This could be made into a competition, where people/teams (preferable non native speakers) compete against each other on Chinese television. Then the judges would give points for creativity etc. and of course if the teams get it right. Thanks for having me again on your video :)
loved it. i recently started to study chinese & this vid just motivates me even more, seems like a lot of fun and so interesting,,, love your channel ✨
My favorite is 鹬蚌相争 paraphasing "When the snipe and clam fight the fisherman profits" simliar to the English phrase "United we stand, divided we fall". If two parties are warring a third could take advantage. There's a famous and beautiful Chinese animated film if this celluoid cells of which are in the Beijing Film Museum.
Fun game. Your playful nature somewhat belies your intelligence - must be a Chinese idiom for that. Very admirable as I am the opposite i.e. a serious dullard. Keep up the good works.
对牛弹琴，the character “琴” doesn’t mean by piano lol. We basically didn’t have piano in the past time. It’s originally from an ancient Chinese story. A guy was playing “古琴”(a Chinese traditional 7 strings instrument) to a cow in a pretty wild place but the cow could not understand anything really. It’s entertaining to learn “成语” and also the culture behind. It’s great.
玲玲, do you know there are some Chinese idioms which have character 玲 ？for example, 小巧玲珑 which means small and elegant, built in a sophisticated way. usually used do describe things like antique. 八面玲珑 means a person very good at maintaining good relationship with people.
LOL I like this funny video😄😄 in fact, the idiom is of little avail in a Chinese conversation, we don't often utilize the idioms, so don't be intimidated by the 'verbal terrorism'. In addition to this, I want to correct that of the idiom 对牛弹琴，琴 is not the piano, it could be translated to Guqin or Chinese Zither. You know there was no piano in ancient China)
Loved this! A lot of fun, makes me want to study idioms.
+Miriam In China me too! It was so fun to learn a few 😀😀
One of my favorite things I've done on TH-cam this past year :D
Austin In China 庄周梦蝶，白手起家
Can you do more videos like that it's realy amazing , it help a lot of learning chinese language ♥
Yeah, love this video.
+soumia benamar I'll try to come up with some 😁
This could be made into a competition, where people/teams (preferable non native speakers) compete against each other on Chinese television. Then the judges would give points for creativity etc. and of course if the teams get it right.
Thanks for having me again on your video :)
I just followed your channel kind sir 🌝
That's a good idea hahaha! I would watch it.
Miriam In China Hello Miriam hope you are doing well 🌝
I am! I hope you're doing well too :)
Miriam In China I am ☺️
loved it. i recently started to study chinese & this vid just motivates me even more, seems like a lot of fun and so interesting,,, love your channel ✨
+yaritza iyagui yay happy to hear it was helpful 😁😁
My favorite is 鹬蚌相争 paraphasing "When the snipe and clam fight the fisherman profits" simliar to the English phrase "United we stand, divided we fall". If two parties are warring a third could take advantage. There's a famous and beautiful Chinese animated film if this celluoid cells of which are in the Beijing Film Museum.
As always a top class video about all things China Lingling 😉👍
+Jessie Horne hope you wrote them down 😁😁
Lenaaround I did 😉👍
Hi ! Georg and Austin and your lovely wife. Lingling very interesting and fun. It challenge and motivate me. Great video ! Appreciate it.
+Voltaire Duterte thank you for watching 😁 it was so fun to make this video and meet these amazing ppl 😋
Fun game. Your playful nature somewhat belies your intelligence - must be a Chinese idiom for that. Very admirable as I am the opposite i.e. a serious dullard. Keep up the good works.
+Gerry M my imagination is much better than my logic sense haha
Imagination is what separated Einstein from all those other hack physicists. Not saying your Einstein, just saying.
This is a great video, looking forward to see more.
+Larry Wu happy you liked it!
I got 2 out of 3! glad to learn the new one about being armchair strategist :)
+WooKong love learning new things 😁😁
A very good vid, indeed. Keep more coming.
+中國一 Chinafirst thank you for watching!
对牛弹琴，the character “琴” doesn’t mean by piano lol. We basically didn’t have piano in the past time. It’s originally from an ancient Chinese story. A guy was playing “古琴”(a Chinese traditional 7 strings instrument) to a cow in a pretty wild place but the cow could not understand anything really. It’s entertaining to learn “成语” and also the culture behind. It’s great.
+Lei's Lifestyle very interesting, thank you for sharing 😀
Lenaaround no worries xx
I am a native Chinese speaker. 与＂狐假虎威＂相近的成语还有，随便举一个：狗仗人势。其用法略有不同
+sui hua 也没听过，哈哈，成语太难了！
I like this topic
假 in classical Chinese means to borrow. That would makes more sense. So 狐假虎威 is roughly translated to a fox borrows a tiger's power/ability.
+Lai Wei now it makes much more sense haha 😂😂
love the last one, have to jot that down.
+HMS Beagle you should 😁
玲玲, do you know there are some Chinese idioms which have character 玲 ？for example, 小巧玲珑 which means small and elegant, built in a sophisticated way. usually used do describe things like antique. 八面玲珑 means a person very good at maintaining good relationship with people.
+trisoil I didn't haha but thanks, they're so cool!
you are welcome.
love this :)
+RP G Thanks
excellent video！
+zhenhua ai thank you for watching
Fox posing as a tiger, a paper tiger.
Georg is daddy
Wow, you are Chinese expert, know more Chinese than I do.
The gold digger part literally kills me😂
+LazyMark2 who knows right???
Easier said than done, donald trump.
Fake tiger in Norway , my god , what next ? It was funny though , thank you .
+kamhong just guessing lol, my imagination is all over the place 😁😁
玲玲：我曾留言成语＂狗仗人势＂，没想到今天收到了你的反馈，借此再荐言几句，学习成语无捷径可走，只能靠＂日积月累＂（日积月累是句成语），建议你一边学成语，可以考虑一边再学习歇后语，做到：搂草打兔子 -- 带捎。中国的歇后语是民间的智慧，它是利用中文的谐音，如掌握的多，用的好，就能达到＂画龙点晴＂的效果。随便给你举几个歇后语：1. 搂草打兔子 - 带捎，是说某人目的是上山打柴打草，路上恰巧碰见了一只兔子，逮住了兔子回家吃肉，草也打了，意外又收获了兔子肉；2. 和尚打伞 - 无法（发）无天；3. 熊瞎子敲门 - 熊到家了；4. 熊瞎子打立正 - ＂一手遮天＂，这个有意思，第一句是歇后语，第二句歇后语谜底是句成语，形容某人太霸道；5. 有个小孩名字叫＂恶心＂，他妈自然可称为＂恶心他妈＂，这就有了下面这个歇后语：恶心他妈敲门 - 恶心他妈到家了；6. 秃头上的虱子 - 明摆著；7. 聋子耳朵 - 摆设；8.瞎子点灯 - 白费蜡；9. 老虎驾驭 - 谁敢（赶）？，一般都是马拉着车，车上有个人赶（指挥）着牲口，但这辆拉车的牲口是老虎，意思是有谁有胆量来赶（指挥）这辆虎拉车？；10. 下面这句歇后语难度大，也最有趣儿：豁牙子蹲墙根流口水 - 卑鄙（背壁）无耻（齿）下流，形容某人道德败坏。上面仅举了几个，中国民间有智慧的歇后语太多太多，希望你能看懂上面的歇后语，如不懂，不知一同跟你做此期节目的美国人奥斯丁能否看得懂、理解得了。
To drop names.
You glassses look very cute. You look like a cutie 猫头鹰 with the glasses.
To bluff, to appear more n stronger than you are,
The wrong audience that you got. Play piano to a cow.
What fun!
+Lisa Ahrendt it was indeed and thank you for wafching
Fun idea! But the Chinese level of the two guys is so low that makes following their reasonings painful gosh 😖😖😖
When is part 2?
why i just catching the resemblance of b
ruce lee on the face of guy on the lingling's right side ?
he's half germany / chinese.. same like bruce lee
+유대원 who knows, maybe they look alike lol
interesting!
+trisoil thank you for watching
Armchair quarterback.
LOL I like this funny video😄😄 in fact, the idiom is of little avail in a Chinese conversation, we don't often utilize the idioms, so don't be intimidated by the 'verbal terrorism'. In addition to this, I want to correct that of the idiom 对牛弹琴，琴 is not the piano, it could be translated to Guqin or Chinese Zither. You know there was no piano in ancient China)
+Yunlong Jiang haha that makes sense. Thank you for sharing!!
Lenaaround to learn from each other)
Firsties
成语都是历史故事，不知道中国历史的话，还有没学过文言文的话，真的很难理解。
Jack Yin 学过也不见得理解
李潇宇 文言文是学过也理解不了，成语还好
Jack Yin 一个亡羊补牢为时未晚 另一个亡羊补牢为时晚以 就能搞懵一堆学过中国历史的外国人 中国人当然容易理解