Weekday 'what are you watching / reading / playing / listening to?' thread #8
Weekday 'what are you watching / reading / playing / listening to?' thread #8
As with previous threads, the idea behind this is to have a - not quite - weekly post where learners of all levels, heritage and native speakers can post the Chinese content they have been consuming this week in whatever form. If people also give an indication of their level (or the level of content) as well it can act as a way for people to discover new content which may be suitable for them.
I'm currently studying Chinese abroad which explains my absence from here a bit, but unfortunately (or fortunately?) I'm quite ahead of the course so currently I started tackling "Thought and Society" by Vivianne Ling, and used by some of the most intensive programs in Taiwan, and so far it's really fun reading more academically inclined essays.
I'm a native speaker just kinda hanging on to heritage because of the recent developments in ahem US politics and I kinda wanna brush up on it incase I get denaturalized and deported.
Hopefully not, but then again, its also interesting to see that I feel emotionally attached to Chinese languages more than English, even though English is my primary and most fluent language.
Like I listen to 70s/80s/90s Cantonese songs and also have been just going through the top Chinese Music Videos on Youtube, just see if I like any of them.
I recently found this channel called "Namewee" and I scroll through it and found sound quite interesting and kinda political songs, needeless to say, he got banned from mainland China for political reasons.
Anyways:
I found this TV show called 你的孩子不是你的孩子, and its about ethnic Chinese families and its dysfunctional. Idk why, I learned of this show years ago but never watched it till now, kinda felt the urge to watch it since I also come from as sort of broken family, very relatable.
Just finished the first episode without using any English subtitle, using Chinese subtitles only. I understand 99% of everything.
Idk what my level is, you could teleport me me to Beijing and I could sort of ask my way around to a US Embassy. But I don't think I can actually like hold a conversation too long without feeling like an outcast, since I last had an education in Chinese in 2nd grade... so 2nd grader level I guess? Also I probably don't know all the colloquial sayings.
If you were to ask me to read, say, Three Body Problem in Chinese, omg my head is gonna spin. It doesn't look foreign to me, but my head will spin if I see a entire pages of Chinese, I'm not used to it. I'm basically a 2nd grader in Chinese part of my brain lol.