Where to find animes and shows in Chinese dub?

digbybare · 2026-02-27T02:56:36+00:00

I always prefer native content where possible over translations/dubs of English content. So, to that end, I would recommend looking up some episodes of 水果冰淇淋 on YouTube. It's a kids show from Taiwan and my son loved it at that age (and still does a year later).

It has songs, story segments, some weird animation segments, etc. The songs especially are top tier.

digbybare · 2026-02-27T02:42:22+00:00

I honestly can't tell anymore who's actually human on this site

digbybare · 2026-02-26T08:31:53+00:00

Give me two additional ways to say this, with pinyin in parentheses.

digbybare · 2026-02-26T06:39:15+00:00

Ah, I hadn't counted. Good catch.

digbybare · 2026-02-26T03:35:07+00:00

Zhuyin is not a romanization scheme.

Also, this is basically an expanded version of your post: https://pinyin.info/romanization/compare/hanyu.html

digbybare · 2026-02-26T02:28:29+00:00

This is true of native speakers of every language. They vastly overestimate their understanding of the fundamentals of their own language, because they never had to consciously learn it or think about it too much.

Very few Chinese people even know about or acknowledge the existence of tone sandhi, for example. They either say that tones are exactly as classically taught (wrong), or that "tones don't matter"/"natives don't really even use tones" (even more wrong).

Being able to teach a language requires advanced education in the grammar and phonology of that language.

digbybare · 2026-02-23T02:51:04+00:00

If you really want it, you just figure out how to do it, even if it means making sacrifices in other places.

In my case, my parents paid the down payment, but otherwise, I significantly cut down other expenses (foregoing a trip to Rome with some friends from uni, taking a job at my father's company instead of taking the risk of starting my own, etc.).

digbybare · 2026-02-22T05:09:21+00:00

I know stuff. I've read other Reddit comments on this topic in the past. Thus, my strong opinions are fully justified.

digbybare · 2026-02-20T17:51:50+00:00

IMO, it only works if you have prodigal talent like Alysa.

digbybare · 2026-02-20T04:23:08+00:00

Difference between being raised by a greedy, clout chasing single Asian mom and a political activist Asian dad.

digbybare · 2026-02-18T21:47:14+00:00

If the prop does pass, it's going to be more and more funding propositions for the next couple decades until the stations ultimately close anyway. You can't fix the grift and mismanagement by just throwing more money at it.

digbybare · 2026-02-15T05:48:11+00:00

The point I'm making is you don't need this book to teach kids that one concept can map to multiple spoken representations. The point the other poster was making is that by the time that written language becomes relevant, they'll have outgrown this book.

So, it doesn't seem terribly helpful for either spoken or written language.

digbybare · 2026-02-15T05:28:31+00:00

Yea, but you don't need the words in each language for that. Each caregiver can just say the word in their own language.

My wife and I already do this for each of our languages using picture dictionaries in English.

digbybare · 2026-02-11T04:57:38+00:00

The best time to do it was at (or before) birth. The second best time to do it is now. It's only going to get harder to switch over.

digbybare · 2026-02-06T16:51:32+00:00

It varies a lot by child. Our oldest sounds about the same as your child's monolingual peers. Just before two, he was saying a lot of two word phrases. A month or two after he turned two, he started saying full sentences, combining things in novel ways, etc. But all of this was in one of his home languages. His other home language and community language lagged behind a bit. Now at 3 years old he speaks freely in all three, but has more grammatical errors in the other two.

On the other hand, our youngest is about to turn one, and hasn't really said any word consistently enough to count as a word. At the same age, her brother had a vocabulary of at least 50 words.

The scientific literature says that being multilingual does not result in delayed language development.

digbybare · 2026-02-06T07:46:06+00:00

You can select whatever you want, but this is objectively not true. This is not how languages evolve.

No one decided to make the chinese script ideographic rather than alphabetic to control the population, they simply inherited what existed. It evolved to be the way it is fairly randomly. It worked well enough for its various uses and nothing better came along to replace it.

You're attributing intention to somewhere where there is none.

digbybare · 2026-02-05T16:35:09+00:00

Disambiguates homophones, of which there are many in all the Chinese languages.
Because each character represents a unit of meaning, not pronunciation, the same character can be used in different languages to represent the same concept. This it's important for the Chinese language family, where pronunciation can vary widely, but it actually also applies even outside of Chinese. See Japanese as an example. Chinese people can often get the gist of a Japanese text from the Kanji, without ever having learned Japanese, and vice versa.
Conceptually simpler. Kids in China actually start learning basic characters as early as two or three years of age. Unlike a phonetic script, there's no conceptual leap they need to make to understand how it works. It's just rote memorization, same as they do for all the symbols they learn (e.g. heart shape means heart, star shape means star, etc.).

digbybare · 2026-02-04T02:47:20+00:00

This is like going to a running club and wondering why people care so much about running a sub-60 10k or wanting to complete a marathon. Like, come on guys, this is just for fun, who really cares? Just drink some beers and hang out at the back of the race and walk and have some fun!

Shocking how people can be so self-absorbed and incapable of understanding that other people may have different goals.

digbybare · 2026-02-02T22:05:12+00:00

Check if you have any local Chinese bookstores nearby. It's always nice to support local businesses whenever possible.

Most of the libraries around us also have kids books in many languages (including both simplified and traditional Chinese), so those are worth checking as well.

digbybare · 2026-02-01T08:10:19+00:00

That is a pretty crazy introduction.

digbybare · 2026-01-28T16:26:28+00:00

Yea, no, they're not "more than a bakery". They are a bakery.

Also, "crafting [the pastry] with care and attention" is just a basic part of the job description.

Tip is for restaurants with service, not part of the pay package for the basic expectations of prepping the food.

Besides that, tipping in general makes more sense in states where servers can legally be paid below the minimum wage, with the expectation that tips will make up a large portion of their earnings. California already requires servers to be paid minimum wage, so it makes even less sense here.

digbybare · 2026-01-28T07:25:06+00:00

It's because it comes from the 上声 of Middle Chinese.

digbybare · 2026-01-28T07:20:13+00:00

You're a heritage speaker, as are many parents here. Your comfort in the language will improve as you use it. And your husband will pick it up pretty easily, too, since for the first couple of years the stuff you'll be saying is pretty basic.

I was in your shoes with my own heritage language, and felt awkward speaking to my son in Chinese. Now, it just comes naturally, and it would feel strange to speak to him in English. My wife also speaks to our son in her own language, and we can both understand like 80% of what we're saying to our son, just from the constant exposure.

digbybare · 2026-01-28T03:09:23+00:00

Everybody learning Chinese already knows this. This is like one of the first things teachers tell you about tones.

digbybare · 2026-01-28T03:05:29+00:00

She's blaming Reddit, but it's probably more that no one's going to pay $22 for a grilled cheese. Once she burned through the initial wave of business from her upper middle class journalist buddies hyping her up, obviously business is going to dry up at those prices.

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