And her facial expression nailed it. I could picture tiny baby Jessie with muddy hands.

:) IKR but I bet she still thinks she playing... just in snow not mud.

Playing with mud at age three is developmentally appropriate vs. forcing a child into elitist games for the parents ego

pronunciation is better than most Chinese over 35.

@@kellyliu1210 Even mainland native ones'???

her mum is a native Chinese who raised her alone . Why would it be a surprise?

mandarin*

@@amazingdany yes, most people(especially over 40) speak standard mandarin with a local accent.

lol she doesn't need you to tell her that

@@monroncoupe6700 sad comment

I've never heard "qi" on the flat tone ever Completely alien to my ears

@@babyshaya its everywhere

She made millions selling out. That’s not inspirational.

Sweet shengjianbao? Hmmm. U might got scammed. 😂

七天制，本来就是源于西方！ 礼拜的说法和西方基督教有关； 星期的说法应该是中国为去基督教文化影响自创的； 周是循环的意思，比说星期简单些； 现在中国大陆稍微正式一点的书面通知，都不会用里拜两字，星期用的多一些，周也会出现。

In Malaysia, we just use the word "weekend" or 星期六星期天 or 拜六礼拜

正解

@Helehelexx ____ daunting isn't really that rare in casual convo, tbh.

@Helehelexx ____ are you chinese

@Helehelexx ____ and yes it 'daunting' is a pretty colloquial term...

@Helehelexx ____ ok

I am Indonesian and totally relate to this 🤣 Most of us whose ancestors left China before before/during WW2 came from rural areas. But this is nothing to be ashamed of. On the contrary, it reflects a whole other level of localness when ones accent can be pin pointed to a specific region. For example, speaking English in a standard newscaster-type American accent vs. speaking English with a Boston accent.

@@liongkienfai104 not so right to make a comparison between non standardise American accent and village Chinese accent.. Because there is no such term for village accent in American english.. But your point of locallness is right

because cantonese is very different from mandarin

No...she went to China every summer

@@cathaleenk8752 going to china every summer for a few weeks won't automatically improve your chinese and lets you speak at a native level.. if it was that easy, plenty of tourists would be speaking chinese fluently now..you do realize that there are plenty of foreigners in china who still speaks with an accent despite already staying in china for many years right?

There are lot of chances to speak chinese here too.

And her moms chinese

One Chinese baby is snowboarding at 11 months old! And the baby is already a gold metalist!

Same with classical musicians, my sister is a violinist and started at the age of four, already winning competitions at 6yo

@@emotea597 thanks, I didn't know and am not surprised. I did not know that isn't mere prodigy. And yeah I was into at lest three languages by 5. I think it's partly cultural, partly familial?

@@QuizmasterLaw could be, I'm half Georgian half Taiwanese, but just sports and music in general start very very young. I live in Austria and the majority of boys here get send to play football as kids. I know if you want to be a professional you have to have started young, wether it's being eg a figure skater or pianist.

@@emotea597 I'm psychic here's the proof you speak English German Chinese Russian and Georgian. Maybe also Ukrainian Canto and/or Hokkien

You still have a very low social credit score. 🤣🤣🤣

@@sambowz9077 You have a low FICO score. Go collect more debt before you can go into more debt.

@@uncleho1945 🤣🤣🤣

Come to Minnesota and you definitely can learn to speak American English with a Midwest accent! Greetings from sunny northwestern Minnesota 🌞

Another channel, and found you again... Btw.. Taiwan is a fully independent country 😜

@@sasino Dream on. I will take a pretty nice speed train to Taipei from Shenzen without stamping my passport. Mark my words.

@@astrolillo Yeah, just because the Taiwan government was nice enough to allow that, to maintain better diplomatic relations with China

Weekday is 工作日

Genetically. But her upbringing appears to be very Chinese.

She is not half white. Why does everyone assume this?

Thank you Cody! A lot of English speakers have learned Mandarin from scratch and have done a great job, maybe the interview I had with the Canadian polyglot Steve Kaufmann can help you figure out where to start. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i8uJfL1et92ZnX0.html It's a lot less intimidating once you start though. I believe in you! Wish you all the best.

I think she can，because she went to a cram school（高思） in Beijing during the summer vacation to study math and so on

Yes, she can read and write. She can also reference a few sentences from ancient poems in her conversations. She uses Chinese media APPs like Weibo and Xiaohongshu. Her writing looks like mine, which is about middle school level. However, her Mandarin is so much better than mine. I was born and raised in China (until 12).

is that going to make people's ears bleed ? haha i don't know who kevin tran is

@@blueskiies He is a French youtuber, he can speak chinese fluently

I'm Chinese but not from China. As far as I know, we start counting age 1 from the year of birth and accumulate as normal each birthday. This is based on the Lunar Calendar, not the Gregorian, mind you. I've never been told to add my age during this festive period, whenever asked for our "Lunar age" we just add 1. I'm guessing what you're referring to is the 7th Day of CNY aka Renri? Roughly translated as people's birthday. To put it simply, the story behind it is *kinda* like the 7 Days of Creation in the bible, but it doesn't add to our age. EDIT: So this question got me really curious and I checked with my mother. It's true that people do add another 1 year each Spring Festival, but only for specific cases. An example is my late father who was born in the 12th Lunar month. Anyone born in the around the time just before Spring Festival will get an additional year in their age every year. Sorry but I can't give you the logic of it LOL, my old lady can't answer it and just shrug, "it's complicated like that, that's why no one likes calculating Lunar age like that anymore". I don't even accumulate his age like that when writing his Chinese age on his burning paper for Qing Ming Festival. So yea, you can get added 2 years each year if you're born just before Spring Festival.

@@sususegar Thank you. Very interesting. And a little baffling. 😁😁

@@davidsanders5652 Well thank you for the question, I never knew this too!

That’s her Caucasian’s genes

@@starhawkflyingbright6905 😂

Sure, filler words are nearly subconscious, one does not actively try to use filler words. When I was teaching ESL, hearing one of my Chinese students in Chengdu start to use English filler words, made me so happy; almost as much as hearing my students talk to their classmates in English!

@@Elurin I did not realize that. 😬😬😬😬

@@John77Doe Well, I think it just takes more conscious thought to translate from your L1 to L2, and more effort, though some people can do it very quickly. But once you start using filler words in a language that you are learning, part of your brain is thinking in your L2 without your conscious effort, and that is something all language learners aspire to, imo.

Sheeeeesh....

@@_my_insomnia_blink562 Imagine if the American Jesse Owens ran for the Nazis in 1936...

It wasn't really a lot. The reality is, Americans don't really watch the Olympics much, especially the Winter Olympics, and they're overlapping this year with the Superbowl. The TV ratings for the Olympics in the US have been a disaster. Yes, there was so criticism on Twitter (but pretty much everything is a crisis on Twitter, pick a subject and you'll find nasty threads on it), and some nasty opinion shows on Fox News calling her a traitor, but most average people I talked two aren't even aware of who she is, or even anything about what's going on in the Olympics. Americans have a pretty narrow set of sports they're interested in: baseball, basketball, hockey, football (American football, not soccer). Pretty much everything else is mostly ignored except maybe Figure Skating (womens) in Winter, and Gymnastics (Summer). I'd say it has already disappeared from the news cycle and everyone's forgotten about it, as now the big story is Russian drug doping of figure skaters. I don't think Americans in general are as wrapped up in the medal race/race for gold as some other countries, and so Gu playing for China isn't going to be as controversial, as say a mainland Chinese athlete suddenly immigrating and playing for the US and winning a gold. Zhu Yi got a lot of hate because she a) doesn't speak Chinese well b) took the slot of Chinese figure skaters and c) worse of all, failed hard. Nathan Chen seems to get a lot of hate, to the point of seeing many Chinese online actively campaigning for Japanese figure skater Hanyu to win the gold, just so Chen loses, which seems quite amazing to me, given the usual anti-Japanese bias. But that's because Chen a) is cocky and b) has made statements critical of China. Gu so far is being smart. She is refusing to become a political pawn. She will undoubtedly be asked about Uyghurs and stuff and her response should always be "Look, I'm 18, I'm here to compete, ask someone who is an expert in international relations, why does my opinion on this matter?" The moment she gives an answer one way or another, she will become a political pawn and accused of either supporting US government propaganda or CCP government propaganda. Best to stay focused in her interviews and stay out of politics, and she is hoping for a successful career in endorsements and modeling in Asia, while at the same time going to Stanford in the US.

I respect your opinion on this issue, but it's important to recognize that a big portion of people, from my understanding, are critical of her because she was able to represent china while holding a dual citizenship, not simply because she chose to represent another country (I'm assuming she has dual citizenship because it seems there has been no proof of her giving up her American citizenship). Would this issue have been swept under the rug if she was representing another country? Maybe. But this is just how I am personally seeing this situation.

@@balkancherry6690 As someone who uses both Chinese and English media, most Chinese actually don’t care if she has dual citizenships. Like Eileen, Bruce Lee was also born in SF and a Eurasian (3/8 white), no Chinese would see him as a foreigner because Bruce Lee=Chinese Martial Art. To Chinese, even if you are only 1/16 Chinese as long as your heart is Chinese you are Chinese. Just my 2 cents 😀.

IQ1450

Like most Chinese in America, we learn Chinese first and learn English when we start ed preschool usually at 3.

Jessie speaks English very well.

And the award for the stupidest comment in the history of the Internet goes to....