It always amazes me how fluent they are and how nervous they are about how they sound. If any of them find this video - you guys all sounded great! Those were some fun vocab choices though.
This was so cute XD The girl who said she talked to herself, can confirm, it helps get you comfortable in a new language. Also talking to pets. They won't judge your bad grammar or weird accent. :)
Loved this. Studying Mandarin for over a year and really like it when you surprise people with you Beijing Chinese accent although I find it difficult to understand sometimes. Guess its the speed at which you speak. Loved the selection of participants in this video.
haha I got the "wheelbarrow" and the "forklift" ! I learned them from teaching my 3 year-old son English. Your vocabulary of everyday life objects would expand quickly once you have a kid. stroller, scooter, wagon, etc. I also freshened up my knowledge on "coral reef". I had no idea what that is until I read one book of "magic tree" series (chapter books aimed at 6-9 kids, which i will never read if it weren't for raising kids) that I came to know that a reef is consisted of numerous coral skeletons. wow. feel so proud of myself.
love your vids...on week two of learning Mandarin and I can concur that talking to yourself and just describing things you are doing or seeing makes learning the language easier.
Interesting video. I can’t comment on their english, but what i can gather from each of them is that they are all intellectually curious. They all have very good senses of humor and are very charismatic.
I can immediately answer forklift as it is one of my kid’s favourite toys, so when you grow up with all the stuffs named in English it would be natural to speak out their name without any hesitation.
It's funny seeing you 'be' American. I watched your earlier videos in 2020 and you were very different when you first arrived back in the US. You seemed to be quite 'up tight', but you've relaxed in the past 2 years. More waiter/barista videos please. 👏👏👏
Hola Cris soy español y vivo en España desde hace bastante tiempo que veo tus videos que aunque no hablo inglés y tampoco lo entiendo me gustan mucho tus videos un saludo y un abrazo grande gracias
This was a fun video to watch! I would have loved to additionally see their reactions and realizations of the words they missed, such as Wheelbarrow. It's such a random word in English, even as a native English speaker I recognize Wheel and understand that, but Barrow? That portion must have originated from somewhere unique, and to know it I would have to go research it specifically. There's no way to make the word from a translation, as far as I know. I've never seen it used outside of wheelbarrow. Compared to things like "Tree Skin" to "Tree Bark" which are more familiar to translate over, or even "Color changing dragon" to "Lizard .. Camouflage (french) .. chameleon" is difficult and a stretch but very recallable if it's in your memory because both the creature is unique and the word itself is interesting to piece together so it sticks in your mind. Or maybe I just process language in a weird way. If you do something like this again, maybe you can start dropping hints in chinese when people are struggling. Like for wheelbarrow, you can say in chinese, "The word for this contains the english form of 'wheel' in its name, what's the missing part. Wheel, Blank." It would be humorous to witness some creative thinking on their end and could imagine someone coming up with "Wheel mover? Wheel wagon? Wheel bucket?" I'm willing to bet many of them knew the words, but couldn't recall or remember them for these things, but remembered and realized it when/if you told them the word. I would have liked to see that part. Thanks for the content! Edit: For those curious, I looked up the origins of Barrow. It allegedly originated in Old English from around the 5th to 7th century and a really old version of German (around the same time) which used a word that loosely meant "to bear with me" - so it's describing the shared weight between the person and the tool being used, the 'wheelbarrow'. Like, 'The wheel and tray and I are sharing the weight of a heavy object so that it's movable.' Interesting! .. and now I'm curious if Borrow has a similar relationship to it within its meaning. Language is so fun!!!
As a non native english speaker, I was surprised. Either by the fact that they didnt know any or most of the examples, OR that I actually knew how to name them all myself.
People seem to know a lot. We'd thought the best thing is to sustain at the level where people started off. I concur credits on 1 take it up what supposed we acted up for. 2 review to answers for turning it a real good show to fans. You did it. 👍
I quite like this. I studied at Bath (a British version of Monteray) and my teacher said this: tho you may all have scored a 9 in IELTS speaking, but you gon struggle in a restaurant when you order food. I had both my undergrad and masters in English speaking countries so these things can't get me. My theory is quite simple now: these schools (Bath, Monteray, New Castle) teach you translation and interpreting, but they are not where you acquire English.
Very enlightening interview and response from all concerned. Many of them didn't get the correct answers because of the different environment they may come from. Unless one has lived in a certain areas where some of those machinery are common, most will have no idea. Their education may not even have it in their course of studies. Common words to describe nature in a foreign language is not a criteria in their studies because it is not commonly used. So their current knowledge of your experiment is commendable. The Chinese are not anti social, it is the different upbringing in each society is different,especially when one is a "guest" and why these young persons are there for...to learn and in prove themselves and help their families. So, there is a social difference in their attitude to do what's best for themselves.
I miss Monterey. Never got to see the college this video was taken from. I was at the other major language school in that area. I graduated from DLIFLC for Russian.
Hey Laoma! Great content as always! I’m aware that you currently have English speaking class available. But I was wondering if you also provided help for English speakers wanting to learn Chinese. Any help or guidance is greatly appreciated. 😅
My wife has her own channel where she teaches Chinese! I collab with her from time to time as well. Called Rita Mandarin Chinese. Check it out if you’re interested!
This is the kind of video why I keep watching your channel, even though most are cringe. Easily one of the best you've put out so far. Actually even a little bit too condensed, I would have liked if some answers were not cut off, like, what happened after he said full-time mother? 🤣
My dad used to microwave eggs! Can make an egg sandwich with it when you make them like that. But he would put them in the microwave after they were cracked of course 😅
How about going to defense language institute in Monterrey and asking finding mandarin/canto students and see how good their Chinese is after x amount of time in program.
I know the word bark only because I had to study plant physiology for the dental admissions test 😂 and I learned the word wheelbarrow from playing 植物大战僵尸 as a kid
Is that Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey in California? From the intro (you did not mention the name) just showed an arial video shot. But from the arial shot I can see an address and a school logo. I wonder why you didn't say the name of the school but you say it's the number one training school for interpreters and translators in the world?
I thought of eating eggs raw (they do that in Japan) but definitely learned the new cooking technique of "throwing it against the wall". On another note, I forgot that the lizard was a chameleon (but tell me "color changing dragon" and I'd know), but what surprised me was that they don't know forklift, wheelbarrow, one guy didn't know what a pitchfork was. They should all go work at home depot for a while I guess.
