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Your note from your mom made me cry!!! I agree with another commenter, my Western parents said "I love you" constantly to me growing up, but it was never backed up by action or real encouragement. To know that your parents supported you this much even when you went against medical school is just the most amazing thing. I would take THIS over "I love you" any day!
In Manchester, UK, when you jump in a taxi, they driver will (would?) ask: "where are you going to love?", no matter if the passenger is a man or woman. Sweet. A friend of mine from Norway told me he once went into a shop and the owner said "how are you doing son?". My friend did not understand that it is just an endearing and sweet way of communicating. It causes one to like the community!
Oh my God. I'm from the Middle East, and have been living in Australia for 20+ years. I am currently learning Mandarin and just stumbled across your video because I wanted to practise listening and identifying tones. Listening to your story was so relatable. My mum and dad had me when they were 40 and 42, respectively, and my dad is now 74. My parents have always supported me in whatever I chose to do as well. There were a few times where I saw my dad expressing a sort of disapproval, but never actively tried to stop me or necessarily change my mind. I don't think we have ever said "I love you," to one another either. Like you said, it feels 'embarrassing' and I feel very shy in ever saying that to them, but have no problems saying that to friends. Yes, love is shown through so many other ways and I love my parents, and I have no doubts whatsoever that they've always loved me and always will, but I just cannot say those words to them. As an adult I think I've only very lightly cried in front of them once, but I will silently and secretly cry elsewhere, such as in my bed before going to sleep, on the train etc. The only difference is that I don't feel that my parents have been my 'mentors' or that I have learned a lot from them, sadly. But I will always appreciate everything they have done to look after me and try to make me happy. Thank you for this video :)
We're ethnic Chinese too. Even though we were educated in the English language, we still retain that non- expressive part of Chinese culture. I've never said, "i love you" to my parents & neither have they said the same to me. But all of us know, for a fact, that we love one another very much.
I'm a college student in America and I went to a Chinese immersion school from K-8th grade, I’ve taken Chinese classes ever since but don't often get the opportunity to hear it outside of class anymore, especially in a natural cadence, so I love these kinds of videos! Please keep making them. 希望这个暑假能去台湾留学，提高我的中文！
Thanks for the video!! My parents also don`t often say I love you, they believe that it should be shown in actions rather than in words! I think that yours have the same opinion.
I've been watching this channel for a year now, and I'm from Kerala. I've loved learning about China since I was young, and now I've been admitted to the Central University of Gujarat for my MA in Chinese. Interestingly, I completed my bachelor's in Arabic. I've spent my whole life in my hometown, and I never wanted to leave, but now I'm preparing to travel 2,000 km to Gujarat. The day I leave will be incredibly tough for me. Just as you mentioned, I’ve never cried or shown my emotions until I reached the railway station, and then the tears just flowed. My heart feels heavy leaving my parents behind. I've watched this video multiple times and now I understand why you couldn’t complete that sentence
I'm Dutch and if I told my parents I love them, they would definitely think something was wrong or I was dying XD. We just never say these things out loud. There are other ways to express love than just saying the words. Saying words is easy. Showing love through actions and care is much harder and more meaningful.
I really liked this type of video and your parents sound so lovely! I say "I love you" to my parents probably every time I talk to them. It's kinda just something you say like at the end of a phone call or when saying good bye. I hadn't thought of what it might be like to grow up in a culture where you don't say it, but it's clear from your stories of them and your emotion in the video that not saying it doesn't mean you don't love each other. In fact you can see it in the clear actions of your parents, and like what some other people are saying, I think the actions that show you love someone are more important at any rate.
Hello Shuoshuo laoshi. Thank you for sharing your story while simultaneously teaching us your beautiful language. This video made me very emotional. And when you got to the letter, I was struggling not to cry and keep it together. I come from a culture (the Latino culture) where saying I love you to our parents or our parents saying it to us is not a strange thing to hear. At least in my immediate family. You have awesome parents indeed! And you seem to be a reflection of who they are. Thank you for teaching us, Mandarin. Ps: I know you are learning Spanish. I'm a native spanish speaker. Let me know if you need a friend to practise with😊
Amazing video ❤ Would love to see more content like this that discusses feelings and relationships. Also love it that you made it in a natural tone and speed.
I am a berber (amazigh) from North Africa which is an old civilization, i completely understand your relationship with ur parents because we're very similar
There are some aspects I can agree with. You seemed to have focused more on the parent-child relationship in this video. Generally, too many people say 我爱你 / I love you these days. Unfortunately, sometimes they are just words. True love is shown through actions. Great video to practice listening skills!
I grew up in a middle class English-speaking South African home in the 60’s and 70’s, and it was the same- we never said ‘I love you’ to each other, although we did love each other very much. I’m really impressed by your candidness and how you open up to your TH-cam audience. Just one thing I don’t understand: if you never doubted that your parents loved you, why did you feel that insecurity about the possibility of them leaving you? You’re a very smart woman, doing such great work and earning well from it. Well done!
Sweet sentiment! On a totally random side note, this is the first video I've ever found with the PERFECT subtitle layout, where you have one language at the far top and the other on the far bottom! Typically, I understand 80-90% of the Chinese and just need the English translation for 1 or 2 characters/pairs, but I find that when the English and Chinese are right on top of each other (which is what you see on most videos), I tend to just read one or the other, apparently because there is too much cognitive load for to switch gears when they are so close to each other. In the past, I thought the solution was to look for a website or program that displayed only the Chinese but allowed you to hover over specific characters if you needed the translation for just those few characters. But watching this video just made me realize that your layout achieves exactly what I need and without the hassle of hovering! I mainly read the Chinese at the top but glanced down to check the English if there was a word or two I didn't recognize. Something about the separation made the cognitive switch easier. I really hope you continue to do videos with this subtitle format!
Hey, what a beautiful story you share here! -- It's very similar to mine in several ways. In my language, the translation of "I love you" is not something you say to your parents (or children). And when I moved to North-America, I first found the (in my view) inflationary use of the expression rather alienating. -- Thanks for sharing!
Even though we didn't use to say I love you very often in my family, I agree that there was no doubt about the love between our parents and us children (or vice versa), but since I've been with my husband I've grown to appreciate the value of saying and hearing "I love you" daily. In my husband's family, they say I love you to each other all the time and It was very strange for me hearing him say it to me so often in the beginning. In time, though, it bacame more and more normal and, because of that, I started saying it to my parents and my mei mei and it was strange for them in the beginning too, but then I started hearing it from them also and, well, my experience is that it's really nice. It's good to say it. It's good to hear it. It's strange and awkward when it's not always been done (for the many reasons that people may have for not saying it), but I really recommend it. Someone has to be the one to start saying it... be brave. It's okay if we don't hear it back, but if we feel it, we should express it, especially if it's a good feeling, that's my opinion nowadays.
Explain it very clearly.now I lived in zhuzhou,hunan.my generation and your generation same.i came from Bangladesh.Bangladeshi Culture also same.we doesn’t express our love to parents by ‘I love you’. But Recent generation doesn’t understood it and doesn’t feel it.this three sentences actual meaning 😢.still now my father working for us.giving to me lot of money.i want to tell this three sentences but I can’t. Really it’s very difficult.
Your videos for learning Chinese are amazingly good. You have been so open here about your life that it adds so much more to your story. Clearly you are a 'real' person and that you have shown your emotions in this regard is totally endearing. You are a wonderful teacher!
Thank you Shuo Laoshi....for me, if you're not used to saying "I love you" then express it through your actions, even as your parents gives you advice, they are already expressing their love for you...for everyone, appreciate or express your gratefulness to your parents while they are still alive ❤🙏🏼
It’s an excellent video that points out a very fundamental cultural difference between east and west in the way we (in the west) verbalize (over verbalize) our emotions. Thank you for sharing your personal story and deep deep feelings for your parents. This is a universal story that touches the heart which makes learning Mandarin very effective.
This kind of video is perfect for me. I'm British, in our culture we can also be quite avoidant of being too direct or expressing our emotions, but in my family we al grew up expressing them directly, so I tel my brothers, my sister, and my mum and dad that I love them. :)
Thank you so much for expressing your emotions and love like that. I feel the same about my parents as they are pretty old. Every time i leave the house im afraid ill never see them again. Your video got me into the tears.
Are you going to share this video with your mom and dad? Although there is a lot of variation in the USA, my family is more like yours. In fact, the words seem trivial to me compared with behavior that demonstrates love. I think expressing worry is more the way we expressed our love outside of actions. My parents have been gone for almost 10 years now. Treasure yours! PS: I was so excited to hear you use 之一 . I just learned it, but I haven't heard anyone say it before! This is a lovely video.
I think saying this phrase is very personal and also cultural, some cultures say it more than others but also if you want to say it or not is finally down to the individual. My mum often used to say 'I love you' at the end of phone calls and I always felt pressured to say 'I love you too' This made me feel extremely uncomfortable, not because I don't love my mum but I felt that I should chose to say it and not be forced to say it. I think after a while and many awkward conversations later, my mum doesn't say it as much and when she does, she's not expecting me to say it back. But I have told my mum I love her on occasions and I feel that I show it, I know that she'll not be on this earth for a long a time now so I make time to spend quality time with her even though I'm extremely busy with my career and study and just living my life. I think she knows but I'll make an effort to say it occasionally too because I know the words mean much to her too.
I love you Shuoshuo, for the first time in a long time i feel inspired by someone and i feel like i can trust you, i think you are very special and real and good person i hope i am like you and if not hope i'll become like you Love ❤
Thank you for sharing such deep insights and personal feelings, your parents definitely love you, as they demonstrate that support and trust to you, definitely you have wonderful parents… I am as a 68 father and grandfather deeply impressed.
You have a very smart mom, telling you the right things at the right moment. That's wonderful. I lived several years in China- Shenzhen and Suzhou- and I really miss it living there, but my feeling was, Chinese people consider much more thinking twice about what they say to others to stay respectful and not to hurt other people in any way. In western cultures, I guess unfortunately, people are very direct often and later maybe even regret what they said, but they already did. That didn't happen in China. Although sometimes it was a little bit hard, because I was working as technical teacher and quality manager there, after I adjusted to the Chinese way, it became hard for me to tell workers they didn't do their work right or they made mistakes. So I always had to think twice, how to tell them, without making them lose face. A bit difficult for working situations but wonderful relationships between humans there. 我非常想中国 ❤️🇨🇳😍❤️
@@ShuoshuoChinese Greetings from Germany 🇩🇪❤️🇨🇳 😃✌️ I really miss China a lot. The street food, the evenings with my Chinese friends, KTV, 烧烤, hanging around in 星巴克, and many other things. But I had to return because of some family issues, unfortunately. So for long time already I watch your channel to improve my Chinese, although my Chinese is indeed very poor. You are doing a great job in your videos. Keep it up. I learned so much from you. Thank you very much . 谢谢喔
@@ShuoshuoChineseBy your video here I have to remember one situation in China: I wanted to say something about crying, but I didn't know the word for it, so I said 我的眼睛下雨 and she said, oh, now I understand- this sounds like poetry 🥰
老师好! 谢谢你的很有意思的视频! 谢谢你，我的汉语水平提高了. I really like the fact that you don't put the pinyin! it forces me to look at the characters, and read them 这对我很大的帮助! 你用中文有名表达，这让我提高了. 你的个性很有趣!
I spent about a month living in Changsha several years ago and it was one of the best culinary experiences of my life! 不吃辣椒的人不是革命者! If you have not already done so, please do a video on Hunanese cuisine - or why not a video on each of the eight cuisines? Would love to watch that!
What a lovely video, thank you. You and your parents are lucky to have each other, love and support each other. All the very best to you and your family ❤❤❤
We can learn the most about someone's true character when they experience difficulties. Without difficulties, how can we know if someone has any virtues?
我非常喜欢这种类型的视频！🙂 Maybe other viewers have different opinions, but I think it would be even better if the english subtitles were optional (for example, you can turn them on or off using the captions button)- I find that if english subtitles are on a video my brain subconsciously wants to read them instead of the hanzi, so when watching this video I covered the bottom of the screen which had the english subtitles with my hands to make sure I didnt read the english to help with understanding you 🤣
Lovely. I enjoyed listening to this video. I understood everything you said. I hope there will be more similar posts at this normal natural speaking speed. I wish you well.
It's cultural. In the west, I feel the words are used too loosely and too often that it can lack sincerity. For me, actions speak louder than words. Your parents are awesome.
riiight like i’ll have friends I’m not very close with saying it to me (platonically) and like. sure were friends and I like you too pal but were not close enough to call it love??! They just say it when they say bye, like cya later ily! huh??
Great letter, Great parents = Great daughter who is beautiful inside and outside. Actions speak louder than words, so you don't have to say I love you, if you are speaking loud and clear "I love you" through your actions. However, they say that the pen is mightier than the sword, this is because words are also powerful. So the moral of the story is to have the best of both world's and that would be “speech acts” and “performative utterances”. To say I love you in words and in actions. When you don't take anything for granted, you will be more open to do it all just because, tomorrow is not promised to anyone. A penny for your thoughts, what do you think will have the most impact on your parents? a) If you say to them, I love you everyday for two continual weeks before you leave to go about your day. b) If you are silent, and just give them a (hug-squeeze) for two minutes for two continual weeks before you leave to go about your day. c) If you say "I love you", and give them a (hug-squeeze) for two minutes, for two continual weeks before going about your day, and then asked them which of these did they enjoy the most. Would it be A, B, or C?...lol 💯%👈I think [C] would be the winner...Sometimes it's fair to say, we may not miss what we don't have. Letters, voice-mails or any audio recording, pictures and videos of our love ones are so precious, and become precious treasures when they are gone. Never take life for granted, express your love in word and in action...Thank you for sharing this awesomely amazing content... May the MOST HIGH YAH blessings continue to guide you and your loved ones with peace, wellness and prosperity. 🙏💜🙏
Ghosh, you pushed them a bit? One would have described you as 'rebellious' at that stage. But that unconditional support kept you discovering your world - and you're not doing too badly at it. Thank you for the kindness to share this. Best wishes.
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Your note from your mom made me cry!!! I agree with another commenter, my Western parents said "I love you" constantly to me growing up, but it was never backed up by action or real encouragement. To know that your parents supported you this much even when you went against medical school is just the most amazing thing. I would take THIS over "I love you" any day!
You know what's better than one or the other? Both.
This video and your previous one with your mom are very helpful for learning real-life Chinese listening skills. The topic was very touching.
In Manchester, UK, when you jump in a taxi, they driver will (would?) ask: "where are you going to love?", no matter if the passenger is a man or woman. Sweet.
A friend of mine from Norway told me he once went into a shop and the owner said "how are you doing son?". My friend did not understand that it is just an endearing and sweet way of communicating. It causes one to like the community!
你好，说说中文-老师。我学中文学了六个月或者七个月了。我觉得最近我的进步慢了一点。 而且每次我试一下跟我的同事聊天，我只听懂一半他们说什么。
我已经花了很多时间练习我的听力。我以为我的听力还是不够。
其实我的听力已经能够了。 大部分这个视频我听得懂。 我还有很多中文我听不懂，但是我的中文的水平能够看这个视频。
你的故事让了我很感动。
多谢你分享你的经验而感觉。
Oh my God. I'm from the Middle East, and have been living in Australia for 20+ years. I am currently learning Mandarin and just stumbled across your video because I wanted to practise listening and identifying tones. Listening to your story was so relatable. My mum and dad had me when they were 40 and 42, respectively, and my dad is now 74. My parents have always supported me in whatever I chose to do as well. There were a few times where I saw my dad expressing a sort of disapproval, but never actively tried to stop me or necessarily change my mind. I don't think we have ever said "I love you," to one another either. Like you said, it feels 'embarrassing' and I feel very shy in ever saying that to them, but have no problems saying that to friends. Yes, love is shown through so many other ways and I love my parents, and I have no doubts whatsoever that they've always loved me and always will, but I just cannot say those words to them. As an adult I think I've only very lightly cried in front of them once, but I will silently and secretly cry elsewhere, such as in my bed before going to sleep, on the train etc. The only difference is that I don't feel that my parents have been my 'mentors' or that I have learned a lot from them, sadly. But I will always appreciate everything they have done to look after me and try to make me happy. Thank you for this video :)
We're ethnic Chinese too. Even though we were educated in the English language, we still retain that non- expressive part of Chinese culture. I've never said, "i love you" to my parents & neither have they said the same to me. But all of us know, for a fact, that we love one another very much.
我是中国人，我也爱看你的视频因为你爱用很易懂的表达和句式，很棒很有意思
也爱看 Vaush 的频道
I'm a college student in America and I went to a Chinese immersion school from K-8th grade, I’ve taken Chinese classes ever since but don't often get the opportunity to hear it outside of class anymore, especially in a natural cadence, so I love these kinds of videos! Please keep making them. 希望这个暑假能去台湾留学，提高我的中文！
Thanks for the video!! My parents also don`t often say I love you, they believe that it should be shown in actions rather than in words! I think that yours have the same opinion.
I've been watching this channel for a year now, and I'm from Kerala. I've loved learning about China since I was young, and now I've been admitted to the Central University of Gujarat for my MA in Chinese. Interestingly, I completed my bachelor's in Arabic. I've spent my whole life in my hometown, and I never wanted to leave, but now I'm preparing to travel 2,000 km to Gujarat. The day I leave will be incredibly tough for me. Just as you mentioned, I’ve never cried or shown my emotions until I reached the railway station, and then the tears just flowed. My heart feels heavy leaving my parents behind. I've watched this video multiple times and now I understand why you couldn’t complete that sentence
你的視頻讓我哭了.我也從來沒有對我的父母說過我愛你.
I'm Dutch and if I told my parents I love them, they would definitely think something was wrong or I was dying XD. We just never say these things out loud. There are other ways to express love than just saying the words. Saying words is easy. Showing love through actions and care is much harder and more meaningful.
Wow, not only a great learning experience, but a beautiful story as well! Very emotional, beautiful, and informative.
Damn…. That was beautiful, you must have a great relationship with your parents, I’m envious.
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I really liked this type of video and your parents sound so lovely! I say "I love you" to my parents probably every time I talk to them. It's kinda just something you say like at the end of a phone call or when saying good bye. I hadn't thought of what it might be like to grow up in a culture where you don't say it, but it's clear from your stories of them and your emotion in the video that not saying it doesn't mean you don't love each other. In fact you can see it in the clear actions of your parents, and like what some other people are saying, I think the actions that show you love someone are more important at any rate.
Hello Shuoshuo laoshi. Thank you for sharing your story while simultaneously teaching us your beautiful language. This video made me very emotional. And when you got to the letter, I was struggling not to cry and keep it together. I come from a culture (the Latino culture) where saying I love you to our parents or our parents saying it to us is not a strange thing to hear. At least in my immediate family. You have awesome parents indeed! And you seem to be a reflection of who they are. Thank you for teaching us, Mandarin.
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我是美国人。我从来常常跟妈妈爸爸说“我爱你”。我觉得这样可以，还有中国的习惯也可以。最重要的是，不但用话，而也用行为表达爱。谢谢跟我们解释你的经验。❤
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视频太棒了！非常有用。谢谢老师！最近我对我父母说 “我爱你” 因为我们好久没见面了。 除了这没见面的时间，我很少地对他们说了“我爱你”😅
Amazing video ❤ Would love to see more content like this that discusses feelings and relationships. Also love it that you made it in a natural tone and speed.
Thank you, I really enjoy sharing my thoughts and experiences in Chinese too! Will do more in the future!
蠻感動的! 我覺得這是看人，看家庭的。我在美國長大但不常跟我爸爸媽媽說『我愛你』，在我們家那會覺得一點尷尬。大多時候，擁抱他們一下就充分表達我的愛。🙂
You really have the best parent in the world😍
I am a berber (amazigh) from North Africa which is an old civilization, i completely understand your relationship with ur parents because we're very similar
There are some aspects I can agree with. You seemed to have focused more on the parent-child relationship in this video. Generally, too many people say 我爱你 / I love you these days. Unfortunately, sometimes they are just words. True love is shown through actions. Great video to practice listening skills!
I grew up in a middle class English-speaking South African home in the 60’s and 70’s, and it was the same- we never said ‘I love you’ to each other, although we did love each other very much.
I’m really impressed by your candidness and how you open up to your TH-cam audience. Just one thing I don’t understand: if you never doubted that your parents loved you, why did you feel that insecurity about the possibility of them leaving you?
You’re a very smart woman, doing such great work and earning well from it. Well done!
For love, actions are more important than words! Great video!
I love this video. This video helps us to learn Chinese and same time teach about love, life and parents and child care . And many more .
I am mongolian from the north. I feel honestly very similar about my family. Very touching video!
Sweet sentiment!
On a totally random side note, this is the first video I've ever found with the PERFECT subtitle layout, where you have one language at the far top and the other on the far bottom! Typically, I understand 80-90% of the Chinese and just need the English translation for 1 or 2 characters/pairs, but I find that when the English and Chinese are right on top of each other (which is what you see on most videos), I tend to just read one or the other, apparently because there is too much cognitive load for to switch gears when they are so close to each other. In the past, I thought the solution was to look for a website or program that displayed only the Chinese but allowed you to hover over specific characters if you needed the translation for just those few characters.
But watching this video just made me realize that your layout achieves exactly what I need and without the hassle of hovering! I mainly read the Chinese at the top but glanced down to check the English if there was a word or two I didn't recognize. Something about the separation made the cognitive switch easier. I really hope you continue to do videos with this subtitle format!
Hey, what a beautiful story you share here! -- It's very similar to mine in several ways. In my language, the translation of "I love you" is not something you say to your parents (or children). And when I moved to North-America, I first found the (in my view) inflationary use of the expression rather alienating. -- Thanks for sharing!
Even though we didn't use to say I love you very often in my family, I agree that there was no doubt about the love between our parents and us children (or vice versa), but since I've been with my husband I've grown to appreciate the value of saying and hearing "I love you" daily. In my husband's family, they say I love you to each other all the time and It was very strange for me hearing him say it to me so often in the beginning. In time, though, it bacame more and more normal and, because of that, I started saying it to my parents and my mei mei and it was strange for them in the beginning too, but then I started hearing it from them also and, well, my experience is that it's really nice. It's good to say it. It's good to hear it. It's strange and awkward when it's not always been done (for the many reasons that people may have for not saying it), but I really recommend it. Someone has to be the one to start saying it... be brave. It's okay if we don't hear it back, but if we feel it, we should express it, especially if it's a good feeling, that's my opinion nowadays.
your mom is a really good person
Explain it very clearly.now I lived in zhuzhou,hunan.my generation and your generation same.i came from Bangladesh.Bangladeshi Culture also same.we doesn’t express our love to parents by ‘I love you’. But Recent generation doesn’t understood it and doesn’t feel it.this three sentences actual meaning 😢.still now my father working for us.giving to me lot of money.i want to tell this three sentences but I can’t. Really it’s very difficult.
You do love them. Sometimes it needs to be said. As the day comes and there will be no one to say these words to.
哇啊我很喜欢那种的视频！❤它们让我的中文进步很快！😊
Good format! It would be great to get from you more videos without English, with normal speed and natural language. Good continuation in your job!
Your videos for learning Chinese are amazingly good. You have been so open here about your life that it adds so much more to your story. Clearly you are a 'real' person and that you have shown your emotions in this regard is totally endearing. You are a wonderful teacher!
我真的喜欢这个视频。 你将一个有意思故事，用汉语。所以我可以进步我的听力。
Thank you Shuo Laoshi....for me, if you're not used to saying "I love you" then express it through your actions, even as your parents gives you advice, they are already expressing their love for you...for everyone, appreciate or express your gratefulness to your parents while they are still alive ❤🙏🏼
非常厲害的視頻，Shuo老師！對我們學習中文很有幫助，而且是一個很動人的話題。我跟你一樣，從來沒說過對我父母我愛你這三個字，原因是差不多跟你一樣。感謝你，希望你會考慮將來做更多此類的視頻！
好的！很开心你们喜欢😊
It’s an excellent video that points out a very fundamental cultural difference between east and west in the way we (in the west) verbalize (over verbalize) our emotions. Thank you for sharing your personal story and deep deep feelings for your parents. This is a universal story that touches the heart which makes learning Mandarin very effective.
This kind of video is perfect for me. I'm British, in our culture we can also be quite avoidant of being too direct or expressing our emotions, but in my family we al grew up expressing them directly, so I tel my brothers, my sister, and my mum and dad that I love them. :)
Your parents sound like amazing people,” Jiang Hai Shi Lao De La “. They must be very proud of you.❤🇨🇦
Thank you so much for expressing your emotions and love like that. I feel the same about my parents as they are pretty old. Every time i leave the house im afraid ill never see them again. Your video got me into the tears.
Are you going to share this video with your mom and dad? Although there is a lot of variation in the USA, my family is more like yours. In fact, the words seem trivial to me compared with behavior that demonstrates love. I think expressing worry is more the way we expressed our love outside of actions. My parents have been gone for almost 10 years now. Treasure yours! PS: I was so excited to hear you use 之一 . I just learned it, but I haven't heard anyone say it before! This is a lovely video.
我非常喜欢这样的视频，谢谢！！我是俄罗斯人，我也不太习惯对父母说“我爱你”，但是我说过了 哈哈。你的看法很有意思！我认为只要大家都舒服就好了 :)
That was beautiful, thank you for this beautiful personal story and insight :)
I think saying this phrase is very personal and also cultural, some cultures say it more than others but also if you want to say it or not is finally down to the individual.
My mum often used to say 'I love you' at the end of phone calls and I always felt pressured to say 'I love you too' This made me feel extremely uncomfortable, not because I don't love my mum but I felt that I should chose to say it and not be forced to say it. I think after a while and many awkward conversations later, my mum doesn't say it as much and when she does, she's not expecting me to say it back. But I have told my mum I love her on occasions and I feel that I show it, I know that she'll not be on this earth for a long a time now so I make time to spend quality time with her even though I'm extremely busy with my career and study and just living my life. I think she knows but I'll make an effort to say it occasionally too because I know the words mean much to her too.
I appreciate Chinese culture even more now, thanks for sharing these thoughts with us
Muchas gracias, Shuo, por tu sinceridad al tratar estos temas emocionales de forma tan natural. Espero que tu español siga progresando, hasta otra.
Sí, puedo entender todo de tu comentario. :))
This is such a beautiful video. Thank you so much for sharing. I am really grateful to have gotten to watch this!
我还是中文学生 - 对不起我回答很有多的错误。
很多谢您叙述您的父母的真大的爱心。又说句子 ”我爱你“，这件不能让孩子感觉亲情。对本人的，听说 ”我爱你“，“我想你”，“希望你都舒服还有很开心“ ，这么句子都帮助我感觉很好的，安全，爱。偎，拉个手，拥抱 都一般。有时候我对自己疑虑不安，所以这件事情对我非常好。我妈妈对我最好的，可是常常他忘记怎么帮助我感觉好起来。甜甜说，拥抱，这件事情对于她没有很多意思。她信为他人做工作是真爱。我生活的全，她工作给我一切。我们是美国人，所以我会彼此说 ”我爱你“，全没有尴尬，害羞。时候她不知道怎么安慰我，但是因为她为我从来工作努力给我好事情，我一定感觉她爱我。
我想了有意思，时候你说了你不可以告诉父母 “我爱你” 因为你的关系不平等的。我常常说我妈妈是我的最好的朋友，因为我们一起好玩，工作，讨论问题。可是你对的啊！我们的关系不平等的。虽然我现在长大的，我从来不能报答她。我觉得美国文化不认识这么意思。
又说啊，谢谢您教我怎么你的文化一边有大亲情一边没有说出口了。
PS。你去过天心去在长沙里吗？我的中文名字是孔天心啦！
Lovely story really like the part about your father
I liked the way youre teaching please keep it up so i can learn chinese
Thank you for such an amazing heart-felt video!
What a wonderful story. 😢😊
I love you Shuoshuo, for the first time in a long time i feel inspired by someone and i feel like i can trust you, i think you are very special and real and good person i hope i am like you and if not hope i'll become like you
Love ❤
Thank you for sharing such deep insights and personal feelings, your parents definitely love you, as they demonstrate that support and trust to you, definitely you have wonderful parents… I am as a 68 father and grandfather deeply impressed.
这一集好暖心。忍不住跟着你一起流泪。理解你❤加油！Shuo好好享受和家人一起的时光。
You have a very smart mom, telling you the right things at the right moment. That's wonderful. I lived several years in China- Shenzhen and Suzhou- and I really miss it living there, but my feeling was, Chinese people consider much more thinking twice about what they say to others to stay respectful and not to hurt other people in any way. In western cultures, I guess unfortunately, people are very direct often and later maybe even regret what they said, but they already did. That didn't happen in China. Although sometimes it was a little bit hard, because I was working as technical teacher and quality manager there, after I adjusted to the Chinese way, it became hard for me to tell workers they didn't do their work right or they made mistakes. So I always had to think twice, how to tell them, without making them lose face. A bit difficult for working situations but wonderful relationships between humans there.
我非常想中国 ❤️🇨🇳😍❤️
This is lovely 🥰
@@ShuoshuoChinese Greetings from Germany 🇩🇪❤️🇨🇳 😃✌️ I really miss China a lot. The street food, the evenings with my Chinese friends, KTV, 烧烤, hanging around in 星巴克, and many other things. But I had to return because of some family issues, unfortunately. So for long time already I watch your channel to improve my Chinese, although my Chinese is indeed very poor. You are doing a great job in your videos. Keep it up. I learned so much from you. Thank you very much . 谢谢喔
@@ShuoshuoChineseBy your video here I have to remember one situation in China: I wanted to say something about crying, but I didn't know the word for it, so I said 我的眼睛下雨 and she said, oh, now I understand- this sounds like poetry 🥰
老师好!
谢谢你的很有意思的视频! 谢谢你，我的汉语水平提高了.
I really like the fact that you don't put the pinyin! it forces me to look at the characters, and read them
这对我很大的帮助! 你用中文有名表达，这让我提高了.
你的个性很有趣!
I spent about a month living in Changsha several years ago and it was one of the best culinary experiences of my life! 不吃辣椒的人不是革命者! If you have not already done so, please do a video on Hunanese cuisine - or why not a video on each of the eight cuisines? Would love to watch that!
These kinds of videos are perfect for my level! Please make more!
loving this video
it helps my chinese
谢谢您的分享，希望今后能多出一些类似于这样一般聊生活的视频！
What a lovely video, thank you. You and your parents are lucky to have each other, love and support each other. All the very best to you and your family ❤❤❤
谢谢你做这个视频! 是一个非常touching的故事, 有天有一定有这种我现在跟父母的关系. 真的想appreciate他们是特别人. 说实话我试试不想到一个他们不在的世界,但是重要很早意识到他们是怎么棒啊. 让我了解那个"爱"有什么意思. 不管跟家庭,女朋友,朋友之类 有这么多办法爱
We can learn the most about someone's true character when they experience difficulties. Without difficulties, how can we know if someone has any virtues?
I really like this type of video and hope you can do more please
这样的影片我觉得特别有帮助来学习口语，还有今天的内容很动人 谢谢老师分享～
我非常喜欢这种类型的视频！🙂 Maybe other viewers have different opinions, but I think it would be even better if the english subtitles were optional (for example, you can turn them on or off using the captions button)- I find that if english subtitles are on a video my brain subconsciously wants to read them instead of the hanzi, so when watching this video I covered the bottom of the screen which had the english subtitles with my hands to make sure I didnt read the english to help with understanding you 🤣
谢谢你的分享。我外公也是这样，从来不说 我爱你 三个字，他都会用行为，而不是话，来表达对我们的爱。
这样的视频对练习中文听力很有帮助，我只有一个小小的意见。你在视频里面说 "unpopular opinion", “controversial”，我理解你可能在生活中也是这样说的，不过在视频里用中文说法，我觉得还是好一点，"不受欢迎的..."，“很矛盾的...”，这样听众可以学会新的词汇等等~
我最喜欢您教得中文，非常感谢
Thanks for sharing your feelings! Your parents are great people.
What a beautiful, moving story you told!
This video was amazing, I loved how you kept talking about one topic so I always knew the context! Pls keep doing these
Based on what you said you have great parents 😊
Thank you! Tears in my eyes.
Your Videos help me so very much to learn chinese !!!😊❤
我也支持你 ! You're one of the best TH-camr 😊
I love your videos so much. You helped me learn about mandarin and chinese culture thank you 😊
yeah i do like this kind of video, don't stop your teaching but it is cool to know something about your thoughts like this.
Wow this video is really immersive!
Lovely. I enjoyed listening to this video. I understood everything you said. I hope there will be more similar posts at this normal natural speaking speed. I wish you well.
看过这个视频以后我感动一点，很很好的视频，感谢你
Pls try to make these kinds of videos...❤
Very thankful for that helpful video
I also having a hard time saying those words, but I make sure to show in my actions
我会说我爱你。我的父母告诉我“我爱你”所以我觉得舒服告诉他们。别人可能不是舒服说我爱你。我觉得这是还行如果他们的孩子们知道他们有爱
It's cultural. In the west, I feel the words are used too loosely and too often that it can lack sincerity. For me, actions speak louder than words. Your parents are awesome.
riiight like i’ll have friends I’m not very close with saying it to me (platonically) and like. sure were friends and I like you too pal but were not close enough to call it love??! They just say it when they say bye, like cya later ily! huh??
I loved the lesson. 😊
great video!!!
Great letter, Great parents = Great daughter who is beautiful inside and outside. Actions speak louder than words, so you don't have to say I love you, if you are speaking loud and clear "I love you" through your actions. However, they say that the pen is mightier than the sword, this is because words are also powerful. So the moral of the story is to have the best of both world's and that would be “speech acts” and “performative utterances”. To say I love you in words and in actions. When you don't take anything for granted, you will be more open to do it all just because, tomorrow is not promised to anyone. A penny for your thoughts, what do you think will have the most impact on your parents? a) If you say to them, I love you everyday for two continual weeks before you leave to go about your day. b) If you are silent, and just give them a (hug-squeeze) for two minutes for two continual weeks before you leave to go about your day. c) If you say "I love you", and give them a (hug-squeeze) for two minutes, for two continual weeks before going about your day, and then asked them which of these did they enjoy the most. Would it be A, B, or C?...lol 💯%👈I think [C] would be the winner...Sometimes it's fair to say, we may not miss what we don't have. Letters, voice-mails or any audio recording, pictures and videos of our love ones are so precious, and become precious treasures when they are gone. Never take life for granted, express your love in word and in action...Thank you for sharing this awesomely amazing content... May the MOST HIGH YAH blessings continue to guide you and your loved ones with peace, wellness and prosperity. 🙏💜🙏
Great, I'm here to learn Chinese but now I'm emotional (I'm fine with this kind of video format tbh)
Very touching.
That was such a cute story!
This is so sweet. :) Makes me miss my parents lol
真的很感动
Ghosh, you pushed them a bit? One would have described you as 'rebellious' at that stage. But that unconditional support kept you discovering your world - and you're not doing too badly at it. Thank you for the kindness to share this. Best wishes.