With learning a new language, motivation is an often overlooked aspect. Non-English speakers (including Chinese) gain interest in English through Hollywood films and English songs. Many people gain interest in learning Japanese or Korean because of Anime or K-pop, so if people are interested in learning Mandarin Chinese then watching Chinese dramas and listening to Chinese music serves as motivation.
@@lolxd5412 You can search for Chinese songs on UA-cam, just enter a search term "2020 流行歌曲". Normally, just typing "2020" the UA-cam prompt will autocomplete the "流行歌曲" part. You can also search for 2019 流行歌曲 or 2018 流行歌曲 or any other year.
Once you master Chinese language, suggest you read ancient Chinese philosophies books, you would know a lot more about Chinese thinking, history and cultures.
Yeah, those are quite hard to understand :). I'm comeplety fluent in Chinese and I can't just read ancient Chinese stuff without reading each sentence a hundred times. Really gives you a headache, but they're fun!
Blondie in China I would suggest you can buy some 中学语文辅导教材 (middle school Chinese supplementary textbooks) where ancient classics texts are footnoted and translated into Morden Chinese in second page. So you can refer to each other from time to time. Once you can understand some ancient classics, then tv drama with ancient topics and 成语 will be much easier for you. Good luck.
@@amberyang5699 Start with some chinese style music! It is also fun and much esay. For example if you have heard XUE HUA PIAO PIAO, this song is not expressing sadness or frustrating, its lyrics is about comparing love to plum blossms in the snow to praise the firmness of love. That is totally different.
As a Chinese, I know the difficulty of Chinese, just as I learn English. And I really wanna make a friend who wants to learn Chinese and whose mother tongue is English, and then we can practice together and make progress together. Learning together can be more motivating. Languages are amazing, but learning them is crazy!!!
As an English speaker, Chinese is surprisingly simple [ to speak ] once you get over the tones, and that's really more of a mental barrier than anything. Reading is easier than you think, though I imagine writing would be the hardest. By comparison, Korean is really accessible because of the phonetic alphabet, but its grammar is so different you really have to train your brain to accept information in a new way.
Reading is quite useful in learning a language, but with Chinese you should put a lot effort in learning the characters. But once you are able to read you can boost your learning rapidly.
as a local chinese,i could tell that you can practise chinese both listening and speaking through watching chinese documentaties like 航拍中国，舌尖上的中国 etc. it's also a good way to know more about china .
I studied chinese for 6 months with a tutor and it felt amazing. This may sound a bit silly but each time I’d have a lesson, I could feel my brain expanding. Learning a language is like building a lego. You use the basic blocks on the bottom and slowly build up on one another. I was planning to search for a better tutor, but ended up stopping the search and eventually that just led to loss of motivation. I stopped and now it’s been more than a year since that. I see videos like these and they just make me wanna go back man.
Omg, I also feel the same while learning how to write or read all those new characters ! I started to learn chinese one year ago but I also have University, so I had to stop for few months because of the exams ... a few weeks ago I restarted to learn !
"have a goal to stay motivated " me: why is this bl novel not translated.....wait what if...... my brain: yes start learning one of the hardest language in the world, just for bl literature
YESSSSSS!!!! idk how but it sounded like a good idea at that time (i also learned -sort of- english for the same reason since thats not my 1st language so im sorry for any mistakes)
Exactly.. I also got that.. lol It started with Jackson Wang and his flirting.. after that I wanted more.. and then enter the BL world.. I think learning Chinese opens up a large horizon.. rich culture..
I have ADHD and am suffering from insomnia so I just couldn't sleep but at 2:00 am I was in my hyperactive mode and suddenly I had this urge to learn mandarin and yeah here I am-✌️
I used to study Chinese at school (to GCSE level). I was pretty good and could speak in simple conversations. Visiting China for a week really exploded a lot of my vocabulary. Now about 10 years later, it's mostly faded apart from the basics. This video has given me a lot of methods to use to try and bring it all back and more! Thanks for this!
@@bapakkubukanbapaknyaakutap9580 ya know, Beijing, Shanghai, those cities r the most famous ones, ofc Wuhan lmao. But honestly, everywhere u go, they have local food (they r all delicious)
the north city is best ,because of the putonghua ,In south area of China ,the pronunciation is very very different .called MinNan language .说白了，北方人都听不懂南方话，你一个外国人，估计更听不懂
Why everyone love that show so much? 😶 After seeing many people on yt saying it's so awesome I've watched around 10 episodes and just thought it was boring and the acting so flat, and I'm not a very difficult person, I'm easy to love a show, do I have to watch more episodes? Or am I missing something?
Very important piece of advice that I have for students: KNOW YOUR RADICALS!!! It will make learning new characters sooo much easier. Also know your stroke orders, and the basics of how characters are formed. This will make your life so much easier!
I feel the exactly same at the "Pause&Note" part. I did the same when I was in high school for English study. I paused every time I saw a new word and noted it. I love learning Enligsh, so it didn't bother me at all. Eventually I greatly enhanced my English vocabulary. Though regretably, not doing it for a while now.
You are an absolute life-saver. Trying to go at this without any structure or support is a nightmare for someone who is darned determined to learn. Thank you so much. Phenomenal content. ❤❤❤
for these who have VERY advanced Chinese skills, I highly recommend 琅琊榜(Langya Bang ). It not only has a very good story, but also has beautiful dialogues and contains many traditional Chinese culture & value. It is in my opinion the best Chinese drama in recent years
You are right, it's one of the best drama I've ever watched and I've watched it 6 times already. The dialogue is so beautiful and poetic that it brought tears in my eyes.
I'm a Chinese native, but usually and almost always read the subtitles when I watch TV series, than relying on my listening, and more often I found it more efficient.
Ewan Doyle thanks Ewan. I don’t think I’m a qualified Mandarin speaker any more as haven’t been living in China for 5 years and sometimes get myself so confused of the recently coined terms. So embarrassing.
My wife's chinese, we've been married for almost ten years and I've been to China so many times...yet I couldn't learn to speak it (laziness I assume). I tried many ways to find the way to make me enjoying learning Chinese but failed many times to do so, even though I love the language, but something was blocking me to take a step further. Now that I've found your video with techniques, it started to makes sense to me about how to get this beautiful language. I downloaded Anki and started sticking notes everywhere in my house, and I get easily progress ! So I want to thank you a lot for giving me that hype I needed to start to learn efficiently !
GREAT VIDEO. Those are very effective ways to learn Chinese, or any languages. Just a reminder, When you are in a city and ask someone if he is local, usually we say “你是本地人吗？” instead of “你是当地人吗？”。“当地人” is used when you are refering to the people of a city/town/village but you are not in that city/town/village.
When you speak to someone directly，you make sentence like:"你是本地人，我也是本地人”,don't use "当地人”。 When you speak to someone about someone else who is not around you, you should say:"他们当地人咋咋咋”，in this situation,you can still converse with somebody using"他们本地人咋咋咋‘’。
Wow... I'm only 7 minutes into the video and I only have a slight interest in learning Chinese, but you've just taught me an amazing new idea for bettering my Korean. I'm definitely going to start a vocabulary book and using your idea of watching Korean TV to find words I don't recognize. Thank you so much!
You gave me hope that I can actually have decent accent despite being a non-native, I am just starting but it feels so hard to make some words sound like they should. Cheering for all of you to keep practising and reach your goals!
Thank you so much. This is really insightful. I am doing self study and sometimes it gets really frustrating when I study new vocab and I can't remember how to write it after a week. Watching this really encourages me to push forward and put in those little daily efforts.
I was born and raised in Shanghai, but started learning English almost as a "second first language" at a very young age (I believe four or three). To be honest I see a lot of parallels between an English speaker learning Chinese and a Chinese speaker learning English - in both cases the script is decidedly foreign, the language learned is incredibly complex with many silly exceptions, and there's a lot of cultural elements that underly even routine conversations. English has been a mandatory course in China's education system for a long while now, but the level students are able to reach are usually less than desirable. In my personal opinion it's mostly due to the inefficient (and often test-oriented) methodology. Fortunately I went to an international school where English is taught more as a tool than as a skill required in a test, so my English is pretty proficient (116 TOEFL, 8.0 IELTS; I can probably get away with claiming I'm British to native English speakers at this point). Naturally people often ask me how I acquired such good English, and honestly I have a hard time answering. Of course, part of it is my environment - my school friends all spoke English as a first language or at least had to use English for the curriculum, but I actually think watching English programmes was actually another great contributing factor. When adults ask me for English learning tips, I often just tell them to go watch Discovery - Mythbusters, National Geographics, things like that, not unlike how you recommended watching Chinese TV. I found these documentaries particularly helpful during my youth, partially because I was and still am a massive science buff, but also because the lack of a continuous storyline. I believe this is important because it removes a confusing variable - if I don't understand something said or done, it's probably not because I missed some bizarre logic of implications that happened earlier in the series, rather because I simply misunderstood a vocabulary/sentence and/or some very shallow connotations. Additionally, the nature of these documentaries means that they necessarily use a lot of semi-professional vocabulary, for example think about a factory tour - there's going to be so many verbs and nouns that are particular to what is being made, or about manufacturing in general. Same thing if the topic is an animal, motor racing, aircraft accident investigation, etc. While shows depicting everyday life is helpful in learning the basic structure and patterns of a language, I believe what truly makes proficiency is ultimately vocabulary, which is exactly what documentaries are good for in the context of language learning. Unfortunately for Chinese learners, I have to admit that home-grown Chinese documentaries are generally not as great as American and British ones - both due to experience and lack of funding and/or interest. However there's still plenty of good resources around. I would actually recommend starting with Chinese-translated National Geographics, believe it or not. Don't learn from the way they speak - a lot of English habits of expression actually carry over through the translation, so if you speak they way they do you will sound decidedly non-native; rather learn the vocabulary. If you focus on the vocabulary, the inauthentic-sounding speech actually becomes a benefit because it will help you to anticipate and/or guess the upcoming words and/or their meanings. Of course, if you find other excellent documentary series available in Chinese, feel free to use them too. If you really want to get a feel for real Chinese documentaries however, there are resources for that too. 纪实频道 (literally "Documentary Channel") has lots of great shows these days (albeit sometimes the topics are a bit complex such as politics). Occasionally they have translated foreign shows as well. I'm not sure whether you can access them that easily though because it is a TV channel, but try looking up the names of the TV series they host, and find resources that way. Alternatively if you want a really big name TV series, go lookup 舌尖上的中国 (A Bite of China). It's a really well-made show that aired a few years ago about all kinds of different cuisines you can find in China. Its difficulty isn't super challenging, plus I'm sure you will find the vocabulary extremely useful since you will be eating a lot in China, trust me.
I've learned up to HSK5 by myself, and the content of this video helped me a lot through my journey, I've watched it several times through the journey Really do appreciate it Keep it up
Dunno if anyone's interested, but there's a show called 新世界 that has lots of actors with strong Beijing/Dongbei accents. It's quite colloquial, but has a really good historical storyline
I just started studying Mandarin pinyin about 5 weeks ago using an online program (not ready for the characters course yet). It's really good because we're starting from the basic (tones, initials, finals, words/sentences... building vocab as we go). Anyway, I realized that I wasn't setting myself up for reviews and/or additional studying. Your tips are awesome and I plan on incorporating some of them like flashcards and being able to re-review what I'm learning! Pleco seem especially helpful and I've downloaded it to my phone. I will definitely watch some cartoons. I've been watching some Chinese shows on YT just to get used to listening to it, and I can already pick up some words here and there. So, thanks again for your tips!!
Awesome, loved it, surprised how I was in the same boat as you. Great tips and I've been using them during the quarentine. We can both keep going, 一起加油！
Revise, watch ,learn and memorize are the good way to learn a new language. It very true that after learn you must use it in our life too. Although I can speak Chinese, I will often learn a lot of languages and ways of doing things in life in TV dramas. I have watched most of the dramas you introduced and I like it very much. The plot is very good.
I am Chinese, and I find Chinese very difficult. With all the gadgets these day, I forget how to handwrite a lot of words, cause all we need to to is type pinyin and choose among the options.
Thank you for your study tips. I’m new to learning Chinese. I started picking up words watching Chinese dramas, then watching UA-cam instructors and now I’m enrolled in a college level language course. Impossible to travel to China now because of the pandemic. As far as being able to practice with native speakers I have one co-worker who speaks fluent Mandarin. Most Chinese here in the SF Bay Area are Cantonese speakers as well in our 2 Chinatowns. Goals: I was ready to take the HSK level 1 exam. However they’ve closed all the Confucius Institutes at the universities in the US where they offered the exam. (It’s political and won’t get into it.) so frustrating. Also at work they have a qualified bilingual status designation level 1 and level 2. Level 1 is conversational and level 2 designation allows you to do medical interpretation. It would take me 10 years to become a certified medical interpreter in Mandarin. I am a Certified Medical Interpreter in Spanish. Know of anywhere else I can take the HSK level 1 exam that doesn’t require traveling? Thanks in advance.
Nice! I was learning chinese in china too, it's important to be "like a robot" instead of getting frustrated, and just keep grinding every time you fail to remember a word, that will make you notice results quickly! And another great tip I have is to change your phones font to a font that has automatically pinyin on top of every chinese text that appears on your phone.
I've been studying chinese for 6 months consistently but for 11 Months total And I agree with you. Repetition and stick to one text book,one workbook and a schedule. Geesh I hit a plateau at Hsk 2 for doing too much
You’ve inspired me. It’s been 20 years since I was in Taiwan so 我退步了很多 I’ve started by watching Disney movies in Mandarin. Since I have a two year old, I know most of them by heart now, so I can listen in Chinese and get a good refresher.
what I‘ve learned in my chinese study journey (and what I will evidence in my video on saturday) is, that it is really about that immersion in the language, listening and speaking.
I am just happy you mentioned Detective L which is Bai Yu's show. I love him since Guardian..😍😍😍😍. Him and Zhu YiLong are my inspiration for wanting to learn Chinese Thanks for the advice though
@@BlondieinChina Me too. He is so different. He can pull off manly and cute effortlessly. He can really match in the acting with ZYL. (Sorry for fangirling. Hahaha.) Thanks you so much.
Me before watching this video: I am a Chinese, why will I click and watch this video? Me after watching this video: I am glad that I watched this video. They are useful skills for self-studying regardless which language you are learning! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for these great tips. I started learning Chinese during the first lockdown ( in the Netherlands). I have been using different apps and UA-cam videos. I think that I can bring some structure to it, thanks to your tips.👍🙏
@@CurrentChinese of course, when I told my friends about the idea of learning languages and polyglot thing, they were laughing at me. Now I speak fluent English, a little Spanish and basic Chinese. Their mouse are shut and I am accelerating
I speak German natively, have a decent level of English now (already learn for 10 years). I also have basic French knowledge and currently starting with Chinese
it just irritating when u dont know the language so it motives me lol still learning english for years (still bad at listening&speaking) n basic japanese
I've been self-teaching for two years. I still struggle with conversation but I can read surprisingly well. As Amy says - daily discipine is absolutely the key - you've got to do an hour+ every day. I've had two trips to China since I started and that obviously helps massively, but finding Chinese people who are struggling with English is a great help, as you can help each other. Watching TV is something I also do, but the more disciplined approach you take is genius and I intend to start emulating that. I also live in Sydney, and there are no shortage of Chinese areas to visit (I live in Eastwood which is perfect). Final note - HSK is being completely revamped, and rumour is that HSK 1 is going to get a LOT harder, while the gap between the top levels is going to get smaller (HSK5 to HSK 6 is pretty crazy).
I’m an absolute beginner but I love Chinese history. As a result I’ve watched a lot of historical dramas. Interestingly enough I’ve picked up a fair amount of vocabulary. I work with a couple of native speakers and they are surprised how much I’ve picked up by watching historical dramas.
Break the ice in China 😲 Ha! 😂😂 No need I think. China is the country where people are least private, from what I experienced all over the world. Taxidrivers? I not even entered completely, when they already asked me 你是哪里人. I never needed to break any ice at all. People ask me in subway or any places just about everything in my life. But I like it, so I always have nice conversations and friends. Only thing that nerves me, is every stranger asking me to connect on WeChat and I don’t like having 500+ in my contact list, which I even don’t really know. But I also don’t want them to lose face in front of their friends and I wanna be friendly, so I connect to them. After some weeks, when they have checked me oit and I disappear below bottom at their chat list, I start deleting them, when they are not important to me. Btw, I am German and 2011 came first to Shenzhen to live and work there, without knowing any Chinese at all, except for Ni hao and xie xie. So first evening I was alone in a food street, wanting to buy something so badly, but no one spoke English there (Shenzhen, Bao‘an, Xixiang) So I showed two fingers on the barbecue meet sticks and offered them a handful of money for them to pick out the necessary amount. But that’s not the way, I should continue in China, I thought, I need to know the numbers. So I started with numbers and „I want“ or „I would like to have...“. That’s how I started learning Chinese. After three years in Shenzhen and a break back to Germany, I then lived in Suzhou 2 years, until this Corona shi.....! Actually I just wanted to do a 2 month holiday in Germany, arriving end of January when the whole thing started. I already miss China so much, 我所有的朋友都说我有中国心. I am so connected to China and I love the easy openness and friendliness of them. I will never understand, why foreigners sometimes say, it’s so difficult to get through an imaginary outer smiling wall. It’s not true at all. At least, when you are open and friendly and show integrity. When you are honest and friendly, they open up so much on you. I never had so many friends, like in China. It’s amazing. Can’t await to get back there. Meanwhile I want to improve my Chinese. Yours is amazingly good. Well done 👍 Right now I am into the Radicals, the 部首, as I find, it gives me a great chance to learn about the history of the sign, of which bushou the character is put together, giving me an idea, what the sign is about, even when I don’t know it. There is a wonderful book from Edoardo Fazzioli (different names of the book in different languages), in German it’s called „Gemalte Wörter“, which means painted, or drawing words. Though he explains 214 radicals, you need to check in Wikipedia 227 Chinese radicals, to confirm, as some books, even in China, have different explanations for the radicals. Also Wikipedia shows more short forms of some radicals like the 三点水. But the book explains nice the development and history of the 部首, which makes it easier to learn. Then you recognize better some shapes, like the traditional sign for a door 🚪 or entrance, 門 and 门 where you clearly see the two wing doors, like in a saloon, but later, you cannot recognize the shape any more. So I learn the radicals having the book and checking every single 部首 at Wikipedia and adding notes to the book. Sometimes, even Chinese people don’t know the proper heritage of some radicals and you can impress them by teaching them 😃 Well, so far- I really miss China, 我非常想中国 😢 But you help me improve even more. Thank you for your videos
我喜欢这个！谢谢你！I gave a Chinese tutor and a lot of Chinese friends that I practice with. Your tips are excellent for the current situation until I can return to Shanghai to further boost my vocabulary.
Thank you soo so much for your videos. It is very helpful. Im a total beginner. Started the hardest way. Yerh...entirely on my own watching films etc, you tube and even bought text books. To my amazement, my brain is remembering.
I've been self teaching myself Chinese Mandarin for around 2years, but my Taiwanese gf didn't want to teach me because she wanted to only speak English to improve.
Perhaps you could try to make a deal with her, talk in Mandarin on one day and the next day switch to English, the day after switch back to Mandarin and so on? That way you’d both get a chance improve :)
I'm a native speaker of Chinese. I suggest that after learning the basic Chinese characters, you should learn 六书造字法，which mean Six Methods of Forming Chinese Characters，they are 象形、指事、形声、会意、转注、假借，to know how does the characters were created, it would be very helpful for you to guess the meaning of the characters. For examples, if the characters are combined with 氵, they would be somethings related to water, 沉（Sink）、浮 （Float）、游（Swim）、汁（Juice）and so on. Similarly, if the characters are combined with 艹, they would be somethings related to plant, 花（Flower），菜（Vegetable），草（Grass），莓（Berry）. I hope this can help you.
Any tips how to get started as a complete beginner? It just seems like so much and I dont even know where to start and am feeling kinda overwhelmed. But at the same time i really really WANT to learn mandarin chinese :/
Focus on pronouncing the initials. Then tone pairs. Once you do that for awhile start Pounding vocab. Never use English subs on anything Chinese you watch. Try to focus on association of characters with the sounds. Grammar will come eventually just by immersion with media. Order of Importance (IMO) Tones. Vocabulary Vocabulary Vocabulary. Etc. Grammar.
What I did was I learned how to read, write and speak the numbers. And my Chinese friends helped me with the pronunciation. Really focus on learning the tones well so that you’ll have a good foundation for your further learning!
nimol yi lol that’s really sad. but if you are in America UK Canada or Australia. I’m pretty sure there are enough mandarin speakers “waiting for” you.
I am a Chinese native. I’m learning English, I know it is hard to learn a language so I’d like to help people who are learning Chinese. And if it is possible, we can teach each other through Ins....😁
in studying for the HSK 6, i found the "learn the right words" part super difficult. i'd do okay in conversation and day-to-day stuff, which in theory the test should be about, but in reading the practice test material i'd get so caught up on all the words that were suuuuuper specific, like scientific terms or REALLY obscure stuff you'd literally NEVER use. they were not technically HSK vocab words but they were still necessary to understand the context of what i was reading. i feel like the whole format of the HSK needs an overhaul, which i heard has just recently been tentatively announced. the jumps between levels are huge and there are so many words that you just have to know by chance, and whether you get a lot of words you happen to know or not in addition to the actual HSK vocab on your test is just luck (or a lack thereof, lol).
Eira brown I lived in China while getting my masters degree and passing HSK 6 was required for graduation from my university, so I was studying my major (which wasn’t Chinese) in China while preparing for the HSK on the side.
The methods you recommended to learn Chinese are also the methods I used to learn English. It brings back so many memories. I watched some English dramas and paused at almost each sentence to pick up the word and phrases that I’m not familiar with. Watching different types of dramas or shows helps you learn different vocabularies. I also listened to ABC news almost every day for at least 30mins. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and UA-cam are also great ways to learn English. Remember to turn on the subtitles and watch different genres of video. Now I don’t need to pause anymore and can understand 98% of them. Practice makes perfect!
Such super helpful tips for any learner who wants to learn a new language as well. I'm studying English and I think it could work for my English self-studying either. Thank you so much for your tips!!!
I have started to learn Chinese about 6 months ago. I have a lot of spare time on my hands. Although I tried very hard, I made almost zero progress. I don`t even start to write the letters/signs, because I know I will not learn them anymore. By the way I am already 60 years old... The problem is that many words are very similar and it is hard for me to remermber the differences and the pronunciation. I think learning Chinese is only for young people, who have an extraordinary talent for new languages.
I'll have to get into some C Dramas then. Bye bye K dramas
Hahaha a slight readjustment!
I watch all. I watch k-dramas and c-dramas.
watch The Untamed!!! 10/10 recommend!!
@@alexandra926 Best gay romance ever!
Cpop:am I a joke to you?
I Started learning chinese to know what is written on my shampoo LMAO
Ab K lol
😂😂😂👍🏻
卣 that is how we express shampoo in Chinese chareacter
One hell of a reason lmao
@赛博朋克 it looks like shampoo bottle
With learning a new language, motivation is an often overlooked aspect. Non-English speakers (including Chinese) gain interest in English through Hollywood films and English songs. Many people gain interest in learning Japanese or Korean because of Anime or K-pop, so if people are interested in learning Mandarin Chinese then watching Chinese dramas and listening to Chinese music serves as motivation.
神州 Shenzhou Thank you. But I don’t know how to search for chinese songs only by characters because I am a beginner from scratch😭
I really like old Jackie Chan movies and the movie Shaolin Soccer (masterpiece)
We tv as quite a few dramas and billi billi as some good donghua(chinese anime)
@@lolxd5412 You can search for Chinese songs on UA-cam, just enter a search term "2020 流行歌曲". Normally, just typing "2020" the UA-cam prompt will autocomplete the "流行歌曲" part.
You can also search for 2019 流行歌曲 or 2018 流行歌曲 or any other year.
When you want to learn Chinese because of otome games :"D
正在学习汉语的朋友们，祝你们好运。Those who are learning Chinese,good luck to you~
♥️
谢谢
@Aura Darkskipper 噢！哈哈😄
“囧”
”囧有了”
为我这些是二生词！
@Aura Darkskipper lol 😂 What does that mean?I am Chinese but I don’t know lol 😆
@@rosechou649 中国人不可能不知道囧字，你应该是华裔
Once you master Chinese language, suggest you read ancient Chinese philosophies books, you would know a lot more about Chinese thinking, history and cultures.
Wow hopefully one day my Chinese is good enough for that!!
Yeah, those are quite hard to understand :). I'm comeplety fluent in Chinese and I can't just read ancient Chinese stuff without reading each sentence a hundred times. Really gives you a headache, but they're fun!
Blondie in China I would suggest you can buy some 中学语文辅导教材 (middle school Chinese supplementary textbooks) where ancient classics texts are footnoted and translated into Morden Chinese in second page. So you can refer to each other from time to time. Once you can understand some ancient classics, then tv drama with ancient topics and 成语 will be much easier for you. Good luck.
@@amberyang5699 Start with some chinese style music! It is also fun and much esay. For example if you have heard XUE HUA PIAO PIAO, this song is not expressing sadness or frustrating, its lyrics is about comparing love to plum blossms in the snow to praise the firmness of love. That is totally different.
我正在准备汉语水平考试6级，你可以推荐我看什么书吗？
I’ve been studying chinese for 5 years and got my HSK 3 last year lol
Now I’ll be going to Uni and keep studying it
Wish me luck!!
加油加油！our channel has HSK3 level listening material, you could give that a go 😊
@@袁珂-o2l 2:24 she explain that.
@袁珂，HSK，汉语水平考试，
挺厉害，继续努力，加油！
加油
As a Chinese, I know the difficulty of Chinese, just as I learn English. And I really wanna make a friend who wants to learn Chinese and whose mother tongue is English, and then we can practice together and make progress together. Learning together can be more motivating. Languages are amazing, but learning them is crazy!!!
Me me me!!!!
Me sir!
me i want! do you have wechat?
@@hannahsarino9508 yes! could I have your WeChat ID？
@@lingweizeng477 me too!! kyllxndrmy8!!
As an English speaker, Chinese is surprisingly simple [ to speak ] once you get over the tones, and that's really more of a mental barrier than anything. Reading is easier than you think, though I imagine writing would be the hardest.
By comparison, Korean is really accessible because of the phonetic alphabet, but its grammar is so different you really have to train your brain to accept information in a new way.
Amy : WATCH THIS before you start self-studying Chinese
Me : Too late xD
Reading is quite useful in learning a language, but with Chinese you should put a lot effort in learning the characters. But once you are able to read you can boost your learning rapidly.
Im really struggling jajaja, i started learning Chinese and ENGLISH since two month 🤣
@@mooonbaby594 加油！
@@DingDingMandarin what did you just say? 😂😂😂
@@mooonbaby594 Go get them.
as a local chinese,i could tell that you can practise chinese both listening and speaking through watching chinese documentaties like 航拍中国，舌尖上的中国 etc. it's also a good way to know more about china .
What are the words you wrote in Chinese can you translate it
Can you give us the pinyin of chinese characters you wrote please? 😁
@@tantangan10rbsubscribers83 English is Aerial China and A Bite of China, pinyin is 航拍中国 hang pai zhong guo，舌尖上的中国 she jian shang de zhong guo
@@conniebu3531 I know am late but can you help me practice my Chinese
I studied chinese for 6 months with a tutor and it felt amazing. This may sound a bit silly but each time I’d have a lesson, I could feel my brain expanding. Learning a language is like building a lego. You use the basic blocks on the bottom and slowly build up on one another. I was planning to search for a better tutor, but ended up stopping the search and eventually that just led to loss of motivation. I stopped and now it’s been more than a year since that. I see videos like these and they just make me wanna go back man.
Omg, I also feel the same while learning how to write or read all those new characters ! I started to learn chinese one year ago but I also have University, so I had to stop for few months because of the exams ... a few weeks ago I restarted to learn !
@@MrLuca998 me too, i am interested in Japanese but i stopped
China is the future so learn chinese and you won't regret !
"have a goal to stay motivated "
me: why is this bl novel not translated.....wait what if......
my brain: yes start learning one of the hardest language in the world, just for bl literature
YES!!!!!! and also for me to watch all the bts of "The Untamed" and be able to understand Yi Bo and Xiao Zhan
YESSSSSS!!!! idk how but it sounded like a good idea at that time (i also learned -sort of- english for the same reason since thats not my 1st language so im sorry for any mistakes)
YASSSS SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS
There's another new BL called Word of Honor. Highly recommended 😁
Exactly.. I also got that.. lol It started with Jackson Wang and his flirting.. after that I wanted more.. and then enter the BL world.. I think learning Chinese opens up a large horizon.. rich culture..
"I play the episode until I find a word I don't recognize" I'm pausing as soon as it starts LOL
I have ADHD and am suffering from insomnia so I just couldn't sleep but at 2:00 am I was in my hyperactive mode and suddenly I had this urge to learn mandarin and yeah here I am-✌️
bruh same -_-
Same here but I actually have a class I’m being paid for… and then my ADHD made me hyperfocus on it.
Mood!
same except its 4 am
Same hunnniii
I used to study Chinese at school (to GCSE level). I was pretty good and could speak in simple conversations. Visiting China for a week really exploded a lot of my vocabulary. Now about 10 years later, it's mostly faded apart from the basics. This video has given me a lot of methods to use to try and bring it all back and more!
Thanks for this!
haha
I would rlly rlly recommend ppl to visit China like at least once in a life time. It’s much better than described in mainstream TV lol.
Definitely! I went last year for the first time and my eyes were wide open!
Hello, for a foreigner coming to China for the first time, which city would you recommend them to visit?
@@bapakkubukanbapaknyaakutap9580 ya know, Beijing, Shanghai, those cities r the most famous ones, ofc Wuhan lmao. But honestly, everywhere u go, they have local food (they r all delicious)
the north city is best ,because of the putonghua ,In south area of China ,the pronunciation is very very different .called MinNan language .说白了，北方人都听不懂南方话，你一个外国人，估计更听不懂
@@樊孟瑛 普通话英语是maderin lol， 还有north city是啥 你这是用的百度翻译的叭 哈哈哈 不是喷 给点儿建议
Amy, I highly recommend a documentary called 'Aerial China' 航拍中国. The narration in the documentary is fabulous and of highly cultural richness.
Thanks so much Michael!
I love 航拍中国 too
I want to learn chinese bc of the serie The Untamed😂
Hansel samee
May I ask do you learn Chinese for studying in China?
@@eirabrown8558 i was thinking about that, but idk universities in China where i can study theater or set/costume design.
Why everyone love that show so much? 😶 After seeing many people on yt saying it's so awesome I've watched around 10 episodes and just thought it was boring and the acting so flat, and I'm not a very difficult person, I'm easy to love a show, do I have to watch more episodes? Or am I missing something?
Story of Yanxi palace. Hehe
Very important piece of advice that I have for students: KNOW YOUR RADICALS!!! It will make learning new characters sooo much easier. Also know your stroke orders, and the basics of how characters are formed. This will make your life so much easier!
I feel the exactly same at the "Pause&Note" part. I did the same when I was in high school for English study. I paused every time I saw a new word and noted it. I love learning Enligsh, so it didn't bother me at all. Eventually I greatly enhanced my English vocabulary. Though regretably, not doing it for a while now.
maybe the next episode “ And how did I forgotten Mandarin” 😂
😂😂😂😂
Chinese slangs ua-cam.com/video/Ub6PvBXJrhw/v-deo.html
＠無名 Perhaps, you should work hard to improve your English.🤣
I have a Chinese husband and he’s useless when it comes to helping me learn Chinese lol
Nice
😂
Do you have a washboard at home?
Same here!
what is the meaning of lol ?LOL?a game ?
Very good ! This was almost exactly how I learned English years ago. My daily vocabulary was 5 words. It worked well
Nice
You are an absolute life-saver. Trying to go at this without any structure or support is a nightmare for someone who is darned determined to learn. Thank you so much. Phenomenal content. ❤❤❤
for these who have VERY advanced Chinese skills, I highly recommend 琅琊榜(Langya Bang ). It not only has a very good story, but also has beautiful dialogues and contains many traditional Chinese culture & value. It is in my opinion the best Chinese drama in recent years
You are right, it's one of the best drama I've ever watched and I've watched it 6 times already. The dialogue is so beautiful and poetic that it brought tears in my eyes.
I hate Wuxia though. It's boring af.
I´m trying hard everyday for an hour and it´s been 6 months now. I´m doing it alone with the videos I find here on youtube and your advice helped lot!
Some channels to learn from ?
加油！
I'm a Chinese native, but usually and almost always read the subtitles when I watch TV series, than relying on my listening, and more often I found it more efficient.
I'm interested in finding someone to chat to to learn Mandarin, I'm English. Are u interested??
Ewan Doyle thanks Ewan. I don’t think I’m a qualified Mandarin speaker any more as haven’t been living in China for 5 years and sometimes get myself so confused of the recently coined terms. So embarrassing.
@@yangyangxi4481 Ahh okay. I'm just looking for someone to chat to in Mandarin, I'm sure you don't need to be qualified or anything!
Ewan Doyle no probs. Then I’d love to chat with you in Mandarin. :) how can I do that?
@@yangyangxi4481 Ah great.. Are you on Insta?
My wife's chinese, we've been married for almost ten years and I've been to China so many times...yet I couldn't learn to speak it (laziness I assume).
I tried many ways to find the way to make me enjoying learning Chinese but failed many times to do so, even though I love the language, but something was blocking me to take a step further.
Now that I've found your video with techniques, it started to makes sense to me about how to get this beautiful language.
I downloaded Anki and started sticking notes everywhere in my house, and I get easily progress ! So I want to thank you a lot for giving me that hype I needed to start to learn efficiently !
GREAT VIDEO. Those are very effective ways to learn Chinese, or any languages.
Just a reminder, When you are in a city and ask someone if he is local, usually we say “你是本地人吗？” instead of “你是当地人吗？”。“当地人” is used when you are refering to the people of a city/town/village but you are not in that city/town/village.
本地人is what I’ll say. I’m northern Chinese
When you speak to someone directly，you make sentence like:"你是本地人，我也是本地人”,don't use "当地人”。 When you speak to someone about someone else who is not around you, you should say:"他们当地人咋咋咋”，in this situation,you can still converse with somebody using"他们本地人咋咋咋‘’。
Wow... I'm only 7 minutes into the video and I only have a slight interest in learning Chinese, but you've just taught me an amazing new idea for bettering my Korean. I'm definitely going to start a vocabulary book and using your idea of watching Korean TV to find words I don't recognize. Thank you so much!
Thanks for making this info packed video! I'm sure it took you forever compiling all these resources for us fellow language learners!
Eeeyyy!! "Accidentally in love" is actually the very first cdrama i've ever watched, and i have been OBSESSED with cdramas since then.
You gave me hope that I can actually have decent accent despite being a non-native, I am just starting but it feels so hard to make some words sound like they should. Cheering for all of you to keep practising and reach your goals!
I started learning chinese to understand WayV songs, it's a perfect motivation
Thanks Amy. Even though I live in China its still been difficult to learn. Your video has renewed my motivation and given me a solid plan to follow
Thank you so much. This is really insightful. I am doing self study and sometimes it gets really frustrating when I study new vocab and I can't remember how to write it after a week. Watching this really encourages me to push forward and put in those little daily efforts.
I was born and raised in Shanghai, but started learning English almost as a "second first language" at a very young age (I believe four or three). To be honest I see a lot of parallels between an English speaker learning Chinese and a Chinese speaker learning English - in both cases the script is decidedly foreign, the language learned is incredibly complex with many silly exceptions, and there's a lot of cultural elements that underly even routine conversations.
English has been a mandatory course in China's education system for a long while now, but the level students are able to reach are usually less than desirable. In my personal opinion it's mostly due to the inefficient (and often test-oriented) methodology. Fortunately I went to an international school where English is taught more as a tool than as a skill required in a test, so my English is pretty proficient (116 TOEFL, 8.0 IELTS; I can probably get away with claiming I'm British to native English speakers at this point).
Naturally people often ask me how I acquired such good English, and honestly I have a hard time answering. Of course, part of it is my environment - my school friends all spoke English as a first language or at least had to use English for the curriculum, but I actually think watching English programmes was actually another great contributing factor. When adults ask me for English learning tips, I often just tell them to go watch Discovery - Mythbusters, National Geographics, things like that, not unlike how you recommended watching Chinese TV. I found these documentaries particularly helpful during my youth, partially because I was and still am a massive science buff, but also because the lack of a continuous storyline. I believe this is important because it removes a confusing variable - if I don't understand something said or done, it's probably not because I missed some bizarre logic of implications that happened earlier in the series, rather because I simply misunderstood a vocabulary/sentence and/or some very shallow connotations.
Additionally, the nature of these documentaries means that they necessarily use a lot of semi-professional vocabulary, for example think about a factory tour - there's going to be so many verbs and nouns that are particular to what is being made, or about manufacturing in general. Same thing if the topic is an animal, motor racing, aircraft accident investigation, etc. While shows depicting everyday life is helpful in learning the basic structure and patterns of a language, I believe what truly makes proficiency is ultimately vocabulary, which is exactly what documentaries are good for in the context of language learning.
Unfortunately for Chinese learners, I have to admit that home-grown Chinese documentaries are generally not as great as American and British ones - both due to experience and lack of funding and/or interest. However there's still plenty of good resources around. I would actually recommend starting with Chinese-translated National Geographics, believe it or not. Don't learn from the way they speak - a lot of English habits of expression actually carry over through the translation, so if you speak they way they do you will sound decidedly non-native; rather learn the vocabulary. If you focus on the vocabulary, the inauthentic-sounding speech actually becomes a benefit because it will help you to anticipate and/or guess the upcoming words and/or their meanings. Of course, if you find other excellent documentary series available in Chinese, feel free to use them too.
If you really want to get a feel for real Chinese documentaries however, there are resources for that too. 纪实频道 (literally "Documentary Channel") has lots of great shows these days (albeit sometimes the topics are a bit complex such as politics). Occasionally they have translated foreign shows as well. I'm not sure whether you can access them that easily though because it is a TV channel, but try looking up the names of the TV series they host, and find resources that way. Alternatively if you want a really big name TV series, go lookup 舌尖上的中国 (A Bite of China). It's a really well-made show that aired a few years ago about all kinds of different cuisines you can find in China. Its difficulty isn't super challenging, plus I'm sure you will find the vocabulary extremely useful since you will be eating a lot in China, trust me.
Thanks for sharing those resources with us!! super useful!!
Chinese slangs 101 ua-cam.com/video/Ub6PvBXJrhw/v-deo.html
I've learned up to HSK5 by myself, and the content of this video helped me a lot through my journey, I've watched it several times through the journey
Really do appreciate it
Keep it up
Dunno if anyone's interested, but there's a show called 新世界 that has lots of actors with strong Beijing/Dongbei accents. It's quite colloquial, but has a really good historical storyline
She‘s so right! many things in the video I actually use for my Chinese and improves so fast！
SO glad to hear that!
I just started studying Mandarin pinyin about 5 weeks ago using an online program (not ready for the characters course yet). It's really good because we're starting from the basic (tones, initials, finals, words/sentences... building vocab as we go). Anyway, I realized that I wasn't setting myself up for reviews and/or additional studying. Your tips are awesome and I plan on incorporating some of them like flashcards and being able to re-review what I'm learning! Pleco seem especially helpful and I've downloaded it to my phone. I will definitely watch some cartoons. I've been watching some Chinese shows on YT just to get used to listening to it, and I can already pick up some words here and there. So, thanks again for your tips!!
Great!
Today I decided to continue studying Chinese (I studied it for over 4 years) after 2 years of getting my Chinese rustier and rustier :)
Awesome, loved it, surprised how I was in the same boat as you. Great tips and I've been using them during the quarentine. We can both keep going, 一起加油！
加油加油💪
Revise, watch ,learn and memorize are the good way to learn a new language. It very true that after learn you must use it in our life too. Although I can speak Chinese, I will often learn a lot of languages and ways of doing things in life in TV dramas. I have watched most of the dramas you introduced and I like it very much. The plot is very good.
Girl your Mandarin is so good you're motivating me with every video, I can't believe that YOU would be able to forget this language
Chinese slangs ua-cam.com/video/Ub6PvBXJrhw/v-deo.html
I totally agree with u. Taxi drivers are the best people to have convos with . I have covered all sorts of topics with them
I am Chinese, and I find Chinese very difficult. With all the gadgets these day, I forget how to handwrite a lot of words, cause all we need to to is type pinyin and choose among the options.
Thank you for the show suggestions! Cheers :)
Learning the language for 10 months now, really looking for some good content in Chinese.
Thank you for your study tips. I’m new to learning Chinese. I started picking up words watching Chinese dramas, then watching UA-cam instructors and now I’m enrolled in a college level language course. Impossible to travel to China now because of the pandemic. As far as being able to practice with native speakers I have one co-worker who speaks fluent Mandarin. Most Chinese here in the SF Bay Area are Cantonese speakers as well in our 2 Chinatowns. Goals: I was ready to take the HSK level 1 exam. However they’ve closed all the Confucius Institutes at the universities in the US where they offered the exam. (It’s political and won’t get into it.) so frustrating. Also at work they have a qualified bilingual status designation level 1 and level 2. Level 1 is conversational and level 2 designation allows you to do medical interpretation. It would take me 10 years to become a certified medical interpreter in Mandarin. I am a Certified Medical Interpreter in Spanish. Know of anywhere else I can take the HSK level 1 exam that doesn’t require traveling? Thanks in advance.
I've been studying Mandarin for one month now. Wish me luck lol
skinny shimmers goof luck
good luck
祝你好运
dude how is it going
Enjoy the easy grammar
Nice! I was learning chinese in china too, it's important to be "like a robot" instead of getting frustrated, and just keep grinding every time you fail to remember a word, that will make you notice results quickly! And another great tip I have is to change your phones font to a font that has automatically pinyin on top of every chinese text that appears on your phone.
You got to say each Chinese word a thousand times I've been studying pretty much Chinese for 6 years so I'm getting there
I've been studying chinese for 6 months consistently but for 11 Months total And I agree with you.
Repetition and stick to one text book,one workbook and a schedule. Geesh
I hit a plateau at Hsk 2 for doing too much
Thanks!
Hi! I'm Brazilian, thank you for me help in english and Mandarin.
you are very clever. you summaried so many chinese-learning methods for non-chinese speakers.
艾米，加油！我们爱你❤️
You’ve inspired me. It’s been 20 years since I was in Taiwan so 我退步了很多
I’ve started by watching Disney movies in Mandarin. Since I have a two year old, I know most of them by heart now, so I can listen in Chinese and get a good refresher.
Doing this exact thing! But also using Speechling for getting new vocab! Its free and has thousands of sentences with audio.
Chinese slangs ua-cam.com/video/Ub6PvBXJrhw/v-deo.html
what I‘ve learned in my chinese study journey (and what I will evidence in my video on saturday) is, that it is really about that immersion in the language, listening and speaking.
Great video, thanks for the inspiration!
I studied Chinese for two years and I was doing tv in the same time going into the class, and that help me a lot
I am just happy you mentioned Detective L which is Bai Yu's show. I love him since Guardian..😍😍😍😍. Him and Zhu YiLong are my inspiration for wanting to learn Chinese
Thanks for the advice though
I love bai Yu!! Hahaha
@@BlondieinChina Me too. He is so different. He can pull off manly and cute effortlessly. He can really match in the acting with ZYL. (Sorry for fangirling. Hahaha.)
Thanks you so much.
this is sooooo helpful!! the beginner, intermediat, advanced advice is so crucial, thank you!!😭
Just found you, love that you are Australian, love your manner etc. Im learning through a school, but great ideas here to add to my studies. thank you
Me before watching this video: I am a Chinese, why will I click and watch this video?
Me after watching this video: I am glad that I watched this video. They are useful skills for self-studying regardless which language you are learning!
Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for these great tips. I started learning Chinese during the first lockdown ( in the Netherlands). I have been using different apps and UA-cam videos. I think that I can bring some structure to it, thanks to your tips.👍🙏
Ur Chinese skill after watching few vids as a Chinese must says that u are pro.确实挺厉害的，佩服。
I love languages, I call myself a polyglot until I become a polyglot.
Haha fake it until you make it?
@@CurrentChinese of course, when I told my friends about the idea of learning languages and polyglot thing, they were laughing at me. Now I speak fluent English, a little Spanish and basic Chinese. Their mouse are shut and I am accelerating
I speak German natively, have a decent level of English now (already learn for 10 years). I also have basic French knowledge and currently starting with Chinese
it just irritating when u dont know the language so it motives me lol still learning english for years (still bad at listening&speaking) n basic japanese
@@colichapolyglot2900 same here! I speak fluent English and spanish. Now I'm gonna learn chinese
I've been self-teaching for two years. I still struggle with conversation but I can read surprisingly well. As Amy says - daily discipine is absolutely the key - you've got to do an hour+ every day. I've had two trips to China since I started and that obviously helps massively, but finding Chinese people who are struggling with English is a great help, as you can help each other. Watching TV is something I also do, but the more disciplined approach you take is genius and I intend to start emulating that. I also live in Sydney, and there are no shortage of Chinese areas to visit (I live in Eastwood which is perfect).
Final note - HSK is being completely revamped, and rumour is that HSK 1 is going to get a LOT harder, while the gap between the top levels is going to get smaller (HSK5 to HSK 6 is pretty crazy).
I’m an absolute beginner but I love Chinese history. As a result I’ve watched a lot of historical dramas. Interestingly enough I’ve picked up a fair amount of vocabulary. I work with a couple of native speakers and they are surprised how much I’ve picked up by watching historical dramas.
Dear this is Very useful 🙏🙏🙏🇲🇳🇲🇳🇲🇳
Break the ice in China 😲 Ha! 😂😂 No need I think. China is the country where people are least private, from what I experienced all over the world. Taxidrivers? I not even entered completely, when they already asked me 你是哪里人. I never needed to break any ice at all. People ask me in subway or any places just about everything in my life. But I like it, so I always have nice conversations and friends. Only thing that nerves me, is every stranger asking me to connect on WeChat and I don’t like having 500+ in my contact list, which I even don’t really know. But I also don’t want them to lose face in front of their friends and I wanna be friendly, so I connect to them. After some weeks, when they have checked me oit and I disappear below bottom at their chat list, I start deleting them, when they are not important to me.
Btw, I am German and 2011 came first to Shenzhen to live and work there, without knowing any Chinese at all, except for Ni hao and xie xie. So first evening I was alone in a food street, wanting to buy something so badly, but no one spoke English there (Shenzhen, Bao‘an, Xixiang)
So I showed two fingers on the barbecue meet sticks and offered them a handful of money for them to pick out the necessary amount.
But that’s not the way, I should continue in China, I thought, I need to know the numbers. So I started with numbers and „I want“ or „I would like to have...“.
That’s how I started learning Chinese. After three years in Shenzhen and a break back to Germany, I then lived in Suzhou 2 years, until this Corona shi.....! Actually I just wanted to do a 2 month holiday in Germany, arriving end of January when the whole thing started. I already miss China so much, 我所有的朋友都说我有中国心. I am so connected to China and I love the easy openness and friendliness of them. I will never understand, why foreigners sometimes say, it’s so difficult to get through an imaginary outer smiling wall. It’s not true at all. At least, when you are open and friendly and show integrity. When you are honest and friendly, they open up so much on you. I never had so many friends, like in China. It’s amazing. Can’t await to get back there. Meanwhile I want to improve my Chinese. Yours is amazingly good. Well done 👍
Right now I am into the Radicals, the 部首, as I find, it gives me a great chance to learn about the history of the sign, of which bushou the character is put together, giving me an idea, what the sign is about, even when I don’t know it. There is a wonderful book from Edoardo Fazzioli (different names of the book in different languages), in German it’s called „Gemalte Wörter“, which means painted, or drawing words. Though he explains 214 radicals, you need to check in Wikipedia 227 Chinese radicals, to confirm, as some books, even in China, have different explanations for the radicals. Also Wikipedia shows more short forms of some radicals like the 三点水. But the book explains nice the development and history of the 部首, which makes it easier to learn. Then you recognize better some shapes, like the traditional sign for a door 🚪 or entrance, 門 and 门 where you clearly see the two wing doors, like in a saloon, but later, you cannot recognize the shape any more.
So I learn the radicals having the book and checking every single 部首 at Wikipedia and adding notes to the book.
Sometimes, even Chinese people don’t know the proper heritage of some radicals and you can impress them by teaching them 😃
Well, so far- I really miss China, 我非常想中国 😢 But you help me improve even more. Thank you for your videos
我喜欢这个！谢谢你！I gave a Chinese tutor and a lot of Chinese friends that I practice with. Your tips are excellent for the current situation until I can return to Shanghai to further boost my vocabulary.
No no always , taxi driver himslef starts talking to me 😂😂😂, he will start with 你是哪国人 and then the story begins 😂😂😂
Brooooooooooo fact i have traveled more cities in china been here for 5 years driver sucks sometimes
和司机交谈时，你会学会中国的脏话 哈哈哈哈哈哈哈哈
Thank you soo so much for your videos. It is very helpful. Im a total beginner. Started the hardest way. Yerh...entirely on my own watching films etc, you tube and even bought text books. To my amazement, my brain is remembering.
I've been self teaching myself Chinese Mandarin for around 2years, but my Taiwanese gf didn't want to teach me because she wanted to only speak English to improve.
Perhaps you could try to make a deal with her, talk in Mandarin on one day and the next day switch to English, the day after switch back to Mandarin and so on? That way you’d both get a chance improve :)
@@jenna_maria Tried that, but she is bossy, lol. Thanks anyway. :)
Bro dad where are we going is one of my favorite series. I absolutely love season 3 as well as you
I'm not even learning Chinese lol
i just wanted to watch this cuz I wanted to and thought it might help with the languages I'm learning
I'm a native speaker of Chinese. I suggest that after learning the basic Chinese characters, you should learn 六书造字法，which mean Six Methods of Forming Chinese Characters，they are 象形、指事、形声、会意、转注、假借，to know how does the characters were created, it would be very helpful for you to guess the meaning of the characters. For examples, if the characters are combined with 氵, they would be somethings related to water, 沉（Sink）、浮 （Float）、游（Swim）、汁（Juice）and so on. Similarly, if the characters are combined with 艹, they would be somethings related to plant, 花（Flower），菜（Vegetable），草（Grass），莓（Berry）. I hope this can help you.
Any tips how to get started as a complete beginner? It just seems like so much and I dont even know where to start and am feeling kinda overwhelmed. But at the same time i really really WANT to learn mandarin chinese :/
same here
Learning how to read pinyin first is a necessary foundation when you start learning Chinese.
Focus on pronouncing the initials. Then tone pairs. Once you do that for awhile start Pounding vocab. Never use English subs on anything Chinese you watch. Try to focus on association of characters with the sounds. Grammar will come eventually just by immersion with media.
Order of Importance (IMO)
Tones.
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Vocabulary.
Etc.
Grammar.
What I did was I learned how to read, write and speak the numbers. And my Chinese friends helped me with the pronunciation. Really focus on learning the tones well so that you’ll have a good foundation for your further learning!
Hi where are you from?
Wow, thank you so much for the in depth and laid back resources. Really appreciate it. Glad I found this channel, subscribed!
honestly the best way to learn a language is talking to a native speaker everyday. For both speaking and listening it is the most efficient way
Highly agree, but I cannot find any native mandarin speaker to practice the language lol
nimol yi lol that’s really sad. but if you are in America UK Canada or Australia. I’m pretty sure there are enough mandarin speakers “waiting for” you.
@@nimolyi1256 HelloTalk!
I am a Chinese native. I’m learning English, I know it is hard to learn a language so I’d like to help people who are learning Chinese. And if it is possible, we can teach each other through Ins....😁
I’m a student here in China who is struggling to study English. lol
I absolutely love 爸爸去哪儿 奔跑吧兄弟 我的前半生 and 都挺好！
in studying for the HSK 6, i found the "learn the right words" part super difficult. i'd do okay in conversation and day-to-day stuff, which in theory the test should be about, but in reading the practice test material i'd get so caught up on all the words that were suuuuuper specific, like scientific terms or REALLY obscure stuff you'd literally NEVER use. they were not technically HSK vocab words but they were still necessary to understand the context of what i was reading. i feel like the whole format of the HSK needs an overhaul, which i heard has just recently been tentatively announced. the jumps between levels are huge and there are so many words that you just have to know by chance, and whether you get a lot of words you happen to know or not in addition to the actual HSK vocab on your test is just luck (or a lack thereof, lol).
kaliwallace you go girl!!:)
can i take you on my wecheak list?
kaliwallace 好酷的小姐姐
May I ask do you learn Chinese for studying in China?
Eira brown I lived in China while getting my masters degree and passing HSK 6 was required for graduation from my university, so I was studying my major (which wasn’t Chinese) in China while preparing for the HSK on the side.
The methods you recommended to learn Chinese are also the methods I used to learn English. It brings back so many memories. I watched some English dramas and paused at almost each sentence to pick up the word and phrases that I’m not familiar with. Watching different types of dramas or shows helps you learn different vocabularies. I also listened to ABC news almost every day for at least 30mins. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and UA-cam are also great ways to learn English. Remember to turn on the subtitles and watch different genres of video. Now I don’t need to pause anymore and can understand 98% of them. Practice makes perfect!
My major is TESOL, English language teaching. I am curious about how others learn mandarin. Haha.
Chinese slangs ua-cam.com/video/Ub6PvBXJrhw/v-deo.html
Accidently in love is such a good show ! i remember watching it for the first time , and ever since I've wanted to learn mandarin:)
0:21 "like mate, stop procrastinating"
Such super helpful tips for any learner who wants to learn a new language as well. I'm studying English and I think it could work for my English self-studying either. Thank you so much for your tips!!!
I want to learn Chinese cause I want to go In China and cause I love watching c-drama!😊
I love how concise 成語 is. Also I can read really well but not writing it.
Im chinese and fluent and it but im just here to see how people study the language🤣. Im learning korean tho so i might use some tips
Yesssss same-
Amy super good learning techniques of any languages. Should be recommended to more people.
In the meantime, I am trying to enhance my English by watching your videos...hahaha...
Hope it helps!!
me too
Thank you so much! I am a mandarin learner from Brazil and in 2018 I have lived in China as well. Peace
It's pretty efficient though. That's exactly how i learned English😎
I am a Chinese, find your video is really helpful for beginning. And your Chinese is fluent😊
I have started to learn Chinese about 6 months ago. I have a lot of spare time on my hands. Although I tried very hard, I made almost zero progress.
I don`t even start to write the letters/signs, because I know I will not learn them anymore. By the way I am already 60 years old...
The problem is that many words are very similar and it is hard for me to remermber the differences and the pronunciation.
I think learning Chinese is only for young people, who have an extraordinary talent for new languages.