A Walk Around My Chinese Village - Intermediate Chinese - Chinese Conversation - HSK 4 / HSK 5 

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Finally something true on the net! Pinyin, characters, english translation, slow speak, interesting social topics through your lifetime. No faking whatsoever! This is a rare gem! What else can you ask? 多谢你老师!

That little kid talking about when she was a little kid. 🤣

For those who don't know, the music the grandma is playing is Buddhist chanting music

I can only imagine the incredible emotion Eileen feels while making this video - I come back to this one again and again. Absolutely 'haunting'.... and this no way diminishes the educational value - I'm sure it's no accident that she fills the dialogue with things like names of vegetables, family member names and a host of other rich vocabulary words and useful phrases. This one's a gem....and so is Eileen...

I love the way you show us around and teach us Chinese. You're a natural-born teacher and I love watching your channel!

Serious real people are getting on with their lives. There is aging, there are hardships, the world is changing and does not ask for our advice. What a lovely human approach you have made here. My highest respects.

I can't thank you enough for everything you do, it really means a lot. About four years ago I stumbled across this video while trying to research how to study Chinese. I remember not being able to understand any of it so I clicked on your channel and found your HSK 1 series...after watching the first video I bought HSK 1-6 on Taobao. Sometime later, after watching many more videos of yours, I became a "supporter" on your website and have since downloaded just about every pdf you have on your site! I find your method of teaching much more interesting than the HSK series but I kept up with HSK studies over the past several years too. Anyway, it's really cool to see this video again. I haven't thought about it over the past four years but today I was able to understand the progress I've made with my own Chinese. I couldn't watch the video today due to being at work so I minimized the youtube screen and just listened to it. Not only did I listen to it but I understood every word of it. I don't think that would have been possible if I would not have found your channel four years ago. Once again, thank you for all you do...it means so much to so many of us.

This was a really interesting view...thanks. Your little niece has the cutest red cheeks.

Cuteness overload from that little girl.

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Learning Chinese feels like travelling virtually . Amazing

"Country kids are shy." Country kids associate standard Mandarin with school, and today's their day off! The narrator's pre-school niece is thinking, "City adults are like bossy foreigners, and very annoying."

whoa, this is DEEP China!!

Great video, thanks from Germany for the very personal insight in a Chinese village and your childhood

7:05 I was wondering "why isn't that river flowing?" Then I see all the toxic garbage and pollution...😓 Wouldn't it be much wiser to dispose of the garbage, far away from the only water source?🤔

This is a fascinating video, I briefly lived in Suzhou in 2018 but I never got a chance to see the countryside, I think only seeing urban China leaves one with a very warped view of how things work over there, thank you

These are my favourite episodes, and the little kids were so adorable!

I love this so much. It among my favorite documentaries because it is so authentic -- 地道 It reminds me of when I visited my rural grandparents in taiwan when I was little.

Your content are SUPERB ... please continue them ... hopefully people will donate more and more

I was sitting and watching this video with a friend. He highly recommended watching these videos to improve my vocabulary and listening. As I tuned in, I recognized Eileen! I met with you in Shenzhen in 2014! Wow! Amazing videos and content!

That was a beautiful and personal insight. Thank you so much for sharing.

The pinyin-hanzi-English subtitles are invaluable - ideal for revising things I thought I'd forgotten. Also it's fascinating to see you return to your village - refreshing to see a video of China that is just about real life without any trickery.

Thank you so much Mandarin Corner and Eileen laoshi. These updated films are brilliant!

This is fascinating and exactly how (and why) I want to learn Mandarin. Thank you for reposting!

I love your honesty. Thanks for taking us through your hometown!

*THIS WAS SO WHOLESOME. THANK YOU FOR SHARING IT WITH US EILEEN (:*

I've just watched the whole thing now. Amazing. Lovely village and people. Eileen, always so so lovely with the kids. Will watch again now but not reading any English. You are the best channel on RU-vid!

I find your videos such as this especially interesting since they combine the beauty of the countryside and daily activities of rural China with regular conversation and common verbal communications.

Love this video, has so much warmth and kindness of heart in it. An interesting insight into China as well. I can't say Ive ever been this 下乡, its much more rural than ive ever seen, so was very interesting to get an insight. Love the videos Eilen.

When I first subscribed, you took a walk through a random town and it was raining. What I truly enjoy and enjoyed was you speaking casually. It's worth 1000 lessons! This, you at your most comfortable, makes it even better. I only study Mandarin here and there, but I can make enough words, that with focus and visual, I can understand what you are saying. That is TRUE immersion! Thank you for sharing!

I used to visit places like this with my camera when I was teaching English in Nanyang, Henan. It was great meeting all the people and seeing how they live.

Super interesting!

I like watching these type of videos. My son has lived off and on in China the last 8 yrs. He met his wife several years ago. She is from a small village outside of Jinan. They are now back in the states.

Greetings from Brazil, i'm trying to learn mandarin since 2020. Thank you for you good quality content 🙏

Beautiful video of your grandmother's home and her village. I enjoyed very much experiencing China through your video. Thank you respectfully for sharing.

I really enjoy videos like this that are going around villages and countryside. Also, the included texts are great. Having all three is awesome :) Thank you very much.

The dialects are always amazing to hear. Sometimes the languages sound just close enough that I lean in and try to listen, then realize I don't understand a single word. We have mostly Canto and Mandarin speakers where I live, so to hear something new is always cool. My HSK's improved enough that I understand 80-90% of your words. :'D I'm so happy. I'm almost done with HSK3 and started HSK4. 7 months to get here, way more than I ever learned in the years I took school as a kid.

我真爱你的视频！你的办法是最好的很真实，我觉得很有趣。 小孩子很快了解语言因为他们看看景色让脑子分析细节。 这样的视频就是这样 感谢！继续加油！！！

Thank you for sharing your wonderful family, home and village with us. I see many things in common in your community that compare similarly with the previous generations of my family

Great video. Your grandmother's house reminds me of my grandmother's house, in rural Texas. Our walls were wood, not brick, and our house was smaller, but it feels very similar in atmosphere.

That was frikkin awesome. Absolutely fascinating. The kids were so cute!!!

That village looks wonderful. I have been in Shenzhen a few years now and I know many people long for their village life.🙏 (I wonder have things improved since this video in regards to waste plastic?).

It is a good idea to interview your grandma, ask her a lot of insightful questions and record it. It will be a good video.

These videos are really great! Thanks for republishing them!

This is a great resource with actual meaningful dialogue, thank you for sharing.

Without the farm a city cannot survive,fresh vegetables make for healthier food, pretty area

看来你儿时也有很多特殊的记忆吧，你的家乡很安静。现在你长大了，这么有才华，还学会了英语。这么成功，恭喜你

12:15 山茶花 - Camellia japonica or common camellia, a close relative of Camellia sinensis or tea plant.

真的謝謝妳跟我們分享了這樣的影片 ! 這樣我們可以邊學中文邊發現有很多趣和魅力的你的家鄉生活環境 ! 祝你一切都順利喔 🙏

This was fascinating, thank you. And what a cute 小姑娘。 Donated

Thank you so much for the pinying and character translation, it helps alot learning for chinese day to day talk.

this was totally amazing !!!!! thank you so much for sharing all of this with us!!! Hug from Paris

she's so cute!

小姑娘真的很可爱。谢谢你给我们介绍你的家乡。很有意义的视频。

Really enjoyed the tour of the village. It's so beautiful and peaceful. Very different from big cities. I didn't understand everything (still learning) but the subtitles helped. Greetings from NYC.

I used to live in a village quite similar to this. Last time I visited was when I was 13 and even then much had changed. A lot of the older housing were abandoned and they built a bunch of more modern looking houses as well as new roadways and stores within the village. I miss it and would love to go back again. I imagine it has changed quite drastically again.

I LOVE THIS

This is very good! Most Mandarin videos are very slow with few words and phrases. I get a mixture of Cantonese and Mandarin but I chose to only learn Mandarin. Hopefully, my next trip to Guangdong I will be able to understand and communicate much better. Your village looks like it is transforming but at a slower pace. I like visiting the rural areas when we eat in a restaurant. My wife lived in a rural farm area when she was little and her life improved when her family moved to a city. Things can change quickly in China.

Love those videos! Awesome! Thanks! :)

Within the very first 5 mins of the video watching this ( and also the first time knew your channel), you immediately got 1 more subcriber. I really love these kind of video, very realistic and watchable, help me on enriching my chinese vocabs a lot. Thank you and keep up your good work plz 💚

非常感谢你。你的这个视频很用的。The combination of Hanzi subtitles and English subtitles helps me learn.

omg this content is amazing tysm. just subscribed !

好有意思！非常感谢你给我们看看！

That was so interesting... Only on your channel can we go that deep into chinese society and issue!

Excellent video. Great use of common, intermediate vocab.

Wow I really enjoyed that. My wife is Chinese and I have been to China so many times, I remember the first time we went and stayed at a small village, when it was breakfast instead of going to the cupboard to get a box of corn flakes, we went up the mountain to pick grass, well that is what it seemed like to me came back it was washed and we ate it, no coffee or toast, but it was filling with the steam bread they had, certainly cheaper then my bacon and egg Mac muffin breakfast, and most probably a thousand times healthier.

Great video for practicing mandarin, thanks! By the way... i am the only one who is sad after seeing all that trash on the floor? I hope China changes this common thing about trowing trash everywhere. Nature is super important, we need to take care of it.

很有意思，让我想起去了我老婆的家乡过年。我一直期待你新的视频特别是那位东北人的，因为我住在东北所以多听了东北话有用。谢谢你Aileen辛苦了

This video is amazing, plentiful in culture, that little miss must be an angel.

Can't wait until my speaking Chinese get better to do my viedo but for now I'll continue singing and learning Chinese! Continue Eileen!

這次的視頻拍得真好，我很喜歡。感謝讓我們能夠看到妳小時候的家！

Great video. Thank you. This is very interesting and down to earth. No fake stuffs.

Thanks for the video. It's nice to hear about and relive your childhood

Although the house has electricity, the granny keeps using the fireplace. Respect.

Your channel is Wonderful, it`s really 实用！ 🙏🧡

多謝你拍這個視頻。很有意思。

Wow what a really interesting insight into countrylife in China (and yes, that little girl is just so adorable, and happy - exactly how childhood should be). Love from the UK x

I am in love with the old stone and earth houses, the clotheslines, and the small footpaths. I would love to live in a village like that, honestly. It's why I wish I could live in "Vieux Quebec" of Quebec City here in Canada, but even that isn't quite as pretty as this regular Chinese village, from the looks of it. It is sad that the village is emptied and in disrepair :(

Really great and interesting video 谢谢您😊

finally... found someone posting life in chinese villages... i can respect this. Lived in Indian villages when young... a lot of similarities... i can understand the struggles and the good times.

Thank you for the lovely walk, Eileen. That Miss Xu Meina is so cute and adorable!

fascinating - i ike the simplicity of the lifestyle - the feeling of the place reminds me of the place where i grew up - a small town in alaska

Absolutely wonderful video. Thank you so much.

omg that's the cutest kid ever, anyway thanks for sharing, its really nice to see china's rural areas unfiltered

Interesting video ... great insight into probably average Chinese village ... alot of the stuff reminded me of my own village/small town i grow up ...

像我的在法国南方儿时的记忆， 特别老的地方，但心里含有真真的朴素又地道的味道 非常感激你享受的记忆：-） 祝福。。。

😊 she’s so cute.

谢谢。这个是非常有意思的视频。我以 75% 的速度观看了视频。这样我几乎听懂你的说。我还在用字幕。

please do more content like this where you just wander around and comment on the land and how these places are.

Can't wait for some new content! It's been a while now

eileen, you are actually such a gem, I can't-

There are many dialects in different parts of China. They don't understand each other. But in general, the Han region can read Chinese characters, because since Qin Shi Huang unified China more than 2,000 years ago, the unified Chinese characters. But speaking varies from region to region. Mandarin used to be a northern dialect. Usually, the dynasties that unified China chose a dialect as their official language. Previous dynasties with capitals in the south also chose southern dialects as their official language. But the characters are all Chinese. The unified writing of the First Emperor of Qin. But there is no uniform pronunciation. But to facilitate communication, any Chinese dynasty would promote the official language. But it's not mandatory

It seems like things have improved in the village over the years. Would you agree and if so what and who drove that improvement? If you do not agree, I love to hear that opinion too. Thanks for the authentic video. Love your village! People seem so chill and friendly.

I'm thinking about learning chinese so i don't understand anything, but i must say, this is an amazing way to help people practice, Kudos to you.

I like this kind of video that shows real experience and with native conversation. Good job girl, you earn my petron

谢谢老师！学了很多有意思的事情

It's really interesting to see live outside of urban areas. The living conditions in countryside tell a lot about a country. This relative poverty reminds me of the life of my grandparents in a French village. Since, the situation and the infrastructures improved. I hope it goes the same way in China, and I think it's an objective of the government. Working people should be able to live greatly through all the wealth they produce.

Awesome to see more rural China that girl is also adorable.

It's interesting how villages look pretty much the same around the world. At least in the countries I've lived in, it's exactly this kind of lifestyle you see.