Restaurants fear me (Noun Town Language Learning)

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0:00 that's right, we're back with nountown. are you guys gonna... you might not know what youtube was like, okay? in like 2010, there used to be a series by miss hannah minx called j woww. it was japanese word of the week. so i think unfortunately, like she would teach you one word of japanese and then like do some push ups or something like that. if she had still been
0:25 doing that she stopped like 12 14 years ago something like probably like 18 years ago now but if she had still been doing that we would now know almost 40 japanese words we would we would almost be at the point where we could live in japan seamlessly and be accepted almost as if we were japanese we would be we would be borderline fluent at this point so if you're watching this on youtube and
0:48 get tricked, okay? get tricked. you do not need to watch other content because this content is a funny and will also teach you chinese. you just have to watch 10,000 videos of it. you only need sumimasen. that's not true. you need sumimasen and daijoubu desu. if you know daijoubu desu, you're set bro. because they literally you'll go into a restaurant and point to something on the menu and then they'll say something to you and you just go daijoubu desu. the end.
1:18 as long as you have low standards. if you have high standards, you can't... i mean, then you gotta learn japanese, to be honest with you. but if you're like, hey, i just bring out whatever we got, what if they say we don't have that? that's okay. that's fine. i'll just sit here, i guess.
1:36 then give a one star review in english that's like, the service was really slow, my food never came out, then i had to go. i do also need to say, and i'm not saying this like, from a sense of self inflated importance, or inflated self importance, i felt like a fucking boss this morning. so i dropped my kid off at school, then i went to the coffee shop, six people in line at the coffee shop, i was number seven,
2:01 how appropriate, waited for 15 seconds and then said, nah this shit's gonna take forever. walked the fuck out. i said, i said i'm getting out of here. just went home. went home. i felt like i got aura out of that and it wasn't like, i mean honestly i looked at it and i was like i probably won't be late if i wait here but i might cut it really fucking close.
2:27 but genuinely i was like, no, it's just... and you know what? i wasn't trying to oramog the employees. the manager should hire another person. a guy who played diner bros on wednesday, the manager should hire another person to fucking deal with the rush that happens, man. the manager needs to have another person on the morning rush because i'm not sitting here waiting 15 minutes for an iced americano. it's not going to happen, man.
2:53 but you know what felt awesome? what happens after the rush? okay, schedule them for like a split shift and if... oh no, we have one person making 12 bucks an hour at a place where coffees are 9 bucks. like what do you think? you're gonna make it work, man. small businesses are liars is what i'm trying to say. you know what felt good as fuck too? now i don't recommend doing this. if you're in high school, cover your ears. but those of us who have graduated from college... oh man.
3:22 when you go to a lecture in university and like five minutes in you get the vibe that dude's just gonna be reading off the slides the whole time and you pack your shit up like spongebob and say, all right, i'ma head out. and then you or a farm by like walking down the steps of the auditorium, like out the door behind the professor, like this shit ain't worth my time. it felt so good. just don't do it too much. don't don't do it too much because you'll it'll hurt your gpa.
3:52 but like a couple of times a semester? couple of times a semester goes crazy. wondering if i'm the pebble that starts the avalanche? that's what it's all about, man. oh shit, i'm still in french, bro. l'avain. l'avain. kind of fucked up that they put the languages in alphabetical order. how would you know, man? how would you know? happy anniversary? thank you, vip daniel. it is indeed my anniversary.
4:27 congratulations to my wife, my beautiful wife, celebrating 12 years of being married to a bald goblin, a hairless ogre made of lumps of meat. my beautiful elegant spouse over a decade now being married to kind of a homunculus pulled from the microwave 30 seconds before the ding went off. kind of crazy, right? some kind of troll, yes.
5:03 some kind of a creature that would have expected them to maybe hit the hobbits over the head but actually they demonstrate a surprising amount of humanity for something so hideous etc.
5:23 don't say i'm like if someone started to shave a kiwi and then gave up. i know you fucking took that from the comments of a picture under jeff bezos now that he's got that new fucking like half beard that he's got going on. i know you, meg resta, i don't want to do this but i know you fucking stole that from like a jeff bezos headshot, right? be so fucking for real. ceo entrepreneur, born in 1964, jeffrey jeffrey bezos
5:58 they were the one that posted it under the bezos pic on hot or not dot com of all places. take me back to the cafe. kate, good morning. are you ready? well, first thing i got to do is some revision, right? i forgot how to access that revise now. ok, if they're going to ask me for 32 items, i honestly think i might remember like, you know what? the first thing we should do is go to the fucking dictionary and try to remember some of these because it's been a fucking while.
6:36 l'an gee. lan za. lan za. lan za. well, i'm not gonna remember that. that's insane. it's been a day. i'm just telling you, and i mean this with all sincerity, like you're looking at a 37 year old basically like as good as it gets.
6:57 so if you're like 21 and you're like, why don't you remember everything you learned yesterday? buckle up motherfucker, because you're seeing like someone who's in the top decile of remembering shit and the bucket's full of holes, dear liza. so if you're like, i won't be like that when i'm 37, you got another thing coming, rob halford, okay? so i'm really doing my best, but i gotta reinforce it like crazy. what's going on here though? oh, we gotta open the box. okay, first let's do our revisions, man.
7:31 let's do our revisions. obviously, i don't remember cash register at all. but can i go to the dictionary and check it out? i also, no disrespect to you, but like, while i'm pronouncing, i don't want the music to be on. i'm sorry to say. okay, but now i'd like, while i'm doing the revision, i don't want music on, but the rest of the time i do want music on. okay, revise. ice cream. bing, chi, ling.
8:01 bing qilin. no, bing qilin. bing qilin. bing qilin. bing qilin. motherfucker. tong. wait, wait, i know this one. tong. this one i don't remember at all. i'm just going to move my camera really quick. i love that they're giving me all the one word options right now. le van. le van. okay, so we go to the dictionary briefly. what's wine, man? hu tao jiu.
8:48 what the fuck? now i gotta... anytime i go back to the dictionary, i have to start my revisions all over again. it's not cheating, bro. it's studying. this ain't an exam. i'm trying to learn the language. well, now i gotta go back here and see what napkin is.
9:32 and now when i go back here, it's gonna be wine again. now this was a fucking, this was a rough one for us. can i get a little, can i get a help on this one? can i get a little reminder of what we got going on on this one? no one remembers, which is completely fair to be honest. you know what? we should use the systems in the game as they're designed.
10:16 we just had this one and i do not remember. that's ice cream, bro. well, you know what? let's learn it. cash register. no. no. yes.
11:14 fung me. it's fung me. it's fung me. it's not fung you, bro. i went austin powers mode. fung me. fung me. yen. yen tian. yen tuan. yen tuan. yen tuan. okay, that was way better than i expected. that was way better than i expected. holy cow. okay, and let's do some learning rush, bro. let's warm up.
12:07 they got air hockey in this. i swear it to you. yeah, yeah, it's true. can i get that one more time? that was vince young! can i get that one more time? that was vince young! can i get that one more time? that was vince young! can i get that one more time? can i get that one more time? can i get that one more time? can i get that one more time? can i get that one more time? can i get that one more time? can i get that one more time? can i get that one more time? can i get that one more time? can i get that one more time? can i get that one more time? can i get that one more time? can i get that one more time? can i get that one more time? can i get that one more time? can i get that one more time? can i get that one more time? can i get that one more time? can i get that one more time? can i get that one more time? can i get that
12:51 napkin, napkin, we go again, we go again. coffee. i want to get 30.
13:33 i said i wanted to get 30. i don't know how to get 30. it's chopsticks and box sound exactly the same in my head. when it were my ear, i should say. when i hear them, like chopstick, if chopsticks and box are both on the table, they sound exactly the same to me.
14:04 this again? well, i'm telling you, like, here's the thing. kate, because she's my spouse, she gave me more grace than you do as chat. but she was like, i was watching you and i was kind of losing my mind going like, why is he saying that this is what it sounds like? then i realized he just doesn't hear it. he just doesn't hear it. and it's true, because i realize my ears are not trained to hear all sounds.
14:25 for 37 years i've been filtering them through a firmware that is like listen for english phonemes, listen for english phonemes. so i hear like the actual air that makes a mandarin phoneme is entering my ear and my brain is going you don't need to worry about that, that's nothing. i've never, i don't know how, i don't know what to do with that piece of information. so it comes in and for me i just hear
14:51 i hear either, which is like chopsticks or which is box but i only catch like just the faintest whiff of the pie cooling on the windowsill. we're gonna get more, we're gonna lock in here though. oh, of course it's a plant.
15:25 what are you doing? no, honestly, take me out, take me out. escape, we don't deserve this one. we don't deserve, we need to restart. i'm not gonna, for 15 seconds, i'm not gonna do it, because i succumbed to weakness and tried to just, i didn't listen for the word, i tried to basically just go fast and do gamer tech. i tried to buffer one. this is not an honest score here. we go again. we go till we beat the high score.
15:58 先面,自晚,晚晚,面晚,面晚,面晚,面晚,面晚,面晚,面晚,面晚,面晚,面晚,面晚,面晚,面晚,面晚,面晚,面晚,面晚,面晚,面晚,面晚,面晚,面晚,面晚,面晚,面晚,面晚,面晚,面晚,面晚,
16:38 we fucking lock in on that. okay, now we're done. now we're fucking talking. now we are fucking talking. new high score. we don't need to beat that. that's gonna be tough. is this a new mario party minigame? oh, imagine.
17:04 oh, it would be such a good bit to become fluent in mandarin and then host lobbies for everybody but host them in mandarin but like not tell them until we got in and then mario's like saying some shit in chinese and they would be like what's going on? i'd be like oh sorry guys i forgot i had it in mandarin.
17:32 my bad, man, my bad. don't we get a new seed, bro? i thought we got a new seed today. oh, wait, wait, there's an orange button down here. what's this one? daily special. okay, we gotta turn the music back on. this is like uncanny. silver, holy shit. yin. yin. yin. yin. yin. yin. yin. yin. yin.
18:21 yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen yeen
19:13 chusan. susan? chusan. chusan. that's the number 13. in my culture, that's a very auspicious number. chusan. chusan. what do you mean your culture? canadians? we don't like the number 13, bro. or the number 23 for that matter. okay. learning rashmi? why not? first part of the hotel or something, i can't remember. plus that dude with the hockey mask.
20:04 my elevator doesn't have a 13th floor. bro in vancouver they don't have like 13, 4. lan su. lan su. mai fen. mai fen. bo li bei. bo li bei. excuse me, bo li bei. oh that's a glass not like a fucking nightlight. bing gan. bing gan cookie. feng mi. feng mi honey. xiao bing. xiao bing pie. ta ke.
20:32 she told her she john clock my friend my even ha cool. okay. in kind of cookie. she ends up being a bottle. she told you john clock crb. okay, we can we can do better now that we're warmed up we go again. plan to mean plan for me lines. oh, paul, see more for me. god mean john.
21:09 lanzi. fengmi. maifen. ganmian zhang. mao. lanzi. tong. xizhong. taqie lanzi. ganmian zhang. boulibei. fengmi. yan. binggan. maifen.
21:42 me and tuan. we run this fucking town! we run this fucking town. i had to lock in at the end too. oh, man. now it's... i'm starting to understand as a monolingualist, i never really understood how someone would be like, i can hear a language but i can't really write it. no, that makes perfect sense, man, because i do not know these words. i do not know these words at all.
22:14 but when i hear them, if there's only four options, i could definitely tell you with pretty good fidelity which one they're looking for. hearing is more instinctual. yeah, it's about power. is that what you're trying to say? and you're not even trying to form sentences yet? yeah, but that's easy, man. i don't even have to think about forming sentences in english. learning words is the hard part for sure. what do you got for me here? pastry. okay, this is what it's all about, bro. pastry. le patisserie. oh, the end.
22:54 gao dien. dien. dien. gao dien. gao dien. gao dien. gao dien. gao dien. gao dien. gao dien. doh dien. dona. oh shit, this is gonna have a repeated word at the start too. shan shan quan. shan shan quan. no, no, no, that's the same one. shan shan quan.
23:36 tian tianquan. tian tianquan. tian tianquan. tian tianquan. tian tianquan. tian tianquan. tian tianquan. it means sweet, sweet circle. that's fucking awesome, man. but then tian is different than xion.
24:17 and they're both sweet. like a pie is also a sweet circle. so what does xiān bíìng mean? okay, i know it means pie, but what is it? does it mean anything? does it derive from a different meaning? xiān is filling. xiān is sweet. i think i might be here for a while, man. oh, it means filled. it's a filled cake. oh, okay.
24:58 tian tian chen, tian tian chen, tian tian chen, gao dian, tian tian chen, gao dian. i'm fucking farming dopamine off of librarians saying what the fuck that one was actually pretty good. chocolate, okay. i don't even need the damn pinion. pretty sure my ancestors invented that one.
25:59 the game being insNLy strict for loanwords is a great bit. if taco is so funny to me,
26:59 like i'm saying it right, i'm saying it right. i know how to say taco. and meanwhile i'm like, say dan and they're like yeah good enough white boy and i'm like taco. now that's not quite my tempo. that's not quite my tempo. taco. pizza. pizza. pizza. pizza. pizza. pizza.
27:41 pee za pee za pizza pee za pee za pizza pee za pizza pee za pizza pee za pizza i heard it that time. i'm going zuh. it should be suh. pee za pizza pee za pizza pee za pizza pee za pizza pee za
29:06 maybe i can't speak english. maybe i can only speak mandarin now. i threw it down like i had it. i see. get that shit out of here.
30:09 tian tian quan. tian tian quan. tian tian quan. tian tian quan. tian tian quan. i think i did a really good job on that one. tian tian quan. tian tian quan. can i get a sweet sweet circle? tian tian quan. tian tian quan. tian tian quan. i got a sweet sweet circle. tian tian quan. tian tian quan. tian tian quan.
31:18 tian tian chun tian tian chun tian tian chun tian tian chun tian tian chun tian tian chun tian tian chun what the fuck are these now man? gao dian gao dian hey, okay now now the fucking final boss pisa pisa
32:26 literally mother fuck you. i don't give a shit about that. they're gonna know what i'm saying. hong cha, hong cha. i can read. i can read mandarin. hong cha. nah, it's just the same in korean. i can do this man. i can fucking do this. i'm ready.
33:12 yeah, i'm ready. i said i'm ready. i said god help me. what do you mean i need five more? i still need two more motherfucker man. chocolate. chocoli. chocoli. chocoli. chocoli. chocoli. still need four? what's happening man? chocoli. after you've unpacked the ones above test your learning.
33:56 we fucking did pastry ten times. oh, you know why? cuz the thing's not in the... it's not in the circle, i think. pizza! okay. okay. box, box? we don't even need donut apparently. i didn't even know, man. i guess i gotta get one of these boxes that's in the... that's in the ao. oh, pizza, okay. the hell's going on? pizza! pizza!
34:57 pizza! okay, fuck you. pastry? what the fuck? gao dien! i mean, i'm not mad that the bakery is like all pizzas or whatever and pastries. it seems pretty normal, but i'm... i wanna progress. boro, nooooooo! no shot. no shot. mo... mo zi ge... chuan bing?
35:43 我是和面面
36:23 i sold out for that one, man! i sold out for that one! i sold out for that one! i sold out for that one! i sold out for that one! i sold out for that one! i sold out for that one! i sold out for that one! i sold out for that one! i sold out for that one! i sold out for that one! i sold out for that one! i sold out for that one! i sold out for that one! i sold out for that one! i sold out for that one! i sold out for that one! i sold out for that one! i sold out for that one! i sold out for that one! i sold out for that one! i sold out for that one! i sold out for that one! i sold out for that one! i sold out for that one! i sold out for that one! i sold out for that one! i sold out for that one! i sold out for that one! i sold out for that one! i sold out for that one! i sold out for that
37:17 holy shi holy shit! holy shit! mo shi ge zhuo bing. puuu. jam. isn't this like, gao zhang? guo zhang. guo zhang. guo zhang. i'm clipping this to kill you in the future culture courts. bro, we're headed into the chinese century, okay? i think if you put this shit in front of a chinese judge in like 2071, they would be like, this guy's awesome. wow, this guy's funny as fuck.
38:08 if in 2071, it's not a chinese judge, they'd probably be saying, you can't do that. it's problematic for a white guy to try to learn chinese. i think a chinese judge would probably be like, damn, this guy's working his ass off to try to interface with us. we gotta give him some respect. i should have studied more. i should have studied more. no, no, no, test now. chao kou li, chao kou li, chao kou li, chao kou li, chao kou li, chao ke li.
38:53 pizza, pizza. that's dough. obviously that's it. that's tea. i don't remember that one. pastry. we were fucking in there.
39:50 that's pastry. i don't remember. beef sandwich? beef sandwich? that's croissant.
40:28 i thought i heard ro in there. wo gao? wo wo jiang? wo jiang? wo jiang? oh shit. oh shit. that was that was better than expected, man. we still gotta learn our damn words at the at the bakery though. don't get excited. it ain't over yet.
41:24 it means cow horn bun. oh shit, wait, wait. i actually caught a phoneme in there. wait, this might unironically be easier for you for burrito. moshi ke chen chuan bin. moshi ke chuan bin. is that what it is? that what burrito is in korean? i thought for sure they would have just gone with like burrito or something like that. moshi ke chuan bin. moshi ke, moshi ke. yeah, they say burrito.
42:04 i mean like depending on where you are they might just say i'll take a burrito please to be honest. state of english education in south korea is like insNLy good and it wasn't because i was over there teaching them let me tell you. those kids know how to study let's put it that way. sandwhich! this is big! sandwhich! sanmingju.
42:45 sanming zhu. ni hao, kory. ni hao. sanming zhu. koi, do you know the word for sandwich in mandarin chinese? sanming zhu. that one's tough, man. chair. yi zhu.
43:49 i tsu. i tsu. i tsu. i tsu. i tsu. that one felt right. i tsu. i tsu. and then you gotta grab the sandwich, two to confirm. sun ming ju. sun ming ju. sun ming ju. sun ming ju. i tsu. i tsu. i tsu. i tsu. we got it, y'all. i tsu.
44:58 sun ming chi sun ming chi holy shit three more okay three more until we officially hit fluency in mandarin chinese chi chi than chi than chi than chi than chi than chi than that felt so good chi than chi than fuck it. they'll take it chi than cooker
45:49 is this rice cooker specifically? dien fang guo. electric rice pot. well, i'm literally by learning one compound word, i'm learning like all of chinese because i'm learning three words in one word. that one word was three words, bro. dien fang guo.
46:39 he's never going to get the tones right, is he? a guy who's on his second day of learning mandarin chinese. what an insane... what would be enough for you?
47:17 what would be enough for you, yo hiss? twitchcon 2022 amsterdam. okay, wait, let's see what your life's all about. 680 messages total. oh my god, account created august 17th, 2011. oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. you were on the website for 11 years and you still went to twitchcon as a viewer, not as a streamer, but as you were on the website for 11 years and went, yeah, yeah.
47:46 i'll go to twitchcon and you. i'm not flaming, i'm just saying. you didn't really say much of anything, you referenced a tyler1 clip there. do you have anything to say that speaks to, you know, like the clarity of your spirit or whatever? caught, fool man.