Half-White, Half-Chinese Teenager Talks About Growing Up in Rural China - Intermediate Chinese
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- What is it really like to grow up in rural China being different from everyone around you because you are half-white, half-Chinese? Eileen interviewed 17-year-old Richard to find out!
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Eileen asks natural and interesting questions. The conversations are full of depth and respect with thoughtful topics. This is my favorite Mandarin learning channel.
You can’t beat her. Her work ethic is second to none.
yeah not typical boring questions that are predictable or seem scripted
What other channel is there/
what a lovely person. He's so open, communicative and friendly
The contrast between Richard in this video, where he speaks Mandarin, and in Barrett’s, where he speaks English, could not be greater. It is very instructive. He seems like a nice guy in Barrett’s video, but he is another person in Chinese: animated, funny, full of vivid descriptions, etc. He obviously can express himself so much more freely in Mandarin, it is really impressive.
may i ask who is barret?
Barrett has a RUclips channel. He is an English speaker who lived in China and interviewed Richard. You can look up the interviews in the RUclips search engine.
ruclips.net/video/rm02xWSevNA/видео.html
He lives since he was a baby in China, he is a 100% Chinese native lol.
@@NS8340-h2v I was talking about the man who interviews Richard on another channel. That man is an English speaker.
Speaking as a native Chinese, not only is his Chinese perfect but he is really articulate and well-spoken in Chinese. Some of the words and phrasing he uses without even having to think is not everyday Chinese that you can just hear people say, which perfectly confirms the fact that his Chinese is among the top in his class.
Youre speaking Modern English so, youre not speaking as a Native Chinese person, Duh
you people are so confused, your not speaking properly
@@je-freenorman7787 What on earth are you talking about? So if someone learns “modern” English, they are no longer a native of their country of origin?! That is nonsense.
@@je-freenorman7787 I'm still learning English, so maybe a more proper way to put this is "Speaking from a native Chinese..."? I'll put in more effort, so next time hopefully i wont confuse people.
@@jingchen9695 The best tool is the etymology dictionary
Etymology is required
adding phonics is another layer
@@jingchen9695 I understood your point fine. I think that the first person who commented above was being unkind . . . It is very easy to make someone feel uncomfortable if they are speaking in a second language. I am learning Chinese and Chinese people have been very patient with me. I hope English speakers are the same way.
I had a similar situation when I was a child. My dad is Vietnamese-Chinese, my mom is Chinese-Malaysian. I was born in Canada. Growing up, I spoke Cantonese and Vietnamese at home. When I went to Malaysia for a few months to visit my mom's side of the family they all spoke Mandarin. Within a few months, I picked up Mandarin very quickly. When I came back to Canada, I found that I couldn't speak Vietnamese anymore. I can't explain how and why, but it seemed that Mandarin replaced my Vietnamese. I still understand Vietnamese very well, but when I want to speak, I get choked up. I think if I practice speaking Vietnamese more, I will get it back again.
What about when you played outside what language in your brain did you translate from English when crafting up an excuse about why you got home late
1)?See language expert, Canadian Steve Kaufmann 1 of his many videos says that the happens to him, but he, in rights situation, can remember missing language.
2) You could find, if they exist, Vietnamese language videis, books,?etc.,that teach Chinese.
Yu could find, if they exist,?
Chinese language videos,?books, etc.that teach Vietnamese.
Great interview. What a handsome and charming young man. He is well spoken and interesting. Well-rounded and mature for his age. I am sure he will go far and accomplish all his goals and dreams when he is more sure of his purpose and direction. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and feelings. I thoroughly enjoyed this. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦🥇👍💖
Eileen 好，几乎几年了没有观看你的视频。2017 时，我工作不顺利，被派到一个遥远的地方，心情很差，晚上学学点儿中文作为安慰自己，有时看到你的视频中有一个是你表白自己的经历，感觉你也很辛苦，我自然就感觉被鼓励多了，坚强过去那段不满意的时期。今天偶然又看到你播放的视频，我突然回想昔日。你还坚持下去，创作视频帮助大家学中文，真感谢你。
也希望你能坚持下去！
你的中文水平我推荐你不要混RUclips了，来B站
This guy is such an awesome character. Loved listening to him, he has got a really engaging style!
God bless you and your guests. Listening to you, in your format, helps me so much! I am 60 years old, a lifetime of English, I have so much to unlearn. Again, God bless you for your amazing videos!
I'm only 10 minutes in, but can't wait to listen to the rest. His voice is very easy to listen to. Love the new hair Eileen.
Thanks for the video!
This guy needs his own channel. I would watch every episode
SAME
clicked because of curiosity, stayed for the stories 😭 one of the best interviews imo
It's so refreshing to see such a lovely and open young man! Although you still find it difficult to think about future plans, I'm sure that you will do well, Richard! And Eileen, good job with the questions as always. Short hair looks really good on you! :D
I was wondering why he seemed so friendly, open and expressive.
It's because he's a teenager 😆
Gratuitously nasty remark, it takes refined emotions to observe passive aggression at work.
@@asaejapan7143 i read no malice in Nicole's comment. its your interpretation that is negative.
what she meant is that he is fresh and a naturally unburdened teenager and we like that.
he is not jaded like the rest of us adults who have been trialled over the decades. You need to chill
@@PHlophe If you need to make classes and categories to appreciate a human quality, someone is bound to call you on your prejudices. Same goes for people who attribute so many negative traits to teenagers; I don't have to buy bulk opinions, that value or belittle a whole class of the population on basic human qualities that we live on on a daily basis, like, kindness, compassion, goodwill, hardworking disposition etc., they do not belong to (random examples) Asians, elderly, businessmen or police officers.
Such a lovely well spoken, thoughtful, open young man
I so enjoy your lack of pretense or artifice. You, and your guests are amazing! I don't think there are many better channels.
Was really intrigued by Richard and his life after seeing him at another youtuber's channel on here!
Surprised to see him being interviewed by one of my favourite Mandarin-learning channel haha.
He seems really genuine and down-to-earth, i hope Richard can capitalize on his 'unique' upbringing; cause i'm sure a lot of people would love to hear his life stories :)
What a great kid! Wonderful interview
Wow!! Great interview with a superb guest. I saw him on another RUclips video with Barrett where he was speaking perfect English. Very intelligent young man.
Fabulous interview, thank you very much! It's great listening to such natural conversational Mandarin. From Sydney, Australia.
特别聪明的青年，很喜欢你们的交谈。
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I really liked this discussion. it was fun learning about Eileen too. both of you two had so many similar experiences as children and i think it's made you better people.
太可愛的一個孩子！祝福你一生健康平安快樂！
This is a really great interview, my son who is now 16, is Blaisan and raised in Hong Kong, however he has a lot of cousins, uncles and aunts in others parts of mainland china, were he had to master several different Chinese dialects but i can definitely relate to this young man.
Jesus...
thats awsome
What a very sweet young man.
You are a very good interviewer, to the point where I could see television stations wanting to hire you.
Richard 個性很可愛！ 我好奇他爸爸也住農村嗎？他爸爸做什麼工作呢？Richard 完全像中國人而不像外國人。很有意思的經歷！非常感謝！
早就离的婚。 主持没问不想伤情
Enjoyed this so much, what an interesting story. Both of you spoke so clearly I could pick every word. Looking forward to another one!
Very interesting! I grew up in Liuzhou, which is in the same province as Guilin! It's interesting how Liuzhou dialect and Yangshuo dialect are very similar! Also a half White, half Chinese girl here! It's rare to find someone who has a similar background as me that I can relate to! I'll post a video soon too talking about my experience growing up in China~ Stay tuned!
He is China man, not white
@@Silveradoroad A racist man from "Rhodesia"? Color (pun intended) me shocked
It's very cool to see his perspective from the place he lives, thank you very much Eileen
what a delightful interview with Richard. Yes it is always more difficult to be the "lao wai" in Middle Kingdom...but Richard seems to have adapted well and hope he continues his interest as a linguist..He could use his language skill at large corporations needing translators. Very unusual for his father to live in China at 18 yr old to learn martial arts, inspired by Bruce Lee...thank you for a lively enlightening interview...keep up the good work
This video explains why I want to try to move to China. You might not feel it, - but I can .... that this guy has crystal clear soul without any darkness within him.
I believe he was interviewed by the Oli of Barratt Channel. Great interview
Ah! I thought I recognised him!
I am big fan of this channel, but this video still exceeded my high expectations ! The guest is really interesting and he uses a lot of new vocabulary 🎉
EXCELLENT INTERVIEW!
This is the second time I seen Richard in a video. The first video is a couple years old and he takes the viewers on a tour in his hometown(village).
谢谢你们！！！这段视频真棒！
Richard, 我是西班牙人。我可以帮你学习西班牙语，哈哈。
我也是乌克兰人，可以帮理查德学学俄语吧！
Excellent content, thank you Eileen
逛youtube发现这个频道。很有意思啊，我一个中国人看这个视频哈哈哈哈。看他们怎么教中文，看外国人怎么学中文。
这个年轻人真的很不错，说话很清晰逻辑很严密，很好非常好。
我看下面的评论很多外国人也在学中文，加油啊，永远不要放弃。
谢谢！
啊 是有劇本的呀
没有剧本。
Such a wonderful young man! Молодец 👏
好喜欢这个小伙子，他的声音蛮性感的，希望他会再来😁
This was so helpful for learning Chinese! Thank you!
我差，他的童年跟我的童年一模一样……也可能大多数农村的孩子童年都差不多。这种回忆太感动了。and oh yeah he seems like a very friendly and well grounded teenager. I really enjoyed watching him speak about school and all other stuff. They all reasonate with me. 😎
I feel like, at least here in the north, if people see a half-white half-Chinese person, they may assume they're some ethnicity from the west (Uyghur, Kazakh, Tajik etc.) or just "新疆人".
Yes true.
That was exactly my thought. He looks full Chinese, but maybe an ethnic minority.
Mixed blood is good. My ancestors are Russian and Chinese. I am not a racist and I love all good people and enjoy all foods .
The effort you put into these videos is enormous, thank you very much!
A very impressive interview !
A very sunny looking teen. Enjoy the conversation!
Wow what an engaging and mature guest, super surprised to find out his age at the end
Always nice guests and always nice vidz..Eileen has the gift to talk to people, to strike the perfect conversational balance. I was 9 or 10 years old when I fell in love with Chinese by reading an article on radicals in my mother tongue, Bulgarian. I still remember the radicals and hanzi : 森林 (sēn lín) 木 (mù), and 川 (chuān). There was a 9-years old me, reading about the Chinese word formation...and the rest is history. Slowly but surely, I have been learning to speak, write and read Chinese Mandarin. At around that age, I started learning English and Russian as well, later in life Greek, French and Icelandic. The key to it: love what you do and do not give up on it, one can stop , take a break ( and the break maybe short or long) and then one gets back to it.. It is a never ending loop , like the universe itself 🙂
这个视频有普通的生活内的对话非常帮助我学习中文、subscribed to your channel，谢谢
Great intervew, it was so interesting to watch
这不是那个英国小伙在阳朔学中文期间采访的那个小伙子嘛！很高兴再次见到他！
Format and presentation are excellent!
What a delightful and interesting interview. Thank you for posting it!
Thanking for sharing your story wishing you all the best Richard
Very engaging and dynamic conversation. Enjoyable to listen and learn about experiences from childhood/ student years from two native Chinese speakers: Eileen and Richard.
I would one day like to undertake the opportunity for an immersive culture experience learning Mandarin, perhaps as a translator or language coach related to culture exchange and technology.
Great video interview, I appreciate the flow of the conversation with your guest Richard, in explaining with genuine enthusiasm formative years growing up in China as a person with an international heritage background representing both East Asian and Western roots. Thank you.
Thank you! I signed up for a monthly Patreon today. I'm sorry, it's small when I get so much out of your lessons. Thank you.
亲爱的Eileen，2019年我从洛杉矶到广州到了桂林，再从那里到阳朔。 这段视频让我想起了这个美丽的地方以及我一路上遇到的所有美丽的人。 感谢您提供有用的视频！
Your Chinese has gotten really good, Stephen!
@@MandarinCorner2 Thanks to Mandarin Corner, my enthusiasm for improving continues to grow every year 👏
桂林山水甲天下！
This was such an interesting video!
Wow...love Eileen's hair.
This video is so interesting. I love Richard's facial expression :)))))
I have started using a very useful tool now when watching youtube videos for chinese study, wc is called : Language Reactor and it needs videos to have chinese subtitles (CC) so hopefully Mandarin Corner can start putting chinese and english CC too.
richard is a chinese who is really good at chinese( i mean good educated).
This topic is very interesting to me.
Thank you for this video. It’s interesting to understand how a person of mixed race grew up in China. I’m Chinese & my wife is English. Our daughter is half Chinese & born in Singapore. When she was 3 years old we returned to Australia - a multicultural country. When our daughter was growing up she didn’t face any racial discrimination. She has light skin complexion & black hair. When she was in high school many of her classmates can’t work out her ethnicity. She had been mistaken to be Lebanese, South American etc. No one realised she was half Chinese until she told them. She is married to a White Australian & our 12 year old grandson looks like a white Aussie with Chinese eyes.
God bless you, Richard. I wish you a great future with a successful career. Best wishes from Australia 🇦🇺
Good
非常聪明的年青的人。祝他好生命。
不是“年青”是“年轻”
@@peterwang5272 谢谢
Eileen, maybe you should make shorts, intro of your guests
Awesome video.
Strange I'd expect him to have some southern accent when speaking Mandarin, but his Mandarin accent is very much standard and even a bit northern or Beijing like.
The influence of tv programmes & internet must have something to do with his acquired northern Chinese accent.
@@chongleongchua4059 But I have some Chinese friends from his province that are around the same age or slightly older, and they all speak Mandarin with a rather heavy southern accent.
@@weifan9533 ,It really depends on the individuals. Most people just go with the locals' way of talking but some just like to speak differently which they think is more elegant like the Beijingers' accent. Take me as an example, my spoken English is different from most of my countrymen's accent (Malaysian), some foreigners think I have American accent, I think it could be due to the facts that I watch too many American movies & tv shows & I tend to speak more proper English unlike most Malaysians who just like to speak Malaysian accented English without proper grammar.
@@chongleongchua4059 It's sad. I don't understand why you're disrespecting local languages and local accents so much; in my opinion each kind of accent is beautiful and precious cause it represents the diversity of humankind. I don't think the Beijing accent is any better or any more elegant than South Chinese accent.
@Wei Fan I think it's a matter of if the accent is native or not. In English you have a variety of British, American, Southern, AAVE, Canadian, Australian, Kiwi etc which all are considered native thus accepted accents. When you speak with foreign accents you're using the phonetic rules of another language to speak English, which would then be considered improper.
It's the same with Chinese. You have all the acceptable native northern accents from various parts of the Northeast. Other Mandarin accents are less accepted because they're seen as being influenced by other languages. Particularly southern ones which are influenced by Southern Chinese languages. Even though many southern areas doesn't speak any languages except Mandarin anymore, the relics still remain in the accents. Imagine if you forced the entire Europe to learn English and speak only English in formal settings and even push it in private settings too. After a few generations many areas won't be able to speak their local languages anymore, but they might still speak English with their 'unaccepted' foreign accents even though they speak it as a first language.
great boy...mixed child.😍😍😍love from Nepal🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵
Hi Guys - is it possible to do an interview of someone who is half black half Chinese or maybe half Indian half Chinese? I think it would be interesting to hear their story. I know that lots Indians marry Chinese people outside of mainland China so it would be cool to interview a Chindian.
hahaha a Chindian 🤣
There’s just been news of a Black-Chinese popular model (even based in China I think), so there’re definitely interesting people out there to interview!
@@arturojgil lol Indian call them Chindian
Спасибо Дорогая за интересную встречу !😽😽😽
Очень позитивный Гость !
А вы тоже учите китайский?
Пытаюсь ...😊😊😊
Уже 2 года ...😾😾😾
I can relate to him but in a reverse way, my dad is Chinese but I can't speak it fluently. I guess naturally we take our mom's language
Great interview! :)
理查德帅哥🥺🥰 他的俄语很可爱，有很独特的口音，真的很好奇！
I like your story .
He looks so much like good mom 😊
Fascinating interview
Nice boy. Speaks well and calmly.
I'm not studying Chinese and don't want to do it,but this interview was really interesting to watch, what about his Russian accent it's hard to understand , I understood the first phrase,but if I didn't heard the word "Richard" I wouldn't do it, another word I didn't understand at all,don't think I'm trying to show how bad he is at Russian, no,I'm just trying to say that if he'll see my comment, he should to work on his pronunciation to be even better in my language. Keep going,Richard!
Вы тоже русский?
Ethnic Chinese have a very strong blood , whoever they mix always comes Chinese futures- this guy s proved it- he looks totally Chinese!
34:41 damn, you are asking such a questions. for sure they are tired. but this is the life. life of simple people in the village. that's how they are living every day. eating same meals made of the same ingredients.
great chemistry
小男孩很有教养，教得很好。广州长大的，为什么普通话可以说这么好呢？
可能他很有语言天赋，因为他很喜欢模仿不同地方人的口音并且学得很像。他给我学过北京话，一开口真的像个老北京。
谢谢老师
Hey Aileen, just want to ask if the conversation between you and Richard is completely natural and unfiltered? I mean, did the content of the conversation get reduced in difficulty, or was it left as it is? I can see that the conversation is very natural and doesn't have any envidence of reducing in difficulty.
Just want to know it to see if this podcast episode's difficulty can be considered as "native" level.
the usage of words and grammar is completely native, but the pacing is slightly slowed down. i can tell that both speakers are enunciating words more clearly than perhaps a normal regular conversation would be.
absolutely native, but with a little bit slower.
4:08 my father is a foreigner
lol sounds really funny
lol
Has he done a video on RUclips already ? I feel like I’ve already heard of his story few years ago
You should consider not labeling this as intermediate. This is not intermediate. It's a normal conversation at normal speed about 200 different things. If you understand this completely you are fluent chinese. Not intermediaty.
true, I consider myself to be HSK 5 level which is kinda advanced but I wouldn't understand many things here if I wasn't focusing on the hanzi subtitles
Still great learning material from Eileen as always
wow，视频拍的很好哦
Nice young man.
He's so cute☺️
AHah, I lived a different childhood but this brings me back a lot of memories XD
guys tell me why they were disbanded? what's happened?
These interviews are the best on RUclips, happy to pay for premium. Do you have any social media 账号 of the 小伙？
Interesting video, but I’m captured by the title of this segment. Half-White, Half-Chinese. It is a shame that in the english speaking west that so many of including the huge diversity of peoples of European heritage have been reduced to a complexion. In this conversation we learn that this young man is at least half New Zealander perhaps British. People of the world are much more than a complexion. They carry with them the unique histories of their families, their historic national cultures and the tribes from which their familes originated.
But that's just a clickbait :)
Richard， I can teach you Russian if you can help me with Mandarin 😀. I feel the same as Richard. I cannot explain why I need to speak Mandarin and why I want to move to China, - probably same about Richard. I cannot explain. It's just a feeling. Also first vibe about Richard was, - what is this Russian guy doing here.