This video is my learning progress meter. A year ago I didn't understand a single word. It was far to fast... Now I get what they are talking about and unless special words I can understand what they say. For all who think it's too tough, do not give up. I do not study everyday, my progress is really small every week, but it's there...
As a native Chinese and originally from Beijing, where the series are shot, I would say it's extremely helpful for foreigners to learn Chinese, especially the way people communicate. Also lots of fun:)
Oh my god I used to watch this every day in 2012 to pick up the accent and new words, and never dreamed I could ever go to China..... I´ve been living in China for 6 years now. For everyone studying Chinese: YOU CAN DO IT!
LOL. I thought I was gonna learn a few phrases for the first 44 seconds. Then my two months of Chinese study were blown away at :45. This series is pretty awesome!
I teach dual-immersion Mandarin in a public elementary in the US. I show my 2nd grade (8 years old) American dual-immersion Mandarin students these episodes almost every day. At the beginning of the year I told them to try and recognize at least 1 or 2 words and then we discussed what they heard. They loved it. Now they can pick out whole sentences and we discuss (in simple Mandarin) what that particular episode's plot is. It has really helped them get used to the normal speed of spoken Mandarin! I noticed today that the 117 playlist has been blocked. Anyone else have the same issue?
Great show but I wish there is a pinyin subtitle that Chinese subs :) then this will be the perfect show for Chinese learner, well it's still a great show!
agree. that plus slowing it down with the youtube settings would help me a lot. But I'll continue to study elsewhere and then come back to check on my progress. :)
this is really useful to differentiate textbook Chinese from normal conversations among native speakers. I try listen carefully for these differences, trying not to sound like a Chinese textbook. hilarious how a pretty fluent lao wai begins by practicing the most common ni hao greetings as if that were the full extent of her vocabulary...LOL.
This is a really good video for Mandarin learners. Sort of in between beginner conversation and intermediate. I watch this over and over again. Very helpful!
Hello,Everyone.I come from China and surely i'm a Chinese native speaker.I think this program is very helpful to you if you want to learn Chinese.And i'm willing to help you to enhance your Chinese skill.
thanks! I think it doesn't matter whatever version you have, as the purpose of qq is to eliminate language barrier with the help of the translator, so you ca just chat with everyone in the world without knowing their language. :)
I would agree with last comment. I could not believe how many extra words I was able to understand when I went back to it too! Thanks for tip on reducing speed - it made things even better!
Thank you thank you Thank you sooooo much. I am watching this in 2022 It is gold that I stumbled upon by chance. And boy, I am so grateful for this. Xiexie ni.
I know this is just a serie, and nothing is perfect, but I find Chinese so warm I love Chinese culture, and I am studying Chinese now, I hope I can learn a lot and then come back to this video and tell myself "Oh it was worth it " I also hope I can go to China later
I am planning to learn Mandarin later this year and even though I can't understand 99% of what is being said, I do see the value in watching this. Especially since the foreign woman speaks, it makes you realize that while difficult, foreigners CAN learn to speak it. (I have no idea if this is Mandarin or not but still worth watching).
LOVE IT. so Chinese, so much great dialogue for beginners, but then only those two examples LOL this is for someone studying IN China. Without having ever been, I think it would be hard to grasp how good the dialogue is and the examples are way too simple.
It's trippy seeing the white girl speak chinese so well. But it's not only the way she speaks, she actually mastered all of the expressions of a chinese person. I wonder if this actor was born in china
+MilkQuiee you learn it like any other language, Her skin colour in fact really has nothing to with how well she can speak chinese. (There are many white chinese native speakers ...)
English speakers seem to have an easier time learning Mandarin than other people because both languages follow a SVO word order. Subject-verb- object ex., He goes home. There are also many words in English that are the same yet change when the stress is placed on a different letter. Ex., Bow like bow tie, and bow -like bending from the waist.
first ten minutes are slow/tough BUT -- Give It A Chance! It DOES have great learning content BUT you have to get to it through the stuff you don't understand. Teaching style is similar to Growing up with Chinese. CUWC is a bit easier. This is all just HSK4 and the teaching materials are 1-3. They producers method is to give you more than you can handle in the skit, then to show you what you can get in the teaching intermissions. PLUS ITS HILARIOUS but yeah firs ten minutes are slow. So glad I stuck with it!
Hello guys: Today's July 18 , 2024. I have started learning Chinese since two months and I am in HSK 1. Now, I can understand barely 3% of the show. I'll com after six months (may be the next Summer vacation of 2025) and see How much I can understand. -MY Goal : Understand about 80% (without English subtitles) *SEE you then 👋🏼
I am also learning Mandarin, have been for over a year now. I only have time to do one class a week because of work. I don't get much of a chance to use what I learn in class, so learning is going slow. My understanding of characters and reading is much better than my speaking skills. Anyway what I wanted to say is check the playlists on this channel. Watch the series "Growing up with Chinese". As it will take you through your learning at a much slower pace. I hope you are progressing well with your studies....Good luck. Actually the better You Tube channel for that language series is "Centroriente" as it has all episodes uploaded.
I'm a beginner but thank heavens I have at least 60 Hanyu characters under my belt (I've learnt). So I can understand some words and phrases and I can actually learn some others. But if I were a beginner from scratch then it might be difficult as one would need to decipher the learning at a slower level. If only there was a beginner series as you seem to have the conversation right and an interesting way to learn. Do you do befinner series?
use simple characters to communicate with Chinese. At first you can just use three or four characters as a sentence to communicate with others, then use more,five ,six ,or even more.
This was pretty good in terms of practical exchanges, but I have no idea why you guys introduced such basic stuff like 你好 or 你是美国人吗 when the actual conversation is fairly advanced. I think if you made it that far into the show it's a given that you already know how to say hello and ask where somebody is from... That 老外 has such hilariously Chinese mannerisms!
It's an immersive method : you're not supposed to understand everything you hear ; just like if you were in China. It's probably the most efficient method when it's well conducted.
Love the show. It would help to have the Pinyin. It's hard to look up specific Chinese words due to differences in grammar between English and Chinese. And Google doesn't give the same translations (or probably the correct ones)
This is definitely what would be considered intermediate level spoken Mandarin by US standards, and yes, it's hard to follow if you haven't spent much time in actual contemporary conversation. I agree with comments here that it seems silly that the learning points emphasized are "ni/nin hao" and "ni shi mei guo ren ma", when are only demonstrated a few times, and the remainder of the dialogue goes in many other directions. And how is a beginning learner supposed to follow the grammar explanations in Mandarin? This is very useful for learning the rhythms of standard (Northern) spoken Mandarin in "realistic" discourse, but would be a much better tool if the dialogue focused on a more distinct set of at-level learning objectives, and specifically introduced new vocabulary in context. PS, I was last in China in the early 90's as an English teacher: wow, look how rich everyone is!
Mind blowing video. Very nice video. Thanks a lot for making this video . I have subscribed your Chanel. Im learning Chinese to TH-cam. Love from Pakistan Lahore Changa Manga Waan Khara.
Some of the 'english' subtitles are very chinglishy. But the Chinese is good. So, all in all a really cool resource. I'll use it in upcoming classes! Thanks!
@Sara Busquets Sanz - I don't know why I can't reply to you directly but I just wanted to say thank you for the transcript! It makes this program so much more valuable for study since many of the characters are barely legible in the low def format CCTV made available. I hope you'll do many more of the shows! Thanks!
Hope my videos can reach those who want to learn Chinese. I’ve spent about 100,000 hours studying English humor and Western culture. My native language is Chinese. I’m teaching Chinese language in jokes and pictures. Culture exchange and laughter can make the world better.
I started studying chinese last year at university but i found these videos extremely useful. Just one question: is the pronunciation we hear the right Beijing pronunciation? Because i find some words sound weird, like: 多少 spelled as "duo rao", 现在 spelled as xi(e)nzai (with a very short "e") and some others. 你们问我的问题我很高兴 (hope the sentence is correct ;) ).
As a Beijinger this is purely Beijing Chinese and even Chinese people may have difficulties understanding some words if they are not familiar with the way we talk hahaha but I'd love to see foreigners speak Chinese with a lot of Beijing slangs. :DDDD
I am a beginner so this is a little difficult for me, but this show is very interesting and funny. Surprisingly I have picked up on a lot more than I thought.
I need to recognize more words. The subtitles are a bit blurry.... funny show though, lol. And easy to understand phrasing, including some awkward phrases from the foreigner, very nice.
lot of people think this series is not helpful because the speech too fast, i started learning one year ago on my own and at the beginning i thought the same, but it will gradually improve, and for those who are willing to put the extra effort there is pinyin subtitle in cctv website, just google it
Am I the only one who finds it baffling that this show on "advanced Chinese" is wasting time teaching people what "你好“ means? Seriously? That's like the VERY first word you learn.
This video is my learning progress meter. A year ago I didn't understand a single word. It was far to fast... Now I get what they are talking about and unless special words I can understand what they say. For all who think it's too tough, do not give up. I do not study everyday, my progress is really small every week, but it's there...
David Strohmaier Same here.
Mine, too.
Inspriring....
Mine too 😁. I'm glad I'm not the only one using this video as my progress meter.
David Strohmaier how are you learning? By yourself?
As a native Chinese and originally from Beijing, where the series are shot, I would say it's extremely helpful for foreigners to learn Chinese, especially the way people communicate. Also lots of fun:)
can you please write the lyrics of the song at the beginning..?
thank you in advance
@@shereenahmed4215 大家跟我学，学说中国话。学说中国话呀，朋友遍天下……
@@Silver23399 i thought it was 学习中国话(xue xi zhong guo hua)， not 学说中国话(xue shuo zhong guo hua).
北京！ I’m an English speaker learning Mandarin and enjoying it! It’s beautiful and wonderful to me. 谢谢 and thank you for the cheers!!
If you're just dropping into this series, keep watching. It gets more and more hilarious.
Oh my god I used to watch this every day in 2012 to pick up the accent and new words, and never dreamed I could ever go to China..... I´ve been living in China for 6 years now. For everyone studying Chinese: YOU CAN DO IT!
What is this show called
LOL. I thought I was gonna learn a few phrases for the first 44 seconds. Then my two months of Chinese study were blown away at :45. This series is pretty awesome!
U first
I teach dual-immersion Mandarin in a public elementary in the US. I show my 2nd grade (8 years old) American dual-immersion Mandarin students these episodes almost every day. At the beginning of the year I told them to try and recognize at least 1 or 2 words and then we discussed what they heard. They loved it. Now they can pick out whole sentences and we discuss (in simple Mandarin) what that particular episode's plot is. It has really helped them get used to the normal speed of spoken Mandarin! I noticed today that the 117 playlist has been blocked. Anyone else have the same issue?
Great show but I wish there is a pinyin subtitle that Chinese subs :) then this will be the perfect show for Chinese learner, well it's still a great show!
agree. that plus slowing it down with the youtube settings would help me a lot. But I'll continue to study elsewhere and then come back to check on my progress. :)
That right.
Any body here he help me in job matter
Sohail Almani what kind of job do u need help with?
@@kaussartortay3417 I need good job official or company job in other countrie just like China and London
this is really useful to differentiate textbook Chinese from normal conversations among native speakers. I try listen carefully for these differences, trying not to sound like a Chinese textbook. hilarious how a pretty fluent lao wai begins by practicing the most common ni hao greetings as if that were the full extent of her vocabulary...LOL.
Fortunately the earth is round she'll come back later or sooner 04:14 😂
Susan was so adorable. Love to see her smile.
This is a really good video for Mandarin learners. Sort of in between beginner conversation and intermediate. I watch this over and over again. Very helpful!
A tip! You should reduce the speed to 0.75x 😊
Holy shit that's a genius idea for this video and the rest of Chinese TH-cam ones.
Oh my goodness. Thank you so much for this tip 🙏🏿🙏🏿
TBH, you're probably better off just watching it repeatedly.
wow that's awesome. Now I can actually catch a word or two, Thank you!
Hello,Everyone.I come from China and surely i'm a Chinese native speaker.I think this program is very helpful to you if you want to learn Chinese.And i'm willing to help you to enhance your Chinese skill.
Ni hao, I think I would need your help. I plan to come to china next spring festival. :) I wonder if you have qq international?.. xie xie
+iHEARTt0kyo16 i have qq.but i dont know.whether it's international version. my qq is 570579960 and you can also email me at 570579960@qq.com
thanks! I think it doesn't matter whatever version you have, as the purpose of qq is to eliminate language barrier with the help of the translator, so you ca just chat with everyone in the world without knowing their language. :)
水澄茗 请问你有微信吗？
I would really love some help
Wow amazing, Susan's Chinese is so good！I hope to learn fast so that I can one day become as proficient as Susan 师父。
I sill think she is stupid 😒🤷♂️🤷♀️
So ?
4 years after
没错，你从不会放弃。。不放弃。 ,,right,never give up,never..
This is a reminder to my future self: I started learning 1/1/2024. Let´s see how far I can go.
Hello 🤗
Are you still learning?
How far have you got?
@@Abdurhman_English Slowly. But I don't expect to learn it in less than two years. Ask me then.
I would agree with last comment. I could not believe how many extra words I was able to understand when I went back to it too!
Thanks for tip on reducing speed - it made things even better!
What a gem for learning Mandarin! Thanks for uploading!!
I love the oncle (older man), his acting is funny : )
+Ay Caramba absolutely! :)
acting is as good as it could be in such series and the dialogues are pretty clever; thanks for doing this, it's kind of helpful and fun to watch :)
Thank you thank you Thank you sooooo much. I am watching this in 2022
It is gold that I stumbled upon by chance. And boy, I am so grateful for this. Xiexie ni.
I know this is just a serie, and nothing is perfect, but I find Chinese so warm I love Chinese culture, and I am studying Chinese now, I hope I can learn a lot and then come back to this video and tell myself "Oh it was worth it
" I also hope I can go to China later
OMGGG It was worth it guys!!! I understand about 70-80% of what they're saying
It helps a lot to watch this on 0.75x playback speed if anyone thinks it's super fast.
We are ladies
Are you sure?
No, I'm a donut
YY L lmfao
Lol 😂
this made me laugh more than it shouldve
It was perfectly in time with the transgender toilets of America.
Beijing dialect/ accent is very Interesting. this drama included a lot of spoken Chinese.
I'm a Chinese person who speak Mandarin & Cantonese.
I am planning to learn Mandarin later this year and even though I can't understand 99% of what is being said, I do see the value in watching this. Especially since the foreign woman speaks, it makes you realize that while difficult, foreigners CAN learn to speak it. (I have no idea if this is Mandarin or not but still worth watching).
It is been 8 years. Did you succeed in learning mandarin?
你好，你现在可以说中文吗。 我每天练习。
I still remember when I first watched the video and just were looking at the subtitles. Now I understood 100%, need to guess 20%.
Awesome
LOVE IT. so Chinese, so much great dialogue for beginners, but then only those two examples LOL this is for someone studying IN China. Without having ever been, I think it would be hard to grasp how good the dialogue is and the examples are way too simple.
The screaming at 3:03---close your eyes while listening and you'd think he had his gouged out.
D K not funny. But I don't know why I laughed so hard
It's trippy seeing the white girl speak chinese so well. But it's not only the way she speaks, she actually mastered all of the expressions of a chinese person. I wonder if this actor was born in china
she is from romania.
xihang yang how did she learn to speak Mandarin so well?
+MilkQuiee you learn it like any other language, Her skin colour in fact really has nothing to with how well she can speak chinese. (There are many white chinese native speakers ...)
Da wei knows Daewae
Im da wei
Love this show! I didn't expect it to, but it actually made me laugh pretty hard
Excellent ,lots of practical ,useful exchanges and well done.
teaching people ni hao in advance chinese is too ironic lol
KeepItLit definitely very odd! Why give an explanation that a beginner wouldn’t understand also?! 😅
So you teach?
这个世界很美好，因为中国人民住在这儿。电影很好看。我最喜欢。我六个月学习中文，自己学习，因为我没有学校，没有老师。
大家好，我也学习中文，我也非常想去中国， 我是德国人， 我11 岁的时候开始自己学中文，我以前自己学中文。 还有别的芋圆， 但是平时普通话
加油加油
English speakers seem to have an easier time learning Mandarin than other people because both languages follow a SVO word order. Subject-verb- object ex., He goes home. There are also many words in English that are the same yet change when the stress is placed on a different letter. Ex., Bow like bow tie, and bow -like bending from the waist.
I love the Chinese language and culture! Thanks for uploading these great lessons.
I'm glad I found this. This is so helpful. I want to continue learning Chinese.
对， 你还在学习汉语吗？？？ 我也很想在学习，学习。。不放弃。。我是德国人，请问，你呢？？ 我36 岁
Love it guys! really enjoyed it. One tip if you could make the Hanzi a bit bigger :D
I'm practicing my reading English with this.
where can i find a beginner version? :)
i mean like this kind of "show".
I wish if I were able to at least understand. I love this language and culture so much.
This show is really useful for studying I think. Also on Youku which is pretty handy when you're in China.
Thank you for sharing!
Nice video, a fun and good learning material. And it's rich with Chinese.
I am in love with this Happy Chinese. Zie Zie
你好，我很高兴 找到这个。 我是美国人。 谢谢你 再见。
你好，我也觉得，我是德国人，我去也很想学习去中文， 你写的很好。。你也自己学汉语吗？ 我是。。你去过中国吗？ 我还没去过中国，我很想去中国
first ten minutes are slow/tough BUT -- Give It A Chance!
It DOES have great learning content BUT you have to get to it through the stuff you don't understand. Teaching style is similar to Growing up with Chinese. CUWC is a bit easier. This is all just HSK4 and the teaching materials are 1-3. They producers method is to give you more than you can handle in the skit, then to show you what you can get in the teaching intermissions. PLUS ITS HILARIOUS but yeah firs ten minutes are slow. So glad I stuck with it!
Great 👍 thanks
Oh, this has resurfaced in my feed somehow. I did wonder what it was and where it was from all those years ago.
Hello guys:
Today's July 18 , 2024.
I have started learning Chinese since two months and I am in HSK 1.
Now, I can understand barely 3% of the show.
I'll com after six months (may be the next Summer vacation of 2025) and see How much I can understand.
-MY Goal : Understand about 80% (without English subtitles)
*SEE you then 👋🏼
I am also learning Mandarin, have been for over a year now. I only have time to do one class a week because of work. I don't get much of a chance to use what I learn in class, so learning is going slow. My understanding of characters and reading is much better than my speaking skills.
Anyway what I wanted to say is check the playlists on this channel. Watch the series "Growing up with Chinese". As it will take you through your learning at a much slower pace. I hope you are progressing well with your studies....Good luck.
Actually the better You Tube channel for that language series is "Centroriente" as it has all episodes uploaded.
Great video! Its so corny but so endearing.
Been looking for this....long time
I'm a beginner but thank heavens I have at least 60 Hanyu characters under my belt (I've learnt). So I can understand some words and phrases and I can actually learn some others. But if I were a beginner from scratch then it might be difficult as one would need to decipher the learning at a slower level. If only there was a beginner series as you seem to have the conversation right and an interesting way to learn. Do you do befinner series?
use simple characters to communicate with Chinese. At first you can just use three or four characters as a sentence to communicate with others, then use more,five ,six ,or even more.
Thanks, this is very good advice. I will find some people on WeeChat and hopefully practice as am a little further on now.
Guys! I want more! What is this? Only 7 series? Need more!
Евгений Григорьев
Actually there are probably 100 episodes. I watched many of them on TH-cam. They must still be there somewhere!
its actually amusing in a good way 😭😭
She didn't take her shoes off :(((
MsHeatofthemoment I think that's japan or atleast they do it in japan.
+Jean-Eider Pierre-Louis Chinese do it too.. like many things in the East it probably started in China :)
you need to offer the slipper first before she take it off.
Susan說得真好!
Thanks for the upload! Helps me alot :)
非常感谢你。这是一个非常专业的工作
india
>>>>>china
THIS IS HILARIOUS
My chinese teacher made me watch this
Nice comedy show with information of Chinese culture.
This was pretty good in terms of practical exchanges, but I have no idea why you guys introduced such basic stuff like 你好 or 你是美国人吗 when the actual conversation is fairly advanced. I think if you made it that far into the show it's a given that you already know how to say hello and ask where somebody is from...
That 老外 has such hilariously Chinese mannerisms!
I was also questioning that
It's an immersive method : you're not supposed to understand everything you hear ; just like if you were in China. It's probably the most efficient method when it's well conducted.
Love the show. It would help to have the Pinyin. It's hard to look up specific Chinese words due to differences in grammar between English and Chinese. And Google doesn't give the same translations (or probably the correct ones)
I need a second season of this show
Thank you so much!! 谢谢。
I love this show
Love this xie xie ni
This will be good if i have some basic. Now need to learn basic to make this video useful to me
this show isn't half bad. I enjoyed it
Is there a workbokk that goes with this video series?
This is definitely what would be considered intermediate level spoken Mandarin by US standards, and yes, it's hard to follow if you haven't spent much time in actual contemporary conversation. I agree with comments here that it seems silly that the learning points emphasized are "ni/nin hao" and "ni shi mei guo ren ma", when are only demonstrated a few times, and the remainder of the dialogue goes in many other directions. And how is a beginning learner supposed to follow the grammar explanations in Mandarin? This is very useful for learning the rhythms of standard (Northern) spoken Mandarin in "realistic" discourse, but would be a much better tool if the dialogue focused on a more distinct set of at-level learning objectives, and specifically introduced new vocabulary in context. PS, I was last in China in the early 90's as an English teacher: wow, look how rich everyone is!
I'm a US polyglot. US standards for foreign languages are weaksauce, even worse than Britain or France. Mon-o-ling-gual.
"Ultra advanced level, for US people" ....aka the makers of FOREST GUMP.
Mind blowing video. Very nice video.
Thanks a lot for making this video .
I have subscribed your Chanel. Im learning Chinese to TH-cam.
Love from Pakistan Lahore Changa Manga Waan Khara.
Some of the 'english' subtitles are very chinglishy. But the Chinese is good. So, all in all a really cool resource. I'll use it in upcoming classes! Thanks!
I thought so too about the way they translated it into English. Sometimes I had to read the English twice to understand the conversation.
我会手一点普通话. 这个视频对我有帮助. Thank you!
很有趣謝謝您，我愛漢語。
Perfect for learning 汉语。”I Love Lucy” in Mandarin 😂👍💪
我是印度人。印度欢迎您。你们的 视频很好看我
this is actually very good.. im going to used this video to help improve my mandarin.. thank you !!
the show is good. but chinese subtitles are too small
@Sara Busquets Sanz - I don't know why I can't reply to you directly but I just wanted to say thank you for the transcript! It makes this program so much more valuable for study since many of the characters are barely legible in the low def format CCTV made available. I hope you'll do many more of the shows! Thanks!
Chinese new year and Chinese traditional culture. China represents for Top east civilization
Hello everyone. Does someone know how to get the script of the video?
This is the first time I have heard "Happy New Year" as "Guò Nián Hao" at 14:23. I learned it as "Xīn Nián Hao" and also "Xīn Nián Kuàilè".
Hope my videos can reach those who want to learn Chinese.
I’ve spent about 100,000 hours studying English humor and Western culture. My native language is Chinese. I’m teaching Chinese language in jokes and pictures.
Culture exchange and laughter can make the world better.
That also confused me. I've only passed HSK-1 on HelloChinese but I learned elsewhere that "Happy new year" is "xin nian kuai le".
I started studying chinese last year at university but i found these videos extremely useful. Just one question: is the pronunciation we hear the right Beijing pronunciation? Because i find some words sound weird, like: 多少 spelled as "duo rao", 现在 spelled as xi(e)nzai (with a very short "e") and some others. 你们问我的问题我很高兴 (hope the sentence is correct ;) ).
they said "beijie" (north street) not beijing
多少 is duoshao not duorao
and your sentence..what were you trying to say? lol
i think there is not like a standard mandarin. people from Beijing talk with like an "r" accent.
3:02 oscar worthy fall 😂
As a Beijinger this is purely Beijing Chinese and even Chinese people may have difficulties understanding some words if they are not familiar with the way we talk hahaha but I'd love to see foreigners speak Chinese with a lot of Beijing slangs. :DDDD
What's the name of this Chinese TV series called?
I am a beginner so this is a little difficult for me, but this show is very interesting and funny. Surprisingly I have picked up on a lot more than I thought.
OMG, I can all understand. Thank you so much
wonderful but the sound volume is too quiet
This is so great for learning! xiè xiè for posting this! ((:
I like it so far :)
I'm not gonna lie, the culture is getting to me. I'm learning chinese and I know nothing of chinese culture.
Jean-Eider Pierre-Louis me too I losten to cinese songs just because I love the sound of it and little by little I hope to learn more and more
"ni shuo shui xiao ji ne?" what does it mean?
I need to recognize more words. The subtitles are a bit blurry.... funny show though, lol. And easy to understand phrasing, including some awkward phrases from the foreigner, very nice.
lot of people think this series is not helpful because the speech too fast, i started learning one year ago on my own and at the beginning i thought the same, but it will gradually improve, and for those who are willing to put the extra effort there is pinyin subtitle in cctv website, just google it
Am I the only one who finds it baffling that this show on "advanced Chinese" is wasting time teaching people what "你好“ means? Seriously? That's like the VERY first word you learn.
Well seeing as you can't even spell 'first', starting with the basics doesn't look too bad of a start for you actually.
Holly sun Grammar NAZI alert!
Mr. MePhisto's Geek Manifesto hue
it's episode 1 and they have to reach all levels of learners.
plus you have to learn the hanzi so
have you seen the Serious Guy videos?