🧧我祝大家新年快乐🧧 🤩The children are so lucky to have the opportunity to learn Mandarin as a second language at such a young age!🤩I hope that we will see more multilingual kindergartens and schools (in Germany they are still very rare). 🤓This could have saved me so much time learning English, Mandarin and French.... By the way, the word kindergarten is derived from German. It means "child garden". (●'◡'●)
That's awesome! thanks for the little German lesson! I love Germany, iv'e been to Munich a few time for Oktoberfest. thanks for watching! we'll check out your channel!
@@GarciaFamily4 I guess she did right thing. She shall not teach kids Chinese slangs at that young age. This particular phrase actually is more like idioms than slangs. But in recent years, there have been so many slangs and idioms been created due to dynamically changes of social behaviors of people and technologies. 🙊
@@GarciaFamily4 I think the teacher made the right call here. “牛” with the connotation of being cool or more accurately badass, comes from the slang phrase “牛逼”, which literally means a cow’s private part (don’t ask me about the etymology). It’s a widely used slang but might be considered by some inappropriate for little kids.
1. for the girls, i am sure the biggest Chinese invention of all time is the red packet👍👍👍👍👍 !!! when I was a kid growing up, getting the red packets was the real excitement of the year !!! 2. now, we all know your family's ages 😊😊😊😊😊. 3, happy Chinese new year, good health, happiness and prosperity. 4. were you able to watch the super bowl there?? tom brady is now the GOAT 👍👍👍👍👍 and a true legend !!! love from canada.
The characters on that red stuffed ox toy "你最牛" doesn't mean the year of the ox. “牛” in Chinese is cow/ox as a noun, but also used as adjective meaning "awesome, cool, fantastic" on people, objects or things. "你" means you, "最" means to the extreme as an adverb, so "你最牛" is you are the most awesome, you are the coolest, or simply you are the best. China has tradition of making zodiac animals into cheering phrases during spring festival, to make cheerful puns. “牛” happen to be one of the easiest characters/animals for that purpose. Good videos. Keep it coming. Happy Chinese new year!
Totally agree. I think that maybe because in their videos I can feel a mixed sense of harmony, love and respect, with pure positivity and curiosity. These are some qualities we really lack of in this somewhat chaotic world. And they make me feel a bit more possitive about humanity, especially when US and China are so hostile to each other. They set an example of how people should treat each other no matter how different we are, I guess. Anyway, wish everyone a happy Chinese new year. Best of luck!
FYI, it is impolite to use your chopsticks to turn over the share dishes. Best to just get what you want quickly at once without turning over the whole dish. It is a very small point, not everyone knew it but definately one of the table manners. HAPPY NEW YEAR! Wish you good time in China.
Thanks for sharing your experience of Chinese New Year in China. It's awesome that you learnt the legend of its origin and enjoyed that too. It shows in the dialogs delivered by your 2 adorable daughters. Over time, you'll be more set in the language and the culture. It really helps that you have a wonderful language coach. It's the personal touch that makes all the difference. Till then. Cheers.
you guys are adorable. Don’t feel bad if you’d like to hangout with people from your own country, you should and it’s normal :) same with Chinese in US
One of the useful things about zodiac is that we can know someone‘s age without asking directly. If you know the zodiac repeats every twelve years and you know roughly how old a person is, you could guess the exact age of this person. For example, knowing David and Evelyn are both Dragon zodiacs, I could guess that David is in his 30s so he was born in the year 1988; Evelyn is more likely to be born in 2012 because she is probably less than 12 years old. Normally Chinese people could tell you from the back of their mind what year it is with zodiacs.
In Chinese culture, ox represents the spirit of hard work and perseverance in the face of difficulties, I think thats what we need right now! Happy 牛 year!
Dear Garcia family, KUNG XI FA CHAI. I, together with my wife also American expats (retired) living on this beautiful Lantau Island, Hong Kong, have been so overwhelmed from your great videos living in CJ and also featuring exciting ventures in China. We frequently visit Guangzhou, Foshan, Macau, and Shenzhen where our son and his family lives. I must applaud your great work and expeditions in China and wish you and your family all the best and good health for the New Year of the OX.
@@GarciaFamily4 We truly enjoyed your HARBIN trip because my wife and I had been planning since last year to go there last month. But because of the virus and temporary restrictions for us foreigners to travel into China, we had to cancel the trip. I would appreciate it if you can tell me which hotel in Harbin is most recommended or BnB. Thanks and best regards.
As an international student here in Canada, I can’t go back to China to celebrate the new year with my family. But ur video comfort me a lot.😌 Really happy to see your life in my hometown. Even it’s late, still happy CNY! Good luck and stay safe! ❤️
Dear GarciaFamily, this is such a good video! The couplet at the entrance, Top one means lucky star always shinning over your family all year around, the left means family are always happy and peaceful together, the right means your career make good progress year by year! It is great to know you start to try different foods now, there are thousand of dishes not just hot pot, the children do not like very hot food. Happy Chinese New Year!
David is just 2 years my senior and is already a airline pilot, happily married and has two beautiful daughters while I’m still single/struggling with residency/living with my parents. 😭
Just start following you guys lately. You have an awesome family. Hope to someday find time to find my root in China. By the way you should be proud. Your Chinese is better than mine. Happy Chinese New Year to the Garcia family from Seattle.
Fireworks are banned in more and more cities in China. One of reason is that many people get hurts and the hospital ER got busy after fireworks waves. Keeping your children away the fireworks waves. Happy Chinese New year. Best wishes for your family. My daughter's boyfriend is a pilot.
I'm a rabbit too! Which means we are at the same age! And dragon is one year younger.😁 My grandma was rabbit too and she was exactly 60 years older than me. And she refused to eat rabbit meat while I loved it very much. Chinese Zodiac is a very interesting culture.
I spend two days watching all your videos from the first vlog in China to this one. Your videos are interesting and I like your family atmosphere! Warm, happy and sweet! BTW, I clearly see that your little daughter is growing up within these two days. She is sososososo cute. Hope your family enjoy the process of learning mandarin! Happy Chinese New Year!~~
Happy to see you guys enjoyed it. Normally local people want to make you feel at home especially at this special time of the year. Happy New Year. 恭喜发财🎉
红包 Hong Bao is form of Blessings. Normally the Senior or Bosses offering to Junior and less unfortunate as Blessings. Who receive the hongbao is being blessed.
Your daughters are growing up, to be young and beautiful 😊😊👍👍👍 I noticed they are trying to use the chopsticks, but they can use the soup spoon (on the bowl) as an aid to help them eat. Your eldest daughter was carrying her own phone and camera, maybe have a future plan to showcase some of her eye-level talent videoshoot?
You did well two girls. Not many Chinese natives know the story of “Nian”. oh BTW, the characters on the Ox toy, is actually saying “ YOU ARE THE AWESOMEST” which literally involves Niu(Ox in Chinese also means awesome, best, great).
Ox is really referred to the water buffalo and not the cattle. The banners as you said which were pasted on the front door entrance are called couplets.
Happy new year of OX to Garcia family. FYI, the birth rate goes up every year of Dragon coz Chinese reckon Dragon is the leader. And lucky you've got two dragons in your family
🧧我祝大家新年快乐🧧
🤩The children are so lucky to have the opportunity to learn Mandarin as a second language at such a young age!🤩I hope that we will see more multilingual kindergartens and schools (in Germany they are still very rare). 🤓This could have saved me so much time learning English, Mandarin and French....
By the way, the word kindergarten is derived from German. It means "child garden". (●'◡'●)
That's awesome! thanks for the little German lesson! I love Germany, iv'e been to Munich a few time for Oktoberfest. thanks for watching! we'll check out your channel!
Yep, Chinese New Year is mainly about family seeing each other.
We love that! So awesome
In the end, “你最牛” dose not mean “this is ox year”. It is Chinese slang means “you are the best, and coolest” 😎
Hahaha, thanks! I’ll fire her Chinese teacher 😂😂
@@GarciaFamily4 😂 lol
@@GarciaFamily4 I guess she did right thing. She shall not teach kids Chinese slangs at that young age. This particular phrase actually is more like idioms than slangs. But in recent years, there have been so many slangs and idioms been created due to dynamically changes of social behaviors of people and technologies. 🙊
@@GarciaFamily4 "你"＝you "最"＝best "牛"＝ox， "牛" also has a powerful meaning in spoken language，so "你最牛" ＝ You are the best
@@GarciaFamily4 I think the teacher made the right call here. “牛” with the connotation of being cool or more accurately badass, comes from the slang phrase “牛逼”, which literally means a cow’s private part (don’t ask me about the etymology). It’s a widely used slang but might be considered by some inappropriate for little kids.
1. for the girls, i am sure the biggest Chinese invention of all time is the red packet👍👍👍👍👍 !!! when I was a kid growing up, getting the red packets was the real excitement of the year !!!
2. now, we all know your family's ages 😊😊😊😊😊.
3, happy Chinese new year, good health, happiness and prosperity.
4. were you able to watch the super bowl there?? tom brady is now the GOAT 👍👍👍👍👍 and a true legend !!! love from canada.
Hahaha, yeah we did a little reveal there ;)
Your daughters know the perfect meaning of nian.
Thank you so much!
I though "夕" is the bad guy, that's why we call the night "除夕"（meaning: get rid of 夕）
@@user-of7uo5og4o 夕 is just 年(or 年兽)
@@GarciaFamily4 what is account name for your video on ixigua.com?
The characters on that red stuffed ox toy "你最牛" doesn't mean the year of the ox. “牛” in Chinese is cow/ox as a noun, but also used as adjective meaning "awesome, cool, fantastic" on people, objects or things. "你" means you, "最" means to the extreme as an adverb, so "你最牛" is you are the most awesome, you are the coolest, or simply you are the best. China has tradition of making zodiac animals into cheering phrases during spring festival, to make cheerful puns. “牛” happen to be one of the easiest characters/animals for that purpose. Good videos. Keep it coming. Happy Chinese new year!
Thank you we appreciate it very much
牛 这番解释很到位
i dont know why but just feel so addicted to ur videos guess it is because of the family atmosphere u showed in those videos
That is so very kind of you to say, we really appreciate that and we are grateful you feel the love from our family to yours!
@@GarciaFamily4 stay awesome precious family^_^
Totally agree. I think that maybe because in their videos I can feel a mixed sense of harmony, love and respect, with pure positivity and curiosity. These are some qualities we really lack of in this somewhat chaotic world. And they make me feel a bit more possitive about humanity, especially when US and China are so hostile to each other. They set an example of how people should treat each other no matter how different we are, I guess.
Anyway, wish everyone a happy Chinese new year. Best of luck!
Happy chinese new year to everyone!
Lovely family, so glad you learned some Chinese culture and trying to blend in.
Thank you! 😃
God bless your beautiful family 😍
God bless you and yours!!!
Love your family so much, happy Chinese New Year
Thank you so very much! Happy New Year to you!!!
Happy Chinese New Year!
Dear Garcias famy, may your wishes come true in 2021. I enjoy your every video a lot!
You are so kind, thank you
Watching you guys always makes me happy. Lovely family...lovely people.....lovely China....love to you all!
You are so kind, thank you!
Great family! Glad to see you are all immersed yourself in Chinese culture and enjoy it. Wow, Evelyn is good at using chopsticks. Happy New Year!
Thank you, that is so kind of you. We have really enjoyed learning. Happy New Year to you and your family.
Chinese culture is part of the world cultures. Anyway wish all of you ❤️ Happy New Year 2021.
Happy New Year to you and yours!
@@GarciaFamily4 I am a chinese ethnic from Malaysia. You really understand China more than me.
Wishing the Garcias a Happy and Healthy Bull-ish New Year!
OX B!
OX b
Thank you
Happy Chinese New Year 🧧 to you all as well ☺️
🎉 Thank you :)
Happy chinese new year gong xi fa cai❤❤❤
Thank you :)
Happy Chinese New Year. thanks for another great video! Really glad to hear you started to taking Chinese lessons. I’m sure you’ll master it soon!!
Well, all we can do is try, but we are happy to have a wonderful teacher. Thanks so much!!!
Happy Chinese New Year! Wish you and your lovely family a healthy and happy year of the 🐂
Thank you very much, we wish the same to you and yours
Happy Chinese New Year and wish your family all the best ,living well in China
happy chinese new year!
Thank you, Happy Chinese New Year to you!!!
Happy New Year, your daughter know how to use the chopsticks👏👏👏
Hahaha, yeah she does pretty well. Thanks for watching and Happy New Year!
Chinese calender is year 4718 if someone like to know.
thanks! that's cool
Hey happy new year! May you and the whole of your lovely family have the best luck in 2021! Love ❤️❤️❤️
That is so very kind of you, thank you. We wish the same to you and yours!
HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!! Best wishes for the year of OX!!!!!!
happy Chinese new year to your family!
Thank you, and Happy New Chinese New Year to you!
The opening footage was awesome. Xin Nian Kuai Le! Happy New Year!
Thanks! You too!
Yes very beautiful where did you find it or was it taken from your drone. Happy New Years
@@Reporterfy a friend found it on wechat. I can email it to you if you want it. Happy New Year!
@@GarciaFamily4 sure my email is on my CZcams page. Much appreciated
@@Reporterfy no worries!
HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR🎉🎉🎉
Thank you, very much. Wish you all the best
FYI, it is impolite to use your chopsticks to turn over the share dishes. Best to just get what you want quickly at once without turning over the whole dish. It is a very small point, not everyone knew it but definately one of the table manners. HAPPY NEW YEAR! Wish you good time in China.
ahh, thanks!! good to know! Happy New Year and thanks for watching!
Happy Chinese new Year guys🌹🎁❤️🙏🕊
Wish you and your family a happy, prosperous an healthy Chinese New Year.
Thank you! We wish the same to you!
Very nice and warm family with open hearts.
You are so kind
Thanks for sharing your experience of Chinese New Year in China. It's awesome that you learnt the legend of its origin and enjoyed that too. It shows in the dialogs delivered by your 2 adorable daughters. Over time, you'll be more set in the language and the culture. It really helps that you have a wonderful language coach. It's the personal touch that makes all the difference. Till then. Cheers.
Thank you so much, and you are so right, our tutor is amazing to teach us and we are very grateful for her! Thanks again for your comment
Happy CNY
Thanks!
namo, tiang kong, menciptakan langit dan bumi, semoga happy new year chenes, selalu memberi hidup selalu bahagia
🙏🙏🙏🌹🌹🌹
Happy Chinese new Year!
新年快乐！哈哈哈哈哈🌸🌸🌸
you guys are adorable. Don’t feel bad if you’d like to hangout with people from your own country, you should and it’s normal :) same with Chinese in US
One of the useful things about zodiac is that we can know someone‘s age without asking directly. If you know the zodiac repeats every twelve years and you know roughly how old a person is, you could guess the exact age of this person. For example, knowing David and Evelyn are both Dragon zodiacs, I could guess that David is in his 30s so he was born in the year 1988; Evelyn is more likely to be born in 2012 because she is probably less than 12 years old. Normally Chinese people could tell you from the back of their mind what year it is with zodiacs.
In Chinese culture, ox represents the spirit of hard work and perseverance in the face of difficulties, I think thats what we need right now!
Happy 牛 year!
So beautiful! Thank you for sharing this! Happy New Year to you and yours
Dear Garcia family, KUNG XI FA CHAI. I, together with my wife also American expats (retired) living on this beautiful Lantau Island, Hong Kong, have been so overwhelmed from your great videos living in CJ and also featuring exciting ventures in China. We frequently visit Guangzhou, Foshan, Macau, and Shenzhen where our son and his family lives. I must applaud your great work and expeditions in China and wish you and your family all the best and good health for the New Year of the OX.
So very kind! We thank you and wish you a great year too.
@@GarciaFamily4 We truly enjoyed your HARBIN trip because my wife and I had been planning since last year to go there last month. But because of the virus and temporary restrictions for us foreigners to travel into China, we had to cancel the trip. I would appreciate it if you can tell me which hotel in Harbin is most recommended or BnB. Thanks and best regards.
As an international student here in Canada, I can’t go back to China to celebrate the new year with my family. But ur video comfort me a lot.😌 Really happy to see your life in my hometown. Even it’s late, still happy CNY! Good luck and stay safe! ❤️
Thanks for watching and happy late CNY! we understand, we miss our family back in the US as well. I hope travel opens up soon!
the toy : "你最牛" = you are the best
Thank you! Appreciate that!!!
hahahaha, your family is so sweet! happy new year!
Thank you, that's very kind of you.
Dear GarciaFamily, this is such a good video! The couplet at the entrance, Top one means lucky star always shinning over your family all year around, the left means family are always happy and peaceful together, the right means your career make good progress year by year!
It is great to know you start to try different foods now, there are thousand of dishes not just hot pot, the children do not like very hot food. Happy Chinese New Year!
Thank you so much!!
Happy Chinese New Year! 牛年大吉！
Happy Chinese New year
Happy New year!!
Happy Chinese New Year Garcia Family and friends around the world
I like david too，as a brother...he is honest and very reliable man.
Very true! He is - Stephanie
Happy new year we all learn new language word by word just keep doing it and you will learn
Thank you for the encouragement, we definitely need it:) Really appreciate your kind words!
@@GarciaFamily4 no problem I really like the way you make your vlogs so thank you for that
Good bgm,cute little girls and nice family.
Thank you
David is just 2 years my senior and is already a airline pilot, happily married and has two beautiful daughters while I’m still single/struggling with residency/living with my parents. 😭
Happy Chinese lunar New year!
Happy New Year!
Happy Chinese New Year 🎉
Happy Chinese New Year and Valentines day Garcias～
happy Chinese New Year! your girls are so sweet!
Happy new year!!
Happy Chinese New Year! Wish you and your family have an Ox-some Year!
Happy new year!
Happy Chinese New Year! Look forward to seeing more videos are being posted. I’m just 500 meters away from where you lived. Missed my home so much.
Can't wait to post more, and so glad you enjoy. Thanks for watching!!!
happy new year from HK👏
Same to you!
Wow the light show at the beginning!! It's like it's from the future!
HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR
Happy New Year!
Just start following you guys lately. You have an awesome family. Hope to someday find time to find my root in China. By the way you should be proud. Your Chinese is better than mine. Happy Chinese New Year to the Garcia family from Seattle.
thanks for watching!!Happy New Year!
Happy Chinese New Year❤️❤️❤️May all your wishes come true❤️❤️❤️
Happy new year!!
Happy Chinese New Year~
新年快乐！to Garcia family. 加油！
Fireworks are banned in more and more cities in China. One of reason is that many people get hurts and the hospital ER got busy after fireworks waves.
Keeping your children away the fireworks waves.
Happy Chinese New year.
Best wishes for your family.
My daughter's boyfriend is a pilot.
Nice n happy family with full of adventure .. that's how we live life
Love your family
Thanks so much, you are so kind and we appreciate you watching
I'm a rabbit too! Which means we are at the same age! And dragon is one year younger.😁 My grandma was rabbit too and she was exactly 60 years older than me. And she refused to eat rabbit meat while I loved it very much. Chinese Zodiac is a very interesting culture.
Oh, awesome! yes, one year younger...I am the oldest in my family:)
Evelyn so cute, i hope my daughter will be too.
Thank you very much, and I am sure she will be!
I spend two days watching all your videos from the first vlog in China to this one. Your videos are interesting and I like your family atmosphere! Warm, happy and sweet! BTW, I clearly see that your little daughter is growing up within these two days. She is sososososo cute. Hope your family enjoy the process of learning mandarin! Happy Chinese New Year!~~
wow thanks so much for watching!! yeah they have grown up so quickly!! happy new year!
Happy New Year!
🎉
HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR❤
And to you too!!!
Happy to see you guys enjoyed it. Normally local people want to make you feel at home especially at this special time of the year. Happy New Year. 恭喜发财🎉
So true!
I am really happy to see that you have great experience of the new year this year.
Wish you guys a very happy Chinese new Year and good luck in the year of Ox!
Happy New Year!
lovely daughters
You are so kind
wish garacia family all the best in year of the OX
Gosh, that is just so kind, thank you and we wish you and your family the best too!
哈哈哈，重庆话新年快落
Your pronunciation is really good!!! Happy Chinese New Year!!!
Happy new year!!
hahaha glad to see you enjoyed the new year celebration!
Thank you!
Your daughters are so pretty.
Thank you so much!
红包 Hong Bao is form of Blessings.
Normally the Senior or Bosses offering to Junior and less unfortunate as Blessings.
Who receive the hongbao is being blessed.
Happy new year, Garcias! 祝加西亚一家人新年快乐！
Happy New Year!
Your daughters are growing up, to be young and beautiful 😊😊👍👍👍 I noticed they are trying to use the chopsticks, but they can use the soup spoon (on the bowl) as an aid to help them eat. Your eldest daughter was carrying her own phone and camera, maybe have a future plan to showcase some of her eye-level talent videoshoot?
thanks for watching! haha yeah she likes to make videos as well! she actually does a good job editing!
Gong Hey Fat Choy! Happy Chinese New Year! Lovely family and adorable daughters!
Hahaha... Handsome... That was funny...
He thought so too hahahah:) Thanks for watching!!!
新春快乐、事业蒸蒸日上、身体健康，万事如意心想事成。
Happy Chinese New Year to your lovely family🎉
Thank you so much 😊
welcome to china！ like you！
thanks for watching!
❤️
I hope you have a good time in China
thanks!
You did well two girls. Not many Chinese natives know the story of “Nian”. oh BTW, the characters on the Ox toy, is actually saying “ YOU ARE THE AWESOMEST” which literally involves Niu(Ox in Chinese also means awesome, best, great).
Oh! Thank you so much, we appreciate it!!!
Your family is so sweet!!
You are so kind, thank you:)
Ox is really referred to the water buffalo and not the cattle. The banners as you said which were pasted on the front door entrance are called couplets.
Thank you! Noted. Appreciate it.
祝你们阖家新春吉祥，平安喜乐！
Happy new year of OX to Garcia family. FYI, the birth rate goes up every year of Dragon coz Chinese reckon Dragon is the leader. And lucky you've got two dragons in your family
Fun fact: In south-east Asia regions (Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore), we normally use the word 'steamboat' instead of hotpot.
thats interesting, thanks!
Happy 🐮 Year 🎉❤️