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I love this podcast - it fills a much needed gap. Previously, when I tried to listen to natural Chinese speech, all I could find was infuriatingly slow, unnatural "lessons". How can anyone learn a language and learn to understand native speakers without listening to the way people really speak? Thanks!

For the last couple of years , your videos have helped me so much in learning chinese! Thank you and I wish you all the best!

@MandarinCorner2

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Katerina!

@thug4lyfe

3 жыл бұрын

Have you helped China with our domestic problems shawty?

I think this format is the best for improving auditory comprehension. Thanks so much!

This is super interesting. I loved this topic. This is a great way to keep people engaged with learning Chinese.

I started watching your Podcasts this week and i am in love with this channel !

Excellent podcast. Thanks Eileen and Huilin.

Listen to your videos for a couple of months now, and I can see my listening skill has improved so much! Reallyyyyyy looking forward for more videos from you 💕💕💕 谢谢老师~

You always find interesting topics to discuss Eileen. You and Hui Lin always have a valuable presentation that helps us Chinese learners so much!

I hope you can continue doing what you love, it has greatly helped me learn not only Chinese but also about China.

Thank you so much, pinyin is quite helpful.

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What I enjoy about this series and it's format is that although I know a lot of words individually and their meaning I don't know how to say them in context. In these videos I get the confirmation in the dialogues and more confidence to try it.

这是很好! 谢谢老师。很高兴找到你的 KZread channel 😄

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your channel is amazing, I always come back and rewatch your videos. Topics are interesting and your method of teaching new vocabulary is great. You are a great professional and I hope you solved your income problem haha.

好棒了 Eillen 老师。这部视频的主题非常有意思。 👍👍👍 汉字，拼音 和 英文 subtittles 对我有很多帮助。 继续加油 💪💪💪 感谢你 😘

Thank you Eileen, another good presentation

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@1969mmoldovan

5 жыл бұрын

Dear 爱林，我想对你为了今天的节目表达感谢。我不知道是否可以拜托你未来放你节目中提的调查的网站让大家知道找哪个才可以自己去研究研究你提的话题。谢谢。

@MandarinCorner2

5 жыл бұрын

data.court.gov.cn/pages/categoryBrowse.html?keyword=%E7%A6%BB%E5%A9%9A 你需要下载pdf － 司法大数据专题报告之离婚大数据

@23fretwell

5 жыл бұрын

I like your channel but your constant giggling throughout this video makes me despise you as a person. I'm glad the pain of divorce can be so amusing to you. I can understand the topic of sex might be embarrassing to discuss but you're laughing about everything concerning the difficulties of relationships. It's a well put together video but the giggling makes it difficult to re-watch.

@littlemoutha9998

5 жыл бұрын

Most females worldwide are in for the money, status...

great podcast, great topics and very open discussion... great job girls!!!!!

Excellent podcast. It’s a topic that needs addressing all over the world, including China. Your topic is useful and it has a lot of very good vocabulary and phrases and expressions. Eileen thank you very much. You have a gift with guiding and teaching Chinese. Your topics are interesting 非常棒你的話題事實上請解州需要面對這個問題包裹找他錄你的話題非常好用也學得很多單字片語還有禮儀謝謝你你真的有天份.還有指導學生.你的話題很有趣

Really helpful. Thanks so much

这个不错的资料了。谢谢老师

我很开心你发了一个新视频！很有意思，谢谢！ 我觉得离婚不是最大的问题因为人有一生活，很难跟不喜欢的人在一起住。我希望父母可以更理解年轻人的想法，让他们自己选择什么时候结婚。

非常好! 感谢

Enduring acquiring another language! Breaking up making the best of it moving forward! Thanks for the video! More to view and review!

I like videos so much! You really do a great effort

谢谢老师

非常感谢你共享

太棒了！谢谢您做真么有用的视频！制作精良。

@MandarinCorner2

5 жыл бұрын

谢谢夸奖！

Good video. Keep doing such videos

Great topic

我总是喜欢你的视频，你的视频对我中文提高的水平有很大的帮助

Listening your both converse feels good. :)

Very good topic

Beautiful video 💘💘💘

不錯

I am learning loads! Thank you very much for your efforts. It would good to see characters underlined that belong together such as the word experience (timeline: 8:50, jingli) Unfortunately, this word is nowhere mentioned in the English translation below, such as many other words left out... For a foreigner learning Chinese it is not always clear which characters belong together and add up to a meaning.

@MandarinCorner2

4 жыл бұрын

Hi! If you are not clear which characters belong together, you should check the pinyin. We usually arrange the pinyin accordingly because we were aware that students might find it difficult to know which two or three characters are meant to be one phrase.

Best one ☝️🤩

It's amazing 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍

Waaaahh... A new one! 我非常兴奋！！！！！！！谢谢你啊！！！

Fantastic intermediate content. This is exactly what I need!

@MandarinCorner2

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback, BurntSalmon! Please share with your friends.

@beverly5567

2 жыл бұрын

Hi my name is Bebe. I’m from USA.A great video. I want to give donation, but I want speak to you. Can you answer me?? Thanks

This is a really helpful tool. I just donated via WeChat.

Eileen, 你介意的话，我想问一下： for the on-line Chinese Series GO AHEAD, I've just found the following, in the original language, denomination: 以家人之名，which I'm having trouble translating into mine one. Maybe, does it mean: thanks to OR by means of Family Reputation (Name)? 🤔

Chinese sounds incredible!

I'd love to donate on this channel.

Alarming! 我担心了😟

Thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

@thug4lyfe

3 жыл бұрын

Hey gurl, will you help China nomsayin?

Hi I have a question When you said intermediate level Chinese u meant HSK 4-5 ? Because I am studying for HSK 4 and there some words I don’t totally understand That’s all your videos are helpful

I can read the Chinese and understand it (almost know every character) but just listening I don’t understand a lot. Should I just listen to more on this level or listen to easier podcast first?

it's better if you put the hanzi really close to the pinyin in every words so we could easily know well

Thank you for uploading, nice video with good information about China family. And a small donation was made to help you. ;-)

Amituofo 🙏🙏🙏, thank you

Nice video! If I may propose improvement, it would have been ever better with each world translated according to its meaning in the sentence! I'm stopping 3 times per sentence to check the unknown words on Pleco.

Mandarincorner, Eileen.....I'm so happy with your video's Its so helpful. I'm so thankful you also give the pinyin!!! Xiexie On this moment I'm more focust on the speaking, in the future I would like to learn characters. I'm allways looking forward to your video's Nimen dou hen bang

Hello Mandarin Corner team.... Great job as usual.... However, a couple of years ago, I saw a documentary about that topic and it seems that there is another reason which has to do with real estate and taxes. If I remember properly, people don't pay as much taxes when they sell their house after they split up or something like that. In fact, it seems that many couples get divorced, sell their house, and then get married again.... lol.... I don't know if I can find the link again (it was a long time ago) and I do not garantee it will be in english but I'll try if anybody is interested..... Have fun and thousand thanks for your great videos.... :))

@nattes2620

5 жыл бұрын

Ok, I got now the real explanation..... After the Chinese government decided to increase the taxes on the benefit of selling houses, the solution Chinese people found is the following : the buyer marries the seller, so no taxes to pay and when all the papers are done, they get divorced and eventually marry again their ex wife or husband..... Clever isn't it ? This guy explains everything very clearly kzread.info/dash/bejne/qnqFqbCimdzXpc4.html. Unfortunately it is in French;;; sorry for that :((

@nattes2620

5 жыл бұрын

I found something in english :)) kzread.info/dash/bejne/m3iM2rqmpcTTo6Q.html

@MandarinCorner2

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, it's true. I've heard about it.

你好Eileen， 你能不能做更多这样的视频, 我觉得非常的有用! :)

@MandarinCorner2

5 жыл бұрын

我们会继续的，请继续关注我们！

@jakobzohmann6468

5 жыл бұрын

一定会 :) @@MandarinCorner2

Just one small problem. It should be "对儿" when the meaning is "couple".

Excellent video. During the Ch'ing dynasty there was a Chinese saying: 10 matchmakers, 11 liars. Apparently, they lied a lot because they were paid only if the matches looked promising? I wonder if they still compare hours, day, etc. of birth...

@MandarinCorner2

5 жыл бұрын

In my village, I know that many matches are done by relatives. And yes, if the matches are successful, they get some reward. It can b a pair of new shoes which is a kind of tradition in my hometown, or some Hongbao (money). Regarding comparing two people's birth, some people still do it. But in my village, people don't care about it too much since there are way more guys than girls. Guys' family will take any girls, even divorced ones that used to be looked down upon.

21 / 4 / 2019 good video but hard to me ....

I think it would be very helpful to have some "specific" vocabulary in the description before people start listening to improve understanding of details.

👍👍👍👍👍

你好Eileen, 我对这一系列视频感激不得了. 我到中国了就开始学习中文. 昨天是我在中国一年的周年, 而且上周我尝试考HSK四级试了. 我一定认为通过了, 因此我只想谢谢你! 你有天可能会来到上海的时候, 我们可以见面和聊一聊! 谢谢!!

@easytolearnenglish7824

5 жыл бұрын

我忘记重点是什么了哈哈哈! 在HSK五级这本书有一篇讨论中国的离婚率的课文... 这个其实是我原来开始评论的原因, 但我却太忙了表达我的感谢!!

❤

真厉害啊

About 27 years ago I used to tell my chinese friend that they were going in the same direction - divorces, one child system, infidelity, problems with different generations" relations. They didn't believe, they used to say that family value are a keystone of the Chinese society. But everything changed within fifteen years. Decay of family values in China happened quicker than in Russia or the U.S.

in the uk the parents support the kids ..as it should be

You stated that the audio can be listened to anywhere. While that may be true; How does that help if the listener has no idea what the words are (or even the topic of conversation)?

Do another video of you both conversing.

@MandarinCorner2

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, within the next few weeks!

Eileen, 晓峰, 我经常是开玩笑的说话... 还有时候是用一点儿讽刺性... 我必须呀! 🤡 我们世界上有不少又可笑的又哭泣的，对吧？ Enjoy your work! До скорой (он-лайн пока!) встречи!

6:07 ＂男人因性而爱，女人因爱而性 ＂ ＂兄弟如手足，女人如衣服; 敢穿我衣服 付出大代價 ＂

In my opinion, divorce has a very negative effect on the well-being of children. Kids need stability. If you raise them without it, they will be forever unstable in their lives and instability in their lives will cause lots of problems for themselves and society. This is an important aspect of being married. My parents had a long and messy divorce and it had severe consequences on the lives of all of their children (they have 4). These consequences included creating suicidal tendencies in some of the kids, and destroying their ability to concentrate in class due to ongoing family problems. I think divorce can be used as an option, but it shouldn’t be used so flagrantly as it is in today’s societies and generations.

firstly, I think that friendship is the basic of love so marriage difficultly works without secondly, anyway, why to get married? it is not necessary

这个话题很有趣。现在的美国，很多人都觉得结婚不太重要，也是麻烦。很多女人不想要孩子，而觉得有宠物是更适合活得很舒适。我认为原因是经济改变和Metoo之类的事。中国现在有这个趋势吗？

@MandarinCorner2

5 жыл бұрын

是的，中国现在也越来越多的女人不想要孩子了。至于宠物，不知道是是因为孩子，还是其它，现在的确有挺多人有宠物的。我有一个邻居，她养了三条狗！！

Maybe it's because of incompability... I mean, Chinese people hurry to find a wife or husband, they don't even think about getting along well, thank you for your videos!

3:29 真的是“感情不和”吗 为什么不是“感情不合”？

@MandarinCorner2

3 жыл бұрын

其实两种说法都可以。

The question should be, how many of Chinese marriages are actually due to loving their partner? The answer is not many. I know of many Chinese marriages where the couple is still together because tradition still trumps happiness. Now that this is changing, expect more divorces and less people getting married unless they actually love their partner and it isnt marriage of convenience or arranged.

所以我運氣好，女生不會喜歡我，我會避免這些問題。哈哈哈

哈偶大家.... 最近我🧝🏼‍♀️一边看过一些关于中国的气候🗺️，一边开始担心了不少的在于，原来是经常处处平时下雨了很多啊！🌧️😣🌨️ 晓峰，在你的家乡，在东北，那儿也天气是这样的吗？加之贼冷的就是特别在夏天总是也下雨了呀？老实说我个人是更积极的太阳🌞发光的时候！要不然☂️🌨️☔我发愁了！那时候我很想坐在卧室在被我里学习, 还是... 梦想! 请, 讲我夏季都不是这方面的! 🌤️😀

前兩天=2 days go 的意思是吧

@MandarinCorner2

5 жыл бұрын

是的。

@MandarinCorner2

5 жыл бұрын

Sorry, no! It doesn't mean exactly 2 days ago. It could be a few days ago.

@1969mmoldovan

5 жыл бұрын

"During the last two days/for the last two days"

In USA it even worst.

@afk7144

5 жыл бұрын

In China's big cities the divorce rate is about the same

@littlemoutha9998

5 жыл бұрын

But usa divorce rate is way way worst, believe me.

@adamirfan6986

2 жыл бұрын

@@littlemoutha9998 not really

Flash marriage, flash divorce...😂😂😂

Too fast 😓 lah I can't read it 🤔

no entiendo un carajo, pero me parece bien :)

Divorce rate is alarming being so low. Should get up to 100%. Such a bad deal for Chinese men.

Algorithm support comment.

What a nightmare such an old stuff (culture aspects like these, old people's frame of mind....)! We'll be finally getting rid of it, won't we? 🏳️‍🌈

Vastly different than Americans. From what I understood, Chinese people get married for the sake of their parents. Meanwhile Americans (at the very least my friends) are getting married at a young age because "everyone else is doing it, so I'm going to feel out of place if I don't settle down".

在我们的村子。爸妈不想孩子嫁/娶一个住在的离我们远的地方的人。他们觉得这样不会幸福。你们那边呢?

@MandarinCorner2

4 жыл бұрын

多数中国父母也希望自己的孩子找一个附近的人结婚，这样他们可以经常见面。我觉得亚洲这边的文化可能整体来说都差不多。越南和中国的文化也是非常相似的。

Great lesson, but I think you speak a little too fast. haha

@rulind23

5 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately this is already slow compared to normal native dialogue. 加油 you'll get there

@MandarinCorner2

5 жыл бұрын

Yes! We actually tried to go slower than we usually do and we also try to enunciate words clearly. This audio podcast is meant for students who are at lower-intermediate, advanced beginner, or intermediate levels.

@1969mmoldovan

5 жыл бұрын

@@MandarinCorner2 Advanced beginner? :-) :-)

@qwert12345asdfgzxcvb

5 жыл бұрын

@@MandarinCorner2 I personally like the speed. I'd rather listen to fun natural speech than robotic slow speech.

@MandarinCorner2

5 жыл бұрын

@Mircea Moldovan Advanced beginner who wants to become an intermediate.

Chinese marry are not for love but force....

Nothing alarming, in the west, no marriage but sex parters only.

Marriage is outdated you can see this as progress I think

You explained predominantly female perspective on the issue, without trying to understand the causes of adultery, violence, etc. Wives or girlfriends pester their partners, demanding more money, that's all.

@carolinewu3791

2 жыл бұрын

So pestering and demanding money are equitable to domestic violence? Hope that's not what you're suggesting. Yikes. Exposing yourself.

大陸即是大陸，人家王姓演員離婚了要你提嗎？ 不知所謂 !

男人绝对不应该结婚。

@thug4lyfe

3 жыл бұрын

Incel?

It would be perfect if these videos did NOT have pinyin.

@mayomo8863

5 жыл бұрын

You can just scroll down the page and obscure the pinyin