The school system is very similar to the one used in England as well. For example, students join the school at the age of 11 or 12, that's roughly Year 7 irl (first year in secondary school). The OWLs are basically GCSEs and the NEWTs are essentially A-levels.
@zikster993 жыл бұрын
Awesome! 6:10 The quill is equivalent to the Chinese calligraphy brush on the west. I am very fond of it. Wish western schools could still practice them in class...well, in some classes...
@estherkong87613 жыл бұрын
太喜歡這個專題了,謝謝戴老師!!!
@jerometsowinghuen3 жыл бұрын
I am a fan of Harry Potter after reading books and watching movies, as well as Fantastic Beasts. Not only able to learn British (or Scottish) culture, phrases and words, but also the meaning of spells. 🪄 Thank you for teaching, Miss Susie, this video is absolutely educational for all Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts fans. 💫
I was stunned by the blunt and frequent sarcasm which Hogwarts professors and students talked to each other. This is unimaginable in Taiwan. I wonder whether this is what actually happens in contemporary British schools.
@YT-jh8co3 жыл бұрын
Although Latin is an archaic language now, its remnants still pervade in certain academia. Many of the words used in anatomy and taxonomy are Latin based. So for an individual in English speaking countries who aspires to become medical doctors, it would be helpful to study Latin in high school. Another area where Latin (and Greek) influences the English language is prefixes, suffixes, and word's roots.
@weic583 жыл бұрын
跟亞洲有關的元素只想到張秋(Cho Chang)跟芭蒂姊妹(Patil twins)😂😂
@weihan53343 жыл бұрын
Even those two feel very much like Asians living in UK, which of course they are in the book
@jolam83523 жыл бұрын
Susie, may you introduce the traditional culture of Christmas in the UK? Your videos are excellent and scripts are helpful. Your voice is soft and beautiful! I appreciate your work very much!
I appreciate how practical and academic your contents actually are, and yet still remain quite intriguing to the audiences. This is literally an amazing way to learn a language. As a big fan of your channel, I sincerely hope there will be more academic/intermediate/advanced videos on the basis of your culture, knowledge, compelling narrative, and fascinating topics.😊🙏🏻 Thank you so much!
@susiewoo2 жыл бұрын
Aw thanks for the lovely comment; there'll be more to come for sure
@54-KelvinWong3 жыл бұрын
Harry Potter really changes the world of children's lifes. I remembered I read 3-4 books at that moment and found a lot of difficult words that did not understand. But as the stories were very attractive, I spent much time to read through the stories and then also watched the movies...
@周亭臨3 жыл бұрын
Your voice so cool. Thanks for share about something fun. love you.
@talkdiary3 жыл бұрын
In the triwizard tournament there was a Chinese fireball Dragon, I wonder what would it look like, it never shown in the movie. JK Rowling also had Zouwu in Fantastic beasts movie franchiese.
@christinelee84342 жыл бұрын
Thanks Susie, your videos are really useful for me to understand more about culture in UK😘
@susiewoo2 жыл бұрын
You're welcome! 😊
@jimmychen48553 жыл бұрын
noticed a little spark in the video with a hint. When you are introducing the writing instrument in the movie, it seems to be a bit more background in it by mentioning the history of the debut time of metal nib pens in the UK. is there by any chance to have a video to talk about the history of writing instruments in the UK. Thanks
@susiewoo3 жыл бұрын
是個好主題,謝謝你的提議!
@epjb2262 жыл бұрын
How about pumpkin juice? First time I heard that and it just stuck with me. Kind of weird out by it ... I am guessing people in UK drink that??
@jubihwan3 жыл бұрын
Hi! Thanks for your video and this is great! There is schools in Hong Kong also have concept of houses in school, like mine , my secondary school, and some universities also have houses too. We have different colours sport uniforms , and race for the whole year😅
@daphnehsu57262 жыл бұрын
i found in Asia, there are private schools operated by Catholic Church or religious charities which provide resident facility for registered students are similar with the “Boarding Schools” in Canada, UK, and America. There are big dinning and gathering rooms for all students in boarding School. But the male and female students always have separate areas for bed rooms, wash rooms or bath rooms. The are always some secret rooms or forbidden areas in boarding school as well.
@vtsien3 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Susie, for the British culture and language behind Harry Potter. I was never aware of it. I really love that!
@JessicaCheung162 жыл бұрын
I just come across your channel! It's amazing to see you speaking very fluent mandarin and introducing the British culture! Very educational and entertaining!
@runningbamboo99803 жыл бұрын
new hair style! is it for Harry Potter subject only?
Triffles are also pretty special. We don't get those in Taiwan and I don't recall it's translated in the Chinese version of Harry Potter.
@HappyStarFollower2 жыл бұрын
Hogwart’s motto``Draco Dormeins Nunquam Titillandus’’mean never tickle a sleeping dragon.
@gw67532 жыл бұрын
Chinese dragon to be the symbol of the luck while dragon in the western world to be the symbol of viciousness. And Chinese dragon mostly comes without wings other than some specific ones. When Chinese dragon shows up, it comes with cloud and rain while western dragon comes with fire and demolishment.
@jaxkhan3 жыл бұрын
Smaug is a famous dragon in John Tolkien‘s novel
@Melmelmel89 Жыл бұрын
OMG your mandarin .... blow my mind! Beautiful to listen ...
@bensadventureblogger66583 жыл бұрын
Since I were a kid. I used to be Harry Potter's big fan but not just only one. Another two main character Ron and Hermaine were also my big fans too. Once you had explained this film, I hardly imagined that story reflects in real society where they enroll in school, get educated and also used Latins like you had mentioned. Not just only explained of how Harry Potter's film included the elements of British. It sound quite like an ex Roman empire language where Germanic language were commonly used in Europe. That's really motivate me more about human ourselves in this planet of what different discovery we should know.
@student1672 жыл бұрын
Secondary schools in old Hong Kong almost all applied the concept of houses in UK, however, mainly for sports competitions. The differences were: we were not boarding schools, no formal dinners and loyality as well. However, the Chinese University are still exactly the same as Hogwarts does today
@chachacha52233 жыл бұрын
好喜歡這集!!!😍💕
@lai79813 жыл бұрын
Weasley family are Celts, Luna is a Scandinavian British, Malfoy is Anglo-Saxon, and Harry Potter is Latin people. And in story, Weasley is pretty poor and in low class. Malfoy and Luna are in high class, and Harry is the respected person. This design contains a little bit stereo type and even certain level of racism.
@mrmrabcabc1232 жыл бұрын
Suzie, 在英國年齡多大的人小孩可以看懂Harry Potter系列?Grade 6?
@frozenmum3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing Susie. I like the fun facts, especially.
Mandrake is mentioned in the Bible (Gen. 30:14-16) and its Biblical use is generally attributed to its supposed fertility power.
@leeuwmeanfee47263 жыл бұрын
herbal medicine is not necessarily Chinese related as we know many people use natural things to cure diseases around the world before European( they had same tradition to use herbal medicine) started chemical synthetical method to produce medicine in 19th century.
@patrick071243 жыл бұрын
I studied in the UK for four years for undergraduate first year I stayed in Cambridge and then Loughborough for the remaining years I never saw freddo chocolate frog bar at any supermarkets (e.g. Tesco, sainsbury's, Asda) Why is that? Are they not sold there?
@susiewoo3 жыл бұрын
Freddos are sold in all major shops. Maybe it didn't stand out because all Cadbury's is purple?
@patrick071243 жыл бұрын
@@susiewoo thanks for replying I will have to go back to the UK to see it with my own eyes to believe it but the pandemic .... its like its never going to end
@pillargauss3 жыл бұрын
I prefer your hair style from previous series.
@gw67532 жыл бұрын
Chinese dragon to be the symbol of the Chinese ethnicity while dragon in the western world to be the symbol of viciousness. And Chinese dragon mostly comes without wings other than some specific ones. When Chinese dragon shows up, it comes with cloud and rain while western dragon comes with fire and demolishment.
I think the medicine portion is not from Chinese medicine, But gypsy culture, which a lot of magic and potion involve Various types of herbs including Mandrake. Also the dragon JK used are European dragons, meaning, they spit fire. Asia dragons, Chinese, Japanese are related to water, rain and storm. Just my 2 cents.
@daphnehsu57262 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! You are the best English and world civilization teacher/professor I have ever meet!
@Michaelliuusa3 жыл бұрын
Love your style
@Soekke2332 жыл бұрын
Good culture intro. Thank you
@Andy-tk7fh3 жыл бұрын
Really thank you for your interesting and informative introduction that could help us to see the Harry Potter world in a different aspect!
@amkjylloper3 жыл бұрын
山海經理有提到鳳凰、應龍等
@cloudguy41922 жыл бұрын
Excellent video!
@a502136023 жыл бұрын
This is that kind of topic I’m expecting to 👍👍
@36interior3 жыл бұрын
U give me so much detail information of the movie 👍👍
@rdmytuser66952 жыл бұрын
how about "treacle"? I can't find it in the US :P
@yushuzhu44803 жыл бұрын
Another interesting episode!! thanks. @Susie, My quick search shows that the current price of a freddo chocolate bar weighted 35g is AUD$1 (equivalent to 0.54 pound as of 8 Dec 2021) in Woolworth, the largest Australian supermarket.
@chirayyang3 жыл бұрын
As a person who never watch the film or read the book, it’s a bit confused for me to understand the language section, but I still enjoy the facts that you explain it with accent aspects.
Hi Susie, I heard you also said oFten. I also pronuce it the same way as youdo... However, so many people were disappointed disagree with in! Could you give me some idea, Thank you 😊
@josephlownang69923 жыл бұрын
好片
@user-vf9oh9pi5f Жыл бұрын
You pronounced 中醫 in Chinese very accurately. Excellent!
Herbal medicine and dragon are kind of global really. In fact, flag of Wales has dragon on it.
@foggy3163 жыл бұрын
I think we do have Phoenix in Chinese culture eg. 龙凤呈祥😊
@lucindayu25413 жыл бұрын
For me Harry Potter is just so fascinating, because it has it‘s some kind of origin from Latin, Ancient Rome and it has very little to do with eastern Culture. And all this Kind of imagination behind scenes, the accent from each character, the individual uniques represent their own background, social class. It‘s very clarified and very British . It‘s not everything so mixed, it‘s very special , it‘s very hard nowadays for us to find places and cultures like this. It‘s something very authentic und purified. It‘s very simple for people to understand it. In contrast to modern German culture, I feel more like ‚Das ist weder Fisch oder Fleisch‘. Sometimes I don‘t know what to do. For me sometimes and for my Children, there are things that are not straightforward. It‘s not like when you read more books from different authors, you are gathering different opinions so the right answer will come more and more near to you. Here you always have to look out what other people are doing, and follow the others steps. Your own life experience does not count. 就像是没有自主选择权,总有种被迫从众的心理。就像是小崽子们都开始在谈恋爱了,老光棍总不能闲着吧……永远都不想让自己成为那个少数人群中的一个,怕孤独,怕被欺凌。但是现在这个社会的结构,层次以及社会阶级和以前不一样了,更为复杂。让人一眼是看不明白的,有些甚至想也想不明白。In Britain, you can hear upper social class accent, farmers accent, accent from different places and even street English. 在这里,我只能够区分,我听得懂的德语和我弄不清楚的方言,反正说的也是德语,就是听不懂,也看不懂。好迷惑呀!
@未响应-h3i3 жыл бұрын
喜欢你的分享,谢谢!
@Sgscouser Жыл бұрын
Here in Singapore we use the price of a cup of joe as a indicator of the cost of living and inflation.
@nikichen91643 жыл бұрын
超喜歡這集!!!
@susiewoo2 жыл бұрын
@armlu3 жыл бұрын
發現開啟英文字幕,可以遮掉中文耶,貼心的設計(當然內容也很棒啦)
@zeroeye03 жыл бұрын
Not only accent, but the talking speed is also the reason made me wanna follow every videos. If pronounce is not that clear and standard it will be better. XD(I mean it will more like normal British people usually did).
@rnewman651233 жыл бұрын
多謝分享!
@Leveosaa2 жыл бұрын
They do have a Chinese fireball dragon at the triwizard tournament, but it's nothing like a typical Chinese dragon. Chinese dragons breathe water instead of fire. They are long and skinny like snakes. They also don't have wings.
@Txv8332 жыл бұрын
It is interesting that you use "boarding school" instead of "public school" for the private boarding school in the UK.
@leokong89883 жыл бұрын
thanks a lot, Professor Woo :)
@jamielin27873 жыл бұрын
只看哈利波特第一集就睡著🤣🤣🤣 我來挑戰能不能再月底前看完🤓
@ziyou34942 жыл бұрын
Personally Harry Potter movies are not exactly type but I do appreciate you took the time to unpack these British elements in JK Rowling's creation. As a Chinese person I find this video very interesting. You also did a great job imitating the way the characters speak in the movie. Well done!