I don't like speaking English in China 

Having a delicious meal and using Chinese to communicate made your day. But I bet you made everyone who interacted with you in that restaurant super happy! :D

Nice mentality and attitude. I try to speak some basic local language whenever I visit some country. Its a form of respect. And usually the locals will start to speak english to you when they see you are struggling and they appreciate that you at least tried, its a guaranteed icebreaker!

I'm a Chinese from Hubei province . I like your videos so much , thanks for sharing , keep up good work .

My neighbor was an English family. I always talked with them in English and they replied in Shanghainese. I think they might be wanted to be treated as local citizens as every one of us.

I am so happy that you managed to communicate with people in Chinese. Chinese people really appreciate it if you try to communicate in Chinese with them, since they know Chinese is one of the most difficult language and you are putting a lot of effort in it. I really enjoy your video. Keep up the good work!

That's great that you enjoy and respect the Chinese culture

Thank you soooo much for respecting our culture and appreciate our language. Happy to have you to be part of our culture.

I really like your positive way of seeing the things 😊 Chinese is a beautiful language and I think it’s so cool that you can speak it 👍🏼

Its inspiring to hear you speak mandarin with confidence. Like you, i havent touched mandarin in about 5-6 years since ive graduated high school. They say the best fix is probably going to china and living there for a while

Love your big smile ~ As a Chinese, I'd like to speak English when I come across a foreigner on the street. It's the satisfaction or the confidence I get from managing making a conversation with them that make me happy, especially when I helped foreign tourists out. Maybe that's why you want to speak Chinese in China, too. Actually, I feel a little bit envious about Europeans because they can speak so many languages like English, French or German. Are you European?

your Chinese skills had sunk in, and able to retrieve it when needed.

你是新上海人.你真实地介绍了上海的风土人情,也带我又游历了一遍那熟悉又亲切的故乡:南京东路、山西南路、外滩、福州路、思南路……。

So inspiring to see your openness and encouraging to try new things.

They have the same in store in Beijing, but much older,,,,,,You should try to get there in the morning,,,,,you will see more

Very informative with nice view, Just perfect Awesome 😉

That’s means you understanding the Lokal culture.people lifestyle!that is great you have done!❤!🌹🌹🌹

I consider you doing greet jobs thanks for sharing our shanghai life

And the bear never stops...lmao

Love to have a tour guide like you to show me places to visit. Great video.

Seems like every video you filmed has that bond I wonder how much you love that skylines LOL

Yes, I find mainland China is always very very nice and very friendly place to me as a whole. Did you ever vist HK? it would be nice to hear you impressions on HK.

Always love your smile!

In a perfect world being able to understand the people who live in the country you visit is a bonus.

Your mandarin is better than mine! Thanks for keeping me posted on my hometown which I don't get to visit often enough ... Shanghai Foreign Language Bookstore? That's where I picked up my 1st book on TOEFL decades ago lol

'You go, girl!

Actually，Chinese people are so glad to hear foreign friends try to speak Chinese（even not good enough）to them，because Chinese is so hard for foreigners，so speak Chinese much more！

Nice video girl! I'll probably visit Fudan University at about August 8th and I'll stay for about one week. Do you have any recommendation about food and places to visit near the campus? By the way if you'd like to make Chinese subtitles for the videos, which would make it easier to understand for your Chinese speaking audience, I'd like to try to help you with that!

Love your SH videos!! Miss that place!

那个店里是一只熊在跳舞吗？我第一眼看成两只，后来才注意到是一整面镜子😅

B站有人盗用你的视频骗流量 我作为中国人感到非常可耻！不过看了原版依然点赞！

The food at 3:24 is Shanghai style stir fried noodle ( I guess a lot of foreigners like stir fried noodle or rice). It tastes good but it is a bit oily to me. I am from northern China and had never even heard of stir fried noodle in my home province, we only have stir fried rice.

The meal you had is a very popular Cantonese rice noodle dish. The restaurant looks like one that average working people would go to -- rather than one catering to tourists/foreigners.

this was very nice, thanks for sharing :)

Shanghai book store was my favorite place to go when I was a college student there

My feeling is that compared to fours years ago, there are more cars in Shanghai. You get traffic jam more often and at more places, and it is more difficult to find a parking spot. I would rather take subway or buses because it is a headache to even think of driving a car in Shanghai.

Your doing very well, check out the other blogger in China too. Poppy and her friend use a app it’s good to get a translation when needed and to reinforce how to say it. And a few have there favorite it’s probably on the menu, so it be like working at 2 ends what recommend and what you tried. The bad side is you might gain weight. Not really. stick to 80% vegetable as a daily average. I do enjoy your content your uplifting. Thank you.

Isn’t that Fuxing Street at 1:15? If it is it was the main street for books and arts in pre-Communist days and was just starting to be that way again when I was last in Shanghai in 2001.

Selling the same things on the same street is very normal in China, merchants gather together and form a phenomenon to attract people interested in those particular kind of things. There’s a saying called 货比三家, they compare all the stores, since the stores are gathered together it’s easier for them to pick the worthiest stuff :)

the dish at 3"18 is very common in SIngapore (basically national dish) called 炒粿条。It's super delicious but high in calorie.

If you speak chinese, do it, is fantastic if you can communicate with people in their own language, it's a lot of knowledge.

That is my favourite bookstore when I visit Shanghai. I went to this bookstore almost every time of my visit to Shangai except may be only once that I do not have the time

Stay awesome! Wait..wrong channel.

I knew a few languages before going to China and have since learnt Chinese. I soon discovered just how commodified English was. People would thurst themselves in my face just to practice their English. English fever as they call it. So I soon tried to make friends outside of work in any language but English and there I found people were less interested in just practicing their language and more interested in developing a friendship. I'm generalizing, yes, but I still found it to be common enough for English to be way too commodified and soulless.

I try to use as much Chinese as I can, It's great to learn a new language. I absolutely love Chinese food!!!!

Udon u got is a typical Cantonese dish. Wish you a joyful journey in China, and head south to Guangzhou, sure it'll open up a new world for your palate.

In addition to Shanghai, there are many beautiful places in China, and China’s high-speed rail network is very developed. If you have time, you can go there more.

Thank you for your kind remarks. China welcomes friendly foreign friends to visit

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You are now in changhai

Adorable

I love shanghai but I love beijing more it it incredible how much beijing has changed since I was last their about 6 yes ago it is much cleaner, so modern and I could actually see the blue sky china is such a great place

I live in Shanghai presently. I got here 9 months ago

Great video!

It’s so hard to retain a language when you never use it. High school and college i was studying German and for a little while I had a private tutor for Russian. Every time i would try to speak Russian though in front of my Russian friends I would feel so embarrassed that I wasn’t saying it correctly. When I was in China I would try to learn a word a day because I can’t stand speaking English in a country that didn’t originally spoke it, but I was there was too many days lol. So btw when I would be at the bund I would always think about how it would of been so perfect if flying cars existed. That would of been so cool.

I really like your simple narratives. I also like that there is no background music. It can be so.......... annoying.

You're very beautiful especially when you smile. You can be a TV host in Shanghai without any problem!

I am so glad that you like China, I have been in the United States for two years, and I miss China so much!!!

i want to ask u a question,it's why you always eat noodles,you should try to eat the local food，Because the taste of different parts of Chinese dishes are not the same and it's cheaper than starbucks

You are amazing, particularly the character and inner beauty

Come and visit Zhengzhou:)

Confidence just promote u with charm, besides physical prettiness.

i like you because of your smile

Love your video's

When I lived in China I wanted to speak Chinese...everyone wanted to practice English with me...it was difficult...

视频里开业的那两只熊，我在抖音看到过，一样的场景一样的动作、一样的行人

My god, she is so cute.

I'm going back to Shanghai in November, do you know what the address of your favorite place to eat is?

Why do you have so many banks investment companies on Wallstreet? They all sell the same products.

4:41 oh!! I was right there 2 weeks before this video was posted!

you look like a very fun girl to hang out with.

you should post a video of practicing Chinese

Good Job!!!

Cool

Are you Italian? Why do you speak English so well?

Welcome to China!

you have a great smile, love your videos...

looking at your vlog Shanghai has everything massive

看面相，这个女孩子很善良

pls buy geniun Chinese products, Cheap and functional. And looks good.

"why do you need so many stores that sell the same things on the same street" - that makes perfect sense, I'm Chinese myself but I never really noticed it as much:O in China it's very common that people are just used to copying what other people do to make a living

you are so pretty!

How long are you staying there?

Shanghai is an incredible city...

book store is fine young lady, book city sounds weird even I'm Chinese myself...

where are you from?! From your accent I wanna say seattle but can't be sure.

cool

Nice

Just a thought- I think your videos would be better and more interesting if you filmed your interactions with the natives whilst speaking Chinese especially if you put up English subtitles for those who can't speak a word like me

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I'm so glad you are able to enjoy the local cuisine. It would be a shame to go to a country and not enjoy their food.

Is it safe to walk alone int he streets at night (as a woman)? PS: It's sooo amazing Shanghai lol I wanna go there (probably this year)

About long did it take you to learn Chinese?

I can see Waitan ,huaihai road,nanjing road.,Shanghai book city in Fuzhou road ., Shanghai is center of China economy .

hahahaha，”they never stop “ welcome to shanghai,I am a university student of SHUPL

what is the name of the food?

Do you solo traveler?

“Badass”对应的中文就是”牛逼“，非常准确

wow I ate that same meal in Queens New York for lunch lol

Interes..ting...

China is not only Shanghai, you should try more cities. σ`∀´)σ