With the rapid development of Chongqing, the city is becoming more and more attractive, and more foreigners, as well as foreigners, come to Chongqing to work and live. In the eyes of Li Xiaoxiao, a 23-year-old Moldovan girl, Chongqing has also become the place where her dream began. Here, she first learned to speak Chongqing dialect and then learn Mandarin. Kindergarten teachers, wedding models, vibrato "net reds", actors... Li Xiaoxiao, who prides himself on being a "Chongqing sister" and "an eighth-level Chongqing dialect," has done it. Joy and hardship go hand in hand. She is a real "Yu Drift".
"I must have been a Chongqing girl in my last life"
Li Xiaoxiao, nearly one meter seven in stature, fair skin, exquisite three-dimensional features, soft brown long hair. After more than three years in Chongqing, gaby is her Moldovan name, which means "angel" in Romanian. In September 2014, Xiao Xiao, who had studied ethnic dance and ballet since childhood, graduated from the Moldovan National Dance Academy and traveled to China with several classmates with dance teachers. The first city she arrived in was Chongqing, and the moment she got off the plane, she suddenly had a familiar feeling: it seemed that she had been here many years ago, as if she had returned home.
At that moment, she suddenly made a decision: I want to stay in Chongqing and live. After that trip, the students all returned to Moldova to work. Instead, she went home to complete the formalities, bid farewell to her parents, packed her bags, and boarded the flight to Yamashiro again. However, living in Chongqing and tourism are two completely different concepts. The biggest problem is the language barrier. Xiao Xiao put in the mother tongue is Romanian, learned Russian when she was in school, does not know Chinese, not even English. When she first arrived in Chongqing, she would only say three sentences: "Hello, thank you, I don't understand."
Can't speak, can't understand and can't understand, and can only rely on translation software to communicate with people. Once, when I went to a restaurant to eat, my mobile phone ran out of battery, and I didn't know how to tell the waiter that I wanted to order chicken. In a hurry, she waved her hands and learned how the chicken flapped its wings while "clucking" and barking. In the end, I finally got my wish and ate the chicken. This embarrassing scene in the paragraph actually happened to himself, and Xiao Xiao was determined to learn the language well. During that time, she mainly did two things all day long: one was to shut up at home and watch TV. Watch it over and over again. Xiao Xiao is particularly sensitive to body language, and from every expression and action of the actors, she can roughly guess the meaning of their expressions.
The other is to communicate with friends in Chongqing. When she was with her friends in Chongqing, she kept her ears open and didn't let go of every word, and through hard self-study, after a year, she was able to get rid of mobile phone translation and easily communicate with locals. She believes that learning languages has nothing to do with talent, the key is how much you are willing to give. "If you particularly want to know a country, then naturally you will learn the language of that country." However, there was a new problem - until she said it more slippery, she found that the "Chinese dialect" she had learned so hard was actually Chongqing dialect! Originally, I thought that China only had one language, and I learned the most standard.
"Chongqing Dialect Level 8" has 1 million "fans" on the Internet
How good is Xiao Xiao's Chongqing dialect? Once, she used a ride-hailing app to find an online ride-hailing car, and communicated with the driver in Chongqing dialect on the phone, telling her where to wait for the car. After waiting for a while, the driver called again and asked, "Where are you?" I'm all at the agreed location. Didn't see you yet! There's only one foreigner there! Xiao Xiao cried and laughed, "Oh, Master, there is nothing wrong with that, I am the old foreigner!" When traveling in Shenzhen and Guangzhou, when you meet people who speak Chongqing dialect or Sichuan dialect, you will feel very kind, and you will feel that you have met a "fellow countryman".
In 2017, with the encouragement of her friends in Chongqing, Xiao Xiao began to use her leisure time to shoot short videos, giving her a lot of likes. At the beginning of this year, Xiao Xiao played Douyin again, and her funny style and fluent Chongqing dialect were loved by many people. Although he learned an "unauthentic Chinese", he mistakenly hit it by mistake because The Chongqing dialect became an "Internet celebrity". Every week, Xiao Xiao will update several funny short videos on Douyin to tell interesting stories about her life in Chongqing. Xiao Xiao believes that language is very attractive, whether it is romanian, or Russian, English and Chinese, it is the most intuitive expression of a country's or region's culture. The local dialect adds the character and emotions of the locals, which is particularly interesting.
It's not easy to be a movie star
In August this year, Xiao Xiao participated in the shooting of an online movie, which is a science fiction drama and the first time Xiao Xiao has received an important role. She starred as the female number two, a "vampire" with a high and cold appearance, but a kind heart that loves to help people and does not suck blood. Finally became the actor of my dreams. However, she found that being an actor is not something as "fun" as she thought. The first week was for acting, dance and martial arts classes, from 6:30 a.m. to 12 p.m., with no rest time at all, except for eating. Power on in the second week. Due to the peculiarity of this play, it needs to be filmed at night, so everyone lives a black and white life. Every day at 2 p.m. makeup, 5 or 6 o'clock to start the formal filming, until the next morning 8 o'clock. "Every day I watch the moon rise, and I see the moon go down and the sun rise." Although it was hard, the joy brought by filming also made her very satisfied, and she was also affirmed by the director.
Hope more Chinese to know Moldova
"My hometown is Moldova." Xiao Xiao said seriously, and quickly added, "The full name is the Republic of Moldova." "Her dream is to be an actress in China. In addition to liking, there is also a way to let more people know about her hometown. "At least for now, more than 1 million followers on the platform know about the Republic of Moldova." Xiao Xiao said with some relief and a little pride.
I want to stay in China for the rest of my life
Although she is still very young, Xiao Xiao has already made plans for the future: she has found an acting teacher, ready to step up her learning ability, and hopes to become a qualified actor at the age of 30, acting like her favorite actors Gao Yuanyuan and Deng Chao. Xiao Xiao also said a little shyly, hoping to play a story of his own "Yu Drift" in Chongqing. Find a lover in China, preferably from Chongqing, who can give birth to three mixed-race babies. Next year, she is going to bring her parents to Chongqing to play, and is thinking about how to teach her parents to eat hot pot with chopsticks. When she came to Chongqing quietly behind her mother's back, her mother heard that her daughter was going to stay in China and cried bitterly. And now, the parents who originally knew nothing about Chongqing also love Wu and Wu, and every year when they come home, their mother will always ask when to bring a Chinese boyfriend back.
This year, Xiao Xiao signed a contract with a media company in Chongqing, and her daily job is to shoot various short videos, and recently she is filming a variety show "Happy Doraemon" on Hunan Satellite TV, going to Urumqi, Xi'an, Xiamen and other Chongqing to record videos about food and history.
Record programs, learn Mandarin, buy vegetables, eat barbecues, and occasionally dance ballet. Having lived in Chongqing for three years, Xiao Xiao has fully integrated into the city. "I am very satisfied with my life now and thank Chongqing for the luck it has brought me. I will work hard and hope to stay in China all the time.
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