Tricking YouTuber and Helping Parents

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Hi everyone, get ready for a new episode of News Bites…

I'm Brody Halverson.

And I'm Paz Bueno.

Today's stories…

A Taiwanese Youtuber hits ten million subscribers, and a Japanese mayor makes a town more baby-friendly.

And in today's Tasty Tidbit…what animal is mostly water?

Let's check it out.

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玩武術特技的YouTuber獲得千萬訂閱者

Tricking YouTuber Gets 10 Million Subscribers

Hey Brody, can you do a flip?

Sure, no problem. Just watch me.

Ouch! Okay, it's not easy to do a flip.

That's right. If you want to learn, you need a good teacher.

Fortunately, you can see how to do it on YouTube.

Some YouTubers teach their viewers how to do flips, kicks, and twists.

It's called "tricking", and it's super popular.

武術特技又叫做"tricking"，它包括了跳躍和空中翻滾，非常流行。

In fact, one tricker on YouTube recently reached ten million subscribers (訂閱者).

And he's from Taiwan!

That means he's the first Taiwanese YouTuber to reach ten million subscribers.

His name is Wu Chi-hsuan (吳奇軒), and his channel is called "Chi Hsuan Tricking".

Watch his videos, and you can learn all sorts of amazing movements.

In one video, he teaches a student how to do a cartwheel (側手翻).

First, he shows her, wheeling onto his hands and back to his feet.

Then, he explains to her the different steps of the motion.

Last, he helps her as she tries the cartwheel herself.

The lesson showed her and all the viewers (觀眾) how to do this awesome stunt.

Why does Chi-hsuan love tricking so much?

He says "It's very liberating because you can create your own movements and style."

He also says "Mastering one move gives a sense of achievement and makes you want to keep pushing yourself."

How did his channel (頻道) get so popular?

He got interested in tricking after it came to Taiwan from the US, more than twenty years ago.

In 2016 Chi-hsuan uploaded his first YouTube video.

奇軒2016年上傳了他的第一個YouTube影片。

At first, he didn't get many subscribers.

That changed in 2022, when he started making shorter videos and they went viral (爆紅).

Last year, his videos got more than 2 billion views and 70 million likes.

Now he has ten million subscribers.

He's got fans all over the world, especially in North America and Southeast Asia.

So what is Chi-hsuan's next move?

He says he wants to take part in action movies.

He wants to use tricking to show the world that Taiwan has lots of action talent.

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日本市長讓父母的生活更輕鬆

Japanese Mayor Makes Parents' Lives Easier

Why are parents so busy?

They have a lot worry about.

They need to take care of their kids every day, bringing them to daycare (托兒所), to school and everywhere else.

Parents also need to work, to get the money to feed their kids.

No wonder (難怪) people are not having as many children these days.

It's just too difficult.

In many countries, the population is shrinking, because so few kids are born.

許多國家的人口不斷減少，因為新生兒太少了。

That's a big problem.

And in one Japanese city, a mayor is working to solve it.

His name is Yoshiharu Izaki.

He's the mayor of Nagareyama, a city near Tokyo (東京附近的城市).

His city has a special system (特別的制度).

Every morning, parents from the city take the train into Tokyo to work.

And they just leave their kids at the train station (火車站).

Then, a bus brings the children to daycare, so the parents don't have to worry about it.

In the evening, the parents can just pick their kids up at the train station again.

Wow, that's super convenient (超方便)!

It's all part of Mayor Yoshiharu's plan to make parent's lives easier.

What else is his city doing?

It's adding more parks and greenery (綠化面積).

The mayor wants people to think of Nagareyama as "the forest city nearest to Tokyo."

That way, parents don't have to go far to bring their kids to the park.

Is the mayor's plan working?

Yes, it is.

Nagareyama has a birth rate of 1.5.

That means each woman has an average of 1.5 children.

Nagareyama的出生率為1.5，這意味著每個女性平均有1.5個孩子。

It's much higher than the birth rate for the rest of Japan.

But it's still pretty low.

The birth rate needs to be 2.1 or higher for the population to grow (人口成長).

That's why Mayor Yoshiharu wants to improve his plan, and share it with other mayors.

If parents can save time, they might have more kids…

…and spend more time relaxing with their kids.

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So, in today's News Bites…

A Taiwanese YouTuber has reached 10 million subscribers.

His channel is called "Chi Hsuan Tricking".

He teaches people how to do amazing tricks, like jumps, flips and cartwheels.

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And,

One city in Japan is making life easier for parents.

Nagareyama lets parents drop off their kids at the train station, on their way to work.

It saves the parents lots of time, and is improving the birth rate.

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趣味小點

Tasty Tidbit

Humans are made up of 50-75% water.

On average, a human adult body has about 60% water.

But do you know which animal has the highest water content?

It's jellyfish! (水母)

They are made of 95% water!

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