It was very cold in this afternoon and thank you for your sharing. Take care.
@投資悟道有知有行2 жыл бұрын
舒萱你的视频让我看得非常舒服自然,谢谢你的奉献
@larryzhang34462 жыл бұрын
It's my first time watching your video. I must say I like you very much. Your eyes are glimmerring kindness and wisdom. Keep going!
@newtonwonghk2 жыл бұрын
I stayed in Birmingham for 6 years, and noticed that because its way more common to be in houses instead of flat, its far more frequent we get to hear house squeaks due to temperature difference. Staircases, bathrooms, everything made with wood squeak sometimes. It was initially not easy to adapt to if you have always lived in flats. The sound kept waking me up in the middle of the night thinking someone is walking by.
@polobangar10602 жыл бұрын
????is it not betterto give your house a proper check ? it sounds terrible.
@prisondvd70592 жыл бұрын
no way!!! This is so wierd. I dont know. Seems like British living in the house appearing in a Gothic noval written by Allan Poe. LOL.
@wortcooler2 жыл бұрын
Love your beautiful blue eyes...Wish you all the best. And good luck.
My family's Chinese, and the most common reason I've heard for wearing slippers is health. The Chinese generally believe that letting your feet go cold is bad for your kidneys and possibly would lead to arthritis. So in this sense, offering slippers to guests and insisting that they wear it, for the most part, is intended as a way of saying that they care about your wellbeing.
@aconcheng2 жыл бұрын
Not really the physical "kidney" organs. When we Chinese say "kidneys", unless it's referring to something in a western medical sense, we're actually relating it to the human immune system. The modern translation of the character 肾 is "kidney" and that's correct if we use that character for the real kidney organ, but remember that not until 2xx years ago that we started to see the human body with the western anatomic perspective and before that, we've used the word 肾 to describe how the human body functions for thousands of years. In this kind of traditional Chinese medical mindset, 肾 means the immune system that helps keep your body temperature and fight against diseases.
@martindanny2 жыл бұрын
@@aconcheng mind blown. It does make more sense that way
@doriswaddington24182 жыл бұрын
Māoris in New Zealand also take their shoes off at the door- I lived in New Zealand for 8 years
@yvonnehsu162 жыл бұрын
I lived in a house with 400 years in Manchester for couple of months. Most people in the UK living in the way you said, but it was never a problem to me or any culture difficulties as a girl growing up in Taiwan. I was quite happy with all the living details and environments there, but the windy, cold, and rainy weather was excluded. Maybe the only thing I can't get used to was drinking tap water though the origin of tap water in Manchester was quite clean (from Lake District). Human beings are quite strong at adaption to the new environment. I think the hardest part to get involved in any culture has always been the invisible side of the culture, i.g., relationships, norms, values, cognition, and those parts formed with times. As Downton Abbey got popularity around the world, many may have been very envied of the life of upper class, but what they really don't know about was the spirit of being true noble and gentle people. It was a great series of TV plot making people more interested in knowing the changing of late history affecting the family in all classes. Probably you could talk about the changing of language history if possible. People may find it interesting and useful for those who wanted to learn more about language itself.
It is very interesting and relevant topic. Thanks!
@Fredyang-l7b2 жыл бұрын
看你分享英國生活感覺很棒!I like that way
@Willdragon20082 жыл бұрын
I am in Toronto, Canada. We share most of the things about houses. In the past 20-30 years. More and more family install air conditioning at home. Summer is getting hotter than before.
Susie,a nice cover. I remember that I leaned this one before.
@ewenchan12392 жыл бұрын
1) re: food and eating It has been my experience that it's probably more of a Western culture thing vs. Eastern culture. For example, being Chinese, I grew up with service a la française especially for meals, and in particular, for dinner where all of the courses are brought out at once, and you eat communally rather than individually. Compare and contrast that with Western culture (i.e. UK/Canadian/American) where there is a greater emphasis on the individiual self rather than or maybe a little bit more than society-at-large. For example, UK/Canadian/American schools I think, talk quite a lot about emphasising the importance of individual contributions and achievements, whereas I remember growing up, and going to school in Hong Kong, that almost never happened (or at least none that I can remember from when I was quite little). So, the idea of "my food is mine" I think it's more of a Western cultural thing whereas in Eastern cultures, it's not uncommon for example, the parents to get food from the service for their children, which also comes with the expectation of said children eating said food that has been put in their bowls for them. (Much to my annoyance when I was growing up though. lol....) Further, by extension of the service a la française, it's more difficult to do that, say, on trays in front of the telly, as it doesn't really lend itself to that all that well. The closest that you might get to that is if you say set it up almost like a buffet, and then you can grab a plate, plate your food, and then set your plate on the tray, but that's about as close as I think that you would be able to get to it. For my wife's family (she's American), neither her parent's house nor her late grandparent's house has enough places/settings at the dining room table for all of us to sit when we eat, and therefore; rather than all of us eating at the table, you ate wherever you were able to find a spot to sit down and set your plate down. (So there's a part of that as well.) (Perhaps somewhat ironically, I remember eating in my grandparent's apartment in Hong Kong, and it wasn't very big, but they would have stools that would stack that they would bring out along with a folding table (think a little like a folding Mahjong table which doubled as the dining table as well), and that's where we sat and ate when we were little.) They don't really seem to do that at my in-law's place. For my tiny humans, other than popcorn for movies, I try to not let them eat on the sofa, mostly to keep the mess contained. (Otherwise, you'd find bits of cereal, and whatever snacks they're eating in the cracks and crevices of the sofa, which is just gross and attracts like ants and other bugs/critters.) However, sometimes, if we go to a new restaurant, we might order a bunch of different stuff, and we would encourage each other to try the different foods, so it ends up being more service a la française moreso or rather than service a la russe. 2) YES!!! Slippers are a HUGE deal!!! Walking around in socks is definitely not as common. I do it because it's warmer. But my mom LOVES her slippers. My tiny human #1 will walk around the house in socks. My tiny human #2 HATES stuff on tiny human #2's feet, so tiny human #2 will walk around barefoot. Tiny human #2 will yank tiny human #2's socks off whenever tiny human #2 gets an opportunity to do so. It's virtually impossible to keep socks and shoes on tiny human #2's feet. Like when we are driving somewhere and we have to put tiny human #2 in tiny human #2's car seat, tiny human #2 will take the socks and shoes off such that when we arrive at our destination, often times, we'll have to put them back on tiny human #2 on account of that. re: wearing shoes in bed That might just be something that's observed from shows on the telly and/or movies.
@NoSuffix2 жыл бұрын
Cute! Is that a bamboo garden behind you? Love bamboos.
a rug here and there is perfectly fine, as those can be easily cleaned/washed, as opposed to full carpet in a bathroom. Some bathrooms in Asia are completely the opposite, where the whole floor is tiled (with a drain hole) on which one showers, so it's almost always wet.
@yukwanma37752 жыл бұрын
I enjoy your share about your culture. As my understanding, you like to eat fish & potato chips and drink for your dinner?
@jamiekj50492 жыл бұрын
In western countries, people don't take their shoes off because the streets in cities are usually much cleaner than those in China. We've got quite some Chinese Australians who don't take their shoes off when they enter a house because the streets are so clean that they don't have to worry about getting their floors dirty by wearing shoes in the house. The Chinese do eat a variety of food on the couch but meals as their meals usually consist of quite a few different dishes, unlike Western food which is much simpler and may just be a slice of pizza or sandwich.
I did not aware of these until watch your video, interesting 👍
@musicbeginner2 жыл бұрын
In old days, eating at table was an indication if a family had good manners or a person was raised up right. Although the tradition has changed in certain degree nowadays, some families still want their kids to follow the rule. Parents would tell their kids those things if their kids plan to hang out in their friends’ house.
@bwon0202 жыл бұрын
As a Hongkonger, I don't think the first habit is weird... Probably because I'm lazy too😅 Regarding the second habit, I think it's just polite to give the guest slippers (or some people may think feet are dirty), but I don't think it's weird if you don't wear slippers at home.
@moon_robber2 жыл бұрын
separated hot and cold water tapes because most older houses were built with gravity feed hot water tank system. because of the low water pressure of the gravity feed, a modern mixer would not work, as the cold water pressure would "push " the hot water in the mixer back up the hot water storage tank. :-) ending with no hot water.
@movq75392 жыл бұрын
You are really good-looking!!! I am appealed by this video.
@ireneting72582 жыл бұрын
Indeed ! My ex husband washed dishes just like that, we discussed this over and over again, we both believed our own method is the best. He said I wasted too much water, I said his dishes were not washed properly…. Sigh 😔
@jordanlau2808 Жыл бұрын
第3點是在電視見到電影下班或回家直接穿鞋睡覺,都想問回家會不會洗澡,還是起床洗澡
@山林歲月-b8i2 жыл бұрын
很棒的分享。另外請教,影片被景的竹子是英國的原生品種嗎?謝謝。
@jingcyril32812 жыл бұрын
2:28 AS an Asian, what surprised me is not westerners wear shoes in houses, instead, I saw OZ wore no shoes in a mall, that really omged me.
@CoolAsianBrit03582 жыл бұрын
🤪 that’s very Aussie thing
@Kathyhx2 жыл бұрын
I must say I enjoy eating on my lap and watching TV at same time too…however it’s more likely eating on my own, if with families, need to eat at table and communicate
Love how u learn and share different culture! Support
@臭屎B2 жыл бұрын
妳的普通話非常之好. 比我好很多很多. ^^
@rchung94082 жыл бұрын
In the first few years of living in England, I was a lodger and lived with a landlady , her boyfriend and another tenant, The house was recently refurbished. Carpet was laid all over the house floors, except for the kitchen. They did wear shoes in the bedroom and bathroom. Another tenant was a nurse working at a hospital, and she put her shoes and a hair curler....
@ppppp40032 жыл бұрын
I think dyson fan is a quite good alternative to air conditioner,
@WE_H_JXV00D2 жыл бұрын
Interesting. Is the weather not cold in England now?
@异星囚徒2 жыл бұрын
One thing I wanted to know about British people especial men, do they go home to wash their hair after hair cut ? Or they just wait till next morning ? Because I seen lots of men put some gel on their hair right after cut, and comb it blow it to style, is that a waste if they go home wash it straight away? 我知道很多英国人都是每天早上起来洗澡的。那么男士在白天理发以后,是不是要回到家里洗头洗澡?还是干脆等到第二天早上起床后才洗?因为我在英国的理发店看到很多男士都是在理发后涂上定型的发胶,梳理的很有型,这样回去后马上就洗澡是不是很可惜了?
Dear Ms.W:Could i suggest you reducing the heat during summer by soaking the pc.of cloth in the cool clear water and squeeze it and lay on your legs instead of buying the air conditioner and you will save your utility bill ?You're born camarflaged as british but speaking as the real chinese born.You're super amazing.