Do you understand mandarin?

[Alvinz]

Do you understand mandarin, or do you listen to Jay Chou anyway even though you have no idea what he is saying?

I'm currently studying chinese, so I know a few words, but listening to Jay Chou songs is a really great way to improve my chinese and learn new words!

[diaoness]

yeah...i understand mandarin...well, enough of it to listen to a convo, get through most of jay's songs and watch azn dramas....but im still learnng too - chink school evry sat!
jay chou songs r VERy good for improving chinese.....i noe tat i use alot of phrases from his songs to put in my essays....thanx jay!

[pamujung]

Hi Alvinz, welcome to the forums :happy:

for me, I don't understand chinese when I first listened to Jay's songs but after that I study chinese so.. ^^; but I don't agree to learn chinese by his songs lol I hardly catch what he is singing, you know what I mean.

[petricia]

Welcome to JCnet!

Well... I would say I understand Mandarin but initially I have trouble understanding Jay when he sings, unless I have the lyrics with me. Even now, I still have trouble with Jay's songs when he's rapping. haha..

[kwonsang26]

yeah...i understand mandarin...well, enough of it to listen to a convo, get through most of jay's songs and watch azn dramas....but im still learnng too - chink school evry sat!
jay chou songs r VERy good for improving chinese.....i noe tat i use alot of phrases from his songs to put in my essays....thanx jay!

Now diaoness dearie,I don't know if that's just what you guys call it at your country.But just to let you know,the derogatory word "chink" to many asian people is just as offensive as saying the "N" word towards black people.

So I just like to ask nicely,please don't make a habit of using that word.I heard it enough growing up as well as "ching chong" & Bruce Lee impressions by ignorant racists in my community.Thank you!^^

Welcome to JCNet Alvinz,it's really nice to have you with us.You came just in time because we're actually discussing about a new section in the forums just for learning & teaching new languages.

Especially,when this forum is so diverse.If you're interested or have any feedback,then just click on the link below.It's great that you want to learn mandarin because I also want to as well.

Have fun & don't hesitate to ask any questions or explore!^^:bleh:

Learning Language Link (http://jay-chou.net/forums/showthread.php?t=25810)

[jayn]

I can understand a little of mandarin. Yeah, listening to Jay's songs really helped a lot. I can speak better now. Last time I only listened to the melody but now, I can already understand the lyrics. The translation in this site really helps. I mean, wow, finally I can understand the message that Jay wants to convey in his songs and realized what a romantic soul Jay is. I love him more and more each day.

[icarus]

I know mandarin well enough. However, sometimes his lyrics are just so refined and complicated that I just listen to them for the sake of the song.

[XiiaoQian]

yes i can understand mandarin well...
my parents speak with me since i am small
i study in a chinese school too....

[culee]

i understand the simple conversations
Ive been learning for 10 years, am im still not very good:dry:

[DannLionel]

nop at first. im english educated. so understanding mandarin would be quite a problem to me. anyway, gradually i pick it up from listening to radio, hearing people speaking, watching taiwanese drama and stuff.

as fo now, im still unable to read or write. but at least im glad that now im able to understand and speak mandarin a little bit. it takes time. gotta improve more.

[xanimeotakux]

i understand snippets of mandarin. i was in chinese school for about 9 years, but i barely learned anything. what a waste of money, lol.

i honestly listen to jay's songs without looking at the translations or having any clue what he's saying. i like the beat! haha. i might catch a phrase here or there, like "wo ai ni." rofl. i suck at mandarin.

if you speak really really slowly in mandarin, i'll probably understand. XD

anyways, welcome to JCnet! hope you like it! ^^

[konekokoohii]

WOAH? Mandarin? That's amazing! I'm trying to learn Korean, but.. Chinese?! That's so . SO hard! Wow! Good luuuck!!!!
*cheering you on*

[50chicken]

I understand mandarin but I really can't say it, one time when I said think in mandarin my mom thought I said alike. I'm switching to mandarin classes next year cause currently I'm taking Japanese.

はじみまして! 私は michelle です!

[YeQu]

I don't understand Mandarin.. Though I'd love to learn it,but I don't know places around here that teach it... So whenever I listen to Jay I have no clue what he's saying... :shy:

[LukTsai]

I'm pretty fluent in both Mandarin and Cantonese. Though I admit I could be much better. My reading is okay. But I possess no writing skills. :(

[1000tears]

I understand Mandarin conversation, just not anything like politics or economics because I dont know the higher level terms =P

If you really want to improve your Chinese, just go to China/Taiwan.. I find watching drama or listening to songs not really helpful unless you actually study the lyrics o.0

[jusmate]

I can't understand mandarin >_<...
but I know the meaning of some word 'cuz of my parent took mandarin to talk together and I can understand a little bit~~umm I think liten songs is a good way that you can learn the language more n more^^

[konekokoohii]

yeah...i understand mandarin...well, enough of it to listen to a convo, get through most of jay's songs and watch azn dramas....but im still learnng too - chink school evry sat!
jay chou songs r VERy good for improving chinese.....i noe tat i use alot of phrases from his songs to put in my essays....thanx jay!

That's amazing! Isn't it hard to memorize the complicated symbols? How admirable~! ....*x* I'm duly impressed..

[Haven325]

yea i can understand mandarine, wish i knew cantonese though >.<

[endro_jay]

I'm little bit understand mandarin...
N now..i'm still having mandarin course...Hope one day..can sing all Jay song as well...

Then...it must be really cool...:excited:

Btw, what type mandarin do you learn? Tradisional or modern one?

[Silentghost]

I can understand it, but I'm better in Cantonese.

[Fujiwara]

can speak cant write cant read. lol. am currently trying to memorise more and more words after watching clips from youtube and so. hehehehe.. damn. chinese is getting more and more important these days. lol

[punk'd_azn_dude]

learning from a song is too hard for me...
i dont understand chinese..but i know some really basic words...
i dont listen to jay's for his lyrics...but his tunes are amazing...love em...
i can view the lyrics in english version any time in chou.net...
thx u guys!

[monotonous]

i can understand a bit since i'm part chinese... but i only know a little since i grew up here in the Philippines.

[HAMA25]

I know very little of Mandarin...i just started to learn Mandarin last year:D...well, listening to songs helps me quite a lot in knowing words (not the tones for sure^^), but I can hardly learn from Jay's songs 'coz it's pretty hard to figure out words ><, the tunes r great though.... the more i listen to taiwanese songs the more i wanna better my Mandarin hehe

[miwako_berri]

i totaly understand . . . i struggle with the deep and meaningful words but okay with the simple terms... i wish my chinese would improve!

[Antigone_Falling]

I can't speak Mandarin at all (unless you count about five phrases as speaking it!); it's very embarrassing for me, because it's my first language...

[dh144498]

i can understand and speak mandarin. been living in china for 10 years

[black shinigami]

Hehe, I don't think anyone understands what Jay is rapping about without having to look at his lyrics. ^^;; I can understand simplified Mandarin but not indepth things like "chen Yu" and such, but bascially I can have quite a good conversation in Mandarin even though my pitch is off sometime. I can't read or write though. ^^;;

[dh144498]

you're right, you do kinda have to look at the lyrics to understand most of his songs. i mean i understand some of it without looking, then some stuff he sings so fast, i get dizzy.

[artemis07]

I can, but I'm not fluent in it. Sadly, I'm a lot worse in writing it.

[Maxxum]

Even native mandarin speakers have hard times to understand what he is saying! :-)

Do you understand mandarin, or do you listen to Jay Chou anyway even though you have no idea what he is saying?
I'm currently studying chinese, so I know a few words, but listening to Jay Chou songs is a really great way to improve my chinese and learn new words!

[junxta]

i don`t understand chinese. but i know the meaning of jay`s song from my friends that understand chinese...

[Cielfairy]

I can't but hope to learn someday. I have a good ear for learning languages. My great grandfather could speak in 9 different languages. I hope that apart form English and Spanish and my extremely basic french and italian I colud learn Japanes, Korean and Chinese Mandarin.

[susie_17]

I can't, but I'm currently learning it in school - I listen to a lot of Chinese music and watch alot of dramas in hopes of picking it up faster xP I'm still pretty bad at it though lol

[xXice-teaXx]

welcome to JCnet
i don'T understand mandarin :( because i'm a vietnamese

[xamispep]

I don't understand but I wish to learn some day. I might just find myself moving to China. :wave:

[cherry_bombshell]

i don't understand mandarin. my mother can but she didn't teach me, so.... you know. i try to learn chinese, but in the end i gave up. but i understand common sentence. i listen chinese song because i like to hear the melody. besides my ear can accept east asia language.

[kamericanese]

Well, not so much. And I want to take it, but I can't, I'm already studying two other languages, but I can understand SOME of it.

I'm hoping I can learn more though :oops:

[marslover13]

I don't understand Mandarin.. Though I'd love to learn it,but I don't know places around here that teach it... So whenever I listen to Jay I have no clue what he's saying... :shy:
Same for me...I understand about..five words in Mandarin. And those are the most basic. Unfortunatly, my city doesnt have a large enough Asian community to warrent a Chinese school..-_-..

[supercai]

i can understand mandarin but jay is mad hard to understand sometimes like i ill look up the lyrics and be like "wtf thats wat hes saying?"

[AiMusyk]

unfortunately i cant understand anything. i've been listening to jay for a while now but i cant seem to pick up any phrases. i really want to learn but i dont seem to have the time. sometimes i just go online and see if theres any translation of the songs.

[Chojo]

i can understand some.

the sad thing is i've been going to chinese school for 10 freaking years... but it's probably cause i just slack off and throw airplanes at people the whole time...

[Irenes-Right]

Haha, I'm Chinese so I learned Mandarin at the same time as English. Basically, yeah I'm fluent. At the same time, when Jay raps I, and many other fluent speakers I know have trouble understanding him, though ballads are much MUCH easier. He still has a tendency to slur a bit so sometimes it's not very clear, though it is very distinctive.

[lnln]

i'm chinese so i can understand mandarin very well.
but u know,some of the lyrics of jay's songs are like poems so it's hard to translate them into english.
so if u ever have any problem of understanding the lyrics or learning chinese i would like to help but i'm not sure i can solve the problem.

[meeda]

I understand conversation mandarin, cuz I was born in China, but since I moved to the US really early, it's hard to understand Chinese songs. especially Jay =D

[jazlyn87]

i only understand basic mandarin and the words jay used are quite deep so i still have to look for translation and such ,..

[Pnemjc]

I am learning Mandarin, but it's hard to follow the lyrics. I agree, ballads are easier.

[ContinentalZero]

i understand mandarin. in fact, i'm forced to study mandarin everyday! and yes, i guess i do understand a bit of what Jay is singing but that is no solid reason as to me liking mandarin. to be honest, i really dislike the subject. but for the sake of understanding what Jay sings, i guess it's only right to perservere, doncha think? :D

[Noriko_saseki]

Just a little bit..-,- coz, in my hometown, just learn english n indonesia..=p

[bebyjaystaa]

Mmm....I understand some. But not fully, like the hard words. Because I was in chinese school for some long long years. But after the class ended, I would forget everything. Gahh~ I regret it now. But yeah.

[Arkiro]

Nope I don't understand Mandarine, maybe a word or two because it sounds a bit like Cantonese, but I don't understand anything when I listen to Jay Chou's songs lol.

That's why I use JCNET's translations :excited:. Thanks JCNET!!!

[candy9x58]

I'm don't really understand Mandarin but my father is Chinese....He can help me a lot when I listen to Jay's song.Explaining lyric ....:D

[jubjubkiwi]

Haha...I totally don't get Mandarin AT ALL. If anything I understand a little bit of cantonese. XD

[elvinteh]

I'm Chinese but i haven't touched it in 10years. Forgot how to write most of it...

[Vynci]

Guys , do u believe that I don't know Chinese , Mandarin and Cantose , but I can sing both of them by Pinyin???
It's so unreasonable...

[Leigh]

Hehehe - I don't speak Chinese - Mandarin or Cantonese. Though my coworkers nickname for me is Jiaozi….

Anyway, Jay writes such amazing melodies, and has a voice that I just love to listen to. I can sing along with his ballads, and just enjoy his faster stuff.

I also have Thai, Japanese, Spanish, French, Swedish & German artists that I like. I’m slowly learning a phrase here & there. I’m better with French than any of the others. ;)

[sam_ho]

Yeah I understand mandarin, chinese, spanish and english. I know english more than any though. I learned mandarin when I lived in taiwanf or 2 years cuz my parents r taiwanese.

[KawaiiPanda]

i can speak mando but i can't really read or write. but i'm learning! =]

[shadow_whiteknight]

Not much different from Noriko_saseki, juz learn Eng & Indo
But since in school I have to learn chinese, I can understand some of them
and I also take a lesson for Mandarin
But still, I can't translate all of Jay songs correctly
That's why, thank you for the translator!:-)

[anna_ng]

I used to learn mandarin but only a month then i quitted because my schedule was full...so i just understand a little !!!

[SweetWaltz]

I dont understand mandarin but I still love to listen to Jay's music. I like his voice and the melody of his music.

[bawkbawkchicken]

i used to not really understand mandarin, but now i can say i'm about completely fluent in mandarin. chinese school did nothing for me, it was chinese stuff like huan zhu ge ge, azn dramas, jay chou, etc. that gave me the spark and made me interested. once u have the spark and ambition, ur halfway there. it was pretty cool learning/improving just by watching dramas for entertainment. :)

[csuo]

When I first started listening to Jay's songs I couldn't understand them at all...(it doesn't help that the first song I heard was Fa Ru Xue, which happens to be insanely complicated Chinese lol), but spending time listening to Jay's songs and talking with my girlfriend have improved my Chinese a lot. I used to be perfectly fluent when I was younger but really grew out of the habit living in Canada, leading to not really speaking it for over 10 years...

[LaEtitiA]

I'm malay girl so my mother tongue is malay language and of coz i used to learn english as my second language.

yes, b4 i know Jay, i don't understand mandarin
but after that, i know a little bit...i learn it from my chinese friends and through Jay's lyrics...it quite work. Anyway, i have plan to take a mandarin class next year.

To me, it's not a big deal either i understand or not when i listening to any song...as long as the melody is nice, that's enough. But to be honest, mandarin song really can attract me more. Especially song that compose by jay :)

[moosespitz]

i used to attend Chinese School so I can understand a little mandarin.
However, for Jay's singing...I can't really hear what he is saying unless I have the lyrics.

I'm slowly trying to learn more Chinese. :]

[kari_angel17]

yea i understand mandarin... i speak it and write it, but my level is elementary school level. and if i wanna understand jay chou... i can understand most of a song... but some fast rap songs where he just mumbles everything is hard to understand so i don't really bother paying attention

[Yuke]

i still learning a lot of mandarin with JC songs..
i hope i can study mandarin next year.

[Hebug]

I understand mandarin. It was my first language until I started public schools and then English pretty much took over. I can still speak, albeit somewhat haltingly, but I can understand conversational mandarin because my parents spoke it at home. I do have a hard time understanding mandarin lyrics in music because there is a lot of slang and I'm just not used to listening to it that much.

All that said, I love Jay Chou's music, and am eagerly awaiting his new album, even if I can't understand the lyrics without help.

[Venus_Rising]

Cantonese is my first language but English is the only language I would say I was fluent in. Can't read or write Chinese even though I had 3 years of weekend Mandarin Chinese school. Still can't understand spoken Mandarin but can pick up a few words here and there.

[implus]

i dont understand it but im currently learning it at school i know canto though =D

[usagivie]

well, i know a little mandarin, i had studied it on a course before.
i learn mandarin on jay's song also..with english translations of course ^^
thx jcnet for providing the lyrics in english ;)

[nightand_day]

I understand a little Japanese, but I don't know much Mandarin at all.
I'm slowly catching on though, thanks to music.

[shannenn]

I'm studying mandarin since Jan 2002, so I can speak mandarin a little now :) It's getting harder now to learn mandarin cause the letter is getting more complicated, and it's hard to memorize all the letters, but I'm still hanging on :). The first time I heard Jay's song, I didn't know the meaning, but when I study mandarin, I get to understand it little by little and then compare it to the translation. Pretty interesting.....

[Peter_Heu]

uh i don't understand anything Jay Chou says.. i just like his songs..

[JayChouSno.1]

I understand some, so far I've learned the basics, and I've started learning Mandarin a few years ago. I've continued learning by listening to audio tapes and reading Mandarin phrase books. A Jay Chou lyrics site has Mandarin and English translation for his song lyrics and I've been learning from that too.

[mindHacker]

I can only understand a bit... and I'm chinese.

[Sorrow]

Like a few others, I'm learning Mandarin in school and his songs are definitely a useful tool in practicing - listening, writing, and speaking.

[Rice_hero]

Lol, i just look up the translation or lyrics.. but i want to learn it someday.. ahah:-)

[poonchun]

my mandarin is not so good..
so, sometimes i might be understand and sometimes maybe no..

[KeiraKnightleyFan]

In the near future i am going to begin studying the Chinese language. But now i can only read translations :cry::cry::cry:

[anger]

I left China when I was about 6 so I didn't learn to write/read chinese but I can understand the basic meanings of it lol, well as much as I can with a grade 1's vocabulary :P

[qwerthey]

wo de zhong wen bu hao....as you can tell..i suck oh well.

[darren]

A small amount, yes.
Mainly the basic conversational language.
Took Mandarin so long ago... >.<
Can still get the tones right though and I remember some of the grammar so I could pick it up again if I wanted to.

[fuugi]

not rly cos im canto
only some bits and phrases ><;;

[may-wu]

no i can't i just know a few words
i speak indonesian and i have studied english from school until now in university
but although i can't speak mandarin i still like what is the meaning of any jay's song. i'd like to learn mandarin as soon as possible

[vibe]

hai, i am new here. well, i can understand simple mandarin, haha! for me, jay's songs are meaningful n unique. but, sometimes it's too hard 4 me to undrstand. do you?

[aznmaestro007]

It's sorta hard to remember every single words unless you listen to infinite number of times. But yeah, I speak Cantonese so it's alright for me to understand mandarin since I took 10 years of it.

[lalopink]

no i can not..
i only undeztand simple conversation, but i dont know how to speak.. -_-'

[s u n n e e.]

haha. yep.
i'm pure mandarin.
well, i know english too(:

[kevinjay]

I do not understand Mandarin, the chinese I speak is Cantonese. Taking Mandarin course since a few weeks. I hope my Mandarin will improve quickly so I fully understand what Jay says without using a dictionary and/or lyrics =P

[ochin]

for me..i understand mandarin.. since im chinese and im stuck in taipei..so no choice...been taking mandarin since i was a baby..lol...

[liMPiNMEdiC]

yes i understand, and i think understanding the lyrics to a good song makes it even better. lyrics add so much more meaning to the songs..

[Vivi]

I don't understand mandarin.. just few words.. but it's nothing -_-,
that's because I'm always looking for translations :rolleyes:

[xchewaliciousx]

i understand chinese, but i dont really speak it

by the way, does anyone know when jay's cd on the run comes on in america?
or is it already out?

[FreddyC]

I understand mandarin, well most of it anyways, some of jay's lyrics are a bit hard to understand, not least due to the speed and clarity of it.

I do pity those who like the music but don't understand Jay's lyrics, it's like I hate the fact that I like a lot of opera songs, but don't have a clue what they are talking about.

[yygall]

I know Chinese enough to have few problems when reading and speaking. writing is another matter...
Jay songs are usually hard to understand, it's almost as though he uses his vocals as another instrument. but you sorta get used to it.
Must disagree with FreddyC though, I love listening to foreign music, even though i may not understand a word of the lyrics, the music and the feel of the songs are enough to move me. I remember bawling my eyes out after watching a clip of a Japanese band in concert. (If anyone wants to know, it was Arashi's Tabidachi no Asa @ Yokohama Arena, from AAA DVD released earlier this year.)

[moomoocows]

I am actually cantonese but I learned mandarin when I was little at a chinese school. I haven't spoke much since then until i started working at a chinese place. For an ABC, i can actually speak and read more than most other ABC i know. though, they might sound more fluent.

i started to listen to jay chou because i was always into canto stuff so i didnt mind switching off a bit. i still don't understand most of the stuff he is singing about. but it doesnt really matter cause i can barely understand stuff sang in english anyways. haha.

[pvuekshi]

No, I do not understand at all >.< but would like to learn it sometime later >.< hahaha

[joe.id]

i know a little,Chinese is too hard
i listen his music which one that i like i'll search their lyrics with translation that's make me know what's mean in his song !!!

[SunZhiQian]

Hmmm...I've been studying Mandarin for about 4.5 years now on my own, and I understand SOME Mandarin, but not enough to understand all of Jay's lyrics without reading them and using the dictionary a lot. But I'm still plugging away at it, so hopefully I'll be there one day!

If you can understand both Mandarin and Cantonese, you may wanna check out the group inLove. They're extremely talented!

[strawberrymocha]

I understand most of it. I've studied mandarin for 5 years, dunno if it actually did me any good, but at least I'm not clueless when hearing mandarin which is quite a big accomplishment =]

[angelchick2116]

Even though Mandarin was my first language, I'm not fluent and I can understand people when they talk more than write Chinese or speak it. :sweat: I did attend a couple of Chinese summer camps in California (U.S.A.) and in China. I really love the beat, rhythims, and lyrics of Jay Chou's music, and even though I do have to look up the translations for his lyrics, I can pick up certain phrases or words as I listen. I want to become really fluent in Mandarin so I can fully enjoy his music someday! Both of my parents know Mandarin, and I only wish they hadn't stopped teaching me it. =( Since the town I live in has less than 1% of Chinese, it was really hard to practice it. My baby sitters couldn't understand me, so my parents decided to teach me english.

[oomievaj]

I don't understand any chinese, but enjoy listening to different music from different countries (even though I don't understand any of them). I really enjoy the music and their voices. I'm trying to pick up some words here and there, but still have long way to go.

[zeryuz]

I don't understand any chinese, but enjoy listening to different music from different countries

[Ju Hua Tai]

Jay Chou's song lyrics are well written and hard to understand.

[xaiqini]

i have absolutely no idea wat he is saying lol but i still listen to him :D

[lycos12]

For those who don't understand chinese, I"m just wondering if you are from chinese background but cannot speak chinese (like me T_T ) ?

[Akira721]

I'm a abc, so i grew up learning english, but had some chinese 'intuition' in the back of my head, so i wasn't entirely clueless when my relatives talked in chinese. Jay Chou's songs use a lot of...well not everyday words, and that makes it hard to understand. You have to be really fluent in chinese to completely understand Jay's songs.

[susanigger]

err.. i dont know mandarin >< i only know simple stuff. like i love you, cute, etc xP

his voice is just soo smooothh and sexy that i'd listen to his songs anyday. even when i dont understand it xD but i do read the translations for them. mostly sad songs he has x^x

[hellodan]

My mandarin is horrible, but i get most of what he says. Actually, i was hoping that through listening and singing his songs my mando would get better.

Unfortunately, i might need to work on my singing voice first, since people tend not to let me sing XD

[x_loveagain]

I don't understand that much Mandarin
but I do understand Cantonese and
that helps a little bit
I still have to watch dramas with subtitles
because I can't seem to catch all the words
hmmm sometimes it's difficult to understand
all the words in Jay Chou songs because
he either sings it pretty fast
or it jumbles together hehe

[Sanna]

I just simply listen to jay because he´s voice and songs are soooo nice...
But I might surprise myself somethimes and understand word or 2 when i listen! I´ve only just begun to learn mandarin.. ahaha!! But i hope in future i´ll understand more and more!!

[kakashifreek]

Do you understand mandarin, or do you listen to Jay Chou anyway even though you have no idea what he is saying?
I'm currently studying chinese, so I know a few words, but listening to Jay Chou songs is a really great way to improve my chinese and learn new words!
Yah, Me too. I'm currently learning Chinese. Jay Chou is the only reason I wanted to learn Chinese. :-)

[youalways]

I can understand mandarin sometimes...like if people speak slow enough!^^ But when I listen to Jay Chou...I don't understand him most of the time. I catch a few words and/or sentences here or there, but that's it! His songs are so good & I love his voice so much that it doesn't really matter to me^^

[JAY_LUVER]

I understand Mandarin. My parents talk to me in Mandarin and I watch the news, dramas, etc . I've taken classes for a while, but I somewhat forgot the difficult characters. I can speak and listen, but I'm not strong in writing or reading. I can read and write those simple characters, but the rest is a blur. All that time and effort wasted. I should of kept on going with my classes. When it comes to Jay's singing it's hard. I have to look at the lyric book to follow his singing or this website to see the translation. Hey, at least Jay is motivating me to keep on going and learning with my Mandarin.

[acer]

I understand a couple of words of mando but planning to learn more asap.

[shadowcats2]

I'm non-Asian, Canadian...so I don't know Mandarin at all. But I want to learn, and have been picking up a few words and phrases from songs. Jay's songs are easy to sing along with because you don't have to worry too much about exact pronunciation..LOL (his beloved mumbling!!)

I am going to enroll in classes to learn Mandarin properly. I love the language, culture and people. My Asian friends tell me I am the wrong colour. I hate racism a lot. Knowing Jay's music, and other artists from Taiwan and Japan have made me more conscious of the existence of racism. What a shame that North Americans (white/black/Asian/other) can't learn to appreciate music, regardless of the language. Every chance I get I promote Jay's music to English speaking people.

[tofuu x3]

cantonese was my first language. then i learned english. eventually my mom made me go to chinese school which really sucked. but i did learn some mandarin there. eventually we quit.

[endlessly]

Sadly no :( but i can speak/understand cantonese. My parents used to tell when i was younger that Mandarin is a very useful language to know and so they would put on the news in Mandarin so maybe i could pick up a few things.

I used to go to chinese school when i was younger, but quit after a few years. (Something i really regret now) I actually hated going there because everyone there spoke Mandarin which I couldnt understand. I took chinese at my school so now i'm familiar with the basics of Mandarin. Ohhh and watching Taiwanese dramas made me even more familiar with the language.

I really do wish i was fluent in mandarin now especially after i was introduced to Jay Chou's music and Taiwanese dramas.

[tetsesaiga]

i can understand a little mandarin if not spoken too quickly taking classes rite now i'm fluent in canto though

[pkay]

I'm trying to speak it now even though I sound like a slurred dummy. Haha.

[Blue_Lightning]

hello
Im a newbie here
I can speak mandarin but not to fast and my dictionary still not enough

[alimua]

HI!! I can't speak mandarin and I don't understand it. I listen to Jay Chou's songs and it makes me more appreciative of his music. I usually look up the lyrics to his songs..mainly all of them and then I go back and listen and be all like....oh, thats what he means...which is really cool. I love all his music. I would like to learn mandarin just to understand Jay and his songs. I know it sounds crazy but its worth it!:rolleyes:

[pkay]

HI!! I can't speak mandarin and I don't understand it. I listen to Jay Chou's songs and it makes me more appreciative of his music. I usually look up the lyrics to his songs..mainly all of them and then I go back and listen and be all like....oh, thats what he means...which is really cool. I love all his music. I would like to learn mandarin just to understand Jay and his songs. I know it sounds crazy but its worth it!:rolleyes:
TOTALLY WHaT IM TRYING TO SAY! :laughing:

[hobielover]

I speak some Mandarin and understand some, but much of my vocabulary comes from Jay's songs. I learn Chinese by listening to music and reading the lyrics, but I also study books and stuff. I'm going to start Chinese class this month. Nobody else in my family speaks anything besides English, even though I'm learning Mandarin as a third language. My second is Spanish.

[x_.Masa]

Ahhahahah I don't understand manderin really xD
But I can speak canto xD
Is reading and speaking Manderin the same..?
Because I know it's not in Cantonese...o.o;;

[vsms]

nop.. i am a banana.. but i am glad there's han yu pinyin !! if not it wudnt b easy for me to sing a long jay's song :D

[wennie00]

I do understand and speak mandarin, but I listen to songs of different languages that I don't understand either...and I think it's a beautiful thing that there are so many Jay Chou fans who don't speak his language.
With the risk of sounding cliched, music does cross boundaries, doesn't it?
And it makes my heart warm and fuzzy knowing that:)

[sha0boba]

Oh oh, yes, i understand mandarin. Jay Chou IS a good way to improve your chinese. But sometimes, he tends to slur his lyrics, so it is sometimes difficult to understand what he is singing.

[Lola]

I speak, write, read and understand simple Mandarin, haha. xP
My dad says that Jay Chou's Mandarin is like a European's, and he can't stand listening to it because it's learned from pinyin, not zhuyin, which means he doesn't have a real Chinese accent, or something. xDD
Harhar, my dad is funny. ;pp

[pizoOkie]

I'm 'fluent' in Cantonese from my dad's side of the family, but a few years ago I started getting more Mandarin influenced because of my mum's side of the family. xD
Now I'm just learning Mandarin from music (JAY'S SONGS, YEAH! xD), dramas and movies.

[trojankid09]

hi i've been a member since the concert but haven't gotten to post yet...
i don't speak mandarin but still love jay's songs---my whole family went to his 04 and 07 concerts and had a good time w/o knowing any mandarin lol

[Akira]

@Lola
Same, me parents dont like his accent. Say hes lazy and mumbling all the time :shy:.

Yea it is a bit difficult to learn chinese from him
I find Lee Hom's music easier to learn becaz he pronouces clearer

[alimua]

I do understand and speak mandarin, but I listen to songs of different languages that I don't understand either...and I think it's a beautiful thing that there are so many Jay Chou fans who don't speak his language.
With the risk of sounding cliched, music does cross boundaries, doesn't it?
And it makes my heart warm and fuzzy knowing that:)


Yeah I know what you mean. I love his music and although I don't understand anything, I would watch Jay for hours on youtube whether he is in the news or concert or just doing a show. It is very interesting and I hope someday I will learn mandarin.:wink2:

[yulius]

i'm a newbie in this website, though i just register it today..
yeah, mandarin is difficult to learn, now i'm in China to study language, still two weeks but learning mandarin is great and nice..
i like jay song, so i hope i can understand it later ^^

[goofyxd]

yes i watch tv series mostly in mandarin and some in cantonese

[seahew]

Yeah, I am bilingual and can understand what he is singing. However, because of his enunciation, I have to sit down and really study the lyrics especially those fast tracks depicting all the historical chinese epics like 乱舞春秋 and all.

I must say, I have to hand it to Vincent Fang and his fantastic lyrics

[twilight_threnody]

yes, but some of vincent fang's lyrics are a little beyond me, since i grew up in the states. my mum says that listening to jay will make my pronounciation worse! :p

[lovejaykeai]

i dun understand mandarin or any oth chinese dialects
but i only understand jay's music

[silverd9]

i don't know any chinese either but that doesn't stop me from enjoy jay's music ^^ slowly working on learning mandarin, though.

[cignalc]

i can't write or read mandarin, but i can speak n listen to mandarin.
so i have to search for hanyu vers of his lyric.
if it's about mandarin and jay. i would say vincent's been doing awesome.
it could be simple or complicated. but his lyric doesn't help me improve my mandarin i guess.

[forum_crystal]

Honestly I can't learn mandarin much from songs cos sometimes they speak too quickly, but my brother for some reason can, maybe because he's more interested in jay chou songs than me.

[Apexls-128]

I can speak and read mandarin well, but the first time i heard jay chou sing i had to listen really hard.

[Geez]

hehe... i can speak n listen but not write n read.. hehe...

[nataliecsy]

i can read and write in mandarin but yea, jay's enunciation is a little too tough for me to understand..haha. nonetheless i still love his songs!

[cold_basher]

I don't understand mandarin,but i like jay chou song. Good to hear that. Now,i'll learn mandarin. Just want to understand jay chou song :D

[JALYN:D]

Yeah, I understand mandarin, keke!
I know, learning mandarin is tough, lol!
And yeah, fro Jay's songs, it's a great way to learn mandarin.
I remember my mum once told me this...
"Jay Chou's mandarin so chim! Go read the lyrics and learn some chim words to improve lah!"
I was so shocked, ahahaha, although I still have to look up the dictionary for some words sometimes.
I'm glad you're learning mandarin, it's a great language!

[aki_halu]

not at all...
well, i know how to count 1 to 10 in mandarin...

[jiangchang]

not alot :oops:
but, I am just starting to learn with my sister,
so its alright :D

[fanta_san]

just some
sometimes when i go sing K
i don't know a lot of the words

[danielw]

yes i was born in china but i now forget some

[sukhoi]

nope. i dont understand mandarin/chinese even a bit^^;;
i just love musics and movies, so i listen to their music and watch the movies eventhough i dont understand what they're saying..

[Sungerson]

I know a little bit but I'm not gifted and talented with it lol.

Just keep exposing yourself to music and TV dramas. You begin to pick it up fast.

[llhm87]

I understand Mandarin just I can't read chinese character. Trying my best to learn chinese.

[suwen-san]

I know a bit of mandarin... just a tiny little bit...

Can't really understand what Jay says.... just enjoy the music...=)

[Sukai]

I grew up speaking English and Cantonese. Mandarin was always the back-up language so I don't really speak much Mandarin. However, I would like to learn to speak Mandarin fluently and to be honest, Jay's song have improve my Mandarin these few years.

Although it is not the proper method of learning Mandarin, it is also a good way of learning to speak some Chinese words at the very least. Chinese songs are not easy to sing and if you can sing Jay's song quite well, you would be able to control your vocal range well and perhaps improve your pitching at the same time.

Thus, you don't need to know Mandarin to listen to Chinese songs. The world is connected to each other today and what's holding you back to learn Mandarin when we are all here because of Jay Chou's existence?

:)

[tulipurple]

i dun know mandarin but i have taken mandarin classes and understood a few word...i learn mandarin bcoz of jay chou...huhu i'm really struggle to learn hua yi..huhu

[kurikuroshiro]

I was brought up speaking Mandarin in an English-speaking country, so now my Mandarin is really bad :( but I can understand/converse enough to get by, even if I do miss details and complex words. watching TWdrama and listening to Jay and other Mandarin artists helps a lot though...

[achie8275]

I can relate reading your post here. I was born and raise in the philippines to a half-chinese parents. We do speak hokkien though and i went to a mandarin school during my primary years but since my grandparents died and i moved here in the US to work I kind of lost it. Learning songs from Jay helps to relearn the basic ones but I am still trying to find time to go back maybe to a formal school to learn the language again.

And of course how can i forget watching TW drama helps too :-) . Currently watching Fated to Love You and I am glad one of the character there speaks hokkien its refreshing to be able to understand it when she speaks. :wink2:

[jay_jolin_fan_19]

I understand some mandarin (mostly common mandarin). However, I don't speak it.

[orij1nal]

i'd say i'm average, my 2nd year learning it

[alisadorsey@yahoo.co]

I am learning Mandarin right now with CD's. I do better on my own and from my friends. I learned Spanish that way. Ihave to say that since listening to Jay, I can even keep up with his raps songs, and my friends look at me like OK. They have no idea what I am saying, but they respect I like Asian music alot. Plus before I listen to anything, I look it up in english first, and then in its native tongue, to make sure that I am saying something that is appropriate. So far Jay's songs are just that. Plus he is helping me with my conversation Mandarin.

[chau297]

i prefer listening to jay chou sometimes without knowing some of the words so not much thinking happens.

[eebaboya]

My mandarin is pretty bad. i can communicate and write, but it's all pretty basic. there are lots of chen yu which i find it hard to understand. :(

[Okami-Chan]

Haha, I don't know any except how to write Jay's name. I memorized how to write it pretty quick, but I probably write the strokes in the wrong order :oops:

I'm planning on learning it soon, since I want to be able to at least understand Jay sometimes! Also, I'm not fluent in any language except for English, and I want to get to learn another.

[ChaoX]

ya i know, since i come from HK, but im not so good in speaking it cause i dont do it much, but singing jay's songs are still ok.

[.: blacklily :.]

emm basically i can understand what people are saying most of the time... but sometimes i do feel lost when the person speaks fast hehe i'm better at under standing more than speaking though~ so sometimes i can understand what other people are saying but, can't seem to fins the words to reply huhu~

overall my mandarin is just so-so ^^

[kyproperty]

I don't understand madarin, but I like his songs and i always look up the lyrics to see what the songs about.

ya i know, since i come from HK, but im not so good in speaking it cause i dont do it much, but singing jay's songs are still ok.
oh cool
I have a friend from Hong Kong.
He's here in america for school.
He's in the foreign exchange student program.
He'll be going back to Hong Kong in January of 2009.

[thegreenbit]

Do you understand mandarin, or do you listen to Jay Chou anyway even though you have no idea what he is saying?
I'm currently studying chinese, so I know a few words, but listening to Jay Chou songs is a really great way to improve my chinese and learn new words!

This is almost a year and a half late, but yea even if you do understand mandarin most of the time you would have no idea what Jay's singing unless you look at the lyrics. That seems to be most non-Jay Chow fan's opinion about him - I almost always get "I don't listen to Jay Chow, I have no idea what he's singing" type of response when I ask people if they like Jay.

I speak three Chinese dialects, mandarin, cantonese and one other. Though I'm getting a little rusty on mandarin since I barely use it.

Haha, I don't know any except how to write Jay's name. I memorized how to write it pretty quick, but I probably write the strokes in the wrong order :oops:
I'm planning on learning it soon, since I want to be able to at least understand Jay sometimes! Also, I'm not fluent in any language except for English, and I want to get to learn another.

I can't write anything in the right stroke order except the "person" (ren) character, so don't feel bad lol.

[Flo!]

my mandarin-skills consist of maybe 10 words, but I'm going to study mandarin at the university next year. I really love chinese and asian culture and I'm really looking forward to some day being able to understand Jay's songs!

people keep looking irritated when i tell them what i wanna study, they're saying that it's so difficult and I'll never be able to read or write chinese...

[Yifmelon]

Yep I do! I was born in China and can speak Mandarin pretty fluently =D

However... I don't think learning Mandarin off Jay would be the best idea since he dusn't speak it realli accurately. Esp the hard and soft sounds.

[imperialclan]

I can understand some but not a lot, maybe enough to get an idea of what people are saying if I was having a convo

[tazhs]

i understand the basic stuff.. so i can understand some simple lines from Jay's songs..
and i learn new vocab from his songs too!
so it's pretty helpful to have the translations when reading the lyrics with pinyin and the characters!

[Shirlz]

I understand a little mandarin. If you talk slowly to me then i might understand what your saying.
Im cantonese :D

[lambert]

i have difficulty in study mandari languages,but i like jay chou songs so i think it will help me study mandarin if i learn jay chou songs

his song have deep meaning to me so i can study it well to improve mandarin hahahahaha

[kolanie]

hahhahahaha...me...i understand manderin very very very tini little.....i know 4 langauges now, if i know chinese well than it would be 5....hahha..but i hope i'll understand chinese language more in the future..^_^
i listen to jay chou music and understand it from the english tansla...

[chiru]

That depends, to what extent?

I was raised speaking Mandarin and English, but after I started Kindergarden, I thought, "Who needs to speak Chinese? This is America," and stopped speaking it. Boy, was I wrong. If I had known it would help me so much I would have stuck with it. -___-

Gah, I could have been tri-lingual like everyone else in my family-
father-Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese, English (GAH, four. -__- He used to speak German, too. But he's like 50 something and he forgot it....)
mother-Chinese, Taiwanese, English
grandmother-Chinese, Taiwanese, Japanese
sister-Chinese, Japanese, English

I only know Japanese and English. -___-

And both are really bad, considering. (I can't spell anything in English for my life and my Japanese accent is horrible)

[heliocentric]

Well, I listen to his songs anyways, even though I don't understand mandarin. A lot of them sound really good.

[maddad25]

Yes, I'm getting better, although learing Beijing Mando is a bit funny with all the errrr's at the end! I still like Cantonese better though cause I'm born with it even though I was born and raised ion Australia

[ijaney]

I just love the language Mandarin but I can't speak/understand it D:
I can speak/understand Cantonese &English cuz those are the language I use everyday. I'm currently learning Mandarin though(:

[dreamscanfly76]

i can only understand SOME mando..
n yes, i do still listen to jay's and other artists' songs even tho i have no clue what they r saying! :P
but i'm taking a mandarin class rite now n can't wait till i learn evrything ^^

[sidatron]

learning mando now.

maybe the day i understand jay lyrics, i'll be able to say "i'm fluent!"
but my taiwanese friends can't even understand his singing, so...haha, we'll see

[kirina1309]

i dont understand mandarin at all but thanks to his fans how translate his songs im able to understand it! BIG thanks for everybody who translate!!!

[maximumUP]

I understand mandarin enough to have a conversation, but some of Jay Chou's songs (especially the ones written by Vincent Fang) take a bit more effort to understand. I also speak other Chinese dialects including cantonese and teo chu.

[[Arch]Tyrael]

as a chinese born, i can speak mandarin conversationally, but cannot write. still working on it. =)

[jaypops]

i can speak and write mandarin quite well and understand jay's lyrics too. most of it i mean... haha. cos vincent really had some lyrics that's really hard... like those in lan ting yu and qing hua ci. :wacko:

[haneul3]

I understand a little mandarin. I'm taking mandarin at school. I understand some words or phase, but I don't understand the whole song. I love his music and hope to understand his songs some day.

[Qinghe]

No, sadly i don't understand Mandarin. I wanna learn/study it someday, but unfortunately it's really hard to study by myself so I wanna learn it in college someday. I look up the translations, but sometimes i wonder if it's really as they translate it since i could never know at this point. I really like the music though. IT's some of the best music i've ever heard. I really like piano and other classical music (but usually piano).

[weedpeach]

haha. i understand mandarin and i'm also learning too. :D

[my_swe3t_heart]

Jay already mumbles quite a bit in his songs, so its good that i know mandarin (i speak with no accent, but am not advanced). Jay really helped me with chinese cos i read the lyrics as he sings!

[Sempiternity-J]

nope i dont understand much but im improving from reading the chinese lyrics first then reading the english translation it helps quite a bit (:

[lostone.tr]

Limited understanding. I can't follow a lot of his songs. But he's gotten clearer in the recent albums. Helps to look up the lyrics though.

[Sakura701]

I only know very little maderin. :p
But I am learning now so hopefully I will understand everything soon.

[daynasour]

i speak very poor mandarin
after reading the lyrics.. i'll go oh yeahhhh this word means this hehe
hen ke lian

[mbk9828]

If you were to learn Mandarin via songs, then Jay's singing is the wrong choice! I must say it because he is "popular" for his mumbling of songs.
Still, his music is fascinating.
If you really want to hear excellent pronunciation of Mandarin songs, then I suggest you listen to Fei Yi Qing"s songs. The singer who duet with Jay in Qian LI Zhi WAi.
However, Jay's song lyrics are worth reading as they have profound meanings.
Thanks to Fang Wen San, he is a good Chinese scholar, I would say.:whistle:

[ollie000]

yea i understand mandarin but sometimes Jay Chou's mandarin in his songs can be confusing

[inimeg19]

i'm also studying now so yeah, i know quite a little bit of mandarin.. and yes, as I listen to his songs, I learn new phrases. so yeah, it's a great way to improve one's mandarin knowledge.=)

[kobe24]

i speak mandarin fluently but when it comes to jay i need to read lyrics and then re-listen more carefully cause obviously he slurs....its his style and i admire that

[fobforlife]

i understand cantonese, and mandarin whenever it sounds like canto. i still appreciate his music though. like jay said, music is a "universal language" :]

[blind cactus]

Im learning Mandarin because of Jay Chou! :)) he gave big influences for me to learn it. But, obviously i cant use his songs to learn mandarin because he mumbles. My friends who are Mandarin-speakers also cant understand what Jay's sang. Now, i can understand and speak Mandarin a little. X)

[keskio]

My mandarin is okay.
i can understand and get through a conversation(slowly) but it takes a few listens to catch what jay is saying in his songs.

[Zero Kuran]

I can understand some mandarin because i can read some of the lyrics in chinese. Cantonese is my main language.

[Aznbloby]

Yes i do understand. but im still learning at the same time haha.

[kay brahmz]

nope. But I love Jay's song.
huehehehe...

[parischanelle]

a little but i would like to know more to know the meaning of Jay's songs

[luvcandy]

thanks to my parents, who forced me to learn it when i was young, i'm fluent in chinese : ) but for some weird reason, my whole family speaks it perfectly fine without a funny accent except for me... atleast i can read jay's lyrics good!

[jay_chou_fan]

yup i dont understand mandarin but i still sing

[Je'maine]

i'm fluent in mandarin, canto, and ming-nan ( taiwanese) XD

[makodo]

no I can't..That's why when I search for jay chou's song lyric, I search for the translation too. That's how I understand the meaning of jay chou lyric

[zufairi]

waaa~
no..
i always wanted to learn mandarin..

[alisadorsey@yahoo.co]

I am understanding Mandarin more and more each day. I am learning it now and also having more conversations with friends. I am very far from fluency, but thanks to Jay Chou I can understand more and more of the language as I hear it on a daily basis. Thanks to Jay Chou songs. Xie Xie

[chungjun]

Can't read nor write. I'm english educated too. But somehow speaks mandarin at home. General conversation is fine, anything further woooosh!!!

[iicciclecat]

i speak canto...but i understand mando! i think i'm a midioka...if too hard i faint! buahaha

mmm...it's easy to learn mando through TW dramas <3

[tiffytifftiff]

I understand mandarin, but my chinese reading and writing skills rival those of a first grader's =P

[shihori]

I can't understand mandarin very well, but i am learning new phrases since some of my family and friends can speak it. Watching dramas help =)

[AiMeiNeko]

I dont know it, but I wanna learn. My friends all think Im crazy cause I listen to cpop, kpop and jpop and understand nothing XD

[CyndiChang]

my dad is chinese and i used to learn chinese when i was about 6 but quickly stopped it because of sth.In addiction , my family just talk mainly in VietNam so I dont have chance to talk in Chinese ==> I dont understand Mandarin =.=! .Now, i'm really sad and regret about my old decision, just wanna learn Chinese again T_T

[I_Love_Mandopop]

I can understand a little Mandarin... Still learning XD hehe
But listening to chinese music has helped me a lot and also watching chinese dramas/movies ^^ hehe

[linellux]

i also using the same method by listening to jay songs
by listening..i feel curious to learn about the lyrics
so i will find and look throught the lyrics and understand it..
its a good way to learn chinese/mandarin..haha

[whizzopia]

I want to be able to speak mandarin...but it's very difficult :)

[jenniferleo]

i can understand mandarin but to speak mandarin i only able to spoke in basic language...
still improving...hehe...
sometimes i really have difficulty to understand certain mandarin words in jay chou's lyrics...:cry:
so, in order to know the whole lyrics what's about...i always seek his lyrics that attached with english translation...:roll:

[Macabre]

I don't understand Mandarin at all. I've always appreciated music as music, and vocals as an instrument - just because you can't understand the lyrics doesn't mean you can't enjoy the song. However, if I have the pronunciation written down I will try to sing along, and so through listening to the music and trying to sing it myself I am actually learning both the sound and structure of the language and learning to recognise the odd word/character as well.

[lmayumi]

xD I guess I have to say I listen to him w/o knowing what he's saying but almost always I usually check lyrics... translations or ask my chinese friends :) I love listening to Korean, Chinese, & Japanese music and I only understand Japanese

[Loveless]

._. Fully born and raised in China for 12 years. I am pretty grateful that I can actually sing his songs.

[originalai]

i wish i knew mandarin. when I hear it being spoken for more than 5 seconds, it sounds like a big blur to me. it is difficult for me to pick out each word. i'm only able to speak and listen to cantonese, but i wish i know mandarin instead because it sounds like a more romantic language

[jm520]

I don't understand mandarin. But I like to listen to Jay Chou songs. I like his voice.

[MomoThePeach]

Hi! I'm peach, a newbies :happy: Even my family is Chinese descent, I don't understand mandarin (or any Chinese dialect). I really like Jay Chou, and want to know Chinese so bad because of him:wink2:

[taffyroll]

I understand.

But I ain't that great at it =P

[juzt.smyle]

I'm learning Mandarin myself and getting better ~ :D
both English and Mandarin are not my first language , so it's a little difficult but it's very interesting ah ~ :D

[meixue]

I think it is really awesome and very conciencious of this sites administrators to want to do this/help people learn chinese through music (especially people like me who are half chinese and struggling to keep up with the language.. but who also really want to!).

Although I really laughed at some of the comments because I know too from speaking to my aunties (Chinese form Taiwan) that they can't understand what he's saying in a lot of his songs although I know it's kind of his style. I also know that he changes his style based on his audience. I noticed he sings a lot clearer based on the circumstance. I would love to help in any way I can so if you need any kind of "test" group/individuals to assist in your endeavor to help people learn/keep up with their chinese through music (Learning Language link) I would be happy to assist with anything I can. Just let me know.
Thanks
Meixue

[hareruuya]

i understand a little of mandarin cuz' I'm THAI

but i hav learn mandarin @ school^^

[Novita余爱萍]

i understand a little of mandarin ....
but now, i'm learn mandarin in univercity,coz i like mandarin language....
^^

[Ms.Zhou]

i understand mandarin just in basic conversation.
but i didn't understand jay's lyrics ~ i have to see the translation first :p
i wanna learn mandarin so i can sing along with jay ! :)

[ChunElla]

I don't understand but I'm trying to learn it. But for me is really dificult because I'm from Lithuania.

[polka_dots35]

I understand mandarin, finished my high school chinese exam. However, I do agree with Petricia that sometimes Jay's songs are so complicated with heaps of lyrics that I don't really understand what he's singing/rapping about. It's times like these that I google the lyrics or watch the mv.

[visual0kei]

limited knowledge of mandarin, but i can read most of Jay's lyrics. . . should have paid more attention in class.

[coldice]

well i can understand simple phrases and sentences but i cant read chinese although i was taught that in school...

[crovoxisikes]

this is the part where the statement 'music can overcome language barrier' :-) i don't understand mandarin but i love jay's music arrangement and eventually loving the songs :)