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——你今年多少岁啊?
——22岁。
——在重庆生活得怎么样?
——还可以,有房有车。
——那追你的人肯定很多吧?
——不多不多,追我的人从这里排到了唐家沱。
——哇,这么年轻就拥有这么多,你是怎么做到的?
——我从国外来到中国,不靠父母,不靠朋友,靠自己,个人想象出来的……呜呜,这个月信用卡还没有还。
这段戏谑搞笑的对话短视频,在抖音上有1.5万人点赞。发出这段短视频的外国女孩叫Gaby,她还有一个中文名字潇潇。
每天,潇潇都会在抖音上更新一条搞笑短视频,讲述她在重庆生活的趣事。
——How old are you this year?
——22 years old.
——How is your life in Chongqing?
——Not bad, I have a house and a car.
——There must be a lot of people who pursue you?
——Not so many, the people who want to pursue me are lining up to Tangjiatuo.
——Wow, you have so many pursuers, how do you make it?
——I came to China from abroad. I never rely on my parents and friends, but just rely on myself, all of those were imagined personally... Hey, the credit card has not been paid off this month.
This short and funny dialogue video was liked by 15,000 people on the Douyin. It was a foreign girl Gaby who sent this short video, and she also has a Chinese name Xiaoxiao.
Every day, Xiaoxiao will update a funny short video on the Douyin to describe her interesting things that living in Chongqing.
A Trip to Chongqing Changed the Life Track
潇潇来自摩尔多瓦,年纪不大,却已在重庆呆了足足四年。
2014年9月,潇潇和几个同学随舞蹈老师到重庆旅游,呆了一个月时间。 在这期间,重庆让她印象深刻。
“晚上,我们开车行驶在千厮门大桥上,嘉陵江两岸灯火璀璨,天空都被照亮了。”潇潇至今还记得第一次看到重庆夜景时的场景,“我觉得重庆最漂亮的夜景,还是晚上沿江的建筑物和街灯在水面形成倒影的画面,五彩斑斓,感觉是岸上水下各有一个城市,非常震撼。”
令潇潇没有想到的是,这趟重庆旅行改变了她的人生轨迹。
潇潇性格爽朗,曾在摩尔多瓦国家舞蹈学院学习芭蕾舞和民族舞,“如果没有来中国,我可能会是一名舞蹈演员,或者是一名老师。”潇潇停顿了一下,不忘幽默地调侃自己,“也许是一名警察,因为这是我从小的梦想。但我现在在重庆,拍抖音,当‘网红’。”
潇潇的母语是罗马尼亚语,在学校时学过俄语。不会中文,也不会英文,但是她发现,在重庆,就算不会中文,也能生活得很好。“语言不通,啥子问题都没得。重庆人非常热情,我找不到路,用手机软件翻译,他们都会告诉我啷个走,有时候还会带我走到目的地。”她用地道的重庆话告诉我们。
摩尔多瓦距重庆七千多公里,加上转机时间,坐飞机需要两天。在那趟旅行后不到一个月,18岁的潇潇就再次登上了飞往重庆的航班。
Xiaoxiao is from Moldova and has been in Chongqing for four years though she is quite young.
In September 2014, Xiaoxiao and several students spent a month in Chongqing with her dance teacher. During that period, Chongqing impressed her very much.
“We drove on the Qiansimen Bridge at night.The lights on both sides of the Jialing River were lit up and the sky was illuminated.”Xiaoxiao still remembered the scene when she saw the night scene in Chongqing for the first time.“I think the most beautiful night scene in Chongqing is the reflection of the buildings and street lights along the river at night. It is very colorful. It seems that there is another underwater city opposite to the real city on the shore. That's very shocking. ”
What Xiaoxiao didn’t expect was that the trip to Chongqing changed her life path.
Xiaoxiao has a good personality and studied ballet and folk dance at the National Dance Academy of Moldova.“If I didn't come to China, I might be a dancer or a teacher.”Xiaoxiao paused for a moment and did not forget to ridicule herself humorously.“Maybe I'll be a policewoman, because this is my dream from childhood.”But I am now in Chongqing, shoot videos on Douyin, and is an ‘online celebrity’. ”
Xiaoxiao’s mother tongue is Romanian and she also studied Russian at school. She speaks no Chinese or English, but she finds that she can live very well in Chongqing even if she couldn’t speak Chinese.“Even if I have difficulties in language, all problems can be properly solved. Chongqing people are very enthusiastic. When I can’t find a way, I use mobile phone software to translate my questions,and they will tell me the direction and sometimes take me to the destination.”She told us in authentic Chongqing dialect.
Moldova is more than 7,000 kilometers away from Chongqing. It will take two days on the plane including the transiting. Less than a month after the trip, the 18-year-old Xiaoxiao once again boarded a flight to Chongqing.
“I Learn Chinese in Order to Live in China All My Life”
来到重庆,潇潇在左手手臂内侧刺了一道纹身,她举起白皙的左臂给我们看,一排“学中文:为了一辈子在中国!”的繁体汉字格外显眼。
通过自学,潇潇如今能说一口流利的普通话和重庆话。但她学中文的方式很特别,靠看电视剧和听中文歌。
或许是因为从小学舞蹈的缘故,潇潇对肢体语言特别敏感,“看到电视剧里的人拿杯子喝水,我就会猜测他是不是在说喝水的意思。”
为学好中文,潇潇花了很多心思琢磨中国人如何说话,“中国人和外国人说话时,表情有很大的区别,外国人表情很夸张,很容易知道他是否生气了,或者是开心。而中国人的表情就比较难猜,因为中国人生气了可能会皱一皱眉头,或者不说话,有的人也不会发火,就很难知道他们的内心想法。”
说着说着,潇潇掏出手机,打开抖音APP,要我们看她最近发的短视频。视频里,潇潇模仿外国人和中国人不同的喝酒方式,其中还有她模仿重庆人喝酒划拳的段子,特别有趣。
“语言很有魅力,不管是我的母语罗马尼亚语,还是俄语、英语和汉语,它是一个国家或地区文化最直观的表现。”说话间,潇潇不忘插科打诨,“我不是就靠重庆话成了‘网红’吗?”
现在,潇潇的重庆话和普通话已经能够自如切换,她的普通话甚至比不少重庆人说得还标准,她就常常纠正给她拍抖音视频的摄影老师,要区分平舌和翘舌。
When she came to Chongqing, Xiaoxiao stabbed a tattoo inside of her left arm. She lifted her white arm to show us a row of Chinese“I learn Chinese in order to live in China all my life,”which was stabbed with particularly conspicuous traditional Chinese characters.
Through self-study, Xiaoxiao can now speak fluent Mandarin and Chongqing dialect. But her way of learning Chinese is very special, she learn Chinese by watching TV dramas and listening to Chinese songs.
Perhaps because Xiaoxiao learned dancing from her elementary school, she is particularly sensitive to body language.“When I see people in the TV series taking a cup of water, I will guess if he is talking about drinking water. ”
In order to master Chinese as far as possible,Xiaoxiao spent a lot of time on considering how Chinese people talk.“When the Chinese speak with a foreigner, their expressions are very different.The expression on the foreigner's face is very exaggerated, so it is easy to know if he is angry or happy. The expression of the Chinese is more difficult to guess, because the Chinese may frown or may not speak when they are angry. Some Chinese will not get angry, so it is difficult to know their true feelings. ”
While talking, Xiaoxiao takes out her phone,opens the Douyin APP, and asks us to watch her recent short videos. In the video, Xiaoxiao used to imitate the different ways of drinking by foreigners and Chinese people. In addition, she also imitated the way that Chongqing people drink and fingerguessing game (a drinking game at feasts), which are especially interesting.
“The language is very attractive. Whether my native is Romanian, Russian, English or Chinese,the language is the most intuitive expression of a country or region.”When speaking, Xiaoxiao said,“It was Chongqing dialect that made me become an‘online celebrity.’ ”
Now, Xiaoxiao has been able to switch between Chongqing dialect and Mandarin freely,and her Mandarin is even more standard than many Chongqing people. She often corrects her photography teacher who shoots videos for her to distinguish between Blade-alveolars and Retroflexes.
A Foreign City Will Become the Hometown When One Lives Here for a Long Time
潇潇身材瘦挑,皮肤白皙,一头浅棕色的头发下,五官精致立体,特别是那双典型的东欧大双眼,深邃有神。
去年三月,潇潇回摩尔多瓦呆了两周。回到家乡后,她却感到有些不适应,“我发现自己特别想念重庆小面,想回重庆,尤其是在街上走路时,特别想听到重庆话,而不是我们罗马尼亚语。”
从那时起,潇潇才发现自己已经真正爱上了重庆。
“在重庆生活,什么都很方便,我居住的楼下,有24小时超市,随时都可以去买菜。还有一间24小时健身房,晚上11点吃完烧烤后,半夜三点再去健身房燃烧一下卡路里。但摩尔多瓦不一样,晚上八点后,街上就没什么人了。”在重庆生活了四年,潇潇逐渐融入了重庆的生活。
2017年,在重庆好友的鼓励下,潇潇开始接触短视频拍摄。今年初,潇潇玩起了抖音,搞怪的风格加上一口流利的重庆话,受到很多人的喜爱。
“因为抖音,越来越多的人认识了我。在街上,常会有人和我打招呼。”潇潇笑得很甜美,“美拍APP上,我有50万粉丝,在抖音上有100万粉丝。”
随着粉丝量的增多,潇潇还收到了不少影视剧拍摄的橄榄枝,其中就有《恶魔少爷别吻我》。今年9月,一部爱奇艺自制的电影也在邀请潇潇去拍摄,“我很满意现在的生活,感谢重庆带给我的幸运。”
Xiaoxiao is thin and tall, with the fair skin,and light brown hair, five exquisite sense organs.Especially, her typical Eastern European eyes are brimming with radiating vigor.
In March last year, Xiaoxiao returned to Moldova and stayed there for two weeks. After returning her hometown, she felt a little uncomfortable.“I found myself particularly missing Chongqing spicy noodles and wanted to go back to Chongqing. Especially when walking on the street, I especially wanted to hear Chongqing dialect, not Romanian. ”
Since then, Xiaoxiao have found that she have really fallen in love with Chongqing.
“Living in Chongqing, I find that everything is very convenient. There is a 24-hour supermarket downstairs where I live and I can go shopping at any time. There is also a 24-hour gym. After enjoying the barbecue at 11:00 pm, I can go to the gym to burn calories at three o’clock in the middle of the night. But everything in Moldova is rather different.After 20:00 pm, there is no one on the street.”After living in Chongqing for four years, Xiaoxiao gradually integrates into Chongqing’s life.
In 2017, with the encouragement of her friends in Chongqing, Xiaoxiao started to contacted short video shooting. At the beginning of this year, Xiaoxiao contacted Douyin APP. A funny style and the fluent Chongqing dialect made her be loved by many people.
“Because of Douyin APP, more and more people have learned about me. People often say hello to me on the street.”Xiaoxiao laughed very sweetly.“On the Meipai APP, I have 500,000 fans, and there are 1 million fans on the Douyin APP. ”
With the increase in the number of fans,Xiaoxiao has also been invited by many film and TV play shooting teams, including The Devil Master, Don’t Kiss Me. In September of this year, an iQiyi-made movie also invited Xiaoxiao to take part in the shooting.“I am very satisfied with the present life, thanks for the luck that Chongqing has brought me.”