你好Eileen, 我真的爱你，all the goodness inthe my Chinese that I have mastered it's all because of your videos, nothing else. 其实谁让你知道这是最方便的学习方式. 我也真 想跟你徐一下一个视频来采访我，我住在南京，你呢？？😊 加油你的工作是最棒啊，请回复我🤗 可以吗？
I recommend everyone contribute to Mandarin Corner. Whatever amount you can afford. The $10 lifetime membership, etc. I'm a $5 per month Patreon member since 2018. I value the high quality language materials. I hope to visit China one day. I won't speak as well as Tyler, but it's a goal to work toward. I have no connection to Mandarin Corner, but want to encourage people to help keep this worthwhile project going. 加油！
I agree with you. I'm also a $5/month Patreon member, and even though I really don't have time to use the excellent material mandarincorner publishes, I'll keep supporting them. They (mandarincorner) are very humble, they even suggest the audience to make a one-time donation instead of asking for a monthly quantity. They deserve to have lots of patreons supporting them monthly, or at least in a one-time donation, as they are spending so much time and making such big effort to bring us good material to learn and improve our chinese. Thank you very much!
Can we do another video of Tyler?!!! He’s really cool!!! This video is really amazing and I must have watched it more than a hundred times. I just can’t get over how he is able to answer each and every question so easily. He kept the conversation so simple but at the same he was fully in control. This conversation was so real, I learned so much.
as a Russian, I find Tyler's speech to be extremely clean. I mean, the choice of words or the way he builds his sentences. It is much more natural to comprehend to a non-native, even if it is not that "Chinese" to the core :D Thank you for inviting him! As well as for all the videos you making, extremely helpful.
It's mostly due to him having a chinese wife. Of course he had to be invested himself to begin with but I can just tell from own experience once you have someone you actually come along with who speaks the language you want to learn with you (evne if it is "Chinglish") you will improve SO MUCH FASTER! I was in a chinese language school in Yangshuo for a month and they pair you up with a local as a roommate and I was lucky enough to become great friends with my roomy and we would keep talking half Englisch half Chinese together so we both improved so fast cause if we didn't know a word in the opposite language we could try to use our mothertongue and maybe the other person got that term and would translate it.It's also how I learned Englisch by living with a Canadian host family. To me personally you can cover basics up to intermediate on your own but to get to upper intermediate and fluent you have NO CHANCE without actually speaking to native speakers and watching shows in your goal language.
That's a lot of time, you're probably learning it the wrong way. You don't have to move to another country to have a great proficiency. But you do have to use it on a daily basis, to have fun, and to talk with native speakers when possible, something that you can easily have if you live in the country, but it's also a matter of how badly you want it
This was a very good video. It was interesting to hear a American talked about his experience learning Chinese. His Chinese may not have been perfect but I was impressed by the way he pronounced words and that he was able to have a communication with you at a fast speed. Chinese is not an easy language to learn but it is possible to learn with time and patience.
@@europec2082 True, and I sympathize with you, but for communicative purposes we differentiate between ethnicities and nationalities. However, keep on preaching because 99 percent of the Chinese people I meet don't understand that "American" is not an ethnicity. Lol.
Can anyone tell what is not perfect about his chinese? I have been learning mandarin for 8 months, and for me his pronunciation and tones are great, especially concidering that he has been learning for 4-5 years. Do maybe he is making grammar mistakes?
I just did the $10 and maybe more in the future! I am extremely impressed with not only the teaching but the sincere desire to help newbies like myself. Xiexie!!
I am a Chinese living in US. I am impressed by both Tyler and Eileen. Tyler speaks Chinese fluently and can have in-depth conversation with a native speaker, very impressive. I have not met any American here in America who speaks Chinese after living here for almost 20 years. Eileen is a very good interviewer. Her style is like peeling onions, from surface, layer by layer, gently and persistently. We got a lot more out of her interview and learn more about both parties every time. I feel Eileen should be a journalist.
Wow!!! This took me over 6 months to learn and I learnt a lot. I finally finished studying all 871 sentences in this video and realized that I am not a true Intermediate student, but it was necessary for me find this out. Tyler was very nice by replying to me and giving me advice and this also helped me immensely with the progress I made within this video. When he told me that his vocabulary consisted of about 12,000 to 15,000 words I was really impressed and at the same time I also realized how much more I had to learn. This gave me a definite idea of the progress I needed to make. One of the best learning experiences I have ever had and I have to say that it was so entertaining too!! Almost all the words in this video were completely new to me, but there were also many many words that I already knew from past courses that I have done, which helped a lot. My speaking and listening abilities also improved a lot. I very very highly recommend this particular video for any experienced beginner student who wants to make a transition to the intermediate level.
You posted this comment 8 months ago but I just wanted to let you know that I will try to use this as a study video until I remember all the words. I find that Tyler speaks clearly. I'm only at HSK2 level but it would be interesting to know how long it will take me to fully understand this video without looking up words.
You could learn all of the words in this video without having to look them up in less than 2 months if you dedicate 3 hours of study time daily, or 3 months if you do 2 hours of study a day. Use the Chegg Prep app to save your words to their flashcard system and also use the app Yabla Chinese English Pinyin Dictionary to look up each word from the video to get the complete meaning of each word. You can copy and paste from the Yabla app to the Chegg Prep flashcard system and also copy and paste sentence examples from the video transcript to the Chegg Prep flashcard system app. The video has 871 sentences so that means over a thousand words. Don’t wait till you finish learning the whole video to save each word to the Chegg Prepp flashcard system. This will take you a really really long time if you wait till the end!! Save each word you learn as you go
@@dakotaxu4792 Thank you for the tips. I have not heard of Chegg Prep and Yabla but will definitely take a look. I used Pleco for dictionary and Quizlet for flashcards but words don't seem to stick to my brain.
You can continue to use Quizlet for flashcards but I feel that Yabla Chinese English Pinyin dictionary is more extensive and useful than Pleco as I have both. I also find that Google Translate (set it to Chinese Simplified) works very well when used with Yabla especially in that very very rare instance that Yabla is not able to translate. If that happens simply copy and paste the Chinese characters from the video transcript and Google Translate will do the rest. Google Translate does not translate Pinyin but Yabla does. Once you put the sentence next to the word you are trying to remember it’s really easy to remember. However, as Tyler himself explains in the video, if you try to memorize words by themselves you will never remember them. These videos on Mandarin Corner are ABSOLUTELY necessary to learn Mandarin Chinese and the website has hundreds of them covering every subject under the sun. Eileen, the creator of these videos has put in a lot of work for us students by taking real world situations and turning them into language learning platforms. To remember the meanings of the words you NEED the sentences. Just copy and paste them onto the flashcards next to the word you want to learn
I also got to finishing going over the sentences, and am reviewing it once again as Tyler's advice was 看一次，听三次. So here I am, aiming to listen to this as many times as needed until I can understand nearly all of the words without reading the PDF. I I did notice a great improvement in my speaking and listening as I progressed through this video.
This is absolutely amazing for studying for the HSK 4- an authentic dialogue to hone in the example sentences I've looked at. I I need more vids like this!
Thanks Eileen, this is a great video to learn Mandarin! Also one of the things that stands to me is the quality of questions you ask, which uncover different parts of Tyler's experience in China bit by bit. It creates an interview with good flow that is useful in not only learning Chinese, but also for enjoying the content itself. Good job :)
So yesterday I studied this video from 5pm in the evening till 7am in the morning the next day, taking a one hour break between each hour. It was so much fun, which is why I barely noticed the time going by so quickly. I have been studying this particular video for over a month now and I’m almost at the end. I won’t ever forget this video because it was only yesterday that I realized that this video is about a conversation between two teachers. An American English teacher and a Chinese Mandarin teacher. I could go back to this video a hundred times and still be entertained.
Your ENGLISH is AMAZING -- and you are a natural teacher and it is wonderful to see your work grow in sophistication and your command of English FLOURISH！ That you make this affordable to all is a blessing to the world： GOOD LUCK KEEP FLOURISHING！
Hello Eileen . I feel that you are on right way about showing how foreigners use Chinese. Cuz lots of people study without class mates so really can not see how another people use it. So it is very helpful I think
Maksim Sokolov I find it very difficult to find opportunities to use and speak Chinese. All native speakers I know or meet are very eager and I may say relentless to practice their English. Or they require a level of Chinese that exceeds my level by far, and therefore again they switch to English. In my area there are no group classes and the few Chinese teachers I know in my country they charge too much money for one-on-one classes. Therefore I’m stuck with reading, listening, or talking to myself alone...
@@ImprovingAbility hi Feldenkrais. I mean I know may be 4k Chinese words but in conversation can use only 500)) So it is interesting how other non native speakers find their minimum vocabulary to express theirs thoughts
Hi Feldenkrais with Alfons, you are not stuck talking to yourself. You CAN find good language partners on *language exchange websites* like conversationexchange.com. BUT, you need to set the rules for the language exchange and stick to them. For example, tell your potential partner you to want to do half an hour of English and half an hour of Chinese. And, specify that the spoken Chinese needs to be slow and at a level you can understand (you will do the same in English). If the partner does not abide by these requirements then *DROP THEM* and look for someone else until you find the right partners for you. If you let them take advantage of your kindness then they will. Many Chinese know that it is easy to get foreigners to give up practicing Chinese and they will do things like speak fast or with complicated Chinese with the idea that you will become frustrated and start speaking English. So you need to find partners that will genuinely agree to fair language exchange rules. English speakers are more in demand than Chinese speakers so you can eventually find good language exchange partners if you continue trying.
Eileen asks such great questions. Some are written down but many you can tell she asks according to her instincts in how the last questions was answered. And of course she always repeatedly comes back to the one question we never get tired of: 19:52 "How did you learn Chinese well" LOL :) Thank you Eileen - great job! 太好了！
Excellent. I was able to learn a lot of conversational vocabs. The caption really helps. First time watched, tried to cache in what they were saying. Second time, tried to understand. Third, tried to watch without looking at the caption and so on. By far, one of my favourite web site to watch and learn.
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One of my favorite episodes so far. Your reaction to him saying he was reading, [I'm assuming a philosopher], was priceless 🤣 I'm guessing the edit was to ask him "why they hell are you trying to learn that?" Sincerely, 好厉害 😎 ( 开玩笑，不是我的名字）
Mandarin Corner thank you sooo much for taking out the time to provide all of this content for us. I love you and I’m praying for you to keep doing what your doing. You’ve helped change my life for the better. He said that he didn’t learn much from Pimsleur. I wanted to ask him why not? I hope you have a blessed day!
After watching this video multiple times, I am more and more impressed by the American and his use and command of vocabulary within the video. He is very very fluid in his delivery and is able to field every question thrown at him, sometimes even elaborating on a topic freely. The video keeps you interested all the way to the end because the conversation is very interesting and natural and for NOT TRUE INTERMEDIATE students like myself, it gives us a lot of confidence and shows us a CLEAR path ahead to fluency: that is, learn new words along the way while keeping up with the conversation, then watch the video again and it suddenly makes sense. Even now I just can’t believe how easily the American has such a command on vocabulary that he can so easily mold his answers to the questions thrown at him with such ease. I could watch this particular video over and over. I sincerely appreciate the efforts of Mandarin Corner to bring such material to their audience
Thanks a lot! The more I learn in Chinese the more I realize how little I know. Fluency is not the end, it is not the beginning of the end. It's merely the end of the beginning.
Tylers_World I watch this video every day so I can study it and I’m really impressed by how huge your vocabulary is. No matter what questions Eileen throws at you, you easily find the words to answer those questions, without having to stop and think or having to search for words. It’s just very very impressive
Tylers_World hey Tyler, I am literally 5 sentences away from finishing studying this video featuring you and it was really so much fun, and quite possibly the best learning experience for me. It took me over three months but I learned so much. I’m really curious about something. Is it possible for you to estimate how large your vocabulary is in Mandarin? Thanks so much
@@dakotaxu4792 passive vocabulary, in that when I read or hear it I understand-25k or more 单词 (LingQ says 23k, but I've since read a lot more). Active vocabulary, in that I can spontaneously use those words in conversation, probably 12-15k. Again, those are 单词, not 字, because I believe they are a better measure of fluency. I have having dinner with some people and they were eager to discuss American news and politics, which really stretched my abilities. I stumbled a few times, but still was better than when this video was made.
i loveeeee the interview,,,i can agree with him..there is definitively an attraction for a Chinese culture, history and all..it is demonstrated, you learn it when you love what you do...i am very happy for him...
Yes, Chinese history and culture is so rich and diverse. I could spend the rest of my life studying and barely scratch the surface. I especially like listening to 中国古典音乐 when I'm studying.
Keeping it up with the great content! Thanks, Eileen. It's so much more interesting to practice listening to videos like this than the usual language learner material.
I love this example of a person who was not good at languages and yet he did his best to learn Chinese. He is the level of my Chinese 3 students who are pretty good at learning Chinese and living in Okinawa or Tokyo ( Americans). This is very impressive for someone doing their best on their own.
This video was another awesome one. I love that you really push your interviewees to speak in detail on subjects not just a “touch and go” approach. I hope to find a way to support what you’re doing in a major way some day. I love language, I study many languages, I move slower than most people because I just have a unique approach (overall) that includes music and food and just culture all around. I agree with Tyler that listening is one of the biggest things you can do to help you learn, and reading really helps because when it comes time to speak, thinking of what to say will come much easier, it’s more recall just like how you do in your native language and not so much as trying to mentally formulate sentences, if that makes sense. Also if you read say like the transcripts you guys provide, you can eventually get fast enough to read it in the speed that native speakers do and this will help you hear the unique sounds native speakers make when they speed through a sentence. As in you can tell where words or phrases begin and end. As a musician and lover of math and patterns, language comes easy to me so I can do things like take a Spanish and French class together- yeah, Difficulties are always there, and I actually prefer self study/ resources like these, over formal classes I’ve learned, but if you love a challenge, language learning is one of the best things you can do. Trust and allow the process. Trying to learn it really fast is just silly, you basically never stop learning a language.
Wow, I have been studying chinese and his vocabulary and flow of sentences are a lot better than mine....I am 20 years into my first contact with China....however my pronunciation is better.....but the best teacher is a native wife I can tell....great video
Cette vidéo me confirme dans l’idée largement répandue d’ailleurs, que le chinois est une langue très difficile à apprendre; mais qu’une fois qu’on la sait elle devient une langue très facile. Je veux dire par la que j’ai reconnu au passage des mots, des expressions tant à l’écrit qu’à l’oral. Comme le dit Tyler, il convient d’apprendre des phrases par coeur et les vidéos d’Eileen sont très efficaces pour cela. Interview passionnante et de qualité, merci aux deux protagonistes.
You understand some words and expressions or more, some you hear for the first time and it lands somewhere I in your memory, some you recognize barely, some you think you know, some are quickly friendly some are stubborn and don't want to be friends, just like people, some you miss. All in all the more you listen, hear, misunderstand, guess, confound for other words...but all these situations will eventually be absorbed in your memory. Just perseverance will get you to the other language, everyone of if us with their own rythm. Thumbs up!
Between 261 and 266 and also between 275 and 284 Eileen is thoroughly amused with Tyler! This is my favorite video and I keep coming back to it to refresh myself on the vocabulary, of which Tyler unbelievably has full control
Great video! It's awesome to hear non natives speakers able to have a fluent conversation in Chinese. Would be great to interview non white foreigner's as well. I'm sure there are many, and it'd be great to hear their experiences as well!
He uses the same method as me to learn words... 21:40 I think this is a really effective method for people who don't have time constraints with learning a foreign language. But you need to keep having conversations with others or reading something like him to keep reintroducing yourself to new words. It's the same way you learn new words in your native language. Also, learning stories helps you pick up new vocabulary and listening to stories you know helps you solidify it. There's a podcast I recommend on top of this one: 听故事学中文
Hi! I love your videos, today is my 9th day studying Chinese and your videos make my studies very fun. I hope to one day be able to speak to my girlfriends parents :) Keep up the good work and I'll be sure to donate!
Very good video! I enjoyed listening to Tyler’s experiences in China. Also, I could understand his Chinese a little better than native speakers. Maybe because he has only been speaking Chinese for only a few years. And maybe that his accent and pronunciation are similar to mine. I liked this video and will watch it some more times to help my listening skills.
Hi Eileen, don't know if you're still reading comments from this vid but thanks a lot for this content. I've just started my mandarin journey and hearing about a westerner's experience has made me really curious to go to china and improve my skills! I'll definitely be donating. Thanks again
This was amazing! I'm still learning, all for love of this culture and my husband of course. This was very helpful! I wish I came across more videos like this that were this length, not just a minute or two. 谢谢❤
Hi Francis Li, thanks for the feedback. Nearly all our videos are long with full pinyin. For example, you may want to check out the following two playlist when you get a chance: *Expressing Opinions in Chinese:* th-cam.com/play/PL7VdqFXO0LzeYYQgDsU5oIrWYLX78aQWx.html *Walk Around:* th-cam.com/play/PL7VdqFXO0Lzcsb6bcxb3TIfBfrAZSbKTd.html
Eileen, thank you for uploading. Conditions to understand a country are: 1. Learning the language 2. Travel not in an organized group or much better, stay some years in this country.
There is a lot of Chinese-Peruvian restaurants here in Peru. Their food is a fusion of Cantonese and Peruvian and those restaurants are called in Spanish "Chifa". I guess some Peruvian heard a long time ago a Cantonese person saying "Chifan" and the name stayed forever.
I'm grateful to Mr Taylor and, of course, to you, MC's guys, for having shared with all of us several aspects of his own Chinese experience in such a lovely way: very interesting, very useful to improve my Mandarin language knowledge, and a lot of fun! I'd like as well to make him a few questions, but in Chinese (good training!) , not simply in English! I'll try to write down (写下）! 下次再见！Bye! If I fail, I'll make them in Engl!🤭 路易沙 Luisa 🧝🏼♀️🐺
I enjoyed this conversation very much although I had to read the subtitles most of the time. However, the vocabulary here is exactly what I am interested in so have downloaded the pdf to study it. This was enough for me to donate the $10 since I have enjoyed this and several other videos by Mandarin Corner. Thank you! I also agree with Tyler's learning strategy. I teach ESL and after each class I have a practice session with the Chinese speakers so I can practice Mandarin. Like Tyler says, the most common words come up over and over again so it is a natural way of remembering them. Also my grammar stinks but the Chinese speakers are so happy to help me and sympathize with me since I struggle with zhongwen the way they struggle with yingwen.
Great content! Right at my level. I find myself depending on the subtitles a bit less compared to the more casual roadside conversations with native speakers. 😂
Mandarin Corner still coming with more exciting video, like d market fruits interview plus fish vendor , vegetable vendor n Cantonese cooking style dishes that U tried and bite, i enjoyed watching yor video!
I was listening to another and I accidentally fell asleep asleep and I literally had a dream while listening to this... I heard every single go word in my dream. The person representing this guy was 小馬紐約 and the interviewer was my teacher from school. It was so weird. I had just woken up and decided to get listening in with another video and then I woke up after 10 minutes of this played like a dream
He seems to struggle to speak quite a bit, and yet his vocab is really impressive, and also he is using some amazing grammar, which usually westerners wouldn't. I wonder if maybe because he is focusing so much on the grammar, he is slowing down all the time to try to think about it? Regardless, he is listening and vocab is great - Nice work!
He probably memorizes a lot of words phonetically or using pinyin, but due to Chinese being a difficult tonal language and him not using the words often enough makes him slower then a native speaker. Some of his pronunciation is off, but regardless his vocabulary and his listening skills and being able to hold a conversation with a native speaker is very impressive already.
Awesome interview! I seem to be following a similar learning path to Tyler (eg. with the word meaning lookups anytime it comes up, having most trouble listening, not truly learning how to write except for via shou3ji1). Living in China clearly made a big difference to how fast he learned as I'm in year 3 and not nearly half as good as that yet.
Im so impressed in d content og your video Aileen! I had watched most of d great vlog u made like d Hongkong episode, d MACAU EPISODE AND THE MOUUNTAIN GIANT BUDHA IN CHINA EPISODE, I LIKE ALL YOUR VIDEO VLOGS, SUPER INCREDIBLE N SO MUCH INFO AND FUN, CONGRATULATIONS!
This guy is pretty good, he has somewhat of an accent though, I think a few of the tough sounds like zh, ch he hasn't quite mastered yet, though he has a good attitude towards learning the language unlike the other foreigners in China. He's spot on about the less than 5% of foreigners in China can actually speak Chinese, I think it's even less than that. I've been in China for less than one year and I've still not meet any foreigners who speak as well as me or this guy.
@@THEBIGGESTSCUMBAG Who said anything about hate? That's just an observation and considering he has been in China for quite a while it's fair to make such a remark. Are you from the ghetto or something?
(5:39) Huh, so that's what Esperanto is called in Mandarin. Interesting. Would anybody in the comments mind perhaps explaining why the Mandarin word for Esperanto is 'shìjièyǔ'? I can't hear much phonetic similarity between the English/Indoeuropean 'es + per + an + to' and 'shì + jiè + yǔ', so I guess the name isn't an approximation of the original word but some kind of calque. Is that right?
Yes, you right Franco! These videos have A LOT of sentences that need 3 sets of subtitles - this one had *871 sentences,* and sometimes we miss one even thought we review the sentences SEVERAL times!
I've enjoyed very much the acquaintance with Mr Tyler through this past video.The impression I got by watching it, was one of a sensitive and independent-minded fellow (as I ought always be!). It seems, one can no more pour a little bit of romanticism, or even esotism on his life nowadays! Or simply cultivate a strong desire to definitely change his own life! One mustn't necessarily always have so precise, clear and well-considered plans, such as aspirations! Let's leave, please, at least a little corner to dreaming, to fancying, and to one's own pure instinct! Why we should not? In order to avoid bad surprises? A useless effort! As they shall come anyway, anytime and anywhere! Mr Tyler is a living proof, it seems me, that it can be succeessful! He has finally and for the moment - as nothing is forever still! - found his own place in the world, hasn't he? And you, Eileen, have you ever told us (I may have got it past! But if you have not, it may be an interesting input for one story of yours to tell us!) how is it you have gone to U.S? You are over there, aren't you? I don't make a blunder, do I? Thanks to both if you! (Sorry, but I have no time TO TRY to translate these sentences into Chinese!) 🧝🏼♀️🐺
I've actually told my story in previous videos, but without regular English translation. Here is a link to the series: th-cam.com/video/qP_ihrfU6wQ/w-d-xo.html By the way, I have never been to the U.S. and would like to visit one day.
Nice one if u interviewed foreign person its nice to learn coz their Accsent easy to learn trust me this will be most viewed Vidio and pls make like this one more video thanks a lot !!
Wait.. Are these subtitles all done by hand or is there voice recognition software for this? podcast真的很好。他的水平和我差不太多。我也喜欢他这样老实给你回复的说法。太多外国人因为怕他们直接说他们对中国/汉语的想法会得罪中国人，他们就会给中国人很简单的回答。这个老外和你一块儿都感觉自在到给了大家表示他真实的看法。真的挺好啊
Yes, I have the same problem as so many Chinese do not know the state of Connecticut. But when I say we have Yalu daxue everyone knows Yale so at least I have a reference point.
As I've already told you, 我是在选择一个中名字的. Among the following ones, which do you most like? 你们觉得,有比较中国风的是什么？ 1) 马路易沙 main street/to change/sand I like it so: 👍👍 🔸🔸🔸 2) 马人辽沙 horse-man/辽 for 辽朝 (as it sounds simiIarly to my name, and in addition as I enjoyed in studying Turkish and Mongol-Turk History in the past)/sand. Maybe, too long? I like it so: 👍👍👍👍 🔸🔸🔸 3) or just for Luisa: 露怡飒 dew-drop/, to delight in..., harmony/wind sound, melancholy 👍👍👍
His fluency is really impressing, I think tones are also great, but it is interesting how some typically American pronouncation habits stick. For example ü, c, zh in pinyin. Sometimes he makes it good, so he is basically able to pronounce but sometimes it doesnt work haha. But we all know that I guess
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你好Eileen, 我真的爱你，all the goodness inthe my Chinese that I have mastered it's all because of your videos, nothing else. 其实谁让你知道这是最方便的学习方式. 我也真 想跟你徐一下一个视频来采访我，我住在南京，你呢？？😊
加油你的工作是最棒啊，请回复我🤗
可以吗？
@@thamsanqathusi9671 可以啊😁
I recommend everyone contribute to Mandarin Corner. Whatever amount you can afford. The $10 lifetime membership, etc. I'm a $5 per month Patreon member since 2018. I value the high quality language materials. I hope to visit China one day. I won't speak as well as Tyler, but it's a goal to work toward. I have no connection to Mandarin Corner, but want to encourage people to help keep this worthwhile project going. 加油！
I agree with you. I'm also a $5/month Patreon member, and even though I really don't have time to use the excellent material mandarincorner publishes, I'll keep supporting them. They (mandarincorner) are very humble, they even suggest the audience to make a one-time donation instead of asking for a monthly quantity. They deserve to have lots of patreons supporting them monthly, or at least in a one-time donation, as they are spending so much time and making such big effort to bring us good material to learn and improve our chinese. Thank you very much!
嗯是的
This is amazing conversation with the translations and subtitles done beautifully and professionally. I agree that this is worth the membership.
D Nicholas He still has a long way to go, because his vocab is so much better than mine but oh noooo the accent xD
Oh how times have changed
Can we do another video of Tyler?!!! He’s really cool!!! This video is really amazing and I must have watched it more than a hundred times. I just can’t get over how he is able to answer each and every question so easily. He kept the conversation so simple but at the same he was fully in control. This conversation was so real, I learned so much.
Eileen does it again! Hardly amybody can get me to watch a 48 minute youtube video... But you never disappoint!
Same here 😁
It's always easier to understand fellow laowai speaking Chinese even though our tones are always wobbly.
yes correct 😂
声调太难!
DTHRocket so true
I'm glad I'm not the only one that thinks so!
Davethepieman hahah it’s like we all have similar vocab and know what they are tryin to say
as a Russian, I find Tyler's speech to be extremely clean. I mean, the choice of words or the way he builds his sentences. It is much more natural to comprehend to a non-native, even if it is not that "Chinese" to the core :D
Thank you for inviting him! As well as for all the videos you making, extremely helpful.
I’ve been studying for 4 years and no where near this level. So envious. Really makes me want to move to China.
Same as me.
You need to use a language daily (Best with native speakers) to be able to really take it to the next level.
It's mostly due to him having a chinese wife. Of course he had to be invested himself to begin with but I can just tell from own experience once you have someone you actually come along with who speaks the language you want to learn with you (evne if it is "Chinglish") you will improve SO MUCH FASTER! I was in a chinese language school in Yangshuo for a month and they pair you up with a local as a roommate and I was lucky enough to become great friends with my roomy and we would keep talking half Englisch half Chinese together so we both improved so fast cause if we didn't know a word in the opposite language we could try to use our mothertongue and maybe the other person got that term and would translate it.It's also how I learned Englisch by living with a Canadian host family. To me personally you can cover basics up to intermediate on your own but to get to upper intermediate and fluent you have NO CHANCE without actually speaking to native speakers and watching shows in your goal language.
@@JustLIkerapunzel haha i was omeida aswell
That's a lot of time, you're probably learning it the wrong way. You don't have to move to another country to have a great proficiency. But you do have to use it on a daily basis, to have fun, and to talk with native speakers when possible, something that you can easily have if you live in the country, but it's also a matter of how badly you want it
This was a very good video. It was interesting to hear a American talked about his experience learning Chinese. His Chinese may not have been perfect but I was impressed by the way he pronounced words and that he was able to have a communication with you at a fast speed. Chinese is not an easy language to learn but it is possible to learn with time and patience.
He's European
@@europec2082 He's American from Charleston, South Carolina.
@@Jay-xh9dl but his grandpa or great grandpa is from Europe
@@europec2082 True, and I sympathize with you, but for communicative purposes we differentiate between ethnicities and nationalities. However, keep on preaching because 99 percent of the Chinese people I meet don't understand that "American" is not an ethnicity. Lol.
Can anyone tell what is not perfect about his chinese? I have been learning mandarin for 8 months, and for me his pronunciation and tones are great, especially concidering that he has been learning for 4-5 years. Do maybe he is making grammar mistakes?
I just did the $10 and maybe more in the future! I am extremely impressed with not only the teaching but the sincere desire to help newbies like myself. Xiexie!!
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I am a Chinese living in US. I am impressed by both Tyler and Eileen. Tyler speaks Chinese fluently and can have in-depth conversation with a native speaker, very impressive. I have not met any American here in America who speaks Chinese after living here for almost 20 years. Eileen is a very good interviewer. Her style is like peeling onions, from surface, layer by layer, gently and persistently. We got a lot more out of her interview and learn more about both parties every time. I feel Eileen should be a journalist.
Wow!!! This took me over 6 months to learn and I learnt a lot. I finally finished studying all 871 sentences in this video and realized that I am not a true Intermediate student, but it was necessary for me find this out. Tyler was very nice by replying to me and giving me advice and this also helped me immensely with the progress I made within this video. When he told me that his vocabulary consisted of about 12,000 to 15,000 words I was really impressed and at the same time I also realized how much more I had to learn. This gave me a definite idea of the progress I needed to make. One of the best learning experiences I have ever had and I have to say that it was so entertaining too!! Almost all the words in this video were completely new to me, but there were also many many words that I already knew from past courses that I have done, which helped a lot. My speaking and listening abilities also improved a lot. I very very highly recommend this particular video for any experienced beginner student who wants to make a transition to the intermediate level.
You posted this comment 8 months ago but I just wanted to let you know that I will try to use this as a study video until I remember all the words. I find that Tyler speaks clearly. I'm only at HSK2 level but it would be interesting to know how long it will take me to fully understand this video without looking up words.
You could learn all of the words in this video without having to look them up in less than 2 months if you dedicate 3 hours of study time daily, or 3 months if you do 2 hours of study a day. Use the Chegg Prep app to save your words to their flashcard system and also use the app Yabla Chinese English Pinyin Dictionary to look up each word from the video to get the complete meaning of each word. You can copy and paste from the Yabla app to the Chegg Prep flashcard system and also copy and paste sentence examples from the video transcript to the Chegg Prep flashcard system app. The video has 871 sentences so that means over a thousand words. Don’t wait till you finish learning the whole video to save each word to the Chegg Prepp flashcard system. This will take you a really really long time if you wait till the end!! Save each word you learn as you go
@@dakotaxu4792 Thank you for the tips. I have not heard of Chegg Prep and Yabla but will definitely take a look. I used Pleco for dictionary and Quizlet for flashcards but words don't seem to stick to my brain.
You can continue to use Quizlet for flashcards but I feel that Yabla Chinese English Pinyin dictionary is more extensive and useful than Pleco as I have both. I also find that Google Translate (set it to Chinese Simplified) works very well when used with Yabla especially in that very very rare instance that Yabla is not able to translate. If that happens simply copy and paste the Chinese characters from the video transcript and Google Translate will do the rest. Google Translate does not translate Pinyin but Yabla does. Once you put the sentence next to the word you are trying to remember it’s really easy to remember. However, as Tyler himself explains in the video, if you try to memorize words by themselves you will never remember them.
These videos on Mandarin Corner are ABSOLUTELY necessary to learn Mandarin Chinese and the website has hundreds of them covering every subject under the sun. Eileen, the creator of these videos has put in a lot of work for us students by taking real world situations and turning them into language learning platforms. To remember the meanings of the words you NEED the sentences. Just copy and paste them onto the flashcards next to the word you want to learn
I also got to finishing going over the sentences, and am reviewing it once again as Tyler's advice was 看一次，听三次. So here I am, aiming to listen to this as many times as needed until I can understand nearly all of the words without reading the PDF. I
I did notice a great improvement in my speaking and listening as I progressed through this video.
i love the way he articulates, it's so slow and understandable, if only everybody spoke like that...
This is absolutely amazing for studying for the HSK 4- an authentic dialogue to hone in the example sentences I've looked at. I I need more vids like this!
Hi Sean. Check out our Expressing Opinion in Chinese playlist: th-cam.com/video/3_HfIo2lPKQ/w-d-xo.html
Thanks Eileen, this is a great video to learn Mandarin! Also one of the things that stands to me is the quality of questions you ask, which uncover different parts of Tyler's experience in China bit by bit. It creates an interview with good flow that is useful in not only learning Chinese, but also for enjoying the content itself. Good job :)
He has accomplished a lot in four years. Congratulations! This motivates me to study harder. Thank you for posting!
Hi, Eileen! I think that you really improved your English!! Great job! Amazing video as always!:)
So yesterday I studied this video from 5pm in the evening till 7am in the morning the next day, taking a one hour break between each hour. It was so much fun, which is why I barely noticed the time going by so quickly. I have been studying this particular video for over a month now and I’m almost at the end. I won’t ever forget this video because it was only yesterday that I realized that this video is about a conversation between two teachers. An American English teacher and a Chinese Mandarin teacher. I could go back to this video a hundred times and still be entertained.
I fill you because I'm just finishing it! Still progressing!
He is a great American. We Love Him, He is a great inspiraction for people who are learning
Your ENGLISH is AMAZING -- and you are a natural teacher and it is wonderful to see your work grow in sophistication and your command of English FLOURISH！ That you make this affordable to all is a blessing to the world： GOOD LUCK KEEP FLOURISHING！
Thanks so much, this is incredibly helpful!
You rarely find real/long translated conversations 👍👍
I think one of you best videos! thanks Eileen and Tyler. Tyler is so easy to understand, fluent foreigners are great for learning!
Hello Eileen . I feel that you are on right way about showing how foreigners use Chinese. Cuz lots of people study without class mates so really can not see how another people use it. So it is very helpful I think
Maksim Sokolov I find it very difficult to find opportunities to use and speak Chinese. All native speakers I know or meet are very eager and I may say relentless to practice their English. Or they require a level of Chinese that exceeds my level by far, and therefore again they switch to English. In my area there are no group classes and the few Chinese teachers I know in my country they charge too much money for one-on-one classes. Therefore I’m stuck with reading, listening, or talking to myself alone...
@@ImprovingAbility hi Feldenkrais. I mean I know may be 4k Chinese words but in conversation can use only 500)) So it is interesting how other non native speakers find their minimum vocabulary to express theirs thoughts
Hi Feldenkrais with Alfons, you are not stuck talking to yourself. You CAN find good language partners on *language exchange websites* like conversationexchange.com. BUT, you need to set the rules for the language exchange and stick to them. For example, tell your potential partner you to want to do half an hour of English and half an hour of Chinese. And, specify that the spoken Chinese needs to be slow and at a level you can understand (you will do the same in English). If the partner does not abide by these requirements then *DROP THEM* and look for someone else until you find the right partners for you. If you let them take advantage of your kindness then they will. Many Chinese know that it is easy to get foreigners to give up practicing Chinese and they will do things like speak fast or with complicated Chinese with the idea that you will become frustrated and start speaking English. So you need to find partners that will genuinely agree to fair language exchange rules. English speakers are more in demand than Chinese speakers so you can eventually find good language exchange partners if you continue trying.
Eileen asks such great questions. Some are written down but many you can tell she asks according to her instincts in how the last questions was answered. And of course she always repeatedly comes back to the one question we never get tired of: 19:52 "How did you learn Chinese well" LOL :) Thank you Eileen - great job! 太好了！
我现在在阳朔学习中文，但是我可以说Eillen 的视频比我的中国课程好多啊！I feel like i learnt so much more in Eileen's video than in my school! good job, Eileen!
非常感谢你给出对我们如此高的评价！我们会继续加油，制作出更好的内容的！
Excellent. I was able to learn a lot of conversational vocabs. The caption really helps. First time watched, tried to cache in what they were saying. Second time, tried to understand. Third, tried to watch without looking at the caption and so on. By far, one of my favourite web site to watch and learn.
Wow in 4 years , he already speak good Chinese, it is understandable and he can also express more complicated concepts. 👏
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One of my favorite episodes so far. Your reaction to him saying he was reading, [I'm assuming a philosopher], was priceless 🤣 I'm guessing the edit was to ask him "why they hell are you trying to learn that?"
Sincerely,
好厉害 😎 ( 开玩笑，不是我的名字）
Mandarin Corner thank you sooo much for taking out the time to provide all of this content for us. I love you and I’m praying for you to keep doing what your doing. You’ve helped change my life for the better. He said that he didn’t learn much from Pimsleur. I wanted to ask him why not? I hope you have a blessed day!
After watching this video multiple times, I am more and more impressed by the American and his use and command of vocabulary within the video. He is very very fluid in his delivery and is able to field every question thrown at him, sometimes even elaborating on a topic freely. The video keeps you interested all the way to the end because the conversation is very interesting and natural and for NOT TRUE INTERMEDIATE students like myself, it gives us a lot of confidence and shows us a CLEAR path ahead to fluency: that is, learn new words along the way while keeping up with the conversation, then watch the video again and it suddenly makes sense. Even now I just can’t believe how easily the American has such a command on vocabulary that he can so easily mold his answers to the questions thrown at him with such ease. I could watch this particular video over and over. I sincerely appreciate the efforts of Mandarin Corner to bring such material to their audience
Thanks a lot! The more I learn in Chinese the more I realize how little I know. Fluency is not the end, it is not the beginning of the end. It's merely the end of the beginning.
Tylers_World I watch this video every day so I can study it and I’m really impressed by how huge your vocabulary is. No matter what questions Eileen throws at you, you easily find the words to answer those questions, without having to stop and think or having to search for words. It’s just very very impressive
@@dakotaxu4792 Thanks you very much Dakota. Good luck in your study. If I can do it anyone can.
Tylers_World hey Tyler, I am literally 5 sentences away from finishing studying this video featuring you and it was really so much fun, and quite possibly the best learning experience for me. It took me over three months but I learned so much. I’m really curious about something. Is it possible for you to estimate how large your vocabulary is in Mandarin? Thanks so much
@@dakotaxu4792 passive vocabulary, in that when I read or hear it I understand-25k or more 单词 (LingQ says 23k, but I've since read a lot more).
Active vocabulary, in that I can spontaneously use those words in conversation, probably 12-15k.
Again, those are 单词, not 字, because I believe they are a better measure of fluency.
I have having dinner with some people and they were eager to discuss American news and politics, which really stretched my abilities. I stumbled a few times, but still was better than when this video was made.
i loveeeee the interview,,,i can agree with him..there is definitively an attraction for a Chinese culture, history and all..it is demonstrated, you learn it when you love what you do...i am very happy for him...
Yes, Chinese history and culture is so rich and diverse. I could spend the rest of my life studying and barely scratch the surface. I especially like listening to 中国古典音乐 when I'm studying.
Keeping it up with the great content! Thanks, Eileen. It's so much more interesting to practice listening to videos like this than the usual language learner material.
I love this example of a person who was not good at languages and yet he did his best to learn Chinese. He is the level of my Chinese 3 students who are pretty good at learning Chinese and living in Okinawa or Tokyo ( Americans). This is very impressive for someone doing their best on their own.
This is by far the best channel for helping my Chinese.
This video was another awesome one. I love that you really push your interviewees to speak in detail on subjects not just a “touch and go” approach. I hope to find a way to support what you’re doing in a major way some day.
I love language, I study many languages, I move slower than most people because I just have a unique approach (overall) that includes music and food and just culture all around. I agree with Tyler that listening is one of the biggest things you can do to help you learn, and reading really helps because when it comes time to speak, thinking of what to say will come much easier, it’s more recall just like how you do in your native language and not so much as trying to mentally formulate sentences, if that makes sense. Also if you read say like the transcripts you guys provide, you can eventually get fast enough to read it in the speed that native speakers do and this will help you hear the unique sounds native speakers make when they speed through a sentence. As in you can tell where words or phrases begin and end.
As a musician and lover of math and patterns, language comes easy to me so I can do things like take a Spanish and French class together- yeah, Difficulties are always there, and I actually prefer self study/ resources like these, over formal classes I’ve learned, but if you love a challenge, language learning is one of the best things you can do. Trust and allow the process. Trying to learn it really fast is just silly, you basically never stop learning a language.
Wow, I have been studying chinese and his vocabulary and flow of sentences are a lot better than mine....I am 20 years into my first contact with China....however my pronunciation is better.....but the best teacher is a native wife I can tell....great video
Cette vidéo me confirme dans l’idée largement répandue d’ailleurs, que le chinois est une langue très difficile à apprendre; mais qu’une fois qu’on la sait elle devient une langue très facile.
Je veux dire par la que j’ai reconnu au passage des mots, des expressions tant à l’écrit qu’à l’oral.
Comme le dit Tyler, il convient d’apprendre des phrases par coeur et les vidéos d’Eileen sont très efficaces pour cela. Interview passionnante et de qualité, merci aux deux protagonistes.
Eileen your content is pure gold for anyone who wants to learn chinese
You understand some words and expressions or more, some you hear for the first time and it lands somewhere I in your memory, some you recognize barely, some you think you know, some are quickly friendly some are stubborn and don't want to be friends, just like people, some you miss. All in all the more you listen, hear, misunderstand, guess, confound for other words...but all these situations will eventually be absorbed in your memory. Just perseverance will get you to the other language, everyone of if us with their own rythm.
Thumbs up!
Between 261 and 266 and also between 275 and 284 Eileen is thoroughly amused with Tyler! This is my favorite video and I keep coming back to it to refresh myself on the vocabulary, of which Tyler unbelievably has full control
Hi there, I taught myself HSK 4 level and I more or less understand the video...I don’t wanna brag but I am pretty proud of myself :) :) :)
Wow what a great find - I missed this one somehow - so great - proud to be a lifetime member.
Great video! It's awesome to hear non natives speakers able to have a fluent conversation in Chinese. Would be great to interview non white foreigner's as well. I'm sure there are many, and it'd be great to hear their experiences as well!
我非常喜欢MandarinCorner.谢谢你们！
He uses the same method as me to learn words... 21:40 I think this is a really effective method for people who don't have time constraints with learning a foreign language. But you need to keep having conversations with others or reading something like him to keep reintroducing yourself to new words. It's the same way you learn new words in your native language. Also, learning stories helps you pick up new vocabulary and listening to stories you know helps you solidify it. There's a podcast I recommend on top of this one: 听故事学中文
Also it more fun which helps with motivation
@@gonz808 true!
Hi! I love your videos, today is my 9th day studying Chinese and your videos make my studies very fun. I hope to one day be able to speak to my girlfriends parents :) Keep up the good work and I'll be sure to donate!
Very good video! I enjoyed listening to Tyler’s experiences in China. Also, I could understand his Chinese a little better than native speakers. Maybe because he has only been speaking Chinese for only a few years. And maybe that his accent and pronunciation are similar to mine. I liked this video and will watch it some more times to help my listening skills.
Hi Eileen, don't know if you're still reading comments from this vid but thanks a lot for this content. I've just started my mandarin journey and hearing about a westerner's experience has made me really curious to go to china and improve my skills! I'll definitely be donating. Thanks again
Yes, Liam we're still reading comments. Thanks for such a nice review and for considering to support us!
This was amazing! I'm still learning, all for love of this culture and my husband of course. This was very helpful! I wish I came across more videos like this that were this length, not just a minute or two.
谢谢❤
Hi Francis Li, thanks for the feedback. Nearly all our videos are long with full pinyin. For example, you may want to check out the following two playlist when you get a chance:
*Expressing Opinions in Chinese:* th-cam.com/play/PL7VdqFXO0LzeYYQgDsU5oIrWYLX78aQWx.html
*Walk Around:* th-cam.com/play/PL7VdqFXO0Lzcsb6bcxb3TIfBfrAZSbKTd.html
Eileen, thank you for uploading. Conditions to understand a country are:
1. Learning the language
2. Travel not in an organized group or much better, stay some years in this country.
And going in small cities and countryside where few people speak English in order to have no choice but to communicate in chinese.
I'm really enjoying seeing how many words get blended together in casual conversation like 2:03 "Wo ye" becomes something like "wey"
This is amazing learning content and interesting topic as well. Thank you as always for providing this
很好的視頻，很喜歡看Eileen，謝謝 Eileen。
There is a lot of Chinese-Peruvian restaurants here in Peru. Their food is a fusion of Cantonese and Peruvian and those restaurants are called in Spanish "Chifa". I guess some Peruvian heard a long time ago a Cantonese person saying "Chifan" and the name stayed forever.
I'm grateful to Mr Taylor and, of course, to you, MC's guys, for having shared with all of us several aspects of his own Chinese experience in such a lovely way: very interesting, very useful to improve my Mandarin language knowledge, and a lot of fun!
I'd like as well to make him a few questions, but in Chinese (good training!) , not simply in English! I'll try to write down (写下）!
下次再见！Bye!
If I fail, I'll make them in Engl!🤭
路易沙
Luisa
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I'm seeing this podcast slightly more than 3 years after it was posted.
Did Tyler start a TH-cam channel as he said he would ? 😁
I enjoyed this conversation very much although I had to read the subtitles most of the time. However, the vocabulary here is exactly what I am interested in so have downloaded the pdf to study it. This was enough for me to donate the $10 since I have enjoyed this and several other videos by Mandarin Corner. Thank you! I also agree with Tyler's learning strategy. I teach ESL and after each class I have a practice session with the Chinese speakers so I can practice Mandarin. Like Tyler says, the most common words come up over and over again so it is a natural way of remembering them. Also my grammar stinks but the Chinese speakers are so happy to help me and sympathize with me since I struggle with zhongwen the way they struggle with yingwen.
Thank you, Susan! We already upgraded your membership.
这个视频这么厉害！非常感谢你，Eileen！还有，他说的关于查尔斯顿是对的，美国人都听说过这座城市，因为对美国城市来说，查尔斯顿是比较老的城市之一
谢谢留言！后面他跟我说了，南北战争是在查尔斯顿开始的，是一座历史古城。
Great content! Right at my level. I find myself depending on the subtitles a bit less compared to the more casual roadside conversations with native speakers. 😂
Putting in the time to learn Chinese going on two years and progressing slowly but progressing!
Mandarin Corner still coming with more exciting video, like d market fruits interview plus fish vendor , vegetable vendor n Cantonese cooking style dishes that U tried and bite, i enjoyed watching yor video!
And another great listening video! Interesting and educational, can't wait for more.
I was listening to another and I accidentally fell asleep asleep and I literally had a dream while listening to this... I heard every single go word in my dream. The person representing this guy was 小馬紐約 and the interviewer was my teacher from school. It was so weird. I had just woken up and decided to get listening in with another video and then I woke up after 10 minutes of this played like a dream
I feel like it's more like hsk 3. I am a beginner and can understand it, coz the grammar is simple. Thankyou Tyler and Eileen!
He seems to struggle to speak quite a bit, and yet his vocab is really impressive, and also he is using some amazing grammar, which usually westerners wouldn't. I wonder if maybe because he is focusing so much on the grammar, he is slowing down all the time to try to think about it? Regardless, he is listening and vocab is great - Nice work!
He probably memorizes a lot of words phonetically or using pinyin, but due to Chinese being a difficult tonal language and him not using the words often enough makes him slower then a native speaker. Some of his pronunciation is off, but regardless his vocabulary and his listening skills and being able to hold a conversation with a native speaker is very impressive already.
thank you, thanks to your online interviews, i am doing big progress! tai gan xie le !
I would love to see another video with him if he still working in China. Wonder how much his language improved in four years
謝謝，我很喜歡聽你的影片。我覺得這個老外的經驗很不錯!
我喜欢这个，感谢 Eileen
那么有意思的嘉宾！很聪明，好帅，很有幽默感！谢谢
My second video to watch on this channel. Am in love with this channel 😍
Thank you so much for the amazing content! Helpful and very interesting!
honestly,you are the best eileen!!,thank you so much
A beast. Screw the state dept for not hiring him. Better off for it
I love this video! Thanks for making it.
Love it. I’m getting better with each video
很有意思看美国人说中文！谢谢Eileen！
非常深入的谈话！谢谢。
Eileen! This was a very good video! Keep it up😁✨
Awesome interview! I seem to be following a similar learning path to Tyler (eg. with the word meaning lookups anytime it comes up, having most trouble listening, not truly learning how to write except for via shou3ji1). Living in China clearly made a big difference to how fast he learned as I'm in year 3 and not nearly half as good as that yet.
Im so impressed in d content og your video Aileen! I had watched most of d great vlog u made like d Hongkong episode, d MACAU EPISODE AND THE MOUUNTAIN GIANT BUDHA IN CHINA EPISODE, I LIKE ALL YOUR VIDEO VLOGS, SUPER INCREDIBLE N SO MUCH INFO AND FUN, CONGRATULATIONS!
This guy is pretty good, he has somewhat of an accent though, I think a few of the tough sounds like zh, ch he hasn't quite mastered yet, though he has a good attitude towards learning the language unlike the other foreigners in China. He's spot on about the less than 5% of foreigners in China can actually speak Chinese, I think it's even less than that. I've been in China for less than one year and I've still not meet any foreigners who speak as well as me or this guy.
WHY YOU HATING THO FAM
@@THEBIGGESTSCUMBAG Who said anything about hate? That's just an observation and considering he has been in China for quite a while it's fair to make such a remark. Are you from the ghetto or something?
(5:39) Huh, so that's what Esperanto is called in Mandarin. Interesting. Would anybody in the comments mind perhaps explaining why the Mandarin word for Esperanto is 'shìjièyǔ'? I can't hear much phonetic similarity between the English/Indoeuropean 'es + per + an + to' and 'shì + jiè + yǔ', so I guess the name isn't an approximation of the original word but some kind of calque. Is that right?
Franco Bocchio . Very helpful, take note that the English translation of the Chinese phrase following the 28.11 recording time is mistaken.
Yes, you right Franco! These videos have A LOT of sentences that need 3 sets of subtitles - this one had *871 sentences,* and sometimes we miss one even thought we review the sentences SEVERAL times!
nice video.. thanks to him and elien
Tyler has a good sized vocabulary Mandarin corner. 又做得好👍👍👍
It’s a great channel! But how were you able to add the English subtitles?
This really motivates me to work harder in learning chinese language..if he can, so can I
Seems like I've finally heard the best example of what Survival Chinese really is.
I've enjoyed very much the acquaintance with Mr Tyler through this past video.The impression I got by watching it, was one of a sensitive and independent-minded fellow (as I ought always be!). It seems, one can no more pour a little bit of romanticism, or even esotism on his life nowadays! Or simply cultivate a strong desire to definitely change his own life! One mustn't necessarily always have so precise, clear and well-considered plans, such as aspirations! Let's leave, please, at least a little corner to dreaming, to fancying, and to one's own pure instinct! Why we should not? In order to avoid bad surprises? A useless effort! As they shall come anyway, anytime and anywhere! Mr Tyler is a living proof, it seems me, that it can be succeessful! He has finally and for the moment - as nothing is forever still! - found his own place in the world, hasn't he?
And you, Eileen, have you ever told us (I may have got it past! But if you have not, it may be an interesting input for one story of yours to tell us!) how is it you have gone to U.S? You are over there, aren't you? I don't make a blunder, do I?
Thanks to both if you!
(Sorry, but I have no time TO TRY to translate these sentences into Chinese!)
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I've actually told my story in previous videos, but without regular English translation. Here is a link to the series: th-cam.com/video/qP_ihrfU6wQ/w-d-xo.html
By the way, I have never been to the U.S. and would like to visit one day.
Fantastic episode !
Nice one if u interviewed foreign person its nice to learn coz their Accsent easy to learn trust me this will be most viewed Vidio and pls make like this one more video thanks a lot !!
Tyvm for another great video :)
Did Tyler ever get his youtube channel? Does anyone know the name of it if he did?
Wait..
Are these subtitles all done by hand or is there voice recognition software for this?
podcast真的很好。他的水平和我差不太多。我也喜欢他这样老实给你回复的说法。太多外国人因为怕他们直接说他们对中国/汉语的想法会得罪中国人，他们就会给中国人很简单的回答。这个老外和你一块儿都感觉自在到给了大家表示他真实的看法。真的挺好啊
It is all done by hand. It takes a while. Thank you for your feedback!
The lessons are amazing, the teacher so pretty
I can't wait for their app to be out there
Yes, I have the same problem as so many Chinese do not know the state of Connecticut. But when I say we have Yalu daxue everyone knows Yale so at least I have a reference point.
I am living in tashkent what do you think if i learn this dialect of chinese can i negotiate with chinese from pekin or guandgo
As I've already told you, 我是在选择一个中名字的. Among the following ones, which do you most like? 你们觉得,有比较中国风的是什么？
1) 马路易沙
main street/to change/sand
I like it so: 👍👍
🔸🔸🔸
2) 马人辽沙
horse-man/辽 for 辽朝 (as it sounds simiIarly to my name, and in addition as I enjoyed in studying Turkish and Mongol-Turk History in the past)/sand.
Maybe, too long?
I like it so: 👍👍👍👍
🔸🔸🔸
3) or just for Luisa:
露怡飒
dew-drop/, to delight in..., harmony/wind sound, melancholy
👍👍👍
2010年我住在中国一个年了, 那时起我完全不会说中文，会讲英语的人也不多。一个朋友帮帮我读一本书（发音，语法，什么的）。每个天学习一点，一边说一边读书的，越来越流利的。今天我住在新西兰，根本没有机会练习中文，可能很大的退步了，哈哈。请不要小看自己，加油吧！
我很感谢这个尽力非常帮助我！ 👍🏾
His fluency is really impressing, I think tones are also great, but it is interesting how some typically American pronouncation habits stick. For example ü, c, zh in pinyin. Sometimes he makes it good, so he is basically able to pronounce but sometimes it doesnt work haha. But we all know that I guess