Easy Mandarin 1 - What are you doing today?

Welcome to the first ever episode of Easy Mandarin! Ya Hsuan is at Tapei 101, a popular tourist attraction, to ask people what they're doing today.

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Easy Languages is an international video project aiming at supporting people worldwide to learn languages through authentic street interviews. We also use this format to expose our street culture abroad and create a more diverse image of our countries. Episodes are produced in local languages and contain subtitles in both the original language as well as in English.

Host of this episode: 亞璇 Ya Hsuan
Camera: 皓婷 Hao Ting
Edit: 從慈 Cong Cih
Translation: 強尼 Johnny / 月夏 Julian

[tecknowledjee]

Out of all the tutorial scrolling for Mandarin on YouTube, this alone has helped me significantly more than the other videos I watched. Just listening into people's conversations on the street can increase your learning in a foreign language way more than the constant videos of people "Ni hao, wo jiao..." (but those still help). Thank you all so much for the series of Mandarin on the streets!

[epalegmail]

Omg I just heard the interview with the cat, and now I can speak chinese fluent!!!

[sunsusana]

无论是台湾，大陆，还是港澳以及海外同胞，
开心每一天就好啦。
我觉得这个VIDEO 非常棒。

[sovietwizard]

The reason I like this channel is because it actually helps you understand street talk, no other channel that's for foreigners does that, they always wash away that accent, making it much easier than it actually is.

[Livingthe]

FINALLY Easy Mandarin!!! I've been hoping and wishing for this for a long time! And it's even Taiwanese Mandarin with traditional subtitles... thank you soooo much, please keep the episodes coming.

[MountainJohn]

at 4:15 I instantly became fluent. Thank you :)

[iChristyG]

I love hearing the Taiwanese’s accent. It sounds so nice to me.

[ricardomuelas]

YES!!! FINALLY!!! Thank you Easy Languages! Mandarin here we go!!!

[digitallyzer]

the interviewer's voice is so calming 😊 thanks for the listening practice~

[ngocnguyen-xmjb]

Chinese sounds so beautiful spoken😍😍. I love it. It is such an interesting language to learn

[rbbach]

Thank you all for making a great video to help me improve my Mandarin.I was smiling the whole time;especially at the cat which could not be bothered to answer. The normal speech was a little fast for my comprehension but the pinyin and English translation help a lot.Keep up the excellent work.Old man/student in Seattle, Washington U.S. rick

[RomyIlano]

I like easy mandarin and Japanese. they show everyday people in real life! so charming and such nice ambassadors

[carsonchan]

this pinying, chinese, english sub is GOLD. Genius!

[funkybenzoyl]

Ahhhh, best channel hands down for someone who was somewhat fluent but has forgotten so many words and needs easy conversation practice for review. Xie xie nimen!

[michellechen]

4:16 Can Easy language start a new series called "how to talk to cats?" The host is soo humorous!!

[ghostb]

This is amazing. I love the Taiwanese accent but it can be really hard to figure out what people are saying when they speak quickly, the subtitles were AWESOME. Thank you.

[harry.nguyen]

Finally! I can't believe how long it took to do one for the most spoken language in the world

[rza]

As someone who reads and writes in Mainland China's Mandarin--this was very interesting to read along to with the subtitles along with observing different ways phrases are said! such as bu hui being no problem in Tapei instead of meishi + all the different characters used!

[GeorgeKaoCommunity]

So helpful! Thank you. Especially having the 3 lines of transcript/translation at the bottom. Will keep watching! I hope you guys make more Taiwan Mandarin videos.

[dontmindme.imjustafraidofe]

Learning this so I can teach the two children I’ll adopt from China.