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Kirk 口音很舒服听

我们小的时候在法国经常看李小龙的电影。电影完成以后我和我的妹妹每一次开始假装我们是功夫师傅.这些都是美好的回忆！Eileen,如果你喜欢点穴你应该看一本日本漫画叫北斗之拳(Hokuto no Ken):这英雄用点穴为了杀坏人(真可惜他不能飞但是也用点穴为了治疗受伤了的人。今天的视频太有意思，谢谢你。

Kirk is one of my favorite Mandarin Corner guests! More kirk interviews please!!!

Me encanta este canal, siempre tiene temas muy interesantes:)

I practice Baguazhang. I still amazes me how many Chinese people don't know what Baguazhang is. They always ask me "Is it Taiji?" No it's not Taiji, it's baguazhang. It's also an internal martial art style. It's more of a middle ground between Taiji and Xingyi.

I am currently reading my first novel in Chinese, the wuxia novel 流星·蝴蝶·剑 by Gu Long! I really recommend it it is very fun and not that hard. Thank you for the video I really enjoyed it :)

很有用，谢谢

great conversation

Kirk is just sooo cool - could listen to his stories for hours (他很好笑而且它的发音非常标准)

@goodusername7037

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Have you seen Kirk’s KZread channel?

@strandpromenade

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@@goodusername7037 no, not yet. how´s it called?

@goodusername7037

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@@strandpromenade I can’t remember the name, I think mandarin corner announced it like a couple weeks agob

@strandpromenade

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@@goodusername7037 ok, good, will figure it out.... must be surely a funny one...

@MandarinCorner2

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@@strandpromenade kzread.info/dash/bejne/nKN-u9mNk9bTpbA.html

谢谢你们！！ 我很喜欢你们的视频。

Thank you as always, Kirk is a great guest I like his way of talking

I like these contents.....

30:04 Imagine spending your days in a playground, jumping around like a lunatic, thinking you can fight. It's kind of crazy how many levels there are to being good at something, in reality. There are people who make the strongest person you know look like a child, and then people who do the same to them, and somebody else who makes them look weak. This applies to everything. Being good at fighting is a real thing. Don't pretend to be tough, or assume you are something without ever testing yourself, or you'll end up in trouble, or humiliated.

Yayyy I've been waiting too long for the new video 😭

So nice

Thank u so much for this Awesome inititative! Ive watched alot of ur previous episodes and this one is one of my favourites thus far!! I just enrolled a small class in chinese and im gonna rewatch as much as possible from the start. Hugs from Sweden! :)

Hi Eileen! 大家好! 我自从小超喜欢武术, 尤其是轻功, 射气功出来, 每个功夫技术, 还有超能力！也很喜欢太极拳! 可能现代的中国人没有那么多时间练习武术, 对不对? 但是, 武打表演的成功传性又证明很有意思! 无论是哪种, 毕竟每个艺术一般都制作全新, 在事实上还没存在的东西! 明明人们到处都喜欢做梦! ☺️👍

Need more podcast with this guy please ☺️

What Kirk said at 19:15 seems correct, Jesse Enkamp in his KarateNerdInChina series, introduced us to a KungFu style, this style concealed themselves by posing as incense shop owners. They are called incense shop boxing. Brazil's capoiera was also hidden by just saying we are learning dancing. (I'm not someone who belongs to Hinduism based religions) perhaps along with the hiding fighting by calling it exercise/dance, another thing maybe that buddhism has indian origins(where I see hinduism as a collection of ideas/practices belonging to india, where these ideas would get reformed and changed by the same gurus.) Hinduism related religions believe in ahimsa, so perhaps to make kungfu more in accordance with this beliefe of ahimsa, kung fu masters may have said, "ohh we arent learning to fight".

感谢！Kirk 那么可爱的🙃

Kirk is so funny i laughed all along watching this video with his way of describing things logically but funny, he has a great sens of humor haha

Kirk 很棒

Being a wuxia pian lover is like being chinese version of a weeb. Sadly i only watched English subbed versions of these movies and TV shows growing up. Only now am i learning my mother tongue mandarin properly after all these years.

特别有意思。已经很多年我和我妈妈非常喜欢看成龙的电影。有很多的事情我以前不知道。谢谢你们。

李小龙和功夫就是我喜欢中国的文化原因之一，虽然李小龙喜欢打人，他世界的影响真好 🙃 男儿当自强！！！ 我总喜欢看你的视频 真好看，很有用 谢谢啊

please make a video on this topic , if Chinese parents come to the school how can we talk to them about their child's progress. what questions could they ask and what are the possible answers. Thank you for your great videos.

谢谢啊！你是奇才。

Can you do a video on what Chinese people think about learning other languages?

By the way nice hairstyle kirk !!

Kung fu is great! I think the health benefits of Kung fu, tai ji, and qigong are too overlooked. I know it has changed my life.

25:45 看起来eileen的功夫很厉害

I think it may be possible some kungfu styles(baji quan) had weapons like trident, but they have hidden the weapons in their Tao Lu, by just depicting them with hands. Now in a world where no one carries tridents, and where people have guns if they want to fight, kung fu has become less effective.

Recently, I've been watching Cdramas (continental China) with more taekwondo than Kung Fu on the plot.

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Hi Eilee, I am from Vietnam, I want to donate 30$ then to get the Premium access, but the system doesn't accept the payment by Debit card from Vietnam. It shows "Donations to this recipient aren't supported in this country". What should I do now as I couldn't pay by Paypal or Wechat. Thank you.

@MandarinCorner2

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Hi Binh Tran, you can make international donations with Patreon: www.patreon.com/mandarincorner We will send you information on how to discontinue support or lower your pledge once you make your initial $30 donation.

Kirk是哪里的啊？

32:10 can anybody tell why he is pronouncing 因为 as yin1wei2 ?

@MandarinCorner2

5 ай бұрын

That's a mispronunciation. In fact, you will notice many Chinese pronounce it as wei2.

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@user-xr5cz2mr4v

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It says intermediate but he is talking so so fast🥲

I only come here cuz i like learning about different cultures but 1:26 the english subtitles arent in sync with what was said. Waiguoren" means foreigner, but subtitle says "to learn kong fu". Anyways im a fan of your channel and Kirk. Jiayou! Its interesting that chinese language sounds quite peaceful and not aggressive. In hollywood movies/WWE, beating up people is shown as something cool. The hero even mocks the villain after beating them up eg:Aahsta la vista baby. However some asian movies dont depict senseless aggression as cool. Like in the movie "big brother" donnie yen kind of appologizes to the villain after beaing him up. Similarly fist of legend. How japanese diplomat wants there to be peace, and how Jet Li's fiancee's uncle says purpose of martial arts is not to kill and how they fight was interesting. I like the fact that as compared to hollywood asian movies have little sex appeal and more purity/humility and cuteness.

@user-en7ot3ls6d

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😂You cannot synchronise spoken Chinese and English because much of the time the word order is completely different.

@yqweqwun7390

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@@user-en7ot3ls6d I didnt know,cuz im not learning the language;just picked up that familiar word.

@user-en7ot3ls6d

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@@yqweqwun7390 哈哈 加油。

The issue with gong fu today is alot of the real deal masters have died with the art and people don't remember how to use the taolu in a real fighting situation modern wushu is only performance based traditional wushu is for fighting go to a school that spars and teaches self defense. These people aren't real martial artists if can't be backed up with lineage and practical fighting it isn't wushu

@FrequencyDojo

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HE Jin Bao of yin style Bagua is the real deal

Kirk and eileen if you are going to France, call me please. On top of that My girlfriend is chinese, so we could speak french, chinesse, english and spanish. thank you again for your smashing videos. A très bientôt je l'espère mes amis

@andrejshutilin6815

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Какой ты Хитренький. 😋😋😋

你们可以查一下中国散打比赛，中国套路比赛。

Kirk 的乱七八糟的头发很会打功夫！ 😂

I disagree with the pessimism Kirk had regarding KungFu. In my opinion there are interesting concepts. Like I watched a video by NordWingChun(traces lineage to ipman). He said (and what I understood). 1-Circular blocking is hard to defend, since its not a 1directional force. 2-If a punch comes you dont block it head on, rather at 90. Since head on blocking means you take the impact and your structure gets broken, whereas 90 block means you redirect opponents energy 3-Similarly they do train your reflexes. Karate's Kumite is like chess but with our limbs. WingChun's philosophy is using minimal force,being most economical with regards to energy. So they adopt a square on stance. InternationalWingChun academy youtube channel has great video about wingchun concepts. Moreover why cant we say that these kungfu techniques (instead of mocking it), they evolved and improved to make way into practical techniques that MMA has, I mean these things were useful in ancient world but now we improved upon them.

Traditional kungfu is a killing skill. The target is the softest part of the body. It is not allowed to be used in the competition now.

@tshepokotelo3162

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I don't know alot of Kung Fu is watered down and the rules under which Kung Fu fights occur aren't realistic. Kung Fu is more about spirituality than actual fighting. I prefer Karate because Karate focuses more on fighting than Kung Fu does plus it takes decades to become good at Kung Fu while Karate takes years to become good. Karatekas are also better conditioned and more tough than Kung Fu fighters and they are more durable as well. I think Kung Fu is really just for movies and if you wish to learn Buddhism, I don't think it's a realistic fighting system. There is a Chinese MMA fighter who has taken on and embarrassed many Kung Fu school teachers simply because Kung Fu doesn't practice real fighting. I do think that Kung Fu could be effective but it must be combined with other non-kung fu martial arts to become effective

@xiaofengwang9541

5 ай бұрын

In reality, aerial karate is just a magnificent form of performance. It is easy to be suppressed by judo, Chinese wrestling, and Brazilian ground skills in practical combat. The kung fu you know is actually called martial arts, which uses extremely small movements to attack the vital parts of the human body.@@tshepokotelo3162

Bruce lee is NOT kung fu... Bruce lee mixed Japanese Karate, Judo, Filipino Kali, American boxing, Korean Taekwondo, Chinese Wing Chun, etc. So he is Mixed Martial Arts..

在这里有youtube 在中国有什么

Do you have instagram account to follow you ? Your channel is very good for learn chinese. always thankful ~

@MandarinCorner2

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Have Facebook, WeChat but no Instagram.