Half-White, Half-Chinese Teenager Talks About Growing Up in Rural China - Intermediate Chinese
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- What is it really like to grow up in rural China being different from everyone around you because you are half-white, half-Chinese? Eileen interviewed 17-year-old Richard to find out!
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This guy is such an awesome character. Loved listening to him, he has got a really engaging style!
Great interview. What a handsome and charming young man. He is well spoken and interesting. Well-rounded and mature for his age. I am sure he will go far and accomplish all his goals and dreams when he is more sure of his purpose and direction. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and feelings. I thoroughly enjoyed this. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦🥇👍💖
It's so refreshing to see such a lovely and open young man! Although you still find it difficult to think about future plans, I'm sure that you will do well, Richard! And Eileen, good job with the questions as always. Short hair looks really good on you! :D
Eileen asks natural and interesting questions. The conversations are full of depth and respect with thoughtful topics. This is my favorite Mandarin learning channel.
You can’t beat her. Her work ethic is second to none.
yeah not typical boring questions that are predictable or seem scripted
What other channel is there/
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What a great kid! Wonderful interview
Very interesting! I grew up in Liuzhou, which is in the same province as Guilin! It's interesting how Liuzhou dialect and Yangshuo dialect are very similar! Also a half White, half Chinese girl here! It's rare to find someone who has a similar background as me that I can relate to! I'll post a video soon too talking about my experience growing up in China~ Stay tuned!
He is China man, not white
@@Silveradoroad A racist man from "Rhodesia"? Color (pun intended) me shocked
What a very sweet young man.
This is a really great interview, my son who is now 16, is Blaisan and raised in Hong Kong, however he has a lot of cousins, uncles and aunts in others parts of mainland china, were he had to master several different Chinese dialects but i can definitely relate to this young man.
Jesus...
thats awsome
You are a very good interviewer, to the point where I could see television stations wanting to hire you.
what a delightful interview with Richard. Yes it is always more difficult to be the "lao wai" in Middle Kingdom...but Richard seems to have adapted well and hope he continues his interest as a linguist..He could use his language skill at large corporations needing translators. Very unusual for his father to live in China at 18 yr old to learn martial arts, inspired by Bruce Lee...thank you for a lively enlightening interview...keep up the good work
太可愛的一個孩子！祝福你一生健康平安快樂！
I believe he was interviewed by the Oli of Barratt Channel. Great interview
Ah! I thought I recognised him!
Such a wonderful young man! Молодец 👏
逛youtube发现这个频道。很有意思啊，我一个中国人看这个视频哈哈哈哈。看他们怎么教中文，看外国人怎么学中文。
这个年轻人真的很不错，说话很清晰逻辑很严密，很好非常好。
我看下面的评论很多外国人也在学中文，加油啊，永远不要放弃。
谢谢！
啊 是有劇本的呀
没有剧本。
Wow what an engaging and mature guest, super surprised to find out his age at the end
好喜欢这个小伙子，他的声音蛮性感的，希望他会再来😁
A very sunny looking teen. Enjoy the conversation!
Always nice guests and always nice vidz..Eileen has the gift to talk to people, to strike the perfect conversational balance. I was 9 or 10 years old when I fell in love with Chinese by reading an article on radicals in my mother tongue, Bulgarian. I still remember the radicals and hanzi : 森林 (sēn lín) 木 (mù), and 川 (chuān). There was a 9-years old me, reading about the Chinese word formation...and the rest is history. Slowly but surely, I have been learning to speak, write and read Chinese Mandarin. At around that age, I started learning English and Russian as well, later in life Greek, French and Icelandic. The key to it: love what you do and do not give up on it, one can stop , take a break ( and the break maybe short or long) and then one gets back to it.. It is a never ending loop , like the universe itself 🙂
A very impressive interview !
Thank you! I signed up for a monthly Patreon today. I'm sorry, it's small when I get so much out of your lessons. Thank you.
Very engaging and dynamic conversation. Enjoyable to listen and learn about experiences from childhood/ student years from two native Chinese speakers: Eileen and Richard.
I would one day like to undertake the opportunity for an immersive culture experience learning Mandarin, perhaps as a translator or language coach related to culture exchange and technology.
Great video interview, I appreciate the flow of the conversation with your guest Richard, in explaining with genuine enthusiasm formative years growing up in China as a person with an international heritage background representing both East Asian and Western roots. Thank you.
Mixed blood is good. My ancestors are Russian and Chinese. I am not a racist and I love all good people and enjoy all foods .
Format and presentation are excellent!
I have started using a very useful tool now when watching youtube videos for chinese study, wc is called : Language Reactor and it needs videos to have chinese subtitles (CC) so hopefully Mandarin Corner can start putting chinese and english CC too.
richard is a chinese who is really good at chinese( i mean good educated).
Wow...love Eileen's hair.
This video is so interesting. I love Richard's facial expression :)))))
Спасибо Дорогая за интересную встречу !😽😽😽
Очень позитивный Гость !
А вы тоже учите китайский?
Пытаюсь ...😊😊😊
Уже 2 года ...😾😾😾
This topic is very interesting to me.
理查德帅哥🥺🥰 他的俄语很可爱，有很独特的口音，真的很好奇！
Awesome video.
Eileen, maybe you should make shorts, intro of your guests
非常聪明的年青的人。祝他好生命。
不是“年青”是“年轻”
@@peterwang5272 谢谢
Nice young man.
He's so cute☺️
4:08 my father is a foreigner
lol sounds really funny
lol
These interviews are the best on UA-cam, happy to pay for premium. Do you have any social media 账号 of the 小伙？
小男孩很有教养，教得很好。广州长大的，为什么普通话可以说这么好呢？
可能他很有语言天赋，因为他很喜欢模仿不同地方人的口音并且学得很像。他给我学过北京话，一开口真的像个老北京。
Richard， I can teach you Russian if you can help me with Mandarin 😀. I feel the same as Richard. I cannot explain why I need to speak Mandarin and why I want to move to China, - probably same about Richard. I cannot explain. It's just a feeling. Also first vibe about Richard was, - what is this Russian guy doing here.
wow，视频拍的很好哦
interesting to put "White" at the same level as "Chinese" when white is a color and Chinese is a nationality..
Great video
Interesting video, but I’m captured by the title of this segment. Half-White, Half-Chinese. It is a shame that in the english speaking west that so many of including the huge diversity of peoples of European heritage have been reduced to a complexion. In this conversation we learn that this young man is at least half New Zealander perhaps British. People of the world are much more than a complexion. They carry with them the unique histories of their families, their historic national cultures and the tribes from which their familes originated.
But that's just a clickbait :)
It's very interesting
里查德，欢迎再来新西兰，你根我可以一起西班牙语而且我也可以跟你联系普通话·！感谢你们俩！🇨🇳🇳🇿
我觉得Richard父亲抛弃了他们母子，太不负责了，他童年虽然有很多快乐，但是缺乏父爱
有意思！
Dude is top five among chinese students, that's already TAI HAI HAO
欢迎欢迎来俄国🥞☕ 我建议他取一个更适合俄国的名字 Ruslan - Руслан (听起来像wu siru, 还有由于普希金，这个名字很有名，这样跟俄文学有关系的）
很棒！
No matter u are Africans, Asians, Latin, Erupeans, Americans or eggs as long u hv Chinese heart then u are Chinese
Porque este tipo de chino si entoendo y cuando pongo un canal chino u una pelicula no entiendo ni el 50%😭😭😭
Where is the country of White?
which one comes first, white or Chinese? If you use alphabetical order, Chinese wins, if you use character stroke number, Chinese wins again. but if you use alphabetical pinyin order, White wins.
He looks like Ten from Wayv.
the thumbnail…… though it was an IELTS video
🌷
5:48 at first look he don t look different from chinese people. but yes on childhood photo looks different
He is a White Chinese :D
Well if the father like Bruce Lee, why he went to china, not Hong kong?
He is a China man, not white
整子！！😂😂
Half white half yellow
君子
"White" isn't an ethnicity. Chinese is. You can just say "European". It's more accurate.
Half-White, Half-Chinese what the hell do you mean? Please tell me if you are half human one way and half human another way. ALL HUMANS COME FROM ONE BLOOD there never was, there never existed any half human. ALL HUMANS ARE OF THE SAME KIND. All you can say for yourself is that you are culturally diverse or multi cultural. YOU ARE NOT HALF OF ANYTHING BUT ARE FULLY HUMAN.
People should not say half white half Chinese , it is if I was saying half French half Yellow … it is lacking depth, and precision.
Im russian and I didnt understand him😅
The guy is half Chinese half New Zealander, not Russian
我也没听懂他说的第二个句子，但是我很喜欢他的热情。继续努力，加油～
@@Mr_BoBo_808 Richard mentioned in the video that he is studying Russian.
А мне кажется ,что Эстонец .😽😽😽
Курад..?!😋😋😋
because he was bluffing..:) he will be good seducer
Nah you’re 100% white so stop faking your race ^^
Couldn't you tell this guy to speak normally?
1/2 european? this dude look like asean
Something wrong with your eyes 👀 , time to have your eye vision check.
@@CommonSenses101 stupid fool ahmed egyptian in brazil is so stupid and bad character,that he refuses to acknowledge that in asia..there are 10000 and 10000 of his face..and non..they are not mixed ya idiot,rather..all asean!!! stupidddddddddd
I agree. The father must live in the russian border, and look asian.
@@saratemp790 not just the father,,he is an asian..he looks asean ahmed
doh!
You mean half-white, half-yellow. Be consistent.
golden
The contrast between Richard in this video, where he speaks Mandarin, and in Barrett’s, where he speaks English, could not be greater. It is very instructive. He seems like a nice guy in Barrett’s video, but he is another person in Chinese: animated, funny, full of vivid descriptions, etc. He obviously can express himself so much more freely in Mandarin, it is really impressive.
may i ask who is barret?
Barrett has a UA-cam channel. He is an English speaker who lived in China and interviewed Richard. You can look up the interviews in the UA-cam search engine.
ua-cam.com/video/rm02xWSevNA/v-deo.html
He lives since he was a baby in China, he is a 100% Chinese native lol.
@@NS8340-h2v I was talking about the man who interviews Richard on another channel. That man is an English speaker.
I had a similar situation when I was a child. My dad is Vietnamese-Chinese, my mom is Chinese-Malaysian. I was born in Canada. Growing up, I spoke Cantonese and Vietnamese at home. When I went to Malaysia for a few months to visit my mom's side of the family they all spoke Mandarin. Within a few months, I picked up Mandarin very quickly. When I came back to Canada, I found that I couldn't speak Vietnamese anymore. I can't explain how and why, but it seemed that Mandarin replaced my Vietnamese. I still understand Vietnamese very well, but when I want to speak, I get choked up. I think if I practice speaking Vietnamese more, I will get it back again.
What about when you played outside what language in your brain did you translate from English when crafting up an excuse about why you got home late
1)?See language expert, Canadian Steve Kaufmann 1 of his many videos says that the happens to him, but he, in rights situation, can remember missing language.
2) You could find, if they exist, Vietnamese language videis, books,?etc.,that teach Chinese.
Yu could find, if they exist,?
Chinese language videos,?books, etc.that teach Vietnamese.
what a lovely person. He's so open, communicative and friendly
God bless you and your guests. Listening to you, in your format, helps me so much! I am 60 years old, a lifetime of English, I have so much to unlearn. Again, God bless you for your amazing videos!
I'm only 10 minutes in, but can't wait to listen to the rest. His voice is very easy to listen to. Love the new hair Eileen.
Thanks for the video!
Was really intrigued by Richard and his life after seeing him at another youtuber's channel on here!
Surprised to see him being interviewed by one of my favourite Mandarin-learning channel haha.
He seems really genuine and down-to-earth, i hope Richard can capitalize on his 'unique' upbringing; cause i'm sure a lot of people would love to hear his life stories :)
I was wondering why he seemed so friendly, open and expressive.
It's because he's a teenager 😆
Gratuitously nasty remark, it takes refined emotions to observe passive aggression at work.
@@asaejapan7143 i read no malice in Nicole's comment. its your interpretation that is negative.
what she meant is that he is fresh and a naturally unburdened teenager and we like that.
he is not jaded like the rest of us adults who have been trialled over the decades. You need to chill
@@PHlophe If you need to make classes and categories to appreciate a human quality, someone is bound to call you on your prejudices. Same goes for people who attribute so many negative traits to teenagers; I don't have to buy bulk opinions, that value or belittle a whole class of the population on basic human qualities that we live on on a daily basis, like, kindness, compassion, goodwill, hardworking disposition etc., they do not belong to (random examples) Asians, elderly, businessmen or police officers.
Speaking as a native Chinese, not only is his Chinese perfect but he is really articulate and well-spoken in Chinese. Some of the words and phrasing he uses without even having to think is not everyday Chinese that you can just hear people say, which perfectly confirms the fact that his Chinese is among the top in his class.
Youre speaking Modern English so, youre not speaking as a Native Chinese person, Duh
you people are so confused, your not speaking properly
@@je-freenorman7787 What on earth are you talking about? So if someone learns “modern” English, they are no longer a native of their country of origin?! That is nonsense.
@@je-freenorman7787 I'm still learning English, so maybe a more proper way to put this is "Speaking from a native Chinese..."? I'll put in more effort, so next time hopefully i wont confuse people.
@@jingchen9695 The best tool is the etymology dictionary
Etymology is required
adding phonics is another layer
@@jingchen9695 I understood your point fine. I think that the first person who commented above was being unkind . . . It is very easy to make someone feel uncomfortable if they are speaking in a second language. I am learning Chinese and Chinese people have been very patient with me. I hope English speakers are the same way.
Eileen 好，几乎几年了没有观看你的视频。2017 时，我工作不顺利，被派到一个遥远的地方，心情很差，晚上学学点儿中文作为安慰自己，有时看到你的视频中有一个是你表白自己的经历，感觉你也很辛苦，我自然就感觉被鼓励多了，坚强过去那段不满意的时期。今天偶然又看到你播放的视频，我突然回想昔日。你还坚持下去，创作视频帮助大家学中文，真感谢你。
也希望你能坚持下去！
你的中文水平我推荐你不要混UA-cam了，来B站
I feel like, at least here in the north, if people see a half-white half-Chinese person, they may assume they're some ethnicity from the west (Uyghur, Kazakh, Tajik etc.) or just "新疆人".
Yes true.
That was exactly my thought. He looks full Chinese, but maybe an ethnic minority.
Fabulous interview, thank you very much! It's great listening to such natural conversational Mandarin. From Sydney, Australia.
Enjoyed this so much, what an interesting story. Both of you spoke so clearly I could pick every word. Looking forward to another one!
I so enjoy your lack of pretense or artifice. You, and your guests are amazing! I don't think there are many better channels.
Wow!! Great interview with a superb guest. I saw him on another UA-cam video with Barrett where he was speaking perfect English. Very intelligent young man.
i grew up in countryside in USA, we had chickens and raised a garden for all of our food also
Richard 個性很可愛！ 我好奇他爸爸也住農村嗎？他爸爸做什麼工作呢？Richard 完全像中國人而不像外國人。很有意思的經歷！非常感謝！
早就离的婚。 主持没问不想伤情
特别聪明的青年，很喜欢你们的交谈。
I really liked this discussion. it was fun learning about Eileen too. both of you two had so many similar experiences as children and i think it's made you better people.
谢谢你们！！！这段视频真棒！
Richard, 我是西班牙人。我可以帮你学习西班牙语，哈哈。
我也是乌克兰人，可以帮理查德学学俄语吧！
he looks somehow russian
yeah I think so too. Maybe his father is Russian who migrate to New Zealand
I am big fan of this channel, but this video still exceeded my high expectations ! The guest is really interesting and he uses a lot of new vocabulary 🎉
This video explains why I want to try to move to China. You might not feel it, - but I can .... that this guy has crystal clear soul without any darkness within him.
clicked because of curiosity, stayed for the stories 😭 one of the best interviews imo
Excellent content, thank you Eileen
Such a lovely well spoken, thoughtful, open young man
This guy needs his own channel. I would watch every episode
SAME
It's very cool to see his perspective from the place he lives, thank you very much Eileen