Compilation Of "FIRSTS" in Xiamen China (Part 2)

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Hey all, here is Part 2 of my series of "Firsts" as a Chinese language student at #xiamenuniversity in #china. Enjoy.
0:00 Intro
0:33 First literal Chinese Fire Drill
1:20 First 泡茶 Tea Ceremony
2:53 Some first odd interactions with nature
4:03 Lost in translation
4:40 First long conversation with a Minnan local
6:46 First visit to 中山公园 Zhong Shan Park
8:01 Teaser

[@juki0h391]

That park is really nice. Lots of people out and about having a good time.

[@thejourneyofjake]

Yes it was!

[@nelsonsim]

I am a minnan ren so I can relate to this guy. My ancestors come from Zhangzhou. Xiamen is one of China's most beautiful cities. It is super clean and very safe.

[@thejourneyofjake]

I'm yet to venture out to Zhangzhou but hope to soon, I've heard great things 🙂

[@bobevans9996]

just fly eva - the song is fukienese - gor ya bo pyar shu taing gay - tzung hong tweet bin tzea - tzup chit pway hay bay tzut gay - shung tzot shout lyan gay ... after plane touch down everybody clap - so fun - los angeles to taipei the end of the song talk about "heard outside someone come - open door to take a look - moon laugh at me, so silly - don't know let wind trick"

[@nelsonsim]

@@bobevans9996 The Chinese name for this song is 望春风.

[@nelsonsim]

@@thejourneyofjake Zhangzhou is very laid back.

[@bobevans9996]

@nelsonsim 16 hours ago @bobevans9996 The Chinese name for this song is 望春风 thank u bro🥰

[@xinxin56]

The sound you heard from the tree is cicada singing, an insect living a short life in summer. Fun about it, it can feel people's aproaching. Once u walk closer, it will stop singing. If you walk away, it will sing again.

[@thejourneyofjake]

Cool fact, thanks for sharing!

[@xinxin56]

chinese name is 知了, pronouncation is similar to its singing tone@@thejourneyofjake

[@YanwenTan]

@@thejourneyofjake that's not bird. that's cicada.

[@roybergeson4212]

Your videos from China make me miss China even more. I lived there from 2000 to 2015. I lived in Shanghai and Beijing, but visited Xiamen one weekend. Drove out to where they used to fire artillery back and forth with Taiwan. Enjoy amazing China and the Chinese!

[@Josephgreentv]

Loving the content mate! I'm traveling in China and watching your first moving video made me realise I could contact my Cucas people again! I'll let you know! Keep up the content 😊

[@thejourneyofjake]

Cheers mate! Glad you enjoyed it. 🙂

[@notMelan]

3:58 It's a cicada. We think it as a symbol of summer. When summer is over, cicadas die. if you get used to their noise in summer, and one day the noise fade away, you would know it's autumn already. And there's a Chinese vulgarism "夏虫不可语冰", u might be interested in that.

[@ChiiSiAn]

蝉在叫，人坏掉🤣

[@bunnyhop9465]

I am Cantonese living in Sydney. Whe I travelled to Cairns years ago, the trees on the hills were full of cicadas. The noise they made were super loud as there were so many if them. Sadly, their lifspan are very short....

[@AScottInChina-ug5iy]

Great vid!! Wish I could go back and start my discovery of China from the beginning again!! I'd been here 6 years before I started making videos showing my life here. I love seeing your reactions to things for the first time. I'm going to have to start travelling more to get some of that as well!! Keep up the great work!!

[@thejourneyofjake]

Thanks! It's been quite the journey so far - just the beginning I feel 🙂 thanks for the comment

[@AScottInChina-ug5iy]

@@thejourneyofjakeYou've barely scratched the surface!! Hell, I've been here nearly seven years, and I've barely scratched the surface!! Definitely just the beginning, so much to explore here, with the different mixes of cultures as you start to journey further afield!! Just within a hundred kilometers of me, I think we have six different ethnic groups represented, plus a village made up of refugees from Myanmar, which I'm hoping to get out and see soon!! Keep the videos coming, always great to see somebody else's reaction to life here!!

[@revenchou8798]

I'm Chinese and i'm living in the UK now. Your videos truly take me back home! have already subscribed your channel and i'm looking forward to watching your future adventure in China ;)

[@thejourneyofjake]

I'm glad! Thanks for the comment, and subscribing ☺️

[@cheungchingtong]

Rougui is cinnamon, and that bug is cicada.

[@Ottovonostbahnhof]

here in the context, Rougui is one kind of tea with light cinnamon taste that grow on Rocky Mountain of Wuyi

[@quippy8402]

Please keep these videos coming Jake. Love to see more of your journey in China!

[@thejourneyofjake]

Will do! Appreciate the comment :)

[@gentoffire]

Chinese here, hah, just went to Xiamen last month and ran into your video! Good video ans subscribed, looking foward to your experiences in those commercial malls, i trust them will be eye openers for you! haha, its quite different from Australia ones.

[@thejourneyofjake]

Very different lifestyle, took a lot of getting used to in those first couple months but I've adjusted now 😊 thanks for the comment

[@pjw3438]

Many foreigners think that Chinese people are rude when speaking. In fact, because China is a highly competitive society and everyone is in a hurry, so they speak more directly.

[@yinwu2580]

Oh that was not bird singing in the tree, but cicadas, a kind of insect, similar to crickets :)

[@thejourneyofjake]

They have some very loud cicadas here 😆

[@williamhuang1314]

@@thejourneyofjakevery down-to-earth contents, keep up uploading more mate!

[@BrianaisGoingPlaces]

The fire drill is actually too wild hahah they really want yall to have a sense of urgency

[@thejourneyofjake]

Haha seems like it!

[@lmf1253]

Relieved you’ll be safe from the emergence of dawn - darkness rules!! 😂☀️😱 Great video!! x

[@thejourneyofjake]

😂🤣 thanks leese!

[@matthewmaclellan_]

the butterfly was so precious! (new to your channel)

[@thejourneyofjake]

Oh I'm glad someone else appreciated the butterfly haha, thanks for the kind words!

[@michaeljiang960]

nice video, your editing is improving, looking forward to the next one. keep it up.

[@thejourneyofjake]

Thank you, it's a lot of work I appreciate the comment 🙂

[@liamporter1137]

Thanks for sharing.

[@jianlinzhang7773]

Awesome 👍👍👍

[@hanmi1216]

3:58 i think that's the sounds of a bug. We have lot of that bugs here in Java's rainforest, very noisy little bugs 😂

[@SquareKFamaz]

The cicadas were singing on that tree, not the birds hahaha.

[@thejourneyofjake]

🤣 that does seem to be the general consensus - I feel like our cicadas in Australia are much quieter and have a more sustained trill. The more you know

[@williejiang]

@@thejourneyofjake Yeah from Fujian province myself, I am pretty sure that's cicadas. They are big and loud in the summer!

[@NiranjanChina]

nice

[@barrelrolldog]

Seems like you got it all figured out! complete 180 from my experience where i knew nothing about china nor the language. Of course it was a long time ago, not so much info online at that time. Times have changed so much in such a short time. Your chinese is pretty damn good already. Quite cool that they are fans of Taiwan there due to Taiwanese (minnan hua) music and what not. Didn't expect that. The Li Ho sounds different to the Li He in Taiwan also.

[@wlkn1375]

It's not Taiwanese it's Hokkien, Taiwanese Hokkien is a variation of standard Hokkien that originated in mainland China.

[@barrelrolldog]

@@wlkn1375 And Its called Taiwanese in Taiwan mate, so get your facts straight buddy.

[@zzli1295]

Please help people with all those translations while you are in China. Every time I saw those signs I just wanna cry😂

[@thejourneyofjake]

We probably do the same but in reverse in english speaking countries writing Chinese characters 😂 I've seen a few questionable tattoos in my time too

[@theolich4384]

You likely do speak better mandarin than some of the elderly locals. Minnan, or Southern Min language is mutually unintelligible to Eastern Min languages of Fuzhou and Ningde, which aren't very far away. The Sinitic languages are very diverse! You're in primary Hokkien country, that is culturally the closest region of the Chinese mainland to Taiwan. The dominant Hokkien/Soutern Min vs other immigrant groups (primarily Cantonese Hakka) formed the foundation of Taiwanese political divide which still persists (but further complicated by other factors) to this day.

[@crazy791326]

[@Abdullahi-Ahmed]

Hello Jake. After all the fun with both episodes, I have a question: I don't know if I have missed something but your language interaction level is pretty good for someone who just got his scholarship. Did you study Mandarin in Australia before going to China? I have watched people who were in China many years but still can't speak or understand as much as you do. Enjoyed all the videos btw.

[@thejourneyofjake]

Thanks for watching! I started learning in high school and came to China a couple times. Then I stopped for over a decade and picked it back up again last year in earnest at Confucius institute before coming to china for the scholarship. Bit complicated haha - I usually just tell people I've been learning for 4 years because it's easier

[@Lee-fw3vq]

3:58 It's cicade

[@cassies1369]

Hey Jake, so the sound is from Zhi Liao (an insect)

[@lena.315]

The bad translations made me laugh out loud, I’ll start sending you some of them☺️

[@davinahiguera568]

Great video

[@thejourneyofjake]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@jeffreysetapak]

Moman toilet?? Maybe that can be included in the Washington DC federal list of official genders. 😂😂😂😂

[@AmelieZh]

lmaooo

[@crazy791326]

I guess "Momen" is not a typo but means both Male and Female can use it in case there is a long line for the female one?

[@thejourneyofjake]

Didn't think of that, is it actually an English word?

[@eddchan543]

肉桂 is Cinnamon

[@NoohCee]

Incorrect. Not in Chinese Tea.

[@y.s936]

The word does mean cinnamon you’re right, but doesn’t mean actual cinnamon in presented in that tea, it’s just a name for the type of tea

[@lizz7805]

i believe what you heard was cicada 🙂

[@hsheuw]

Hello there Jake.. Somewhat curious what you make of Melbourne vs Xiamen..? I’m asking you this as a Melbourne Uni alumni (class of 2000) just like you. I’m a Chinese-Indonesian btw :). Is Xiamen as convenient to live like Melbourne..?

[@Fenchel-hg]

The convenience of life in Xiamen is not comparable to that in Melbourne. You can get everything quickly without leaving home.😊

[@wlkn1375]

Xiamen and any city in China is far more convenient than any city in australia or the west, not even close. China is living in 2075.

[@rider2731]

The convenience in Chinese cities even for a foreigner like myself is the best I have ever seen. In fact, you will find Chinese cities from the ocean to the Western-most part of China are very convenience, safe, and modern. The town planning in excellent in all cities. There is no comparison between Melbourne and Xiamen. Is Xiamen a good place to live? Given the opportunities, I will live there given the low living expenses and the abundance of good housing and outdoor places for bicycling.

[@julioduan7130]

3:53 cicada

[@thejourneyofjake]

If it was, it was definitely the loudest cicada I've ever heard 😂

[@julioduan7130]

@@thejourneyofjake Wait until next summer and you will hear tens of thousands cicadas singing in the same place at the same time. We are used to it in the summer.

[@baichuanren885]

It does have the similar rhythm of a cicada, but definitily different from any cicada I've ever heard.

[@revenchou8798]

​@@thejourneyofjake it is cicada and you will hear it even 10 times louder in the midsummer especially in south china

[@weepingcamel1]

awesome 老外 shirt

[@thejourneyofjake]

Ha cheers, just in case they couldn't tell you know?

[@jeffreysetapak]

Rou Gui 肉桂， cinnamon

[@ngheanchoong]

Like your video

[@thejourneyofjake]

Thank you!

[@minzhang9112]

Hahahahaha Some one needs to let the Uni know and correct the signs😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@onionlondon]

His theory of southerners drink more tea slowly therefore do better business is a result of him drinking too much tea obviously.

[@FBIXHUNTER]

森山。。因为是喜欢森林和山吗 哈哈哈 朴实无华的取名方式

[@thejourneyofjake]

我认为简单易懂的事情更好哈哈

[@FBIXHUNTER]

那推荐你一个节目 锵锵行天下 第三季 挺适合你 了解下中国的山水 和中国文化@@thejourneyofjake

[@kinghex9282]

would like to see you mingle with the aged people in the park. maybe play a chess game with them😆

[@AmelieZh]

That fire drill is a bit too realistic lol

[@bobevans9996]

pls go eat some meat rice dumpling - which store is most famous - it got to have tight fragrant rice - neat grains not pudding n dry shrimp dry chinese black mushroom not japanese n chestnut not peanut n whole shallot not onion n clove garlic n five spice powder - those in usa sucks - oh n salted egg yolk - whole yolk - in usa they give u a quarter😭

[@修身齐家看世界]

有人告诉你了吗？那是一种昆虫叫知了，我是福建人，有空去厦门找你玩

[@okowell]

好奇 澳大利亚没有知了么

[@ITeachChinese]

You speak Mandarin much better than he does 😂

[@seaweed9999]

Moman toilet 😂😂😂😂 what is that? 😂😂😂😂

[@mmwang9124]

opposite of woman？😂

[@artkidolee2162]

U r from Melbourne sure u won’t like coffee in China

[@thejourneyofjake]

I actually don't mind the coffee from Luckin coffee here, apparently the beans and method they use are based off a Melbourne barista haha

[@artkidolee2162]

@@thejourneyofjake after I moved to Melbourne I became a coffee snob

[@wlkn1375]

@@artkidolee2162China has way better coffee.