A Day in My Life as a Mandarin Student in China // 在中国当中文学生的一天

Here's a typical day in my life in what I believe to be the best place in China that you can study Chinese... loving my time in Yangshuo.
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[@BarrettYT]

Appreciate you all following along my Chinese journey with me. Are you studying any languages at the moment and why?

[@川建國愛拜振華]

I'm so happy for your shared😀 You are still young, and enough to learn anything you want. Learning Chinese can help you better integrate into the local society.👍🏻

[@rptlee]

Yeah I'm brushing up on my Chinese cause I came to China for work recently :D

[@frankie2022]

You should definitely enjoy more your living in China by being able to speak and understand Mandarin. At least you would have no problem in ordering all different types of delicious food yourself.

[@孟秋-n3x]

@Martin Tsui 兄弟，我佩服你这么用心，留言可以打这么多字，而且举出详细例子！！！！

[@tww5719]

Wild china at its best,are those symbols words or individual letters ? Must take ages to write a letter or a essay 👍

[@litao5387]

Best of luck buddy. Its not easy to settle in a foreign land, you are doing an amazing job.

[@BestofChina]

It's nice and a bit funny that the teacher was using a lot of gestures when she was teaching/talking in Chinese to you guys. 😄 加油 Barret! ❤️

[@livinlavidaluke]

May we both become fluent together, it's a long journey 加油 💪 Also super jealous of where you're living, very nice!

[@yitingzhao3997]

士别三日刮目相看，我关注oli的时候中文都不怎么会说，现在这么流利了，看来学得很努力。加油！

[@AmelieZh]

环境真的很重要！不知道会不会广西口音的，呵呵

[@Shenzhou.]

他有自信就会说多点，说多了就会变流利。

[@wittmorgan8023]

@@AmelieZh 不要对广西口音有太多刻板印象，这里是桂林不是南宁，不存在什么夹壮话或南普，桂林人要么讲桂柳话，要么讲比较标准的普通话。另外，南宁、来宾等口音也代表不了广西。广西还有很多讲类似粤语的地方，那些地方普通话口音和广东的一样一样的。所以根本不存在所谓“广西口音”，广西只有某个城市的口音。

[@精品影视剪辑师]

@@wittmorgan8023 不是哦，我朋友桂林也多有口音的。

[@bintang2289]

@@精品影视剪辑师 哪个地方没有地方口音，北京还有口音，你听老板娘有所谓的广西口音？

[@murrymu4632]

好棒的早餐，Oli重回学生时代令人羡慕，因为有非常美的环境，非常棒的老师，非常可爱的同学。 在小城骑电动车真方便。 Oli非常有语言天份，希望学成后Oli偶而可以用中文回复我们。

[@markleo2497]

Barrett 既然你在桂林，非常欢迎建议你去我的家乡，离阳朔不远的地方--桂林龙胜县龙脊梯田，玩一玩，那也是个非常美的地方！

[@yl282]

是的

[@liangvicki7786]

其实你自己自学的中文发音就真的已经很标准了，语言天才

[@Angel-pg5jj]

很对

[@sir7542]

怕不是没见过克里斯，那个才是正宗的“假冒”外国人。

[@อุดมศักดิ์ศิริภูผา-ต2ฃ]

@@sir7542 克里斯應該學中文學很久了吧！而這位先生才學了沒幾天，他這樣的進度應該還算是可以的了，就給他一點時間吧！

[@matteohu5868]

@@sir7542 克鲁斯老婆是中国人

[@matteohu5868]

@@sir7542 不过克鲁斯的中文不是一般的好 是确实很好👍🏻如果没有看到他本人还真不知道他是老外

[@qq1110]

Incredible. Chinese is one of the most difficult languages but u are improving a lot in a short period of time. Great job!

[@cynconan]

you are making progress so fast on your Chinese!

[@BarrettYT]

Thanks 😊

[@avil8686]

Your reading ability is impressive. 加油

[@marcopolomint2488]

Given China is a big place, it be great if we can see what other provinces offer these Mandarin schools and what they’re like too. Perhaps, the school can sponsor you to learn Mandarin in various cities in China and you can show the establishment and what the city is like to live and study at.

[@hanqing2005]

你现在的中文水平已经相当不错啦，期望你百尺竿头更进一步。加油！

[@Shenzhou.]

他有自信就会说多点，说多了就会变流利。

[@allyourchoice832]

Your videos about living in China always make me full of happiness.

[@yaziwo2477]

Omg!your Chinese has been improved so much even your reading...the charactors are not easy at all!!well done!!keep up the good work

[@c4alanngo]

Awesome drone footage man!

[@AilikeLi]

Quote Oli "...Guangdong, where I am from...", I like that! Oh and there is a phrase you must know - good good study, day day up!

[@justinh3833]

Yangsuo is a county in Guilin city, a place famous for great mountains and green river. Very beautiful indeed. Love the place.

[@Hazza_Harding]

加油！

[@antwango]

Peng Jeng Ji bought me here XD

[@stanbimi]

The best students are those who are interested in the subject. They are self-motivated, so they absorb lessons like a sponge. It's very enriching to go beyond vocabularies and intonation and study the history of China. Yes, Chinese think about their ancient history in terms of dynasties. More doors of opportunities will open to expats with mastery of the Chinese language and an understanding of how the culture evolved through ages.

[@bobfisher1916]

I tried Omeida's free online introductory class and was very impressed. When Covid restrictions permit I will try to get there in person.

[@BarrettYT]

That's great

[@patricew.4010]

Did you happen to go

[@haodeplorable266]

Keep working hard, we are all supporting you silently

[@jerrywang4695]

Oli, you are very inspiring.. You are living a very inspiring life. Thanks for being the bridge between West and China. Your work helps to eliminate a lot misunderstandings about China and promote world peace.

[@hattiewu1151]

Cool gudgets for making your fresh morning coffee.

[@BarrettYT]

Yeah they're nice! From Fact coffee

[@jurrasicpig2426]

I like it too

[@yuetcheung1804]

I really envy you to have such great opportunity to have all these fantastic experiences, and feel excited for your forthcoming times in 阳朔

[@stong4764]

You and your dad are very natural in front of the camera.

[@yaoshengzhao231]

Hi, there, Oli. Your spoken Chinese has certainly improved since the first time I watched your video using my other KZbin account (CanaanOptical) and you're certainly qualified to be more confident. I really enjoyed this particular upload because of personal interests. I was supposed to travel to Shenzhen (from Malaysia where I am a citizen) in early 2019 to teach English in an international school there but my plans were thwarted by the C-19 pandemic. Glad to see you and your dad having the time of your lives in my 'homeland' and speaking well of it in contrary to what the western media would have the world believe. Thanks and God bless! 赵耀胜 Jeremy p/s This clip is a bit shorter than your usual uploads and more suitable for me to share with my friends. Thanks and take care.

[@BarrettYT]

Appreciate the words. Hope you can do your plan once China opens up again.

[@jindongmei8609]

你的中文很好👏👏👏 感谢分享

[@graceyan524]

简直人间仙境！能在这样的地方学习和生活太幸福了。

[@brendinsukhram5364]

Well done. This gives many of us whom are interested in learning Chinese the understanding and direction to begin the process.

[@ShowShineAU]

阳朔桂林的风景甲天下，你很有福气

[@Runningbowels]

Best of luck on the course. I am learning Chinese as well but on my own and it is a daunting task. Beautiful view btw at 7:18.

[@AmelieZh]

加油加油

[@Runningbowels]

谢谢你！

[@DLeong1]

You are enhancing your love of all things Chinese; I applaud you. Your dad must be chuffed about how life in China is turning out for you. Make him proud.

[@yayunliang2314]

本地人米粉6块一碗，作为老外，你并没有被宰。15块不仅仅是两碗米粉，还有一些附加配料。

[@Tommy5ol]

在澳門一碟腸粉就要15塊人民幣了🥲

[@天生好人]

正常应该是米粉6块，蛋肠粉5块，一共11块。博主应该加了别的吃的

[@elliemagnus9731]

@@Tommy5ol 你地人工咁高都系15蚊，我地广州人工低好多都要10蚊😭

[@yongshengwang588]

@@elliemagnus9731 说实话我老家山村一小碗粉都9块了，吃了也就垫垫肚子

[@uktinghui0066]

你的中文有进步，加油💪

[@CarpsterKing]

Oli Your putong hua seems to be improving by leaps and bound....keep it up,,,,

[@ztpan7587]

The musical instrument Pipa originated in the Persian Gulf and came to China through the Silk Road. It is now quite popular in China. See? How nice when nations trade and cooperate?

[@lawcoscare5097]

Glad u chose Guilin city of Guangxi province as your next stop in your student life

[@marcopolomint2488]

Great video! Good to see videos created to show the younger generation what an array of opportunities are in China. Influence the younger generation to appreciate the ‘one world’ concept where when countries works together with China can achieve great things. The youth is our future, steer them the truthful and right path. Win win. More youth content please!

[@yjharvey7824]

Wow your chinese is getting very well! And your pronunciation and tones are very accurate! I am impressed!

[@thmei6296]

哈哈你们两个聊着聊着就用英语说话了，太真实了

[@liuchuanfeng2022]

哈哈哈。我当时就笑了😂

[@bunnyhill2024]

哈哈语速火箭式提升

[@Monkeyabroad]

lol bro you can't tell me that breakfast montage wasn't inspired by my video. Nothing but love though, Omeida is where it's at! Cheers

[@mikorara]

This is a really beautiful place... Youve made a great choice as far selecting a great school , location, etc... Good luck....

[@zh214]

Oli, Your pronunciation is very good, much better than the foreign friend you were talking to. If you keep learning to speak Chinese, I believe you will become more and more fluent! 👍👍 Yangshuo is very close to my hometown, and it only takes 40 minutes to get there by bullet train. I have been to Yangshuo several times before, and the view there is beautiful and suitable for living. I hope that I can go to Yangshuo again this year when I return to China.

[@planetnomadicpersonal]

My ancestral province is Guangdong, only visited once. Loved Yangshuo. It has the best of both worlds. I'm not into "Western brands" like Starbucks or McDonalds but the visual familiarity helps ground me in an otherwise bewilderingly ALIEN place. We visited Yangshuo in 2018 and we had a breakfast in a shop just like the one at the beginning of your video with all the great condiments, sitting at a low table with low stools with our guide. We found her - or rather she found us - just walking around on our first night just keeping panic at bay because there were no "motorer" to get back to the hotel. On that breakfast street alone, there were several Chinese language schools. Remarked to my daughter that this would be the perfect place to get fluent in Mandarin. Maybe one day! It's so beautiful.

[@塔绿班班长]

头条和油管同步上传，赞👍🏻

[@phuongtu1999]

What a beautiful student life. Quiet and peaceful. A place for a clear mind.

[@zz7zt0p56]

really lovely Oli is studying as a Mandarin Chinese Student in China 👏👏Seeing is Believing! doing an Excellent Works, Job well done👏👏Thank You!

[@mili9169]

I really love your video.thank you for your love for China.

[@SuperSonic-zz8dx]

You guys are good. The world need your.guys with integrity and.honesty

[@kcadenza514]

It's impressive that you got the tones/accents right on the spot as a beginner. Most foreigners use their "English brain" to learn Chinese just like many Chinese people learn English with their "Chinese brain", which will never get the gist of authentic foreign language.

[@georgeinjapan6583]

How does this related to UG, though ?

[@kcadenza514]

@@georgeinjapan6583 what's UG?

[@georgeinjapan6583]

@@kcadenza514 Universal Grammar (as defined by Chomsky). Not to be confused with the general universal grammar which is about specific features that all languages have.

[@kcadenza514]

@@georgeinjapan6583 I see, yeah it makes sense that all human languages have some deep similarities in terms of grammar because our logic sense is similar despite of country or race. I believe grammar is based on logic sense (such as every sentence in any language has subject, object, verb explicitly or implicitly), but language as a whole is based on culture. One can speak authentic language of a place only when he thinks like people in that place. I say place because it even applies to dialect. the accent of a dialect actually represent the personality/temper of the people in that region, every sound they make is a distillation of their culture.

[@georgeinjapan6583]

@@kcadenza514 Language is innate to us, but culture molds it to be sure (vocabulary and expressions).

[@吴子安-b9v]

The last song on the video is called "Ambush on Ten Sides", thank you very much for watching the video.

[@YanPitch]

Your drone shots are amazing. Thanks.

[@HaiboRen]

Wow! Oli, you made incredible progress in mastering Chinese, Admirable! you must be gifted in learning languages 👍 If I am half as smart as you, I should have became fluent in English rather than still struggling with it. Have nice days in Yangshuo, the pearl I personally love most. Beer fish the Yangshuo dish deserves taking a risk :) 加油💪

[@haodeplorable266]

The grammar of Chinese is much simpler than that of English. If we ignore the writing of Chinese characters, Chinese is the easiest language to learn in the world

[@Nucke4]

words that sound similar is also complicated I think. you need to be careful with tones and pronunciation

[@hanfucolorful9656]

@@Nucke4 In Chinese, there is no verb switch of [do, does, did, done, doing], only do, so way easy in terms of grammar.

[@墙国蝼蚁]

I totally agree

[@AmelieZh]

还真是。。。英语词汇还比中文多呢

[@winstond4445]

I'm used to using English grammar, I think chinese with it's tones and intonations are 10x harder. I like have 0 patience when learning the tones

[@John_259]

Hi Oli, it's good to see how well you're getting on with the course. I wonder what your old school teachers in Britain would make of it?

[@BarrettYT]

Yeah I'd be interested to know that too

[@abdirahmanhussein3899]

@@BarrettYT I wonder what your old school teachers in Britain would make of it? They would be saving most of their money for their future retirement not in the Midlands (very Beautiful) but in some quite place just like Yangshuo, China!

[@dantesinferno5075]

The last track that was played on the pipa is great classic, translated loosely as "Ambushed from all sides", about an army Ambushed by the enemy! 😄

[@jtang8768]

wow, the view is amazing! I also like your new Drone, my god, feels like a Sifi movie

[@mhlouisa]

你知道嗎？雨桂林的景色是最美麗的 Don't you know the raining Guilin is the most beautiful Guilin.

[@giliguluedinburgh]

Awesome content and lovely people and teachers in Yangshou. @barrett the drone footage under the low bridge 8:51 was amazing, I hope you were shitting it thinking you took too much of a risk there to bring us the footage!

[@2morrowsworld]

Fantastic insight. Looks like a great learning environment for a student. They provide onsite accommodation there. I myself have been in contact for several months with Omeida through one of their reps, Anya. Obviously learning Mandarin Chinese is the primary reason. But it provides a convenient excuse to return to China itself by getting around an L tourist visa. At the moment, X1 type study visas are not being issued to people in my situation (from Australia). However that should change before the end of this year (assuming the Australian Government let's us out!) Your Chinese sounds good enough to be rated at A2 or nearly intermediate level. You'll thrive at Omeida.

[@congqianman1994]

Your Chinese is improving fast！强 厉害 赞 真棒

[@MondaySurprise]

The school is sort of like a start-up project, but it has got everything it's needed! Nice one.

[@jzhang9094]

I visited Yangshuo in 1997. It's one of the most fascinating places on earth.

[@JobOthoniel]

Great video Barrett.

[@dp0625]

Actually Chinese is not difficult, you must learn according to the rules, for example, if you learn a word "vehicle", then you will find that you learn a lot of words：fire vehicel means train, steam vehicle means car, goods vehicle means truck. or if you learn a word "electric" then : electric speaker means phone, electric view means tv, electric brain means PC

[@huagong6490]

interesting, haha

[@李显龙-m7b]

中文好学你就整两句

[@Shenzhou.]

Take learning the _Days of Week_ for example, in English it's _Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday._ In Chinese it's just 星期一，星期二，星期三，星期四，星期五，星期六，星期天。(Weekday1, Weekday2, Weekday3…Weekday6, Weekend) And learning the _Months of the Year_ is even more difficult. In English it's _January, February, March, April, May,……_ whereas in Chinese its 一月，二月，三月，四月，五月，六月 (First Moon/Month, Second Month, Third Month , Fourth Month, Fifth Month, Sixth Month) etc. Once you know how to count in Chinese and how to say week and month in Chinese, you're pretty much set. Whereas in English you have to memorize new words for days of the week and months of the year.

[@PanduLuhur]

haha so true, my friend also told me the same way

[@Ooo-zf5sx]

羡慕你现在的生活！

[@davidhughes4527]

Great video buddy. You are doing well and it shows you are trying hard as well as doing your vdo editing. It's quite a handfull trying to balance your work. Well done. 👍👍

[@peter9182]

桂林山水甲天下，阳朔山水甲桂林。 The scenery in Gui Lin is second to none in China, the scenery in Yang Shuo is second to none in Gui Lin.

[@James-yd8dg]

桂林山水 👍👍👍😎

[@anonymintheworld9781]

Your Chinese are getting better :)

[@Coffee45665]

这里的 地方 好漂亮很安靜👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@yl282]

仙境桂林

[@yoyoho5994]

Wow, that is an amazing place. It is on my bucket list. Thanks for your videos!

[@yvonneip858]

Great job! You have made a great progress!

[@JP-sg8ng]

One thing I really like about china is that.. you don’t need to bring any cash with you..all you need is the phone!.. that’s it!..scans and go!.. really awesome 👏

[@raideepu4]

Awesome bro! I hope your language improves impressively and you can interact better with the local Chinese so we can get more information about China.

[@zoezhang5243]

Yangshuo is really beautiful

[@raychoi33]

Your Mandarin has improved a lot . Congrats

[@Crystalbomb321]

Your Mando accent is so good! Keep it up 😙

[@deanz.d4358]

居然在阳朔学中文，这个地方绝了！your chinese improve alot these days.

[@relaxwhc]

If you enjoyed this video, raise your hand to show Barrett your undying love and support ✋🙋

[@jiehu3839]

Bro, you really give me more confidence in learning German, you really impressed me with your learning speed. Enjoy your life there

[@BarrettYT]

Appreciate that a lot

[@flyingsnow1228]

Thank you for sharing this with us and it’s so interesting to watch! The 肠粉 and 米粉 looks so yummy , but I guess it’ll be quite heavy for a breakfast. 😁 Apparently you’re making great progress in Chinese study and your pronunciation is superb! I must go to visit Yangshuo one day, thanks to your nice video! 👍

[@cozydutch]

Great to see you learning Chinese in daily life in China. I'm also studying Mandarin in the Netherlands.

[@benalonso5302]

You really have languages talent. Your pronunciation is excellent. Keep up

[@kacheukng2910]

I love the 琵琶 music . amazing

[@paul--]

@Barrett - Oli, it's amazing to see you biting the bullet and learning Chinese, inspiring stuff! 📙 💪 Great to see how grounded you are in China there too, I recall when you first went out there you didn't seem to feel like it was 'home' as such due to it being a very different place, but China has seriously grown on you now, - keep doing what you're doing, try to eat like the locals do, because what they eat is for a reason ; that is to say, it matches the season and the weather conditions, so it ends up being a healthier option! 👍

[@zhaoquanyu5806]

Great Job mate！ Keep Going!

[@etow8034]

Oli has a passion for learning Mandarin this is why he is learning so fast !

[@relaxwhc]

*Greetings gentlemen* Welcome to China, the land of plenty

[@lilyw1081]

好美的城市，有机会的话，也想去那里看看

[@trevornorman7563]

hi Oli the food when it was on the tray straight out of the cooker looked more like modern art and to good to eat

[@BarrettYT]

It was haochi!

[@Angel-pg5jj]

This video makes me want to learn Mandarin I haven’t been learning recently again

[@温撒母耳]

💞💖💕奧里加油！祝學有所成！💞💖💕

[@陆剑-c5l]

Hi Oli， I 've watched your video for long time and right this time i've seen your Laptop ist Xiaomi Pro yes? just mines ist all the same hhaha,,,wish you have good time there and thank you for discovering so many good aspects of China, spreading these to the world, and supporting you. I am a Chinese working in Germany

[@davidchung4691]

Good luck and work hard with your study! Very interesting.👍👍👏👏

[@chenmary486]

小子，进步很大了，加油

[@zalelow2518]

Dude, i never been there before, but i have decided to plan a trip to China because of your vlog :) awesome

[@avischan5939]

I have to say Oli, your Chinese has much better. You've got great improvement. 👍👍

[@leimr6076]

很棒的地方，我想我必须去一次

[@Kuasarakyat2]

Very cheerful teacher! 👏