7 Super Common Chinese Idioms (成语Chengyu) you can use INSTANTLY in everyday life and sound smarter

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    1:40 - 迫不及待 - I can’t wait
    2:44 - 受宠若惊 - I'm flattered
    4:28 - 求同存异 - agree to disagree
    6:16 - 见缝插针 - make use of every bit of time
    7:51 - 欲言又止 - want to say something, but stop (You need to see this in the video!)
    9:09 - 事半功倍/事倍功半 - make twice the result with half the effort/make half the result with twice the effort
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Komentáře • 119

  • @wizzerd75
    @wizzerd75 Před 2 lety +8

    Most practical and most useful lesson on 成语😄。More of these lessons please. 太棒, 真的迫不及待了。

  • @kail9777
    @kail9777 Před 2 lety +10

    Organized so well in terms of how learners think. I find the hand gestures useful too when you described "talking" at the beginning and towards the end of your video when describing other videos.

  • @Kumorixd
    @Kumorixd Před 2 lety +3

    Your channel is amazingly helpful! Keep up the great work!!

  • @michaeldr5120
    @michaeldr5120 Před 2 lety

    More of these please!!!! Thanks!! Seasons greetings 👍

  • @khaledqutub5849
    @khaledqutub5849 Před 2 lety

    Very nice lesson
    Thank you

  • @ledysofi3218
    @ledysofi3218 Před 2 lety

    Thank you for this useful video! Go ahead!

  • @chinobigas
    @chinobigas Před 2 lety +1

    I love 成语 too! Plese, make more videos! 谢谢

  • @a-sam8151
    @a-sam8151 Před 2 lety

    说老师 这很有意思哦!谢谢

  • @LinhNguyen-jl6fw
    @LinhNguyen-jl6fw Před 2 lety

    yess i love chengyu so pls upload more videos on this topic !!

  • @khenglchang6101
    @khenglchang6101 Před 2 lety

    Great video.

  • @skane3109
    @skane3109 Před 9 měsíci

    迫不及待地想看你的下一个视频!❤

  • @myginny73
    @myginny73 Před 2 lety

    So helpful!

  • @laurenskuhlmann2933
    @laurenskuhlmann2933 Před 2 lety

    太喜欢你这个视频!这些成语都还没听说过、很实用!我一直非常地想学更多不同的成语,只是不知道从哪学。如果有本成语书就好了… 无论如何,请你多拍关于成语的视频、非常感谢!

  • @Jfowl-nw5bk
    @Jfowl-nw5bk Před 2 lety

    More 成语 videos please! Thank you 🙏

  • @GiangNguyen-mc6rx
    @GiangNguyen-mc6rx Před 2 lety

    More of these please!!!!

  • @PeterWisner
    @PeterWisner Před 2 lety

    很喜欢成语视频哦!

  • @pbishi517
    @pbishi517 Před 2 lety

    I love to learn Chinese language is very interesting for me from Mexico.nice class to know some words.

  • @Goodmorningroosterlive

    我愛上了成語。 Please make lots of cheng yu videos, I'm hooked!

    • @tristanpoo6057
      @tristanpoo6057 Před 2 lety

      茕茕孑立 沆瀣一气
      踽踽独行 醍醐灌顶
      绵绵瓜瓞 奉为圭臬
      龙行龖龖 犄角旮旯
      娉婷袅娜 涕泗滂沱
      呶呶不休 不稂不莠
      🤣🤣🤣
      《生僻字》, a really really really funny song

  • @MARamos-mq7xk
    @MARamos-mq7xk Před 2 lety +8

    嗨,您制作了一个很棒的有用言语的课程视频。 您是个很有想象力的语言老师。Kudos! / 荣誉!我很高兴学习您的课程。对成语的话题, 您能不能制作另一个关于生活盛衰的语言的视频, 那就会非常好。 非常感谢。(Manny from Brooklyn NY)

    • @HuaWen
      @HuaWen Před 2 lety

      不错的想法

  • @olgaoqc
    @olgaoqc Před 2 lety

    对, 多成语好方便,感激不尽

  • @altang884884
    @altang884884 Před rokem

    Love these practical 成语 videos. So often you are taught really philosophical ones that are fun, but not useful for daily life.

    • @ShuoshuoChinese
      @ShuoshuoChinese  Před rokem

      Of course they are used commonly in daily life! They just sound formal

  • @user-ci8vw1ds7m
    @user-ci8vw1ds7m Před 2 lety

    ชอบมาก ขอบคุณ

  • @jimmylinando5097
    @jimmylinando5097 Před 2 lety +2

    Yes, learning 成语 is very interesting

  • @jordanparkour3084
    @jordanparkour3084 Před 2 lety

    More super commonly used chengyu please!

  • @salomemakangadza9176
    @salomemakangadza9176 Před 2 lety

    💪💪💪❤️❤️❤️exactly what l need right now

  • @DenKhoo
    @DenKhoo Před 2 lety +11

    见缝插针 can also be translated into English as "to seize every opportunity".

  • @chrystels.1
    @chrystels.1 Před 2 lety +2

    我只知道“迫不及待”。所以我学到了很多新的成语。谢谢分享。

  • @sanch023
    @sanch023 Před 2 lety

    Great video, xie xie

  • @emiliosotoestevez1446
    @emiliosotoestevez1446 Před 2 lety

    Please, make as many 成語videos as you possibly can🙏🏻

  • @kabondemakasanjobvu5031

    More more more vides of 成语!

  • @danokk95
    @danokk95 Před 2 lety

    我这样说的话,会听起来自然的吗?
    1)我迫不及待地想去海滩。
    2)他们挑选了我参加比赛,我受宠若惊。
    我觉得你解释成语的方法太棒了!解析每个汉字的意义很有助记住新词汇。而且,视频很愉快 :))
    祝好! 子博,斯洛伐克

    • @ShuoshuoChinese
      @ShuoshuoChinese  Před 2 lety

      你的句子很棒!

    • @danokk95
      @danokk95 Před 2 lety

      @@ShuoshuoChinese 谢谢你! :) 我的中文最近退步了,看你的视频真帮我恢复我的能力

  • @SenopatiCenter
    @SenopatiCenter Před 2 lety

    I love idiom

  • @aleksk9643
    @aleksk9643 Před 2 lety

    Since you're a teacher your most usable 成语 must be 一窍不通,对牛弹琴 哈哈哈

  • @chineseandenglishlanguage

    good

  • @kiponkipon3234
    @kiponkipon3234 Před 2 lety

    Can you, please, make a video about Chinese seafood vocabulary?

  • @user-yd1ne2iy3e
    @user-yd1ne2iy3e Před 2 lety

    我被他们挑选了参与比赛,真受宠若惊的感觉😁

  • @bch_dehanxin8361
    @bch_dehanxin8361 Před 2 lety

    1. Pubujidai: gấp không đợi được
    2. Shouchongruojing: thụ sủng nhược kinh
    3. Qiutong-cunyi: cầu đồng tồn dị, kiểu như muốn có chỗ giống lại tồn tại điểm khác nhau, chắc thế:<
    5. Muốn nói lại thôi
    cho các bạn Việt cũng đang học..

  • @vimayusu6812
    @vimayusu6812 Před 2 lety +1

    我在翻譯一本書的時候,我看到很多成語,包括"事半功倍"!
    還有"欲言又止"我猜的對呀!好高興 φ(゜▽゜*)♪

  • @tucoos1287
    @tucoos1287 Před 2 lety

    他们选中了我来参加这场比赛。我很受宠若惊。

  • @jeffreymilla9531
    @jeffreymilla9531 Před 2 lety +1

    I want to learn Chinese language 🥰

  • @jenyShorts
    @jenyShorts Před 2 lety +1

    Number chengyu would be good. Thanks 🙏

  • @romainbillon-grand782
    @romainbillon-grand782 Před 2 lety +1

    a very interesting way to introduce 成语 would be, I guess, to start from the English expression, and then to demonstrate how Chinese express the same idea. When you know enough to understand a bit of chinese, you struggle even more to translate from your occidental way of speaking to Chinese (at least it is what I experience now) maybe it would be easier like this, before going to next step, which is thinking directly in Chinese. 您觉得对不对?

  • @wilfredsalas5184
    @wilfredsalas5184 Před 2 lety

    他们选出了我参加竞赛 /比赛,我真的受宠若惊。

  • @darrylkassle361
    @darrylkassle361 Před 2 lety

    Chengyu are such a common feature of colloquial Chinese I think it is only fitting that you dodon't a regular weekly video on the subject.
    Start off with 100 most common idioms and present 5 ~10 idioms per video possibly. Just an idea

  • @mosesadventurediaries
    @mosesadventurediaries Před 2 lety +5

    These are my answers for the two questions
    1)我迫不及待地想去海边
    2 他们请我参加比赛,我很受宠若惊
    Laoshi please I have a personal question, I wish you can make a video to talk about all the uses of (将). I am very confused about it. I asked my Chinese friend and she told me just one meaning. She said it’s very complicated but I’ll understand later🥺and I keep seeing and hearing it several times...please help me.

    • @yabi8044
      @yabi8044 Před 2 lety +1

      Same 将 is confusing me

    • @123fps3
      @123fps3 Před 2 lety

      2. ❌「很」I think

    • @123fps3
      @123fps3 Před 2 lety

      @@chenkiwi0211 I think 令我受宠若惊 is better

  • @alliswell44596
    @alliswell44596 Před 2 lety

    I cant find the first video. The links is not working.

  • @xiaohuli27
    @xiaohuli27 Před 2 lety

    老师可以教我们关于三国演义的成语吗 🙋

  • @josefinalin3489
    @josefinalin3489 Před 2 lety

    Good video. But if we could cut the first 90 seconds to 20 seconds and get right into the subject would be even better!

  • @lbride3738
    @lbride3738 Před 2 lety

    Sentence 2: 我被选中参加比赛,很受宠若惊. A bit weird. We normally do not say "I am flattered." Perhaps I should have said: Did they make a mistake? "他们弄错了吗?"

  • @naturalchinese
    @naturalchinese Před 2 lety +12

    I like how you explain how the 4 characters lead to the meaning. How can I ask natives to give me these kinds of explanations? When I ask if someone can explain the characters of an idiom, I usually get the answer that “there’s nothing to explain, it’s an idiom, that’s what it means”. I feel like something is lost in translation. I usually ask “能不能一个字一个字的解释吗”

    • @ShuoshuoChinese
      @ShuoshuoChinese  Před 2 lety +10

      哈哈,这是中国人和中文老师的区别😂

    • @mountaintag
      @mountaintag Před 2 lety +1

      The "bottom line" is that even if you try to explain an idiom, you're "not out of the woods" because the two of you are probably "not on the same wavelength". So it's like "casting pearls before swine". :-) :-)

    • @dawsonlo7213
      @dawsonlo7213 Před 2 lety +2

      Typically, idioms can be explained by looking into each character's meaning, though it is very hard to explain it well because knowledge of 文言文 (old Chinese) is required.
      But Chinese idioms actually have several forms of compositions that not all can be explained in the way you suggest. For instance, "东施效颦". Many idioms actually originated from stories.

    • @harshmnr
      @harshmnr Před 2 lety +3

      Maybe they respond that way because when you ask them to explain it character by character, there kind of really is nothing to explain since each character just means one word/concept. It's like if someone asked you "Can you explain word by word what 'finding a needle in a haystack' means?" In that case you might respond, "Well, a needle is just a needle and a haystack is a...stack of hay...?" But maybe if you asked them to explain the concept as a whole, they would be more likely to explain the symbolism for some of them.
      But I feel like some idioms aren't really that symbolic and maybe that's also why they would be confused. Like the first example in this video. It goes about saying it in a slightly different way but it pretty much literally means "I can't wait (for that urgent/exciting thing)". So in the same way if someone asked you in English "What does 'I can't wait' mean?" you might be a bit confused and be like "It just means...I can't wait..? Or I'm excited?" and that's about it. (I'm just theorizing, but of course I don't know which specific idioms you've asked people about.)
      The same kind of thing happened to me in Japan. The station by my friend's house was called 西船橋 (I'm sure you guys know what it means, same meaning as Chinese, but just for kicks and giggles-"West Boat Bridge"-pronounced "nishifunabashi" in Japanese). Out of curiously and naivete I asked my friend 'What does West Boat Bridge mean?" and she was really confused. West Boat Bridge just means West Boat Bridge. 😂
      ~:~

    • @naturalchinese
      @naturalchinese Před 2 lety +1

      @@harshmnr Yeah, that definitively gives me perspective as to what it’s like from their point of view. I think asking for the “concept” (概念 gai4 nian4) of the idiom is a good idea

  • @paperkittycat8091
    @paperkittycat8091 Před 2 lety

    成语解释可以跟据出处讲小故事,这样更生动

  • @spring38012
    @spring38012 Před 2 lety

    老師請您幫我改,我這樣可以嗎?=3=
    1.我迫不及待要去海邊了。 2.他們選我參加那場比賽,我真受寵若驚呀。
    ”見縫插針“我大概不會這樣用,我會說:他老是喜歡挑撥離間,看到我跟別人吵架就見縫插針。

  • @BorobobJW
    @BorobobJW Před 2 lety

    I'm actually Chinese but I was brought up in Spain, so I know very little of my native language. Thank you for bringing this topic to your Channel 老师!!

  • @tristanpoo6057
    @tristanpoo6057 Před 2 lety +1

    I can't believe that I'm watching this video even I'm Malaysian Chinese (come from Malaysia, not china)🤣🤣for learning english.

  • @mauramendes7722
    @mauramendes7722 Před 2 lety

    Hallo? l'm from Brazil how do you pronounce this word? Wù'

  • @iMichaelNice
    @iMichaelNice Před 2 lety +1

    My wife and I made a mistake in our dance performance but instead of being embarrassed, we laughed at ourselves. Any chengyu for not taking oneself too seriously? Thanks

  • @364679493
    @364679493 Před 2 lety

    try 请君入瓮 :P

  • @bhaskarasukrutha2729
    @bhaskarasukrutha2729 Před 2 lety

    1)我为了去海边迫不及待。/为了去海边我迫不及待。/我迫不及待的想去海边。
    2)他们择我去比赛,我真受宠若惊。/他们让我去参加比赛,我真受宠若惊。/他们把我参加比赛,真让我受宠若惊。

    • @jackylee8349
      @jackylee8349 Před 2 lety

      1)third one is acceptable (的 x 地 o)
      the first one is grammar error.
      the second one look like not finish yet.
      【In order to go to the beach, I can't wait (for something or to do something)】
      2)first and second is acceptable, third one we don't use "把"

  • @creamjustyna
    @creamjustyna Před 2 lety

    1。我迫不及待地想去海滩玩耍。2。我被选拔参加比赛的事儿让我非常受宠若惊。

  • @muggleswee
    @muggleswee Před 2 lety

    第一句:我迫不及待去海边。 第二句:他们选我去比赛,我受宠若惊。

  • @tohakhan5469
    @tohakhan5469 Před 7 měsíci

    他们选我参加比赛,我真受宠若惊啦

  • @finnick3222
    @finnick3222 Před 2 lety

    死记硬背也是个常用成语🙈

  • @jameskennedy7093
    @jameskennedy7093 Před 2 lety

    事半功倍是同一石二鸟。

  • @Andrew36597
    @Andrew36597 Před 2 lety

    今天天气妙不可言,迫不及待到沙滩晒黑喝鸡尾酒啊

  • @kayodeomotoyosihabibat5416

    1。我迫不及待的去海边。

  • @FutureDr.K
    @FutureDr.K Před 2 lety

    我迫不及待去海边。
    他们选择我去参加比赛,我真的受宠若惊。

  • @crisch7062
    @crisch7062 Před 2 lety +1

    gimme those Chengyu's
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    please :')

  • @NoName-un9fk
    @NoName-un9fk Před 2 lety

    我迫不及待到海边去。/ 我迫不及待地想去海边。 -- 这两个都可以吗?哪个是最好的?
    他们选择我来参加比赛项目,我真的受宠若惊!

    • @user-dq2zu3tk4v
      @user-dq2zu3tk4v Před 2 lety

      The second !
      第二句『他们选择我来参加比赛项目,我真的受宠若惊!』改成 他们选择我来参加比赛项目,我真是受宠若惊!會比較口語😆

    • @NoName-un9fk
      @NoName-un9fk Před 2 lety

      @@user-dq2zu3tk4v 多謝謝你啊!

  • @carlosrubio7327
    @carlosrubio7327 Před 2 lety

    Es chino mandarín ????

  • @a892728
    @a892728 Před 2 lety

    寵 應該指寵愛 動詞 不是寵物的意思

  • @SUPER19aNDy
    @SUPER19aNDy Před 2 lety

    yey

  • @fernandoo.8737
    @fernandoo.8737 Před 2 lety

    我迫不及待地去海边. 对不对?

  • @franciscusmagister
    @franciscusmagister Před 2 lety

    "I can only make use of every bit of time to learn Ch" doesnt really make sense in English. does it mean: I have to make use of every bit... ?
    fun lesson, tho! :)

  • @kayodeomotoyosihabibat5416

    他们选择我参加比赛,我受宠若惊。

  • @silafuyang8675
    @silafuyang8675 Před 2 lety

    我不喜欢成语但是要学中文方面进步进步。

  • @stellwyn
    @stellwyn Před 2 lety

    我迫不及待去海边!

  • @christinatattersall
    @christinatattersall Před 2 lety

    我迫不及待地去海边。

  • @wilfredsalas5184
    @wilfredsalas5184 Před 2 lety

    我迫不及待去海滩 or 海边or 海岸

  • @toqaayman3395
    @toqaayman3395 Před 2 lety

    事半功倍 = 一举两得 ,是吧?

    • @snr5425
      @snr5425 Před 2 lety +1

      并不完全,“一举两得”通常上文中会提及“两方面的好处”。“事半功倍”上文中会提及具体做法

  • @leqishi4226
    @leqishi4226 Před 2 lety

    我一个中国人咋会看到这个呢,最重要的是我不会英语.I am Chinese,but i don't can speak English

  • @tohakhan5469
    @tohakhan5469 Před 7 měsíci

    我迫不及待过去沙滩

  • @tucoos1287
    @tucoos1287 Před 2 lety

    我迫不及待去海滩。

  • @Li.Siyuan
    @Li.Siyuan Před 2 lety +2

    关于“见缝插针”,不的,你不是唯一一个想到性感想法的人... 😁😁😁

  • @kokolexx
    @kokolexx Před 2 lety +1

    🐴🐴🐯🐯在哪里 🤣🤣

  • @hui-chuanlee7808
    @hui-chuanlee7808 Před 2 lety

    迫不及待
    <英文翻譯>
    I can't waiting in any circumstances.
    别"誤人子弟"及~鬧笑話~

  • @alfalol7118
    @alfalol7118 Před 2 lety +1

    bro, your not speaking Chinese, your speaking 普通話

  • @baseheryo
    @baseheryo Před 2 lety

    노무현닮앗노

  • @arsabuj9973
    @arsabuj9973 Před 2 lety

    你结婚了没有?😉😉😉

  • @chongedwin8346
    @chongedwin8346 Před 2 lety

    不知道为什么很不爽CZcams推荐给我这频道……