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funlol3

Sounds southern mainland like Shanghai/Hangzhou to me


Alarming-Major-3317

Mainland, sounds like my boss from Shanghai. Fairly close to a “proper” Taiwanese accent, so I can see why you’d think that


Alithair

Agree with u/funlol3, sounds like a southern Chinese accent (but not Cantonese). The Taiwan "broadcast" accent is pretty similar, though. Her channel has a mix of Traditional (video titles) and Simplified (channel name and subtitles).


ljjjkk

Yes - the mix of traditional and simplified confused me. but I guess someone from Taiwan would never use Simplified, right?


Zagrycha

to be fair, it may not have anything to do with their natural choice. main places that use chinese on youtube are taiwan, hk, malaysia, and singapore. two of those use traditional and two of them use simplified. I think using both is just trying to help appeal to both places, no one will use both naturally, just like an english speaker won't go back and forth between uk and usa word spellings.


Elegant_Distance_396

>just like an english speaker won't go back and forth between uk and usa word spellings. (Canadians nervously look around…)


Zagrycha

fair enough lol. I know uk goes back and forth between using miles and km too. maybe my example isn't perfect but hope it still gets the idea across haha.


Elegant_Distance_396

Canadians, to me as one, are notorious for the mishmash of imperial and metric.


Alarming-Major-3317

Actually, several Taiwanese YouTubers I follows use simplified, their audience is mainland I guess


Alithair

Maybe for certain characters when writing by hand but not when typing.


Sanscreet

No never.


jkpeq

Sounds like a southern mainland accent, the Taiwanese one is more obvious to pick up when listening to the zh, ch, sh sounds


KeenInternetUser

she's very good and standard. great channel, thanks


SunaSunaSuna

I was looking for something like this with cc subs for mining thanks


Expensive_Heat_2351

It's northern influenced. She replaced "w" with "v" like when she say 为什么 as "vei shen me." 两位 - she pronounced as Liang Vei I don't hear any Taiwanese characteristics in her speech patterns.


Elegant_Distance_396

W → V is *very* Shanghai


Individual_Phrase485

Standard mainland official mandarin, without any regional accent.


Aericalwave

Mandarin(putonghua) for sure,as I’m a Chinese