Responding to Comments (Part 1)
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- While on another walk, we decided to respond to a few of the comments from our "Walk & Talk" video.
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I absolutely loved this video. So good to see you and Ellie walking and talking and laughing . . . loving life and loving each other. I really do miss you guys. By the way, ask Ellie why she was throwing up gang signs when she called me out. (lol) 😂🤣
great to watch, interesting topics, great to see how well you get on with Mrs K.
Great vid man.
We looked at Taipei after our euro trip this year but flights were a rip so we are going to Hanoi on the way home
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thx again. love these vids. i must have missed the vid about PRC if i understood you correctly in this one in response to one commenter. i'll search for it.
i do recall some Mandarin from 50yrs ago...very little, but personal pronouns have singular and plural forms: wo, women, ni, nimen, ta, and tamen. Are those the only ones with different forms?
The tones are so difficult. I always feared calling someone's mother a horse----the classic tonal example i think.
I never fully understood rules for use of shi... when to use it and when not to----wo shi meiguoren, but not ni shi hao, just ni hao.
About the only thing you said that i thought of the Mandarin for was when you were talking about your love for your wife... ni ai ta ............(of course, you would have said it to your wife using the words wo ai ni if i recall correctly ).
Sorry i don't remember the tones except that the pronouns are 3rd tone, so typing in pinyin without tonal indication is not that clear.
Does Taiwan use pinyin currently? Please correct me if i'm wrong, but i think it was Wade-Giles a long time ago for transliteration into English characters even after 1947 in Taiwan, pinyin being a Communist system of transliteration since they hated the West and abandoned Wade-Giles if i recall the history correctly?????
Thx again for posting your vids. Appreciate them.
You are correct that there are some isolated examples of words that have both a singular and a plural form. And yeah, I think that the old "calling someones mother a horse" had got to be the most famous example, lol. It's always the one that seemed easiest to explain, anyway.
I'm not great at understanding the rules in any language to be honest. When I am helping kids learn English, I will explain one of the rules, they will find an exception to the rule and ask why it doesn't follow said rule, and I never have a satisfactory answer for them. Just to say "it's an exception to the rule and you'll just have to remember it". I've found it's the same with Mandarin. I don't even bother trying to remember the rules, I just listen to how locals speak and put words together and I try to mimic them (even if I don't understand why).
They do currently use Pinyin for foreigners in Taiwan, since it's pretty well established internationally. I don't use it, though. I personally think it's poorly implemented, as a native English speaker looking at the Pinyin words will almost always end up pronouncing things incorrectly. Instead, I write down my own version of the word based on what makes sense to me, phonetically (if I'm taking notes for myself) or I will just write the characters, even though it takes awhile.
Oh, and the response the the China topic was during this walk. We were actually responding to your comment. I'm just going to put it in it's own video.
ok. i'll watch the vid again. i somehow missed it. tyvm.
United States has got nothing over Taiwan for sure.
@8:20 媽媽騎馬馬慢媽媽罵馬嗎？
@11:20 有機水果？ lol
Wow that car almost hit your wife at 4:45 and then her face afterwards 😳. Then goes back into conversation like nothing happened ha
Lol, there was plenty of space. It probably looked closer than it was because of the angle. She was just surprised because she didn't expect several vehicles to suddenly go past.
@@SkylerKing oh ok good deal glad that wasn’t a close call. Btw what happened to your total gym push/pull with me videos? I loved working out to those videos.
All the old Total Gym stuff is "members only", now. Any new Total Gym stuff (not very often, just random things here and there) is on my other channel @skylerkingtw