Lol, poor Matt, I saw your problem here, you missed "a few" or "some" in front of "Chinese people" in your statement, that's why such a heated discussion will happen. Like Owen said, if you say "pinyin with tones isn't some Chinese people's strong point", he'll agree with that, me too. But if you say Chinese people as a whole, he disagrees, so do I, you see someone else also holds the same opinion. You should remember you can't generalize a race by your predisposed opinions. I support Owen, his opinion is right. Though he talks in a humorous way, I really appreciate that, just this time his humor is expressing in another side. I see you seemingly don't know Chinese well( I didn't find any entry in your notebook and there's even no one bar in your Chinese level icon), I mean no offence but even you have some base in Chinese it's still ridiculeous for you to make random comments on natives' level. I don't think you level can surpass natives'. Truth be told, I've never seen any foreigner who's good at Chinese, they're very rare, like one in a million. Also, your answers are utterly wrong(I mean the 4 words you mention above), Owen has already given the right answer, please don't be a butt. 新闻联播 is somewhat like our BBC, you gotta watch it one day and you'll see our words are true. The broadcasters in this program speak the most standard Mandarin among natives. Even when it comes to writing pinyin with tones, sorry I still can't agree with you, I know a minority of Chinese are not good at writing it. But most natives can answer the majority of such questions correctly, I'm very sure about that. Your manner is just like a Chinese student teaches an American how to learn English, it's really lauguable. I'm not trying to rattle your cage, dude, but please don't be so silly, like Owen said:" Don't be a 逗比。“ 

Wtf, I'm racist, lol? This is one of the funniest joke I've ever heard, Mr.Chaplin Matt! Anyway, whatever you says, I don't care, and please don't follow me, I don't want you to be my follower. My students have never been confused about these tones, dude, don't randomly make a judgement before you see everything.

Lol, I suggest you stop arguing, Matt, still I identify with Owen(his answer is correct, both you and Sharry are wrong) and Knightman, and I must say racists are mostly white. 

Lol, you seem to have a bad eyesight, dude, " Even when it comes to writing pinyin with tones, sorry I still can't agree with you, I know a minority of Chinese are not good at writing it. But most natives can answer the majority of such questions correctly, I'm very sure about that." See my sentences here? Of course I know you're talking about writing pinyin with tones, I'm just expanding the topic a little bit. You're really lauguabe, most? If you say most older Chinese I would agree with you, cos they didn't learn the pinyin. But the youth does can make it. Whatever your Chinese level is, I don't think you can be better than us. Acccording to your logic, I may could say my English is better than you. I didn't say 你 in spoken Chinese isn't the 3rd tone, I said it might sound not like the 3rd tone（if you speak fast), but still it is the 3rd tone. You seem to have a comprehension problem. Are you really British, lol? And I'm not a racist, whatever you says, I don't care.

Lol, what a heated discussion here, it's really interesting. I've read all the replies below and I do agree with Owen and Knightman, Matt, sorry to tell you that. I know you have a good purpose, but that statement of you is absolutely wrong, that's why you'll receive so much criticism. I hope you won't say we're bullying you, rofl. I just like being straightforward, this is what I feel. Also, one thing I have to point out that your classes have some flaws, firstly, you don't start with pinyin and tones, any Chinese learner should start with initials and finals, more importantly, you don't teach how to write characters in your videos, it'll stop these learners' futher learning. I know it might be difficult technically. But still this is not the correct and systematic way of teaching Chinese. I'm not trying to rattle your cage, just like to be honest, haha.