It is amazing that being a mixed Chinese-Romanian girl like Emma brought up in ENGLAND can speak Mandarin with reasonable fluency. She doesn’t have many opportunities to practice except with her mother or grandmother. It is a great achievement compared to many overseas Chinese in many countries. She is a very intelligent girl.

Her dad is Romanian 🇷🇴 and she also speaks pretty fluent Romanian 😱 👏🏾! And of course English. 👍🏾

I love how Jessie is so proud of Emma, like a mother to her daughter. She was so good!

You just do not have a mean spirited bone in your body, Jessie. I so love that you took a minute at the beginning of the video to explain that your comments are sincerely given to help people hear Chinese on an intuitive level, thus helping them learn. What can I say... You are simply a genuinely warm human being. This speaks well not only for your own family upbringing, but also speaks well of Chinese people in general. As we say in English, "you do them proud". Keep these great videos coming! 😇😇😇

Jessie's cut aways are hilarious! I love this channel so much.

I was surprised by Emma's true fluency in Chinese, especially after hearing her scripted couple of sentences after the US Open. When she speaks informally its rather natural and you can tell she's been raised with Chinese speakers around her. That said, there's still a strong English style of sentence structure in the spoken Chinese. If Emma dedicates a year to Chinese training, I'm sure she can nail down the fluency.

It's beyond obvious she is fluent in Chinese thanks to mommy

I didn't even realize til Jessie said but hearing Emma talk made me smile too 😊😊😊 Was interesting to learn it's also called ping pang in mandarin! Learning new words like this is fun 😄😄 Thanks for another great video!!

LOVED THIS ANALYSIS OMG LOVE TO SEE MORE

I come here for your cuteness... but end up staying for your knowledge and insights. Thanks.

Thank you for this video! I love tennis and this was so cool to see :)

Wow. Emma is great in speaking mandarin. I don't understand mandarin, but I can understand the rhythm though and she is good. My wife is from Shengyang same as Emma's Mom, so I am proud. Keep up the good work!

superb, Jessie speaks so well in English n Chinese

Speaking one language but thinking in the other. She is exactly a good example.

This is fascinating - a brilliant film. Couldn't be any clearer. Outstanding.

She is also apparently fluent in Romanian. I wonder if there are videos of her speaking that language...

haha not only does the interview show her fluency, definitely knows what to say to make her relatable and likeable to Chinese people!

Wow! That was a GREAT video! I just loved your reactions, Jessie. :) And yes, Emma's just too adorable for words. I know nothing as far as Chinese language is concerned. But I really enjoyed watching her speak it, and apparently with an impressive degree of fluency. Just another reason for me to find her so liakable. HAHA! I really loved the way you handled this whole thing, Jessie. It was very enjoyable and really informative. THANKS! :)

I love the Chinese language. And, the way you point out the various little differences in different regions adds so much.

"let's look at these four retroflex sounds" Meanwhile I hear the exact same sound four times. I definitely need to work on my ear for Chinese.

The UKposts algorithm put your videos in my feed, and I thought your name was "Juicy" for the longest time until I actually read the name of the channel. 🤣🤣🤣 Great content. Keep up the entertaining videos!

i dont know any mandarin at all and im not even studying but i just enjoy watching analysis videos about languages and i was pleased to have caught on on those pauses being very strongly rooted in English phrasing

Great film Jessie laoshi! She really is lovely, like a breath of fresh air, amongst many boring athletes! Hopefully she might create interest in learning Chinese in the younger generation too.

8:37 made me burst out laughing xD

Emma is so cute speaking Chinese

I love the little bits of comedy in these videos

EMMAZING 😍

lol she's so innocent! all she talked about in her interview was going to the park and favorite foods lol and she didn't want to stop either xD (part of that was delay in the audio, but she rambled on like I ramble on in the sentence!). From an American (me not her ofc) that's hilarious to me xD

Emma speaks Chinese much better than she speaks Romanian, and there is a logical explanation. At a very young age, when they start talking, most of the children stay longer with their mothers than with their fathers and more than likely Emma's mother only spoke Chinese when Emma's father was not at home or when they had some sensitive "girly stuff" to talk about. 😁 Honestly, I don't know how much Emma learned to speak Romanian from her father, but I think she learned more when she came to stay at her grandma in Bucharest. I think Emma understands almost everything she hears spoken in Romanian but she doesn't speak very fluently because she lacks practice and I bet she hasn't come to Romania for a long time. Something is very interesting, because Emma is, from a theoretical and practical point of view, an English language speaker who can perfectly learn two more languages, Chinese and Romanian. These three languages have totally different fundamental structures, and Chinese and Romanian are two languages very difficult to learn ...

EM ..you ar the best..lov you🙂💚💚💚👍

Fascinating reaction video.

A speaking Chinese reaction, without swearing, sacrilege.

Amazing video, thanks for sharing, 谢谢

the cantonese family members skit at the end is hilarious

分析能力很强 老师！

Just came across your channel, looks very interesting, do you live in UK, just when you said spot on it reminded me of our speech here! haha!

2:05 CCCCCAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTT looks so fluffy

That canto part was HILARIOUS!

The random British got me. 😂

A girl with a NAME. Very popular tennis player nowadays. I'm a chess player. I can relate for being an athlete. Emma is a courageous and a very wise woman. She is pretty too. I like her as an admirer to her.

"....and off topic, like always" LOL that got me good.

特别有意思，谢谢。

At 7:05 when Jessie be like "Why you speaking English??~" I laughed so hard because I feel like this is ALWAYS me. I'll be trying to practice my Chinese (albeit I'm a not native and so it's very bad (T(00)T) but when they only speak English back (speaking to people who are fully bilingual) it makes me so sad, as if you won't acknowledge I'm trying to speak with you/practice/I wouldn't be able to understand if you spoke chinese! ahaha In any case always look forward to all of your videos Jessie so happy to have found your channel!~我永遠支持妳! 加油! \(^(00)^)

It's hugely impressive despite her parents origins. She is only young and we here in the UK are renowned for being terrible at learning new languages both in our education system or as an adult. Most average Brits can't speak any 2nd language. Our language is used in most parts of the world so it is never deemed necessary to learn others. I would like to learn other European languages and I hope future generations try harder at it. Emma is inspirational.

When I hear the interviews I can tell that the Language logic is way more consistent compared to the first video.

8:48 - That guy's reaction when the Mandarin came out? Yup, that's me from here. Sound effects included.

Fluent! And almost no accent! 😻 and she loves hot pot and Napa cabbage. Definitely a Chinese kid.

The chinese family tree is so complicated! Growing up, I called my maternal gran 祖婆 and my paternal gran 婆婆, but when I had my son, I was told that he should call his maternal gran 婆婆 and his paternal gran 嫲嫲 (I'm canto). Why can't we just have one word for each type of relative like in english??

Glad to know I'm not the only one with a crush on her.

I currently have no interest in starting Chinese right now. I’m learning American Sign Language and Japanese at the moment and getting ready to take a round of many tests to become certified in interpreting. Some day I will revisit Chinese. But I keep watching your videos and I stay subscribed because I like this casual style of video editing and intimate teaching space you’ve created. It feels very natural and easy to understand. Also, I really like your relationship with your husband. I like your cute relationship where you will impromptu yell across the house to get his attention for quick Cantonese assistance. It feels more natural! I will stay subscribed and eventually come back when I start leaving Chinese… someday.

Mix Chinese accent is very common in Australia.

THERE'S A KITTY HELLO KITTY

A very good chinese teacher

The phrase "I am really happy but we won" is also not correct in English. I think at that point she may have been thinking about what to say next but lost her train of thought and instead of saying something like "My opponent played very well but in the end we won so I am very happy" she seems to have jumbled things together in her brain and the result was using an incorrect grammar.

Her mother is from Shenyang so that explains the Northeastern accent

So, they don't use retroflex sounds in Shenyang or the rest of Dongbei?

She will make some serious bank. Especially if she can follow up that US Open win some more success elsewhere. She's already got western brands like Nike, Wilson, Tiffany and Dior behind her. But she can be a brand rep for Chinese high end goods as well as other European makers. One British Talent Agency person estimated her earning potential at a billion.

8:00 don’t you say pó pó too? My friends from Hong Kong and even though they speak a lot of Cantonese there The person I got this information from was a mandarin speaker

This is probaly typical for children growing up bi- or tri-lingual. Our children grow up in Germany. They mostly hear French from their mother and grand parents, but German from multiple sources. They also learn English in kindergarten - sometimes British English, sometimes US English. I learnt British English in School and then spent 10 years in the US. A lot of people guessed that I was Australian. Probably not because my accent sounds Australian, but because they couldn't make sense of this combination of British, US and German influences.

I've always heard 白菜 referred to as "Chinese cabbage". First time i've heard it called "napa cabbage" lol.

retroflex just means your tongue is rolled back , right? because zh ch sh r also require the lips to be rounded and pushed outward. i shall look up retroflex but latin retro = back, latin flex = bend

In English you could put a comma in place of "because" as a slight pause and then say we won with a slight raising of the tone as an emphasis.

Bravo Ema

2:05 "Interesting. Interesting... *_KITTY_* " 🙂

My parents are Hong Kongers. I call my Dad's Mum "por por" and Mum's Mum "noi poor" becaude they are so called "outside of the family name" i.e. outside of my Dad's side if that makes sense.

It may be quite some time before Emma and her mother can visit Shenyang and as to playing WTA tennis....

What about Kevin Rudd's Chinese? (He's a former Prime Minister of Australia).

1:43 “It’s impossible not to know it’s been on the news everywhere“ Me who doesn’t know: 🙂

OK... at 4:50 , she misspoke... She didn't mean neither 'but' nor 'because'... Simply 'we won' (meaning 'because we won'... or 'we won after all')

I wonder if you’ve seen you tube of oriental pearl speaking Chinese. Last of her UKposts I saw, she was in Japan and also speaks Japanese. But I don’t know enough of either language to know if she really speaks well.

In Cantonese: Daughter in law addressing husband’s mother - 奶（陽平）奶（陰上？） Mother is 媽，same as mandarin, grand ma on father’s side is 嫲，pronouncing like 馬in mandarin.

Standard Mandarin is not her first language. She's really fluent and I don't think for one second Mandarin speakers would not understand her. I've seen standard English speakers not being able to understand Scouse or a Geordie accent.

You should react to Wayne's world 2 next. They speak Cantonese in it

So is non-retroflex normal for Shenyang? When she started talking I thought she must be from the south.

Jessie can you do on Victor Axelson?

Hi kitty!

I think she said '这次我们赢了‘

Love Emma's smile, her delight at her tennis, her inelligence & visible compassion. I am also grateful to Emma for my partner is Chinese and since the propaganda for our UK Exit of the EU racism here has gone through the roof. So my Chinese partner has had insults even threats up until to now. As she cared for a very ill & mad older English man for 13 years 24/7 in his small flat she has suffered mental health problems. These things are extremely frightening & difficult for her. I note since Emma has become a darling, deserved, of the crowds, this hostility has slackened. Emma is a great tennis player too from getting to the 4th round at Wimbledon and with a unique achievement in winning the US Open from being a qualifier--and at 18! My partner's chosen English name is Jessica.

It's 2024 now and there are more clips of Emma speaking Mandarin. 2022 Wimbkedon and 2024 Australian Open. Hope you can do a revisit video

Okay, Jessie… you can’t just tease that shoulder tattoo and not tell us what it is! Great analysis video, btw. I would have never know that Emma is half-Chinese and fluent in Mandarin Chinese.

The correct phrase is "long overdue."!

It's because of her Chinese mother ❤️

Chinese is one of the most difficult languages for a person living out of China. She is also fluent in Romanian and she lives in an English speaking country. Being fluent in three very different languages is not easy. She probably spent more time with her Chinese mother since her Romanian has a strong English accent.

Hi Jessie can you react to, An Idiot Abroad: China. (Season 1 Episode 1)? It's on UKposts for free and it's really funny. You need to explain some of the Chinese culture from that episode

6:43 What happened here the subtitles incorrect?

8:29 lol

Btw, it’s not Emma’s too shiny, it’s Emma’s too bright. 😊

Jess, you're beautiful and Intellectual lady. Somehow I misfocus to your cute cat. Peace

"Im happy, but we won" is like... i wanted to lose, and that didn't happen, but I'm in a good mood regardless. Bit weird.

It’s very good.Mandarin is a beautiful language ❤

Hey Jessie, you have a Chinese mandarin accent I can't pin point. Where are you from in China?

You're super cool!

My kids were born and raised in the US. Chinese school on weekend and their Mandarin sound just like her and possibly worse. Plus, they can speak half sentence in Chinese and the other half in English.

Language is for communication, not for being analyzed nor studied.

3 people with 1 cat each, first pair is in America, the other, China, the last, Spain, do the cats speak different languages or just the people?

I noticed the sh/s thing right away, and that's about all I know so far! That's from watching your video about Fresh Off The Boat.

It's funny that in America we just call grandparents anything. Every family has their own terms.

She probably doesn't have the accent for proper nouns like US Open, because she's only ever heard that spoken with a standard Mandarin accent. Whereas actual Chinese words like disappoint she learned in her original accent/dialect so the habit is hard to break.

China is famous for being benevolent on tennis players. Emma quick, run.

Ahh she is from the UK that's why she has mix Chinese.