Five Chinese Sayings You Can ACTUALLY Use | Learn Chinese Now

hey so you've learned a few chungus I know you're excited but you shouldn't go around saying or Wahoo Tang long at any opportunity that's right if you throw in all these kind of complex chungus with big historical stories behind them into every sentence you're gonna sound like you're trying too hard what about yeah no more dragons tigers So today we're giving you five chungus that you can use in daily life no dragons these are these are effective people use them all the time so number one um and with this one it's actually got an English equivalent and a few of the other ones have English equivalents as well which makes them easy so rules means enter the village follow the customs and you might have already guessed that the English equivalent of this is when in Rome do as the Romans do or people normally just shorten it to When in Rome okay and I've heard this spoken by native speakers for example I got in a taxi once in Taiwan and as soon as I got in I I kind of had a little cough like and uh the guy immediately pulls out a mask and this was before covid back in 2019 or something and uh I was like oh no I'm I'm okay I don't yeah and then he's like I'm like oh you got me right and obviously we've kind of got used to mark asked in the last couple of years anyway but back then it was very foreign to westerners um so anyway I I got kind of forced to put on this mask but hey number two idia so this one is is is very simple small vegetable one plate or small dish one plate it just means a little dish what this means is something that's very easy now it sounds kind of odd but we actually have an expression just like this in English it's a piece of cake piece of cake and you were saying earlier maybe because a Cake's so easy to eat that's why we have it and and the dishes it's just a little you know like in Taiwan or South height it's like those um little side dishes you get yeah it's just a little side dish super easy to eat a piece of cake yeah so you can use this basically when anything that is easy to do you could just throw in oh it's really easy yeah [Music] and I chose this one because this also has an English equivalent so literally means one Arrow Two Eagles okay and it comes from a story of a guy who shot one arrows and killed two Eagles and so the English equivalent of it is killing two birds with one stone um of course the Chinese story is way cooler isn't it yeah Arrow you know yeah Eagles I mean ours are just Birds it could be like pigeons or something um but yeah anytime you'd use uh killing two birds with one stone in English like you're um going to the bank but you also needed to go to the post office but the bank happens to be right next to the post office so you can do the whole thing in one trip and you would say uh exactly you would say kill two birds be on Stone you can say [Music] okay so Luan just means chaos everything's all over the plate T is seven ba is eight and dull just means a mess so when any for anything is just you know seven things are thrown that way eight things are over there it's just a total mess everything's in disarray that can be physical things or just the entire situation you go out and you you know you got you went to the wrong place and the cab took off and you're like ah loincy Bodil that would be uh right yeah but then you could also have it for a messy room or something like that would be so if you're describing your kid's room or something believe me I'm a father I know um but uh yeah basically it's very easy to use isn't it super easy to use and you'll hear it all the time it's very very common you will and that's another thing with a lot of these once we've told them to you you're gonna hear people yeah you'll just hear it all the time yeah [Music] so this one um you might not hear the whole Chung you that often but the last two words or two characters you will hear very often because it's the word for conflict means like um mutually what does it mean well yeah it's so it's it's so from Mutual right it's one of those Grim because it's it's actually old Chinese it isn't it right that's what it comes from the the key though is the last two characters Spear and shield Spear and shield so it comes from a story about a guy who says that his Spears are the sharpest in the world can Pierce anything and his Shields that he's also selling are the strongest in the world and nothing can Pierce them so the guy as someone asks him well what have I use your Pierce anything spear to pierce your unpeaceable Shield what would happen then and it's kind of a conflict because it contradicts itself right so you could to just describe something that's contradictory you could say it's this young Mal doing or if you just wanted to talk about a conflict between people the word for conflict is Mal doing exactly it's not limited to just a contradiction it's it's if you have if you have a problem with somebody you know doing it right like you know we're gonna we're gonna fight or something so basically it just means a conflict it just means a conflict and that can be often it's between people but it can be anything it'd be talked about world affairs and politics and things like that nice so you might hear it says that you're definitely going to hear Mal doing you'll hear more yeah for sure all right guys thanks for watching if you want to learn more about traditional Chinese culture go to shenyon Creations that shenan Performing Arts it's their website they have all kinds of traditional dances and music all kinds of good stuff and myths and legends myths and legends it's great we have a link below for a free trial check it out and don't forget to like And subscribe thank you