is like, dou is how many, right? isn't this like this is how many? it's a lot. okay, you seem like you do a lot of hand exercises. what the fuck? asshole. where do you live? you live in china?
23:53 i come from china. okay, fair enough. hai is like two? oh no, you didn't say time. would probably, where do you live bro? anything else? no, he said fuck off. nevermind. that's what i know. he wasn't playing with me at all, man.
24:38 i'm ready for you. let's start with the daily routine. let's reinforce our earlier lessons. yeah. i remember that. when do you get up?
25:14 you ready brother? the roleplay is the only thing that matters. the test is always in like normal order so it's easy or the same order. i didn't click the speak button. it is pretty funny to have a
25:52 a tonal language and then have a dude speaking like a robot. that does, it puts me in a tough spot. but honestly, people accuse me of speaking like a robot or speaking robotically, at least in english. so i'll never forget, i was like, someone was like, can you read this story to us? and then i was reading it the way i would read a story to my child. and someone randomly in chat just said, i hope you put a little bit more flavor in it when you read the story for your own kid. and i went, damn, what the fuck?
26:21 do i sound like a fucking asshole or something? like what? if anything, i'm probably putting more flavor into it at like 10 a.m. than i am at 906 when my eyes are closing and i'm like, like falling asleep between every page, man. ni ji dian qi chuang. ni ji dian de qi chuang. no. ni ji, ni ji dian qi chuang. ni ji dian qi chuang.
26:56 that was good? yeah, we're kind of running these streets. we're running the streets of beijing right now. it's that simple, bro. i do a lot better with the robot voice for sure.
27:41 we haven't even done at the damn cafe yet. how many people... this is men. this is you. how many people are you? it looks like he's saying to me, china, how many people are you? good afternoon. how many of you are there? holy shit. okay.
28:22 we are a number, i don't know. i'm gonna say six. we're six people. oh, shit! there are six of us. yes, there are six of us, right. i know this one too. what are you? where are you from? where would you like to sit? no, no, this is that. this way, very well, this way, please.
29:09 hao de zhe bian xing zhe bian xi xie xie okay, that's thank you of course. i can do this bro. i can do this. start me off as murray, please. zhong wu hao ni men xi wei wo men liu ge ren wo men liu ge ren wo men liu ge ren hao de zhe bian xing xie xie
29:52 they fucking love me. they love me. they love me at the heidi lau. they love me at big way. they love me at the dollar shop. they love me. they say, say it again. white boys say thank you again. do it. do it with improper politeness to j shade mean. do it again. do it again. do it again. do it again. like i'm the emperor. now here's, this is where things get tough.
30:31 oh shit!
31:18 alright, we master the bakery. we master the bakery and we go to the fucking whatever the other one is. well, that's the cafe then we go to the bakery. and now my honest tip is that when you you need to feel like you're being a bit racist when you speak mandarin it will help you with the tones. so i am going to tell you sincerely you are like the seventh person that's told me that including my textbook. my textbook said a common mistake.
31:51 english speakers who are learning mandarin make is that they don't try to sound chinese enough when they speak mandarin. and i went, all right man, but it's going to take me a little while because every, every impulse in my body is like, don't, don't commit. don't commit. i gotta, i gotta work on it, but maybe we'll get there over time. butter. wang you. wang you. but i thought you guys were my wang you.
32:27 i thought, ah, man, would wong yo. i thought you were my online friends, my show wong yo. that's, no, no, wong yo. wong yo is online friend, isn't it? this is wong yo. peng yo? peng yo is friend. wong is online. i'm starting to teach you fucking mandarin, bro. wong yo.
33:05 it's not tone three bro. wong yo wong yo. i felt good. wong yo wong yo. oh shit. easy character though. now first learn tone one. i know tone one tone tone one taught me how to sing.
33:36 because tone one people were like it's a flat tone and that's when i realized i did not actually ever use a flat tone in my life in english before i don't know what i don't i guess there's no tones in english but it took me being like the only way to do tone one is to try to sing oh oh shit the schwartzenfeffer hey who hey who hey who
34:11 cross on. this is like it's real something, right? new job. new job. new job. new job. new job. new job. new job. we got to take that again. that was, that didn't feel right to me. new job. new job. new job. that sounded better.
34:43 horny bread, how about that? hot dog! oh shit, oh shit. i refuse to believe that's right. is r dog the same way it is in korean? this is literally hot dog.
35:24 and then of course, croissant is row row gio me on bow row gio me on bow row gio me on bow row gio me on bow row gio me on bow.
35:55 that's my bad. i'm putting the r on it because i thought it was... i thought it was based on beef. maybe we should speak as the pin. but then, can i tell you another thing from the textbook that stuck with me? it said don't pronounce it as it's written as if that was an english sound. pronounce it as if it's chinese, which is honestly great advice for a chinese textbook. your process is right, but you're saying meat instead of horn. oh shit, okay. 你角香沒美
36:32 that's a given. that one's unlocked. now do i remember any of this other shit? oh, that's right. huge.
37:18 any oak ridge anecdotes? i didn't go, but when i saw the pictures today and it was like chaos at the opening of vancouver oak ridge and i saw like a hundred thousand people trying to shove into a little mall, i thought about like the six chatters who were like, i'm going tomorrow. i hope that they had a good time. i mean, it seemed like it cleared out pretty quick. the timeout looks cool. my kid, when she wants to pretend that the punishment doesn't actually hurt her. timeout's cool, man. timeout's awesome. timeout's a great place to be.
37:56 no, she didn't actually bite her teacher, okay? she hit her with a ruler. we don't need this shit. what the fuck else did we have? no, fuck that. we had croissant. croissant is... that's fair.
38:42 when would you ever need this? truthnuke, learning things is fun. sorry you had to find out this way so late. check this out. how do you feel about that shit? how do you feel about that shit? because the thing is your brain is just the machine that learns. you're literally learning all the time. the problem is like what you're learning.
39:30 like no matter what, this beast up here is just constantly aggregating information and coming up with strategies and shit like that. so like, you know, it could be like how to retake mid on like marvel rivals asgard map when you've already lost the bifrost or it could be foul.
39:49 and i'm not necessarily suggesting one is more meritist than the other one, but acting like, you know, learning something that's not immediately practical is a waste of time is literally like a terminal case of engineer brain, bro. we're out here appreciating the wide diversity and scope of human existence. okay. if you'd like to join us and drop your prime sub otherwise you can watch and chat for free. how do you feel about that? don't
40:24 i'll do it if you can get taco in one. oh shit. okay. give me a second. ah, cool. ah, cool. ah, cool. ah, cool. more confident. ah, cool. oh cool. ah, cool. still takeshi, huh? well, you got me. oh cool. oh cool. into, i'm not going to make you honor that. that was in two. you said in one and we got it into that still, that's progress for us.
41:09 fung me! huge, okay. niu... nuu jiao... niu jiao... mian bao... nuu jiao mian bao... reiguo... zhi gao... ru gao... completely forgot black pepper man. hei hu jiao... hei hu jiao... gao...
42:10 wong yo, we're ready. we're as ready as we're going to be at least get the fuck out of here. holy pay motherfucker. holy pay holy pay. that would have that would have felt awesome though. that would have felt awesome. wong yo, hey who john you joe.
43:12 oh wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. that calls this whole thing into question. that calls the whole thing into question. oh, here we go. he's still arguing, man. on some real shit if this is just nouns, isn't he gonna just be able to say a bunch of nouns but not construct a sentence? four eyes, brown dragon, i exist outside of the stream! wushii! wushii! even when you don't see me, wushii!
43:57 that's debatable. i haven't seen proof of that. i've seen proof of it for some of you, but not all of you. still pretty good. i can live with that. huge. you want to have a talk?
44:46 thank you. thanks. i don't know what we'd have done without your help here. i've just been throwing shit all over the floor. pretty sure this means learn.
45:23 learning a new language is hard, isn't it? if only vibes were enough. i'm learning it because vibes are too much. what are your loves? this doesn't feel right. librarian, can i get a mandarin check on this? it's ripe. it's very normal. what do you love? because to me this still sounds like zh. it's the z h r conundrum.
46:10 i love skydiving! is unironically pronounced like the j in asia. oh shit. j. a j. wade. wade, wade, wade, wade, wade, wade.
46:53 is there anything else? maybe later. kind of feel like skydiving being your number one hobby is a bit of a red flag, but i don't know if you would agree with that. just seems like you, because you couldn't possibly be doing that more than two times a month. that doesn't seem like, i'm not saying it's not intense, but that doesn't seem like that's real. that's like a, you saying that that's a hobby doesn't tell me what you do with your time. that's what i'm saying. if it's your job, then sure.
47:30 negatives with boo, we can do this bro. ni hao. wait, i'm not them. ni shi kai r. are you kyle? damn, maybe my chinese name should be kyre. wabushi kyre. wait, i can fucking read this. wabushi kyre.
48:22 what's rocky in chinese? can i get some help on this one? that's right. let me just hear it once. then we flip it around, bro. you're fucking flicking me.
49:33 you know what? it's a tough one because i know how to say kyle. i know how to say kyle. you know, i might have done tone three on this tone too. no, i'm not kyle, man. you got the wrong fella. you got the wrong guy. how about some adjectives?
50:38 xian zai tai lung. tai is too much. xian zai tai lung. xian zai tai lung. we are not... we're not friends. we are not friends. we can't... no, it's not related to that. we can't play tennis, bro. howdy. howdy. howdy. fine. that means we can go home. let's go back home. xian zai tai lung.
51:29 i'm so ready. oh my god, wang you is literally net friends? librarian, did i teach you something? i told you. everyone in chat's telling me it's peng you. peng you is if i've seen a motherfucker eye to eye, bro. we're talking about wang yous here. hao. hao de. na. na huiyaba. na huijaba.
52:17 nahui jaba! nahui jaba! nahui jaba! nahui jaba! the voice is fucking me up. nahui jaba! nahui jaba! nahui jaba! nahui jaba! nahui jaba! it can't be done. woah. oh, thank you. loop delivery. dominating mid lane in nountown language learning.
53:19 my wife brings me a lovely momo branded gamer subs. almost called it a rival supplement company's name, my mistake. chi a shay. chi a shay neen. don't cost nothing to be nice. wow, the respect. i can do this. nahui japa. nahui japa. nahui japa. nahui japa. nahui japa. nahui japa. nahui japa.
54:24 nā hui chā bā. nā hui chā bā. say it like chia pet. okay, okay. nā hui chā bā. nā hui chā bā. it's right. chā, chā. nā hui chā bā. nā hui chā bā. nā hui chā bā. we gotta play tennis, man. we gotta play tennis. nā hui chia bā. nā hui chā bā. nā hui chia bā.
55:33 now who each other okay, we're going we're going going now who a chappa now who a chappa nailed it nailed it this is where you say that was the worst one of all this time. we're gonna be tired since i tie long she ends i tie long don't even tell me it's the wrong tone on tie, but they took it woman boo name da wang q woman boo name da wang q i
56:24 okay, okay, okay, wait wait wait wait wait wait wait. i thought that i thought we fucking hit that shit bigly. it must be a local. it's my first time watching on stream instead of youtube and it's a weird one. some of the if you want to see some weird content man. i mean go watch mr. vampire, the hong kong martial arts horror comedy from 1985. this ain't that weird. this is pretty pedestrian in the whole scheme of things.
57:11 he's dway, you know. i like chinese morgan freeman. he's dway, you know. nouns complete. chats complete. srs revision complete. i mean, i think that's pretty good, man.
57:34 i think that's pretty solid. if you are confused, check with the sun. yes, rem poster. yes. carry a compass to help you along. so, stand in the place where you live. wait, wait, wait, wait. the number 250 means idiot in chinese slang. the united states turns 250 this year. oh, shit. oh, shit.
58:07 are you being fucking serious? that's crazy. they really got egg on their face, man. all right, let's call a slash mark of that. noun town. always fun to go back to noun town.