I've between working on my Chinese with Duolingo for 2½ years now. I understood about half of the level 1-2 quiz. Lots of words I haven't seen before. Very interesting. I'm actually impressed that I understood as much as I did!
Duolingo has helped me with a couple words or grammar points here and there, but honestly for Chinese, it's better as a supplement to something else you're using like the HSK books. Two and a half years though? Dayum. Keep up the good work!
I’m studying by myself, and feel lucky to find your channel ! want you to create more lesson like this clip. It’s so great to test my listening Chinese
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@12:43 Yes we need to learn a language, to be able to truly connect with another person, which one cannot do with even the best translation software. Especially for a tonal language, but also all languages. There is no substitute for the spoken word from one's lips to another's ears, like "Wo ai ny".
This method of learning is good. As you pause, it provides time for me to think of the correct answer. I like this teaching method. Please continue to do more. Thank you, 老师.
Interesting way to find your level of understanding, the words and sentences are much more daily-life than the HSK tests/courses (which is a good thing I guess). I have taken some of the official tests. For people actually wanting to take the tests, there is one big difference that should be clear: Only in HSK 1 exams there could be questions supplemented with english. In HSK2 everything is in chinese with some parts supplemented with pinyin and some without pinyin, all the questions and answers are in chinese. From HSK3 onwards there is no more pinyin in almost all parts.
Thanks for your video. My level is about 4 - 6 but I've given up HSK because after years of learning it, I come to realise it doesn't help the Western student to achieve fluency that is speaking, reading & writing Chinese - I want that. I've relised HSK was designed to make it easier for the teacher to teach Mandarin. However, for the students, I'm afraid you'll still need tones of additional books & learning materials & years to get fluency. That's the time you realise HSK isn't everything. Fact, they've now come up with new additional HSK level 9 - 11 or so because they've realised Chinese is way more complicated & HSK 6 as the top level. In fact in reality, HSK level 6 is probably level 2 in mainland China average school :) That is why I've given up HSK to concentrate on Mandarin Reader by professor John De Francis. This book comes in three parts, beginner, advanced & intermediate. Just imagine 400 new characters than in the previous edtion, with Mandarin to English essays to test your reading & understanding containing over 3000 compound characters, over 200,000 in the running texts, altogether if you finish the three books, you'll have learnt 1200 characters & 7000 compounds characters. According to the author, this represents about one-fourth of characters & one-sixth to one-ninth of compounds known to Chinese college grads. I'm working on the advanced mandarin reader now which is a long way to go but the good thing is, it's written in tradditional characters & even the beginner serie containst tons of additional words you wouldn't find in HSK 4. That's just to tell you HSK is a waste of time because it doesn't give a western student a broad picture of the true scope of Mandarin. Another problem with HSK is, the student will get confy with simplified characters but when it comes to reading a basic chinese newspaper, you're stuck because guess what? Say now hello to tradditional characters HSK didn't teach you :) I had to unlearn HSK to go back at the root, with a book that starts you off with traditional characters. I still think it's wirthwhle to learn HSK, but soon you'll find out it's not enough to achieve fluency. Thanks
One of the best teachers ive watched. I have xiaomaNYC lesson plan and i use both of this content to help. Its really tough to learn a new language at 38. Its been about 5 days so far. I hope in 3 months I can speak some basic stuff at restaurants
You should learn from native speakers. I'm in Taiwan and have essentially NEVER seen a Taiwanese English teacher who spoke English at a very high level, even at "advanced" levels. Some of them know a ton of vocab and even fancy grammar rules, but they can't hold a normal conversation. Stick to the real thing. My Chinese is not good enough to judge that guy's level. He seems good to me, but it's a lot safer to stick to authentic native speakers. You don't want to learn weird foreign language from non-native speakers. That's such a big problem in Taiwan... people will argue with me about many things because they heard Taiwanese teachers tell them what "Americans" say. Ha. Not even close. Very important as a beginner.
I have been in China for 3 years now cane here before covid and wouldn’t be able to learn Chinese as a university student. However I practiced it and learned it in the streets with local people. Now i am required to pass hsk 4 in order to graduate successfully since then I ve been self studying Chinese by hsk books and completed hsk 2 and in the middle of hsk 3 now on december 4 2022 i registered for hsk 4 exam it’s less than 10 days. I just wanted to check my level and it was some where between hsk 3 and 4 i am impressed and still believe that I can make it to hsk 4 by exam date thank you for the video❤
Great video! I really like your teaching style and appreciate the super high quality of the video (especially the audio). This helped encourage me to keep pushing on my studies. :D One minor criticism: 撒谎 is an HSK 6 level word according to my list, but you used it at 9:13 for HSK 3/4. I know all vocab up through HSK 5 but I get so frustrated when I'm studying materials that are marked HSK 5 or lower that use frequent HSK 6 level words. Makes me want to just blast through all the vocab without doing any grammar or anything.
Good, good, good. We like this one very much. My native Chinese wife has very little English and my Chinese is about the same. After 9 years of marriage you'd think we'd both be better but no....I'm a solid HSK2 and she is the equivalent in English. Still, we have been watching you together lately and, maybe, just maybe, we are having some progress..... you make it fun & easy to "study"....so, thank you for that.
12:40 My Asian parents want us to focus on our studies rather than to travel or learn a new language (Chinese) . Though, I know I have impossible chance to visit China but I am still learning Chinese language. It's my passion , my happiness. And, I will work hard at my best level to visit China after completing my parents dream of becoming a Doctor. And, only I can make that possible.
Why impossible to visit there? I visited hong kong and china a couple of times. It was easy, they gave me a ten-year re-entry visa 4 years ago, tho I've not been for more than 2 yrs obviously. I want to go to HK again as it's better now it was before the US color revolution attempt and NED organized riots. BTW, my mom was a doctor and my dad was a surgeon, and their dream/counsel for me was to do anything else instead, as he liked the work but hated the job because of "the system and the patients" (so he retired at age 42 to become a general house repairman and home flipper instead, making WAY more money LOL). Dad said that you need a weak mind and a strong back to be a good surgeon. He also said the best surgeons are people who are also good at sewing, plumbing, and carpentry but instead they got too many doctors with poor manual dexterity and big brains that woulda been better suited to nuclear or bio-engineering or something. He wouldn't have wanted most surgeons he saw to ever operate on him as they were often too clunky with their hands.
@@davidrichards1741 yes that's why I'll break that impossible. Only, when I finished my studies & have a stable job . I can visit . Before that, I have to wait and work hard .
...So my dad's dream was for me to become a tax accountant coz he hated taxes and usually had some tax problem(s). So I was pushed to become a CPA, worked 2-3 years at a Big 4 firm and hated it. Instead, I loved computers & software programming which I learned on the side way back in the day, which led to an entry-level job at the biggest tech firm for a big cut in compensation initially (tho not for long as the industry was fire). That was all a long time ago, dad has long since passed and I'm long retired, and I now live tax-free oceanfront on my breezy luxurious tropical island offshore Singapore with my Asian wife I met at work many decades ago, who my parents weren't fond of cuz she was asian, which almost messed up everything (my parents never once met her parents before or after our marriage, which my parents never even attended). But I luv her (still) and working with software, tho I gave that up years ago (I mean working, not my wife lol) as our occupation has become managing our family office wealth instead, as I've learned how nobody else cares about your money as you do. If I were to go back fifty years to my days as a young man, as I wish I could, I'd say follow your dreams right from the start, not the dreams or wishes of your parents, for both your career and your love. But at least I learned to let my own kids find & follow their own way. Cheers from Singapore, which btw is overflowing with Asian doctors haha, who are all highly fluent in English as is everyone here, so my Chinese language is still very weak :( but our offspring is fully bilingual cuz mom made her so :)
@@WangYi9 Pardon me if I sound at all condescending or arrogant. Another thing I learned over the decades: stability comes from within, not from a job. Now more than ever in an increasingly unstable world. But u r smart I suspect, so you'll figure it all out faster than I did. Best wishes and good luck!
I learned Chinese by listening and looking and practicing by myself and my Chinese online friends, I came to see my level and ended up by learning new words
after listening three times, i got the last dialogue. Your friend wanted to buy some shoes for her mum but her mum said 'dont get me anymore shoes! I've got way too many as it is！” Then she went and got some shoes for her dad and he really liked them and said they were really comfortable and stuff and then the mum tried them and really liked them and said 'next time there's a discount on these, make sure you buy some for me.' As for the chengyu, i only got 不可思议的. I think that's just because I'm only on chapter 16 of HSK 6 though.
I haven't formally studied since 2019 but I have been trying to keep up with Duolingo and some video lessons on UA-cam so I'm still at about HSK 2 level but surprisingly I got some right at HSK 3 level
Hsk 5-6 The first video is about what Chinese people do for Chinese New Year, like going to the temple to pray, and eating with friends, and you were a bit incredulous about your friend going to the temple to pray. The second is about your friend whose mom told her not to but her any shoes because she had too many at home already, so she bought shoes for her dad, and he said they were really comfy, so then she bought a pair for her mom. And the next time her mom called her, she told her to buy her another pair. I didn't know any of the chengyu, so I didn't answer them, but the second I read them I knew what they meant. Does that count as a pass?
I’ve done Duolingo about a year and a half and I did great on the HSK 1-2, the HSK 3 gave me whiplash because I could read the sentences and understand them fine, but I actually didn’t know the answers in mandarin lol. Which is fine, I’m actually getting HSK 3 books soon and finishing up my HSK 2 books. I’m almost finished with the Duolingo courses (which only have vocab up to the old HSK3 iirc), so I need to find more comprehensive things that quiz and test me to replace it. Edit: I can also understand and read most the sentences on the first part of the HSK 5 section! Definitely cannot answer them, though one of them threw me for a massive loop lol
Not bad. I guess knowing or not knowing some words at the HSK 3-4 stage is a bit random, just depending on which words you learned. From the HSK 5-6 stage I definitely could not do the last exercise and before that I was around 50 %. In the HSK 3-4 part I was above 50 %, so I guess with some preparation (I did not study since 1.5 years), my speaking/reading/listening would be starting at HSK 4. Hand-writing is something I always forget after half a year or so though (I had 2 periods of Chinese classes with a longer breaks in between), as I only write Chinese on my phone.
I got through HSK 1-2, only missing one. I understood immediately when I saw the answer though. I kept watching HSK 3-4 but that's out of my league. The way you describe things and then give the answer is a great way to learn new vocabulary though. Please do this again. Same format, but with different/more questions. If you had like 100 questions at HSK 1-2 in this style it'd be wonderful to practice with. Thanks for this video.
That was an excellent video! Loved going through this experience. I don't always test my Chinese but I can see I understand a lot of the hsk 6 already. I answered all the questions in my mind and said them out loud but didn't write here in the comments because I'm watching on my phone and the UA-cam app doesn't save drafts everytime I close the comment I'm writting 😅.
I know most words up until 5-6. My oral comprehension is improving but needs work. I may know the words but my ear still isn't quick enough to pick up all the words when spoken. My reading of the pinyin is quite good though. Honestly this video made me feel like I have come a fair way with my Chinese...thanks
After watching this video, I can confirm I am no where near HSK 5 or 6 and barely cling on to 3 and 4 at half speed! :) PS. Thank you for uploading this!
I think I'm at level 2.5 or 3. This was a really fun test to take, and I can learn from it, too! What percentage of answers must we get right to claim we are at a certain level? Xuexi zhongwen yijing zhongyao ziji tiyan yuyuan.
Thanks for this. Ive been studying by myself for almost 2 years and I reached HSK3 and started HSK4. I didn't know some of the words you asked for at HSK4 level, but I was able to follow most of the HSK5 and 6 section. I guess my knowledge is fractioned and I need to go back to get HSK3 perfect and continue with HSK4?
Well, I could only answer a couple of the grammar questions on the HSK 1 level, but I did learn a few more words from this test .... lol ... I'll come back when I have some more vocabulary under my belt ... lol ...
This video was good practice! Thanks a bunch for the awesome content. I didn’t always follow curriculums and stuff like that I’ve learned in a less conventional way so sometimes even words from HSK4 I’m not the most familiar with yet as I’m doing 标准教程5上 HSK 5 book so many of the lessons are filled with words that I’m super familiar with already yet still learning a ton of new stuff, so it’s complicated… and this video helped me figure out where I need a lot of polishing and I found a ton of value in it and I actually spent a good chunk of time on this video and wrote answers to your questions you had for my own writing practice and maybe just to pick your brain as well :) (I skipped to 6:16.) Wrote some notes ⬇️⬇️ Partially for myself, maybe anybody can see this and benefit or check it out. Also a couple questions for you or anybody that can answer…. (Either way it boosts your engagement rate 😛) - **3-4 Section Got everything from 3-4 correct except for: When you said 竞争 I said 商量 or 讨论 haha I think I misunderstood the direction you were going though 😛 i was thinking you meant more to collaborate with them so you can all be awesome 😂 thanks for teaching me 激烈 too I never heard that word but I know both characters from 强烈 etc and 刺激，激动，感激 so makes total sense When you said 犹豫 I said 考虑 so I mean 考虑could also be correct but 犹豫 more specific with the slight negative connotation For the 即使 example I thought: 即使我有钱，我还是不会买车的 Would this 还是不会….的 also work instead of 也不想 from a natives perspective? I felt like it confirms the situation even firmer but maybe it’s not as fluent. - **For the answer part in 3-4 I’ll answer Q #2 如果后来翻译软件越来越准确，有可能学语言会没有现在重要。目前翻译软件已经很厉害啊，不过还有一些抽象的概念有点难以翻到其他语言。我觉得现在翻译者已经没有以前的重要，软件越来越可靠。可是，语言是一种总是改变的东西。所以为了保证软件的准确，需要一些非常努力的员工一直在网络上，在国家不同的地方等一直研究新的词汇，热词，方言，等等。肯定不会容易的。 尤其是中文，西班牙语，和英文…. 这些语言有很多母语者都在别的地方。大多数不同地方的人也不同意，那些slight nuances 和 俚语有什么不一样。所以，除非软件的员工可以每天都学习所有母语者的想法和意见，了解语言，文化，和世界还会比翻译软件好多了。 (forgive any mistakes lol) it would take some serious weekly dedication from the developers. For example I think Pleco is the best Chinese dictionary app and I can count countless times where I ran across words not in Pleco or phrases that you can find the separate definitions on Pleco but you’d have to piece the meanings together yourself. - 5-6 got most right except for: For the 内疚 / 惭愧 I didn’t fully understood where you were going with it but I did guess 内疚 and although I know the word 惭愧 it didn’t really occur to me, I even thought of the words 心痛 and 发愁 as I thought you were more emphasizing the worrying aspect 😋 Also for the 垄断 example can you say 包揽？ these words are pretty high level and I feel like there’s a lot of words to say this kind of meaning of controlling something and I don’t always understand the difference. I understand 垄断 to be more specific as monopolize but can you also use other words here like 控制 control, 把持 dominate, or 包揽 for example 包揽 can also mean to take full control over something or sweep the competition or win by a landslide right? 绑架 I did not know this word at all 咬牙切齿 did not know at all 不屑一顾 also did not know… when you acted it out the only word that came into my head was 装逼 hahaha 不可思议 I actually knew this one I feel like this is maybe not like a profound 成语 tho and more of a vocab or something idk it’s more common though so I’m not super proud of knowing this one haha 聚精会神 also didn’t know For the videos with your friends 1.) She started talking about lunar new year spring festival and then said re record cuz she was overly bubbly I assume 😂 then said how you will go to the temple and worship, feast together. And then you called her out on her temple worship bluff hahaha. I understood the first one at regular speed no problem but the 2nd video I literally had no clue what the heck your friend was talking about even on half speed but I know she’s talking about some article of clothing or something of that nature she gave to her sister who then gave it to her mom and the mom loved it and said next time there’s a discount to get her more ?
In the first dialogue... your friend was talking about how people in china go to temples to pray during the 1st day of the lunar year. And on the 2nd dialogue.. I couldn't really follow thru everything she said... but I got the gist that she was talking about a discount sale for shoes I think...
I use "lao" to refer to myself with Chinese Friends. "Lao Fan" ,given my Chinese Name ( I am of European ancestry). I have been learning Zhong Han for years...pinyin is not a problem, but remembering the vocabulary is a problem at my age. The videos are very helpful; but I would only learn properly from a 6 month study visit to Qing Dao ( where my erzi went for a year at Qingdao Dazue. ). Being in the country of the language one wishes to study is the best way to "immerse" oneself in the language. Mingtian, Lao Fan Shi De.
2:15 As a beginner i fail to understand this English translation for:Nǐ hé nǐ de péngyǒu shuō shénme? What do you say to your friend? I thought "hé" means "and", like "you and/with your friend say?". Probably "hé" also means "to".
Shuo is really pretty but this is one of her prettiest looking videos 非常美丽，说！ 特别好看！ I bet she's in love that's not just make up making her eyes sparkle!
what if your listening/speaking is HSK5-6 but writing/reading is....like... negative HSK1? Do you have any recommendations or classes to work on the writing/reading
My level is around early HSK 5-6, perhaps? I kinda give up on 成语, however I fully understand the first video (it's about the first day of Chinese New Year) but kind of struggle to fully understand the second video (is it about buying shoes?) for some reason😆 If it's okay, Shuo Laoshi, could you please tell me where Friend 1 and Friend 2 are from? I'm wondering if it's because of the accent difference between them. It's just that during this process of learning Mandarin for some years now, I found out that I tend to understand certain accents better. Do you have any tips on this issue? Thank you!
@@ShuoshuoChinese yay! I got them right😆 I'm quite struggling to understand Beijing accent but I'll practice harder! Thank you so much Shuo Laoshi, I hope in the future you could talk about this accent difference issue, I think it would be an interesting video! Have a great day🥰🥰
汉语水平一二， 左边的图片：爸爸跟孩子一起站着。 右边的图片：女人找到桌子下的男孩儿。 5个问题 (imagining they have a connecting flight from Beijing)：您的宝宝可爱啊，他今年几岁？他喜欢坐飞机吗？你坐飞机去哪里？您去越南旅行还是工作？您曾经去了越南吗?
I see sentences where Pinyin and Chinese characters are different (我去了公園). Is it another way to test us or a mistake ? Haha HSK 5-6 are really too high for me. We can feel when we become too tired while listening. But, i will try again later.
Hello. Which part of China are you originally from? From what age did you live in China before moving to Bangkok? Is 辆 always pronounced with light "l" instead of heavy "l"? Thank you.
I've between working on my Chinese with Duolingo for 2½ years now. I understood about half of the level 1-2 quiz. Lots of words I haven't seen before. Very interesting. I'm actually impressed that I understood as much as I did!
Very good, I envy u.
Duolingo sucks, try LingQ.
Duolingo has helped me with a couple words or grammar points here and there, but honestly for Chinese, it's better as a supplement to something else you're using like the HSK books. Two and a half years though? Dayum. Keep up the good work!
@@lballzdurocher considering that I'm doing it all on my own, I feel like I'm doing pretty well!
@@inchargemom1 I started during the pandemic too. 861 day streak but pretty casual for most of it.
I've been living in China for nearly the past 10 years. Never really studied. But I know the phrases and words. Really good video for practicing.
I’m studying by myself, and feel lucky to find your channel ! want you to create more lesson like this clip. It’s so great to test my listening Chinese
Your method is so fun and not boring and actually reallly helpful for learning. Wish you make more videos like this
Another great video! I especially liked @5:30 asking the baby on the plane five question. I was surprised how easy that one was!
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@12:43 Yes we need to learn a language, to be able to truly connect with another person, which one cannot do with even the best translation software. Especially for a tonal language, but also all languages. There is no substitute for the spoken word from one's lips to another's ears, like "Wo ai ny".
我认为学习一门语言不仅是学习的事情，也是学习说那种语言的人的文化的事情。 所以我对这两个问题的回答都是“是的”，我们需要继续学习其他语言，不管是中文还是其他语言，学习语言让我们互相理解。
This method of learning is good. As you pause, it provides time for me to think of the correct answer. I like this teaching method. Please continue to do more. Thank you, 老师.
Interesting way to find your level of understanding, the words and sentences are much more daily-life than the HSK tests/courses (which is a good thing I guess). I have taken some of the official tests. For people actually wanting to take the tests, there is one big difference that should be clear: Only in HSK 1 exams there could be questions supplemented with english. In HSK2 everything is in chinese with some parts supplemented with pinyin and some without pinyin, all the questions and answers are in chinese. From HSK3 onwards there is no more pinyin in almost all parts.
Thanks for your video. My level is about 4 - 6 but I've given up HSK because after years of learning it, I come to realise it doesn't help the Western student to achieve fluency that is speaking, reading & writing Chinese - I want that. I've relised HSK was designed to make it easier for the teacher to teach Mandarin. However, for the students, I'm afraid you'll still need tones of additional books & learning materials & years to get fluency. That's the time you realise HSK isn't everything. Fact, they've now come up with new additional HSK level 9 - 11 or so because they've realised Chinese is way more complicated & HSK 6 as the top level. In fact in reality, HSK level 6 is probably level 2 in mainland China average school :) That is why I've given up HSK to concentrate on Mandarin Reader by professor John De Francis. This book comes in three parts, beginner, advanced & intermediate. Just imagine 400 new characters than in the previous edtion, with Mandarin to English essays to test your reading & understanding containing over 3000 compound characters, over 200,000 in the running texts, altogether if you finish the three books, you'll have learnt 1200 characters & 7000 compounds characters. According to the author, this represents about one-fourth of characters & one-sixth to one-ninth of compounds known to Chinese college grads.
I'm working on the advanced mandarin reader now which is a long way to go but the good thing is, it's written in tradditional characters & even the beginner serie containst tons of additional words you wouldn't find in HSK 4. That's just to tell you HSK is a waste of time because it doesn't give a western student a broad picture of the true scope of Mandarin. Another problem with HSK is, the student will get confy with simplified characters but when it comes to reading a basic chinese newspaper, you're stuck because guess what? Say now hello to tradditional characters HSK didn't teach you :) I had to unlearn HSK to go back at the root, with a book that starts you off with traditional characters. I still think it's wirthwhle to learn HSK, but soon you'll find out it's not enough to achieve fluency. Thanks
why did i, as a chinese person, take this test and cheer bc i understood everything 😭
One of the best teachers ive watched. I have xiaomaNYC lesson plan and i use both of this content to help. Its really tough to learn a new language at 38. Its been about 5 days so far. I hope in 3 months I can speak some basic stuff at restaurants
You should learn from native speakers. I'm in Taiwan and have essentially NEVER seen a Taiwanese English teacher who spoke English at a very high level, even at "advanced" levels.
Some of them know a ton of vocab and even fancy grammar rules, but they can't hold a normal conversation.
Stick to the real thing. My Chinese is not good enough to judge that guy's level. He seems good to me, but it's a lot safer to stick to authentic native speakers. You don't want to learn weird foreign language from non-native speakers.
That's such a big problem in Taiwan... people will argue with me about many things because they heard Taiwanese teachers tell them what "Americans" say. Ha. Not even close.
Very important as a beginner.
I have been in China for 3 years now cane here before covid and wouldn’t be able to learn Chinese as a university student. However I practiced it and learned it in the streets with local people. Now i am required to pass hsk 4 in order to graduate successfully since then I ve been self studying Chinese by hsk books and completed hsk 2 and in the middle of hsk 3 now on december 4 2022 i registered for hsk 4 exam it’s less than 10 days. I just wanted to check my level and it was some where between hsk 3 and 4 i am impressed and still believe that I can make it to hsk 4 by exam date thank you for the video❤
谢谢。知道了自己达到hsk5-6 我真太开心了！
Beautiful diction, a top asset in a teacher. And a very engaging personality.
Great video! I really like your teaching style and appreciate the super high quality of the video (especially the audio). This helped encourage me to keep pushing on my studies. :D
One minor criticism: 撒谎 is an HSK 6 level word according to my list, but you used it at 9:13 for HSK 3/4. I know all vocab up through HSK 5 but I get so frustrated when I'm studying materials that are marked HSK 5 or lower that use frequent HSK 6 level words. Makes me want to just blast through all the vocab without doing any grammar or anything.
Good, good, good. We like this one very much. My native Chinese wife has very little English and my Chinese is about the same. After 9 years of marriage you'd think we'd both be better but no....I'm a solid HSK2 and she is the equivalent in English. Still, we have been watching you together lately and, maybe, just maybe, we are having some progress..... you make it fun & easy to "study"....so, thank you for that.
Ahh, that's sweet! :)
12:40 My Asian parents want us to focus on our studies rather than to travel or learn a new language (Chinese) . Though, I know I have impossible chance to visit China but I am still learning Chinese language. It's my passion , my happiness. And, I will work hard at my best level to visit China after completing my parents dream of becoming a Doctor. And, only I can make that possible.
Why impossible to visit there? I visited hong kong and china a couple of times. It was easy, they gave me a ten-year re-entry visa 4 years ago, tho I've not been for more than 2 yrs obviously. I want to go to HK again as it's better now it was before the US color revolution attempt and NED organized riots.
BTW, my mom was a doctor and my dad was a surgeon, and their dream/counsel for me was to do anything else instead, as he liked the work but hated the job because of "the system and the patients" (so he retired at age 42 to become a general house repairman and home flipper instead, making WAY more money LOL). Dad said that you need a weak mind and a strong back to be a good surgeon. He also said the best surgeons are people who are also good at sewing, plumbing, and carpentry but instead they got too many doctors with poor manual dexterity and big brains that woulda been better suited to nuclear or bio-engineering or something. He wouldn't have wanted most surgeons he saw to ever operate on him as they were often too clunky with their hands.
@@davidrichards1741 yes that's why I'll break that impossible. Only, when I finished my studies & have a stable job . I can visit . Before that, I have to wait and work hard .
...So my dad's dream was for me to become a tax accountant coz he hated taxes and usually had some tax problem(s). So I was pushed to become a CPA, worked 2-3 years at a Big 4 firm and hated it. Instead, I loved computers & software programming which I learned on the side way back in the day, which led to an entry-level job at the biggest tech firm for a big cut in compensation initially (tho not for long as the industry was fire). That was all a long time ago, dad has long since passed and I'm long retired, and I now live tax-free oceanfront on my breezy luxurious tropical island offshore Singapore with my Asian wife I met at work many decades ago, who my parents weren't fond of cuz she was asian, which almost messed up everything (my parents never once met her parents before or after our marriage, which my parents never even attended). But I luv her (still) and working with software, tho I gave that up years ago (I mean working, not my wife lol) as our occupation has become managing our family office wealth instead, as I've learned how nobody else cares about your money as you do. If I were to go back fifty years to my days as a young man, as I wish I could, I'd say follow your dreams right from the start, not the dreams or wishes of your parents, for both your career and your love. But at least I learned to let my own kids find & follow their own way.
Cheers from Singapore, which btw is overflowing with Asian doctors haha, who are all highly fluent in English as is everyone here, so my Chinese language is still very weak :( but our offspring is fully bilingual cuz mom made her so :)
@@WangYi9 "work harder and harder" they say, right? Yep.
@@WangYi9 Pardon me if I sound at all condescending or arrogant. Another thing I learned over the decades: stability comes from within, not from a job. Now more than ever in an increasingly unstable world. But u r smart I suspect, so you'll figure it all out faster than I did. Best wishes and good luck!
I can hear your english accent improving :) must have good foreign friends. Thank you for the help, just passed HSK4!
I learned Chinese by listening and looking and practicing by myself and my Chinese online friends, I came to see my level and ended up by learning new words
after listening three times, i got the last dialogue. Your friend wanted to buy some shoes for her mum but her mum said 'dont get me anymore shoes! I've got way too many as it is！” Then she went and got some shoes for her dad and he really liked them and said they were really comfortable and stuff and then the mum tried them and really liked them and said 'next time there's a discount on these, make sure you buy some for me.' As for the chengyu, i only got 不可思议的. I think that's just because I'm only on chapter 16 of HSK 6 though.
Wow ! This is the best i have come across
你的视频真好看，很好听。我学习中文已经7年了现在我得水平差不多HSK5。我觉得看你的视频后需要努力练习啊。幸亏我住在成都所以我有很多机会。
I haven't formally studied since 2019 but I have been trying to keep up with Duolingo and some video lessons on UA-cam so I'm still at about HSK 2 level but surprisingly I got some right at HSK 3 level
Hsk 5-6
The first video is about what Chinese people do for Chinese New Year, like going to the temple to pray, and eating with friends, and you were a bit incredulous about your friend going to the temple to pray.
The second is about your friend whose mom told her not to but her any shoes because she had too many at home already, so she bought shoes for her dad, and he said they were really comfy, so then she bought a pair for her mom. And the next time her mom called her, she told her to buy her another pair.
I didn't know any of the chengyu, so I didn't answer them, but the second I read them I knew what they meant. Does that count as a pass?
I’ve done Duolingo about a year and a half and I did great on the HSK 1-2, the HSK 3 gave me whiplash because I could read the sentences and understand them fine, but I actually didn’t know the answers in mandarin lol.
Which is fine, I’m actually getting HSK 3 books soon and finishing up my HSK 2 books. I’m almost finished with the Duolingo courses (which only have vocab up to the old HSK3 iirc), so I need to find more comprehensive things that quiz and test me to replace it.
Edit: I can also understand and read most the sentences on the first part of the HSK 5 section! Definitely cannot answer them, though one of them threw me for a massive loop lol
What a great test! I managed to do about 85% of the questions until the last level which I couldn't do a single one🤣
Not bad. I guess knowing or not knowing some words at the HSK 3-4 stage is a bit random, just depending on which words you learned. From the HSK 5-6 stage I definitely could not do the last exercise and before that I was around 50 %. In the HSK 3-4 part I was above 50 %, so I guess with some preparation (I did not study since 1.5 years), my speaking/reading/listening would be starting at HSK 4.
Hand-writing is something I always forget after half a year or so though (I had 2 periods of Chinese classes with a longer breaks in between), as I only write Chinese on my phone.
I got through HSK 1-2, only missing one. I understood immediately when I saw the answer though.
I kept watching HSK 3-4 but that's out of my league. The way you describe things and then give the answer is a great way to learn new vocabulary though. Please do this again. Same format, but with different/more questions.
If you had like 100 questions at HSK 1-2 in this style it'd be wonderful to practice with.
Thanks for this video.
我本身是语言爱好者，过了英语专8和日语N1，不得不说，以母语者的角度看这个视频，太幽默滑稽可爱了，像是幼儿园的语文游戏一样，哈哈😂 ，没有贬义的意思，我最近被日语听力折磨得不成样子呢，很懂学习外语的不容易😂～
对母语者来说确实是降维打击了，即使到了hsk6感觉也就个小学语文水平😂
That was an excellent video! Loved going through this experience. I don't always test my Chinese but I can see I understand a lot of the hsk 6 already.
I answered all the questions in my mind and said them out loud but didn't write here in the comments because I'm watching on my phone and the UA-cam app doesn't save drafts everytime I close the comment I'm writting 😅.
Your content is incredible
I know most words up until 5-6. My oral comprehension is improving but needs work. I may know the words but my ear still isn't quick enough to pick up all the words when spoken. My reading of the pinyin is quite good though. Honestly this video made me feel like I have come a fair way with my Chinese...thanks
After watching this video, I can confirm I am no where near HSK 5 or 6 and barely cling on to 3 and 4 at half speed! :) PS. Thank you for uploading this!
HSK 5-6 的两段视频我只听得懂第一段。据我听到的，你们在谈着春节的第一天（大年初一）中国人常做的活动，例如去庙里拜一拜，然后和朋友们聚见一起吃饭等。而第二段我听过好多次了还没想出你们在谈什么，只听到（或者我以为我听到）一些短短的词语，如 “鞋”，“我现在有超多鞋了！”，“他觉得很舒服，好穿！”，“打折”。期待早日可以收到你的答案。
最后一段有些地方说得不清楚，听不懂太正常了。原话应该是： “我*&跟我妈说，我买双鞋给她。她说，我坚决不要，我家里面超多鞋。然后结果后来我就给我爸买了，我爸觉得舒服。然后呢，我姐就给她照着我跟我爸买的那个鞋又买了一双给她。她就觉得舒服，好穿。然后呢，她就跟我说，你下次再买，再碰到打折的时候，你就跟我买那双鞋，你就再给我买一双这样的鞋。”
@@XivarKure就是这样哦! 我明白了， 多谢你啊!
5:00 第一个图片是爸爸跟孩子，看起来是一个姑娘。
第二个是妈妈跟儿子，儿子在桌子下面，妈妈穿着一件粉色的衣服。
Even your 5-6 I can read and listen, but not work out quick enough! haha
I wish everyone spoke as clearly as you!
i’ve found that my level is HSK2, but i know many words from HSK4 or even above.
i think it’s because i used to learn in a random order, 😂.
I think I'm at level 2.5 or 3. This was a really fun test to take, and I can learn from it, too! What percentage of answers must we get right to claim we are at a certain level? Xuexi zhongwen yijing zhongyao ziji tiyan yuyuan.
hi shuoshuo, thanks a lot for this video! as always, super helpful !! (@3:50 it seems like you forgot the 去 in 我去了公园 🙃)
3:34 there is "qù" missing in the 拼音 :P
Thank you so much🙏🙏🙏🙏
I’m a Hong konger,so I know both English and Chinese and Cantonese
1. 如果我永远不可以去中国， 还需要学中文。对我来说，虽然学中文非常难，但是很有趣。一来，汉字和俄语字母不像， 二来，我觉得汉语的语法有很多逻辑。 我很喜欢听中国人的话， 也听中国音乐。我听懂汉语话的时候，我觉得很开心。
2. 我觉得如果以后翻译软件可以和真人一样，我们还需要学习语言。比如，我学习汉语的时候，也学中国的文化。 我跟中国人会说一点儿汉语的时候，觉得很高兴。但是我把句子用着翻译软件的时候, 我不在乎。再说学语言对脑力很好。
很好课， 谢谢。
非常好的👏❤️
Thanks for this. Ive been studying by myself for almost 2 years and I reached HSK3 and started HSK4. I didn't know some of the words you asked for at HSK4 level, but I was able to follow most of the HSK5 and 6 section. I guess my knowledge is fractioned and I need to go back to get HSK3 perfect and continue with HSK4?
ไม่รู้ว่าหล่าวซือจะอ่านไทยออกไหม เพราะหล่าวซือบอกอยู่กรุงเทพ แต่หล่าวซือสอนดีมากกก ออกเสียงชัด เข้าใจมากครับ
Hsk 1 - 2 Correct 1,2, 3,4 5
Well, I could only answer a couple of the grammar questions on the HSK 1 level, but I did learn a few more words from this test .... lol ... I'll come back when I have some more vocabulary under my belt ... lol ...
do you want a language exchange?I can teach you Chinese if you want😘
This video was good practice!
Thanks a bunch for the awesome content. I didn’t always follow curriculums and stuff like that I’ve learned in a less conventional way so sometimes even words from HSK4 I’m not the most familiar with yet as I’m doing 标准教程5上 HSK 5 book so many of the lessons are filled with words that I’m super familiar with already yet still learning a ton of new stuff, so it’s complicated… and this video helped me figure out where I need a lot of polishing and I found a ton of value in it and I actually spent a good chunk of time on this video and wrote answers to your questions you had for my own writing practice and maybe just to pick your brain as well :)
(I skipped to 6:16.) Wrote some notes ⬇️⬇️
Partially for myself, maybe anybody can see this and benefit or check it out.
Also a couple questions for you or anybody that can answer….
(Either way it boosts your engagement rate 😛)
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**3-4 Section
Got everything from 3-4 correct except for:
When you said 竞争 I said 商量 or 讨论 haha I think I misunderstood the direction you were going though 😛 i was thinking you meant more to collaborate with them so you can all be awesome 😂 thanks for teaching me 激烈 too I never heard that word but I know both characters from 强烈 etc and 刺激，激动，感激 so makes total sense
When you said 犹豫 I said 考虑 so I mean 考虑could also be correct but 犹豫 more specific with the slight negative connotation
For the 即使 example I thought:
即使我有钱，我还是不会买车的
Would this 还是不会….的 also work instead of 也不想 from a natives perspective? I felt like it confirms the situation even firmer but maybe it’s not as fluent.
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**For the answer part in 3-4 I’ll answer Q #2
如果后来翻译软件越来越准确，有可能学语言会没有现在重要。目前翻译软件已经很厉害啊，不过还有一些抽象的概念有点难以翻到其他语言。我觉得现在翻译者已经没有以前的重要，软件越来越可靠。可是，语言是一种总是改变的东西。所以为了保证软件的准确，需要一些非常努力的员工一直在网络上，在国家不同的地方等一直研究新的词汇，热词，方言，等等。肯定不会容易的。 尤其是中文，西班牙语，和英文…. 这些语言有很多母语者都在别的地方。大多数不同地方的人也不同意，那些slight nuances 和 俚语有什么不一样。所以，除非软件的员工可以每天都学习所有母语者的想法和意见，了解语言，文化，和世界还会比翻译软件好多了。 (forgive any mistakes lol)
it would take some serious weekly dedication from the developers. For example I think Pleco is the best Chinese dictionary app and I can count countless times where I ran across words not in Pleco or phrases that you can find the separate definitions on Pleco but you’d have to piece the meanings together yourself.
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5-6 got most right except for:
For the 内疚 / 惭愧 I didn’t fully understood where you were going with it but I did guess 内疚 and although I know the word 惭愧 it didn’t really occur to me, I even thought of the words 心痛 and 发愁 as I thought you were more emphasizing the worrying aspect 😋
Also for the 垄断 example can you say 包揽？ these words are pretty high level and I feel like there’s a lot of words to say this kind of meaning of controlling something and I don’t always understand the difference. I understand 垄断 to be more specific as monopolize but can you also use other words here like 控制 control, 把持 dominate, or 包揽 for example 包揽 can also mean to take full control over something or sweep the competition or win by a landslide right?
绑架 I did not know this word at all
咬牙切齿 did not know at all
不屑一顾 also did not know… when you acted it out the only word that came into my head was 装逼 hahaha
不可思议 I actually knew this one I feel like this is maybe not like a profound 成语 tho and more of a vocab or something idk it’s more common though so I’m not super proud of knowing this one haha
聚精会神 also didn’t know
For the videos with your friends
1.) She started talking about lunar new year spring festival and then said re record cuz she was overly bubbly I assume 😂 then said how you will go to the temple and worship, feast together. And then you called her out on her temple worship bluff hahaha.
I understood the first one at regular speed no problem but the 2nd video I literally had no clue what the heck your friend was talking about even on half speed but I know she’s talking about some article of clothing or something of that nature she gave to her sister who then gave it to her mom and the mom loved it and said next time there’s a discount to get her more ?
我在家里都是跟爸妈说中文的，看到这个视频我觉得肯定对我好简单， 到了HSK6我差不多都答对了，可是一开始考成语我就已经知道完蛋了哈哈一个都没答对 T-T
For asking the mom questions, here are mine:
1. 你儿子很可爱为什么？
2。你儿子多大了？
3。你为什么要去北京？
4。你今天怎么样，好吗？
5。你从哪儿？
谢谢你！❤
以前HSK五六级的篇目， 我非常高兴。加油⛽
我要哭😭在看看hsk6以后。
I can understand pretty much everything up to level 4 and small parts of 5-6
2:36 I think it also can be 潜水
Very good
me, a chinese person from china speaking chinese in my house and with friends: interesting
In the first dialogue... your friend was talking about how people in china go to temples to pray during the 1st day of the lunar year.
And on the 2nd dialogue.. I couldn't really follow thru everything she said... but I got the gist that she was talking about a discount sale for shoes I think...
Actually this video helps improve understanding. It's like a good lesson, not a test :)
I use "lao" to refer to myself with Chinese Friends. "Lao Fan" ,given my Chinese Name ( I am of European ancestry).
I have been learning Zhong Han for years...pinyin is not a problem, but remembering the vocabulary is a problem at my age.
The videos are very helpful; but I would only learn properly from a 6 month study visit to Qing Dao ( where my erzi went for a year at Qingdao Dazue. ).
Being in the country of the language one wishes to study is the best way to "immerse" oneself in the language.
Mingtian,
Lao Fan Shi De.
Surprisingly understood pretty much everything, even thought I'm born in Canada I guess my parents forcing me to learn Chinese comes in handy
哈咯shuoshuo老师，我刚才试试回答HSK5-HSK6的题。我发现我对你说的那些词都看懂，都认过了，不过有些词跟成语我不会用来造句。关于你和你朋友的对话，我可以听懂60-70%左右。谢谢你
第一段 ：今天是大年初一，是春季的第一天，中国人呢一般都会去庙岭拜一拜，然后大家。。。一起吃饭。- 真的吗？你在中国的时候去寺庙礼拜吗？
第二段：（这段有些词我听不清楚，不太懂，只懂大意而已）：他想买一双鞋给他的吗吗，他妈妈说坚决不要，她有超多鞋了。然后她买给了爸爸，爸爸说穿的舒服，说以后如果打折继续给他买
Yeah, I'm around Level 0.1. Even the basic stuff was hard to understand without subtitles. I really suck at this language.
2:15 As a beginner i fail to understand this English translation for:Nǐ hé nǐ de péngyǒu shuō shénme? What do you say to your friend? I thought "hé" means "and", like "you and/with your friend say?". Probably "hé" also means "to".
Shuo is really pretty but this is one of her prettiest looking videos
非常美丽，说！ 特别好看！
I bet she's in love that's not just make up making her eyes sparkle!
I am interested your teaching system..
made it until 15:03 😦
Is this using the new HSK standards?
what if your listening/speaking is HSK5-6 but writing/reading is....like... negative HSK1? Do you have any recommendations or classes to work on the writing/reading
很棒了。 多谢！❤
At 14:06, cáihóng is the wrong tone. It should be cǎihóng. Is Qīpiàn and Sāhuǎng interchangeable?
Great video! I'm between HSK3 and HSK4........ 汉字 is hard for me.
我想的是：我的家附近很“阴森/恐怖”。HSK5～6的那个问题，我想的是“喉结”，还在纳闷怎么会考这个词，是不是太难了😅😂😅😂
该如何找到老师所指之小组课了？
My level is around early HSK 5-6, perhaps? I kinda give up on 成语, however I fully understand the first video (it's about the first day of Chinese New Year) but kind of struggle to fully understand the second video (is it about buying shoes?) for some reason😆
If it's okay, Shuo Laoshi, could you please tell me where Friend 1 and Friend 2 are from? I'm wondering if it's because of the accent difference between them. It's just that during this process of learning Mandarin for some years now, I found out that I tend to understand certain accents better. Do you have any tips on this issue? Thank you!
You got the content of the videos right! And Friend 1 is from Inner Mongolia and Friend 2 is from Guangxi (but she spent many years in Beijing)
@@ShuoshuoChinese yay! I got them right😆 I'm quite struggling to understand Beijing accent but I'll practice harder! Thank you so much Shuo Laoshi, I hope in the future you could talk about this accent difference issue, I think it would be an interesting video! Have a great day🥰🥰
汉语水平一二，
左边的图片：爸爸跟孩子一起站着。
右边的图片：女人找到桌子下的男孩儿。
5个问题 (imagining they have a connecting flight from Beijing)：您的宝宝可爱啊，他今年几岁？他喜欢坐飞机吗？你坐飞机去哪里？您去越南旅行还是工作？您曾经去了越南吗?
After 2 years of studying and taking courses at the Confucius Institute, I can't even answer Level 1-2 🤣😅
如果永遠不可以去中國，還需要學中文嗎？
答案：我覺得還需要學中文因爲在工作的世界會說中文很重要可以打開很多機會
如果以後翻譯軟件可以很真人一樣，還需要學習語言嗎？
答案：還需要學習語言哦，因爲有一天翻譯軟件可以壞了 如果沒有學習語言然後翻譯軟件壞了那怎麽辦跟別人説話？
對了我現在在學習中文然後找到了你的視頻，我真的很喜歡你的視頻因爲真的很幫我練習我中文的聽力
I see sentences where Pinyin and Chinese characters are different (我去了公園).
Is it another way to test us or a mistake ? Haha
HSK 5-6 are really too high for me. We can feel when we become too tired while listening. But, i will try again later.
hi beautiful 说说 , which level I have to get for winning you?
Starting day one
Hsk2/3 description of pictures
今天我爸爸穿着绿色的衣服把我带过去
妈妈找到了儿子就说 “生日快乐！“
Hsk 3/4
Questions
你好。我能不能帮助你？
你的宝宝这么可爱。他叫什么名字？
她今年几岁?
你飞去哪里?
你来自哪个国家？
我的第一个表达问题的答案。。。
我觉得即使永远不能去中国学中文还有用。因为新代沟通技术让我们跟在全世界谁一个人联系。
我好像有点失忆。。我是HSK5上HSK3上HSK1。。都过了好久。。久到不记得时间了。。就好像昨天的事一样。。大家都还没变。。一样青春美丽。。像小孩想sotongball。。还像扫把头。。还有包子。。一样一样可爱。。一样不顾一切。。
3:52 you forgot to put qu between wo and le
Hello. Which part of China are you originally from? From what age did you live in China before moving to Bangkok?
Is 辆 always pronounced with light "l" instead of heavy "l"? Thank you.
这是桌子
很便宜
huh？ your friend come to your country and you're so glad what you say to your friend? Oh welcome got it
Are there still 600 words for HSK 3 or the system has changed? Please, can anyone tell me about it?
14:23 可以说 “后悔” 吗？
HSK1-HSK2
1. 桌子
2. 便宜
3. 欢迎
4. 游泳
5. 休息
6. 不
7. 天
8. 爸爸带妹妹去公园。/妈妈和弟弟正在玩捉迷藏。
9. 你们来自哪里？/去中国打算做什么？/你们只有两个人吗？/宝宝现在几岁了？/宝宝会不会坐了？
HSK3-HSK4
1. 安静
2. 相比
3. 照顾
4. 考虑
5. 说谎
6. 老师把书放在头上。/老师把书翻开。/老师把小黑介绍给我。
7. 即使我有很多很多的钱，我还是不想买车。
8. 随着时间的推移，她的中文有着很大的进步。
9. 还需要。因为有许多中国历史和中国文化是无法用其他语言来翻译，就算翻译得了，还是失去了历史和文化本身的意义和概念，所以当了解中国历史和中国文化时，学习中文还是非常重要。
10. 还需要。无论翻译软件有多好，还是代替不了人的大脑。虽然翻译软件有着很好的语法逻辑，但是不能像人一样有感情、表情、情绪等等。
HSK5-HSK6
1. 脖子/嗓子/喉咙
2. 彩虹
3. 内疚
4. 支配
5. 绑架
6. 气喘吁吁
7. 高傲自大
8. 出类拔萃(不太决定)
9. 一心一意/洗耳恭听
10. 第一段视频主要说了大年初一，就是春节的第一天，这时中国人去寺庙拜一拜，然后童年之间一起吃饭。
第二段视频主要说了买鞋的事情，本来想给妈妈买鞋，可是因为家里已经有很多鞋了，所以买给爸爸，穿得很舒服，就借给妈妈穿，妈妈也觉得舒服，最后让她下次打折的时候再买一双那款鞋。
真可谓妙趣横生，精简有力。样貌闭月羞花，气质醉人心脾。
After watching so much c drama , I could understand all the Q . It's just that idk what is the right word for some Q .
I’m illiterate and I know that but I’m taking this anyway 😅
The chinese version of english with lucy... HSK5 is generally within reach.
真好
第一个视频提到春节的第一天要去庙里拜一拜 ， 第二个是提到给爸爸买鞋😂
i understood everything in the hsk 5-6 but the sad part is i can't read any of it 😭
请问老师，用“随着”写下来这个句子也可以吗？......"随着时间他的中文水平提高得很多。"
可以，你也可以说“随着时间过去”
can teenagers also join to learn??