Childhood Memories & Growth | Real-life Chinese Listening Practice | Learn Chinese

[@EverydayChinese]

Hi there, Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! 🥮中秋快乐！ If you want to learn Chinese systematically from scratch to fluency, you can join our premium membership to access 1000+ Chinese lessons, ebooks, and quizzes… www.everydaychinese.com/pricing-d/ Then you can download the PDF transcript of this lesson here: bit.ly/Childhood-Memories-Growth Thanks for your support!

[@LenAttard]

I am writing this in English because i wish my comment to reach a wider audience and I do not wish other students to learn the mistakes I would obviously make if I were to write all this in Chinese. This is a great video. It is an excellent example of how Chinese, or any language, should be taught. When we achieve fluency in any language, as we speak, what appears in front of our minds are not characters or words, but sounds. It is the memorizing of SOUNDS that make us fluent. Ultimately such memories became like the "muscle memory" of a pianist's fingers. If we memorize words, and words are what are in front of our minds, then we are translating. Going back to the video, if I were a teacher, I would take this video and make 10 or even 20 videos out of it, carefully analysing and explaining everything that was spoken.....figures of speech, colloquialisms, omissions, grammar, etc., to help students of Chinese understand what is being said. Such an undertaking would produce a set of videos of immence value that would help students not only to understand gramnar through speech, but also to learn how the person in the street really speaks. Such an undertaking would stop us speaking Chinese like a textbook or a lawyer in a court of law, and then having to unlearn it to speak as people normally speak in their eveyday life. Thank you for this great video.

[@EverydayChinese]

Haha, actually, we did something like this already. You can check our last topic, Shenzhen VS Hong Kong: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m53Fd2udaK6Fh80 It's great that we think alike, and I believe this approach is really helpful. 🥰🥰🥰

[@LenAttard]

@@EverydayChinese With all due respect, I do not think that we are thinking alike. I think that you missed my point. As I do not wish to appear to be telling teachers how to teach a language, I am going to be very brief. I am aware of the video you referred me to. But in that video what was done was to pull out a few grammar point from the original video, elaborated on them, and showed how they fitted into the HSK syllabus. What I had in mind was much more than just discussing grammar points. But we all have to do what we think works for us, so good luck and all the best.

[@EverydayChinese]

@@LenAttard Anyway, thank you for your good suggestions! I will consider about that. 🙂

[@disciplinefreedom3083]

@@LenAttard As long as it is all done in Chinese. it is useful.

[@rospiseth]

两位老师好！ 这种视频让我想起我也曾经是一个孩子。 感谢两位老师！ Someone told me that: Growing up is not the Problem, Forgetting is.

[@EverydayChinese]

不客气~ 你可以说一说你的童年故事吗？🥰

[@tanya-vg8vf]

谢谢你们做这种形式的视频！ 我住在莫斯科， 学习汉语。我注意到，当我听你们俩自然对话时，我更好地记住单词，更好地听得懂汉语。 我认为，对学习汉语来讲，看两个中国人自然交流视频比看用课本上对话做的视频好得多。非常非常感谢！期待这种形式的下一次视频！你们俩都是非常可爱的美女! :)

[@EverydayChinese]

谢谢你的支持！你还想了解什么话题呢？可以告诉我们。🥰

[@ladyevenstar22]

18 minutes in , i've heard "ranhou ne" so much i think its imprinted in my brain ; I'm mostly paying attention to adverbs, connective words , not sure if right word like "danshi" "suoyi" "yinwei" "haishi" . great video by the way

[@marklucky4209]

Guys, this type of interviews is super awesome for learning! Please keep it up!

[@Alltherage9496]

love this! 謝謝你們. I think that kids playing with "primitive toys" that show them basic physics and other fundamental things are better for brain development than the new cell phone age. 你們的故事都很好啊.

[@EverydayChinese]

不客气！Glad you like this! Can you tell us your childhood story?🥰

[@Alltherage9496]

@@EverydayChinese 哈哈, 我的故事特別說來話長啦!but maybe I will send it.

[@joannawrona2228]

I'll be coming to Shenzhen as a foreign exchange university student in February. I'd love to hear you talk about the daily life in Shenzhen, as well as the differences between Shenzhen and the rest of China. thanks for making such amazing content! I'm HSK3 and I understood a very large part of the video without using the subtitles. It was great!

[@louischan344]

Great video, very well done and interesting. Excellent for learning.Thanks a lot.

[@EverydayChinese]

Glad you like it! If you want to hear us discuss any other topics, please let us know. 😊

[@alanfischer1948]

Happy Mid Autumn Festival, Deng Deng and Crystal. I really enjoy watching you two talking in these videos, you both are so full of happiness. Thank you for the pinyin and the English translations too. I can understand a little of what you say without looking, but most of the time I need to look. :) You were both so excited in this video you were speaking very fast and I need to slow the speed down so I can understand more words. Many of the games you played like hop scotch, dodgeball, the fortune teller and pick up sticks, American children play as well. Can you make a video about the Mid Autumn festival?

[@EverydayChinese]

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! 中秋节快乐！ Thanks for telling us that American children play most of the games as well. Q: Can you make a video about the Mid Autumn festival? A: No, we‘re having the Mid-Autumn holidays. But you can check out the videos we made before about it: 1. REAL Chinese Conversation: How to make mooncakes on Mid-Autumn Festival kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4PMXqyCltSZo8k 2. The Legend of The Mid Autumn Festival kzbin.info/www/bejne/ooCWnHqVq62Hi8k 3. Slow Chinese - Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a32zda2sd9B4has

[@alanfischer1948]

@@EverydayChinese 谢谢你! 我会看看 🙂

[@alanfischer1948]

Wow, that is a lot of work to make the mooncakes.

[@jamilm4668]

I love this episode. Both of them very cute and enthusiastic. Continue to have fun as we live. Happy mid autumn!

[@EverydayChinese]

Happy Mid-autumn! Please let us know if you want to hear us discuss any other topics.😊

[@peanutbutter7068]

谢谢！我很喜欢试试听这样的自然说话。虽然还有点难懂，但是非常有用。这些故事那么好笑！ 我小孩子的时候，在路的对面，我有一个有跳跳盘的朋友 （你知道那一个运动的东西，可以在外面找，你可以跳得很高）。我们一起在他的家的后面跳得高。我记我们玩得非常开心的！这种回忆那么好

[@EverydayChinese]

谢谢你喜欢我们的视频！童年回忆真的很美好。🥰

[@smitrastogi1233]

it would be great to hear you talking about your favourite chinese movies

[@lalbahadurpakhrin7866]

Sweet memories of childhood !❤

[@sumayah8823]

Love this video!

[@SHAREYOUSMILE]

终于有新视频了。 。 。 我已经等了很久了

[@nippon_insights]

老师们你好！ 我非常喜欢你们的谈话。 我觉得学习汉语你们的谈话很重要。

[@EverydayChinese]

多多练习，你的听力一定会有很大的进步！你还想听我们讨论什么话题呢？可以告诉我们。🥰

[@GREGSJH13]

Yes, these videos are great, we love them. They’re casual, fun and great for learning real world Chinese instead of textbook. I also like the locations that you choose. Thank you.

[@dougwestimaging9025]

你们俩挺好的。 下次的话题是一台政策或者大陆省份

[@tabularasa0606]

I just realized that with so many words sounding similar, Chinese is probably invented by a dad, so he could make a load of dad jokes.

[@mountaintag]

Q: What ticks to the wall ? A: Ticky paper, tupid !

[@Wwbright]

Hao❤

[@hoaitamluong3276]

Sao laij chồng chữ lên vậy ạ? Muốn đọc chữ Trung nhưng đã bị pinyin che mất

[@junsin-cs7jw]

老师我已经补习中文三年多了，您所说的话大部分我都听的懂，你觉得我的中文怎么样老师，我觉得我的中文还不够好😢

[@EverydayChinese]

如果你大部分都能听懂，那你的汉语已经很好了，继续加油！🥰

[@junsin-cs7jw]

@@EverydayChinese 我学习中文是为了当翻译，老师有玩脸书吗？

[@junsin-cs7jw]

@@EverydayChinese 我会填hsk 4 了，只不过说话我不太会

[@welovecambodia9433]

请你们说一点慢慢好吗？

[@EverydayChinese]

You can slow the playback speed in the settings of the video player. 可以。不过，这是正常语速。你可以在播放器的设置中，选择慢速播放。