Mastering Mandarin Chinese in Noun Town (Noun Town Language Learning)

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0:00 town y'all um i'm gonna learn mandarin chinese for real my wife and i are starting to take classes i think we literally start taking classes like this week but i'm gonna be the best at it because this game just came out on steam um where you walk around and you learn vocabulary in like whatever language you want of the 12 languages they've added to the game um and apparently they also have some speech recognition so i can work on my uh my phonetic
0:27 tonal language fundamentals here. by the way, i know literally none mandarin zero mandarin left beef except for that's true. he is hanging out with grog lit this weekend. that's fucking true he is hanging out with grog or maybe they're they're ops. i don't remember i haven't i'd only watched season two of the show. so do me a favor and let me know how the how the volume is here? i think it's gonna be tough to balance because of the fact that
0:59 i need you to be able to hear the dialogue in the game, but also i don't want the music to drown out my voice. so we'll see. but i have to select the character first. um... if we're being realistic, i think that's me right there. well, that's... it's hard! because i do think that out of these characters that are here...
1:23 i mean this is the most me, but i do have a friend who's very associated with foxes. so that's tough for me, but i ain't like hansel. i ain't hansel from zoolander, man. i could be, oh wait, wait, wait, there is a little gnome on the right here, that's true. this is more like cozy witch solving mysteries in the alps coded, right? i guess i gotta be, i don't know, i guess i'll be this.
1:53 one of the weird looking nerds from revenge of the nerds maybe not the one who did that shit at the end of the movie okay, but what do you know which one i'm talking about? i think he was also in the computer war tennis shoes remake with with kirk cameron he asked press space to interact
2:15 language to learn. fuck it bro mate, but do you know what? after we learn mandarin, maybe we go to arabic next. maybe i'll become one of those annoying motherfuckers online who's like, i speak every language. for a while, i mean this was like 10 years ago, but every ad i got online was like, this 21 year old polyglot teaches you how to learn any language in one week or something like that. and i was like, this dude is pissing me the fuck off, man. i don't want to see this guy ever again.
2:45 okay, oh it would be so embarrassing though if i if i clicked on chinese and i accidentally became fluent in mandarin instead of becoming fluid in cantonese or vice versa if i became fluid in cantonese by accident instead of like you know how you go to the gym and you do one set of
3:08 three reps and you accidentally become jacked when what you should have done is like a hundred sets of a thousand reps so you can become lean instead. i hate when that shit happens man. say words and sentences into your microphone requires internet. i can do that. let's check your microphone. press v to activate the speech recognition and then say the word below. zao sheng hao. zou shou hao. pretty close. zou shou hao. zou shou hao. zou shou hao.
3:42 social how social hall wrong word heard we heard audio but we did not hear the word we were expecting why not try again click the play icon rather than try to reproduce the sound of the word i mean this is fucking hard man i thought it was gonna say like like one syllable or something like that this this is impossible social hall social how i think i i'm not supposed oh did i accidentally say lu zhao hou
4:19 social how that's my bad. i need i needed another social how social how social how social how social how social how social how we go we go again we go again social how social how go again. social how social how
5:13 i could i honestly thought we might be here for like an hour man. oh shit now in town lets you skip lets you to skip at any time by pressing backspace okay, sure, man. you got a new message in your inbox. make sure you read it i'll show how learn the controls follow the instructions above your character's head to complete the tutorial. oh
5:40 your inbox shows you the task to complete. walk to the marker to continue. press space to grab the highlighted object. drink. i gotta move myself here if you don't mind. i think maybe we need to be up here. the object information screen shows you details about an object. press r to hear the name of the object. yin pin. yin pin. yin pin. oh motherfucker, i'm awesome. i'm actually awesome.
6:22 i'm actually awes oh yeah you're right, i can't be up here either. first fucking try. first fucking try. the map lets you travel to locations where you can learn new words, phrases, plus play games, open it and travel to the cafe. i'm going to the cafe to have some yin p'in. i'm going to the cafe to have some zho shou bao zho shou hao. i'm at the cafe to have some yin p'in.
6:59 the cafe is a learning space. these locations start empty plus colorless. however, you can make them colorful by learning words. walk to the marker. it's my noun box. open these to reveal unique items. learn the items to add color to the learning space. after opening a box, listen to the word for the item. use speech recognition and say the word to turn it into color. i'm so fucking ready. cd. guangpan. guangpan. guangpan.
7:41 do it on four more items to access the learning kiosk where you can save your progress. i'm fucking awesome. i'm fucking awesome at this. where's, where's, oh there's so many more boxes bro, holy shit. how many, how many words could there possibly be? coffee, this is a big one. coffee. okay, i can do that. coffee. coffee. not quite the right sound. coffee.
8:17 coffee. yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. coffee. dump that shit. give me some of this. pot plant. penzai. penzai. penzai. what else you got for me, bro? beer. pijou. i don't know that sound. i don't know that sound. pijou.
8:55 pi chou. pi chou. pi chou. pi chou. pi chou. pi chou. they'll take it, okay? and one more, one more. what do you got for me? beef! niou jou. niou jou. niou jou. holy fuck. now do i remember it? pi jia. pi chou. pi jou. coffee.
9:37 coffee. what are you? guangpan. guangpan. guangpan. guangpan. guangpan. test. oh, i have to test myself. oh no. save your learning by testing the items you've just learned. when testing, say the translation. get it wrong twice and you'll be offered a multiple choice. guangpan. coffee. coffee.
10:25 it's not that one, it's this one. coffee. pan po, pan po. pan zai, jiao ban zao, ji tan coffee. pan zai, pan zai. pi, pi jo, pi jo. shit. i don't remember at all. what's this one, chen? niu rou, niu rou, niu rou.
11:27 holy shit, new row! all correct items will stay colored plus in the place you put them. i just threw them on the damn floor, man. wrong items will need opening again later. new row!
11:41 as the color spreads you can access more gameplay features like language lessons, conversations with characters and mini games. now you know how to learn nouns, go color the rest of noun town. holy shit. okay, well first i didn't realize this was a cozy game. i got a big problem with that obviously. let's put the cds next to the fucking record. they're not cds though, bro. they're fucking... guang... guangpan. guangpan. guangpan.
12:13 well, i don't know how to put it where i there you go. that's good enough. then pidgeo. pidgeo. pidgeo? oh, she would put a little fucking sauce on it, man. there you go. pidgeo. and then, of course, potted plant. oh, coffee. coffee. coffee. she's got to she's got to sing it, okay? anybody anybody know how to place objects instead of throwing them?
12:56 i can't pick it up. i've lost it. the coffee's too heavy. it's not like the cds, man. you're covering up the hotkeys, so i don't know. fair enough. and then... pan... panzan... panzai? panzai.
13:19 put the beef next to the cds. grow goo! bring back color and learn nouns. decorate. use the constructor mode to neatly place an item around your space. use the fabricator to produce at least one learned item. easy.
13:53 that requires us to leave the place and then go the 3d printer baby. the chromo emitter. okay, the chromo emitter. yeah, man. you're right. i get that you want me to see sector stats. shit, my bad y'all. just to walk in through this door. that's my bad. and then leave. what's going on fella? can we talk? can i talk to you?
14:47 kiosk. i don't want to do that. let's see what's in this noun box. clock. that's a big one. xi zhong. xi zhong. xi zhong. xi zhong. xi zhong. xi zhong. xi zhong. xi zhong. xi zhong. xi zhong. well, she fucking said it wrong. she fucking said it wrong. that one's not on me. she said it wrong.
15:30 i'm gonna have such a fucked up accent.
15:44 and people are gonna be like, where did you learn mandarin? and i'm gonna be like, nountown on steam. i used the game speech recognition software to forge my chinese accent. i thought i did a really good job.
16:16 this is a big one.
17:04 mao. mao. well, obviously we're not going to forget that one. ma yufen, bo li bei, ji chong. i can fucking do this. i can fucking do this. i can fucking do this. i can ace this. i can ace this, man. oh, i need to get plastic wrap first. my mistake, y'all. i need to find plastic wrap. where is it, man? moo ri, i don't want to talk right now. i want to get plastic wrap.
17:49 i don't feel like talking. why are you here? i can't say that. i'm sorry. that's just way too much. there's no way i'm repeating that. you opened plastic wrap and then threw it away somewhere. okay.
18:31 oh, there it is. it's behind the kiosk. yeah, thank you. we got it. holy shit. bao xian muo. bao xian muo. bao xian muo. bao xian muo. bao xian muo. bao xian muo. bao xian muo. ji chong. holy pei. my fan. mao. bao xian muo. bao xian muo.
19:25 thank god this is first. my fan.
20:23 kwanzaa my friend my friend my friend now huge you've hit the limit of words that should be learned in one learning space in one day okay, but the problem is the title of the screen is the stream i should say is becoming fluent in mandarin chinese in one afternoon for one morning so you can understand the conundrum that we have here. yeah, that's test for regular people
20:59 turbo, but now we're talking turbo boost your learning by rapidly giving the islanders their orders in a race against time islanders will ask for items you've learned in this ls press 1 2 3 or 4 to choose that item then do it again till the time runs out mm hmm. i completely forgot plastic wrap. she told you on a clock my friend she told me about shenmue bao shenmue
21:38 i think i fucking run this down. i think i fucking run this down.
22:20 now do i remember what plastic wrap is? no, i don't. i have no idea what plastic wrap is, but i know that it's not bo li pei, mao, or chi chong. so as long as they have four things in front of me, if i don't recognize the word, then it's plastic wrap. it's that simple. if i have plastic wrap, cat, clock, and muffin in front of me, you're fucked, bud. it's crazy that this is how we fucking all learn it, man.
23:07 what's your problem again? use the fabricator to produce some shit? i don't know i don't know what you want me to do. i don't know what you want me to do, man. what the fuck is a chromo emitter? no, man. i just learned bo li pe. what the fuck? it's bo leen, man. this this is how i'm trying to be! this is how i'm trying to be, dude! say hit him again! play it again, sam!
23:43 that's the type of shit i would love to say. what if i'm not cool in english, but what if i'm cool in chinese? you know what i mean? what if?
24:04 like, i don't know the tools and the way to use the tools to be cool in english, but i would be cool in chinese. what if coolness is not something that exists within your spirit, but is a secondary effect of the way your spirit interacts with the primary language that you've been taught? what if coolness is actually just a fit issue between
24:28 your personality and the culture that you've been immersed in your whole life. what if people aren't cool? what if it's just a knock on effect of their relationship with where they live? i don't have the tools necessary to speak to you yet, to be honest with you. um, fuck it bro, learning rush. let's do this shit. i'm ready. pijou. that's beer. guangpan. cd. pijou. beer. niuzhou. niuzhou.
25:19 beef coffee beer pungentine potted plant beef cd beef pungentine potted plant beef coffee
25:44 panzai, potted plant. pi jiu. beer. cafe. cafe. okay, i still got it. still got it. still got some of it at least. now that you've mastered this, what is clock? clock is easy. chi chong. chi chong. now the real question is where the fuck is the fabricator, man? where's the fabricator? please, man? i'm a librarian. i think i'm doing really good. i think i'm honestly doing really well.
26:25 better than i thought i would do, to be honest. is this the... i mean, that's a... that's a chromo emitter. ironically, you gotta make the fabricator with a fabricator? oh shit. tiny factory that makes miniature models of factories? is this the fabricator? this looks like some shit that could be a fabricator, man. or is this... like, what the... what the hell is this? try clicking learn mode in the bottom left. oh, i think i've put myself in build mode now. which is good, because where do we want the cat?
27:07 oh, the cat's gotta go like right there, man. that's totally acceptable. and then this is a muffin? that should go in the pastry cabinet. whatever. you got the spirit. what the fuck? what are you doing here? it follows you. i see. holy pey. holy pey. holy pey. guys, has anyone played this? sorry, you're right. not cat. mow.
27:55 f is for fabricator on the keyboard. actually, f is for friends who do stuff together. u is for you and me. what would i like to fabricate? bro, get me a fucking pijoo. alright. new mail. rapid practice. learn enough nouns to make the color reach plus enable learning rush machine and play one round of learning rush. okay, i've already done that. five hundred beers, please. pijoo. pijoo. pijoo.
28:40 i'm going to do one more round of learning rush. i apologize because i don't think it's necessarily the most engaging thing versus watching me try and fail to pronounce things in mandarin. but we have to do that to get our daily xp so we can unlock more nouns. that we can get our energy up so we can learn more daily words.
29:18 beef. cd. plant. coffee. beef. beer. cd. plant. beer. what's wrong with me?
29:50 new high score anyway i was going too fast i was going too fast i kept giving them beef instead of beer man or like one of them wanted cds and i gave him a damn plant
30:15 new mail, check your progress. open the homepage to see your daily goals. open the dictionary page to see your progress and interact with the chromo meter. okay? dictionary, home, daily goals, streak one day, chats complete. we need one srs revision, whatever the hell that means, man. what's the damn panzai doing on the floor? i've made it from base principles, man.
30:57 count your robots. find the hidden robot part? nah, man, i'm gonna be honest with you. fuck all that. we extended our daily noun limit. learn more words. oh shit, they're doing a credit check? yes! yes! so this is way too much. gotta exercise some self control. holy shit. five more? okay. oh, that's big. please be... pi cha? pi sa.
31:43 pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza pizza okay hang on no man no no no autopass fucking off man absolutely not pizza pizza that's fucking right that's fucking right damn it right
32:33 guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo jiang guo
33:12 it's tau? come on, come on.
33:52 tao chi tao chi tao chi tao chi tao chi tao chi what the fuck is tao... chuuu tao chi tao chi tao chi tao chi tao chi tao chi tao chi tao chi tao chi
34:50 the fuck was this? guo zhang guo zhang guo zhang guo zhang guo zhang he's a oh shit tako? ta ku ta ku ta ku ta ku ta ku not quite the right sound ta ku ta ku a ta ku a ta ku ta ku a ta ku ta ku
35:35 i really thought that was fucking peak, man. i thought that was perfect. what the fuck is da gu, by the way? what am i pronouncing instead of taco?
36:28 parkour. parkour. parkour. you're going down go up. parkour. parkour. parkour. parkour. parkour. parkour. parkour. parkour. parkour. that's it. that's it. parkour.
37:21 tāku tāku tāku tāku tāku tāku tāku tāku tāku tāku tāku tāku tāku tāku tāku tāku tāku tāku tāku tāku tāku tāku tāku tāku tāku tāku tāku tāku tāku tāku tāku
38:36 obviously i forgot what the fuck you are. t'au chi. pizza. guo jiang. guo jiang. t'au kuo. t'au kuo.
40:04 i thought that was... i felt it. someone said close your eyes and when i closed my eyes, i thought it was perfect. i thought it was perfect. you will never understand the third tone. there's three tones to listen for, okay. there's four.
40:46 ta ku a ta ku a ta ku a ta ku a ta ku ta ku ta ku a ta ku ta ku a ta ku a ta ku a ta ku a ta ku ta ku ta ku ta ku
42:02 okay, wait, wait. they say you gotta do it twice to prove it. takua, takua, takua. takua. takua, takua, takua. that was the takua, takua, takua. takua, takua, takua, takua, takua. takua. takua.
43:22 it's it's caught not qua. taka, taka, taka, taka, taka. okay, we lock in when they actually ask us. rolling pin. god, i'm young. motherfucker, man. god, i'm young. god, i'm young. god, i'm young. god, i'm young.
44:13 吃面面
45:00 wait, wait, wait. okay. if i, if i press tab on it, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone,
45:57 okay, and now we fucking send it, man. let's study up, study up really quick, okay?