Suzhou, a beautiful place（苏州好风光）by SBS

[ericych]

Wu Chinese is a difficult language to learn.

[godgrant123]

anyone know of any untouched old towns without western stuff or indsutrial factorys?

[BBQFanNo1]

Until I saw and walked in this place with my own eyes and smelled the natural flora I was ignorant of what it was really like. Just awesome that God created such a beautiful place on the same planet as I live here in North America.

[Peterybc]

china richest city from 1400-1900

[Mranthony1106]

作为苏州人好骄傲呀~！

[navaboon]

Beautiful !! (lady)

[jafadrummer]

I am going here! My plane leaves in 12 hours!! And then to hong kong, I can't wait!!

[whitesnowable]

I never even heard of Suzhou the name ha! n even though I'm chinese

From the picture I could tell dat Suzhou is as prtty as Hangzhou n I thought Hangzhou is the only place in china if u want to see nature(the prettiness ) now I no dat Suzhou n Hangzhou are soo prtty

[LorenzoMMartini]

what's the name of the singer?Such a beautiful voice!!!

[acaussiemilan]

i have just come back from suzhou... my wife has parents and brothers and sisters in suzhou... very great place to be at the moment

[acetylslicylsyra]

My wife is living there now, soon me too.

[killualaura]

吴越形胜～～吴语好听～～

[JIANGHUAI]

虽然经常往返安徽和上海之间无数次从苏州路过却从来没去过。 很喜欢苏州的那种古朴风范。希望苏州能永远保持她的风格。

[jabolukas]

Polecam miasto :)

[madmiask]

Beautiful video and very nice song.

*****

[soclosekana]

吳語好好聽阿

[suzanoudshoorn]

Hello, I just came back from Shanghai, and went to the Suzhou lingering gardens for a trip. Cold and cloudy, nevertheless very beautiful. The guide of our trip said Suzhou is such a wonderful quiet natural town. My own understanding from what I saw was just another industrialised area, with a great monumental garden closed inside. This was in March 2010.

[kidshaoss]

@suzanoudshoorn

I hope the video is not the reason why you decided to pay a visit to suzhou.

To be honest, my friends and me all miss the city where we lived.

What if you had visited here 20 years ago

[suzanoudshoorn]

that's what I thought, it's such a beautiful place in itself, I can very well imagine that it is the city people truly love to live in. But you know, it's also a very industrialised area nowadays, and that is what I, as just a visitor experienced as well, you know, this kind of painful reality, and the wish of having been there 20 years ago.

[busya37]

苏州 my wife is from Suzhou !!! beautiful place !!! i happy to know u ^___^

[lucasraptor]

我爱中国

incantevole

[wymlikebsb]

苏州小男孩来报道

[ichithekiller85]

wow, really hope i make it to a place like that one day :(

[ayumi2049]

浙江照样好风光，搞得很了不起样子

[blankverse86]

我也出身浙江，可是也沒必要酸葡萄心理。蘇州的確吳地的代表之一­啊，我很喜歡蘇州話，蘇州評彈

[Athanasia1988]

i come from suzhou. Once i met a gril whose parents came from hanzhou. we tried to communicate in Wu (suzhou dialect and hangzhou dialect) and IT DOES WORK ^ ^

[blankverse86]

Oh, really? It was a pity. I think this is because Hangzhou once became the capital of Nan-song, thus the languague was influenced a lot. But Suzhou Tanci (彈詞) is also very popular in Ningbo and I have heard that Ningbo is the most southern line to this perfermence due to the dialect. Anyway, I like to study Wu dialect, and I think there should be not so many problems to communicate in our local languages. Hope to talk with you if there is any chance.

[socsol]

can you understand and talk with ppl speaking putonghua if you only speak suzhou dialect ? lol

[Athanasia1988]

i guess not , but i do speak Mandarin. it was my friend who speaks only hangzhou dialect

[ye517094481]

55555 好想念中国啊 。。。。

[kleinfliege]

我怎么感觉有点想哭。。

[kidshaoss]

回来萨

只是。。。你知道很多网站不能上，如脸谱和youtube（可以­用一代理软件。。。）

不客气不客气，很高兴你喜欢苏州！成都听说有很多吃的^^

[fightthespoons]

啊哈！我在聽到歌曲的時候，我覺得是吳語，但是我沒有把握。謝謝­。

我想回到中國。除了成都以外，蘇州是我最喜歡的中國城市。來自美­國的問候！

[fightthespoons]

歌詞聽起來好像不是普通話。是別的方言嗎？

[kidshaoss]

是吴语（确切地说苏州话/苏白）^v^

[hdanika]

really nice demo-song, i am going to visit Suzhou in a week and very curious about this beautiul town...

[kidshaoss]

then how is your feeling back from Suzhou?

[ismtzzy]

朱虹很像周慧敏

[hdanika]

absolutely beautiful, I really wanna go back soon, hopefully this November again... have had only positive feelings!!!

[uvedkommend]

I was there in November 2009, the coldest november since 30 years .... grrr

nagyon hideg volt

[hdanika]

i just arrived back from suzhou, now i am in hong kong... te mijáratban voltál suzhou-ban? ma jöttem el onnan, most sincs túl meleg...

[paramaartha]

无锡美女，支持！

[paramaartha]

苏州文读音。。很简单。。各位听过弹词的难道不知道？没有听过弹­词，算得上对苏州文化有了解

[jossygu220]

好嗲啊~

[SKDavidzs]

I like zhu hong (the singer), her singing is very sweet and pretty matching in this scenery video.

[kidshaoss]

good good good, well done

i m ur supporter always^^

[Rydholm99]

I love this town! I spend last christmas there and i was amazing! I can recommend Suzhou to everybody!:D

[fz931]

喜歡蘇州，喜歡蘇州話~

[kidshaoss]

^^很高兴看到你的留言

[kidshaoss]

受官话影响，评弹里也这样，昆曲里也这样，或者艺术和生活是不一­样的，个人意见。。。更大的问题是目前苏州话的音在突变

[sakuraniwashun]

这首歌的苏州话的音怎么感觉好奇怪啊。。比如水下之类的发音基本­变得跟国语一样了，跟苏州话的音都不像了啊。。。

[gusuyanyu]

这是评弹里的那种古话讲话当然不是这么讲的

[fz931]

文白異讀吧

[kidshaoss]

bingo u smart!

n u?

[dannykurttt]

I like this city! no shit

[kidshaoss]

i like your comment! no shit:)

[dannykurttt]

aha~~u come from suzhou?

[lexyzimus]

heinzkurt2010 说 唉，我的老家。。。 ;-)

[kidshaoss]

xiexie gaosu wo! :)

[sospire]

酥州话听的我色一死啦~~~

骨头啊酥特勒，苏州妹妹最嗲了，苏州老灵各，吾老欢喜各!

[kidshaoss]

geme duo lailai haole^^

[kidshaoss]

谢谢留言

会说是很骄傲的事，现在小学生及一下都不太会说苏州话了。 小飞虹也不错，虎丘剑池的历史感。不过苏州发展有点失控（个人意­见）

[yinger008]

喜歡蘇州的山、蘇州的水、蘇州的人、當然還有蘇州話，最愛滄浪亭­的長廊、盤門的日落、還有網師園的月到風來亭。慚愧的是在蘇州生­活過幾年，學會的蘇州話只是寥寥可數的幾句。

[justanordinarydude]

Hope you work on your English.

[kidshaoss]

thank you!

hey dude, i wanna 2 ^^(very soon, one more jobless school leaver)

[heinzkurt2010]

ach,meine Heimatstadt

[kidshaoss]

yes? sorry, i havenot learned german yet

can you say it in english (most reasonable), or in chinese (most ideal), or in french (most miserable)^^

[viaoro2000]

I went to college in Suzhou. It is a beautiful place and I miss it. Thanks for sharing.

[kidshaoss]

thank you for your comments, welcome back

[54070965]

赞啊

[kidshaoss]

thank you for the comments

[ChinaRock0107]

I miss my hometown desperately...

[kidshaoss]

welcome home you! She won't let you down.

[ShinFuYux]

I never knew that in China, they drove on the right side of the road.

I learned something New today.

[kidshaoss]

thank you for your time to complete watching. but arenot people in many countries driving on the right side of the road?

[ShinFuYux]

Half of Europe drives on the left, Japan, Thailand, Korea, and I think Australia too.

[kidshaoss]

thank you

i thought only UK one the right side of the road

[ShinFuYux]

I think the UK is where they drive on the Left.

The United states, and the rest of americas' drive on the right.

[kidshaoss]

I AM SORRY

I mean UK and HongKong and some other ex-colonies drive on the left side. i have some common sense. i was a bit mind-absent. i know US on the right, American series are pretty good^^

[dianjiahao]

北要来苏州才晓得

苏州真个漂亮,真个灵!

大家来白相啊!

[yolandayin]

I love suzhou

[alexprime118]

苏州真格灵格,朆来过的朋友,一定要过来白相.

[shanghairenshabi]

苏州真鸡巴漂亮，俺老婆苏州滴，木哈哈哈^^

[rahtika]

I and my family were in Suzhou for 8 months and love the city very much. I always saw this video on tv there and love it.. Thank you for uploading it.

[l3af3v3r]

Simply brilliant!

[wangyihe]

oh i love it!! my hometown... miss it so much~

[es0u0146]

thanks for uploading! I'm proud to be Suzhou Ning!

[kidshaoss]

ME TOO

thanks for comments

[crazyball8e]

The music video you posted was really beautiful, kidshaoss. This is the first time I get to hear someone singing in a Chinese native dialect other than Mandarin.

If you do have a video of someone saying or singing in Hangzhou dialect, please do upload it as soon as possible. I'm dying to hear someone saying or singing in Hangzhou dialect. Thanks. :-) :-D

[kidshaoss]

you raise me up, thank you :)

i thought few people like this kind of videos.

i don't have any Hangzhou version but i will try. i am afraid it is not easy to find a TV show teaching dialect.

in Chinese textbook we all call dialects of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Wu dialect.

[crazyball8e]

I hope one day PRC will let us learn other Chinese dialects, such as Zhejiang dialect (based in Hangzhou) and Southern Jiangsu dialect (based in Suzhou), only after the Communist regime falls. I can imagine and feel how bland our Chinese culture be without those "lively" dialects spoken around here and there. God save the Chinese dialects!

[kidshaoss]

Many kids in primary school here can't speak local language because they speak Mandarin at school and after school they keep speak it with thier friends and parents. maybe the migration is one reason. Wu dialect is so different from others. cheerfully there are some classes to teach dialect at least in Suzhou we do.

[l3af3v3r]

Oh no, it's no good. Do you really mean MANY?

In Malaysia many Chinese kids can't speak their ancestral Chinese language and the languages are bound to be gone in a few decades unless something is done. I always comfort myself thinking that the situation in China would be better. But.. ..

People here always say people in China can't speak English, but your English seems pretty good to me. :)

[kidshaoss]

The situation here is unpleasant, especially some large cities. Fortunately some people realise the coming tragedy.

Kids here now have learned English from primary school at least, most from kindergarten. English is a main course from primary school to university. Surprised? I do think so. It is strange. There are national English examinations for university students (CET4/6, TEM4/8, etc.). But our oral English is, maybe, the poorest, thank to our exam-oriented education system?

[l3af3v3r]

Thanks for sharing these info and views as a resident of Suzhou and China.

This isn't really a suitable place to elaborate although I'd love to. Actually I'm not surprised because the case in M'sia is similar. At university level, courses are mostly conducted in English or Malay. Overall, I believe we here can speak English better considering we have Malays, Indians and people of other races as our neighbours.

[l3af3v3r]

Oops! I think I posted the reply that follows as a comment on the video. ^^!!

[l3af3v3r]

continue:

I HATE exam-oriented education system too, having gone through one, but China's kids are more pitiful! And I hope Chinese in Malaysia can realise the tragedy that you mentioned too before it's too late. People seem to think that we can't be united unless we speak the same tongue and your government probably thinks the same.

[crazyball8e]

If you look at the linguistic situation in Taiwan, it's getting better as time passes by (even better than China (PRC)). Although Mandarin is still used in official broadcasts and announcements in Taiwan, there has been a resurgence in the use of Southern Min (Xiamen/Amoy), Hakka, and Northern Min (Fuzhou) dialects, which are now taught in schools. Those dialects are now easily heard in media as well.

[crazyball8e]

I really wish there is a TV show that will teach us to speak various Chinese dialects in China, since most of us can already speak Mandarin. As a native of Zhejiang province living in USA, I still have no chance of learning my ancestors' dialect and I'm still struggling to find someone who can teach me Zhejiang dialect. Wish me luck.

[es0u0146]

Actually some TV stations at PRC started broadcasting in local dialect (e.g. Suzhou). Hangzhou dialect is very similar to Suzhou, more like the old "official language" of the region. If you listen to regional Chinese Operas, you'll get an idea. I love Hangzhou,too. It's probably my fav Chinese city!

[jeffm624]

Beautiful! We were lucky enough to visit Suzhou in July of 2006. We adopted a great little boy from Suzhou. It really is a wonderful place.

We hope to return in a few years, when he is a little older, to visit his city.

[kidshaoss]

welcome back! your little lovely is so cute. and i wish you all like this song and the dialect.

Suzhou is also famous for its traditional snacks. In Guanqian street there are many old stores selling their unique food. If you are interested have a try.