"The cuisine in North Korea is very different compared to South Korea. South Korean food may appear to be more agreeable with you if you are a Westerner, whereas food in North Korea does not exist."
These videos are very well done and interesting. Having said that i now know i wouldn't survive a day in China. Not that i'd enjoy living in or visiting a dictatorship anyway. Honestly seems like a horrible place unless you have money and health to throw away.
rajesh raj well, I can answer it for u. It's just the same reason why so many Asian worship the Western. However, this statement is only suitable for 80s or before. From my observation, starting from the young generation nowadays, Asians tend to appreciate their own appearance more. It's more obvious in the Z generation.
Matt's more lay back & relaxed but deep down there's something he can't be bargained with (eh not saying you are terminator). Winston's quite uptight, thin skinned and very pragmatic. sooo... guess my point is you two can make good couple ^_^
BiggerCat77 Technically he would be South African-American. African American is a racial term, not a nationality (even though I think race classifications are stupid)
Just for whoever cares to know, the rhotacization effect in the Beijing dialect serves as a "diminutive" suffix and is used typically for smaller objects or more trivial issues. Usually it's used only on nouns. It seems "men'r" typically refers to doors and "men" gates (basically bigger doors). That's why there's an "er" sound in "chemen'r" (car door) or "bingxiangmen'r" (fridge door) , but never in Tian'anmen. And a park would be gongyuan'r but the Old Summer Palace? Yuanming Yuan. Of course, locals wouldn't be able to give you this answer because for any language, it wouldn't have occurred to native speakers (unless they're linguists) to contemplate why they say this and not that. Most people take their first language for granted and don't feel compelled to justify how they speak, nor should they, of course.
I used to date a girl from Beijing, and, at least to my ears, the rhotacisation seemed much more prevalent and not limited to the cases where it could serve as a diminutive. Yes, I can see what you mean for cases like yidian'r (a little) and the men'r (door) example previously mentioned. But what about weishenme which might sound something like wei'rme when a Beijinger says it? I remember my Beijing ex-girlfriend saying something that sounded like bu'rda(o) to my ear, where I would have said buzhidao (meaning I don't know). She wasn't saying anything like "I'm not sure" or "I don't think I know." I'm pretty sure it was just a plain and ordinary "I don't know."
I am a Shanghainese. I was corrected by a northerner for not putting "er" at the end of word for a small size stuff. He told me I was misleading him, because "er" means small size stuff, if you do not put "er" then means that is a large one, which I must it carry on my shoulder.
North vs South is always a big, popular and controversial topic in China. You'd recieve tons of discussions on this video in the future. Speaking of 'er', Beijing accent is not the only one that has a lot of 'er' sounds. The northern eastern accents also use 'er' very frequently. And the Chongqing dialet in southern China, for example, is full of 'er', too.
I befriended a guy in Qingdao, who originally was from Hubei and he tried to teach me Chinese occasionally and sometimes he said stuff like: "That person speaks a very clean standard Chinese, like people from Beijing." He seemed to think that the Mandarin they speak in Beijing really is the "highest" and most clear and perfect form of the language, even though he wasn't from there.
Every town in China has its own dialect, which can be a totally different language most of the time. Beijing dialect was chosen in the 20th century to be the Mandarin, so in some sense your friend is right
Let me help you out with that: Jeet? Naw. Yowna? Aight. There, an entire conversation in Southern US English without using a single real word. Translation: Did you eat? No. Do you want to? Alright.
Ayy you guise be speakin ebonese, noice I gotchu fam I kno whatchu saiyan. We be making a new language and shit like that cuh. It ain't as refined and shit like The Queen's English na'mean, but is doing just fine. Aight homeboys, I'ma peace, I be gettin bored writing this shit gnome saiyain? 😂😂😂 l8tr I'm outtie
As far as the English language goes, when I lived in New England, I definitely heard some very strange accents as well as laziness in speech. For instance, in Rhode Island, "Jdeet?" means, "Have you eaten yet?"
My Filipina girlfriend at the time was taking a college level course in English (Alberto Bonifacio College - Dipolog City, ZDN), and her instructor was telling the class that "Jeet?" was correct English.
Another enjoyable and informative video. had to laugh when you talked about the Beijing Hua. My wife is from just East of Beijing and we met in Heilongjiang so it was really strange when I met her family and friends, straight away picked up the difference. Another thing amazing is how some Chinese cannot understand a foreigner speaking Chinese but can talk over the table with a mouth full of food. All amusing part of the adventure.
i love these videos with commentaries on interesting topics with beautiful bike rides to look at in the background. it brings back memories of my trip throughout china a few years ago and makes me want to come back!
henan province is a dry105-110* in high summer, and rarely snows in winter, but has some ice storms. the really interesting time is in october when sandstorms come from the gobi desert for 4 weeks and visibility is 50 feet.
I find this channel very fascinating as I love riding on two wheels and exploring new locations. Every location in your videos is so different from my daily scenery in NW Canada and very intriguing. Keep up the great work!
I always speak the er without realizing it because that's how i was brought up, and chinese people stop and go, oh that's beijing accent! i was under the impression the er was friendlier and softer way of talking.
Hey guys, I wanted to ask about the types of music the average person experiences in China? I currently live in Rome, and of course hear lots and lots of American/Western music. I would imagine it is quite different in China, so I would love to hear about it! Love the videos!
I grew up in Houston, Texas. It is ridiculously hot and humid there because the city was built on a nasty, muddy, mosquito infested and swampy Buffalo Bayou. I will be moving to Dongguan soon and looking forward to comparing the blistering heat of Houston with that of Guangdong. For the past five years I've lived in Atyrau, Kazakhstan and it's freezing cold here.
the real bad thing about the north winter is that there is no proper heating. I left London in typical winter weather, then arrived in Shanghai and it was like 19-20 degrees Celsius at daytime, not bad at all, but after like 4 weeks without proper central heating you get mental and you are freezing do death. We had one guy from Russia in the company and even this guy complained. And then you have like 4 weeks of great weather slightly above 20 degrees and then you get the southern hammer with temperatures of like 45 degrees with a humidity like crazy and in the summer get as nuts as in HongKong.
I was almost going to say - is that Mission Hills golf resort area... I stayed in Mission Hills for a few weeks and got really familiar. Also near Shenzhen. Maybe there are other similar tidy, upper class residential resorts around there too (or it could be the other Mission Hills location?)...
Northern Chinese (other than Northeastern provinces) are the real Han Chinese while Southern Chinese are related to southeastern Asians, when northern Chinese moved to the south and conquered all the Yue tribes 2000 years ago, some of the tribes ran to Malaya and Vietnam, these Northern Chinese soldiers never went back, they settled down there and intermarried with locals and their descendants are now Southern Chinese, not pure though.
This is not what I learned. Accordingly, today's Cantonese was the original Chinese language but Northern Chinese reflects the Mandzsu influence of the last dynasty.
I am from Beijing. I need to point out that Beijing does have extreme weather like the south does. In summer we have over 35 degrees all the time, and in Winter minus 10 is also normal. Me and my partner from Nepal we live in Germany and for it is already really cold here in Germany, and when I brought him home for Christmas this year, he was really surprised at how freezing it is in Beijing. Also Beijingers, we never force Beijing accent into this national accent, nor do we wish the nation to learn Er Hua Yin or other Beijing accent. We are aware that Beijing accent is not your formal Putonghua, and we're proud of it. For me, there's always so many people from all over China coming to Beijing and try to speak in Putonghua, the only way to differentiate the real local Beijingers here is by hearing their Beijing accent. It feels like home to me, and we do feel a pride in it when we speak it or when we hear it. To me the Beijing accent is rather badass than funny or lazy. (btw I'm not being a hater, I love your videos. I think you two are really the ones that "get it". Just want to point out the facts that I don't entirely agree with)
When I went to China I preferred the South (Shanghai) because it was a lot more accustom to foreigners and I was not stared at as much. But I preferred the north (Beijing) because the food was much much much much better. I simply couldn't with Cantonese food.
I am not a big fan of Beijing food, apart from Peking Duck and the Beijing style breads or dumplings. I much prefer Chaozhou/Teochew food and Cantonese food because the former is healthy and delicious while the latter is delicious and refined.
I'm always shocked by the like to dislike ratio of your videos. Congratulations on the success of your channel and please make more good quality videos and hope this channel can survive from the VPN banning policy.
Back in Hickory Mississippi it seemed like it rained every other day. My backyard was 60 acres of thick swampy woods, and the heat was insane. It got up over 100 degrees and the humidity was so bad that some of the books in the house just decided to start growing mold. It was nice to have all that land, and the bugs were really neat as a kid. My best friend at the time, Collin, had a huge bamboo forest for a backyard. It was about 40 feet tall. The thing that I miss about Mississippi is the food though, all that fried catfish, and fresh craw-fish.
It used to be about bikes and the workshop. they... switched gears a few months ago an turned it into this. I had the same reaction. I love the new format.
In Beijing, there are people with the strong accent, which is not Mandarin, commonly speaking by older people, that's the case you encountered. But for younger generations, they speak the most standard Mandarin. There are differences between the two.
to answer the question at 13:28, 门儿(ménr) = door 门(mén) = gate Thus, 关门儿 = close the door although you can also say 关门, but that would be close the gate. Since 天安门 is a city gate, you don't erise(儿化) the 门.
"werr ma" FUCK I AM DYING! lol. taiwanese definitely have their own accent too. wei shen me becomes wei sem mo, they don't pronounce the H sound at all, among other things. they do know how to speak clear and politely but on a day to day level there is quite a lot of slurring going on which made it quite difficult for me when i first came.
yeah i think so too. back home (US) i've met many people from Fuzhou and it's a common pronunciation. In the north east, wei shenme often becomes wei4 sha2
In the west (Xinjiang) the Uyghur people speak their own Turkic language. My wife is from Kazakhstan and the Kazakh language is so similar to Uyghur language she was able to communicate with Uyghur people when we got stuck for a bit in Ürümqi.
New York is too cold, it snows heavily every year, much colder than Beijing. South Africa is much warmer, the weather similar to Australia, always blue sky, no wonder Winston prefers the weather in Southern China. Northern China is very dry and has shortage of water supply, it also has sandstorms in October.
As far as the English language goes, when I lived in New England, I definitely heard some very strange accents as well as laziness in speech. For instance, in Rhode Island, "Jdeet?" means, "Have you eaten yet?" :)
Not everybody in the South has that accent... but it's true that southern accents do sound a little lazier. It doesn't mean the people are lazy or anything bad, I just feel like it rounds some of the sounds out. Like "change the oil" sounds like "change the all". Of course all Americans or native speakers will understand it, but I can imagine how a foreigner would have a hard time....similar to the Beijing accent.
I followed this VLOG on Google Earth. I found your route by matching the buildings. There's no Street View in that part of China so I had to figure out your position with a Birdseye View. It's kind of my thing. Haha. Good stuff!
Years ago I heard a saying that people in Beijing would say about people in Guangzhou (it was Canton back then) - apparently the joke went that the only thing with four legs they WOULDN'T eat was a table, and the only thing with wings that they wouldn't eat was an airplane.
I live in Beijing, I did some small studies on the Beijing dialect(北京话), that dialect's history originated from Manchu people, Manchus are minorities, but they got the power of the country and built the Qing Dynasty, which lasted 400 years, the happy surprise of the national power encouraged their race pride, and as all minority ruling dynasties, the make themselves higher class, Manchu young man doesn't need to work , they get free welfare since they were born, all they do in their life is walking around Beijing with a bird in their cage, fooling around and partying(drinking), flirt with women and such, also they need to learn how Han people speak too, which means they need to learn Chinese, but they put their own accent and bratty attitude into it, because they are literally BRATS, so yes, your feeling towards the dialect is actually correct, it is kinda comical :), personally my grandmother was a Beijing Local, so I'm pretty used to the dialect, but it is my thoughts about the Beijing dialect, I think I am probably right.
Hey, Winston and C-Milk, What is Harbin, Changchun and Chongqing like with their accents, food. I don't want to assume the Shenzhen is your favorite city in China, but what are your impressions of the differences of how people in Beijing view people in Shanghai or do they really even give thought to this. Is there a pride among those in Shanghai because they are the largest city versus the Capital or is this not even a factor given so many Chinese cities have six, eight, ten million people?
I was in Tokyo for a week 15 years ago. There for three days and then a breeze came up. Right out my hotel room window there it was, Fuji San! It was hidden for three days.
I didn't spend a tonne of time in China, but one thing I found was that people in the south (Shenzhen at least) seemed much more helpful than in Beijing. I felt that Beijing had a very strong culture of 'you're on your own,' whereas Shenzhen felt like there was much more welcoming. This may have been because Shenzhen has so many expats, so they may be a bit more familiar with western culture and attitudes.
No way a foreigner can understand Northern accent unless they go real easy on you. Beijing accent is actually the easiest to understand among Northern accents. I used to hate it myself but now I find it pretty cool, kind of like the British accent, it is less comprehensible than the standard American accent but way cooler.
What a lovely couple! Congrats Winston! You guys are awesome. I hope my fellows haven't scammed you too much. Have you two traveled to He'nan province ever? I'm from Zhengzhou. You might have heard of it if you went to Shaolin temple. My hometown is relatively poor and less open I guess. I wonder whether there are a lot foreigners there now. By the way, I'm now in Shreveport, Louisiana. C-Milk's mocking accent really cracked me up. I learned British English back in school. And it really took me a long time to adapt here. Anyway, stay awesome!
You might want to check if there's any arsenic in the rice. 3 sec Google search reveals. Polished rice from various production regions of China was analyzed for total As and arsenic species using HPLC-ICPMS. ... Compared to other countries, the risk for the Chinese from exposure to As through rice is more severe due to the large rice consumption in China.
I used to live in China, and I can say I surely liked the rice in the South a little bit more than the north LOL. But yes, people cater to foreigners at little bit more, people ARE taller almost like Americans and Dalian was very very cold. It reminded me of Wisconsin at times.
I noticed the same thing with the 'pirate' ('ehr') talk in N. China but in Liaoning province. I wonder if this is influenced by ethnic background as in my experience people with Manchu background speak like that. Some native Chinese people need to comment about this because they know best.
It was so much more beautiful to have a complete picture of the door like in traditional writing. Su Yisha you missed a lot with the simplified writing.
You certainly are! Your casual use of grammar certainly supports that! I'd love to go for a short while, I'm addicted to these videos. But why is everything so dirty and disgusting in China? That would put me off right away..
In the beginnings no, when they say what the hell is that? I think that agile is a hotel chain in china, similar to Marriott or Hilton in the west. I stayed in one in Guangzhou, which was ok, but I think there may be bugs. Not sure if the bites was from outside or inside.
The Beijing dialect thing reminded me of German language reform where they wanted to simplify but kinda just made it dumber and caving to mistakes and even introduced new logical ambiguities and then people are even more confused than before. Imagine if as a native English speaker you used to write "dolphin" and now your kids are learning in school to write "dolfin". So pointless. (A relly bad one was dass vs. daß - people were using the new form even when the old one was still valid. That's super-eager German authority-conformists.)
I'll be living in Guangzhou from late august to mid january. Can i expect blistering heat and humidity, like you said, or will it become better in? I think what i'm asking is; what are the best months in the south?
Agree, Taiwan style Mandarin is the easiest to speak and understand. Back in the days when we were still under British rule, we learn the Taiwan style. Standard Beijing Mandarin have too much rolling tongue kind of pronunciation.
France, China, and Australia have always been my top 3 countries to visit. I wanted to go to China and see the country like yall do but yall covering access issues (hotels, licenses, etc), I think I'll have to just settle for ADVChina Just keep up the good work for me won't you? How far do yall travel away from Shenzhen anyway?
"Yue" in Cantonese and "Viet" in Vietnamese both means native or local people. 110% sure Cantonese are not the same as Vietnamese. Indian American also known as Native American, but White people also call themselves Native American. They are not the same people, but they are same in term of Statue.
Not all the Southern Chinese speak cantonese! My hometown is JiangXi and people in this province have their own dialect. But of course my dialect dosen't sound like vietnamese.
+TrueFreedom I mean cantonese and vietnamese sounds similar but I didn't say they are the same language. the southern Chinese and vietnamese are genetically the same. they are both 越人 . there is genetically difference between northern Chinese and southern Chinese.
Coming back from Beijing you forgot to mention "your indicator is on"!!! I waited through the whole video. Congratulations for getting married Winston!
First of all.I've been watching you guys vedios for a while.And I liked. And I think that I can explain the er sound (儿化音) in Beijing dialect.A lot people misunderstand that Beijingner say anything with er.Acturlly is not ture.We have strict rule that adding the er song after the certain words.which is a lot out of towner don't know how to use it properly.Even some TV hoster..Such as you mentioned in this vedio that why people don't say Tian an men er.and Guan men er.The reason is eveytime we say the er sound after the words is indicate somtthing small or smaller by contrast.Therefore We never say Qian men er represent the place where is hundred meters south from Tian an men .Whoever say that that exposes where is he or she come from.And about people say wu ri kuai instead wu shi kuai sounds laziness to you.Actually it is similar with drop or silent letters in English.Dose it make sense? :)
Hey ADV, great videos, giving a lot of inside views of China. Just one thing I have to comment on, Mandarin (Pu Tong Hua) is not the standard or commonly shared Chinese language since ever. And a very few of "dialects" you mentioned are not actually dialects, which mean a branched version of a certain language. They are independent languages in the sense that without the creation of Mandarin they would still exist. Actually, most of the "dialect" languages are closer to the ancient Chinese language, so they might be dialects to the ancient Chinese language, but definitely not Mandarin. As to Mandarin, look up the history/origin of Mandarin and you will find facts about Manchu people using brute forces to manually modify the Chinese culture, with a very significant part being the unification of language, which includes the making of Mandarin. To be fair, Mandarin should be originated from the Manchu people (non-Han people), leading to the translation of 'Mandarin' in the west. Hope this gives a new view and pls make a clarification in the next ;)
If this video was about Korea, it'd be a very different video...
Eruka Isanavarman North Vs South Korea...
It's kinda obvious if it's north and South Korea.
Simple, heaven and hell.
+Tianshi Gao Actually, yeah. Until 70s North Korea was doing better.
"The cuisine in North Korea is very different compared to South Korea. South Korean food may appear to be more agreeable with you if you are a Westerner, whereas food in North Korea does not exist."
I am Chinese, and we make fun of the Beijing accent all the time.
youngsatchmo 天空飘来五个字，那都不是事儿
字儿*
Things tell me you are from the south
as a Chinees, I don't like Beijing accent and I think it sounds stupid. I like the southern accent.
It's funny to have a situation where the 'funny' accent/dialect is from a big city, capital city even.
Your video style is iconoclastic! Enjoyable hearing your personal views. Keep up the good work!
why cant i stop watching these
i have no interests in china whatsoever :)
good vids
I had no interest in visiting China until I started watching serpentza and AdvChina. Now I want to visit China.
TomHud I guess it’s like Crack
Riding bikes with a good friend, talking about the weather, publishing it to an engaging audience, making money with it.
I can see the appeal. 😄
Literally have been binging these for a week. I have no idea why.
These videos are very well done and interesting. Having said that i now know i wouldn't survive a day in China. Not that i'd enjoy living in or visiting a dictatorship anyway. Honestly seems like a horrible place unless you have money and health to throw away.
Wow, congrats for the wedding! Very powerful images at 9:35 with the red on red, I wish you all the best!
Thank you mate!
rajesh raj well, I can answer it for u. It's just the same reason why so many Asian worship the Western. However, this statement is only suitable for 80s or before. From my observation, starting from the young generation nowadays, Asians tend to appreciate their own appearance more. It's more obvious in the Z generation.
rajesh raj as a Chinese, I don't like western men wym??
Dont feel bad Rinny as an American I dont like asian men.
i have this feeling that in terms of personality Matt is more of a Northerner and Winston is quite a Southerner, weird but so true.
Winston is from South Africa, that's as far south as you can ever go! hahahaha
I'd agree with you. (Matt here)
Matt's more lay back & relaxed but deep down there's something he can't be bargained with (eh not saying you are terminator). Winston's quite uptight, thin skinned and very pragmatic. sooo... guess my point is you two can make good couple ^_^
If Winston were to move to the United States, he would technically be an "African-American," but would definitely not use that term.
BiggerCat77 Technically he would be South African-American. African American is a racial term, not a nationality (even though I think race classifications are stupid)
Just for whoever cares to know, the rhotacization effect in the Beijing dialect serves as a "diminutive" suffix and is used typically for smaller objects or more trivial issues. Usually it's used only on nouns. It seems "men'r" typically refers to doors and "men" gates (basically bigger doors). That's why there's an "er" sound in "chemen'r" (car door) or "bingxiangmen'r" (fridge door) , but never in Tian'anmen. And a park would be gongyuan'r but the Old Summer Palace? Yuanming Yuan.
Of course, locals wouldn't be able to give you this answer because for any language, it wouldn't have occurred to native speakers (unless they're linguists) to contemplate why they say this and not that. Most people take their first language for granted and don't feel compelled to justify how they speak, nor should they, of course.
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E. S. Blofeld in parts of china we have trill, rr, like Spanish
I used to date a girl from Beijing, and, at least to my ears, the rhotacisation seemed much more prevalent and not limited to the cases where it could serve as a diminutive. Yes, I can see what you mean for cases like yidian'r (a little) and the men'r (door) example previously mentioned. But what about weishenme which might sound something like wei'rme when a Beijinger says it? I remember my Beijing ex-girlfriend saying something that sounded like bu'rda(o) to my ear, where I would have said buzhidao (meaning I don't know). She wasn't saying anything like "I'm not sure" or "I don't think I know." I'm pretty sure it was just a plain and ordinary "I don't know."
thanks for the clarification
I am a Shanghainese. I was corrected by a northerner for not putting "er" at the end of word for a small size stuff. He told me I was misleading him, because "er" means small size stuff, if you do not put "er" then means that is a large one, which I must it carry on my shoulder.
North vs South is always a big, popular and controversial topic in China. You'd recieve tons of discussions on this video in the future.
Speaking of 'er', Beijing accent is not the only one that has a lot of 'er' sounds. The northern eastern accents also use 'er' very frequently. And the Chongqing dialet in southern China, for example, is full of 'er', too.
I befriended a guy in Qingdao, who originally was from Hubei and he tried to teach me Chinese occasionally and sometimes he said stuff like: "That person speaks a very clean standard Chinese, like people from Beijing." He seemed to think that the Mandarin they speak in Beijing really is the "highest" and most clear and perfect form of the language, even though he wasn't from there.
Yes, I agree.
Every town in China has its own dialect, which can be a totally different language most of the time. Beijing dialect was chosen in the 20th century to be the Mandarin, so in some sense your friend is right
"Money and family": exact definition of me from south
haha true and its really humid
@@chrisx8330 in summer.
Money, family, and being humid in the summer
@@guacre2675 Well you ain’t wrong😂
Let me help you out with that:
Jeet?
Naw.
Yowna?
Aight.
There, an entire conversation in Southern US English without using a single real word. Translation:
Did you eat?
No.
Do you want to?
Alright.
na'mean?
Ayy you guise be speakin ebonese, noice I gotchu fam I kno whatchu saiyan. We be making a new language and shit like that cuh. It ain't as refined and shit like The Queen's English na'mean, but is doing just fine. Aight homeboys, I'ma peace, I be gettin bored writing this shit gnome saiyain? 😂😂😂 l8tr I'm outtie
As far as the English language goes, when I lived in New England, I definitely heard some very strange accents as well as laziness in speech. For instance, in Rhode Island, "Jdeet?" means, "Have you eaten yet?"
Jeetjet?
Didneet.
Squeet!
(Did you eat yet?
Didn't eat.
Lets go eat.)
My Filipina girlfriend at the time was taking a college level course in English (Alberto Bonifacio College - Dipolog City, ZDN), and her instructor was telling the class that "Jeet?" was correct English.
Another enjoyable and informative video. had to laugh when you talked about the Beijing Hua. My wife is from just East of Beijing and we met in Heilongjiang so it was really strange when I met her family and friends, straight away picked up the difference. Another thing amazing is how some Chinese cannot understand a foreigner speaking Chinese but can talk over the table with a mouth full of food. All amusing part of the adventure.
i love these videos with commentaries on interesting topics with beautiful bike rides to look at in the background. it brings back memories of my trip throughout china a few years ago and makes me want to come back!
Shanghai, at least among the Chinese, is considered to be part of Southern China
Like North America? C-milk has never been to Idaho, we have 4 seasons. Pre winter, winter, post winter, and summer.
look forward to every video on the 3 channels. keep it up
henan province is a dry105-110* in high summer, and rarely snows in winter, but has some ice storms. the really interesting time is in october when sandstorms come from the gobi desert for 4 weeks and visibility is 50 feet.
Your videos are really helpful for me to know more about china and learn English at the same time. Keep going !
I find this channel very fascinating as I love riding on two wheels and exploring new locations. Every location in your videos is so different from my daily scenery in NW Canada and very intriguing. Keep up the great work!
I always speak the er without realizing it because that's how i was brought up, and chinese people stop and go, oh that's beijing accent! i was under the impression the er was friendlier and softer way of talking.
Congratulations, Winston!
When did you graduate the N7 program, and which Mass Effect 3D waifu is best waifu, and why is it Tali?
Liara is the best waifu
Hsark I acknowledge that you have shit taste and that your waifu is shit. Case dismissed.
+KamiKaZantA Tali gets messed up by my bacteria, no fun, what's a spacer to do with a useless immune system chick?
geth the best waifu duh
***** calm down... jeez
Hey guys, I wanted to ask about the types of music the average person experiences in China? I currently live in Rome, and of course hear lots and lots of American/Western music. I would imagine it is quite different in China, so I would love to hear about it! Love the videos!
if its anything like southeast asia- terrible pop- think k-pop but much worse
Congrats to Winston and ur wife。 Nice scenery from the footage. As always, Stay Awsome!!
Right! He married a Doctor, didn't he?
I grew up in Houston, Texas. It is ridiculously hot and humid there because the city was built on a nasty, muddy, mosquito infested and swampy Buffalo Bayou. I will be moving to Dongguan soon and looking forward to comparing the blistering heat of Houston with that of Guangdong. For the past five years I've lived in Atyrau, Kazakhstan and it's freezing cold here.
the real bad thing about the north winter is that there is no proper heating. I left London in typical winter weather, then arrived in Shanghai and it was like 19-20 degrees Celsius at daytime, not bad at all, but after like 4 weeks without proper central heating you get mental and you are freezing do death. We had one guy from Russia in the company and even this guy complained. And then you have like 4 weeks of great weather slightly above 20 degrees and then you get the southern hammer with temperatures of like 45 degrees with a humidity like crazy and in the summer get as nuts as in HongKong.
I was almost going to say - is that Mission Hills golf resort area... I stayed in Mission Hills for a few weeks and got really familiar. Also near Shenzhen. Maybe there are other similar tidy, upper class residential resorts around there too (or it could be the other Mission Hills location?)...
Northern Chinese (other than Northeastern provinces) are the real Han Chinese while Southern Chinese are related to southeastern Asians, when northern Chinese moved to the south and conquered all the Yue tribes 2000 years ago, some of the tribes ran to Malaya and Vietnam, these Northern Chinese soldiers never went back, they settled down there and intermarried with locals and their descendants are now Southern Chinese, not pure though.
This is not what I learned. Accordingly, today's Cantonese was the original Chinese language but Northern Chinese reflects the Mandzsu influence of the last dynasty.
I am from Beijing. I need to point out that Beijing does have extreme weather like the south does. In summer we have over 35 degrees all the time, and in Winter minus 10 is also normal. Me and my partner from Nepal we live in Germany and for it is already really cold here in Germany, and when I brought him home for Christmas this year, he was really surprised at how freezing it is in Beijing. Also Beijingers, we never force Beijing accent into this national accent, nor do we wish the nation to learn Er Hua Yin or other Beijing accent. We are aware that Beijing accent is not your formal Putonghua, and we're proud of it. For me, there's always so many people from all over China coming to Beijing and try to speak in Putonghua, the only way to differentiate the real local Beijingers here is by hearing their Beijing accent. It feels like home to me, and we do feel a pride in it when we speak it or when we hear it. To me the Beijing accent is rather badass than funny or lazy. (btw I'm not being a hater, I love your videos. I think you two are really the ones that "get it". Just want to point out the facts that I don't entirely agree with)
the streets you went through in this video look really nice
When I went to China I preferred the South (Shanghai) because it was a lot more accustom to foreigners and I was not stared at as much. But I preferred the north (Beijing) because the food was much much much much better. I simply couldn't with Cantonese food.
I am not a big fan of Beijing food, apart from Peking Duck and the Beijing style breads or dumplings. I much prefer Chaozhou/Teochew food and Cantonese food because the former is healthy and delicious while the latter is delicious and refined.
Enjoyed the discussion today...thanks.
North: dirty and rude.
South: polite and open.
@Commentator I've met a large number of them, but they're from the hinterlands, not the major cities.
@Commentator I know; I've been there several times. Other than the bars, I wasn't impressed.
I'm always shocked by the like to dislike ratio of your videos. Congratulations on the success of your channel and please make more good quality videos and hope this channel can survive from the VPN banning policy.
Back in Hickory Mississippi it seemed like it rained every other day. My backyard was 60 acres of thick swampy woods, and the heat was insane. It got up over 100 degrees and the humidity was so bad that some of the books in the house just decided to start growing mold. It was nice to have all that land, and the bugs were really neat as a kid. My best friend at the time, Collin, had a huge bamboo forest for a backyard. It was about 40 feet tall. The thing that I miss about Mississippi is the food though, all that fried catfish, and fresh craw-fish.
The way they film is pretty fun, especially when they're on their bikes.
Damn, for the longest time I though this channel was all about bikes. Not disappointed + Subscribed XD
It used to be about bikes and the workshop. they... switched gears a few months ago an turned it into this.
I had the same reaction. I love the new format.
Can't get enough... You are both so entertaining... I'm not one to give compliments, but I really enjoy these videos. Looking forward to more.
In Beijing, there are people with the strong accent, which is not Mandarin, commonly speaking by older people, that's the case you encountered. But for younger generations, they speak the most standard Mandarin. There are differences between the two.
this was your best video. full of useful information .also the city in the clip looks interesting .so tx a lot guyz
to answer the question at 13:28,
门儿(ménr) = door
门(mén) = gate
Thus,
关门儿 = close the door
although you can also say 关门, but that would be close the gate.
Since 天安门 is a city gate, you don't erise(儿化) the 门.
Stay awesome guys glad I found your channel
Hey thanks guys your show is super helpful. kia kaha from NZ.
"werr ma" FUCK I AM DYING! lol.
taiwanese definitely have their own accent too. wei shen me becomes wei sem mo, they don't pronounce the H sound at all, among other things. they do know how to speak clear and politely but on a day to day level there is quite a lot of slurring going on which made it quite difficult for me when i first came.
its the minnan accent slipping in, this happens to malaysian and singaporean chinese too, not sure about fujian though.
agree!
yeah i think so too. back home (US) i've met many people from Fuzhou and it's a common pronunciation. In the north east, wei shenme often becomes wei4 sha2
and in English it become 'why', just kidding 😃
1 million wei shenme?
In the west (Xinjiang) the Uyghur people speak their own Turkic language. My wife is from Kazakhstan and the Kazakh language is so similar to Uyghur language she was able to communicate with Uyghur people when we got stuck for a bit in Ürümqi.
New York is too cold, it snows heavily every year, much colder than Beijing. South Africa is much warmer, the weather similar to Australia, always blue sky, no wonder Winston prefers the weather in Southern China. Northern China is very dry and has shortage of water supply, it also has sandstorms in October.
i am staying at egret lake sheraton right now while watching this video where winston and cmilk ride their bikes into egret lake sheraton.
8:45 the building on the right
Ouch C-milk...born and raised in Louisiana here....wait hold on just got to the corral...
As far as the English language goes, when I lived in New England, I definitely heard some very strange accents as well as laziness in speech. For instance, in Rhode Island, "Jdeet?" means, "Have you eaten yet?" :)
I think a better example would have been the intrusive R that shows up in a lot of British and American accents: words like 'idea' become 'idear'.
I have no idea what Matt was saying as I clearly understand anything said in the south ( US ) but appalacian (sp??) is a whole different ball game.
Not everybody in the South has that accent... but it's true that southern accents do sound a little lazier. It doesn't mean the people are lazy or anything bad, I just feel like it rounds some of the sounds out. Like "change the oil" sounds like "change the all".
Of course all Americans or native speakers will understand it, but I can imagine how a foreigner would have a hard time....similar to the Beijing accent.
@David Lomax - Look in the meer. ^^
The first thing I thought about when you compared accents was South Park:
"THEY TOOK OUR JOBS!"
"DEY TUK OUR JERBS!!"
"DE TUK ER JER!"
I followed this VLOG on Google Earth. I found your route by matching the buildings. There's no Street View in that part of China so I had to figure out your position with a Birdseye View. It's kind of my thing. Haha. Good stuff!
Years ago I heard a saying that people in Beijing would say about people in Guangzhou (it was Canton back then) - apparently the joke went that the only thing with four legs they WOULDN'T eat was a table, and the only thing with wings that they wouldn't eat was an airplane.
I agree with you. My Chinese friends always joke about our Chinese football captain because he is from Guangzhou
You guys rock!
I live in Beijing, I did some small studies on the Beijing dialect(北京话), that dialect's history originated from Manchu people, Manchus are minorities, but they got the power of the country and built the Qing Dynasty, which lasted 400 years, the happy surprise of the national power encouraged their race pride, and as all minority ruling dynasties, the make themselves higher class, Manchu young man doesn't need to work , they get free welfare since they were born, all they do in their life is walking around Beijing with a bird in their cage, fooling around and partying(drinking), flirt with women and such, also they need to learn how Han people speak too, which means they need to learn Chinese, but they put their own accent and bratty attitude into it, because they are literally BRATS, so yes, your feeling towards the dialect is actually correct, it is kinda comical :), personally my grandmother was a Beijing Local, so I'm pretty used to the dialect, but it is my thoughts about the Beijing dialect, I think I am probably right.
Great Observations ! Thumbs Up !!
Hey I love these videos you guys
I love traveling vicariously through China with you
Both channels are great
Hey, Winston and C-Milk, What is Harbin, Changchun and Chongqing like with their accents, food. I don't want to assume the Shenzhen is your favorite city in China, but what are your impressions of the differences of how people in Beijing view people in Shanghai or do they really even give thought to this. Is there a pride among those in Shanghai because they are the largest city versus the Capital or is this not even a factor given so many Chinese cities have six, eight, ten million people?
I was in Tokyo for a week 15 years ago. There for three days and then a breeze came up. Right out my hotel room window there it was, Fuji San! It was hidden for three days.
These videos are just awesome! so much inside info and tips in case one wants to go to China or Taiwan, about languages, people, etc.
I didn't spend a tonne of time in China, but one thing I found was that people in the south (Shenzhen at least) seemed much more helpful than in Beijing. I felt that Beijing had a very strong culture of 'you're on your own,' whereas Shenzhen felt like there was much more welcoming. This may have been because Shenzhen has so many expats, so they may be a bit more familiar with western culture and attitudes.
👍 Really Hooked on your video's guys👌👍👊✌
No way a foreigner can understand Northern accent unless they go real easy on you. Beijing accent is actually the easiest to understand among Northern accents. I used to hate it myself but now I find it pretty cool, kind of like the British accent, it is less comprehensible than the standard American accent but way cooler.
Gorgeous scenery indeed.
What a lovely couple! Congrats Winston! You guys are awesome. I hope my fellows haven't scammed you too much. Have you two traveled to He'nan province ever? I'm from Zhengzhou. You might have heard of it if you went to Shaolin temple. My hometown is relatively poor and less open I guess. I wonder whether there are a lot foreigners there now. By the way, I'm now in Shreveport, Louisiana. C-Milk's mocking accent really cracked me up. I learned British English back in school. And it really took me a long time to adapt here. Anyway, stay awesome!
Next fall I will be studying abroad for a year. My number one priority is clean air. Where do you guys recommend I go?
+CreatorAUST Thanks for the advice! I'll keep an eye out
One of the most badass channels on youtube!
Have you lost your bellybutton?
You might want to check if there's any arsenic in the rice. 3 sec Google search reveals.
Polished rice from various production regions of China was analyzed for total As and arsenic species using HPLC-ICPMS. ... Compared to other countries, the risk for the Chinese from exposure to As through rice is more severe due to the large rice consumption in China.
the place you went to in this video actually looks really nice! the roads look new and clean, the grass and trees look healthy and green.
Congrats on the wedding! Great video ;)
Married a Doctor! Good job Winston.
I used to live in China, and I can say I surely liked the rice in the South a little bit more than the north LOL. But yes, people cater to foreigners at little bit more, people ARE taller almost like Americans and Dalian was very very cold. It reminded me of Wisconsin at times.
HE360 Rice in Northern China is absolutely disgusting. I lost 10 pounds up there.
is dalian well developed?
By the way , did you get motorcycle License in. China
THE MUSIC USED ON YOUR POLLUTION SERIES AT THE END. wHAT ARE THE KIDS LIKE IN SMALLER VILLAGES
I noticed the same thing with the 'pirate' ('ehr') talk in N. China but in Liaoning province. I wonder if this is influenced by ethnic background as in my experience people with Manchu background speak like that. Some native Chinese people need to comment about this because they know best.
门儿（men er）is small door；while 门（men）is big entrance，so we sometime say 门 sometime say 门儿.
It was so much more beautiful to have a complete picture of the door like in traditional writing. Su Yisha you missed a lot with the simplified writing.
I don't know about it but in henan Chinese usually say mer rather then men
Im form northeast of China. people from there prefer rice than noodle and "bread"(馒头）
风林火山 RS of course they are han people lol, actually from shandong, hebei and jiangxi for most, but the real manchu or mongol dont like rice
You certainly are! Your casual use of grammar certainly supports that! I'd love to go for a short while, I'm addicted to these videos. But why is everything so dirty and disgusting in China? That would put me off right away..
congratulations on your wedding Serpentza! :)
In the beginnings no, when they say what the hell is that? I think that agile is a hotel chain in china, similar to Marriott or Hilton in the west. I stayed in one in Guangzhou, which was ok, but I think there may be bugs. Not sure if the bites was from outside or inside.
Congratulations Winston
The Beijing dialect thing reminded me of German language reform where they wanted to simplify but kinda just made it dumber and caving to mistakes and even introduced new logical ambiguities and then people are even more confused than before. Imagine if as a native English speaker you used to write "dolphin" and now your kids are learning in school to write "dolfin". So pointless. (A relly bad one was dass vs. daß - people were using the new form even when the old one was still valid. That's super-eager German authority-conformists.)
I'll be living in Guangzhou from late august to mid january. Can i expect blistering heat and humidity, like you said, or will it become better in? I think what i'm asking is; what are the best months in the south?
you should talk about what the general feeling Chinese men have towards foreigners, especially white foreigners, marrying Chinese women.
Depends on whether the girl falls within the men's preference range.
Outside: You lucky son of a b**** :)
Inside: You F**king son of a b**** :(
I love this series
Agree, Taiwan style Mandarin is the easiest to speak and understand. Back in the days when we were still under British rule, we learn the Taiwan style. Standard Beijing Mandarin have too much rolling tongue kind of pronunciation.
France, China, and Australia have always been my top 3 countries to visit. I wanted to go to China and see the country like yall do but yall covering access issues (hotels, licenses, etc), I think I'll have to just settle for ADVChina Just keep up the good work for me won't you? How far do yall travel away from Shenzhen anyway?
really true! I like it! keep up the good work man
Loving the 21:9 aspect ratio
So where is this place? This looks like a beautiful city, it's clean and organized.
Good video guys. Congrats Winston! :)
seems to be a heck of a lotta speed bumps there...nice vid guys
Cantonese sounds like Vietnamese and they are both"yue"people. Northern Chinese have a lot of heritage from nomads so they are taller .
"Yue" in Cantonese and "Viet" in Vietnamese both means native or local people. 110% sure Cantonese are not the same as Vietnamese. Indian American also known as Native American, but White people also call themselves Native American. They are not the same people, but they are same in term of Statue.
Not all the Southern Chinese speak cantonese! My hometown is JiangXi and people in this province have their own dialect. But of course my dialect dosen't sound like vietnamese.
+TrueFreedom I mean cantonese and vietnamese sounds similar but I didn't say they are the same language. the southern Chinese and vietnamese are genetically the same. they are both 越人 . there is genetically difference between northern Chinese and southern Chinese.
+TrueFreedom you will agree with me if you know how human beings migrated into china at the very beginning
@@ptaing8 yeah more dialects than just Cantonese in southern China
Are there videos of Cmilk describing his experience in inner mongolia autonomous region ?
Funny, for a second I thought C-Milk was talking about Oregon meat instead of organ meat at 7:00.
Winston, what is the phenotypic differences from northern Chinese to southern Chinese.
I was laughing when Winston was doing the Beijing accent because he did it to perfection
Why are the episodes 15 min? Is it because of the difficulties with the Golden Shield?
we have a 20min one coming up
Coming back from Beijing you forgot to mention "your indicator is on"!!! I waited through the whole video. Congratulations for getting married Winston!
Great Video. Actually it is much more complex than simply split China into North and South. Even within the province there are a lot difference.
First of all.I've been watching you guys vedios for a while.And I liked. And I think that I can explain the er sound (儿化音) in Beijing dialect.A lot people misunderstand that Beijingner say anything with er.Acturlly is not ture.We have strict rule that adding the er song after the certain words.which is a lot out of towner don't know how to use it properly.Even some TV hoster..Such as you mentioned in this vedio that why people don't say Tian an men er.and Guan men er.The reason is eveytime we say the er sound after the words is indicate somtthing small or smaller by contrast.Therefore We never say Qian men er represent the place where is hundred meters south from Tian an men .Whoever say that that exposes where is he or she come from.And about people say wu ri kuai instead wu shi kuai sounds laziness to you.Actually it is similar with drop or silent letters in English.Dose it make sense? :)
Hi guys very interesting as always. Thank you hugs
Hey ADV, great videos, giving a lot of inside views of China. Just one thing I have to comment on, Mandarin (Pu Tong Hua) is not the standard or commonly shared Chinese language since ever. And a very few of "dialects" you mentioned are not actually dialects, which mean a branched version of a certain language. They are independent languages in the sense that without the creation of Mandarin they would still exist. Actually, most of the "dialect" languages are closer to the ancient Chinese language, so they might be dialects to the ancient Chinese language, but definitely not Mandarin. As to Mandarin, look up the history/origin of Mandarin and you will find facts about Manchu people using brute forces to manually modify the Chinese culture, with a very significant part being the unification of language, which includes the making of Mandarin. To be fair, Mandarin should be originated from the Manchu people (non-Han people), leading to the translation of 'Mandarin' in the west.
Hope this gives a new view and pls make a clarification in the next ;)
I was learning manderin in school because we had teachers come in from shanghai so luckily we learned the ones you guys speak :)