@@ShuoshuoChinese I have a hypothesis. I've been learning Chinese for 15 years and I always quit, I go back to study and quit, then, I realized that I needed something like Du Chinese, since you learn a language by studying conversions.
talking about pronunciation, in a former video it sounded like "...I bumped into my eggs"....only some ages later I got you meant ex, like ex gf :D :D :D
I love your positivity towards learning! I've seen many comments under other videos where people would attack other learners for not being fluent or their language skills not being flawless. I don't know but your videos really motivate me because you tell us that we should just go for it instead of being scared of studying a language😊😊😊
I’ve spent about 100,000 hours studying English humor and Western culture, and many years studying Chinese culture. My native language is Chinese. I teach Chinese in humorous way and with cute pictures. Hope somebody recommend my videos to those who want to learn Chinese.
3:41 It's Friday night. I'm in the US, learning Mandarin from a teacher in Thailand, while listening to salsa music. I feel like I've won something... 👍😃😆🏆😊👏😎 I love this channel!
Anyone else feel like writing is the ultimate measure of mastery over a language? Another thing is practicing writing will improve every other language skill: reading, speaking, grammar, vocabulary, comprehension etc.
My problem is that I can read characters but when I go to write them I cannot remember how the character looks exactly or the strokes. How can I overcome this?
Happens to me too - then I must make an association immediately - like for Ni3 meaning 'you' (你）"Starts with standing man" and I say, "a PERSON STANDING outside wants to talk to YOU (keyword)" That helps get me started. Association jump starts everything I do - they are in Skritter as ShuoShuo points out - Mandarin Blueprint is all about association. Without association your doomed to a life of rote, drilling (I do those too) and constant forgetting... with association, at least there's a chance...a hope...and when it works you have a nice little victory for yourself... Good luck! Daniel Léo Simpson Composer San Francisco
Try this: Learn a new character. Let your brain forget it. Re-learn it once you find it again. Then let your brain re-forget it. Then re-learn it. Then see how your amazing brain just can't forget it any longer. I call it "active-passive brain digestion". Let your memory "digest" every new character at its own pace, the more you forget and bring back once needed, the better you will interiorise new words and concepts. Results guaranteed.
I started learning to speak the basics, when I lived in China. Then I discovered a book explaining all 部首 radicals. It’s from Edoardo Fazzioli and exists in many languages. I also made up flash cards from the book as well checking on Wikipedia „227 Chinese radicals“ As there you find all different versions too. Like river chuān 巛 also can be 川, or shì worship can be 示 as well as 礻. It’s important to know. Since I know the radicals, remembering characters is much easier for me: Like the word 想 xiǎng , to miss, to think of.. for me now consists of mù 木 tree, mù 目 eye and xīn 心 heart ❤️ Much easier now 😃 Then there is the page characterpop to pop down characters to their radicals- but it’s not perfectly complete and some mistakes there... but still ok
Yep, tbh, I think that's the only real way you can remember them, there's no way anyone could write a 20-stroke character by memorizing all the individual strokes, without prior knowledge of its components/radicals
Vrai, that's how chinese learn chinese when they are young. Even as native speakers, they also spend years to learn how to write 汉字. 部首 logically relate with how 汉字 were invented and developed.
I have been dedicated to learning Korean for a few months now. It can get difficult and feel overwhelming sometimes, but I want to learn Chinese too. Instead of letting Chinese be a chore, I am simply watching your videos, listening to Chinese music, and doing an occasional lesson on Lingodeer whenever I feel like it. It isn't a very fast pace, but I am learning it and enjoying it a lot!!
@@blee_ww hi 👋 I'm currently learning Chinese Mandarin. I recommend you to learn the language by storys and proverbs. Also you have to know that Chinese Mandarin was made by old linguistic men in the past.. so the language has the logic of old men, and can be controversial sometimes 😅
I think that the VAST majority of foreign adult learners have exactly the opposite problem. Reading is normally the easiest skill. Then understanding, then speaking.
谢谢你！我以前觉得写汉字很难，现在我可以读、写很多汉字。 I started a “radical dictionary” and I’m going through all the words that I’ve learned and organizing them based on radical/common characters. Understanding the meaning behind the characters really helps you memorize it. Anyways, thank you, I found this video helpful!
Hey Shuo, I really wanted to thank you for your helpful lessons, I started learning chinese 2 weeks ago but made a big progress already thanks to your videos and explanations, they are really fun to watch! :) otherwise I'd probably already have lost my motivation, but thanks to you I have a lot of fun studying! Now I want to get into studying characters so your video came just at the right time, I've already looked into Du Chinese and will subscribe with your code because the app is super helpful. I can not thank you enough for your help, you're such a great teacher, I hope your channel will continue to grow a lot more!
I’ve spent about 100,000 hours studying English humor and Western culture, and many years studying Chinese culture. My native language is Chinese. I teach Chinese in humorous way and with cute pictures. Hope somebody recommend my videos to those who want to learn Chinese.
I just started using a lot of the resources you mentioned, been reading du Chinese, Mandarin companion (before I move on to other graded readers I found as well as some kid's story books a friend sent me) every day for about 2 to 3 hours, as well as making and reviewing flashcards for 1 hour. I honestly feel my vocab has increased a lot in the week I've been doing this, hope I can keep doing this and next week start writing once or twice a week and speaking maybe daily with a friend to test my progress. 加油 everyone.
nice video , i learned Japanese for around 3 years but never got a single problem with Chinese characters..now i learn Chinese , they are really easy to relate with the Japanese character (漢字)
Got to know about your channel hours ago and I already watched a few of them. I am impressed! Your videos really have nice contents and easy to pick up. This video is my favourite so far. Keep up the good work, Shuo!
老师,谢谢啊.这视频真利害. I love when you make the "drama scene". Your male actor is so funny. hahaha.......... You should make some smalls videos like small novels when you have free time. You are soooo funny giving the examples in Chinese that I keep watching the "couple" part. hahaha....
If you like corrections to your already beautiful English: 6:35 when you say ‘I already recommended this to many students before they reached me out’ Instead of ‘reached me out’ try ‘reached out to me’. I’m assuming it was just a SVO flip in your head but I’ve heard it a few times so far.
I always used to think how Chinese people type when there are unlimited characters. Thanks for sharing. I’m revising my forgotten Chinese from the beginning. I’ll come back to this after a couple of weeks.
The list of common radicals is really useful! I'm Chinese but have very basic Chinese education so i'm trying to become proficient in it. Not a total beginner so beginner videos don't really do anything for me.
I used Skritter all the time to prepare for 听写！！！And I bought "the secret garden" and "sherlock homes" from Mandarin Companion Graded Reader. Highly recommend both tools 👍🏻
At 4:30ish, when you are breaking down the character for 腿 (leg), you state that the radical on the left is for 'body part'...it looks exactly like the character for month, to me--Yuè 月...if what you say is correct (and I don't doubt you), this is why I find learning Chinese characters so difficult...many characters look sooo similar 😩
To memorize Chinese characters: look at them, then break them down into their componenents, then try to write them, then compare what you wrote with the character then remember all that. Cover the character with paper write it again uncover it and compare.
I love your contents! The introduction part where you act as foregner student with moustaches is totally me!! 😍❤️ I can understand and talk chinese very basic but im so slow in reading and i don't remeber many words! Your tips are great. You are such a good teacher ❤❤❤ 谢谢你
Recognition of characters are always easy. To write Chinese with an input system is easy, because Chinese characters appear as an option and you can regognize very quickly if you know them. More difficult is, to write something without suggestions. Only from remembering! In this text, I wrote some English words intentionally not correctly, because English is not my native language and sometimes I make some mistakes in the word order. A difficult word for me in English is "recognize", which I often write it as "regognize"! When I read this word, I can see how, how it would be written! But now, without reading it from somewere, I write it wrong like "regognize" instead of "recognize", ore "somewere" instead of "somewhere" ! The same situation appears with Chinese Characters! Some Chinese Characters I have seen and read them very often, but my brain always strikes to write them correctly! Also the English word "recognize" I have read it very often! But to write it correctly let me struggles! Another difficult Chinese expression for me is 喜欢, where my brain often makes troubles! With an input-system it is not a problem to write 喜. I recognize it immediatly (immediately - the silent "e" in English let me also struggles very often!) ! I know the radicals but in 喜 it makes no sense for me! Writing 喜 from memory ...?! How?! Reading is always very easy, but writing is always difficult, also in your own custom language! But my brain sometimes works very strange! I often learn very complicated characters very easyly! Oh oh my brain struggles with the English word iisili or isyly again! It must be easily!!! To write easily is not very easy for a non native English speaker! Flash-cards don't help really. Repetitions is poison for the brain and makes you tired. Repetition is only effective when the context changes, such as when dealing with a matter. Here in this post I dealt intensively with the words recognition, somewhere, easily, immediately and 喜欢! I hope now, that these words don't let me struggles again in the future, when I write them!
Xihuan is easy to recognize for me because I have seen it so many times... But to remember to write it, I have to break xi down into the three vertical parts. Don't worry about the problems you have with English spelling; many native speakers also have them. Your approach of identifying problem words and practicing them is the best way to get them right.
Oh my goodness! I'm so glad I found you yesterday and subscribed to your channel. This video is packed with incredibly helpful information. Xie xie, Shuo Shuo!
Hey Shuo, recently stated to watch your channel. Thanks for the great content, especially the Chinese stories in HSK 3/4 and this well laid out video 😄! Keep it up!
What do you do if your native language is not English and if in your language does not exist much teaching material? The effort to learn Chinese through a foreign language is very like if you try to learn Mandarin through a Caucasian language!
@@TimBroganShaw Hungarian! I use google translate and it seems, it works very well. But you be always on the level of written Chinese like if you use books to study Chinese!, I watch the English videos to have an impression of spoken Chinese and also to train the ears for distinguishing the tones. There is a lot of English material for learning Chinese, but not in Hungarian. This is also very helpfully even you don't understand the English part very fully! I also try to write an own application where you are independent to every language!
I like the Skritter app. I like how it breaks down the radicals. I would like to use that app just so that I will be able to go and look at the radicals and figure out what they mean. I also would recommend that you use traditional Chinese when looking at the characters, because simplified Chinese does remove some of the radicals so it is easier to write, but it may not be as easy to understand if you go and look at the strokes.
The key to remembering things well is to connect them with emotions and situations. You can make use of movies or books that you like. For example, if you enjoy reading Harry Potter, you can remember the word "隐藏" (meaning: hole up, hide)like this: Harry, feeling powerless, hid (隐藏) under the invisibility cloak and watched as Professor Dumbledore was murdered. The situation at the location (阝) or on top of the tower became urgent (急) as the Death Eaters rushed in. After being killed (戕) by the Dark Lord's servant (臣), Dumbledore fell onto the grass (艹) below.
Du Chinese is really excellent. I use it together with LingQ and M Mandarim (the one with manhua)... But i still love writting as a way of learning the most, writte it sometimes and try to compose small phrases, and short paragraphs using the words learning. I didn't know Skritter :O thanks for the rec!
Gracias querida, muy bella la explicación, me has dado un punto de referencia bastante significativo. saludes desde Colombia. and of course I can understand your classes. I´m not sure what is the features of your videos but they are amazing!. thank you.
我没有视频中的问题，我的问题主要在于很难和别人聊天。我的阅读能力很强，但是我说话的时候会有那种不知道的样子。但是，重点不是我怎么样，而是如果你想要记住汉字，你需要天天练习读书。 Hey , there ~ I'm a Chinese native speaker . Your Chinese is good ,but I just made some corrections so that you can speak more like a native speaker~
Thank you for your great video. I enjoyed it as always!I am gonna get the app you recommended. When I watched this video I realized the stroke order of 睡 was different from how I always write and thought like I had been writing 睡 in wrong order for over 10years!?!? 😱Then I googled and learned sometimes Chinese stroke order and Japanese stroke order are different .I relieved!!!😂
I just started using Hack Chinese and also Zizzle for character learning. HackChinese is super. Like Anki, but specifically for Chinese. Zizzle has great potential BUT the SRS is buggy ... at least on iPhone. I still like using Zizzle though. I agree re: DuChinese. It's fantastic! One of my absolute favorite Chinese apps. And I have tried A LOT of them. I also like Mandarin Companion! The newspaper one (Charimans Bao) looks interesting but I prefer the fiction stories.
Thank you for such an informative video. You manage to pack in so many valuable tips into just a few minutes. I have recently just started using the DU Chinese App that one of your followers recommended to me. I will be using your voucher codes to make some big savings:). I am pretty good at reading and remembering the characters and combinations but writing is unbelievably difficult for me. I never really tried typing directly from my keyboard yet but now that I have had some good tips from you I will try it out. 谢谢
Really great video that you made! The examples are very vivid and the way that you demonstrate them are appealing and easy to understand! Sometimes with Chinese is just like learing other languages, you get start with reading, speaking and listening are in the other hand the most difficult parts, but it will come with the practice, once you are in the environment with native speaker, the other two parts will get improved so quick that you wouldn't be able to imagine! Keep it up:)
Nice techniques, I mean the more you read the more you will learn Chinese, it can be painful throughout the way but hey you can watch videos with subtitles that can help as well. We are doing videos with Chinese and English subtitle and would love to get some support =) Thank you and good luck to all you Chinese learners.
Your charm is irresistible!! You look energetic. You have a great smile. I love you!! I have a frustrating experience. Not knowing where to begin or hitting a plateau can feel demoralizing and make it hard to hit the books and study like you know you should…Having friends from other cultures makes me more creative. In fresh ways about space and how people create their own world and environment. It is best way to connect between creative thinking and cross-cultural relationships
在6:23你说：“...they reached me out.”（“他们和我联系了”）。更为恰当和常见的翻译是：“They reached out to me.” 一起“reach out”这两个词意味着开始与某人的交流。在这两个词之间插入一个代词听起来很奇… “Reach out to (me/him/her/them/somebody)”…这是好的英语。 对不起我的中文不好 🇺🇸
I'm at the stage where I recognize the characters and know I should know what they represent, but am not consistently connecting to the meaning and the spoken words. I'm a little better at recognizing which character represents the Pinyin I typed. Right now I'm using a combination of the approaches you described, but I'm really lacking the key element - regular practice.
If you're like me and always want to know "WHY??". Why is this character pronounced how it is? Why does it mean what it does? etc. While you won't find answers to that for every Chinese character, as some have been corrupted and/or simplified to the point where their structure has been lost, I've been loving the Outlier Chinese Pleco dictionary. It'll break down the components of the character and tell you what the sound component is, semantic components, empty components, corruptions, etc. After seeing enough of them, it's to the point now where seeing a character can often trigger my memory on its pronunciation due to recognizing the sound component.
Do you have a video that explains the difference between problem and question? I’m very confused because they are the same word in Chinese, as far as I can tell. Thanks in advance for your help.
I think it's quite important to mention that if you write characters mainly on the screen you will not necessarily be able to write them by hand 🙂(of course not everyone needs it)
I have been using a stylus explicitly because I need to eventually be able to replicate the tablet writing on paper. My writing is very similar to a 4 year old's ATM 😁
Loving your video's and learning tons! I was wondering what is Joshua's Chinese name, cause I'm still trying to figure out mine... Don't get me started on my family name, still looking for the meaning of that as well Thanks and keep making these video's.
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Have exactly the opposite problem: can read, but cannot speak. The more you read the more characters you can recognize
Haha, then you need to talk more in Chinese!
I have the same problem!
Me too
@@ShuoshuoChinese
I have a hypothesis. I've been learning Chinese for 15 years and I always quit, I go back to study and quit, then, I realized that I needed something like Du Chinese, since you learn a language by studying conversions.
Strategos Castaneda I use the same method with the app Dushu 读书 and the sentences are so useful for everyday conversations. So I just memorize lol.
Sorry about my pronunciation of "character", I really tried! 😂
没关系，我懂了
don't worry some westerners like how chinese women pronounce english
love from algiria so good
talking about pronunciation, in a former video it sounded like "...I bumped into my eggs"....only some ages later I got you meant ex, like ex gf :D :D :D
@@karabogaz 哈哈哈哈哈
One of the most useful channel about Chinese language ever i seen on RUclips, thanks💐💐
好真， 精彩!
I love your positivity towards learning! I've seen many comments under other videos where people would attack other learners for not being fluent or their language skills not being flawless. I don't know but your videos really motivate me because you tell us that we should just go for it instead of being scared of studying a language😊😊😊
加油！
ruclips.net/video/1C0zXT5QMsk/видео.html helps understand characters better
I’ve spent about 100,000 hours studying English humor and Western culture, and many years studying Chinese culture. My native language is Chinese. I teach Chinese in humorous way and with cute pictures.
Hope somebody recommend my videos to those who want to learn Chinese.
3:41
It's Friday night. I'm in the US, learning Mandarin from a teacher in Thailand, while listening to salsa music.
I feel like I've won something...
👍😃😆🏆😊👏😎
I love this channel!
Anyone else feel like writing is the ultimate measure of mastery over a language? Another thing is practicing writing will improve every other language skill: reading, speaking, grammar, vocabulary, comprehension etc.
This is my first day to study this language and I hope I will learn and reach the.advance level, thank you for helping us teacher!
Keep it up!
How’s your journey so far?
My problem is that I can read characters but when I go to write them I cannot remember how the character looks exactly or the strokes. How can I overcome this?
Keep writing until it gets into your muscles, you need the muscle memory.
Happens to me too - then I must make an association immediately - like for Ni3 meaning 'you' (你）"Starts with standing man" and I say, "a PERSON STANDING outside wants to talk to YOU (keyword)" That helps get me started. Association jump starts everything I do - they are in Skritter as ShuoShuo points out - Mandarin Blueprint is all about association. Without association your doomed to a life of rote, drilling (I do those too) and constant forgetting... with association, at least there's a chance...a hope...and when it works you have a nice little victory for yourself...
Good luck!
Daniel Léo Simpson
Composer
San Francisco
HY F So does this mean that I should focus more on learning pinyin than the actual characters? If so, would the HSK exams still be doable for me?
Zainab Ahmed HSK 3 onwards does not have any pinyin in the text books or tests
Try this:
Learn a new character. Let your brain forget it. Re-learn it once you find it again. Then let your brain re-forget it.
Then re-learn it. Then see how your amazing brain just can't forget it any longer.
I call it "active-passive brain digestion".
Let your memory "digest" every new character at its own pace, the more you forget and bring back once needed, the better you will interiorise new words and concepts.
Results guaranteed.
I started learning to speak the basics, when I lived in China.
Then I discovered a book explaining all 部首 radicals. It’s from Edoardo Fazzioli and exists in many languages. I also made up flash cards from the book as well checking on Wikipedia „227 Chinese radicals“ As there you find all different versions too. Like river chuān 巛 also can be 川, or shì worship can be 示 as well as 礻. It’s important to know.
Since I know the radicals, remembering characters is much easier for me:
Like the word 想 xiǎng , to miss, to think of.. for me now consists of mù 木 tree, mù 目 eye and xīn 心 heart ❤️
Much easier now 😃
Then there is the page characterpop to pop down characters to their radicals- but it’s not perfectly complete and some mistakes there... but still ok
Yep, tbh, I think that's the only real way you can remember them, there's no way anyone could write a 20-stroke character by memorizing all the individual strokes, without prior knowledge of its components/radicals
Vrai, that's how chinese learn chinese when they are young. Even as native speakers, they also spend years to learn how to write 汉字. 部首 logically relate with how 汉字 were invented and developed.
isn't river 3 dots of water?
I have been dedicated to learning Korean for a few months now. It can get difficult and feel overwhelming sometimes, but I want to learn Chinese too. Instead of letting Chinese be a chore, I am simply watching your videos, listening to Chinese music, and doing an occasional lesson on Lingodeer whenever I feel like it. It isn't a very fast pace, but I am learning it and enjoying it a lot!!
ruclips.net/video/1C0zXT5QMsk/видео.html helps understand characters better
Have you learned it??? If yes plz give me some advice i just cant understand it
@@blee_ww hi 👋 I'm currently learning Chinese Mandarin. I recommend you to learn the language by storys and proverbs. Also you have to know that Chinese Mandarin was made by old linguistic men in the past.. so the language has the logic of old men, and can be controversial sometimes 😅
@@胡利奥 yes like word argue is made of two women 😭👍
I think that the VAST majority of foreign adult learners have exactly the opposite problem. Reading is normally the easiest skill. Then understanding, then speaking.
谢谢你！我以前觉得写汉字很难，现在我可以读、写很多汉字。 I started a “radical dictionary” and I’m going through all the words that I’ve learned and organizing them based on radical/common characters. Understanding the meaning behind the characters really helps you memorize it. Anyways, thank you, I found this video helpful!
加油！
please help me to contract with you
I like the way you explain Chinese 😭 you make Chinese easier than what I think. Thankyou!!
Glad you loved it!
Hey Shuo, I really wanted to thank you for your helpful lessons, I started learning chinese 2 weeks ago but made a big progress already thanks to your videos and explanations, they are really fun to watch! :) otherwise I'd probably already have lost my motivation, but thanks to you I have a lot of fun studying! Now I want to get into studying characters so your video came just at the right time, I've already looked into Du Chinese and will subscribe with your code because the app is super helpful. I can not thank you enough for your help, you're such a great teacher, I hope your channel will continue to grow a lot more!
I’ve spent about 100,000 hours studying English humor and Western culture, and many years studying Chinese culture. My native language is Chinese. I teach Chinese in humorous way and with cute pictures.
Hope somebody recommend my videos to those who want to learn Chinese.
I just started using a lot of the resources you mentioned, been reading du Chinese, Mandarin companion (before I move on to other graded readers I found as well as some kid's story books a friend sent me) every day for about 2 to 3 hours, as well as making and reviewing flashcards for 1 hour. I honestly feel my vocab has increased a lot in the week I've been doing this, hope I can keep doing this and next week start writing once or twice a week and speaking maybe daily with a friend to test my progress. 加油 everyone.
Did you progress a lot since then?
You are a wonderful and thorough teacher. Please don't stop making videos.
nice video , i learned Japanese for around 3 years but never got a single problem with Chinese characters..now i learn Chinese , they are really easy to relate with the Japanese character (漢字)
Got to know about your channel hours ago and I already watched a few of them. I am impressed! Your videos really have nice contents and easy to pick up. This video is my favourite so far. Keep up the good work, Shuo!
老师,谢谢啊.这视频真利害. I love when you make the "drama scene". Your male actor is so funny. hahaha.......... You should make some smalls videos like small novels when you have free time. You are soooo funny giving the examples in Chinese that I keep watching the "couple" part. hahaha....
5:39
聊天
耳 ear radical. Makes sense in "chat"
天 heaven. I guess in the sense of "shooting the breeze".
If you like corrections to your already beautiful English:
6:35 when you say
‘I already recommended this to many students before they reached me out’
Instead of ‘reached me out’ try ‘reached out to me’.
I’m assuming it was just a SVO flip in your head but I’ve heard it a few times so far.
I always used to think how Chinese people type when there are unlimited characters. Thanks for sharing. I’m revising my forgotten Chinese from the beginning. I’ll come back to this after a couple of weeks.
The list of common radicals is really useful! I'm Chinese but have very basic Chinese education so i'm trying to become proficient in it. Not a total beginner so beginner videos don't really do anything for me.
I used Skritter all the time to prepare for 听写！！！And I bought "the secret garden" and "sherlock homes" from Mandarin Companion Graded Reader. Highly recommend both tools 👍🏻
At 4:30ish, when you are breaking down the character for 腿 (leg), you state that the radical on the left is for 'body part'...it looks exactly like the character for month, to me--Yuè 月...if what you say is correct (and I don't doubt you), this is why I find learning Chinese characters so difficult...many characters look sooo similar 😩
yes, it is 月yuè，when it is used as a character, it means moon. But when it is used as a radical, it’s a body part radical
In fact the character 月 is a simplification of 肉 when it is the radical part. Hope this helps.
muzhao xu Thank you!
To memorize Chinese characters: look at them, then break them down into their componenents, then try to write them, then compare what you wrote with the character then remember all that. Cover the character with paper write it again uncover it and compare.
川 is the archaic character for river in Chinese, but in Japanese, that’s the main character for river. Interesting info to learn, thanks.
I love your contents! The introduction part where you act as foregner student with moustaches is totally me!! 😍❤️ I can understand and talk chinese very basic but im so slow in reading and i don't remeber many words! Your tips are great. You are such a good teacher ❤❤❤ 谢谢你
omg! DU CHINESE is the total game changer i have been looking for this app long time
the most succssful breakdown of the chinese great language wall I have seen so far
Shuo shuo is the best 😎😎😎👍🎉🎉🎉
This video has so many resources I have been looking for. thank you!:)
I am watching this. I also tutor a student learning Mandarin. I am learning from you. Great video!
Recognition of characters are always easy. To write Chinese with an input system is easy, because Chinese characters appear as an option and you can regognize very quickly if you know them. More difficult is, to write something without suggestions. Only from remembering! In this text, I wrote some English words intentionally not correctly, because English is not my native language and sometimes I make some mistakes in the word order. A difficult word for me in English is "recognize", which I often write it as "regognize"! When I read this word, I can see how, how it would be written! But now, without reading it from somewere, I write it wrong like "regognize" instead of "recognize", ore "somewere" instead of "somewhere" ! The same situation appears with Chinese Characters! Some Chinese Characters I have seen and read them very often, but my brain always strikes to write them correctly! Also the English word "recognize" I have read it very often! But to write it correctly let me struggles! Another difficult Chinese expression for me is 喜欢, where my brain often makes troubles! With an input-system it is not a problem to write 喜. I recognize it immediatly (immediately - the silent "e" in English let me also struggles very often!) ! I know the radicals but in 喜 it makes no sense for me! Writing 喜 from memory ...?! How?! Reading is always very easy, but writing is always difficult, also in your own custom language! But my brain sometimes works very strange! I often learn very complicated characters very easyly! Oh oh my brain struggles with the English word iisili or isyly again! It must be easily!!! To write easily is not very easy for a non native English speaker! Flash-cards don't help really. Repetitions is poison for the brain and makes you tired. Repetition is only effective when the context changes, such as when dealing with a matter. Here in this post I dealt intensively with the words recognition, somewhere, easily, immediately and 喜欢! I hope now, that these words don't let me struggles again in the future, when I write them!
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@@joecostner1246 I read the entire thing! 😂
Xihuan is easy to recognize for me because I have seen it so many times... But to remember to write it, I have to break xi down into the three vertical parts. Don't worry about the problems you have with English spelling; many native speakers also have them. Your approach of identifying problem words and practicing them is the best way to get them right.
This is an interesting and great Hanyu lesson. 谢谢
WOW! That Du Chinese APP is fei chang hao! lol :-) This was a great video, thank you so much. Xiexie ni, qin ai de!
哈哈哈。。。我已经爱你。。。
Very slowly starting to get better, I really need to expand my vocabulary though and actively listen!
Oh my goodness! I'm so glad I found you yesterday and subscribed to your channel. This video is packed with incredibly helpful information. Xie xie, Shuo Shuo!
Hey Shuo, recently stated to watch your channel.
Thanks for the great content, especially the Chinese stories in HSK 3/4 and this well laid out video 😄!
Keep it up!
Thanks so much! You were clear with these useful tools.
Pleco dictionary and Skritter are a must for Chinese learning! Love your videos Shuo!
What do you do if your native language is not English and if in your language does not exist much teaching material? The effort to learn Chinese through a foreign language is very like if you try to learn Mandarin through a Caucasian language!
WCiossek what is your Native tongue? Pleco has German, French and Italian I believe. Failing that, google translate does a decent job!
@@TimBroganShaw Hungarian! I use google translate and it seems, it works very well. But you be always on the level of written Chinese like if you use books to study Chinese!, I watch the English videos to have an impression of spoken Chinese and also to train the ears for distinguishing the tones. There is a lot of English material for learning Chinese, but not in Hungarian. This is also very helpfully even you don't understand the English part very fully! I also try to write an own application where you are independent to every language!
I like the Skritter app. I like how it breaks down the radicals. I would like to use that app just so that I will be able to go and look at the radicals and figure out what they mean. I also would recommend that you use traditional Chinese when looking at the characters, because simplified Chinese does remove some of the radicals so it is easier to write, but it may not be as easy to understand if you go and look at the strokes.
Laoshi, u r wonderful teacher.
Pleco has an excellent flash card component, it’s totally worth the money. It’s a great dictionary app too.
Your comedy sketches are the best bits, 我 xxxx 他 xxxx 不 xx reminds me of when I was in primary school.
The key to remembering things well is to connect them with emotions and situations. You can make use of movies or books that you like. For example, if you enjoy reading Harry Potter, you can remember the word "隐藏" (meaning: hole up, hide)like this: Harry, feeling powerless, hid (隐藏) under the invisibility cloak and watched as Professor Dumbledore was murdered. The situation at the location (阝) or on top of the tower became urgent (急) as the Death Eaters rushed in. After being killed (戕) by the Dark Lord's servant (臣), Dumbledore fell onto the grass (艹) below.
Thank you for these recourses!!! This is so helpful!
Du Chinese is really excellent. I use it together with LingQ and M Mandarim (the one with manhua)...
But i still love writting as a way of learning the most, writte it sometimes and try to compose small phrases, and short paragraphs using the words learning. I didn't know Skritter :O thanks for the rec!
Yes! Sometimes writing is like one kind of meditation for me!
you videos are very good and informative..... please continue making videos......dont stop 😀
谢谢师傅😀
That skit @1:00 made me instantly subscribe lmao
Gracias querida, muy bella la explicación, me has dado un punto de referencia bastante significativo. saludes desde Colombia. and of course I can understand your classes. I´m not sure what is the features of your videos but they are amazing!. thank you.
Thank you for the recommendations. Will check out the chairman's bao!
Great!
我的问题不是视频里的问题，而是是我无力跟别人聊天。我读书的能力是挺好。但是我说话的时候会有那种不知道的样子。Anyway重点不是关于我而是是你要看汉子的时候你需要天天练习读书。Practice makes perfect so let’s just all learn Chinese
我没有视频中的问题，我的问题主要在于很难和别人聊天。我的阅读能力很强，但是我说话的时候会有那种不知道的样子。但是，重点不是我怎么样，而是如果你想要记住汉字，你需要天天练习读书。
Hey , there ~ I'm a Chinese native speaker . Your Chinese is good ,but I just made some corrections so that you can speak more like a native speaker~
Oh 谢谢！I really appreciate it
The music on the backroad mack my dance 💃🏾 and learn Chinese in the same time that was fun 谢谢！
Thank you for your great video. I enjoyed it as always!I am gonna get the app you recommended.
When I watched this video I realized the stroke order of 睡 was different from how I always write and thought like I had been writing 睡 in wrong order for over 10years!?!? 😱Then I googled and learned sometimes Chinese stroke order and Japanese stroke order are different .I relieved!!!😂
真的吗！？我也刚知道！
thank so so muche dear teacher for this video lesson...!
This channel is perfect!
我一个中国人，专门过来听你用英语教中文，只为练习英语听力，😄
Very good and useful advice ! Take care your health to have enough rest. 谢谢老师。
:)
Wow! So much information! Good suggestions for students at every level. I use DuChinese, and will try the others.
Wonderful. 好極了。 I have my ideas to memorize I compose decomposed characters using... cangjie input. Not easy but cool
I just started using Hack Chinese and also Zizzle for character learning. HackChinese is super. Like Anki, but specifically for Chinese. Zizzle has great potential BUT the SRS is buggy ... at least on iPhone. I still like using Zizzle though. I agree re: DuChinese. It's fantastic! One of my absolute favorite Chinese apps. And I have tried A LOT of them. I also like Mandarin Companion! The newspaper one (Charimans Bao) looks interesting but I prefer the fiction stories.
Thank you for such an informative video. You manage to pack in so many valuable tips into just a few minutes. I have recently just started using the DU Chinese App that one of your followers recommended to me. I will be using your voucher codes to make some big savings:). I am pretty good at reading and remembering the characters and combinations but writing is unbelievably difficult for me. I never really tried typing directly from my keyboard yet but now that I have had some good tips from you I will try it out. 谢谢
加油！💪💪💪
Fantastic channel! Thanks! I have found the Pleco dictionary indispensable in my studies.
Yes! I reason I didn’t recommend Pleco is because almost all my students already knew it!
Brilliant!! 👏 evergreen content. 谢谢！
Really great video that you made! The examples are very vivid and the way that you demonstrate them are appealing and easy to understand!
Sometimes with Chinese is just like learing other languages, you get start with reading, speaking and listening are in the other hand the most difficult parts, but it will come with the practice, once you are in the environment with native speaker, the other two parts will get improved so quick that you wouldn't be able to imagine!
Keep it up:)
Extremely useful, as always. I love your dialogues! :D
Thank you so much! This video is super helpful.
thanks for the good information and lesson
Chinese characters have tone information like in chinese pinyin?
Hello Teacher, is there any apps in which can write sentence and it will mark me my grammatical mistakes and correct it?
Wow. This is great. Love it
Thanks for your useful and interesting videos.
My pleasure;)
你是非常好老师。。。。。
我需要那样的一个老婆
哈哈哈哈😂
@@ShuoshuoChinese 哈哈哈。我现在在中国在找找一个中国女生😂😂
You need to have an extraordinarily developed imagination to see someone holding a coffee cup in the characters for the word "coffee."
i like your chanel 'cause your videos are really useful✨
Big big thanks, very helpful! 💛
Nice techniques, I mean the more you read the more you will learn Chinese, it can be painful throughout the way but hey you can watch videos with subtitles that can help as well.
We are doing videos with Chinese and English subtitle and would love to get some support =) Thank you and good luck to all you Chinese learners.
Your charm is irresistible!! You look energetic. You have a great smile. I love you!! I have a frustrating experience. Not knowing where to begin or hitting a plateau can feel demoralizing and make it hard to hit the books and study like you know you should…Having friends from other cultures makes me more creative. In fresh ways about space and how people create their own world and environment. It is best way to connect between creative thinking and cross-cultural relationships
在6:23你说：“...they reached me out.”（“他们和我联系了”）。更为恰当和常见的翻译是：“They reached out to me.” 一起“reach out”这两个词意味着开始与某人的交流。在这两个词之间插入一个代词听起来很奇…
“Reach out to (me/him/her/them/somebody)”…这是好的英语。
对不起我的中文不好 🇺🇸
aaaa this is lots of useful apps, ty
跳舞 first one looks like two persons are dancing ... Thanks for sharing
I'm at the stage where I recognize the characters and know I should know what they represent, but am not consistently connecting to the meaning and the spoken words. I'm a little better at recognizing which character represents the Pinyin I typed.
Right now I'm using a combination of the approaches you described, but I'm really lacking the key element - regular practice.
The beginning of the video where the guy character was trying to read was so accurate 😂 I’ve only been learning for 2 months at that is me
This is so helpful!
If you're like me and always want to know "WHY??". Why is this character pronounced how it is? Why does it mean what it does? etc. While you won't find answers to that for every Chinese character, as some have been corrupted and/or simplified to the point where their structure has been lost, I've been loving the Outlier Chinese Pleco dictionary. It'll break down the components of the character and tell you what the sound component is, semantic components, empty components, corruptions, etc. After seeing enough of them, it's to the point now where seeing a character can often trigger my memory on its pronunciation due to recognizing the sound component.
Well explained, a lot of help
How do I type Chinese on my phone (samsung)? Sending messages and making notes using Chinese characters would help me alot/
Do you have a video that explains the difference between problem and question? I’m very confused because they are the same word in Chinese, as far as I can tell. Thanks in advance for your help.
xiexie, Shuoshuo! wo xianzai keyi xie zhongwen! 😄
Thanks it was helpful
你的演出能力越来越棒！😂
Thanks for your video
老师, 感谢!我真的喜欢了这个视频
Help
Dear teacher pretty
Kindly Can you tell about any app translate language be better ? Show me please
謝謝妳的幫助. 我喜歡用繁體字因為更簡單的學... if you understand this I feel accomplished! 😆
你为什么认为用繁体字更简单的学？繁体字很美丽，但是我认为很难的学。
很有用的。真棒中文老师
I think it's quite important to mention that if you write characters mainly on the screen you will not necessarily be able to write them by hand 🙂(of course not everyone needs it)
I have been using a stylus explicitly because I need to eventually be able to replicate the tablet writing on paper. My writing is very similar to a 4 year old's ATM 😁
Thank you so much ❤🥰
Loving your video's and learning tons! I was wondering what is Joshua's Chinese name, cause I'm still trying to figure out mine... Don't get me started on my family name, still looking for the meaning of that as well
Thanks and keep making these video's.