Two tips from a failed, then successful mandarin learner: 1) Taking advantage of the brain's ability to process speech, watch RUclips videos of people speaking normally (with subtitles), pick out a few words that are used a lot but you don't know, look these up (on Wiktionary or Pleco), make a note of them and break one or two of them down into their constituent sub-characters. This way you get a good feel for the sounds of the language and the way that its words are put together. Learning individual words like in this video *doesn't* work long term - it's fine to begin with but totally useless later on. 2) Taking advantage of the brain's ability to process pictures, learn characters in the same order they started appearing in Chinese history (so simple pictographs, then more complex ideographs, then even more complex pictophonetic). Make a note of each pictograph, what it was that it was meant to represent (e.g. ma3=horse), a way to remember how to pronounce it (imagine your ma riding a horse), all the meanings of the word (horse, equine, big (as a noun prefix), bully), the most common pictophonetic characters that use it as either a sound component (mother, question mark (there are about 13 others but they're obscure)) or a meaning component and the most common bigrams and phrases (e.g. xiama=to dismount from a horse, shangma=to mount a horse, zhusimaji=spider-thread, horse-track = clue). This way you'll get a good feel for the way the language has developed and why they use things like tones and bigrams (i.e. as a means of telling homophones apart) Eventually, these two processes will converge and you'll be well on the way to fluency!
Honestly I've only been at learning Chinese for a few months now, so this video has been super helpful. Keep up the great work, super excited to see more!
Fantastic... I'm learning Chinese 🇨🇳 these days and I'm making a playlist ▶️ with my progress of learning it .. this video helped me a lot and I will make another video on the thing I've learnt from the terrific video ... Thank you very much for this awesome work and keep going
Thank you for your comment! And hope you have a nice experience in Taiwan! By the way, we just publish a new video about the tour in Taipei! It might be very useful for you!
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These super easy mandarin videos are super helpful and loads of fun. I'd love to watch a simililar video with common phrases, for example. Keep the good work. You are great!
I'm Mexican and I'm just so into learning Chinese...I have so much time cause I have a broken ankle but omg it's kind of hard but little by little I'm learning
@@mahonghao9971 您好 我叫 Attou 我 是 法国人 我住在巴黎 je suie comptent que vous apprenais le Français si vous avais besoin d'aide pour apprendre le français nézy t'es pas a me le dire sa sera avec un grand plaisir de vous aider dans votre apprentissage . Attou
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Two tips from a failed, then successful mandarin learner:
1) Taking advantage of the brain's ability to process speech, watch RUclips videos of people speaking normally (with subtitles), pick out a few words that are used a lot but you don't know, look these up (on Wiktionary or Pleco), make a note of them and break one or two of them down into their constituent sub-characters. This way you get a good feel for the sounds of the language and the way that its words are put together. Learning individual words like in this video *doesn't* work long term - it's fine to begin with but totally useless later on.
2) Taking advantage of the brain's ability to process pictures, learn characters in the same order they started appearing in Chinese history (so simple pictographs, then more complex ideographs, then even more complex pictophonetic). Make a note of each pictograph, what it was that it was meant to represent (e.g. ma3=horse), a way to remember how to pronounce it (imagine your ma riding a horse), all the meanings of the word (horse, equine, big (as a noun prefix), bully), the most common pictophonetic characters that use it as either a sound component (mother, question mark (there are about 13 others but they're obscure)) or a meaning component and the most common bigrams and phrases (e.g. xiama=to dismount from a horse, shangma=to mount a horse, zhusimaji=spider-thread, horse-track = clue). This way you'll get a good feel for the way the language has developed and why they use things like tones and bigrams (i.e. as a means of telling homophones apart)
Eventually, these two processes will converge and you'll be well on the way to fluency!
Honestly I've only been at learning Chinese for a few months now, so this video has been super helpful. Keep up the great work, super excited to see more!
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Fantastic... I'm learning Chinese 🇨🇳 these days and I'm making a playlist ▶️ with my progress of learning it .. this video helped me a lot and I will make another video on the thing I've learnt from the terrific video ... Thank you very much for this awesome work and keep going
Glad you liked it!:)
Me too. Try this one out ruclips.net/video/GHZtKwYcU8E/видео.html
thank you SO much this is perfect for me, can’t wait to visit Taiwan this year!
Thank you for your comment! And hope you have a nice experience in Taiwan! By the way, we just publish a new video about the tour in Taipei! It might be very useful for you!
These super easy mandarin videos are super helpful and loads of fun. I'd love to watch a simililar video with common phrases, for example. Keep the good work. You are great!
Thank you for your kind words! We're glad to hear you find our videos useful!:)
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I'm Mexican and I'm just so into learning Chinese...I have so much time cause I have a broken ankle but omg it's kind of hard but little by little I'm learning
Thank you for your comment. Hope both your ankle and Chinese are getting better as time goes by. 加油哦！
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Very good, my mother tongue are German and I did learning zhongwen, it's helpful for me. 谢谢。
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muito bom! 很好！
谢谢你的肯定！
Great video.
Thanks!
congratulations I really like your channel
Thank you so much!
您好
我叫 Attou
我 是 法国人
我 爱 中国
中国 很好👍
谢谢 🙏 再见👋
谢谢你的留言！ :)
hhhhh 用 “你们好” 更为妥当
learning french now .我現在在學習法語
@@mahonghao9971 您好 我叫 Attou 我 是 法国人 我住在巴黎
je suie comptent que vous apprenais le Français
si vous avais besoin d'aide pour apprendre le français nézy t'es pas a me le dire
sa sera avec un grand plaisir de vous aider dans votre apprentissage .
Attou
@@coeurattou4550 I am Chinese and English major trying to learn second foreign language
One year later and the title still says "...Get Stared With Chinese...". I think you mean "Started".
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Get Stared With Chinese
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Why all these random words ?
我看不懂簡體字😢
我看不懂簡體字😢