The video style where you interview another Chinese person in a long-form interview is by far my favorite and the most beneficial for my learning because: 1) The vocabulary isn't limited 2) I think it's important we hear native Chinese speakers talk, moreso than westerners who speak Chinese. It's good to hear proper speed and pronunciation 3) It's a beautiful insight into the minds and culture of China. I love the multitude of perspectives
I agree, it's the most enriching way to learn a language and enjoy the sound of it. Plus you start getting to know the culture and minds of inspiring chinese people.
I’ve now studied all the other videos on the mandarin corner website also got with the characters. So I’m happy always happy to see new videos! They are always so long which is great. I hope you continue producing more and more videos. Helps me so much.
We loved seeing Freida again in this video! What an incredible young lady who we enjoyed hosting at our school in Yangshuo. Excellent conversation with great vocabulary for Chinese learners. Keep up the great videos, Mandarin Corner! And if you come to Yangshuo again, make sure to come see us ;]
I just want to say, Eileen, that after further consideration I have to say that my favorite type of videos that you make are the story ones, the ones where you talk about topics with sophie (actress disappears, mamas boys, princess syndrome) the ones where you do interesting things outside (walk around my village, walk around Hong Kong, walk in the rain) and the ones where the discuss interesting topics with locals (what type of person they want to date, what do they think of dating foreigners, who has it harder woman or men).
Another great video interview. Her accent is different but very clear even though she speaks very fast. I found it difficult to stop listening to her story and examples of her life experiences. She is a beautiful, strong modern woman.
The content you make, the questions you asked, the answers, the video I'm watching, and of course both of you... are so much inspiring!!! Thank you sooo much!!!
Thank you Frieda for sharing your wonderful life experience. Watching this video not only helped me with my Chinese learning but also gave me an inspiration to face the challenges in my life.
Eileen does it again! Great interview. Frieda is a lot like you are in attitude. But only Eileen could get me to watch 50 min of a language which I can barely follow. Great job. And, by the way, since you talked about Frieda's appearance: I have to say she is absolutely drop-dead gorgeous! Thanks for your hard work, Eileen.
*TOO FAST?* Control the video's playback speed by speeding up or slowing down the video *5% at a time* on *desktop computers and laptops* OR *25% at a time* on *smartphone!* Access the playback speed controls as follows: *Desktop Computers and Laptops:* open the video, then go to the *lower right* of the video's screen and click on the *settings icon* (it looks like a GEAR). On the upper right of the options window that comes up, you will see the link *"custom".* Click on the "custom" link to control the video's playback speed by speeding up or slowing down the video 5% at a time. *Smartphones:* open the video and go to the *upper right* of the video's screen. You will see *3 dots.* Click on them and you will see the link to open the *"playback speed"* controls. Click on this link and you will be able to control the video's playback speed by speeding up or slowing down the video 25% at a time. Note that viewing the video on desktop computer/laptops gives you *greater control* over the playback speed (5% vs 25% on smartphones).
Thanks a lot once again to Eileen and all the team of this great channel Mandarin Corner. Yours is one of the best contents on the net, not only to learn mandarin, but is also aweinspiring. Warm regards.
eileen you're my favorite mandarin content creator on youtube keep it up! i love these series'! they make mandarin learning so effortless, flowing, and entertaining! :D
I just simply love this channel!!!!!!!! Such a cool content, easy to digest, useful for daily life. I appreciate your hard work behind this kind of masterpiece!!! 🙌🙌🙌🙌
Great language learning material as always, but aside from that, a very interesting interview. She was a great guest who has an inspirational approach to life, and you were a great host. Thanks!
I will donate for sure. Thank you. I've studied for three months so far, many hours per day. It will take me a while to learn to comprehend all of this video. It will be great. I'm surprised at how slow 50% is already and my comprehension is way better at that speed. And at 25% I believe what I'm hearing is an aid to understanding how to pronounce better.
In my opinion there is no better way to learn reading Chinese than to read REAL CONVERSATION INTERVIEWS. It's absolutely worth it paying the $10 one-time donation and then listening while at the same time reading the Hanzi-only transcript ("listening with transcript" on the mandarincorner homepage). Now that Mandarin Corner has an increasingly big portfolio of LONG interviews (this one, Tattoo artist interview and the beauty products interview are all around 1 hour!), there is a TON of "listening with transcript"-material available now. Absolutely recommend it!
Now all our videos have transcripts with *TRADITIONAL CHARACTERS!* Available to *Mandarin Corner Supporters* only at: mandarincorner.org/listen-to-audio-with-transcript/
Thank you Eileen. You did a greath Job again. I learned a lot of new words. My listening skills for Chinese became much better since I use your website Thanks !! Love you !
A common experience among foreign language learners,including myself, is advancement comes in jumps.Suddenly you go from understanding little to more. It takes reading and listening. You can do both together but eventually need to separate the two exercises for full focus-reading or listening. I am doing this with these videos in 5-10 minute segments. It takes work but once you experience a jump you will feel very encouraged.
You're right! I have also experienced those jumps. It feels very weird and great to find yourself suddenly understanding so much more than you used to. It is an interesting process.
I liked this conversation because it was not too fast, but a lot of vocabulary. We can listen and even notice the tones. One of the best channels for learning Chinese. Thanks a lot🌱🌷🌷🌷🌷🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Dear Eileen, what a great video! Wow! So exciting, and so helpful for learning. I also do rock climbing, so it helps me also learning such vocabulary. I will donate for you! Be sure! And keep on doing such videos, you are the best!!!
Such an interesting woman. I feel sorry about what she had to go through for work and I am happy she found freedom, health and happiness in climbing. Work is important but not when it makes you sick! Take care of yourselves and don't forget to enjoy life too 🙂💜
Love it. Thank you for this very interesting and entertaining conversation. Besides Frieda’s great story it’s also very immersive. And also to hear the typical Chinese woman stereotype : „Slim, minimal muscle surface and best white skin“ be thwarted. Best wishes for you both. Thank you for your great work. Donation already done.
Mandarin Corner is great, 谢谢 Eileen！ I first tried to study 普通话 in a Sunday school in 纽约 Chinatown in Feb 2006; I remember the teaching style was horrible and the books were so boring.. so I gave up. Last summer, I started seriously again, and between apps and videos, I am learning 超级快, and it's super fun😄. 科技是厉害 🙌
@@AndrewByrnes1 Thank you Andrew, I'll keep your advice in mind. But for a while I must to focus for improve my english. I have not much time to study language.
Such a sad thing that there's internalized discrimination in older Asian generation members but also in Africans themselves. Beauty can be found in any shape, color or form. I am glad she took her mother's old school coments with humour and am happy new generations have an open mind.
This reminds me of some CCTV tv shows about interviewing people, i watch them when they put english subtitles so i can understand them lol. Helps a lot to get use to the sound of the language.
This video is an amazing resource. As someone learning Mandarin AND is also obsessed with climbing it's really great to hear the way a native speaker talks about the sport. I only wish the subtitles were soft not hard (i.e. selectable not burned in) as I can't highlight things. Also we're stuck with the simplified characters and I'm studying traditional...
1) if you studying Chinese and are also interested in rock climbing, you show also watch this video we did with *China's Naked Spiderman:* ruclips.net/video/8IoPsPVxxgs/видео.html 2) if you donate to support us, you can get access to pdf and transcripts with *TRADITIONAL CHARACTERS* on all our videos so you can underline new vocabulary and so on. 3) As a Mandarin Corner supporter (just one-time $30 donation) you can also download all our *present* and *future* audio files, videos, pdfs , access transcripts in different version, access flashcards to drill our video content and more. More information is on our pinned comment above.
Thank you so much for what you're doing Ai Ling! These are really useful videos in a perfect format. Would it be possible to interview 1 or 2 foreigners speaking Mandarin, please (similar to Tayler's video)? It is so inspiring to learn about their journeys in Chinese
We recently went to Sichuan and interviewed an American who is the second longest China RUclipsr (after Serpentza). We then interviewed an Englishman who has been in China for 14 years, was able to get the Chinese Green Card and speaks amazing Chinese. These videos are kind of long and will required a lot of editing and subtitles preparations but they should be out within the next month to two months.
Ai Ling, I just want to say that I admire your passion, hard work and energy. Thank you so much for what you do. Here’s my Weixin: ildar_akhmetov (I’m based in Geneva -> let’s stay in touch and you are always welcome to swing by!)
I find it absolutely incredible how “你知道吗？” is pronounced in actual colloquial chinese. Sometimes it sounds like no more than "nama" when spoken particularly fast.
+Mandarin Corner - thanks for the great videos; they're very useful. I lived in Ronggui, Shunde for a few years and picked up some Chinese while I was there. It's good to be able to listen to natural Chinese conversations regularly and practice my listening ability. In the future will you make any videos that can have the subtitles switched off?
*Download pdfs, audio (mp3), videos, Anki flashcards, HSK courses and more for as low as $10!* mandarincorner.org/store/
不错！继续加油！
好久没见到妳的视频
Now this is a perfectly done vid. Thanks
Can I donate by Wechat?
MUTAGANDA Ben Yes, you can. Please check above link. Very convenient.
The video style where you interview another Chinese person in a long-form interview is by far my favorite and the most beneficial for my learning because:
1) The vocabulary isn't limited
2) I think it's important we hear native Chinese speakers talk, moreso than westerners who speak Chinese. It's good to hear proper speed and pronunciation
3) It's a beautiful insight into the minds and culture of China. I love the multitude of perspectives
I agree, it's the most enriching way to learn a language and enjoy the sound of it. Plus you start getting to know the culture and minds of inspiring chinese people.
💯 percent agree
I’ve now studied all the other videos on the mandarin corner website also got with the characters. So I’m happy always happy to see new videos! They are always so long which is great. I hope you continue producing more and more videos. Helps me so much.
Really interested to see how your chinese is now, after going through such excellent content :) Saw your other videos on your channel, just curious!
@@ArmouredLord much much better now. :-) a long time since i did a video
We loved seeing Freida again in this video! What an incredible young lady who we enjoyed hosting at our school in Yangshuo. Excellent conversation with great vocabulary for Chinese learners. Keep up the great videos, Mandarin Corner! And if you come to Yangshuo again, make sure to come see us ;]
I just want to say, Eileen, that after further consideration I have to say that my favorite type of videos that you make are the story ones, the ones where you talk about topics with sophie (actress disappears, mamas boys, princess syndrome) the ones where you do interesting things outside (walk around my village, walk around Hong Kong, walk in the rain) and the ones where the discuss interesting topics with locals (what type of person they want to date, what do they think of dating foreigners, who has it harder woman or men).
I just donated ! Thank you so much for your excellent videos.
Another great video interview. Her accent is different but very clear even though she speaks very fast. I found it difficult to stop listening to her story and examples of her life experiences. She is a beautiful, strong modern woman.
The content you make, the questions you asked, the answers, the video I'm watching, and of course both of you... are so much inspiring!!! Thank you sooo much!!!
Thank you Frieda for sharing your wonderful life experience. Watching this video not only helped me with my Chinese learning but also gave me an inspiration to face the challenges in my life.
Just donated! These videos are amazing, thank you for this incredibly useful content! Love from Germany
The amount of work you put into each video! 👏👏👏 Thank you!
Eileen does it again! Great interview. Frieda is a lot like you are in attitude. But only Eileen could get me to watch 50 min of a language which I can barely follow. Great job. And, by the way, since you talked about Frieda's appearance: I have to say she is absolutely drop-dead gorgeous! Thanks for your hard work, Eileen.
Even more impressive then her looks is her rock climbing athletic ability climbing first descent routes never before climbed before anyone else...
@@user-sh1gc3jk7l I think it would be hard to say what is most impressive about Frieda. She is one in a million for sure..
*TOO FAST?* Control the video's playback speed by speeding up or slowing down the video *5% at a time* on *desktop computers and laptops* OR *25% at a time* on *smartphone!*
Access the playback speed controls as follows:
*Desktop Computers and Laptops:* open the video, then go to the *lower right* of the video's screen and click on the *settings icon* (it looks like a GEAR). On the upper right of the options window that comes up, you will see the link *"custom".* Click on the "custom" link to control the video's playback speed by speeding up or slowing down the video 5% at a time.
*Smartphones:* open the video and go to the *upper right* of the video's screen. You will see *3 dots.* Click on them and you will see the link to open the *"playback speed"* controls. Click on this link and you will be able to control the video's playback speed by speeding up or slowing down the video 25% at a time. Note that viewing the video on desktop computer/laptops gives you *greater control* over the playback speed (5% vs 25% on smartphones).
Good tip, thx
Thanks!
Thanks a lot once again to Eileen and all the team of this great channel Mandarin Corner. Yours is one of the best contents on the net, not only to learn mandarin, but is also aweinspiring. Warm regards.
Two very inspiring women - interviewer and interviewee
@唐三藏 tosser
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eileen you're my favorite mandarin content creator on youtube keep it up! i love these series'! they make mandarin learning so effortless, flowing, and entertaining! :D
I’m gonna watch this video countless times
I enjoyed not only learning Chinese language from this video, but her philosophy on life.
哇！這是真的太棒的視頻呀！我一看就沒感覺已經看到近一個小時了，視頻的內容真的很有意思的！非常感謝你們的努力！加油💪
Truely inspirational story... She is a risk taker. Beautiful lady ❤️❣️🎉🎉🎉🎉😍😍❤️
看了Frieda顺便反映度过人生是蛮励志的。
忽视围绕人们的概念，集中自己的目标。⚡
I just simply love this channel!!!!!!!!
Such a cool content, easy to digest, useful for daily life.
I appreciate your hard work behind this kind of masterpiece!!!
🙌🙌🙌🙌
Frieda is indeed very inspiring. Thank you for the great content as always, Eileen.
Frieda is such a inspiring women! Thank you for another great video.
These videos are such a valuable resource! Thank you Eileen!
Great language learning material as always, but aside from that, a very interesting interview. She was a great guest who has an inspirational approach to life, and you were a great host. Thanks!
I will donate for sure. Thank you.
I've studied for three months so far, many hours per day. It will take me a while to learn to comprehend all of this video. It will be great. I'm surprised at how slow 50% is already and my comprehension is way better at that speed. And at 25% I believe what I'm hearing is an aid to understanding how to pronounce better.
In my opinion there is no better way to learn reading Chinese than to read REAL CONVERSATION INTERVIEWS. It's absolutely worth it paying the $10 one-time donation and then listening while at the same time reading the Hanzi-only transcript ("listening with transcript" on the mandarincorner homepage).
Now that Mandarin Corner has an increasingly big portfolio of LONG interviews (this one, Tattoo artist interview and the beauty products interview are all around 1 hour!), there is a TON of "listening with transcript"-material available now. Absolutely recommend it!
I agree the pdfs are sweet and totally help, worth the 10$!
Thanks for the recommendation
Eileen is a great interviewer. She would be a success as a TV or radio talk show hostess.
Now all our videos have transcripts with *TRADITIONAL CHARACTERS!*
Available to *Mandarin Corner Supporters* only at:
mandarincorner.org/listen-to-audio-with-transcript/
Love her attitude and confidence!
I finished studying this one. Great story, life lesson and very motivating 😁
Frieda was really inspiring in this video, great job!!
Support us at Patreon: www.patreon.com/mandarincorner
非常有意思的采访。Frieda是一个非常勇敢的人。
Excellent as always!!! thank you very much
So interesting! 我已經重複看了所有Mandarin corner 視頻和一遍又一遍地循環播放 循環多次，永遠不會厭倦的！I love Mandarin Corner!
Wow this rock climber is amazing, I think i've seen her in a climbing mag before.
Watch Frieda and Eileen discuss *Chinese Beauty Standards* : ruclips.net/video/XdcOx1tS2qE/видео.html
Thank you Eileen.
You did a greath Job again. I learned a lot of new words. My listening skills for Chinese became much better since I use your website Thanks !! Love you !
A common experience among foreign language learners,including myself, is advancement comes in jumps.Suddenly you go from understanding little to more. It takes reading and listening. You can do both together but eventually need to separate the two exercises for full focus-reading or listening. I am doing this with these videos in 5-10 minute segments. It takes work but once you experience a jump you will feel very encouraged.
You're right! I have also experienced those jumps. It feels very weird and great to find yourself suddenly understanding so much more than you used to. It is an interesting process.
This video is definitely inspiring. I've watched it twice😂, i think Frieda can be a role model for all young women out there including me❤
I liked this conversation because it was not too fast, but a lot of vocabulary. We can listen and even notice the tones. One of the best channels for learning Chinese. Thanks a lot🌱🌷🌷🌷🌷🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Dear Eileen, what a great video! Wow! So exciting, and so helpful for learning. I also do rock climbing, so it helps me also learning such vocabulary. I will donate for you! Be sure! And keep on doing such videos, you are the best!!!
Thank you for your support, Rolf! We just upgraded your membership.
awesome!!! Been waiting for new content - i was worried you had disappeared!
Such an interesting woman. I feel sorry about what she had to go through for work and I am happy she found freedom, health and happiness in climbing. Work is important but not when it makes you sick! Take care of yourselves and don't forget to enjoy life too 🙂💜
truly inspiring story - great interview!!
Love it. Thank you for this very interesting and entertaining conversation. Besides Frieda’s great story it’s also very immersive. And also to hear the typical Chinese woman stereotype : „Slim, minimal muscle surface and best white skin“ be thwarted.
Best wishes for you both. Thank you for your great work. Donation already done.
Love you teacher because I learn a lot word.somemore easy to remember for me .love you😘😍
I love these interviews! 很有意思， 很有用的材料。为了你们的内容，我的中文越来越好。 我真的非常感谢。
Mandarin Corner is great, 谢谢 Eileen！ I first tried to study 普通话 in a Sunday school in 纽约 Chinatown in Feb 2006; I remember the teaching style was horrible and the books were so boring.. so I gave up. Last summer, I started seriously again, and between apps and videos, I am learning 超级快, and it's super fun😄. 科技是厉害 🙌
I don’t understand how someone can dislike this video
Thank god for the playback settings. It's so nice to hear it slower.... so nice. Really is. My brain literally is racing but now it's absorbing
She's really inspiring, interesting and beautiful. Thanks for sharing this story with us.
Ooooh, there is so much to learn about China. Love it. Well done ladies, great interview.
Nice one Frieda!
What a cool video and what an interesting and inspiring woman. What a great resource to learn from. Thank you for making this.
I've just found out this channel. It's very useful! the double subtitle is very helpful too. thank you very much. I am studying for the HSK4.
C G I just recently passed it. Definitely recommend doing some practice tests within set time limit. Helped me heaps.
@@AndrewByrnes1 Thank you Andrew, I'll keep your advice in mind. But for a while I must to focus for improve my english. I have not much time to study language.
Woww... I really like Frieda's skin tone colour.
Me too! It is really beautiful and looks so healthy.
Why wouldn't it, she's a beautiful young lady, and obviously an outdoors woman
Such a sad thing that there's internalized discrimination in older Asian generation members but also in Africans themselves. Beauty can be found in any shape, color or form. I am glad she took her mother's old school coments with humour and am happy new generations have an open mind.
She is *black*
@@chigingshah1824 you mean 黑？not black as race
Currently studying this one. This is great work. Thank you !
Wow! This channels is insanely gorgeous, and so are the hosts!
Wow!! Conversational chinese definitely helps me learn best!!!
Simply the best on line spoken chinese conversation video . Well done and keep it up
Thank you Lan!
这么很有用的视频，内容也很有兴趣，非常感谢您了！加油！
很谢谢您！ 我觉得这种视频好厉害
This reminds me of some CCTV tv shows about interviewing people, i watch them when they put english subtitles so i can understand them lol. Helps a lot to get use to the sound of the language.
This video is an amazing resource. As someone learning Mandarin AND is also obsessed with climbing it's really great to hear the way a native speaker talks about the sport.
I only wish the subtitles were soft not hard (i.e. selectable not burned in) as I can't highlight things. Also we're stuck with the simplified characters and I'm studying traditional...
1) if you studying Chinese and are also interested in rock climbing, you show also watch this video we did with *China's Naked Spiderman:* ruclips.net/video/8IoPsPVxxgs/видео.html
2) if you donate to support us, you can get access to pdf and transcripts with *TRADITIONAL CHARACTERS* on all our videos so you can underline new vocabulary and so on.
3) As a Mandarin Corner supporter (just one-time $30 donation) you can also download all our *present* and *future* audio files, videos, pdfs , access transcripts in different version, access flashcards to drill our video content and more. More information is on our pinned comment above.
这个视频真的不错👍
Impressive lady, thanks for the great video.
thank you so much for your making this video!
您们的视频总是这么棒啊! Frieda的故事非常有意思， 而且对我们学汉语的人他说话的样子(他用的词汇)很合适。非常感谢您们的上载! 您们很辛苦啦! 👍🙂
她看起來台灣的原住民。I think it’s wonderful that she’s a rock climber when I lived in China and when I lived in Taiwan that many people were into the sport
Let’s have more videos with Frieda?
I have just donated. Thanks for great content.
Hi leyhappy so long, thank you for your donation! We just upgraded your account.
i love you both so much, hope that i can get a chance to personally meet these two amazing ladies
Thank you so much for what you're doing Ai Ling! These are really useful videos in a perfect format.
Would it be possible to interview 1 or 2 foreigners speaking Mandarin, please (similar to Tayler's video)? It is so inspiring to learn about their journeys in Chinese
We recently went to Sichuan and interviewed an American who is the second longest China RUclipsr (after Serpentza). We then interviewed an Englishman who has been in China for 14 years, was able to get the Chinese Green Card and speaks amazing Chinese. These videos are kind of long and will required a lot of editing and subtitles preparations but they should be out within the next month to two months.
Ai Ling, I just want to say that I admire your passion, hard work and energy. Thank you so much for what you do. Here’s my Weixin: ildar_akhmetov (I’m based in Geneva -> let’s stay in touch and you are always welcome to swing by!)
I just donated, thank you so much for the excellent content!
Hi Armand, we just upgraded your account. Thank you so much for your support!
感谢你们！很有意思的面试. Frieda 很厉害了👍
My new favorite video of yours. Thank you.
Amazing video. I enjoyed it a lot!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!
谢谢老师 谢谢🙏🏻你的分享最近我已经看你视频 我已经学会很多生词。我希望能继续做这样的分享。最后是祝你开开心心和生体健康做什么也可以成功。
Very nice for improving Chinese.
哇！謝謝謝謝你拍這個視頻喔！攀岩也是我的愛好。我很興奮我能把我攀岩的愛好結合我的漢語的學習。我很感謝你的頻道。
You may also really enjoy this video:
ruclips.net/video/8IoPsPVxxgs/видео.html
Thank you for the video
OMG. I absolutely loved this video. This woman is so interesting and inspiring 😍😍
Still love this
这段视频把我的两个爱好（攀岩和学习中文） 联合了！ 多么好呀！
You might enjoy watching this video since it is also about rock climbing: ruclips.net/video/8IoPsPVxxgs/видео.html
Fantastic and very helpful video. Sorry to say I do not like heights and my idea of extreme sports is trying to improve my Chinese.
By the way your videos is great..👍👍👍
哇塞！我好在是一个热爱攀岩热爱学中文的人，真谢谢您拍摄这个视频！
I will be back at 4 pm. I will air this interview later at 5 pm. Thanks!
谢谢Eileen老师，
我觉得下载汉字让我中文进步很快。我很久再看你影片了。我还有对攀岩有兴趣.我在美国常常去户外运动。我会攀岩 攀5.8~5.10c.
我爱Eileen 老师!♡
P.s. 我要去yangshou 更攀岩，她说攀岩比生活还一样了。我同意。good philosophy
great video,thank you
I find it absolutely incredible how “你知道吗？” is pronounced in actual colloquial chinese. Sometimes it sounds like no more than "nama" when spoken particularly fast.
真的非常喜欢你们的视频、肯定对所有中国和其他国家的女生很令人振奋的!
Eillen I know you don't make money on youtube views, but you certainly should! Your videos are extremely helpful !
作为一个攀爬和中文学习者，这大概是我最爱的对话。 我说不定再听很多次
+Mandarin Corner - thanks for the great videos; they're very useful. I lived in Ronggui, Shunde for a few years and picked up some Chinese while I was there. It's good to be able to listen to natural Chinese conversations regularly and practice my listening ability. In the future will you make any videos that can have the subtitles switched off?
I think if you go to their website you can find these same videos without subtitles.
Escriche thank you!
@@JM-sz3to You're welcome!!
Hello! I really thank you for your video :)