I love this type of content. Hope you post more videos like this about chinese pop culture. Its nice to have someone explain the jokes and references to you since even though my mandarin is intermediate level, i am not a naitive speaker.
Going to the park and talking to old men has allowed me to fully encapsulate what it means to be a Chinese person. Pointing, jabbing at the air, fake slaps to the back, violent head jerks, aiyahhhhhhh, aghhhhhhh!!, shabashaa?!, have all helped immensely 12:30
Really good insight into cross cultural language and issues. His Chinese is nearly perfect. But perfect pronunciation is a full time job and it demands a lot of effort and time. I guess it is also good to be all rounder and do a bit of everything without necessarily nearing perfection. Of course should we not be limited (time) I wish I could play perfect violin, run a marathon, have perfect command of Portuguese, etc. A good topic by the way would be about how to striker a right balance and set priorities. My guess is as good as yours. Anyway thank you for yoour very instructive videos.
Glad you like this video! Like I said at the end of the video, a "perfect" pronunciation is not really the goal, as very rare people get to the "flawless" native level sounding pronunciation, but our goal should be to facilitate the communication with natives as much as possible. To achieve that, pronunciation is the first thing that needs to be put in time and effort for a more structured training. But the fact is that it's the first thing to be sacrificed in language learning, and it's not just in Mandarin Chinese. I hope my videos will help more Mandarin learners raise awareness of what and how to improve their Mandarin pronunciation.
@@RitaChinese Thanks.There is one another queston i'd like to ask you .Is there a "G" sound as in English "Goat" in Chinese? Or all sounds of "G" are pronounced as "k" as in English "Cup" in Chinese?
There is a voiceless "g" in Chinese when it's used at the beginning of a syllable as a initial consonant. And when the "g" is at the end of a syllable as part of -ng, it's a very reduced nasal sound.
Historically, 他 is gender agnostic. But someone saw the grammatical genders of Western languages and decided to invent a whole bunch more 她 (female) 牠 (animal) 祂 (deity) 它 (inanimate). 其他 (other) and other already formed words are not modified. All of them are pronounced the same. The popularity of the use of the gendered pronouns may be different in different Chinese speaking regions. I believe Taiwan may use more of 他 in general in a gender agnostic way and use 她 maybe in a more poetic way to stress femininity. Mainland Chinese somehow started to popularize the Latinized pinyin "ta" to mean gender agnostic pronoun, which I think is backwards, where reverting back to just having 他 as gender agnostic should be the right way, because of the inconsistency in use of 他 in other established words anyway, e.g. 他人, 他們, 他國, which are all used in a gender agnostic way already. Fun fact, other forms of Chinese may use different 3rd person pronouns, a whole lot more existed in ancient times. Cantonese mainly uses 佢 (old form: 渠), which can trace back to Classical Chinese as well. 汝, 伊 are other examples of 3rd person pronouns. These are all consider archaic or poetic in Standard Chinese.
Hilarious that the comedian got audience participation with a response to "How are you?" which was "I am fine, thank you for asking, and you?"
That’s the classic textbook answer to the “how are you” question. ALL Chinese people learned it by rote😆
I love this type of content. Hope you post more videos like this about chinese pop culture. Its nice to have someone explain the jokes and references to you since even though my mandarin is intermediate level, i am not a naitive speaker.
Going to the park and talking to old men has allowed me to fully encapsulate what it means to be a Chinese person. Pointing, jabbing at the air, fake slaps to the back, violent head jerks, aiyahhhhhhh, aghhhhhhh!!, shabashaa?!, have all helped immensely 12:30
Haha I can see the grandpa now
Ooh,thank you,thank you,thank you for this video! Ive learnt a lot from it! And enjoyed watching you two together 😊❤
So glad you liked this video! We'll try to make more videos together😆
This video was really helpful! And frkking hilarious 😭 also Chris are you wearing rosary beads on your arm haha
Haha glad you like this video!! Will try to make more (if Tencent Video allows me😅)
Really good insight into cross cultural language and issues. His Chinese is nearly perfect. But perfect pronunciation is a full time job and it demands a lot of effort and time. I guess it is also good to be all rounder and do a bit of everything without necessarily nearing perfection. Of course should we not be limited (time) I wish I could play perfect violin, run a marathon, have perfect command of Portuguese, etc. A good topic by the way would be about how to striker a right balance and set priorities. My guess is as good as yours. Anyway thank you for yoour very instructive videos.
Glad you like this video! Like I said at the end of the video, a "perfect" pronunciation is not really the goal, as very rare people get to the "flawless" native level sounding pronunciation, but our goal should be to facilitate the communication with natives as much as possible. To achieve that, pronunciation is the first thing that needs to be put in time and effort for a more structured training. But the fact is that it's the first thing to be sacrificed in language learning, and it's not just in Mandarin Chinese. I hope my videos will help more Mandarin learners raise awareness of what and how to improve their Mandarin pronunciation.
Thank you for feedback Rita I do appreciate. If you ever need French one day Let me know:)
I am also british but french too!! I beat him to it. Sure he does not speak chinese !!! Keep it up guys/
很有意思！
哈哈你喜欢就好！
What's his name?
Harry Hussain
He goes with Harry哈瑞 on the Chinese internet
@@jansoltes971 Thanks.
@@RitaChinese Thanks.There is one another queston i'd like to ask you .Is there a "G" sound as in English "Goat" in Chinese? Or all sounds of "G" are pronounced as "k" as in English "Cup" in Chinese?
There is a voiceless "g" in Chinese when it's used at the beginning of a syllable as a initial consonant. And when the "g" is at the end of a syllable as part of -ng, it's a very reduced nasal sound.
Historically, 他 is gender agnostic. But someone saw the grammatical genders of Western languages and decided to invent a whole bunch more 她 (female) 牠 (animal) 祂 (deity) 它 (inanimate). 其他 (other) and other already formed words are not modified. All of them are pronounced the same.
The popularity of the use of the gendered pronouns may be different in different Chinese speaking regions. I believe Taiwan may use more of 他 in general in a gender agnostic way and use 她 maybe in a more poetic way to stress femininity. Mainland Chinese somehow started to popularize the Latinized pinyin "ta" to mean gender agnostic pronoun, which I think is backwards, where reverting back to just having 他 as gender agnostic should be the right way, because of the inconsistency in use of 他 in other established words anyway, e.g. 他人, 他們, 他國, which are all used in a gender agnostic way already.
Fun fact, other forms of Chinese may use different 3rd person pronouns, a whole lot more existed in ancient times. Cantonese mainly uses 佢 (old form: 渠), which can trace back to Classical Chinese as well. 汝, 伊 are other examples of 3rd person pronouns. These are all consider archaic or poetic in Standard Chinese.
👍👍 Other forms of pronouns from classical Chinese are still used in regional dialects nowadays, like 阿拉, 侬, 衲, 伊 in Wu Chinese.
第一个！
棒！
I'd love to hear the standup session without the reaction ... it looks like it was funny!