Love, Money or Health: Which One Do Chinese Choose? - Intermediate Chinese | Chinese Conversation
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- With China's growing economy and the emergence of a large middle class, there is often talk that Chinese are becoming very materialistic. With this thought in mind, Eileen went to the streets to ask people what they value the most: love, money or health? Their answers might surprise you!
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that one dude who said health is a 1 and everything else is a 0, that was such a mind-blowing way of describing it! so fascinating!
I am very impressed with the intelligence of those she interviewed! Once again, Mandarin Corner gives a fascinating Chinese Lesson! Working to achieve self-worth! Plusses and Negatives
I like it too. Really wisdom
That's what my grandpa tells me growing up. I think it might be a common saying in China
yeah he was wise af - that's that wisdom from age
i really like his simple explanation.
This is the most underrated channel ever..
Really, really and truly helpful. These kind of videos are the best type for learning a language the proper way. Thank you so much. Never stop making videos!
Fascinating interviews! It's interesting that nobody chose love, as I believe most people in Western countries value it more and so more people would chose it.
too true!
Yea! I think love is portrayed like this perfect ideal fantasy in the west, whereas in China it’s not as much. Tho, I’m just speaking from personal experiences living in both sides.
@1x0x health and wealth both come from love
Yeah I reckon love (especially romantic) would come at #1 for westerners in general. Doesn’t make sense though as health and money should be more important.
The love we are exposed to on media is a western invention, the Chinese tend to be more practical
@@montexic5201yeah you can thank Hollywood, Disney, etc for the unrealistic portrayals of love
I'd love an interview about "Would you rather be attractive, smart or rich".
I think smart will lead the others
Being smart can be attractive or cause you to work on being attractive and can help you get rich
Being attractive might help with money but you’d have to study hard and plenty of people can’t do that sadly
Rich, they can be unattractive and not smart, this could lead to financial ruin
我會選擇聰明，雖然聽說過世界的最聰明的人不太開心。
is it possible a stupid become rich?
being not pretty doesn't mean *CAN NOT* be attractive, if you understand enough about personality !
being rich, you can have education that makes you become smart, and you can educate yourself about personality then you become attractive !
Rich. I am already attractive and smart
I like be happy and rich hahahahaha
I keep finding myself watching your videos, and I'm not even learning mandarin. I will recommend your channel to all my friends who are studying Chinese. Great content, I wish there was something like that in my target language
You're doing a great job. One of the best channels for mandarin learners
Lady in the glasses laying down some serious wisdom at 11:30
So much wisdom in those interviews.
right?
Yes, she speak with wisdom , understood the ultimate meaning of life at such a young age.
That guy at 6:28 was a proper sage, he really has a great way of putting things.
I like this kind of interviews, your channel is amazing, keep it up
you got all my support 👍
Thankyou for the video! I love how Eileen go into the details when interviewing each person. 我觉得在视频中的第一个女人回答很有意思的，我非常同意她说的话。
there's definitely not a civil war in norway! Hahaha
She looks like shes 15yo or so, give her a break lol
maybe is because Normandy's Landing? Normandy ...Norway same same but different
There is, we have also prophecies about what will come next from Blessed Virgin Mary that appeared in France at La Salette and prophesied that Paris will be burnt. She announced this in 1846 before to appear to Lourdes, which is by the way the 2nd most visited city in France just after Paris, and France being the most visited country in the world. (In Lourdes, she healed 7 000 peoples, but only 70 were officially recognized and it was by scientists and not the Catholic church).
We have also the prophecies of italian mystic Elena Aïello, as well as French mystic Marie-Julie Jahenny, german Anna-Katherine Emmerich and so on.
I learnt recently that Norway and Sweden were the same country in the past and given what's going on, it's terrible. The main media are not reporting what is happening, they put all the crimes in the local ones like in France, in Italy, in Spain and so on. Peoples in France read "fdesouche.com" that look for all the important news that are not making the headlines and that proves there is a civil war raging. There are plenty of suburbs where you're no more in security in Europe. In the past, North Africans used to put Europeans in slavery for 3 centuries until the French king stopped them by launching the colonisation and the creation of the country Algeria, but the globalists lost all their cheap labor with whom they set up their banks through the trade of tobacco, cotton, sugar and then they set up the whole communist idea in order to expand it to the whole world and financing the Russian revolution. You can look for the following interview of Ivy League's teacher Anthony C. Sutton, here, on CZcams : "how Wall Street financed the Bolshevik revolution" if you want to understand what's coming very soon... Blessed Virgin Mary predicted in 1917 while there was the Russian revolution and we didn't understand but one hundred years later with internet we can no more be caught off guard...
The death of the King of Sweden was decided years ago at the same time than the death of our King of France by the way.
Norway has oil and must help the other European nations against our common foes as we don't have energy unlikely to them.
I love your walk around and interview videos Eileen. They are not superficial at all, and people have a lot of wonderful responses to your questions.
I've been a MC supporter for 3 years, but I always find different videos with informative points of view and great language exposure. The different regional accents are fantastic. Keep up the high quality work Eileen and team!
Health is always #1. When you lose your health, you'll find out how much pain is in your body. Once that happens, nothing else matters other than the pain. When enough damage is done, it will be permanent.
Good health allows you to do things in life easier!
OMG! What a great job! I like how you are completely at ease with the interviewees! Big thumb up 👍🏻
Also I just learnt the term 闺蜜 thanks to this video, there's always some nice colloquial stuff in there! A million thanks!
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Struggling at 70% speed here.
The interviewer is too fast, and the interviewees lack clarity.
Just discovered this channel and I feel so sad I didn't do it earlier. Fantastic content, perfect for learning Mandarin, keep it up!
I love this channel. This is helping me speak a bit with my future father in law 😍
So so good! Also I'm a translator and I love that the nail salon girls think translators are awesome and sophisticated! :D
How did you get into translating?
Just work!
Thank you Eileen once again for this great effort. It let us know a lot more about chinese culture and how to get along better with you
很欣赏你一直在问更详细更深的疑问，这样的采访最好的
It's my first week of learning Chinese. Great channel and content! Thank you!
Thank you so much for the incredible content, you ask such great questions!🙂
i burst out laughing when the nail salon girls said they will still do nails after becoming rich!
That is how a poor person thinks.
Maybe she likes her job? Though she’d probably be better off as stylist or nail expert
Money buys things as long as it's accepted by the society that the rich man lives in.
It's ungrateful to disconnect from the roots that made you rich - it proves that the environment that invested in you deserves to be left.
You make learning fun! This is the best interview, I laughed! I never enjoyed learning Mandarin until I found your channel!
Where can I find this confident young lady? I will support her hanfu business in all European countries including America.
She lacks some basic knowledge but I appreciate her attitude. I personally don't like seeing China to be westernised so extensively. All this generic stuff looks so trivial.
@@BIngeilski Right. I was in Shanghai recently and it was a bit disappointing to see some girls trying to act more Western-like
This was great, thanks for putting this out there
One of the best channels for mandarin learners，come from China，speaking English，add English subtitle
I loved it!! Thank you very much for sharing such interesting content. My Chinese has improved a lot since I found your channel.
Thank you so much Eileen! You always make the videos for very relevant topics, that's why it's always fascinating to learn Chinese with you, the best Chinese content ever! =)
One of the things that is really great about this kind of video is the diversity of mandarin varieties. I can see various different variations of mandarin chinese and identify what sort of phonetic changes there are. For example, I realized that not only the taiwanese but some other peoples pronounce the sh/zh/ch as s/z/c.
The lady in large shades at the 12 minute mark blew me away with her down to earth approach towards life and how we should view it and should want out it. Very nicely explained 👌
I was surprised by how sensible the words of the kid were.
Yes ,she's very wise at such young age.
I think its common for kids there to be taught that way. Or in any place, really. When I was little, my parents often told me that health is always more important than money. They would ask, without health, what can you do? Money can't buy health. If we are healthy first, then we can go do other things. very wise words, indeed.
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Your style of teaching mandarin is unique. Blessings to you..
I am so appreciative of your content!! I will support, thank you!! Everything you include in your videos is so helpful from the accent tags to the pinyin to the hanzi. Xie xie ni.
thank you so much for the awesome content, as many others have mentioned I think you have the best chinese learning material on the web right now, and I've tried a lot! Thanks!
21:19 😍 The best !! You’re right, you should value and appreciate your own culture and pass it on to the next generations 加油💪🏾
This video has so much to offer grammatically, culturally and just... let’s say 🤔 spiritually. Thanks as always and keep up the awesomeness. P.S I would and do choose health. For many of the same reasons that has been stated in the video. without health you can’t appreciate anything else. Life is greatly about the experience and without health, Mental and physical health, those experiences would be hard to enjoy. Suffering (which is mental) can ruin the best of opportunities.
In my way of life (and experiences)- having harmony with life (systemically)/ life’s way or let’s use the Dao is that joy and happiness, life’s abundance’s come naturally. You won’t really have to want.
This may be very “law of attraction” based to many but I just have realized life to be this way. All the other things can come and go without your say (money, love) they all rely on other people, and people are not stable, but your wellness and connection with life’s harmonious intent is 100% in your control. More than anything else. ✌️😇✌️💚
skilled interviewer! It's actually quite rare to get opinions of regular people on the street in China subtitled into English.
Very good initiative and interesting for people outside of China to hear.
Best Chinese learning content on the internet! If only there were traditional characters, it would be perfect! ;)
This is a great interview. And I was particularly touched by the interview with the two nail salon girls
Great interview!!! Thumbs up! Thank you so much
To begin with, I really wanna say how much I appreciate you all doing this interview style discussion.
I did learn a bit about what the younger generation seems to want. unfortunately, most will never realize their dream situation because of the fact that they might lack understanding in what keeps a very populated area afloat, and perhaps just how much hard work will go into each ones future.
that being said, I dont know alot about the infrastructure in China, perhaps with the exception that millions of things come from China and are sent to here[America/USA], and around the world. this is good of course for the economy in China.
but, what I know about more, life in general[as i am passed my mid 50's] is that life as a general rule never goes easy, and jobs are not so secure [ as there is always someone ready to take your spot if and when you fail to perform to their expectations.
Also, the world as a whole plays a big part in all our future [ie. wars of all kinds can become major obstacles to , like oil embargos, trade deals gone bad, and who is not aware of the changes a viral threat can bring, just to mention a few from recent history]
And then there is also bible prophecies we must take into consideration.
for me, I love people from all countries, i look forward to the days when we live in a world not ruled by greed and selfishness.
It's true, I live in the poverty level somewhere, but unlike many of my counterparts, i am content to have the basics of life, and rely on our Creator to help me keep a positive attitude- and at the same time, spend my time being helpful towards others.
Please, if you can, discuss the same material with some of the older generation. I would truely like to know how they are getting along. who knows, it may well have a balancing affect on some of the younger generation
I'm Korean who is learning Chinese. Your videos are fantastic and so useful. Xiexie hen duo ^^
My favourite! Love that wise lady talking about pain and joy❤️😀, Wo tongyi🤙
Love this channel. I lived in Shanghai for 10 years. Amazing life.
Great channel to get familiar with conversational mandarin! Love the answers of the first girl. Subscribed.
123 it should be wealth not health and 111 it is Yinwei. Your channel is outstanding. Far and away the best material I have seen in the many years I have been studying. Adding Pinyin is great for those who focus only on oral language. I recommend to the school I intend in the Mainland when I am there they buy you out and use your content.
Health is always #1. Once you have health, you can make money. Once you make money, you can afford an expensive Chinese girlfriend. Because all these girls want more money, house and cars. Love has a price tag 😂
Too much cash plus no love means your cash will be gone soon. And so will your well-being, both physical and mental.
这个话题非常有意思的！ 谢谢 EILEEN！
Eileen, 谢谢你的视频！♥️
All Europeans carry firearm.
Norway has a civil war.
Today I learned. 😂
hahahah it was funny!
that girl was awesome! :)
Also she said America is in Europe lol
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I was half listening and this caught my attention, I thought I misheard it at first... Poor girl.
Yeah wow this is nice and different a friend mentioned this to me . Finally an intellectual ; positive and funny way to learn mandarin .
我非常喜欢这个immersion ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ 真的厉害👍🏽
12:15 : that woman is definitely a wise person ! that's beautiful to see.
Thanks for your videos.
you have great content for mandarin learners, really!
That was so interesting, thank you so much♥️
Very interesting interviews. I'm from the US. With my personal bias of Chinese people, I thought most would say 'Money'. This changed my perception a bit. I know it's a tiny segment of people, but very interesting nonetheless. I was also surprised at the openness of their viewpoints re divorce, materialism etc. I hope to visit China soon. - WW
Haha, that intro gets me every time, just perfect 😂 But for real, continue with these Videos, super helpfull😍.
I feel at my age, almost 40 working shift work, if I had enough money to reduce work I would have the freedom to focus more on my health. More time to cook healthy meals, I could afford a personal trainer, maybe even a personal cook if I was very rich. As for love, Im lucky to have my wonderful wife by my side but that brings us back to health, I would prefer my wife and I grow old together living a simple life than having all the money in the world but nothing that can save us from bad health. I guess it always comes back to health... and its something I really need to focus on more.
Not just great learning content, but a genuinely entertaining/fascinating episode, from the low-key wisdom of the women with the black t-shirt and funky sunglasses to the news stories about civil wars inNorway(!). I'll need to keep my eyes out for guerillas next time in hiking in the hills of Bergen.....
Thank you so much.
I love your channel.
Keep up the good work!! You are amazing
It is really a helpful video. Thank you a lot
I'm not trying to learn Mandarin but I think that I have watched most of your videos ( some twice), all at 75% speed because I can't read the subtitles and look at everything going on in the video. It is interesting to hear what Chinese people have to say about everyday topics.
Health is the Most Important thing. Without that, - you really have nothing. Enjoyed this Interesting topic from NYC.
Make more videos like this please!
Love your video 😍❣️
keep going , I appreciate your work. 加油
我个人觉得你这个Up主是在youtube 上教中文最好的老师
The question is a bit like "Would you rather eat, drink or breath? You can choose only one" ;-)
Thank you Eileen
Very interesting, thanks.
Thanks for maming those video. Very interesting and informative. Can you please also make video about positive affirmation in Chinese? So that we are the learner can listen everyday. Many thanks
Thumbs up! 👍🏾 谢谢老师！ 😀
I like the struggle I go through learning Chinese language.
It shows the full complexity and intellect of our great Father God when He created all in China; the brightness of the human race. It’s so beautiful even my mere words fail to enlighten the masses of our brothers and sisters in China.
Thank you for the time and the schooling that comes from each lesson being learned.
Haha. Good one!
Eileen, 谢谢你一个非常好视频。我听和懂汉语越来越好。男人在32：22说错误的，如果他喜欢看百万富翁他应该去摩纳哥，不去摩洛哥。
Thanks for another great video Eileen, just a question how did you go with fixing the website?
I saw a couple of posts about it and am glad to see the website is back online now.
非常感谢老师
i like this channel :) btw for me it's health, money and girls.. have a wonderful day guys
Hello, I love this channel
항상 잘보고 있어요~
谢谢你，我越看越感兴趣
Very clear subtitles, natural conversation, and useful words 👍👍👍
谢谢！
1:30 I like this woman. She's seems a nice, intelligent and humane person.
Excelente aprendí muchas nuevas palabras.
”小孩子才做选择题，我才不会做，我全部都要“ 我喜欢这位男人的答案
Just found your channel. Thank you for making this content available. I visited your website and donated so I can access the audio files and listen to them when I go to the gym. 我同意大多数的中文学习资料用太多英文。它们的内容没有用。感谢你们。
Hi Noah, we just upgraded your membership. Thank you so much for your support!
@@MandarinCorner2 Thank you!
Interesting video
That girl in Han costume is the cutest ever. It doesn't matter she doesn't know about the world map :) Such a strong personality
Eileen, you are an internet celebrity!🥰
The little girl is so cool and so smart! Great kid!
I help you girls Okay : Money not last for ever, still must work clever ore smart. Number 2 : if you have lots money still work some little business ore hobby work stay active. Nu 3 : must be some connections between love and care is first and some sport hobbies stay in good attractive shape. So first Family second Money. Good luck. Cheers from Sydney Australia. Be good as you looking good hehehehe
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Hey what i really want is all of these LOVE , MONEY and HEALTH
ALL OF THESE AT THE SAME TIME
NO EXCEPTION