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@@Furansowakun i know that... but the white guy in the video isn't chinese and is not a native speaker, right? so i was surprised that a foriegner can have such a perfect accent, not trying to be offensive bro. Or let me change what i said into other words, "If I just listen the voice, i might consider him a beijinger"
Lots of credit to him for learning so much in a short amount of time. Seems like there are commonalities among successful strategies. However much progress can be made with "self-study," ultimately language needs to be used for communication, so utilizing every opportunity to speak or write with someone else in the language provides opportunities to practice producing coherent sentences and phrases and to be exposed to new words and grammar structures.
At that point I wouldn’t classify it as studying anymore though. There’s studying, and then there’s real world application. When people talk about self-study I think it’s more about the action of studying by yourself and your own rules rather than spending money to go to school and study there. Of course real world practice is a must, whether it’s by self study or if it’s by a class, but that usually comes after studying. First study the topic then put it to practice
@@oiocha5706 More than that. He worked hard to learn and improve his Chinese. Also, he was lucky to have a Chinese friend who had the time to talk to him (even though it was just via chat) for one hour in a daily basis.
my introverted self could never. I've been learning korean and i realised my pronunciation got a little better and i form small sentences but whenever i wanna speak either my voice just doesn't come out at all or my pronunciations not good. Even with english lmao. I only speak properly with my close friends. when someone im not comfortable with speak to me in english, i stutter mostly
@@ellicicialso trying to learn Korean! Made this channel so I won’t be too tempted to watch English videos but I still slipped a little lol, it was hard cuz I’m not interested in K-pop or music in general, how long did it take you to understand the language? Not speaking it just understanding what they say? Cause that’s what my goal is for now, this is my second week trying this seriously, am not the most consistent but hope maybe in two years if I continue I’ll at least understand some words? Sorry for ranting lol
It’s so amazing that he became fluent in such a short period of time. Actually, even if it took 5-10 years to reach this level of fluency, I’d still be really impressed! It’s also amazing that you’ve become this proficient in English with mainly self-study! Thank you to both of you for sharing all this knowledge and advice.
It took me 5 to 10 years to become fluent in Japanese. People want to compliment me but saying it only took you 10 years to learn something just doesn’t sound like a compliment haha.
@@paulwalther5237 Me too, and I've been fluent now for 15 years (Been using Japanese more than half my life now) and can strongly relate to how people judge us without regarding how much time we actually put into the language and just comparing to others with a few years of learning experience >.< And even get told something like this by natives on occasion: "Woah, you're fluent, do you wanna talk to my 4 year old? I'm curious to see what type of conversation the two of you would have (⋈◍＞◡＜◍)。✧♡" ( ;∀;)
He speaks fluent and authentic Mandarin like a real native Chinese person omg he is such an awesome guy and really gets the point of learning languages. I believe whichever language he wants to learn, he definitely would make it.
totally. As a native Chinese speaker, i have to say he speaks so fluent and authentic that even much better than many people around me. And If he teaches how to learn English, I think I will believe it 100%.😂
I am Chinese and I am currently learning French. This conversation encouraged me a lot because I can relate pretty much everything you guys said in terms of learning a language. Habits are way more important than goals. Now I just need more confidence, patience, and a little more passion.
@@eti-inyeneibia1498 I believe it's better to practice with a native speaker. My French sucks now. lol I encourage you to find a native French speaker who wants to improve their English. Bonne chance!
This is a talented learner - I have studied Chinese for many years and it's rare to hear someone achieve this level of pronunciation and fluency as a foreigner.
Talent comes into play but much of language is pure time dedication. A language is a massive amount of pure content to learn, so like he said in the video, those who develop extensive habits and fully center their lives and thoughts around their target language will learn many many times faster than someone who spends 1 hour per day learning a language (which is already a substantial time dedication). The people who can pick up language this fast have developed strong paths for language acquisition, and dedicate half or more of their waking hours either actively or somewhat passively (ie. podcast while cooking) consuming content in their TL.
Just ignore this guy and his story, if not, you will just feel the peer pressure and anxiety. There are tremendous glorified or fabricated things on Internet. BACK to this video, Let me tell you, I am sure this guy is not as efficient in academy Chinese as his oral Chinese. And I suspect whether or not he can understand daily Chinese News on TV. Why could I know that？ Because I am an English learner, I have been hurt by this same situations where influencers make me frustrated. Just keep going, you have your own pace and time zone.
Grace thank you for adding the CC subs (rather than 'burned in' the screen.} This enables me to use Language Reactor (free Chrome browser extension) which renders characters, pinyin and English (with popup dictionary at a click of a mouse) for a total learning experience. - Daniel
I have a degree in Japanese studies and took optional Chinese classes during my degree. I was terrible at Chinese😅 but my writing was always complimented by both my Chinese and Japanese teachers. I was writing Japanese all day, but my first Chinese class was all about stroke order. We didn’t learn stroke order as part of my degree. It tremendously helped the quality of my handwriting. On the other hand, we spent a lot of time learning radicals in Japanese class, and that helps me recognise meaning in new vocabulary in Chinese. Yes, because I was so bad in class many years ago, but now I am engaged to a Chinese man who speaks my native language perfectly, so I feel determined to master Chinese too (and maybe his dialect one day?!). So thank you Grace and Will for your precious advice!
Honestly, I think that in 1 and a half years, it is impossible for somebody who is self-studing to speak a chinese fluently, otherwise you are not from this world.
I’ve spent lots of time in making many videos teaching Chinese in a humorous way. I hope somebody can give me some advice about how I can reach my target audience who want to learn Chinese.
@@Henry-teach-Chinese-in-jokesLearn phonetics and actually how to produce the sounds. Understand why foreigners struggle where the problem lies and guide them. Otherwise you’re waisting your time
It's possible if you're fully immersed, but if you're like most of people who probably have a couple of hours per day to study/practice, I also doubt you can be fluent in just one and a half years 😅. The reason why I think it's possible is because I have friends who became fluent in other languages in 6 months or a year by moving to a country where that language is spoken and dedicating 100% of their time to learn the language, so learning Chinese in 1 year and a half or two doesn't sound that crazy
For writing I was practicing by writing journals. I've also come to love writing on graphing paper (I use for Japanese and I feel it's made me more aware of how my characters should look.) I'm also a visual learner, so I will watch calligraphy videos or videos on writing and try to copy the way they write.
Im currently studying Japanese (1 year 8 months) and just started practicing speaking but a lot of my vocabulary is passive and my grammar is horrible so i think this anki idea of making up your own sentences sounds like a good idea (definitely is going to extend my anki time by 3 but i think it may be worth it).
So his years of studying Chinese keeps getting shorter and shorter. First it was 3 yeas, then 2 years now its just 1.5 years. Next will just be 3 months. 😂😂😂😂 dont believe everything you hear.
@@cloud_9429thanks for helping me out here haha. I've learnt Chinese for 3 years, but I was already pretty fluent after 1.5 years hence Grace mentioned that in this video. There's plenty of videos of me speaking mandarin after 1 - 1.5 years.
Me too. It’s the tones. I downloaded a language app (not Duolingo) and my speech must be awful. I had wanted to learn Mandarin because I was curious about the language. But now, I’m like…I guess this isn’t the language for me.
Wow what a good accent. I'm in to C-dramas for the last 2 years I've constantly watching C-dramas that make me interested in learning Mandarin by self study. His accent is so good I feel that I am listening to one of those C-dramas
我从小到大在学校读中文，因为它是我的母语。但我真话说，我在学校时从来没有对华语有很大的兴趣，所以在功课、测验时都会有许多错别字、语病之类的问题。Truth to be told, I was way more in love with English and it became my native language. Chinese became something that I was extremely unconfident to speak or write with. But seeing this man learn it to such proficiency in 1.5 years that surpasses my 10+ years of formal education is the most inspiring thing today. 我听他那么灵活地用华文时、就一直想：他真的，真的非常棒啊！I want to revisit Chinese in my adulthood because of this. Thank you!! ❤
Its so interesting the way Will speaks compared to the Grace speaks. Will speaks so casually with a very Mainland accent. He speaks with a very masculine tone and intonation that blends words together. Whereas Grace is very pronounced in her accents, especially the fourth tone. Its very clearly a Taiwanese accent here too! Amazing to listen to both styles and how they both sound. Will sounds so natural in a 18 months. Amazing!!!!
As someone that has prioritized being able to read and write chinese more so over speaking ive used a mixutre of pure repetition of writing lets say 5-10 characters a day until the point i can write it quickly and then switch over to a blank sheet and writing them again helped the best. Bonus thing i am also doing is writing it in random places so my mind retains the stroke order and i dont really have to think about stroke order. I get to a point with a character where i can write it and picture it in my mind over time. for example the character 爱. visually at first glance with anki i can tell thats love. But after ive written it enough i memorize it like an english letter versus a just a picture. its weird for me to explain my learning method in that sense. i really wanted to rely as little as possible on treating characters as pictures and more like very complex english letters. I will admit though something i struggle with is writing characters in limited spaces like a notebook paper.Trying to fit so much detail in a little space.
I was losing motivation because I felt I wasn’t improving, but thanks to this video I realized where I can add more effort for efficiency 😅 thank you~ I feel motivated to not give up on myself
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Thank you Grace & will for such a awesome video!! hearing learing methods from both sides is always helpful & very relatable especially the part about the feeling of slow progress & the part about not feeling up to studying at times this was so encouraging & made me feel even more determined knowing that every language learner have these kind of moments you guys are the best thanks for always cooking up something nice for us little learners ❤❤ #Grace4president #sheisalrealdy #everyyear #aka #ChefGrace 👩🍳 😄
I'm sorry to be sceptical, but I can't believe it took him only 18 months to get to this level. This is possible only if he is a real genius and he learned Chinese 12 hours a day while being helped by a very patient Chinese speaking girlfriend.
I mean, you're not wrong to be skeptical. Fluency like this is still possible, but as someone else commented it is more likely that he already had almost 4 years in the pocket by the time of this video recording. Personally, I've spotted way too many foreigners who spent years (2 years or more) in Beijing who could say no more than a few words or phrases but not hold a long drawn conversation like this, even one is married with a local and already have a child. In the end I guess it's highly dependent on the individual's interest and capability to learn any new skill, and if they can make the leap once plateaued. This guy has it in him, whatever the number of years it took him.
I wonder how much time he spends on researching and selecting which resources or dramas to watch because that would take me a lot of time. Without knowing anything about the language, how did he choose resources so efficiently? Did his Chinese friend help recommend them or is he using some method to pick resources really efficiently?
Graded readers are very hard to go wrong with, I did research what dramas I should watch and found 家有儿女. From there once I could understand 家有儿女 and had learnt lots of vocab and sentence structures via sentence mining alongside learning from friends I could pretty much just pick any TV drama and understand most of it
I wish the guy told us if he used PinYin when he studied. He said that he tried to avoid useing English at all costs, I wonder if when he studied new words if he used PinYin to help pronounce the new words or he just read everything in Chinese?
I understand nothing without the subtitles and add ups.😢 But I’ll come again after a year and maybe some months and I’ll understand everything. And I’ll speak as fluently as him.🤞
There isn’t any average person that learns and speaks any foreign language this fast and fluently no matter what learning method is used. He either had to lived in China to really force him to learn the language, he is gifted to learn, he put in 1000% percent of his time that most people cannot give or he has previous study more than 1.5 years
It sounds like he did put lots of time into it, but other than that, I think the main thing is that he had friends who were willing to talk with him a lot and correct his mistakes.
I'm wondering how he used cloze anki cards to acquire vocabulary effectively. For me, instead of acquiring the word, I end up memorizing the entire sentence associated with that word, and not learning the word itself. 我想上个{}. I would see 我想上个 and immediately recall the answer is 厕所. However, it doesn't teach me that the word means restroom. I think this information amount of information on the card is insufficient, you need more information to acquire the vocabulary, such as a picture or video of the word.
This is really sad. I lived in China for 7 years. Married a Chinese lady and have been back in the US over 10 years now. I felt like my Chinese learning was really starting to take off. But I let it all fall off these years. We went to visit the family for almost a whole month. I regret not sticking with it. This has really given me a kick in the but. I have the perfect learning partner and have been neglecting learning. I pulled out my material and will start with this approach yall talk about here. Thanks - and you have a new subscriber....
@@SublimeWeasel - Ha! Thanks for your interest. I've been studying a little each day - but I fell off the wagon today. Oh, it's still early so I can still do some. Thanks for the kick in the butt :D
@@rickrandazzo many small make a great! Don't give up, I'm going to do the exact same thing. chinese is a very valuable and fun language. it will definitely be worth learning!
That was a great video! I'm learning on my own as well and I'll definitely look into those resources. I'm strongest in reading and typing followed by writing and then listening and speaking. I need to increase vocabulary and learn how to use the words in context better. Anyway ,I use an app called Chinese Writer. HSK 1 is free, you can get the rest for one payment (I forget how much). I like it because writing pages is boring and I feel like I'm wasting paper. The app lets you build sets of words, I built mine in HSK levels and then practice them until I know them very well. I just like to play the game that it has, where you have to race the clock to write the character. The app isn't perfect and I'm not learning how to write perfect characters but I remember the strokes and stroke order. It has helped me with distinguishing characters too. I also like to practice writing in VR with native Chinese speakers and they're so impressed that I can write. I write more clearly than some of them 😂😂😂
Shot out to Grace Mandarin Chinese and the guy in the video for such a high quality video that inspired me with invaluable learning experience. 🙏🙏🙏appreciate it. On Improving Writing Skill Of Chinese As a student of English department who also has been trying to do so in English, I find the book------Writing Skills With Readings Ninth(or Tenth) Edition-------written by John Langan practical and realistic( if you were to improving writing in Chinese). What he proposed is the idea of keeping a journal which helps you to cultivate a habit of wrting. With time, you can write as natural as possible in ENG or CN. This resonates my experience. Because the more you write, the more you'll learn how to write, and it doesn't has to be about a journal. It can be anything you want to spend a solid amount of time writing (and better yet Reading) about. (I would recommend reading books in order to understand how others talk in books so you can "know the game") At the end of the day though, this takes time. So this really has a lot to do with how much your way of living connects with improving writings in that language.
I am a beginner in Chinese (Mandarin), I have a good book to learn to read and speak Chinese, but I am looking for a way to memorize the Chinese characters. Do you have any tips on how I can better remember Chinese characters?
One thing that helps also. Is listening to Chinese tv shows in your sleep. Your brain rewires itself during its rest stages and listening to languages your learning in your sleep will teach your subconscious to learn faster. It's also been proven through studies that doing most of your learning at night before you go to bed makes you better at it the next day. You can use your dream cycles to speak Chinese and see yourself speaking it with others.
I think improving writing skills is the easiest of all Chinese skills. It is straightforward and direct practice with specific, measurable, and realistic to just write and improve every day. Unlike listening skills, which are vague. It's impossible to control progress of listening skills
I have studied English humor for many years. I have created a lot of videos to teach Chinese in a graphic and humorous way. The examples given in the teaching include Chinese humor or English humor. I wonder why so few people watch my videos. If you think this channel is worth watching, please recommend it to those who want to learn Chinese
How does he study grammar and thinking in a different sentence order than English? That’s what I have trouble with the most and don’t know what to study for that.
I’m studying Mandarin currently and It’s so easy But I don’t have enough materials I usually do but It’s so quick for me to learn, I don’t understand why People say Mandarin is Hard, The only hard thing is writing and memorising the characters and the Tones, Im tone deaf so it’s way harder for me
I’d like to recommend my videos of teaching Chinese language vividly and in a funny way. I hope you can recommend my videos to those who want to learn Chinese.
That beijing accent is what im working at. Im 58 days in hsk 1 and understand some of this. I never thought id be able to understand mandarin, speak it, write it, and read it.
Ok. I realized I'm doing the same thing for English. But I'm stuck in B1 - B2 level after a year of studying this way. 😢. I thought I would have to do other think for Chinese.... But it is the same approach. The problem is how to get the "elementary level", learn the characters first or focus on listening directly... Great interview by the way!
genial la entrevista lo vi con traducion escuchando en chino ,y la forma autonoma de aprender al metodo personal ,,una pregunta al escucharle el chino que pronuncia mi oido lo escucha parajo las palabras osea no se nota los tonos ,por que ? tu como nativa lo escuchas o te dejas llevar por el contexto ,siendo nativa y el que aprendio recientemente no se cuanto tiempo ,,me puedes desipar esa duda . felicidades por hacer esto y es genial , espero respuesta saludos desde lima peru
I try to self-study since October, but it's hard for me to actually learn the language. I can do flashcards everyday, but it's as if I knew those words only while Anki is open, because outside of it I can look at the characters I should know and not even recognize them, or struggle terribly with remembering which accent I should use for words. Your conversation encouraged me to not give up, and maybe try different methods of approach. Thanks for the video!
I’ve spent lots of time in making many videos teaching Chinese in a humorous way. I hope somebody can give me some advice about how I can reach my target audience who want to learn Chinese.
Yes, create new sentences. A plane dives down dangerously. " sink rate, pull up" In Chinese put this together - xia kuai lou, ti qi shan. I've no idea if this is correct. But I do know this is how Mandarin works!
It would have been interesting to know about Will's background because it is hard to gauge whether what he has achieved (an amazing level of proficiency in Mandarin) is down to inherited talent, e.g. a particularly high IQ? Did he work at the same time? How much time did he apply to the task each day? Otherwise a really informative interview.
I also like to make up, and speak aloud, sentences that use learned foreign-language vocabulary. But, it is possible that some people are not as strong as others at ' spontaneously making up sentences in a foreign language'... For example, Steve Kaufman (a polyglot who makes videos on RUclips) seems to indicate that he is not very good at that and my hunch is a lot of people struggle with that.
Grace, I support this channel but please don’t give a platform to charlatans like this. He clearly hasn’t become fluent in Chinese after 1.5 years of self-study, we all know this isn’t possible. It isn’t helpful to spread this nonsense, please don’t promote it.
if you can't achieve this level, it doesn't mean nobody can. You are just jealous and unkind. You also don’t wanna admit that someone is hard-working and talented.
I am a little confused. I have seen videos of this guy over a year ago saying he has only been studying 1.5 years therefore this would not be indicative of 1.5 years of self study .How long has he actually been study upon this video's release date??? Very impressive Chinese btw.
He may not consider himself actively "studying" anymore since he's not trying to improve it to the next level. Instead he's just using it in daily life. It probably took him about 1.5 years to get to his level.
The video he did with "Rita Mandarin Chinese" in which he said he had been studying for about 1.5 years was uploaded on May 13, 2022. This video was uploaded on July 22, 2023. So in this particular video, he had apparently been learning Chinese for about 2 years and 8 months. Anyway, I wouldn't get too caught up in the amount of time it takes.
I don’t believe this guy never spent any reasonable time in China to speak like that. I studied Russian and reaching a level like his in Russian without living in Eastern Europe would be impossible.
I have watched three different Chinese language dramas, namely Weixiao Pasta, Taohua Xiaomei and Meile Jiayou! I watched them when they first aired and didn't understand them. (I didn't understand for example why a boy would be angry and the girl crying,) I found them all on RUclips with English subtitles and I learned new vocabulary by comparing the English subtitles with both the spoken Chinese and the Chinese subtitles that are provided on the official DVDs. I have also learned songs by Cyndi Wang, Jolin Tsai, Rainie Yang, Eva, Coco Lee (RIP), Karen Mok, Vivian Hsu, A-Mei, Penny Tai and Angela Zhang. I learned over a hundred different songs and I sing them all on my RUclips channel (although my voice is not as loud as I would like). I have watched a lot of videos by you and Shuoshuo and Peggy Lee. Now I understand Chinese so well that when I tell kindergarteners that I don't understand Chinese they know I am lying because I easily can.
what's your RUclips channel ? one of the main reasons why I'm more motivated and determined to learn Chinese coz I want to sing more Chinese songs as well planning to start my music channel as soon as possible, for now I was listening to Jjlin songs and Alin also some of the singers you've mentioned. I'm here in Taiwan for more than 7years already but just last year when i started having a desired to learn Chinese through songs
I got to address elephant in the room... him learning chinese with a very strong beijing north chinese accent is basically like a non native english speaker learning english with a strong new york accent. Nothing wrong with it, and he probably learned it because of his gf. But it is a bit noticeable lol.
What an amazing and inspirational video! Thank you so much for both of you! For the question about writing, I would say that the physical act of writing is needed but it's not sufficient. I think knowing how to write characters requires you to know and remember each part. There's two ways to go about it, which can and maybe should be combined: 1) mnemonics and 2) knowing the components. About the components it at least helps me to know what is the pronunciation part and what is the meaning part of a character, as well if it's meaning has changed over time from it's original meaning. Outlier dictionary is excellent for this! It can be purchased in Pleco. The mnemonic part is creating a story or a reason for each component to exist in the character, which you can and mybe should invent yourself based on the meanings of each character component. These tools help you to create a reason for the character to have each part, which helps in remembering how to write them. Finally knowing the stroke order ties all of these together. Good luck and thanks again for an amazing video!
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@@arminebner2846 Hi I think you can just add the code “GRACE20”. If you still encounter problems with it, feel free to let me know!
Hi Grace, do you teach Chinese, I want my daughter to take lesson from you.
@GraceMandarinChinese unfortunately it still asking for a code that only takes numbers. Then, underneath, you have the promotional code, which is where I have put Grace20
@@arminebner2846 I asked the company and they said that one is optional. You can just skip it! :)
im a taiwanese, if i don't look at his face, i might considers him someone who really comes from beijing, his accent is just that perfect...
He could come from Beijing even with his face
@@Furansowakun well you might misunderstand my point, i meant his accent resembles beijingers, that's all i wanna say
@@達聞東 I know some white people born in Beijing and speak chinese like mother tongue ;)
@@Furansowakun i know that... but the white guy in the video isn't chinese and is not a native speaker, right?
so i was surprised that a foriegner can have such a perfect accent, not trying to be offensive bro.
Or let me change what i said into other words,
"If I just listen the voice, i might consider him a beijinger"
That’s not a Beijing accent. His accent is more of just a typical northern accent. If you actually listen to Beijing accent it’s completely different.
Lots of credit to him for learning so much in a short amount of time. Seems like there are commonalities among successful strategies. However much progress can be made with "self-study," ultimately language needs to be used for communication, so utilizing every opportunity to speak or write with someone else in the language provides opportunities to practice producing coherent sentences and phrases and to be exposed to new words and grammar structures.
At that point I wouldn’t classify it as studying anymore though. There’s studying, and then there’s real world application. When people talk about self-study I think it’s more about the action of studying by yourself and your own rules rather than spending money to go to school and study there. Of course real world practice is a must, whether it’s by self study or if it’s by a class, but that usually comes after studying. First study the topic then put it to practice
He just has talent
@@oiocha5706 More than that. He worked hard to learn and improve his Chinese. Also, he was lucky to have a Chinese friend who had the time to talk to him (even though it was just via chat) for one hour in a daily basis.
my introverted self could never. I've been learning korean and i realised my pronunciation got a little better and i form small sentences but whenever i wanna speak either my voice just doesn't come out at all or my pronunciations not good. Even with english lmao. I only speak properly with my close friends. when someone im not comfortable with speak to me in english, i stutter mostly
@@ellicicialso trying to learn Korean! Made this channel so I won’t be too tempted to watch English videos but I still slipped a little lol, it was hard cuz I’m not interested in K-pop or music in general, how long did it take you to understand the language? Not speaking it just understanding what they say? Cause that’s what my goal is for now, this is my second week trying this seriously, am not the most consistent but hope maybe in two years if I continue I’ll at least understand some words? Sorry for ranting lol
It’s so amazing that he became fluent in such a short period of time. Actually, even if it took 5-10 years to reach this level of fluency, I’d still be really impressed! It’s also amazing that you’ve become this proficient in English with mainly self-study! Thank you to both of you for sharing all this knowledge and advice.
It took me 5 to 10 years to become fluent in Japanese. People want to compliment me but saying it only took you 10 years to learn something just doesn’t sound like a compliment haha.
@@paulwalther5237 Me too, and I've been fluent now for 15 years (Been using Japanese more than half my life now) and can strongly relate to how people judge us without regarding how much time we actually put into the language and just comparing to others with a few years of learning experience >.<
And even get told something like this by natives on occasion: "Woah, you're fluent, do you wanna talk to my 4 year old? I'm curious to see what type of conversation the two of you would have (⋈◍＞◡＜◍)。✧♡" ( ;∀;)
His Beijing-accented Mandarin is so fluent. Can tell that he’s thinking in Mandarin when he speaks.
He speaks fluent and authentic Mandarin like a real native Chinese person omg he is such an awesome guy and really gets the point of learning languages. I believe whichever language he wants to learn, he definitely would make it.
totally. As a native Chinese speaker, i have to say he speaks so fluent and authentic that even much better than many people around me. And If he teaches how to learn English, I think I will believe it 100%.😂
Yes but then what?
I am Chinese and I am currently learning French. This conversation encouraged me a lot because I can relate pretty much everything you guys said in terms of learning a language. Habits are way more important than goals. Now I just need more confidence, patience, and a little more passion.
Can we practice French together? I'm also learning French. I speak English.
I am french and I'm studying chinese. Good luck on your learning guys
@@mila-evans Thanks! Same to you. Feel free to reach out if you have questions about Chinese.
@@eti-inyeneibia1498 I believe it's better to practice with a native speaker. My French sucks now. lol I encourage you to find a native French speaker who wants to improve their English. Bonne chance!
@@karenzhang1020嗨喽，本人的母语是法语。我要提高我的中文水，愿意的话我们相互学习吧
This really inspired me to work harder towards fluency! I've plateaued but I think figuring out my goal for Chinese will really help me move forward!
很开心能够跟Grace老师一起拍这一期视频分享我学习中文的经验，希望对大家有帮助哦😊
哈哈一定有幫助的！謝謝你的分享！
谢谢你的分享，你的学习方法很有参考价值
Thanks will you the man bro! we appreciate you sharing your story!
哥们你这口语水平也太好了吧，而且你用词衔接真的够自然没啥口音，遇到你得叫你京爷了
This is a talented learner - I have studied Chinese for many years and it's rare to hear someone achieve this level of pronunciation and fluency as a foreigner.
Talent comes into play but much of language is pure time dedication. A language is a massive amount of pure content to learn, so like he said in the video, those who develop extensive habits and fully center their lives and thoughts around their target language will learn many many times faster than someone who spends 1 hour per day learning a language (which is already a substantial time dedication). The people who can pick up language this fast have developed strong paths for language acquisition, and dedicate half or more of their waking hours either actively or somewhat passively (ie. podcast while cooking) consuming content in their TL.
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Just ignore this guy and his story, if not, you will just feel the peer pressure and anxiety. There are tremendous glorified or fabricated things on Internet. BACK to this video, Let me tell you, I am sure this guy is not as efficient in academy Chinese as his oral Chinese. And I suspect whether or not he can understand daily Chinese News on TV. Why could I know that？ Because I am an English learner, I have been hurt by this same situations where influencers make me frustrated. Just keep going, you have your own pace and time zone.
Of course he can understand news. Good luck for your English studies :)
I'm studying mandarim for more than 3 years now and unless he is a genius all this is a lie. But congratulations anyway cause his mandarim is amazing.
他京腔太浓了。😂 自学一年半没去过中国我不信。😅
Grace thank you for adding the CC subs (rather than 'burned in' the screen.} This enables me to use Language Reactor (free Chrome browser extension) which renders characters, pinyin and English (with popup dictionary at a click of a mouse) for a total learning experience. - Daniel
omg this is what I'm using right now, it's so helpful!e
Thanks for the suggestion. App seems great.
His Chinese is superb! Even much better than many native Chinese speakers
I have a degree in Japanese studies and took optional Chinese classes during my degree. I was terrible at Chinese😅 but my writing was always complimented by both my Chinese and Japanese teachers. I was writing Japanese all day, but my first Chinese class was all about stroke order. We didn’t learn stroke order as part of my degree. It tremendously helped the quality of my handwriting. On the other hand, we spent a lot of time learning radicals in Japanese class, and that helps me recognise meaning in new vocabulary in Chinese. Yes, because I was so bad in class many years ago, but now I am engaged to a Chinese man who speaks my native language perfectly, so I feel determined to master Chinese too (and maybe his dialect one day?!). So thank you Grace and Will for your precious advice!
Honestly, I think that in 1 and a half years, it is impossible for somebody who is self-studing to speak a chinese fluently, otherwise you are not from this world.
I’ve spent lots of time in making many videos teaching Chinese in a humorous way. I hope somebody can give me some advice about how I can reach my target audience who want to learn Chinese.
He mentioned in another comment that it was actually 3 years, but his mandarin was already great at 1.5 years
@@Henry-teach-Chinese-in-jokesLearn phonetics and actually how to produce the sounds. Understand why foreigners struggle where the problem lies and guide them. Otherwise you’re waisting your time
It's possible if you're fully immersed, but if you're like most of people who probably have a couple of hours per day to study/practice, I also doubt you can be fluent in just one and a half years 😅. The reason why I think it's possible is because I have friends who became fluent in other languages in 6 months or a year by moving to a country where that language is spoken and dedicating 100% of their time to learn the language, so learning Chinese in 1 year and a half or two doesn't sound that crazy
Take into account his girlfriend is Chinese so he’s always have a partner to practice by his side
Either he is one in a million or there should be something behind the scenes (A word from someone who's been living in china for the past 6 years)
Yeah, I took full time courses in China for 1.5 years and I still couldn't speak at that level.
For writing I was practicing by writing journals. I've also come to love writing on graphing paper (I use for Japanese and I feel it's made me more aware of how my characters should look.)
I'm also a visual learner, so I will watch calligraphy videos or videos on writing and try to copy the way they write.
Im currently studying Japanese (1 year 8 months) and just started practicing speaking but a lot of my vocabulary is passive and my grammar is horrible so i think this anki idea of making up your own sentences sounds like a good idea (definitely is going to extend my anki time by 3 but i think it may be worth it).
So his years of studying Chinese keeps getting shorter and shorter. First it was 3 yeas, then 2 years now its just 1.5 years. Next will just be 3 months. 😂😂😂😂 dont believe everything you hear.
he probably means it took him 1.5 years to get to this level of fluency, not that it's been exactly 1.5 years from now when he started.
@@cloud_9429thanks for helping me out here haha. I've learnt Chinese for 3 years, but I was already pretty fluent after 1.5 years hence Grace mentioned that in this video. There's plenty of videos of me speaking mandarin after 1 - 1.5 years.
1 year is so much cap.
@@vihodanyethaters gonna hate.
It's just for show. This guy didn't learn for half a year
holy crap, his speaking is so good. ive been learning fro 3 years, but still cant even speak a sentence very well
I just started a week ago. I feel both defeated and motivated 😅
Me too. It’s the tones. I downloaded a language app (not Duolingo) and my speech must be awful. I had wanted to learn Mandarin because I was curious about the language. But now, I’m like…I guess this isn’t the language for me.
Wow what a good accent. I'm in to C-dramas for the last 2 years I've constantly watching C-dramas that make me interested in learning Mandarin by self study. His accent is so good I feel that I am listening to one of those C-dramas
我从小到大在学校读中文，因为它是我的母语。但我真话说，我在学校时从来没有对华语有很大的兴趣，所以在功课、测验时都会有许多错别字、语病之类的问题。Truth to be told, I was way more in love with English and it became my native language. Chinese became something that I was extremely unconfident to speak or write with. But seeing this man learn it to such proficiency in 1.5 years that surpasses my 10+ years of formal education is the most inspiring thing today. 我听他那么灵活地用华文时、就一直想：他真的，真的非常棒啊！I want to revisit Chinese in my adulthood because of this. Thank you!! ❤
Its so interesting the way Will speaks compared to the Grace speaks. Will speaks so casually with a very Mainland accent. He speaks with a very masculine tone and intonation that blends words together. Whereas Grace is very pronounced in her accents, especially the fourth tone. Its very clearly a Taiwanese accent here too! Amazing to listen to both styles and how they both sound. Will sounds so natural in a 18 months. Amazing!!!!
Pretty amazing after 18 months. Especially since he even picked up a Beijing accent! :)
As someone that has prioritized being able to read and write chinese more so over speaking ive used a mixutre of pure repetition of writing lets say 5-10 characters a day until the point i can write it quickly and then switch over to a blank sheet and writing them again helped the best. Bonus thing i am also doing is writing it in random places so my mind retains the stroke order and i dont really have to think about stroke order. I get to a point with a character where i can write it and picture it in my mind over time. for example the character 爱. visually at first glance with anki i can tell thats love. But after ive written it enough i memorize it like an english letter versus a just a picture. its weird for me to explain my learning method in that sense. i really wanted to rely as little as possible on treating characters as pictures and more like very complex english letters. I will admit though something i struggle with is writing characters in limited spaces like a notebook paper.Trying to fit so much detail in a little space.
I was losing motivation because I felt I wasn’t improving, but thanks to this video I realized where I can add more effort for efficiency 😅 thank you~ I feel motivated to not give up on myself
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- Features of the app including word combinations, usage examples, and tools for expanding vocabulary.
02:14 🤝 *Daily Chinese Conversation Practice*
- Discusses the importance of daily conversation practice with a Chinese friend and using Anki for vocabulary building.
- Emphasizes starting simple conversations and gradually increasing complexity.
03:57 📈 *Advanced Vocabulary Learning Techniques*
- Shares methods for learning and remembering vocabulary effectively, including using words in sentences and learning in context.
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06:02 📺 *Incorporating TV Dramas and Anki for Learning*
- Utilizing TV dramas for learning natural dialogue and vocabulary in context.
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08:00 🔄 *Developing Study Habits and Environmental Cues*
- Discusses setting goals and developing daily habits for consistent study.
- The importance of environmental cues and habits for learning efficiency.
10:33 📖 *Using Graded Readers for Vocabulary Expansion*
- Introduction to graded Chinese readers as a resource for learners.
- Explains the choice of physical books and their role in learning progression.
12:30 🗣️ *Speaking Practice Strategies*
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Thank you Grace & will for such a awesome video!! hearing learing methods from both sides is always helpful & very relatable especially the part about the feeling of slow progress & the part about not feeling up to studying at times this was so encouraging & made me feel even more determined knowing that every language learner have these kind of moments you guys are the best thanks for always cooking up something nice for us little learners ❤❤ #Grace4president #sheisalrealdy #everyyear #aka #ChefGrace 👩🍳 😄
I'm sorry to be sceptical, but I can't believe it took him only 18 months to get to this level. This is possible only if he is a real genius and he learned Chinese 12 hours a day while being helped by a very patient Chinese speaking girlfriend.
The minute someone says they had a girlfriend rapid progress starts, to me makes lots more sense lol.
I mean, you're not wrong to be skeptical. Fluency like this is still possible, but as someone else commented it is more likely that he already had almost 4 years in the pocket by the time of this video recording.
Personally, I've spotted way too many foreigners who spent years (2 years or more) in Beijing who could say no more than a few words or phrases but not hold a long drawn conversation like this, even one is married with a local and already have a child.
In the end I guess it's highly dependent on the individual's interest and capability to learn any new skill, and if they can make the leap once plateaued. This guy has it in him, whatever the number of years it took him.
His voice is so calm and clear....wow, amazing really 🎉 congratulations for this far
I seriously doubt he did that in a year.
My dude also read "Atomic Habits"... Hell Yeah
Funny how I understand everything she says and nothing he says!
I think you should share your knowledge 😅 to people like me
Am I the only one who understood "fluent in 15 years"? hahaha 😂
Can anyone tell me does Juzi app teaches traditional Chinese or simplified Chinese ?❤😊
I wonder how much time he spends on researching and selecting which resources or dramas to watch because that would take me a lot of time. Without knowing anything about the language, how did he choose resources so efficiently? Did his Chinese friend help recommend them or is he using some method to pick resources really efficiently?
Graded readers are very hard to go wrong with, I did research what dramas I should watch and found 家有儿女. From there once I could understand 家有儿女 and had learnt lots of vocab and sentence structures via sentence mining alongside learning from friends I could pretty much just pick any TV drama and understand most of it
If you’re smart (talented at learning languages) you can probably use any material as long as it isn’t god awful and do well.
I wish the guy told us if he used PinYin when he studied. He said that he tried to avoid useing English at all costs, I wonder if when he studied new words if he used PinYin to help pronounce the new words or he just read everything in Chinese?
Before the beginning of the interview: Ok, let me see what I can learn from this...!
After watching 20 sec of interview: Ah, just another genius...
Knowing that it's possible to do this gives me hope with my chinese learning endevours!
He's getting more and more Beijing style everytime I hear him 😆👏
I understand nothing without the subtitles and add ups.😢
But I’ll come again after a year and maybe some months and I’ll understand everything. And I’ll speak as fluently as him.🤞
There isn’t any average person that learns and speaks any foreign language this fast and fluently no matter what learning method is used. He either had to lived in China to really force him to learn the language, he is gifted to learn, he put in 1000% percent of his time that most people cannot give or he has previous study more than 1.5 years
It sounds like he did put lots of time into it, but other than that, I think the main thing is that he had friends who were willing to talk with him a lot and correct his mistakes.
I'm wondering how he used cloze anki cards to acquire vocabulary effectively. For me, instead of acquiring the word, I end up memorizing the entire sentence associated with that word, and not learning the word itself. 我想上个{}. I would see 我想上个 and immediately recall the answer is 厕所. However, it doesn't teach me that the word means restroom. I think this information amount of information on the card is insufficient, you need more information to acquire the vocabulary, such as a picture or video of the word.
Hey if you're still learning Chinese, check out ruclips.net/video/xdVAuwrgtww/видео.html
他的中文真的很不錯、而他對於學習的態度任誰任啥也很值得學學
This is really sad. I lived in China for 7 years. Married a Chinese lady and have been back in the US over 10 years now. I felt like my Chinese learning was really starting to take off. But I let it all fall off these years. We went to visit the family for almost a whole month. I regret not sticking with it. This has really given me a kick in the but. I have the perfect learning partner and have been neglecting learning. I pulled out my material and will start with this approach yall talk about here. Thanks - and you have a new subscriber....
how is it going so far? can you update this comment as you progress? :)
@@SublimeWeasel - Ha! Thanks for your interest. I've been studying a little each day - but I fell off the wagon today. Oh, it's still early so I can still do some. Thanks for the kick in the butt :D
@@rickrandazzo many small make a great! Don't give up, I'm going to do the exact same thing. chinese is a very valuable and fun language. it will definitely be worth learning!
一年半可以把中文學到這個程度非常厲害！聽不太出來是非母語人士 尤其是母語跟中文差距這麼大的情況下
That was a great video! I'm learning on my own as well and I'll definitely look into those resources. I'm strongest in reading and typing followed by writing and then listening and speaking. I need to increase vocabulary and learn how to use the words in context better. Anyway ,I use an app called Chinese Writer. HSK 1 is free, you can get the rest for one payment (I forget how much). I like it because writing pages is boring and I feel like I'm wasting paper. The app lets you build sets of words, I built mine in HSK levels and then practice them until I know them very well. I just like to play the game that it has, where you have to race the clock to write the character. The app isn't perfect and I'm not learning how to write perfect characters but I remember the strokes and stroke order. It has helped me with distinguishing characters too. I also like to practice writing in VR with native Chinese speakers and they're so impressed that I can write. I write more clearly than some of them 😂😂😂
He even got a Chinese hair cut .... stuck a rice bowl on his head and cut around the bottom of it!
You're right
Shot out to Grace Mandarin Chinese and the guy in the video for such a high quality video that inspired me with invaluable learning experience. 🙏🙏🙏appreciate it.
On Improving Writing Skill Of Chinese
As a student of English department who also has been trying to do so in English, I find the book------Writing Skills With Readings Ninth(or Tenth) Edition-------written by John Langan practical and realistic( if you were to improving writing in Chinese).
What he proposed is the idea of keeping a journal which helps you to cultivate a habit of wrting. With time, you can write as natural as possible in ENG or CN. This resonates my experience. Because the more you write, the more you'll learn how to write, and it doesn't has to be about a journal. It can be anything you want to spend a solid amount of time writing (and better yet Reading) about.
(I would recommend reading books in order to understand how others talk in books so you can "know the game")
At the end of the day though, this takes time. So this really has a lot to do with how much your way of living connects with improving writings in that language.
分享一些關於中文寫作的tips，因為中文口語和書面表達還是有些差別，可以訂閱一些中文的雜誌看一看書面表達的文法習慣，中國這邊的話，以前讀中學時候經常讀《讀者》《意林》《青年文摘》之類的雜誌，每篇篇幅比較短小，不會像讀一本厚厚辭典那樣有壓力（對非中文母語者來說），話題也可能涉及社會經濟文化藝術等各個方面，主要是很多動詞名詞or形容詞副詞以及固定搭配，很多都是平時不會講但只有寫作時候才會用的（有點類似於英語中很多源自於法語的複雜長單詞）。新聞通稿裡關於文化和經濟的論述也是一個很好的學習途徑。如果還有興趣的話，可以積累一些四字成語or詩詞歌賦～
謝謝你的建議！好詳細！
光聽聲音我會以爲兩個母語者在聊天，太神了
Frankly, the guest‘s Mandarin sounds more standard than the video host.
This guys’ previous life was a chinese royal family member
I am a beginner in Chinese (Mandarin), I have a good book to learn to read and speak Chinese, but I am looking for a way to memorize the Chinese characters. Do you have any tips on how I can better remember Chinese characters?
I would recommend learning the most common radicals and then learn how to use memory palaces and mnemonics, hope that helps!
@@willhartmandarinThanks for the tips.
Can someone recommend any podcasts to help
One thing that helps also. Is listening to Chinese tv shows in your sleep. Your brain rewires itself during its rest stages and listening to languages your learning in your sleep will teach your subconscious to learn faster. It's also been proven through studies that doing most of your learning at night before you go to bed makes you better at it the next day. You can use your dream cycles to speak Chinese and see yourself speaking it with others.
interesting, thanks
I think improving writing skills is the easiest of all Chinese skills. It is straightforward and direct practice with specific, measurable, and realistic to just write and improve every day.
Unlike listening skills, which are vague. It's impossible to control progress of listening skills
There is no way in the dimension we live in that he reached that fluency in 1.5 YEARS. Full stop.
Years he said.
我也是一个外国人但我个人觉得这家伙绝对不是1.5年学中文达到了这个程度。。。。我个人觉得最少7-8 年可以说成这个样。。。他中文真棒
Wow, he has some crisp, clear tones. That's very hard to achieve in such a short time.
Like this comment and remind me to study Chinese please..I'm in china here life is hard without Chinese
I have studied English humor for many years. I have created a lot of videos to teach Chinese in a graphic and humorous way. The examples given in the teaching include Chinese humor or English humor.
I wonder why so few people watch my videos. If you think this channel is worth watching, please recommend it to those who want to learn Chinese
How does he study grammar and thinking in a different sentence order than English? That’s what I have trouble with the most and don’t know what to study for that.
Wow! He's fluently! You can learn any language if you work hard at it.
fluent*
I’m studying Mandarin currently and It’s so easy But I don’t have enough materials I usually do but It’s so quick for me to learn, I don’t understand why People say Mandarin is Hard, The only hard thing is writing and memorising the characters and the Tones, Im tone deaf so it’s way harder for me
I’d like to recommend my videos of teaching Chinese language vividly and in a funny way. I hope you can recommend my videos to those who want to learn Chinese.
If anyone want to practice Chinese, you can message me! I'm a native Chinese speaker, we can be language study partner. I'm learning English.😊
That beijing accent is what im working at.
Im 58 days in hsk 1 and understand some of this.
I never thought id be able to understand mandarin, speak it, write it, and read it.
Xd
Some people just have an ability for learning languages.
Loved the way he said bye in the end lol. Thanks for the video! I learned a lot!!!
I would really want to have his anki deck.
Would that be possible🤣
Then he is a genius if he can speak Mandarin with fluency within 1.5 years.
我嫉妒他 其实
这哥们口语绝了，我一中国人听到他这口语和流畅度我感觉没个十年八年根本出不来，而且这口语多半跟京爷学的，儿化音太有那味了，而且感觉他用词习惯就是中国人用词习惯。
I am still don't believe he could speak Mandarin in 1,5 years. Probably it will take more than 5 years to learn. 😊
1 year ago this guy gave an interview and he was back then already 1.5 years on intensive daily self study.... Clearly an exceptional case ...
1.5 years sounds better than whatever the truth is huh..
video of that for proof (though i believe u already so yea)
ruclips.net/video/ZbqlSXcRVRc/видео.htmlsi=o3JLJXT50LU7QXLw
I have been using (Mac) reminders then indenting the Chinese word, instead of using not free Anki , im sure Anki is better tho...
Ok. I realized I'm doing the same thing for English. But I'm stuck in B1 - B2 level after a year of studying this way. 😢. I thought I would have to do other think for Chinese.... But it is the same approach. The problem is how to get the "elementary level", learn the characters first or focus on listening directly... Great interview by the way!
Great video Will - the Sunburst lamp behind your head made for a "Divine" Performance 😊- Daniel
genial la entrevista lo vi con traducion escuchando en chino ,y la forma autonoma de aprender al metodo personal ,,una pregunta al escucharle el chino que pronuncia mi oido lo escucha parajo las palabras osea no se nota los tonos ,por que ? tu como nativa lo escuchas o te dejas llevar por el contexto ,siendo nativa y el que aprendio recientemente no se cuanto tiempo ,,me puedes desipar esa duda . felicidades por hacer esto y es genial , espero respuesta saludos desde lima peru
I try to self-study since October, but it's hard for me to actually learn the language. I can do flashcards everyday, but it's as if I knew those words only while Anki is open, because outside of it I can look at the characters I should know and not even recognize them, or struggle terribly with remembering which accent I should use for words. Your conversation encouraged me to not give up, and maybe try different methods of approach. Thanks for the video!
I’ve spent lots of time in making many videos teaching Chinese in a humorous way. I hope somebody can give me some advice about how I can reach my target audience who want to learn Chinese.
Engilis is too difficult for me…Chinese and English have completely different ways of thinking
@@吕彬-f9wdo u speak Chinese?
我只学习了10个月，所以不久。但，我用多的方法也每天学习。 这些方法你们说了我也用还有我觉得非常有用。谢谢你们给我你们的advice！我也建议写日记用中文因为你可以练习笔迹还有学习新词汇！
Yes, create new sentences. A plane dives down dangerously. " sink rate, pull up" In Chinese put this together - xia kuai lou, ti qi shan. I've no idea if this is correct. But I do know this is how Mandarin works!
It would have been interesting to know about Will's background because it is hard to gauge whether what he has achieved (an amazing level of proficiency in Mandarin) is down to inherited talent, e.g. a particularly high IQ? Did he work at the same time? How much time did he apply to the task each day? Otherwise a really informative interview.
I also like to make up, and speak aloud, sentences that use learned foreign-language vocabulary.
But, it is possible that some people are not as strong as others at ' spontaneously making up sentences in a foreign language'...
For example, Steve Kaufman (a polyglot who makes videos on RUclips) seems to indicate that he is not very good at that and my hunch is a lot of people struggle with that.
Grace, I support this channel but please don’t give a platform to charlatans like this. He clearly hasn’t become fluent in Chinese after 1.5 years of self-study, we all know this isn’t possible. It isn’t helpful to spread this nonsense, please don’t promote it.
这个嘉宾的中文太叼了。学习一年半太假了。他的京腔太标准了。😂
if you can't achieve this level, it doesn't mean nobody can. You are just jealous and unkind. You also don’t wanna admit that someone is hard-working and talented.
@@kingwong168😂这就是令人难以想象的事实，作为will的朋友我每次都很惊叹
I studied with this man back in 2009 he has been practicing for years. Fooled all you guys.
领导：“你这是什么意思？”
阿呆：“没什么意思，意思意思而已。”
领导：“你这就不够意思了。”
阿呆：“小意思，小意思。”
领导：“你这人真有意思。”
阿呆：“其实也没有别的意思。”
领导：“那我就不好意思了。”
阿呆：“是我不好意思。”
能理解每一个意思的意思，才真的是学到精髓了哈哈😂
I am a little confused. I have seen videos of this guy over a year ago saying he has only been studying 1.5 years therefore this would not be indicative of 1.5 years of self study .How long has he actually been study upon this video's release date??? Very impressive Chinese btw.
He may not consider himself actively "studying" anymore since he's not trying to improve it to the next level. Instead he's just using it in daily life. It probably took him about 1.5 years to get to his level.
@@theJade very impressive!!
The video he did with "Rita Mandarin Chinese" in which he said he had been studying for about 1.5 years was uploaded on May 13, 2022. This video was uploaded on July 22, 2023. So in this particular video, he had apparently been learning Chinese for about 2 years and 8 months. Anyway, I wouldn't get too caught up in the amount of time it takes.
I don’t believe this guy never spent any reasonable time in China to speak like that. I studied Russian and reaching a level like his in Russian without living in Eastern Europe would be impossible.
Wow amazing
很有意思的视频 - 谢谢。我很佩服他的中文水平。
I teach you Chinese,you teach me English. Anybody wanna do that?
I JUST DISCOVERED U AND I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL!!!
I have watched three different Chinese language dramas, namely Weixiao Pasta, Taohua Xiaomei and Meile Jiayou! I watched them when they first aired and didn't understand them. (I didn't understand for example why a boy would be angry and the girl crying,) I found them all on RUclips with English subtitles and I learned new vocabulary by comparing the English subtitles with both the spoken Chinese and the Chinese subtitles that are provided on the official DVDs. I have also learned songs by Cyndi Wang, Jolin Tsai, Rainie Yang, Eva, Coco Lee (RIP), Karen Mok, Vivian Hsu, A-Mei, Penny Tai and Angela Zhang. I learned over a hundred different songs and I sing them all on my RUclips channel (although my voice is not as loud as I would like). I have watched a lot of videos by you and Shuoshuo and Peggy Lee. Now I understand Chinese so well that when I tell kindergarteners that I don't understand Chinese they know I am lying because I easily can.
what's your RUclips channel ? one of the main reasons why I'm more motivated and determined to learn Chinese coz I want to sing more Chinese songs as well planning to start my music channel as soon as possible, for now I was listening to Jjlin songs and Alin also some of the singers you've mentioned. I'm here in Taiwan for more than 7years already but just last year when i started having a desired to learn Chinese through songs
The fact that you can post a comment means you already have a RUclips account and can start uploading videos.
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OMG SOMEONE WHO WATCHES WEI XIAO PASTAAA
这才叫一口流利的普通话。羡慕嫉妒恨🥹 棒棒哒。
问一下，哪一个软件能听到中文的podcast?
哇哦，看你这评论我感觉你中文不错
卧槽，他自学一年半？没去过中国？京腔（北京口音）这么弄。我不信他没去过中国。😂 太屌了
I got to address elephant in the room... him learning chinese with a very strong beijing north chinese accent is basically like a non native english speaker learning english with a strong new york accent. Nothing wrong with it, and he probably learned it because of his gf. But it is a bit noticeable lol.
I still don't believe. However smart he might be.
I'm looking for reading and writing recommendations for a long time but i couldn't find any if anyone has recommendations please tell me 😢
I don’t understand why you would put this interview in Chinese. Isn’t your audience a non Chinese speaker?
What an amazing and inspirational video! Thank you so much for both of you! For the question about writing, I would say that the physical act of writing is needed but it's not sufficient. I think knowing how to write characters requires you to know and remember each part. There's two ways to go about it, which can and maybe should be combined: 1) mnemonics and 2) knowing the components. About the components it at least helps me to know what is the pronunciation part and what is the meaning part of a character, as well if it's meaning has changed over time from it's original meaning. Outlier dictionary is excellent for this! It can be purchased in Pleco. The mnemonic part is creating a story or a reason for each component to exist in the character, which you can and mybe should invent yourself based on the meanings of each character component. These tools help you to create a reason for the character to have each part, which helps in remembering how to write them. Finally knowing the stroke order ties all of these together. Good luck and thanks again for an amazing video!