Comments by "xXxSkyViperxXx" (@xXxSkyViperxXx) on "Why some speakers can't understand speakers who understand them - Asymmetric Intelligibility" video.

  1. it seems funny to me that from germanic languages of dutch, english, afrikaans, it jumps to speaking mandarin chinese. lol
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  2. my parents speak a chinese southern language which is hokkien but the philippine lannang variant dialect here in the philippines as opposed to those in taiwan, singapore, malaysia, indonesia, etc. other classmates sometimes also speak a bit of this. we had a chinese teacher that was hired from mainland china to teach mandarin. my classmates thought since they grew up to know hokkien as chinese, they decided to try and speak this in chinese class to the teacher. the teacher got mad and thought this was a local philippine language. we tried telling him it was hokkien/fukien but still he had no idea. it took him until someone from the provinces who was also chinese filipino to move to our school after their city in the provinces got destroyed by a typhoon for him to identify that the chinese we were speaking was of the fujian province.
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  3. im not entirely sure of amount of intelligibility between the austronesian maritime southeast asia languages such as those languages of the philippines and those of malaysia and indonesia but i hear malaysia and indonesia understand each other better but malaysians and indonesians seem to think philippine languages are closer to indonesian languages. as a filipino though i cant understand malaysian and indonesian besides determining cognates in writing
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  4. are you indonesian or malay? i wonder. how much can you understand filipino languages?
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