Language Learning with Emojis
July 18, 2017
0:00 ♪♪Traditional Chinese music ♪♪
0:04 Hey everyone, my name is Isaac McCurdy
0:06 and I just got back from a year studying abroad in Beijing, China.
0:10 I love to teach you a couple of words which show up
0:12 in both the American keyboard, the Chinese keyboard, and the emoji keyboard.
0:17 Now the first one is something that I ate every single day in China
0:20 and that's (Speaking Chinese) mǐfàn,
0:21 which means rice.
0:23 Something that would happen often,
0:25 in a mix of different cultures,
0:26 which is awkwardness,
0:28 which is (Speaking Chinese) gāngà.
0:30 Another word that I'd like to teach you is
0:32 something I had to do everyday when I was doing homework and I memorized 50 characters a day
0:36 and that is (Speaking Chinese), which is a Chinese idiom and it means thinking very carefully.
0:42 Here in China, I had lots of
0:44 (Speaking Chinese) niúròu miàn, noodles,
0:46 and that made me very
0:47 (Speaking Chinese) kuàilè, happy.
0:49 Thank you, see you next time!
0:50 ♪♪Traditional Chinese music ♪♪
