Grinding Languages in Hong Kong 🇭🇰

What's up grinders? Welcome back to the next video. It is 10:00 in the morning. We slept in. Well, I slept in. Let's be honest. Okay, I slept in. The plan is now I'm actually going to warm up my engine, which is I got this belt over here. One second, I'll show you guys all. I got this back belt that I put on my back every morning. It doesn't matter how I'm feeling. I put it on. It warms up my back. It just ensures that there's no problems during the day. So, I'll do that probably for about 30 minutes. At the same time, I'm going to do my Chinese production practice, which I'm going to do off camera because I'm literally using the phone to film, so I can't do both at the same time. Then I guess we're going to go out and eat. But uh that's pretty much it. Oh, I did actually do an hour of Linguee Play yesterday. So, that was I actually did that. That's how awesome I am. And for those who are asking because I did read the comments on the last video. I saw someone said something about, you know, contempt towards my wife. Bro, when you've been with someone for 15 years, all you all you love to do is just to like nibble at each other. It's what makes life fun at that point, okay? And trust me, she can be [ __ ] brutal. She can be brutal. Like like I said, we got into a taxi and the first thing she said to the taxi driver is, "Sorry, he's stinky." >> [laughter] >> Do you hear that laughing? That's her laughing. >> The driver opened the window after you came. >> After I came? I came in the taxi? What [laughter] did I What did I don't remember coming in the taxi. >> You came to sit on the taxi. >> I came in Okay, that's not Anyway, let's uh let's This This video is starting as a disaster. Okay, so I'm dressed ready to go out, eat food, get fat, break my back, do all that good stuff. But someone asked me in my last video about pictures of my cat. You know, just because I'm in Hong Kong, that seems like an appropriate time to ask about the cat. So, here is my cat bashing away at a box. Watch him. >> I hope you enjoyed that. That is my cat wanting food. Okay, so now we're heading out to grab some food. Now, random question for you guys. How to tell if a Chinese kid is actually Chinese or a Western involved kid? See if he drinks hot water or cold water. That's the trick. Yep. It's always funny watching our Chinese parents become depressed when they see their Chinese kid speak drinking cold water. It means he's fully adapted to our culture. Okay, so we are at the What is the English word? D here. Um subway. And we are going to try and take the train for the first time since we've been here. We are at uh Chung Wan, which is like Central Circle here in Hong Kong. Something actually quite funny just happened. So, me and the wife were like joking and she did this like Okay, so this is not acceptable in Australia, but in Chinese culture women they'll like slap their husbands like on the shoulder type of thing. Like, "Hey, ba ba ba." And some Chinese guy, some old Chinese guy, grabbed her hand and told her to stop it. >> [laughter] >> Yeah, that's right. Domestic violence. Domestic violence. She's been beating on me and a local old Chinese guy told her to stop. Love it. I I think I'm moving to Hong Kong. I think I can do quite well here. I don't know why, but we've decided to travel all the halfway across Hong Kong to ride an escalator. Apparently, this location's called "Ban Shan Fu Ti." Right now, I am in the previous Hong Kong Magistrate Jail and What else was this place? Magistrate Jail and something else. Okay, so this this whole location that you see behind me. And it got uh the wife talking because behind us is like a little mini museum and it talks about how uh when the British were here, there was a certain level of discrimination obviously within uh the hierarchy of society. So, basically like the the British uh police force was you'd have white people at the top of British descent and then you'd have uh Indians who were obviously a colony of uh the Britain at the time and then the Chinese would be below that. And that was basically, you know, your upper limits. And my wife like asked me, you know, have I ever suffered any type of like uh racial discrimination or anything in Australia? Or like that type of discrimination. And funnily enough, yes. Yes, I have, okay. So, I've got a few stories. One of those stories is actually I was on a train and while I was on the train, I was talking in Esperanto on the phone and two American girls, okay, black American girls, I don't know what they were thinking, but they randomly like yelled at me and told me to speak English in Australia because I was speaking Esperanto. I've actually spoken about this before. I'm not making this up. Like I spoke about this story must have been like 10 plus years ago on this channel. And obviously, I just replied to them in the most Australian accent I could, something. I can't even remember what I said anymore, but I do remember that. That was quite funny. Second instance and this is actually the more um the one that continues for a lot a lot longer was when I was in primary school. I went to an all Aboriginal school and let's just say that the racial discrimination there against me and my brothers being the only white kids in that school was absolutely [ __ ] batshit insane. Before that, I actually had no concept of racial discrimination. Like it just just wasn't something that I had a a concept of, okay, because well, I was still so young. And after that, bro, I knew how bad it could get. Like well, there was one instance where I remember I was leaving school with my brothers and we're being chased by this Aboriginal group and I stopped on the bridge and I did basically the whole Viking on the bridge type of thing where I was turned to my brothers and like, "Run, I'll stop them." And then they ended up picking me up and throwing me off the bridge into the water below. And it was a couple of meters down, so it was it was a quite a quite a fall, okay. But, uh it is I guess one of the reasons why I became an S Pronus and I'm so against that type of stuff because it's based on nothing. It's just complete [ __ ] Here's an example of what I was talking about. So, you got the British there, you got the Indian soldier, and then the Chinese in the middle. Bro, I just read this. So, in the early years of the colony, deportation was a common method of punishment, okay? And then down it says here, "Banish people had their ears branded before deportation, making it easier for the police to identify them should they illegally return." So, according to this right here, which I just looked up via AI, who knows if it's accurate, uh it was basically a broad arrow which was used to represent British property. Crazy, eh? It is in this moment that we see a Chinese girl in her native environment. Upon seeing something shiny, old, or cultural, she must stop and take a photo. But, not just one photo, many photos. And if her husband is too close nearby, he will be forced to also take said photos. As she approaches her prey, she calls upon him, "Come down," she says. She uses many different methods, but upon approach, he will be forced to take photos. What did you just say? What did you just say? No, just say what you said again. Take a photo for you? I [ __ ] knew it, grinders. I [ __ ] knew it. I told you all, didn't I? I told you all. Okay, we've got some really interesting building designs right here. Like, look at that one right in the middle. It's like a Lego block. So far, I've walked 8,000 steps and I've done half an hour of production practice. This is a perfect time for me to actually do some production practice. My wife is literally that small little dot over there. She's exploring the high court. So what I'm going to do is just find somewhere to sit down and just do some review. Okay, so we're just here in the restaurant grabbing a meal, okay, and I I got a Coke as you can see here. Well, actually it's a Pepsi. Um no sugar one. Yes, yes, no sugar. And as soon as I saw it, I was like, "It doesn't look right. It looks too small." My wife's like, "No, no, no, it's the same. It's like 330 mils." And I went and looked it up online. Australia's 375 mils. I knew as soon as I saw it it was wrong. Additionally, the amount of carbonation is less. So in Asia, they carbonate their drinks less than they do in Australia. So it's another thing like I instantly pick up in the past. Like I'm a [ __ ] pro when it comes to these like carbonated drinks right. You can't rip me off. Like I need I need the full 375 mils. I feel like I now need to go, you know, buy another one just to get my full my full amount. This is not fair, guys. Someone donate down in the comment section so I can have my full drink. I'm not sure exactly what's going on here in Hong Kong, okay, but pretty much anywhere that's under cover is just filled with lots and lots of I think they're Filipino girls. They're pretty much just sitting around, you know, playing music, playing cards, doing stuff like that together. Just everywhere. So what's up? Are they homeless or is it just how they, you know, hang out? Okay, my wife just tried asking one of them in English and she didn't understand. So like she didn't understand the question. So really don't know what's going on. So the wife just asked AI and apparently the reason being is that on the weekends these girls all work as well, maids. In the houses here, babe? >> Yeah, maids. Yeah. >> Yeah, they all work as maids and then on the weekends they all just obviously go out and just hang out together. >> With their friends. >> With their friends just like playing cards on the bridges and stuff. I guess they just >> Sing karaoke. >> Yeah. They just kind of want to get out of the work environment, I guess. >> Yeah, they are restricted to stay in the owner's place and they can't really go out and rent a place. >> Ah, okay. Yeah, so they work where they are as maids and they live where they are as maids. So, on weekends they just want to get as far away from that as possible. >> All right, yeah. >> Yeah. >> But, they are not allowed to rent a place outside. >> Okay, makes sense. Makes sense. Okay, grinders on. Back in the hotel room as you can see we've done almost 19,000 steps over here. I haven't done really anything more for production practice, maybe a couple of more minutes. But, I did want to show you guys that I did do Linguee Pie yesterday and ended up doing just over an hour. As you can see right there, just over an hour and I'll do an hour again today just to keep things moving along. Now, I saw down in the comments section that a few of you guys were asking about uh the Anki card setup I've got at the moment. I've got a listening deck, a production deck, and a chunks deck. The story, production, and chunks deck are basically uh production decks, but but let's just go have a quick look. You know, I I I that's the easiest way. I'll just show you listening deck, okay? I've just got an audio and then I'll just listen to it. And as long as I understand it, that's fine. I'll mark that one. This is quite an easy deck to do. Then I've got the production deck, which is basically a closed uh deck with like a full story. So, for example, you can see that there's a story there and I need to fill out the pieces and just automate the entire process. Like if I grab that one, here's a a bit more of a complex one. It looks like a bit of a mess there, but if we just go preview this, like let's just do that. There I'd have to fill in that one part, okay? And then I've got a individual chunks deck, which if I just open this back up over here, go boom, chunks, browse. This is just set little pieces. Uh that's less of a chunk and just more of a full sentence. Let me just bring up a like a proper chunk. Here's like a a chunk, I guess. Uh let me just open up a few more. Um some individual words, a couple of sentences. Uh Like for example, that's not really a chunk. Here's a chunk, okay? So, there you go. Basically, what I do is I I build out the response. I capture the audio for it, so I'm able to hear everything within the response. Then I need to close, delete, uh fill out the components of that response, and then also practice the individual chunks that make up that response. Also, within the chunks deck, I've got um like a whole heap of like templates that use the same uh structure, maybe just with different nouns swapped out or something like that. But yeah, that's pretty much it. Anyway, if you guys have enjoyed this video, let me know down the comment section. I'll see you all in the next video. If you're not there, I assume you're sleeping. Because traveling's really tiring.