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Chinese Unfiltered

Chinese Unfiltered

por Rita Fan & Friends

Aprendizaje de idiomas Sociedad y Cultura

EP11 Chinese Ghost Stories, Fengshui, Asian Horror Movies, & Beijing Haunted Places

Jun and I shared our favorite ghost stories, Asian horror movies, Fengshui, Haunted places in Beijing, even personal experiences, and everything about the spiritual beings in Chinese culture. We also compared them to their counterparts in Western cultures that we know in this Halloween special episode. Enjoy! Video version: https://youtu.be/P3Seyl3IDWM Get Pinyin+Hanzi+English Transcript: https://ritachinese.com/chinese-unfiltered Website: ritachinese.com YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RitaChinese Instagram: instagram.com/rita_mandarin_chinese

EP10 I'm a New Mom, and These Are My Struggles!

It took extra time to edit this episode, because I looked through the pictures of my baby and myself over and over, and I relived the past 4 months again and again. I talked with Jun about this irreplaceable life experience, including the pains, the struggles, the depression, as well as the joy and happiness that my baby's birth has brought to me and my whole family. Video version: https://youtu.be/pRpBwhUtVi4 Get Pinyin+Hanzi+English Transcript: https://ritachinese.com/chinese-unfiltered Website: ritachinese.com YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RitaChinese Instagram: instagram.com/rita_mandarin_chinese

EP07 Why Chinese Women REFUSE to Get Married

Rita has been married for 5 years, and Jun is still looking for her significant one. But we both have the observation of fewer women that we know getting married in recent years, and it reflects a huge trend in the Chinese society. What happened? What is stopping Chinese women from marriage life? Is it a regional thing? We also talked about a shocking article on the internet that sparked a lot of discussions or even debates. Video version: https://youtu.be/jO3k6jigDR8 Get Pinyin+Hanzi+English Transcript: https://ritachinese.com/chinese-unfiltered Website: ritachinese.com YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RitaChinese Instagram: instagram.com/rita_mandarin_chinese

EP06 Why Chinese People REFUSE to Learn English in 2024

Chinese kids don't learn English anymore? It was shocking to Rita and Jun, as the Chinese generation who dedicated years even decades to learning English and foreign languages. What is happening? What are the reasons and truths behind it? In this episode, we share some observations and thoughts. Video version: https://youtu.be/V7BHRIgRCP0 Get Pinyin+Hanzi+English Transcript: https://ritachinese.com/chinese-unfiltered Website: ritachinese.com YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RitaChinese Instagram: instagram.com/rita_mandarin_chinese

EP05 Chinese Girl Dating Struggles: Our Weird Dating Stories

In this episode, we're talking about a more laid back topic: dating! How does dating work in China? How has it changed, and what kind of weird experiences have we had? Video version: https://youtu.be/k1O3qCVBFyg Get Pinyin+Hanzi+English Transcript: https://ritachinese.com/chinese-unfiltered Website: ritachinese.com YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RitaChinese Instagram: instagram.com/rita_mandarin_chinese

EP02 Why Chinese over 35 are SO Anxious

More and more Chinese people are facing age-related anxiety, but it's starting at 35, 30, or even earlier! Why are Chinese people facing such stress, what are they worried about, and what are they trying to do to deal with it? In Episode 2 of our Chinese podcast, Fan Laoshi and Jun Laoshi break down this issue! Video version: https://youtu.be/JDJhcIkqUD4 Get Pinyin+Hanzi+English Transcript: https://ritachinese.com/chinese-unfiltered Website: ritachinese.com YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RitaChinese Instagram: Instagram: @stickynote.chinese @rita_mandarin_chinese

EP01 Why Chinese People REFUSE to Celebrate Chinese New Year

Over the last few years, a new social trend has come up, where young Chinese people just don't really want to celebrate Chinese New Year anymore. Why is that? Today in our new video podcast series, Jun Laoshi and I are sharing some thoughts. Video version: https://youtu.be/NTWn_foYQmw Get Pinyin+Hanzi+English Transcript: https://ritachinese.com/chinese-unfiltered Website: ritachinese.com YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RitaChinese Instagram: @rita_mandarin_chinese

EP27 From Laowai to Laoma Chris: How 2 months changed his life

"Chinese Unfiltered" podcast has a native-sounding Mandarin speaker today - Laoma Chris, FINALLY. We traced it back to the very beginning of his Chinese journey and how 2 months of special training changed his past 15 years, his work, his life, and his world. 🎥 Video version: https://youtu.be/-CjXwG-UQoA 🔥 Speak Mandarin that natives can understand effortlessly → https://findingyourmandarinvoice.com/ ✅ Save $100 by April 30 ⬆️ 🙌 FREE 6-Step “Mandarin Pronunciation Roadmap” → https://ritachinese.com/roadmap?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video_description&utm_campaign=roadmap_launch&utm_content=from_laowai_to_laoma 📌 FREE 5-Day Mandarin Tones Course → https://findyourmandarintones.com/ 5 minutes a day. All four tones. In your own voice, in 5 days. 🔍 Get video without subtitles and audio versions plus a full transcript of Pinyin+Hanzi+English: https://ritachinese.com/chinese-unfiltered 0:00 First impression of China and Mandarin 9:29 First 3 months of Mandarin class 14:33 The start of speaking fluency 19:09 The turning point of Laoma's Chinese 22:41 What actually changed 🙋🏻‍♀️ Website: ritachinese.com 🔥 YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RitaChinese 💬 Instagram: instagram.com/rita_mandarin_chinese

EP26 Why Young Chinese Turn to Religion and Fortune-Telling in 2026

Li Laoshi is back in my podcast after we celebrated the Chinese New Year in the US and in Europe, and we talked about a topic that we both are very passionate about - religions and beliefs. As a Chinese millennial and a Chinese Gen-Zer who grew up in different internet and social media eras, we had different observations about our own generations' spiritual lives. But we also both noticed a huge trend on Rednote, Weibo, as well as the real Chinese world: 00:00 Spiritual practices in TV shows and on Chinese social media 09:49 How and why young Chinese turn to religion 17:14 Li Laoshi's personal experience with Buddhism 🎥 Video version: https://youtu.be/N15pVDwwEsc 🔍 Get video without subtitles and audio versions plus a full transcript of Pinyin+Hanzi+English: https://ritachinese.com/chinese-unfiltered 🙋🏻‍♀️ Website: ritachinese.com 🔥 YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RitaChinese 💬 Instagram: instagram.com/rita_mandarin_chinese

EP25 Why Chinese Natives Don't Understand Your Mandarin, According to Science (and HOW to Fix it)

Dr. Abner Zhang and I met at the CLTA annual meeting early this year and discussed his research on second-language phonetics and fluency during my visit to Middlebury College last month. There is way too much conflicting information and advice, so we talk about intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness, three key words and topics that have everything to do with Mandarin speaking and listening, along with a bunch of Second Language Learning research and real-life examples. 0:00 What intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness mean to language learners 10:01 What language learners need to do based on two learning models 16:21 Can "context" fix everything? 18:25 Other factors impacting communication 23:09 Why you don't understand Chinese natives' Mandarin 🎥 Video version: https://youtu.be/ehwmXGiiP7M 🔍 Get video without subtitles and audio versions plus a full transcript of Pinyin+Hanzi+English: https://ritachinese.com/chinese-unfiltered 🙋🏻‍♀️ Website: ritachinese.com 🔥 YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RitaChinese 💬 Instagram: instagram.com/rita_mandarin_chinese

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