Learn Chinese With Chinese TV Series and Movies - Not Those Boring/Dramatic Ones!
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Many students have asked me to recommend Chinese TV series and Movies to improve their Chinese learning level. But the problem is most of the Chinese drama are a bit boring and too dramatic that you won't have the motivation to keep watching. In this video, I have recommended three relatively new Chinese TV series that are actually really FUN to watch, so you can practice listening and know more about Chinese culture as well as having fun watching the show.
These three shows are:
0:52《欢乐颂 Ode to Joy》
1:49《三十而已 Nothing But Thirty》
3:29《都挺好 All Is Well》
And
4:29 《爱情公寓 I Apartment 》
IS a bit old and I personally think it's not THAT much fun, but as I explained in the video, it's a perfect movie for you to learn Chinese.
5:39 《泰囧 Lost in Thailand》
can be easily found on TH-cam with English and Chinese subtitles, and it's quite funny too.
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I am only HSK 3-4, but I enjoy watching (TH-camd) TV drama series with subtitles in both languages. My favorites include historical dramas (Nothing Gold Can Stay, The Imperial Coroner) and modern dramas (Be Yourself, Walk Into your Memory, I don't want to be Friends with You). I also listen to (or read) "my level" things, but "my level" gets boring and language learning takes a long time. The TV dramas keep me interested. It seems like many TV dramas have female main characters, with males in important roles -- usually very powerful men (super-rich CEOs in modern shows, princes and emperors in old shows).
thank you so much! just what I've been needed a lot
and thanks to the commentators updating the list of the series :)
Exactly what I was looking for, thank you for this! Also perfect that many of them are available on TH-cam with dual subtitles. 谢谢！
I've been watching All is Well recently at the recommendation of a friend and it's so good!
Thank you! ,谢谢。i was looking for a series to watch that wasn't set in ancient china. So this helps tremendously 👌🏾👌🏾
"Ode to joy" is one of my faves (I really hope for a s3) so I have to look up the other two series in the same genre you recomended!
thank you so much for the recommendations!
Only watched one. Thanks for more recommendations 🙏🏼
Wow! Thank you so much shuo all is well is the best show I watch currently
Thanks a lot! I will definitely watch them all! Btw, your Chinese pronunciation is so clear and understandable; I think that is what makes you unique! 加油 :）
P.S:- It's fun to watch and learn from your videos.
Yeah, I have to agree, this is one of your best. Hope it blows up. Unfortunately it is probably a tad too advanced for the algo to push it that hard, but fingers crossed nonetheless. Your editing skills are on point!
Shuo, you could be a star in any of the films you recommended!
Thank you! It's really helpful!
谢谢老师给我们推荐一些适合很有效的学习中文的电视剧和电影。
This is one of your very best episodes! The format is excellent. I used it for review of hanzi and also for pronunciation practice. It's spoken a bit slower than normal Chinese, but it makes this video PERFECT for shadowing speech and also for beginners. I guess it's around HSK3? Regarding the topic I'm unsure how China will move from 重男轻女 I also don't know if these videos will interest me/men generally though thank so much I guess I will try with thirty something 三十而． 谢谢！
youtuuu.tokyo/watch?v=oh8BdbzYEIf
I totally agree
I fell in love with 三十而已 and I've watched it many times, maybe not all the actors are super clear when they speak but it's a mix of strong emotions and perfect for learning a ton of Chinese expressions... I'll check the other ones 👌🏻
Same!
me to.
Thank you for this recommendation. I watched all the drama because of your comment and learned a lot
Thanks so much for including the characters here because at this stage in my learning all I can do is try to say the words into my phone’s mic & hope it writes them down, which is pretty hit or miss. Anyways, thanks!
I saw "Meteor Garden" and quite liked it. (on Netflix)
xiexie laoshi! I've been meaning to watch Ode to Joy for a while now, and this is probably the last push i needed!
在油管上最好的教中文的频道👍
Wow! Can't wait to watch these movies later😃👍🌸
老师，非常感谢
我真喜欢你只说中文的录像。谢谢那些推荐，我肯定要看一下
actually keeping the Characters and PinYin bellow next to each other would really help...
i dont have to words to describe your lovely hard work in teaching method nice way clear and easy to undestand. each and every video of your has numerous and invaluable lesson thanks a lot for your efforts.i appreciate the methods you use.keep up the good work
xiexie laoshi
xiexie laoshi
I am watching "都挺好“ and really like Su Ming Yu. Also, Suzhou city is very nice
我在看”欢乐颂”，第二季快看完了，觉得这部电视剧真的很好看👍
谢谢老师 ♡
这里，在斯里兰卡我看过《欢乐颂》的僧加罗语配音版！ 好看好看。所以呢，我搜索了这个因为我要提高我的中文！我觉得《欢乐颂》电视剧里中文不那么难！我会听懂！
我真是太谢谢你了！这些电视剧和电影很有意思的！
最好不要说“我真是太谢谢你了”这句话😂。这句话是用来嘲讽别人的
@@89hyyy56 咦！真的吗😂！那我怎么表示感谢呢？
Recently I've also found some Chinese movies or shows to improve my Chinese but you know the content is a kind of too romantic and unrealistic. So lucky as watching your video today, thank you for sharing
Can you share the movie name ?? 😢
Gracias 谢谢！
There is also a really great drama called The Rational Life that fits the same category as the other three 😊
Yesss I was looking for a mention of this show it's amazing
The Rational Life is both relatable and empowering for women
谢谢你。 你推荐电影中， 我看了三电影。 这些电影很好。 我看了多遍。我想找多电影。 我很高兴你推荐了。 我会看。 谢谢你！ 😍
I’ve recently saw 我是真的爱你。The plot in my opinion is very unusual as for Chinese production. It tells a story about the woman who is in love with her work and decided not to have kids and how the society treats her because of the choice she’s made. Also one of the main problems that are highlighted is the poor treatment of women in the workplace
我也最近看到这个电视节目。我认为挺好的！
我期待你的下一个视频
Currently obsessed with Legend of Zhen Huan but yeah the language and culture points are super advanced. Half of it is subtitled on YT but I had to kind of gloss over the literary portions in the latter half lol also idk how useful it would be for language learners because I don't think anyone speaks like that anymore. But still such a good drama!!
Do you have any other historical cdrama recommendations? (:
I loved Legend of Zhen Huan
谢谢你推荐！还有，通过“陈情令”也学到很多的中文。我的听力和说话（？）能力都提高了很多。再说，是很有意思的电视剧。所以我想给大家推荐。:)
Thanks for the recommendations! Also, I learned a lot of Chinese through The Untamed. My listening and speaking skills improved a lot. And it's really interesting. So I want to recommend it to everyone. :)
~:~
表达能力
can you pls make a video on common expressions like ruguo bla bla de hua, etc.
I really enjoy iPartment 爱情公寓! But I don't know where you can watch the first two seasons with English subtitles, why is that? Does anyone know where to watch it?
“都挺好” 这部电视剧我已经看完了，我非常喜欢这种电视剧，心疼明玉😢。我在腾讯视频上刷到了“三十而已”不过还没看😂
可以看看哦
youtuuu.tokyo/watch?v=gvbQ4UKtFA7
My girlfriend made me watch all 76 episodes of 甄嬛传, what an amazing show!!
感谢你，我漂亮的老师
I love movies like Lost, Found. There was another about a cop investigating brothers who had murdered a family in Fujian but I can't remember the name, do you know it?
TV shows, I liked Weizhuangzhe 伪装者 and 长安十二时辰 - although the latter is probably not ideal for learning Chinese!
I've really been liking this show on Netflix called Two Fathers c:
I tried so hard to watch that. Forced myself to watch about 20 episodes. The music and storylines seemed too corny. How far are you into it? I liked the characters though
I love this format: Hanzi at the top, pinyin and translation below but far enough away from the Hanzi so I can't peak and can first try to understand what you're saying by reading the characters. Xiexieee :)
I'd recommend the untamed lol🙊😂
I love these suggestions, especially Ode to Joy. I know there is 0 chance of a show like 'Queer as Folk' or 'Looking' existing in the mainland since LBGT is still an awkward topic, so the closest I can get is learning how the women in 'Ode to Joy' deal with these situations. It makes me curious if there are any similar to this with male protagonists (that are respectful, of course.)
There are a number of chinese dramas out there that are marketed as a close friendship story between males (but you can totally tell their relationship goes deeper than just "friendship" 🤭)
Some examples : The Untamed, Kiler and Healer, Word of Honor, My Roommate is a Detective
@@LyxYun Thank you so much. I will check them out today!
But the problem is: you look for ode to joy here in TH-cam and they're subtitled like the firts 10 chapters after that they're not
Tiger Mom was very good. Americans can find this TV series on Drama Fever.
Hi, thanks for the content it was great (no surprise xD) I just wanted to ask somthing : seeing that chinese is a tonal language and has several tricky sounds and some loud vowel I always wondered : is it possible to whisper in chinese, and more importantly if yes can you get your point like that?! 😅
Of course, we can whisper in Chinese. BTW, the whisper in Chinese is called 悄悄话or耳语😂.
@@Kotsuyosama hahaha thanks bro, good to know XD! But I think I should keep my whispering skill for when I get my 四十，十四，四十四and十四是十四clear xD
I've started to watch the TV series as you suggested. I managed to find the episodes of 三十而已 on TH-cam but the only subtitles available are in Chinese and not dual languages English & Chinese as in some other videos etc. So in order for me to listen & understand the conversations, I have to pause the video and read the Chinese characters and use a dictionary to figure out the gist of the conversations etc. This is a very slow process and it takes me a much longer time to view the complete video episode. Do you have a suggestion as to what is the best way to improve on this? Should I at the first pass just play the whole episode and try to listen and make sense of what is the gist of the conversations etc and then after that replay the episode again and this time pause and read the Chinese characters to understand what is being said etc and use a dictionary to assist when needed.
Maybe you should watch it through first (not sure how many seasons there are, maybe just the first season first) and see how much you understand via listening and watching. Then watch it again and see if you understand more due to context, subtitles, and audio.
Whether you do or don't, it probably is best to find it with English if you can. But I think it should be excellent comprehension practice
All is Well is amazing! It can be funny without being corny, and has great, flawed characters
Thank god now I can stop watching peppa pig in chinese! It worked pretty well though since it’s a kids show it was easy to understand hahah
I would like to watch western series like Stargate, Startrek, Friends etc dubbed in Chinese. This way, because I already know what it´s about I would be able to learn the Chinese language faster. Does anyone have a link or know where to find these series? Series about women and romance are quite boring to me
《Remembrance of Things Past 我在他乡挺好的》highly recommended, great acting and good storey, just a bit sad at the beginning: th-cam.com/video/D0S9dSuhoRQ/w-d-xo.html
Second one
别忘了看 《奔跑吧兄弟》! 今天《奔跑吧黄河》第二季开播了～ 《念念桃花源》也很有趣
我喜欢你
北京女子图鉴也挺好看的
I noticed when Chinese people pronounce 女孩 nuhai, it sounds almost more like nuhar or nuhair. (2:50) Is this just my ears malfunctioning? ^__^
Also I have trouble pronouncing 有点儿 and 一点儿 even though they are used so often! Is it a bit like youdiar? I feel like there's something in between the youdia-- and the --r sound. I can't get it to sound right.
For what I know, nuhai is the Standard Chinese sound, while nuhuar is the Beijing accent (erhua) style.
@@egarza Not only Beijing, but also northern China
Cool, thank you guys that is very helpful!
You got it! The Beijing accent is characterized by dropping 'n' sounds at the end of words and replacing it with 'er' (ex: 好玩--> hao wa-er, 一点--> yi di-er). Personally I'm not a big fan of it but that's the way those words are taught in the classroom so I end up finding myself saying both of those examples a lot😅
@@stingyswordfish being a fan of rhotics in general I think it sounds really pretty tbh.
I’m what you call half cooked rice. I know some mandarin. I find subtitles actually to be bad as I concentrate on the english words in my head
Whew 😥
It's so difficult to find interesting chinese movies to learn chinese. I like your topic of video, shuo laoshi, just I don't like those series/movies. Because, for me, Bao Qing Tian is the best.
8 ты прелесть я русский
ai qing gongyu
Yes! I love the show! But i can't find the first two seasons with English subtitles anywhere! Does anyone know where to get it?
I’ve watched some of these films and series, but I needed to stop because watching them seemed more like a chore than a relaxing way to learn Chinese. Chinese language TV is very boring. The only Chinese language film I liked was a Taiwanese film called ‘Black & White’.
你真会证明一个没有专业学习教学的人比专业老师好得多！本事不在于证书中而在于自己内！
Sorry Shuo, but this was a pure clickbait to write "not dramatic or boring". Most of the stuff on your list is dramatic. Even though "boring" can be debatable, when it comes to 爱情公寓 I don't know anyone (including Chinese friends) who would say it's a good TV show.
Though your suggested films list is pretty good and not only young girls can find it interesting.
that's what i thought as well when i saw the title and the list of shows/movies
i thought she'd recommend some action movies, and crime shows or some different genre
@@FruityHachi I'm afraid the main problem is that there isn't any decent crime shows. Chinese filmmakers are great at making dramas and a few certain types of action movies, the rest is either ridiculously unrealistic or obnoxiously overacted, or both, like in case of 爱情公寓. But again, in China (maybe in some other asian countries too) it seems to be an established style which is, apparently, insanely popular. So, I wouldn't have high hopes to find any Chinese Black Mirror alternatives.
@@makesi7757 The Bad Kids, The Long Night are 2 chinese crime dramas i've seen and they're both decent, they aren't overacted
i've been watching korean dramas and those are obnoxiously overacted, chinese crime shows was a nice change
i don't know what you mean by " Chinese Black Mirror alternatives", is Black Mirror the only western show you've watched
@@FruityHachi Cool, would appreciate it if you can add Chinese names for those shows. And. with Black Mirror I just went for a comparison with one of the best TV shows out there. Can give you a few more and maybe you can tell me how close those two Chinese shows get to these: True Detective, Dexter, Mentalist.
@@makesi7757 隐秘的角落, 沉默的真相
and i felt like mentioning Black Mirror was so random, i don't think you can even compare western shows to chinese shows (or to any non-western shows) because it's like comparing apples to oranges, each culture has different standards and perks
i'd only compare western shows with other western shows, chinese shows with chinese shows etc
沉默的真相 is a detective show, if you like this sub-genre more
and 隐秘的角落 is more psychological, it sparked a discussion around how a childhood can mold a person
i liked 隐秘的角落 more because it was more engaging
我发现在中国的老电影演员演的确实有点夸张。看的就不舒服了。所以我平时就没那么喜欢看中国电影。但是他们的电视剧真的好好啊。尤其是关于女生的生活像《三十而已》，《下一站是幸福》等等。很推荐大家这些部剧。关于家庭的电视剧我觉得也蛮好看的比如是《以家人之名》。
0:19 "The main characters are all women..."
*ME:* Tch, bet it's the classic weak female character that has to be saved by the ML constantly because of "romance tropes" or ends up in alot of issues that she can't get out by herself because she has no intelligence, no wits, no courage, no strenght(or she is said to have those but the writers never SHOW her having those) and is just a "fair maiden" seeking her soulmate in order to have her happy ending that is, as always, marrying a guy older than her and having kids...as if that was all that there is to the life of a woman...🙄
0:23 "...and not the women of Chinese tradition who are gentle and family oriented"
*ME:* _scratched disk sound_ ...comeagain?! (ﾟοﾟ人))
Western values? Why?
《欢乐颂 Ode to Joy》
《三十而已 Nothing But Thirty》
《都挺好 All Is Well》 essas 3 series parece ser uma porcaria feita por feministas, só se trata sobre mulheres e como elas são superiores