If you watch some of his "Random" videos with Kevin Rose (especially the ones related to their trip to China), you can hear Tim speak/use Chinese. In Episode 6,

If you watch some of his "Random" videos with Kevin Rose (especially the ones related to their trip to China), you can hear Tim speak/use Chinese. In Episode 6, he interacts with their waitress and places a customized order. http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/category/random/ http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/category/random/ I'm impressed with his Chinese speaking abilities. And I'd guess that Chinese is a more difficult spoken language than Japanese since Chinese is a tonal language. Chinese is my first language, but I was raised in the US. I'd guess within a couple of days my pronunciation would be better than Tim's, but he probably has a better vocabulary.