Why Chinese People REFUSE to Celebrate Chinese New Year 【Podcast E01】 

I would have listened to you both for much longer! You are my favorite Chinese instructors/motivators! The more I learn about Chinese society the more I find similarities with Northern Spain, with just 20 years difference: urbanization started here in the 70's. You and I seem to be the "bridge" between the generations of pure farmers (our grandparents), migrants (our parents) and pure urbanites (our kids/nephews). I also remember the intergenerational gatherings of my childhood but now youngster prefer to travel on their own for the holidays. Qingdao sounds also similar (in a much larger scale! 😂) to Coruña where I live: the most important fishing harbor in Spain, with a major beer brewery.

Wow, this video is really interesting! I have a couple of younger friends in China, and I have noticed some of these things, now that you highlight them. For example, one doesn't want to go home to 过年 because of the "third degree" she will get from not only her parents, but also from her brother about not being married yet. The other one is from the south, and her extended family is quite large, but she mentioned that the celebration doesn't seem as good as in the past. There's not as much of a family spirit to it.. and her nieces and nephews only want to sit and play video games the whole time, instead of engage in family activities. But still she says that gathering together and preparing the food together is quite fun. I also want to comment on the video a bit. After taking your fantastic bootcamp and spending a fair amount of time just listening to Mandarin on the radio (as well as currently taking yet another course), I'm finding my listening comprehension has gone up quite a lot. I can pick up almost as much (I'd guess 75%) from listening at full speed as I can from reading the hanzi. So I find myself just listening for awhile, then reading the hanzi as you two speak. It's definitely feels like a new phase for me to be able to get this much from just listening. I used to have to stop on every screen full of subtitles so that I could read what is said in a given video. Now, at long last, I feel that log jam is starting to break up. So, I want to say a big Thanks! and I hope to see more of these videos coming :D 龙年大吉！

如果老师打算继续做这种视频博客，我非常强烈的推荐你添加‘软’字幕，而不是‘硬’字幕。也就是说可以在RU-vid上打开的CC字幕。这样的话，学习者就可以应用一定的技术（比如说 yomichan, asbplayer, anki）来查不懂的词语，制造句子卡片。作为一个待在中文学习社区一段时间的人，成功的学习者大概都是这样学的。我们不会观看没带有软字幕的视频因为学习效率比较低。这些包括拼音和英文翻译的硬字幕是可以放的，但我自己会觉得有点烦，拼音是应该靠自己听出来的，而全句英文翻译在这种难度下不如查找单个单词的翻译有效。 不懂软和硬字幕的区别就可以问我啊～

Wow you guys are great. Wonderful podcast. Not just for 练习听力 but also deepening our understanding of current Chinese society. 太棒了！

🎉❤ Loved this chat!!!! Lots of great dialogue here! Very interesting and engaging! This was a great idea! You too definitely hit on current thinking and I loved how you contrasted it with older customs, especially as a foreigner we are taught more of the older customs and then are left not understanding why the current customs are different amongst the people today.

支持你们！两位刚好都有差不多的背景，真的很开心看到这一期的播客 ^^

Great format and very interesting conversation! 谢谢老师们🙏

如果明天见不到你，新年快乐！！The lady at the convienience store was impressed when I told her that this morning!

Good listening exercise. 謝謝 😀新年快樂 🐲

I really enjoyed this episode! I hope that some Chinese traditions and customs don't dissapear because that's what makes China or any country really special. I think young people should keep the good aspects of traditions/cultures. From their perspectives it's hard to maintain the good aspects when the older generations don't want to let go of the bad parts and won't understand why they're bad. Please make more eps about traditional Chinese vs modern day Chinese social customs/beliefs/practices. Fēicháng gǎnxiè!! 春节快乐!

More podcasts pleeeaaase!

尊敬的女士们 我很高兴知道你们的计划 我是一名医生，我想去学习中医，我觉得你们的节目很有趣，我订阅了。 我希望能学到很多东西

过年有两大元素；1、烧香拜佛，天地，祖宗，供品，祈福。2，家庭团聚，给小孩子发红包压岁钱。现在省时省力的在于年终大扫除，和准备年货。

Despite being from Hainan, there is a bit of a northern flavour to Jun's accent

我蠻喜歡這樣的播客影片！聽你們聊童年回憶和現代社會的不同非常有意思！請你繼續錄這樣的播客！

This is the third video I've seen today talking about this particular topic, and it's fascinating to watch this kind of major social shift happen almost before one's eyes. My parents were the ones who lived through this kind of shift in my part of the world, so it's interesting to to hear about it from the perspective of an adult.

我觉得我的听力越来越进步了因为我开始听您们哦❤

Love the new Format

谢谢您！您们谈一谈很有意思的事情。我非常喜欢❤

太好了！觉得你们需要跟 “大叔中文” 一起聊聊！

Great video Fan Laoshi, please do more of these as it allows me to put my headphones on and listen to 30 minutes uniterrupted conversation at natural speeds. Thanks!

Good listening exercises great job have a lovely Chinese new year I'll support you ❤❤❤❤❤

Nice video i would like more like these where Chinese is spoken with all the subtitles

needs a topic covering life in wudakou

谢谢！This format is very very useful👍 and the way subtitles are done is very comfortable. I am looking forward the whole serie

Thank you so much for including English, Pinyin and character translations! Thats extremely helpful for a beginner such as myself. Will you put your podcast on spotify?

我喜欢这种能了解到现实中国文化的对话🎉

I throw the talking speed is quite fast for me, the level of words and grammar I can follow ✌️

are you planning more of these??? I'm checking every other day!

Wow! This is awesome content for practicing Chinese! Great work 👍

Great podcast! If at all possible, an interview with jared chinese (杰里德 jared) would be really cool to see. Please keep making these kinds of videos.

😊😊 Thanks 👍 I really enjoyed the video

Da jia hao! Hello everyone

Good format and interesting conversation. But please slow down when you speak!

龙年大吉!

太谢谢你们了这个直播的形式非常棒油品印版英文版也汉字这个话题的内容也不错我是法国人可是我的老婆是中国人我们应该过新年吗？

Hello Rita, recently I happened to listen to a video by you pronouncing the beginning letters to form syllables. I tried to look for it as an example of good teaching but have been unable to find it. Please see if you could help me find it.

Plz do swordsman 3 the east was red for me plz ❤❤❤❤❤

很有意思！请继续做这种播客

因为你刚用了婚照铺垫，所以你可不可以下一届邀请克里斯老师来一起聊一聊跨国婚姻的经吗？

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我都想认识你 和你一起合作 老师

Celebrate any New Year is totally OUT