Jessie you are so natural, kind, and caring. If more people in the world were like you, we would not be on the verge of war in a dozen places around the world.
Your explanation of "weekdays" was very useful. I often see them interchanged and get confused. Also the mainland/taiwan pronunciation was informative, this has also been confusing me in listening exercises! 谢谢！
6:13 Many people who live near mountains start skiing early. Every single child in the part of my family that lives in eastern france started skiing at 3. 😁
Her parents are rich and she's from San Francisco. Apparently she was raised by her mother, hence her identity as being Chinese and wanting to represent China.
After watching Emma Raducanu, I was just wondering whether you'd also do Eileen Gu, so here we are! Eileen just won her second Olympic medal today, a silver. One more event to go.
Jessie I always believed a person cannot learn a language very well without spending a lot of time in the country, but you are the proof that I was wrong. I'm always so surprised at your level of proficiency (especially pronunciation) and your multiple accents (American, English, Australian) is so fun to hear!!!
As half south european and half north european, I'm jealous of the people, that learned both of the mother languages from a young age, whereas I did it after the age of 26 Nice gaming chair, I think I have the same or almost
This is the first view of your channel and I can tell that English is not your native language. However, your English is absolutely PERFECT! Congratulations on mastering two completely different difficult languages.
She is a native speaker of Chinese and has no Chinese American accent at all. You can even hear the Beijing accent. Her family background is so excellent that her grandparents are senior engineers in government agencies.
My grandma came to US in 1911. She spoke Cantonese to me. Sometimes English since she wanted me to treat American patients. When my family went to China on vacation the store clerks said your family speaks like village people. My dad told her grandparents were from village haha. My dad also stressed English because patients will feel better about their doctor if they understand him. He was right.
I am Indonesian and totally relate to this 🤣 Most of us whose ancestors left China before before/during WW2 came from rural areas. But this is nothing to be ashamed of. On the contrary, it reflects a whole other level of localness when ones accent can be pin pointed to a specific region. For example, speaking English in a standard newscaster-type American accent vs. speaking English with a Boston accent.
@@liongkienfai104 not so right to make a comparison between non standardise American accent and village Chinese accent.. Because there is no such term for village accent in American english.. But your point of locallness is right
I encountered sheng jian bao on my walk from the hotel to the subway station in Shanghai when I lived there for a few months. It wasn't bad, but certainly not my favourite; I got the liquid all over my jacket when I first bit into it. 6 years later and many washings, I still haven't been able to clean it completely! Also, too sweet for my liking, like a lot of Shanghai cuisine.
礼拜 sounds more southern as it literally means a religious ritual. The connotation probably was rooted in the influence of missionaries who came to China in the early days, landing in the south portal cities along the coast.
There is a fourth way of saying the days of the week that we use in Indonesia. That is 拜一 to 拜六 for Monday to Saturday, and Sunday/week being 禮拜. I've also heard this said in neighbouring Singapore. It's pretty similar to the 禮拜一 to 禮拜天 system, which we also use. We also use 星期 but this is a newer phenomenon. Mostly my generation uses it, while my grandparents' generation stick to 拜 / 禮拜, and my parent's generation are somewhere in between (depending how closely their ties to China are). We don't use 周. I only see 周 on digital applications on my phone/computer. I actually don't think we have a specific term for weekend, because this may be a relatively modern concept (and we are not really modern ha ha). Perhaps we may say 禮拜尾 but this is no longer Mandarin at this point.
her mum taught her well, i mean trying to pick up chinese while living in America ain't no EZ feat and she's speaking it at a native level too. Pretty sure her mum was the only person she could practice her chinese on.
@@cathaleenk8752 going to china every summer for a few weeks won't automatically improve your chinese and lets you speak at a native level.. if it was that easy, plenty of tourists would be speaking chinese fluently now..you do realize that there are plenty of foreigners in china who still speaks with an accent despite already staying in china for many years right?
I liked the pacing of the video. Beginning was critical but you just let her speak throughout. Didn’t know much about her until today. She’s quite amazing
"skiing at .. three" It's really common for professional athletes to start that early. I was on skates by 5. I think my first time on skates was at age 4. If you told me I was three I would be surprised, but not very. I don't mean on skates, I mean i was skating and learning how to skate backwards, not just forwards. I didn't turn into a professional athlete but people I know wound up at least in the OHL and I'm like 3 people removed from the NHL. The ones who don't go pro often wind up as referees and coaches. #generationwar
@@emotea597 thanks, I didn't know and am not surprised. I did not know that isn't mere prodigy. And yeah I was into at lest three languages by 5. I think it's partly cultural, partly familial?
@@QuizmasterLaw could be, I'm half Georgian half Taiwanese, but just sports and music in general start very very young. I live in Austria and the majority of boys here get send to play football as kids. I know if you want to be a professional you have to have started young, wether it's being eg a figure skater or pianist.
Interesting analysis. I didn't hear a 支 in place of 著. I don't think it was an obvious mistake or anything worth making a big deal about, especially since it's a truncated neutral tone particle at the end of the sentence.
O.K. Thanks for your analysis J. Ms. Gu has some nasty critics; here is my take on one of them. Recently Nikki Haley ex-governor of South Carolina (SC) and former US Representative at the United Nations (UN) trashed Olympic medalist Eileen Gu. Nikki Haley is a "no-body" in the world of Olympic or any sports. She is picking on an 18 year old who has just won 3 medals; 2 gold and 1 silver. Eileen earned $31.5 million in 2021 in product endorsements without any medals. Now in 2022 she has endorsed 30 products and will earn $75 Million ($2.5 per each). Nikki Haley was removed as ‘Representative’ at the UN because of her remark, "You are either with us or against us". She was threatening other countries to vote in a particular manner which is in illegal. Her removal was demanded by all 44 African nations who are members of the UN. She was summoned back to Washington and given the option to be fired or resign; she chose the latter to protect her pension and medical benefits. A little history on Nikki; she is no brainier but just a loose mouth. A former Governor of SC was caught in a scandal and resigned. Nikki was the Lt. Governor at the time and succeeded him as required by law. Since her forced departure from the UN, she has been mouthing off in SC ever since. Always trying to say something that will put her on the 6:00 p.m. daily TV News. Nikki is hopelessly ignorant of the IOC (International Olympic Committee) Rules. Hundreds of foreign athletes have participated for USA in the past and were not citizens. There is an approved procedure in place with IOC that allows such participation by all countries that compete in the games. The Olympic Games are conducted by the IOC and not the host country. It is ludicrous to politicize any athlete on grounds of human rights when your own country’s record is so very dismal; nothing more needs to be said here. Worse off to be called a traitor. How does one become a traitor by engaging in sports? OR maybe Nikki Haley wants to put on tights and get on a ski slope? It will be quite a sight; we will all get to see her Volkswagen Beetle size derriere. It is a size 54.
Eileen Gu's Mandarin is pretty standard, more less at the native speaker level. Her Mandarin even has some Beijingers flavor. Beijing locals speak relatively pretty fast. Some syllabus are not pronounced fully clear. That is so called "吃字" or "吞字". I was also born in Beijing so having similar speaking habit.
@@JKasasudpojsagskjdfhkjadhkh Yeah, just because the Taiwan government was nice enough to allow that, to maintain better diplomatic relations with China
It's great and all when you're young, hopeful and idealistic. Hopefully she won't lose sight of her reason and become bitter as she gets older, as she'll encounter lots of hate from certain people in both sides.
I have a lot of respect for Eileen for speaking real good Chinese but fact that she was born and raised and educated in the U.S and most of all she is half-white truly amazes me.
Might be inappropriate to say. But you are gorgeous!! (Love the braids) Anyway. 😅 Cool channel, would love to learn Mandarin (why I am here)... but I dunno; it seems so difficult. Especially for a English American speaker. We are so basic. Lol anywayX2; cool vid, cheers, & Jah bless pretty lady, if you even read this. 🤦😅🥴
Thank you Cody! A lot of English speakers have learned Mandarin from scratch and have done a great job, maybe the interview I had with the Canadian polyglot Steve Kaufmann can help you figure out where to start. ua-cam.com/video/UeYIZ-Rw5mI/v-deo.html It's a lot less intimidating once you start though. I believe in you! Wish you all the best.
Her Chinese is on point technically, but it occasionally has a rather subtle, staccato like nature that fades in and out, which I have noted happens to many people who lesrn Chinese as a nonprimary language. There is also a complete lack of any regional accent. Stylistically she sounds like a reporter 24/7. To me this shows that mentally her primary language is in fact English, not Chinese. But that is to be expected.
Yes, she can read and write. She can also reference a few sentences from ancient poems in her conversations. She uses Chinese media APPs like Weibo and Xiaohongshu. Her writing looks like mine, which is about middle school level. However, her Mandarin is so much better than mine. I was born and raised in China (until 12).
There was definitely a lot of controversy in America, and she wasn't the only American athlete to represent another nation in the Olympics. The Conservative "right wing" media here in the USA went on a tirade against the athletes who decided to represent China instead of America specifically.
It wasn't really a lot. The reality is, Americans don't really watch the Olympics much, especially the Winter Olympics, and they're overlapping this year with the Superbowl. The TV ratings for the Olympics in the US have been a disaster. Yes, there was so criticism on Twitter (but pretty much everything is a crisis on Twitter, pick a subject and you'll find nasty threads on it), and some nasty opinion shows on Fox News calling her a traitor, but most average people I talked two aren't even aware of who she is, or even anything about what's going on in the Olympics. Americans have a pretty narrow set of sports they're interested in: baseball, basketball, hockey, football (American football, not soccer). Pretty much everything else is mostly ignored except maybe Figure Skating (womens) in Winter, and Gymnastics (Summer). I'd say it has already disappeared from the news cycle and everyone's forgotten about it, as now the big story is Russian drug doping of figure skaters. I don't think Americans in general are as wrapped up in the medal race/race for gold as some other countries, and so Gu playing for China isn't going to be as controversial, as say a mainland Chinese athlete suddenly immigrating and playing for the US and winning a gold. Zhu Yi got a lot of hate because she a) doesn't speak Chinese well b) took the slot of Chinese figure skaters and c) worse of all, failed hard. Nathan Chen seems to get a lot of hate, to the point of seeing many Chinese online actively campaigning for Japanese figure skater Hanyu to win the gold, just so Chen loses, which seems quite amazing to me, given the usual anti-Japanese bias. But that's because Chen a) is cocky and b) has made statements critical of China. Gu so far is being smart. She is refusing to become a political pawn. She will undoubtedly be asked about Uyghurs and stuff and her response should always be "Look, I'm 18, I'm here to compete, ask someone who is an expert in international relations, why does my opinion on this matter?" The moment she gives an answer one way or another, she will become a political pawn and accused of either supporting US government propaganda or CCP government propaganda. Best to stay focused in her interviews and stay out of politics, and she is hoping for a successful career in endorsements and modeling in Asia, while at the same time going to Stanford in the US.
I respect your opinion on this issue, but it's important to recognize that a big portion of people, from my understanding, are critical of her because she was able to represent china while holding a dual citizenship, not simply because she chose to represent another country (I'm assuming she has dual citizenship because it seems there has been no proof of her giving up her American citizenship). Would this issue have been swept under the rug if she was representing another country? Maybe. But this is just how I am personally seeing this situation.
@@balkancherry6690 As someone who uses both Chinese and English media, most Chinese actually don’t care if she has dual citizenships. Like Eileen, Bruce Lee was also born in SF and a Eurasian (3/8 white), no Chinese would see him as a foreigner because Bruce Lee=Chinese Martial Art. To Chinese, even if you are only 1/16 Chinese as long as your heart is Chinese you are Chinese. Just my 2 cents 😀.
Three? I don't even remember that I was three (I assume I was). May I ask... I know that traditionally in China you are aged one at birth but don't you also gain a year at Spring Festival? So are you three at your next birthday? And then four next Spring Festival? What is the logic?
I'm Chinese but not from China. As far as I know, we start counting age 1 from the year of birth and accumulate as normal each birthday. This is based on the Lunar Calendar, not the Gregorian, mind you. I've never been told to add my age during this festive period, whenever asked for our "Lunar age" we just add 1. I'm guessing what you're referring to is the 7th Day of CNY aka Renri? Roughly translated as people's birthday. To put it simply, the story behind it is *kinda* like the 7 Days of Creation in the bible, but it doesn't add to our age. EDIT: So this question got me really curious and I checked with my mother. It's true that people do add another 1 year each Spring Festival, but only for specific cases. An example is my late father who was born in the 12th Lunar month. Anyone born in the around the time just before Spring Festival will get an additional year in their age every year. Sorry but I can't give you the logic of it LOL, my old lady can't answer it and just shrug, "it's complicated like that, that's why no one likes calculating Lunar age like that anymore". I don't even accumulate his age like that when writing his Chinese age on his burning paper for Qing Ming Festival. So yea, you can get added 2 years each year if you're born just before Spring Festival.
I think this Olympics brought up a lot of poignant issues. About Chinese fans American fans it's for immigrants of first or second or third generations it's really poignant. There are Korean Americans at our school and they don't know if they go to Koreans or they go to Americans, and it's the same thing. I'm at church on Sundays, language school on Saturdays but during the week not to say hi in school. We kind of segregate one on the other. And still here again we saw it during the olympics. You were born and raised in America or going back to another base, I was born in Korea and I don't think it's any different. Where you feel at home. Or if you have those sponsorships and they like you, it's like anywhere else. I was getting paid and everything in Korea and the one that beat me up was a filipino. So I wish I knew that. But all in all it's a lot of issues. To think about.
Sure, filler words are nearly subconscious, one does not actively try to use filler words. When I was teaching ESL, hearing one of my Chinese students in Chengdu start to use English filler words, made me so happy; almost as much as hearing my students talk to their classmates in English!
@@John77Doe Well, I think it just takes more conscious thought to translate from your L1 to L2, and more effort, though some people can do it very quickly. But once you start using filler words in a language that you are learning, part of your brain is thinking in your L2 without your conscious effort, and that is something all language learners aspire to, imo.
Actually, Eileen Go definitely does not neither love or hate America or China. The reason of why Eileen Gu works for communist China : MONEY ! She is not a traitor nor a hero. Ordinally , she is just a spoiled girl who loves money than anything else. By contracting with many famous Chinese stores in China after agreeing to representing China in Olympics , Eileen now is a 18 year old millionaire taking more than $31 millions from Chinese stores after this game ended . I hope she will bring money back to the US as she still wishes to take advantage of being a US citizen. But she is exploited by the communist for their propaganda. She is selling herself to Chinese for money only, not because she loves communist. But she harms the Uyghurs ethnic and freedom in China.
sure you can pick on her mispronunciation.... same as i can pick on your Cantonese pronunciation.... Chinese is not her first language.... just give her a break willya
06:16 "And she started skiing when she was three? I was playing with mud when I was three". Jessie, you just crack me up.... So funny! 😅🤣😂
And her facial expression nailed it. I could picture tiny baby Jessie with muddy hands.
:) IKR but I bet she still thinks she playing... just in snow not mud.
Playing with mud at age three is developmentally appropriate vs. forcing a child into elitist games for the parents ego
Damn! Eileen's Chinese is actually really freaking on point.
pronunciation is better than most Chinese over 35.
@@kellyliu1210 Even mainland native ones'???
her mum is a native Chinese who raised her alone . Why would it be a surprise?
mandarin*
@@KishorTwist yes, most people(especially over 40) speak standard mandarin with a local accent.
Jessie you are so natural, kind, and caring. If more people in the world were like you, we would not be on the verge of war in a dozen places around the world.
Your explanation of "weekdays" was very useful. I often see them interchanged and get confused. Also the mainland/taiwan pronunciation was informative, this has also been confusing me in listening exercises! 谢谢！
I've never heard "qi" on the flat tone ever
Completely alien to my ears
@@babyshaya its everywhere
6:13 Many people who live near mountains start skiing early.
Every single child in the part of my family that lives in eastern france started skiing at 3. 😁
Her parents are rich and she's from San Francisco. Apparently she was raised by her mother, hence her identity as being Chinese and wanting to represent China.
Eileen is inspirational, but so are you Jessie. You inspire me to keep studying chinese!
She made millions selling out. That’s not inspirational.
After watching Emma Raducanu, I was just wondering whether you'd also do Eileen Gu, so here we are! Eileen just won her second Olympic medal today, a silver. One more event to go.
Jessie I always believed a person cannot learn a language very well without spending a lot of time in the country, but you are the proof that I was wrong. I'm always so surprised at your level of proficiency (especially pronunciation) and your multiple accents (American, English, Australian) is so fun to hear!!!
Jessie, I always love your videos. Eileen's Mandarin is quite impressive.
your videos are extremely well made. you are a fantastic teacher. great channel!!!
You’re both beautiful and talented young ladies. Thanks for sharing your insight regarding her Chinese. Wish I spoke Chinese. I really admire China.
As half south european and half north european, I'm jealous of the people, that learned both of the mother languages from a young age, whereas I did it after the age of 26
Nice gaming chair, I think I have the same or almost
This is the first view of your channel and I can tell that English is not your native language. However, your English is absolutely PERFECT! Congratulations on mastering two completely different difficult languages.
lol she doesn't need you to tell her that
@@monroncoupe6700 sad comment
Credit her mom, intelligent and a great Mother.
Thanks!
I love you're channel, I'm glad I found it, your explanations are really clear
10:07 Anybody notice that the background music was "Imagine"? "Imagine there's no countries
, it isn't hard to do." Perfect fit!
I feel you on the sports things lol and thanks for explaining the words for the days of the week! Super helpful
I will recommend my foreign friends how want to learn Chinese to visit this channel, just because this teacher is so cute and pretty 😍💗🌹🌹🌹
She is a native speaker of Chinese and has no Chinese American accent at all. You can even hear the Beijing accent. Her family background is so excellent that her grandparents are senior engineers in government agencies.
Inspiring indeed ;) I loved that bit at the end, Thanks for you video.
My grandma came to US in 1911. She spoke Cantonese to me. Sometimes English since she wanted me to treat American patients. When my family went to China on vacation the store clerks said your family speaks like village people. My dad told her grandparents were from village haha. My dad also stressed English because patients will feel better about their doctor if they understand him. He was right.
I am Indonesian and totally relate to this 🤣
Most of us whose ancestors left China before before/during WW2 came from rural areas.
But this is nothing to be ashamed of. On the contrary, it reflects a whole other level of localness when ones accent can be pin pointed to a specific region. For example, speaking English in a standard newscaster-type American accent vs. speaking English with a Boston accent.
@@liongkienfai104 not so right to make a comparison between non standardise American accent and village Chinese accent.. Because there is no such term for village accent in American english.. But your point of locallness is right
because cantonese is very different from mandarin
Those braids are cute!! Thanks for making this video.
Id love to learn Mandarin but damn it's daunting for an English language speaker. Beautiful to listen to anyway, even If I can't understand it :)
@Helehelexx ____ daunting isn't really that rare in casual convo, tbh.
@Helehelexx ____ are you chinese
@Helehelexx ____ and yes it 'daunting' is a pretty colloquial term...
@Helehelexx ____ ok
I love Eileen Gu too! I have a long history of being part Chinese. I'll share some pictures and original music soon.
I encountered sheng jian bao on my walk from the hotel to the subway station in Shanghai when I lived there for a few months. It wasn't bad, but certainly not my favourite; I got the liquid all over my jacket when I first bit into it. 6 years later and many washings, I still haven't been able to clean it completely! Also, too sweet for my liking, like a lot of Shanghai cuisine.
Sweet shengjianbao? Hmmm. U might got scammed. 😂
礼拜 sounds more southern as it literally means a religious ritual. The connotation probably was rooted in the influence of missionaries who came to China in the early days, landing in the south portal cities along the coast.
Your English is absolutely flawless.
Accurate and respectful. Jessie 做得很好！
There is a fourth way of saying the days of the week that we use in Indonesia. That is 拜一 to 拜六 for Monday to Saturday, and Sunday/week being 禮拜. I've also heard this said in neighbouring Singapore. It's pretty similar to the 禮拜一 to 禮拜天 system, which we also use.
We also use 星期 but this is a newer phenomenon. Mostly my generation uses it, while my grandparents' generation stick to 拜 / 禮拜, and my parent's generation are somewhere in between (depending how closely their ties to China are).
We don't use 周. I only see 周 on digital applications on my phone/computer.
I actually don't think we have a specific term for weekend, because this may be a relatively modern concept (and we are not really modern ha ha). Perhaps we may say 禮拜尾 but this is no longer Mandarin at this point.
七天制，本来就是源于西方！
礼拜的说法和西方基督教有关；
星期的说法应该是中国为去基督教文化影响自创的；
周是循环的意思，比说星期简单些；
现在中国大陆稍微正式一点的书面通知，都不会用里拜两字，星期用的多一些，周也会出现。
In Malaysia, we just use the word "weekend" or 星期六星期天 or 拜六礼拜
正解
her mum taught her well, i mean trying to pick up chinese while living in America ain't no EZ feat and she's speaking it at a native level too. Pretty sure her mum was the only person she could practice her chinese on.
No...she went to China every summer
@@cathaleenk8752 going to china every summer for a few weeks won't automatically improve your chinese and lets you speak at a native level.. if it was that easy, plenty of tourists would be speaking chinese fluently now..you do realize that there are plenty of foreigners in china who still speaks with an accent despite already staying in china for many years right?
There are lot of chances to speak chinese here too.
And her moms chinese
Ailing is a Virgo, perfectionist.
Great teaching skills Jessie。 祝贺你啊!
Eileen Gu is great athlete and uniquely beautiful! Congratulations to her and China! Thanks for the reaction.
You still have a very low social credit score. 🤣🤣🤣
@@sambowz9077 You have a low FICO score. Go collect more debt before you can go into more debt.
@@uncleho1945 🤣🤣🤣
I liked the pacing of the video. Beginning was critical but you just let her speak throughout. Didn’t know much about her until today. She’s quite amazing
Thank you, enjoyed your video! Yes, I hit the LIKE and Subscribe!
"skiing at .. three"
It's really common for professional athletes to start that early. I was on skates by 5. I think my first time on skates was at age 4. If you told me I was three I would be surprised, but not very.
I don't mean on skates, I mean i was skating and learning how to skate backwards, not just forwards. I didn't turn into a professional athlete but people I know wound up at least in the OHL and I'm like 3 people removed from the NHL. The ones who don't go pro often wind up as referees and coaches. #generationwar
One Chinese baby is snowboarding at 11 months old! And the baby is already a gold metalist!
Same with classical musicians, my sister is a violinist and started at the age of four, already winning competitions at 6yo
@@emotea597 thanks, I didn't know and am not surprised. I did not know that isn't mere prodigy. And yeah I was into at lest three languages by 5. I think it's partly cultural, partly familial?
@@QuizmasterLaw could be, I'm half Georgian half Taiwanese, but just sports and music in general start very very young. I live in Austria and the majority of boys here get send to play football as kids. I know if you want to be a professional you have to have started young, wether it's being eg a figure skater or pianist.
@@emotea597 I'm psychic here's the proof
you speak English German Chinese Russian and Georgian. Maybe also Ukrainian Canto and/or Hokkien
Interesting analysis. I didn't hear a 支 in place of 著. I don't think it was an obvious mistake or anything worth making a big deal about, especially since it's a truncated neutral tone particle at the end of the sentence.
Her way of making money is amazing Chinese language and identity are just one of the tools she uses, I want to learn how to make money.
Chinese with Jessie, you make my heart melt. In Chinese.
O.K. Thanks for your analysis J.
Ms. Gu has some nasty critics; here is my take on one of them.
Recently Nikki Haley ex-governor of South Carolina (SC) and former US Representative at the United Nations (UN) trashed Olympic medalist Eileen Gu.
Nikki Haley is a "no-body" in the world of Olympic or any sports.
She is picking on an 18 year old who has just won 3 medals; 2 gold and 1 silver.
Eileen earned $31.5 million in 2021 in product endorsements without any medals.
Now in 2022 she has endorsed 30 products and will earn $75 Million ($2.5 per each).
Nikki Haley was removed as ‘Representative’ at the UN because of her remark, "You are either with us or against us". She was threatening other countries to vote in a particular manner which is in illegal. Her removal was demanded by all 44 African nations who are members of the UN. She was summoned back to Washington and given the option to be fired or resign; she chose the latter to protect her pension and medical benefits.
A little history on Nikki; she is no brainier but just a loose mouth.
A former Governor of SC was caught in a scandal and resigned.
Nikki was the Lt. Governor at the time and succeeded him as required by law.
Since her forced departure from the UN, she has been mouthing off in SC ever since.
Always trying to say something that will put her on the 6:00 p.m. daily TV News.
Nikki is hopelessly ignorant of the IOC (International Olympic Committee) Rules.
Hundreds of foreign athletes have participated for USA in the past and were not citizens. There is an approved procedure in place with IOC that allows such participation by all countries that compete in the games.
The Olympic Games are conducted by the IOC and not the host country.
It is ludicrous to politicize any athlete on grounds of human rights when your own country’s record is so very dismal; nothing more needs to be said here.
Worse off to be called a traitor. How does one become a traitor by engaging in sports?
OR maybe Nikki Haley wants to put on tights and get on a ski slope?
It will be quite a sight; we will all get to see her Volkswagen Beetle size derriere.
It is a size 54.
your hair is so cool
Eileen Gu's Mandarin is pretty standard, more less at the native speaker level. Her Mandarin even has some Beijingers flavor. Beijing locals speak relatively pretty fast. Some syllabus are not pronounced fully clear. That is so called "吃字" or "吞字". I was also born in Beijing so having similar speaking habit.
Another channel, and found you again...
Btw.. Taiwan is a fully independent country 😜
@@sasino Dream on. I will take a pretty nice speed train to Taipei from Shenzen without stamping my passport. Mark my words.
@@JKasasudpojsagskjdfhkjadhkh Yeah, just because the Taiwan government was nice enough to allow that, to maintain better diplomatic relations with China
4:20 she learned her Chinese at a turkey dinner! (火鸡)
It's great and all when you're young, hopeful and idealistic. Hopefully she won't lose sight of her reason and become bitter as she gets older, as she'll encounter lots of hate from certain people in both sides.
She's so cool 😭
南方人也说 “星期日” for Sunday.
北方人也說禮拜日/星期日/週日
Your channel is very good.
I have a lot of respect for Eileen for speaking real good Chinese but
fact that she was born and raised and educated in the U.S and most of all
she is half-white truly amazes me.
Genetically. But her upbringing appears to be very Chinese.
She is not half white. Why does everyone assume this?
whoaaa that's my girl!
If I was an entrepreneur in the West and had an opportunity to learn a foreign language, it would certainly be Mandarin.
Doesn't 周日 also means weekday?
Weekday is 工作日
I used italki like 5 years ago, i want sure if they still existed
Singapore loves Eileen Gu
JESsiE !
I believe she speak/write both English and Mandrin from baby.
Her Chinese is pretty solid. The only criticism I can give her is her accent.
Might be inappropriate to say. But you are gorgeous!! (Love the braids) Anyway. 😅 Cool channel, would love to learn Mandarin (why I am here)... but I dunno; it seems so difficult. Especially for a English American speaker. We are so basic. Lol anywayX2; cool vid, cheers, & Jah bless pretty lady, if you even read this. 🤦😅🥴
Thank you Cody! A lot of English speakers have learned Mandarin from scratch and have done a great job, maybe the interview I had with the Canadian polyglot Steve Kaufmann can help you figure out where to start. ua-cam.com/video/UeYIZ-Rw5mI/v-deo.html
It's a lot less intimidating once you start though. I believe in you! Wish you all the best.
What about 星期日？
Her Chinese is on point technically, but it occasionally has a rather subtle, staccato like nature that fades in and out, which I have noted happens to many people who lesrn Chinese as a nonprimary language. There is also a complete lack of any regional accent. Stylistically she sounds like a reporter 24/7. To me this shows that mentally her primary language is in fact English, not Chinese. But that is to be expected.
Who speaks better Chinese, Emma Raducanu or Eileen Gu ?
Yeah, I must agree that she is speaking VERY well.
我也同意她的中文说的挺流利。我希望她一定会继续学习汉语，而且完全不放弃学习。
My Chinese is native, but my English is so so. Can you teach me standard spoken English ? 💘❤
Come to Minnesota and you definitely can learn to speak American English with a Midwest accent! Greetings from sunny northwestern Minnesota 🌞
Why are people surprised she can speak mandarin? she has a chinese mother and no father.
Gu Aileen english competent at best !
We are all the same being.
Ailing mandarin are native.
Awesome. Bet you never heard of Aventurina King.
i think she said 'zher' with the beijing accent
I wonder if Eileen can read Chinese. As she says she never went to school for it.
I think she can，because she went to a cram school（高思） in Beijing during the summer vacation to study math and so on
Yes, she can read and write. She can also reference a few sentences from ancient poems in her conversations. She uses Chinese media APPs like Weibo and Xiaohongshu. Her writing looks like mine, which is about middle school level. However, her Mandarin is so much better than mine. I was born and raised in China (until 12).
Excellent Mandarin in strong Beijing accent
somehow I always know i was born at the year of a rabbit. ive known this since I was little and Im not even chinese. weird
Nice video.
Omg your so cute!!!!!
Who are juu
There was definitely a lot of controversy in America, and she wasn't the only American athlete to represent another nation in the Olympics. The Conservative "right wing" media here in the USA went on a tirade against the athletes who decided to represent China instead of America specifically.
It wasn't really a lot. The reality is, Americans don't really watch the Olympics much, especially the Winter Olympics, and they're overlapping this year with the Superbowl. The TV ratings for the Olympics in the US have been a disaster.
Yes, there was so criticism on Twitter (but pretty much everything is a crisis on Twitter, pick a subject and you'll find nasty threads on it), and some nasty opinion shows on Fox News calling her a traitor, but most average people I talked two aren't even aware of who she is, or even anything about what's going on in the Olympics.
Americans have a pretty narrow set of sports they're interested in: baseball, basketball, hockey, football (American football, not soccer). Pretty much everything else is mostly ignored except maybe Figure Skating (womens) in Winter, and Gymnastics (Summer).
I'd say it has already disappeared from the news cycle and everyone's forgotten about it, as now the big story is Russian drug doping of figure skaters.
I don't think Americans in general are as wrapped up in the medal race/race for gold as some other countries, and so Gu playing for China isn't going to be as controversial, as say a mainland Chinese athlete suddenly immigrating and playing for the US and winning a gold.
Zhu Yi got a lot of hate because she a) doesn't speak Chinese well b) took the slot of Chinese figure skaters and c) worse of all, failed hard.
Nathan Chen seems to get a lot of hate, to the point of seeing many Chinese online actively campaigning for Japanese figure skater Hanyu to win the gold, just so Chen loses, which seems quite amazing to me, given the usual anti-Japanese bias. But that's because Chen a) is cocky and b) has made statements critical of China.
Gu so far is being smart. She is refusing to become a political pawn. She will undoubtedly be asked about Uyghurs and stuff and her response should always be "Look, I'm 18, I'm here to compete, ask someone who is an expert in international relations, why does my opinion on this matter?" The moment she gives an answer one way or another, she will become a political pawn and accused of either supporting US government propaganda or CCP government propaganda. Best to stay focused in her interviews and stay out of politics, and she is hoping for a successful career in endorsements and modeling in Asia, while at the same time going to Stanford in the US.
I respect your opinion on this issue, but it's important to recognize that a big portion of people, from my understanding, are critical of her because she was able to represent china while holding a dual citizenship, not simply because she chose to represent another country (I'm assuming she has dual citizenship because it seems there has been no proof of her giving up her American citizenship). Would this issue have been swept under the rug if she was representing another country? Maybe. But this is just how I am personally seeing this situation.
@@balkancherry6690 As someone who uses both Chinese and English media, most Chinese actually don’t care if she has dual citizenships. Like Eileen, Bruce Lee was also born in SF and a Eurasian (3/8 white), no Chinese would see him as a foreigner because Bruce Lee=Chinese Martial Art. To Chinese, even if you are only 1/16 Chinese as long as your heart is Chinese you are Chinese. Just my 2 cents 😀.
Can you react to Kevin Tran chinese
is that going to make people's ears bleed ? haha i don't know who kevin tran is
@@blueskiies He is a French youtuber, he can speak chinese fluently
Three? I don't even remember that I was three (I assume I was). May I ask... I know that traditionally in China you are aged one at birth but don't you also gain a year at Spring Festival? So are you three at your next birthday? And then four next Spring Festival? What is the logic?
I'm Chinese but not from China. As far as I know, we start counting age 1 from the year of birth and accumulate as normal each birthday. This is based on the Lunar Calendar, not the Gregorian, mind you. I've never been told to add my age during this festive period, whenever asked for our "Lunar age" we just add 1. I'm guessing what you're referring to is the 7th Day of CNY aka Renri? Roughly translated as people's birthday. To put it simply, the story behind it is *kinda* like the 7 Days of Creation in the bible, but it doesn't add to our age.
EDIT: So this question got me really curious and I checked with my mother. It's true that people do add another 1 year each Spring Festival, but only for specific cases. An example is my late father who was born in the 12th Lunar month. Anyone born in the around the time just before Spring Festival will get an additional year in their age every year. Sorry but I can't give you the logic of it LOL, my old lady can't answer it and just shrug, "it's complicated like that, that's why no one likes calculating Lunar age like that anymore". I don't even accumulate his age like that when writing his Chinese age on his burning paper for Qing Ming Festival. So yea, you can get added 2 years each year if you're born just before Spring Festival.
@@sususegar Thank you. Very interesting. And a little baffling. 😁😁
@@davidsanders5652 Well thank you for the question, I never knew this too!
I think this Olympics brought up a lot of poignant issues. About Chinese fans American fans it's for immigrants of first or second or third generations it's really poignant. There are Korean Americans at our school and they don't know if they go to Koreans or they go to Americans, and it's the same thing. I'm at church on Sundays, language school on Saturdays but during the week not to say hi in school. We kind of segregate one on the other. And still here again we saw it during the olympics. You were born and raised in America or going back to another base, I was born in Korea and I don't think it's any different. Where you feel at home. Or if you have those sponsorships and they like you, it's like anywhere else. I was getting paid and everything in Korea and the one that beat me up was a filipino. So I wish I knew that. But all in all it's a lot of issues. To think about.
哈哈哈哈哈你好可爱
不过我讨厌谷爱凌，她拿着中美双国籍，还在媒体发布会说：我在中国的时候是中国人，在美国的时候是美国人。甚至还在跟网友说：你可以在软件商店下载vpn，他们都是免费的。
感觉谷爱凌拿尽了便宜，而且还好做作，恶心啊
IQ1450
I don’t see what’s wrong with her use of the word “zhe” which you didnt explain why you highlighted it.
strong tw accent
Never heard of her
She inspires many young Americans as well!
You can tell if someone is thinking in Chinese from the filler words?? 😧😧😧😧😧😧😧
Sure, filler words are nearly subconscious, one does not actively try to use filler words. When I was teaching ESL, hearing one of my Chinese students in Chengdu start to use English filler words, made me so happy; almost as much as hearing my students talk to their classmates in English!
@@Daniel73-51 I did not realize that. 😬😬😬😬
@@John77Doe Well, I think it just takes more conscious thought to translate from your L1 to L2, and more effort, though some people can do it very quickly. But once you start using filler words in a language that you are learning, part of your brain is thinking in your L2 without your conscious effort, and that is something all language learners aspire to, imo.
Cantonese is also Chinese
我说拜一、拜二、拜三。。。😅
How do you say "Sell out" in Mandarin?
Sheeeeesh....
@@_my_insomnia_blink562 Imagine if the American Jesse Owens ran for the Nazis in 1936...
Just wait till you learn Cantonese.
Keep her. We don’t want her back. She got all the sponsors she needed at the hunger games.
一个美国人分享一首对谷爱凌的同情之歌
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damm I thought gu was 28
@Starhawk Flying Bright 😂
Actually, Eileen Go definitely does not neither love or hate America or China. The reason of why Eileen Gu works for communist China : MONEY ! She is not a traitor nor a hero. Ordinally , she is just a spoiled girl who loves money than anything else. By contracting with many famous Chinese stores in China after agreeing to representing China in Olympics , Eileen now is a 18 year old millionaire taking more than $31 millions from Chinese stores after this game ended .
I hope she will bring money back to the US as she still wishes to take advantage of being a US citizen. But she is exploited by the communist for their propaganda. She is selling herself to Chinese for money only, not because she loves communist. But she harms the Uyghurs ethnic and freedom in China.
strong er-hua.
She is a native Mandarin speaker. What is the point of rating her pronunciation 🤦♀️
sure you can pick on her mispronunciation.... same as i can pick on your Cantonese pronunciation.... Chinese is not her first language.... just give her a break willya
Like most Chinese in America, we learn Chinese first and learn English when we start ed preschool usually at 3.
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It is a no brainer to choose to represent China over USA.
ofc, her mother is beijinger... right?