Sure Winston looks tired, but I can see a lot of love in his eyes for a fantastic intelligent wife who never stops smiling :) Well done you two
@LastNineBreaker
4 жыл бұрын
I’ve never seen Winston so tired and out of it. No sleep for the next couple of years, mate. But don’t worry, it’ll go by fast.
@AbsoluteMiniacGena
4 жыл бұрын
LastNineBreaker He looks wrecked! If this is since their daughters birth, then Sasha looks AMAZING! Motherhood obviously suits her very well.
@phangirlable
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, she looks radiant. :D
@LastNineBreaker
4 жыл бұрын
My thoughts as well. She looks like she got a full night's sleep and just finished a fresh pot of coffee, ready to attack the day.
@davidburke3161
4 жыл бұрын
Congrats to you and your baby. Just want to know how you feel about your husband's racism against Chinese or is it really an act? Must be so difficult for you. Take care.
@archlich4489
4 жыл бұрын
Winston should say, "Welcome to the next video!"
@chungyanwong7293
4 жыл бұрын
No, it should be Sasha: Welcome to Hu Knows Winston: Welcome to another video
@chuffpup
4 жыл бұрын
@@chungyanwong7293 Both: Stay awesome.....!
@fredyyfredfreddy
4 жыл бұрын
Now I know that what my cat wanted all those times was more water.
@genevievet6926
4 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of the tree symbol repeated means forest.
@alantan9863
4 жыл бұрын
囧, you mean 森林?
@Dowlphin
4 жыл бұрын
Hmmm... I am beginning to understand the CCP's _three's a crowd_ concerns. 😏
@alantan9863
4 жыл бұрын
@@Dowlphin you mean this 姦 or this 三個代表?
@Dowlphin
4 жыл бұрын
@Alan Tan - the first one means "evil", right? It looks put together with three similar symbols. What does a single of those symbols mean?
@Dowlphin
4 жыл бұрын
Rule of tree 😄
@gjhorton
4 жыл бұрын
Loved this type of video.
@worldaviation4k
4 жыл бұрын
This is cool. Would love to learn more Chinese through here.
@vladimirmalic
4 жыл бұрын
水沝淼㵘又双叒叕火炎焱燚
@ADRAGONSLIFE
4 жыл бұрын
Love to see you and Winston doing a video together . Also , we would like to see you put out more videos about how life is going for you .
@WaaDoku
4 жыл бұрын
Wife of foreigner who learned her native language: "NOoo, you shouldn't know everything! Just pretend you don't know! Also wife of foreigner who learned her native language: "Really? You don't know? You should know this!"
@quentint8742
4 жыл бұрын
Zhui (surf) is because it says water water, but looks like a wave coming in. also can mean zhuī to chase after, so water chase after water - which is a wave
@scottleeper2279
4 жыл бұрын
Congradulations to the new mom nd dad.
@nasha657
4 жыл бұрын
Nice to see you both, congrats for your baby girl ! Sure it will be great to share more of Chinese cultural /traditions
@annarboriter
4 жыл бұрын
It's so rare to hear from Chinese mainlanders how challenging the Chinese writing can be. As an English speaker I often encounter new words and coinage that I can reason through because I can nearly always pronounce them and understand the meanings because I know enough about the roots. Because Hanzi doesn't work this way (in fact, it is difficult by design) I sense that Chinese students of English assume that every new English word must present the same challenges insurmountable without a teacher who can teach them the secret of every new character
@Missingafool
4 жыл бұрын
Loving this! Been trying to study a bit of Chinese and really like this. A fun and light educational video with familiar faces. Plz keep it up! 👍
@lukei6255
4 жыл бұрын
Imagine not being able to write down what you hear... That's Chinese!
@Dovid2000
4 жыл бұрын
Hu's videos are innocent. Winston's videos, well... I'd better not say. Hoping that both of you will grow stronger together and bond more fully. I detect a sadness in Winston's eyes, perhaps going back to the passing of his brother in South Africa.
@craigjovanovich6450
4 жыл бұрын
Absolutely love it! Character study is fascinating. Please keep it up!
@QuizmasterLaw
4 жыл бұрын
缺点 = drawback, disadvantage, defect, weak point. Pottery with a fleck or dot on it is flawed, defective has a drawback.
@EndoplasmicReticulum7
4 жыл бұрын
Interesting. Just like the Japanese tree (木)、woods (林) 、and forest (森).
@shenglongisback4688
4 жыл бұрын
Well the orignal written japanese was based off chinese characters which is now called Kanji in its modern form
@EndoplasmicReticulum7
4 жыл бұрын
Sheng Long is back!!! I already know that. But thanks👍.
@shenglongisback4688
4 жыл бұрын
Do you study japanese??
@EndoplasmicReticulum7
4 жыл бұрын
Sheng Long is back!!! Hai! Next will be either Chinese or Korean.
@shenglongisback4688
4 жыл бұрын
Sugoi desu yo .. hangul and chinese ganbatte!!!
@Jiuhuashan
4 жыл бұрын
I would love to see more of this! Thanks Doctor!
@anthonyC214
4 жыл бұрын
Very interesting video. Keep them coming
@ellermg
4 жыл бұрын
WE WANT MORE OF THOSE VIDEOS 💙💙
@nightsage217
4 жыл бұрын
Mandarin is just seriously complicated. There are like thousand of them. And we cant use them frequently enough. 的确有朋友会用这些字语来考我,然后我就会超级无语.
@mysurlytrucker7510
4 жыл бұрын
Your channel is interesting, pretty smart husband you have there. Ps congratulations from Scotland.
@kek4494
4 жыл бұрын
Good video. Congratulations on your serpent baby. 🐍❤
@GradyGillis
4 жыл бұрын
That was fun and very interesting. I'm taking a couple of Chinese courses at the moment and one of them is a character course. I can read about 80-90 and reliably write (honestly) a bit less than half of those. Good to see you back on your channel and hope you are doing well after becoming a brand new mother.
@luming4483
2 жыл бұрын
Why did you stop posting new videos? I’d love to see more from you
@snowdog03
4 жыл бұрын
Vietnam got smart and started their accented latin alphabet.
@johnj6523
4 жыл бұрын
Quoc Ngu is the currently-used script of Vietnam and it was forced upon the population during French colonization. Vietnamese weren’t given a choice by the French hence have lost part of their cultural identity.
@Big_Tex
4 жыл бұрын
That stuff looks complicated
@content4502
4 жыл бұрын
Social studies teacher, Said the Chinese language had 40,000 characters.
@felipecabrera511
4 жыл бұрын
When 水 showed up I thought of みず and すい. Then I realized it was supposed to be chinese, not japanese.
@AltoNivelInt
4 жыл бұрын
Same here my friend...
@criskity
4 жыл бұрын
Japanese すい sui; Chinese 水 shui
@keksitzee1094
4 жыл бұрын
@@criskity - hence the omyomi
@JMiles-kk7kl
4 жыл бұрын
Good video Hu👌
@Wheely55
4 жыл бұрын
That was fun. It's interesting how the same character was used to stress a stronger meaning of the same thing just by doubling it or more.
@StephenCallender
4 жыл бұрын
Very Good! I did learn something new! I know a lot of Chinese Characters but the 4 characters making a new character was new to me.
@williamedwardhackman4695
3 жыл бұрын
Great Chinese character teaching video.
@XxXxSabooxXxX
3 жыл бұрын
Please make more Chinese alphabetical character videos!
@jimlittler8504
4 жыл бұрын
So nice to be getting more of Dr Hu!
@p.schmidt7032
3 жыл бұрын
That was interesting, especially since my dictionary doesn't even seem to know some of those characters. And, btw awesome channel name!
@edwardsy7414
4 жыл бұрын
Using the traditional writing would be more fun when its repeated 3x.
@russianbotfarm3036
4 жыл бұрын
I'm sure they thank their gods for computers, nowadays.
@gilbertquintanar7160
4 жыл бұрын
I learned some very interesting information. Thank You!
@annafilban2859
4 жыл бұрын
Also, isn't four an unlucky number in Chinese? I notice when there are four of the same character its meaning describes an undesirable amount of something or an undesirable situation.
@TheBradylands
4 жыл бұрын
My wife got 100% very proud of her.
@westybestie
4 жыл бұрын
How about fun chinese internet slang? Like spicy chicken (dumb) or male god/female goddess or landlord (1st poster)? Either way, I'm totally cool with whatever you post. Your channel is very wholesome.
@samuelboxall8267
4 жыл бұрын
Surely this would be HU DOESNT KNOW :))
@Lydiahu-u2p
7 ай бұрын
this woman disappeared for 3 years
@jangelbrich7056
4 жыл бұрын
I remember doing similar Kanji games when I was in Japan 30 years ago. Only with pen, paper and a dictionary. It was great fun!
@Dowlphin
4 жыл бұрын
- Well, I can understand why few Chinese know what cheese and character flaws are. 😏 - Is there any logic to why words with merely a different tone tend to mean something completely different? Any rule that makes it easier to understand and memorize? Or is it all just 'organically-chaotically grown'? I mean, why shouldn't simple multiples of the same symbol sound at least somewhat similar to the single symbol? (I am character driven, but not this madness!) - What I know is that if the future Chinese empire requires me to learn Chinese, at that point I will rebel and that will be the beginning of the end of their fancy little empire. Fu kyu! 😎
@russianbotfarm3036
4 жыл бұрын
> words with merely a different tone tend to mean something completely different? Because they're mostly mono-syllabic, there just _isn't room in the sound-space_ for all the necessary concepts, so they double-triple-quadruple-up with tones (there are 4 tones in Mandarin).
@Dowlphin
4 жыл бұрын
That was not my question though.
@russianbotfarm3036
4 жыл бұрын
@@Dowlphin > not what I asked I literally quoted you. But the answer to the rest of your question is, that it was organically and chaotically grown. The Chinese language has been around _since ancient times_ ;), and there's very occasional, isolated rhyme and reason. Imagine the problem of trying to communicate via symbols, it'd be like Pictionary. Well, that only takes you so far, sometimes people would use one character for its sound, then add another character to indicate '... but meaning more like this', and then, lo!, a few hundred years later the sound changes and it's not such a good hint anymore, but the way you write it stays the same. As messy as English spelling is, Chinese spelling is hardly predictable (ie has patterns) at all.
@Dowlphin
4 жыл бұрын
I guess it matches the way languages in general so often develop - through convenience, misuse, ignorance etc.. I don't know whether Esperanto cleans up that messy approach or just tries to emphasize familiarity, but it is quite useful to have an intuitively relatable language. (I remember in school I got my minimum score in Spanish in part by deducting vocabulary from English and Latin roots and relations, and funnily, while being such a bad student of that language, often led to me raising my hand where even top students had no clue, because they could only memorize and not think for themselves.)
@goldreverre
4 жыл бұрын
yes, it's a mess. But it's an interesting mess. There is some logical structure to the language at times, but there's lots of anomalies and historic artifacts that break the logic. Also, you've got thousands of characters, but only about 400 possible sounds (combos of accepted syllables and tones). So the same sound can mean many different words depending on context. There's a well-known comic poem about a chicken...every word in it is "Ji", just said with different tones. 季姬击鸡记. Check it out for a laugh.
@merinsan
4 жыл бұрын
I was putting these into Pleco while watching, and even Pleco struggled to find the meanings and words!
@brianbell9678
4 жыл бұрын
Fun language lesson. One of the previous videos with the segment on acupuncture (the ear) was also interesting.
@hunter2473
4 жыл бұрын
Literally my favorite channel on KZitem : D
@Dowlphin
4 жыл бұрын
Literally literally. 😄
@roberteischen4170
4 жыл бұрын
This is awesome, let's see some more!
@enduril122
4 жыл бұрын
Whoaa... that's the most BEAUTIFUL calig-writing i've ever seeen.!!.. Did Hu know that your caligraphy is really really guud??..
@SuperPucker
3 жыл бұрын
We love ALL your videos. Please make more about Sasha's China!!!
@alallan7584
4 жыл бұрын
Yes I love it. Anything you guys do is very entertaining.
@jk1776yt
4 жыл бұрын
It looks like Mandarin can be crazy crazy crazy crazy at times.
@nothingspecial12344
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the lesson.
@JacobScott0000
4 жыл бұрын
Winston in a hoodie!
@chriskahn7326
4 жыл бұрын
You should definitely make more videos about Chinese language and interesting characters!
@Skiddla
4 жыл бұрын
2:34 do you pronounce 耳坠 the same as 耳醉? i think 沝 is more like 追 but with a different tone. interesting , what region are you from?
@lieutenantcrazy1239
4 жыл бұрын
that is an amazing video with education and entertainment your vids are the best Sasha and your English is way too amazing
@quentint8742
4 жыл бұрын
Sasha, remember you married your husband because he is smart too! He will be hard to trick. But would be good to video of you trying to trick Winston ;-)
@StochasticUniverse
4 жыл бұрын
This was actually a very cool video from the perspective of someone who has never studied Chinese and knows nothing about how the written language works. It might seem obvious to someone who has, but remember that most people haven't! There's a lot of value in reviewing the basics because most people on the internet won't have seen it before, even if it seems simple to the expert. I think sometimes KZitemrs forget to pluck the low-hanging fruit because they think it's too simple. Well done!
@billsmith5410
4 жыл бұрын
This was very interesting. I really enjoy your take on Chinese culture. And you guys are such an adorable couple
@jariliu8888
4 жыл бұрын
You are such a sweet couple. And Winston without a tie and shirt or suit, good to see a leisure clothes :) My best wishes to you all the three of ya. By the way, my wife is has a PhD in Chinese characters. She is impressed by Winstons knowledge in characters and spoken Chinese, she says that has to do with Sashas effect on Winston ;) I say you are awesome both of ya.
@danielrevere6677
4 жыл бұрын
Doctors' handwriting...
@irenee3062
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you Hu this video was fantastic look forward to more video's.
@johnchin7493
4 жыл бұрын
How do you cope with your husband's deep seated hatred for your country?
@Char10tti3
4 жыл бұрын
Haha love the cat pun and the ears on the hood 😊 Oh congratulations! 🥰
@DanielMalette
4 жыл бұрын
I really enjoyed that video, it was fascinating, and I do hope that you'll make many more like it. Thank you for the entertainment and education. PS the interactions between you and Winston was nice to watch too.
@enginerd0
4 жыл бұрын
That was a lot of fun.
@benlompoliuw1445
4 жыл бұрын
I find Chinese and Chinese characters so interesting yet so difficult. I am an Indonesian who live in Australia. I went to a Chinese church in my little town in Java where I learnt little tiny bit of Chinese. That is why I love knowledge like this. Hi Winst I admire your Chinese characters knowledge.
@doomsayer7937
4 жыл бұрын
I loved the video. We have an actual real Chinese restaurant owned by a family from China and it's so cool since all they speak is Mandarin. Of course, they can speak English but, between themselves it's just mandarin. Pretty awesome.
@quentint8742
4 жыл бұрын
zhuó might mean unlucky twin because 又又 means twin but four sounds like death and is unlucky so 又 又 used above each other means double twin or person with hidden bad side.
@c-LAW
4 жыл бұрын
Simplified (3000 characters) vs traditional (14,000 characters). Taiwan still teaches Traditional. Simplified characters was Mao's attempt to erase the past. By "simplifying", it means Chinese cannot read historical documents. Even documents older than 1970. TRADITIONAL literacy can read documents that date back 3000 years. SIMPLIFIED can read documents only since 1970.
@hunter2473
4 жыл бұрын
It wasn't Mao's attempt to erase the past.... What are you talking about...
@jasonleetaiwan
4 жыл бұрын
@@hunter2473 Yup, Mao loved reading. He just didn't want the masses reading anything the CCP didn't write. Simplified characters were never intended to replace the official character but Mao did precisely just that to supposedly increase literacy when it was really about making the people illiterate.
@alantan9863
4 жыл бұрын
I understand the argument, but I can read both sets though. However, I may find it difficult to comprehend Zhuge Liang's letter as it's written in classical Chinese. It's akin to reading Latin for a Westerner.
@va_wl
4 жыл бұрын
Dude do your researches. There's about 50 000 characters, and about 2500 of them have a simplified variant. Nothing's erased and most Chinese can read historical documents and simplified characters in their traditional form.
@jasonleetaiwan
4 жыл бұрын
@@va_wl Not erased, but substituted as the official form so the public would have more trouble reading documents with the original characters. It wasn't to increase literacy. It was to permanently decrease literacy of documents not written by the CCP. You can't use numbers to try to justify what the CCP did.
@d5u2ke
4 жыл бұрын
Fun video! Yes please more on language. I love learning more Mandarin and the characters too!
@jayblazin6082
4 жыл бұрын
Who knows? Well hu knows! Interesting vid
@Cinepobrefilmfestival
4 жыл бұрын
always love to learn something excruciatingly useless
@jf752
3 жыл бұрын
She's super intelligent how she essentially used some of characters she explained and told us about how to put them together to use them for the phrase of internet language also. 10/10
@sunmanyi3265
9 ай бұрын
Soar high (HK dialect)......in the clouds.
@StereoSpace
4 жыл бұрын
Have you and Winston gone to see a performance of Shen Yun yet? They're in Escondido in January 2020.
@thinkabout602
4 жыл бұрын
HU KNOWS AWESOME Very informative and charming thank you 👍😊🌸
@jaewok5G
4 жыл бұрын
i like these … i would like to know about chinese idioms - do they even use idioms like we do in english? also; it's funny to see snake boi not acting cool in his sharp suit n mirror shades.
@BuzzSargent
4 жыл бұрын
You two are very good together! I know nothing about the Chinese language so this is interesting for a novice. The letters or symbols and how to pronounce words is a real mystery. How xi becomes she when said out loud is weird in English pronunciation. However, in some ways, Chinese characters seem to be easier to know than the Japanese. Korean characters are a total mystery. Three languages are so close in the same area but so different. Your guest was good and well behaved!
@NeverMetTheGuy
4 жыл бұрын
Watched two exceptionally long ads before the video, since I just found out from another KZitemr that it pays better. So to bide my time while showing support, I'm writing this comment. Ten seconds to go.
@Dowlphin
4 жыл бұрын
I guess pre-roll ads are not clickable, otherwise you'd have to consider click-through rate.
@FoodforThought12345678dsds
4 жыл бұрын
I kept on checking for e-mails on my phone, lol
@russianbotfarm3036
4 жыл бұрын
'elbow' -- I heard some Chinese adults forget how to write it. My favorite example, though I forget the pin yin: 'sun' + 'moon' together = 'bright'. Like, writing is playing a guessing game with you. "What do the Sun and the Moon have in common? They're bright!" Something like the game 'Pictionary', struggling to communicate with you, even abstractions(!), via pictures.
@zippythechicken
4 жыл бұрын
can i ask... what is your opinion of Google Translate? Is it accurate or very bad? also do you ever use Google Translate and use the drawing feature to write your characters? .... I sometimes have conversations with someone that can not read english and they are korean. i do not believe google translate is giving good results so I always include the english with the korean so they can translate the original english. ... yes we like all of your videos :o)
@robezy0
4 жыл бұрын
I'm not Sasha or Winston, but from my experience in China, Google has proven to be the best option. It just starts messing up with figures of speech or complicated subordinate clauses. It is handy to use it together with a good dictionary that can help if words are misused. As for the drawing feature: There is actually a handwriting option for chinese keyboards on phones that my friends use from time to time when they can't find a character.
@zippythechicken
4 жыл бұрын
@@robezy0 normally i use google first and then check it in bing translate.. I find I have to simplify sentences or change words but it will reverse translate back to english pretty good. However I don't have trust in the quality of the translations. It is better than nothing I guess.
@robezy0
4 жыл бұрын
@@zippythechicken yeah too much complexity will mess up the translation often, I usually do that too. It is quite amazing how we still haven't got a proper translator system with all that big data, right?
@TheRocknrollmaniac
3 жыл бұрын
An interesting thing I've noticed- Chinese people, even the most proficient English speakers- leave out the "s" in almost all plural forms of English words, just like sacha- is it sacha? does here. Does anybody who knows Chinese have some speculations why this is the case? How do Chinese modify the plural versions of their words?
@michaelharrison2775
4 жыл бұрын
I cannot imagine learning Chinese. I have always been sure that I would never try.
@michaelharrison2775
4 жыл бұрын
Yes, interesting!
@jasondicioccio880
4 жыл бұрын
For whatever reason, I've noticed that it does get easier the more of them you learn. I only know about 400 or 500 right now, but the last 100 were a *lot* easier than the first.
@Oldwolf63
4 жыл бұрын
Congrats on the Baby guys , the water ones I found quite logical (no I don't have pointed ears...…)
@QuizmasterLaw
4 жыл бұрын
More CSL videos please! Playlist would be good!
@QuizmasterLaw
4 жыл бұрын
岩 磊 硕 拓 岩 cliff 磊 rockpile 硕 big 拓 develop
@kwitchabichen
4 жыл бұрын
Everything i find now that has chinese character i first figure out if it was made in Taiwan, or the PRC. And then i try and translate all the different characters on it to figure out and memorise meanings
@monicalar6680
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you ! My first lesson. Can’t wait for next one.
@hunguyen1402
4 жыл бұрын
Wow she know how write Chinese
@NeilDjents
4 жыл бұрын
Winston, your new suit looks elegant :)
@Rayvive
4 жыл бұрын
Good Evening Hu, it was delightful next lesson pls 😁
@SinisterPrince
4 жыл бұрын
Haha. I really enjoyed this one. Maybe do one about tones in Mandarin sometime? Such a pleasure to watch. You're a spirit of brilliant white light. Pure. Uplifting. Like a lighthouse beacon decimating darkness. My happiness for you and Winston is relentless. Best wishes!
@DanielOliveira-xu5zf
4 жыл бұрын
What`s the diference from tradicional to Simplefied Chinese caracters, is it just reducing the strokes for writing or did they remove some caracters that people don`t use ?
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