A Day in My Life as a Mandarin Student in China // 在中国当中文学生的一天

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Here's a typical day in my life in what I believe to be the best place in China that you can study Chinese... loving my time in Yangshuo.
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@BarrettYT 3 жыл бұрын

Appreciate you all following along my Chinese journey with me. Are you studying any languages at the moment and why?

@user-th2lx3wl6s 3 жыл бұрын

I'm so happy for your shared😀 You are still young, and enough to learn anything you want. Learning Chinese can help you better integrate into the local society.👍🏻

@rptlee 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I'm brushing up on my Chinese cause I came to China for work recently :D

@frankie2022 3 жыл бұрын

You should definitely enjoy more your living in China by being able to speak and understand Mandarin. At least you would have no problem in ordering all different types of delicious food yourself.

@user-fx5mu3pt8c 3 жыл бұрын

@Martin Tsui 兄弟，我佩服你这么用心，留言可以打这么多字，而且举出详细例子！！！！

@tww5719 3 жыл бұрын

Wild china at its best,are those symbols words or individual letters ? Must take ages to write a letter or a essay 👍

@litao5387 3 жыл бұрын

Best of luck buddy. Its not easy to settle in a foreign land, you are doing an amazing job.

@BestofChina 3 жыл бұрын

It's nice and a bit funny that the teacher was using a lot of gestures when she was teaching/talking in Chinese to you guys. 😄 加油 Barret! ❤️

@livinlavidaluke 3 жыл бұрын

May we both become fluent together, it's a long journey 加油 💪 Also super jealous of where you're living, very nice!

@markleo2497 3 жыл бұрын

Barrett 既然你在桂林，非常欢迎建议你去我的家乡，离阳朔不远的地方--桂林龙胜县龙脊梯田，玩一玩，那也是个非常美的地方！

@yl282 3 жыл бұрын

是的

@yitingzhao3997 3 жыл бұрын

士别三日刮目相看，我关注oli的时候中文都不怎么会说，现在这么流利了，看来学得很努力。加油！

@AmelieZh 3 жыл бұрын

环境真的很重要！不知道会不会广西口音的，呵呵

@Shenzhou. 3 жыл бұрын

他有自信就会说多点，说多了就会变流利。

@wittmorgan8023 3 жыл бұрын

@@AmelieZh 不要对广西口音有太多刻板印象，这里是桂林不是南宁，不存在什么夹壮话或南普，桂林人要么讲桂柳话，要么讲比较标准的普通话。另外，南宁、来宾等口音也代表不了广西。广西还有很多讲类似粤语的地方，那些地方普通话口音和广东的一样一样的。所以根本不存在所谓“广西口音”，广西只有某个城市的口音。

@user-id9hf5go8e 3 жыл бұрын

@@wittmorgan8023 不是哦，我朋友桂林也多有口音的。

@bintang2289 3 жыл бұрын

@@user-id9hf5go8e 哪个地方没有地方口音，北京还有口音，你听老板娘有所谓的广西口音？

@avil8686 3 жыл бұрын

Your reading ability is impressive. 加油

@cynconan 3 жыл бұрын

you are making progress so fast on your Chinese!

@BarrettYT 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks 😊

@murrymu4632 3 жыл бұрын

好棒的早餐，Oli重回学生时代令人羡慕，因为有非常美的环境，非常棒的老师，非常可爱的同学。在小城骑电动车真方便。 Oli非常有语言天份，希望学成后Oli偶而可以用中文回复我们。

@liangvicki7786 3 жыл бұрын

其实你自己自学的中文发音就真的已经很标准了，语言天才

@Angel-pg5jj 3 жыл бұрын

很对

@sir7542 3 жыл бұрын

怕不是没见过克里斯，那个才是正宗的“假冒”外国人。

@user-zi7kd3wd4f 3 жыл бұрын

@@sir7542 克里斯應該學中文學很久了吧！而這位先生才學了沒幾天，他這樣的進度應該還算是可以的了，就給他一點時間吧！

@matteohu5868 3 жыл бұрын

@@sir7542 克鲁斯老婆是中国人

@matteohu5868 3 жыл бұрын

@@sir7542 不过克鲁斯的中文不是一般的好是确实很好👍🏻如果没有看到他本人还真不知道他是老外

@qq1110 3 жыл бұрын

Incredible. Chinese is one of the most difficult languages but u are improving a lot in a short period of time. Great job!

@marcopolomint2488 3 жыл бұрын

Given China is a big place, it be great if we can see what other provinces offer these Mandarin schools and what they’re like too. Perhaps, the school can sponsor you to learn Mandarin in various cities in China and you can show the establishment and what the city is like to live and study at.

@hanqing2005 3 жыл бұрын

你现在的中文水平已经相当不错啦，期望你百尺竿头更进一步。加油！

@Shenzhou. 3 жыл бұрын

他有自信就会说多点，说多了就会变流利。

@allyourchoice832 3 жыл бұрын

Your videos about living in China always make me full of happiness.

@yaziwo2477 3 жыл бұрын

Omg!your Chinese has been improved so much even your reading...the charactors are not easy at all!!well done!!keep up the good work

@ShowShineAU 3 жыл бұрын

阳朔桂林的风景甲天下，你很有福气

@HazzaChinaVlogs 3 жыл бұрын

加油！

@antwango 3 жыл бұрын

Peng Jeng Ji bought me here XD

@JobOthoniel 3 жыл бұрын

Great video Barrett.

@user-bf6kx8nd4c 3 жыл бұрын

You learn Chinese pretty quickly.

@c4alanngo 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome drone footage man!

@AilikeLi 3 жыл бұрын

Quote Oli "...Guangdong, where I am from...", I like that! Oh and there is a phrase you must know - good good study, day day up!

@hattiewu1151 3 жыл бұрын

Cool gudgets for making your fresh morning coffee.

@BarrettYT 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah they're nice! From Fact coffee

@jurrasicpig2426 3 жыл бұрын

I like it too

@Monkeyabroad 3 ай бұрын

lol bro you can't tell me that breakfast montage wasn't inspired by my video. Nothing but love though, Omeida is where it's at! Cheers

@yayunliang2314 3 жыл бұрын

本地人米粉6块一碗，作为老外，你并没有被宰。15块不仅仅是两碗米粉，还有一些附加配料。

@Tommy5ol 3 жыл бұрын

在澳門一碟腸粉就要15塊人民幣了🥲

@user-vv6hx8xg7n 3 жыл бұрын

正常应该是米粉6块，蛋肠粉5块，一共11块。博主应该加了别的吃的

@elliemagnus9731 3 жыл бұрын

@@Tommy5ol 你地人工咁高都系15蚊，我地广州人工低好多都要10蚊😭

@yongshengwang588 3 жыл бұрын

@@elliemagnus9731 说实话我老家山村一小碗粉都9块了，吃了也就垫垫肚子

@haodeplorable266 3 жыл бұрын

Keep working hard, we are all supporting you silently

@stanbimi 3 жыл бұрын

The best students are those who are interested in the subject. They are self-motivated, so they absorb lessons like a sponge. It's very enriching to go beyond vocabularies and intonation and study the history of China. Yes, Chinese think about their ancient history in terms of dynasties. More doors of opportunities will open to expats with mastery of the Chinese language and an understanding of how the culture evolved through ages.

@bobfisher1916 3 жыл бұрын

I tried Omeida's free online introductory class and was very impressed. When Covid restrictions permit I will try to get there in person.

@BarrettYT 3 жыл бұрын

That's great

@stong4764 3 жыл бұрын

You and your dad are very natural in front of the camera.

@mhlouisa 3 жыл бұрын

你知道嗎？雨桂林的景色是最美麗的 Don't you know the raining Guilin is the most beautiful Guilin.

@user-vt3bv2lp9y 3 жыл бұрын

你的中文有进步，加油💪

@lawcoscare5097 3 жыл бұрын

Glad u chose Guilin city of Guangxi province as your next stop in your student life

@yuetcheung1804 3 жыл бұрын

I really envy you to have such great opportunity to have all these fantastic experiences, and feel excited for your forthcoming times in 阳朔

@jindongmei8609 3 жыл бұрын

你的中文很好👏👏👏 感谢分享

@yvonneip858 3 жыл бұрын

Great job! You have made a great progress!

@jerrywang4695 3 жыл бұрын

Oli, you are very inspiring.. You are living a very inspiring life. Thanks for being the bridge between West and China. Your work helps to eliminate a lot misunderstandings about China and promote world peace.

@yoyoho5994 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, that is an amazing place. It is on my bucket list. Thanks for your videos!

@CarpsterKing 3 жыл бұрын

Oli Your putong hua seems to be improving by leaps and bound....keep it up,,,,

@ztpan7587 3 жыл бұрын

The musical instrument Pipa originated in the Persian Gulf and came to China through the Silk Road. It is now quite popular in China. See? How nice when nations trade and cooperate?

@zoezhang5243 3 жыл бұрын

Yangshuo is really beautiful

@dantesinferno5075 3 жыл бұрын

The last track that was played on the pipa is great classic, translated loosely as "Ambushed from all sides", about an army Ambushed by the enemy! 😄

@zhaoquanyu5806 2 жыл бұрын

Great Job mate！ Keep Going!

@yaoshengzhao231 3 жыл бұрын

Hi, there, Oli. Your spoken Chinese has certainly improved since the first time I watched your video using my other KZfaq account (CanaanOptical) and you're certainly qualified to be more confident. I really enjoyed this particular upload because of personal interests. I was supposed to travel to Shenzhen (from Malaysia where I am a citizen) in early 2019 to teach English in an international school there but my plans were thwarted by the C-19 pandemic. Glad to see you and your dad having the time of your lives in my 'homeland' and speaking well of it in contrary to what the western media would have the world believe. Thanks and God bless! 赵耀胜 Jeremy p/s This clip is a bit shorter than your usual uploads and more suitable for me to share with my friends. Thanks and take care.

@BarrettYT 3 жыл бұрын

Appreciate the words. Hope you can do your plan once China opens up again.

@davidhughes4527 3 жыл бұрын

Great video buddy. You are doing well and it shows you are trying hard as well as doing your vdo editing. It's quite a handfull trying to balance your work. Well done. 👍👍

@giliguluedinburgh 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome content and lovely people and teachers in Yangshou. @barrett the drone footage under the low bridge 8:51 was amazing, I hope you were shitting it thinking you took too much of a risk there to bring us the footage!

@jtang8768 3 жыл бұрын

wow, the view is amazing! I also like your new Drone, my god, feels like a Sifi movie

@graceyan524 3 жыл бұрын

简直人间仙境！能在这样的地方学习和生活太幸福了。

@jzhang9094 3 жыл бұрын

I visited Yangshuo in 1997. It's one of the most fascinating places on earth.

@brendinsukhram5364 3 жыл бұрын

Well done. This gives many of us whom are interested in learning Chinese the understanding and direction to begin the process.

@user-lf9rp3ju2j 3 жыл бұрын

The last song on the video is called "Ambush on Ten Sides", thank you very much for watching the video.

@flyingsnow1228 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this with us and it’s so interesting to watch! The 肠粉 and 米粉 looks so yummy , but I guess it’ll be quite heavy for a breakfast. 😁 Apparently you’re making great progress in Chinese study and your pronunciation is superb! I must go to visit Yangshuo one day, thanks to your nice video! 👍

@user-jt2vg8rz5s 3 жыл бұрын

头条和油管同步上传，赞👍🏻

@marcopolomint2488 3 жыл бұрын

Great video! Good to see videos created to show the younger generation what an array of opportunities are in China. Influence the younger generation to appreciate the ‘one world’ concept where when countries works together with China can achieve great things. The youth is our future, steer them the truthful and right path. Win win. More youth content please!

@mili9169 2 жыл бұрын

I really love your video.thank you for your love for China.

@ZZ-zf5sx 3 жыл бұрын

羡慕你现在的生活！

@yjharvey7824 3 жыл бұрын

Wow your chinese is getting very well! And your pronunciation and tones are very accurate! I am impressed!

@YanPitch 3 жыл бұрын

Your drone shots are amazing. Thanks.

@peter9182 3 жыл бұрын

桂林山水甲天下，阳朔山水甲桂林。 The scenery in Gui Lin is second to none in China, the scenery in Yang Shuo is second to none in Gui Lin.

@James-yd8dg 3 жыл бұрын

桂林山水 👍👍👍😎

@HaiboRen 3 жыл бұрын

Wow! Oli, you made incredible progress in mastering Chinese, Admirable! you must be gifted in learning languages 👍 If I am half as smart as you, I should have became fluent in English rather than still struggling with it. Have nice days in Yangshuo, the pearl I personally love most. Beer fish the Yangshuo dish deserves taking a risk :) 加油💪

@lilyw1081 3 жыл бұрын

好美的城市，有机会的话，也想去那里看看

@DLeong1 3 жыл бұрын

You are enhancing your love of all things Chinese; I applaud you. Your dad must be chuffed about how life in China is turning out for you. Make him proud.

@congqianman1994 3 жыл бұрын

Your Chinese is improving fast！强厉害赞真棒

@paul-- 3 жыл бұрын

@Barrett - Oli, it's amazing to see you biting the bullet and learning Chinese, inspiring stuff! 📙 💪 Great to see how grounded you are in China there too, I recall when you first went out there you didn't seem to feel like it was 'home' as such due to it being a very different place, but China has seriously grown on you now, - keep doing what you're doing, try to eat like the locals do, because what they eat is for a reason ; that is to say, it matches the season and the weather conditions, so it ends up being a healthier option! 👍

@zh214 2 жыл бұрын

Oli, Your pronunciation is very good, much better than the foreign friend you were talking to. If you keep learning to speak Chinese, I believe you will become more and more fluent! 👍👍 Yangshuo is very close to my hometown, and it only takes 40 minutes to get there by bullet train. I have been to Yangshuo several times before, and the view there is beautiful and suitable for living. I hope that I can go to Yangshuo again this year when I return to China.

@thmei6296 3 жыл бұрын

哈哈你们两个聊着聊着就用英语说话了，太真实了

@liuchuanfeng2022 3 жыл бұрын

哈哈哈。我当时就笑了😂

@luxi2701 3 жыл бұрын

哈哈语速火箭式提升

@dp0625 3 жыл бұрын

Actually Chinese is not difficult, you must learn according to the rules, for example, if you learn a word "vehicle", then you will find that you learn a lot of words：fire vehicel means train, steam vehicle means car, goods vehicle means truck. or if you learn a word "electric" then : electric speaker means phone, electric view means tv, electric brain means PC

@huagong6490 3 жыл бұрын

interesting, haha

@user-wi8hs9rm5s 3 жыл бұрын

中文好学你就整两句

@Shenzhou. 3 жыл бұрын

Take learning the _Days of Week_ for example, in English it's _Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday._ In Chinese it's just 星期一，星期二，星期三，星期四，星期五，星期六，星期天。(Weekday1, Weekday2, Weekday3…Weekday6, Weekend) And learning the _Months of the Year_ is even more difficult. In English it's _January, February, March, April, May,……_ whereas in Chinese its 一月，二月，三月，四月，五月，六月 (First Moon/Month, Second Month, Third Month , Fourth Month, Fifth Month, Sixth Month) etc. Once you know how to count in Chinese and how to say week and month in Chinese, you're pretty much set. Whereas in English you have to memorize new words for days of the week and months of the year.

@PanduLuhur 3 жыл бұрын

haha so true, my friend also told me the same way

@haodeplorable266 3 жыл бұрын

The grammar of Chinese is much simpler than that of English. If we ignore the writing of Chinese characters, Chinese is the easiest language to learn in the world

@Nucke4 3 жыл бұрын

words that sound similar is also complicated I think. you need to be careful with tones and pronunciation

@hanfucolorful9656 3 жыл бұрын

@@Nucke4 In Chinese, there is no verb switch of [do, does, did, done, doing], only do, so way easy in terms of grammar.

@ChinaAnt01 3 жыл бұрын

I totally agree

@AmelieZh 3 жыл бұрын

还真是。。。英语词汇还比中文多呢

@winstond4445 3 жыл бұрын

I'm used to using English grammar, I think chinese with it's tones and intonations are 10x harder. I like have 0 patience when learning the tones

@davidchung4691 3 жыл бұрын

Good luck and work hard with your study! Very interesting.👍👍👏👏

@raychoi33 3 жыл бұрын

Your Mandarin has improved a lot . Congrats

@Angel-pg5jj 3 жыл бұрын

This video makes me want to learn Mandarin I haven’t been learning recently again

@ishabrown Жыл бұрын

Love your positive personality. Your Mandarin is really good. Keep up the great work. The food looks great, never tried the dish you had when i was in China, had something similar when i was in China town in London. The province you're in looks amazing, different from the ultra modern, 1st Tier cities. 👍

@Kuasarakyat2 3 жыл бұрын

Very cheerful teacher! 👏

@anonymintheworld9781 3 жыл бұрын

Your Chinese are getting better :)

@manwaiming5122 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing ☺️

@phuongtu8660 3 жыл бұрын

What a beautiful student life. Quiet and peaceful. A place for a clear mind.

@Runningbowels 3 жыл бұрын

Best of luck on the course. I am learning Chinese as well but on my own and it is a daunting task. Beautiful view btw at 7:18.

@AmelieZh 3 жыл бұрын

加油加油

@Runningbowels 3 жыл бұрын

谢谢你！

@trevornorman7563 3 жыл бұрын

hi Oli the food when it was on the tray straight out of the cooker looked more like modern art and to good to eat

@BarrettYT 3 жыл бұрын

It was haochi!

@raideepu4 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome bro! I hope your language improves impressively and you can interact better with the local Chinese so we can get more information about China.

@planetnomadicpersonal 2 жыл бұрын

My ancestral province is Guangdong, only visited once. Loved Yangshuo. It has the best of both worlds. I'm not into "Western brands" like Starbucks or McDonalds but the visual familiarity helps ground me in an otherwise bewilderingly ALIEN place. We visited Yangshuo in 2018 and we had a breakfast in a shop just like the one at the beginning of your video with all the great condiments, sitting at a low table with low stools with our guide. We found her - or rather she found us - just walking around on our first night just keeping panic at bay because there were no "motorer" to get back to the hotel. On that breakfast street alone, there were several Chinese language schools. Remarked to my daughter that this would be the perfect place to get fluent in Mandarin. Maybe one day! It's so beautiful.

@cozydutch 3 жыл бұрын

Great to see you learning Chinese in daily life in China. I'm also studying Mandarin in the Netherlands.

@vzl7864 3 жыл бұрын

that is a nice mixed modern shops with local architectures. very nice view.

@etow8034 3 жыл бұрын

Oli has a passion for learning Mandarin this is why he is learning so fast !

@2morrowsworld 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic insight. Looks like a great learning environment for a student. They provide onsite accommodation there. I myself have been in contact for several months with Omeida through one of their reps, Anya. Obviously learning Mandarin Chinese is the primary reason. But it provides a convenient excuse to return to China itself by getting around an L tourist visa. At the moment, X1 type study visas are not being issued to people in my situation (from Australia). However that should change before the end of this year (assuming the Australian Government let's us out!) Your Chinese sounds good enough to be rated at A2 or nearly intermediate level. You'll thrive at Omeida.

@Crystalbomb321 3 жыл бұрын

Your Mando accent is so good! Keep it up 😙

@917amazon 3 жыл бұрын

Great scenery!

@nickey477 3 жыл бұрын

I fell in love with Yangsho. Very beautiful and Chinese city. Thank you for sharing.

@zz7zt0p56 2 жыл бұрын

really lovely Oli is studying as a Mandarin Chinese Student in China 👏👏Seeing is Believing! doing an Excellent Works, Job well done👏👏Thank You!

@donderstorm1845 3 жыл бұрын

cool architecture and those mountains around it are beautiful.

@benjaminli6535 2 жыл бұрын

Such a interesting video!

@justinh3833 2 жыл бұрын

Yangsuo is a county in Guilin city, a place famous for great mountains and green river. Very beautiful indeed. Love the place.

@michaeljiang960 3 жыл бұрын

great job, keep it up!

@Coffee45665 3 жыл бұрын

这里的地方好漂亮很安靜👍👍👍👍👍👍

@yl282 3 жыл бұрын

仙境桂林

@chenmary486 3 жыл бұрын

小子，进步很大了，加油

@AjayParmar 3 жыл бұрын

brilliant video man

@deanz.d4358 3 жыл бұрын

居然在阳朔学中文，这个地方绝了！your chinese improve alot these days.

@user-ve9fy9di9v 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Oli， I 've watched your video for long time and right this time i've seen your Laptop ist Xiaomi Pro yes? just mines ist all the same hhaha,,,wish you have good time there and thank you for discovering so many good aspects of China, spreading these to the world, and supporting you. I am a Chinese working in Germany