Learn Intermediate Conversational Chinese _ What kind of girls do you like_ _ Yoyo Chinese.

What kind of girls do you like I like girls with big eyes preferably with a round face and high cheekbones I like girls with good skin and who are very fair-skinned What kind of girls do you like I prefer girls with long hair What kind of girls do you like Girls who are tall and thin I prefer girls with big eyes What kind of girl do you like I like girls with big eyes preferably with a oval face and high cheekbones I like girls with good skin and who are very fair-skinned What kind of girl do you like I prefer girls with long hair I prefer the girl with big eyebrows In our last lesson we asked people "What kind of boys do you like " What type of boys do you like In this lesson we are continuing with that theme and asking what type of girls do you like We'll learn more about the Chinese way of describing someone's appearance especially female characteristics Let's start by listening to how our host Tongtong phrases the question What type of girls do you like You like what kind of girls The question here is phrased exactly the same way as the question in the previous lesson except of course the word "boy" was replaced by the word "girl " Girl is the same as girl Here you can also say "What kind of girl do you like " Let's see what kinds of girls the first guest likes What kind of girl do you like I like girls with big eyes preferably with a round face and a high nose The word that our guest uses for girl instead of "nǚ háizi" is "nǚ shēng " "Nǚ shēng" is really just another way to say girl or young woman It originally meant school girl with the "sheng" being short for "xuesheng " student But now it's used in much the same way as the generic "nühái zi " Repeat after me Girl Sometimes you also hear people use "nansheng" for boys or guys Our guest says he likes "dajing de nüsheng " which means you guessed it girls with big eyes Alright let 's learn the names of parts of the face Repeat after me Eyes Eyes nose Eyes nose face One more time One last time Eyes nose face Now I'm going to say the name at a new point Nose FaceEyes Very good Alright so big-eyed girls is big-eyed girls I like girls with big eyes Then he goes on to say that she should preferably have a oval face and a high nose We've learned before that "zui hao" means the best as in "zui hao peng you " best friend Here we learned that it can also mean ideally or preferably For example say you're looking for a tour guide in China Even though you can 't speak Chinese yourself you prefer someone who can speak English as well So when talking about your requirement you can say "best to speak English " ideally can speak English Now back to our interview What characteristics does the guest say that his type should ideally have He mentions two things "guazi face" and "high nose " "Guazi" means melon seeds like watermelon seeds and pumpkin seeds Because a pumpkin is considered a type of melon which could be melon or squash Face means face Remember eyes nose face So a "gua zi lian" is a face that is shaped like a melon seed although with a slightly pointed chin You might also think of it as heart-shaped in English but more on the narrow side This is considered to be the face shape of a classic beauty in China The Chinese celebrity that comes to mind when you think of "guazi lian" is Fan Bingbing Fan Bingbing is one of the most famous actresses in China Face shape is not something we think about too much in Western culture But in China people are much more aware of the shape of their own face as well as the shape of other people's faces And use the face shape as a major identifying feature Another face shape considered beautiful for women which also has a very descriptive word for it It's "e-dan-lian " which literally means goose egg face Goose is goose egg is egg and face is face If you can imagine a goose egg you can get an idea of the shape of the face this word describes It's also oval-shaped but slightly rounder than the guazi face and without the slightly pointed chin It might seem strange to you to describe someone by the shape of their face but think about it In the West you describe people by their hair color eye color and skin color Well in China where most people have nearly the same eye hair and skin color we have to use more detailed characteristics to describe someone's appearance Face shape is one thing you may not have given much thought to before Another is the bridge of your nose That is the second thing our guest mentions as an ideal characteristic for the type of girls he likes High nose literally tall nose Having a flat nose is not a desirable characteristic in China Which is unfortunate since this is the dominant type of nose for Chinese people Those who are blessed with a more prominent nose are generally considered more attractive Now let's listen once more to our first guest's answer Got it Let's continue Here's how the second guest answers Tongtong's question I like people with good skin Skin means skin Someone with good skin is someone without blemishes or marks The phrase "I like good skin" is missing an object We have to go all the way to the end of the sentence to find the object which is "girl " So if the guest wanted to simply say I like girls with good skin without elaborating further then he would have said "I like girls with good skin " But instead he wanted to say I like girls with good skin and who are pale or have a fair complexion He said this: "I like girls with good skin and who are very fair-skinned " In Chinese to say that someone is pale or fair We usually say they look white which is "long very white " The opposite of this to say someone is really dark or really tan is "long very black " In China as well as most of East Asia pale skin is considered much more attractive than tanned skin For most women in particular the sun is their worst enemy They will go to great lengths to avoid sun exposure They put on sunscreen wear long sleeves and hats carry parasols and even wear sun shades that cover their entire face And then they still use whitening cream Every time I go home my mother tells me that I'm too dark But I tell her that where I live in the States southern California having a tan is a good thing A Caucasian friend of mine who lives in China has complained to me before That it's difficult for her to find face cream that is not whitening As a white woman she does not want to be any paler than she already is She always has a good laugh when she goes to the beach in China to sunbathe and people look at her like she is crazy Her Chinese friends often tell her "Your skin is so white " which may seem like an insult to her but it's actually a compliment in Chinese Anyway getting back to our lesson our second guest's full answer is "I like girls with good skin and who are very fair-skinned " He uses the word "and" to connect his two thoughts "And" is another word that can mean and You have already learned the word "and" to mean and But the correct use of 和 is very limited compared to the English word and You can use the English word and to connect almost anything But and can only be used to connect two nouns or pronouns Think of and as the and that you use in the phrases this and that So you can say "I have a little brother and a little sister " Or "I can speak English and Chinese " Think of the word "而且" as meaning furthermore or and what's more Here's an example for you The food here is delicious and the environment is good The food here is delicious and the environment is also good Now let's watch our second guest's answer one more time and then move on to the next person I like girls with good skin and who are very fair-skinned What kind of girl do you like I prefer girls with long hair The guest says he prefers Back in lesson 11 we learned that biāojǐ means to compare or relatively and biāojǐhǎo means pretty good or relatively good Because the weather was better on the eleventh it was suitable for going out to travel Then in lesson 13 we came across the phrase 比較累 meaning pretty tiring or relatively tiring Is the work quite tiring not wanting to go out Here we see that "比較" can also be followed by "喜歡" "比較喜歡" can be thought of as meaning prefer So this guest says he prefers long hair We know that long means long hair means hair We learned before that the word "head" means head so the word "hair" refers to the hair on your head As a quick side note The word for hair that is on your arm or your leg is "hair " as in Chairman Mao Mao is also the word that means fur on animals Anyway our guest says he prefers girls with long hair I prefer girls with long hair What should he say if he prefers girls with short hair I prefer girls with short hair Good Let's look at the next one Let's look at the next one What kind of girl do you like A tall and thin girl This guest's response is very similar to one from our last lesson Let's go back and take a look at that one again What kind of boy do you like I like tall and handsome ones That guest said she likes guys who are tall and handsome In this lesson the "again and again" structure comes up again This time the guest says he likes tall and slim girls girls who are both tall and skinny I guess he's looking for a model a model Anyway "model" is one of the few Chinese words that was taken from English and therefore actually sounds like the English equivalent Let' s say the sentence Models are both tall and thin The model is tall and thin Very good Ok now for our last guest Let's see what he likes What kind of girl do you like I prefer girls with big eyes Our last guest says "I prefer big-eyed beauties " "Big-eyed beauties" is an easy phrase for you to learn because you already know each of the four words Big as in big eye as in eyes Beautiful as in beautiful Girl as in girl A beautiful girl with big eyes The "big-eyed girl" look is what many girls try to capture when they take photos of themselves with their phones You have probably seen them before They hold their phone camera at a certain angle in order to try to make their eyes look bigger Almost like a cartoon character Smaller more typical Asian-style eyes are unfortunately not what is considered beautiful to many people in China So more and more people are even getting plastic surgery To try to get the "big-eyed beauty" look Anyway if you know a Chinese woman who is considering getting plastic surgery maybe you can encourage her to think that natural beauty is the real beauty Natural is beautiful Also I want to talk about the word "beautiful woman" here "Beautiful woman" is a word that's really popular in China right now Even though it refers to a beauty or a beautiful girl it can be used to describe or refer to frankly any female good-looking or not From around 16 years old to maybe 40 or so Some people end up saying "Hey beautiful" to call someone if they don't know her name I think this is because calling someone " miss" sometimes feels a little too formal and calling someone "beauty" seems more familiar or casual In other situations If a woman is too old to be called Miss but too young to be called Mrs some people may end up just calling her Beauty instead To avoid offending her The word "meinv" is often paired together with the word "shuaige" that we learned in the last lesson "Shuai ge" is the male equivalent of the word "mei nu " Bars and clubs often claim that their establishment is where all the "shuai ge" and "mei nu" hang out It's like saying the beautiful people or the young and glamorous crowd Alright that's all for this lesson Goodbye to all you handsome guys and beauties out there See you next time Well my question for you now is: What kind of girls or guys do you like What 's your beauty standard Alright please let me know by commenting below Anyway if you want to download the lecture notes dialogue transcript dialogue replay and audio review please click here Click here to go to the next lesson and click here to subscribe to our awesome channel if you haven't already Alright see you next time goodbye See you next time