He's speaking Mandarin not Chinese! Chinese is a collection of at least 100 different dialects Mandarin being one. People dont say I speak European it's English or French etc.
Speaking 6 languages, I fully confirm that this is a very powerful tool. Together with watching and working through lots of videos and transcripts of comprehensible input.
Best of luck to everyone on their 2025 language goals! 😊 You can get great language audio input here on youtube with bilingual stories, they will read a sentence of a story in English then read the same sentence in target language. Polyglot Beats on youtube does that well for multiple languages and there other channels for specific languages... its been helping me get passive listening and learning when going on walks... time is by FAR hardest obstacle in language learning - anything that can get us some passive learning is a plus😊🎉🎉🎉 happy new year, 2025 here we come!!! 😊😊
天啊！你的方法跟我的一模一樣！🎉 As a native Chinese speaker learning English, I’ve found that consistency is key. Every day, I make it a point to 'do my homework' by writing at least one sentence using the new vocabulary I’ve learned. Then, I ask my native speaker friends or even ChatGPT to help correct my sentences. This way, I not only expand my vocabulary but also sharpen my grammar skills. Your methods are spot on-thank you for sharing them! I’ll keep doing my homework and hope to speak English as fluently as you speak Chinese one day!
Would you as a native mandarin speaker, say he has perfect pronunciation? It sounds great to me but I'm a little afraid of learning from non native speakers.
In the words of my wife: 这个小老外中文说的太好了. She’s a native speaker learning English while I am learning Chinese. Well we both know some but trying to improve fluency.
You probably know and it's just an autofill problem but you should have written 中文说得太好了, 得 is the adverbial indicator. Also you should use the Chinese period 。 Good luck in your studies!
@@toku_u I can’t blame autofill, I’m just still not that good, but I’m excited to keep learning. I’ve never been fortunate enough to be someone who can pick up languages quickly. For Mandarin, my journey started with various apps. Later, I took a semester of Mandarin in college (wanted to continue but the schedule didn’t work out). Now I mostly practice with my wife and watching movies (we alternate between English and Chinese movies). I feel like I’m at a weird spot right now: sometimes I say something spur of the moment where I don’t know the translation but am told was said correctly, and correct for the circumstance… there are a few phrases I am really good with…. there are things I have to think about and force an awkward translation… and there are things I know but in the moment forget. Maybe in another year I’ll be confident enough to use it outside of home.
Good tips and I respect to your pronunciation and fluency. Most people I saw online with videos like "foreigner SHOCKS Chinese people on market with PERFECT Mandarin" have a very noticable accent and are far from the clickbaity perfection of the video's title. Thinking about sentence structure is really important. That's one reason why I already thought about doing videos in Mandarin because it forces myself to sit down and think about sentence structure and how to translate difficult concepts into Mandarin sentences. Maybe something for the next year. One good trick to practice I found is: 1. Make a second account on youtube (or use your own if you don't care) 2. Find a video where a controversial (maybe political) topic is discussed by Chinese people. Nationalists are really good practice partners. 3. Argue with strangers/trolls about politics or ethics or morals or gender. The good thing is that you have to make your points clear and concise and understandable by real Chinese. Also, heated discussions create the urge to reply and in the heat of an argument, you'll want to make the other side understand your point. The greatest praise I got from a Chinese user was: "Don't pretend that you are not Chinese just because you left the country and now you think you can say bad things about our country" :D Thank you unknown internet user, that comment made my day. And I wasn't even saying bad things. I was just criticizing nationalist views of the commenters there. When I was indistinguishable from other Chinese, then my arguments were correct (at least languagewise).
I stand behind this 100000%! Reading and writing and speaking could not be more different in terms of learning. Each of these need to have different methods to study them. I am nearly at the point where I can read a Chinese newspaper in traditional Chinese but most of the time, I have a hard time speaking a single sentence correctly.
@@my_tongue_speaks The understanding will definitely come to you no problem with enough listening time and reading. It is something that will come passively so don't sweat it too much. As for speaking..... we can all get through this together. 😎
I already am forced to make my own sentences every day by virtue of the fact that I currently live in China, but your steps sound very helpful and I automatically trust you and this advice because you sound the closest to a Native Chinese speaker I've ever heard another foreigner sound! It's very impressive, even your pauses sound Chinese! Gonna start using your steps to practice today!
Will, I am very impressed with your Chinese. Bravo, bravo. And I agree with your message. I've always been rather lazy to write much in my target language, but I'm going to try this more. Thank you.
thanks for the video! this is really helpful! i've been doing this with a friend but only during a time when we chat. i make a sentence and friend corrects it then i change the sentence again by replacing one word and ask "then this one is correct, as well". i limit this lesson when i have someone to talked to but you are right, i should be able to do it alone! just focus on the words on my level. thank you for this simple trick reminder
Haha, when I was learning English, our teacher also used to say: speak more, listen more, read more. It turns out that the basic methods are the same all around the world. But the other methods you shared are really great, thank you!
Native English, definitely. He only said one english word "gaslight" but I can absolutely tell he was born and raised in the UK, probably around the London area or otherwise east england.
I just started using hello Chinese and only started learning Chinese Mandarin for a week now it’s so hard to get the tone right I speak and practice and practice and listen to Mandarin Chinese music but as someone with a heavy southern accent it’s hard for me. Any advice would be helpful. But I will just try to 加油!!
1:40 well I would say even as a kid you at some point get into the process of trying to put the words you automatically learned and put them together. Kids still struggle with that and also have to think about it, even though it's maybe not as conscious as when you're an adult.
As someone who's studying Japanese, I think I've heard this before from one of my past professors, and I 100% agree. I've also thought about this kind of thing in the past, sometimes just trying to narrate what you're doing in your day to day life can help. Thank you for posting this video! It helped me mentally!
The effects at 2:15 made me laugh hahaha~ Although I hate to admit it, you are very right… making your own sentences is v important. But I think if you listen to it in context a lot beforehand, it’ll make forming sentences with that word easier!
I literally took myself to weibo and have a Chinese friend now who communicates with me. The deal is that I translate everything in Google translate but I can only respond verbally and not in writing. My pronunciation is going really good
The only thing is just that i am more inclined toward “ traditional or 繁體字” .But that is just my personal preference and majority of people are learning “ simplified writing or 簡體字”. And that is also what I learned in my native 印度尼西亞。
In the famous 1944 Ingrid Bergman movie, Gaslight, which takes place at the turn of the last century before electricity, when houses were lit by gaslight, an evil husband schemes to drive his wife insane by secretly raising and lowering the gas light. When the wife asked him why the lights keep going up and down, he said, "What are you talking about? They're not going up and down, you're imagining it." He did this repeatedly over time. So he was gaslighting her, meaning he was denying the reality of her own experience in order to belittle her and make her doubt her own intelligence and even her sanity. I hope this is helpful, because your wonderful video is!
Omg now I finally know the definition and story behind it!!! (Never bothered to look it up before). I’ve heard it in conversations but have never used the word myself. Now I might hahah
Great advice in this video! Taking the sentence structure and changing it's components to internalize. I'd also add that these days we can validate our sentences with AI.
I use flash cards as a way to build up a bank of words. They may not be immediately useful but down the road when the dust settles and you’re calling on a word. You can bring out one from the back pocket.
This actually made me think again in an idea I had when I started studying Chinese, but my level was such low that it wasn't worth. I was trying to write a diary in Chinese, writing a very short text everyday. I surrendered after a couple days because too hard. Now, two years later, I am starting to recognize many characters. I'm working methodically in HSK now but probably by the time I reach HSK3 I will start putting this in practise again. Maybe write a text or a script (like video script, casual conversation) and try to translate it myself as best as I can even if I need to use dictionary. Do you think this will be useful?
Hi Will, I'm a huge fan of your channel and I've been using your study methods for around 6 months now and found them super effective. I'm wondering how you tackled learning the differences between different 近义词，for example 区别 and 差别. Sometimes native speakers don't even know how to explain the differences between these synonyms, especially with regards to what they imply, and in what specific contexts to use them. Any advice you have would be appreciated
Hey, thanks so much for the comment. I think that's a really good question, I think trying to learn Mandarin in 'chunks', getting a ton of input and feedback on when you use the synonyms wrong will definitely help. I think it will just take time, you don't necessarily need to be able to verbalize the nuances but instead 'feel' them if that makes any sense.
@@willhartmandarin I was wondering: What do you think of using ChatGPT to check and correct Chinese sentences? Or using it to explain the difference between synonyms?
I notice your pronunciation of things like the w sound in 问题 sounds more like a V sound, which I've heard is something more characteristic of northern chinese speech. Is this something you've picked up naturally? just curious. I believe the accurate sound to describe it is a labiodental approximant so in between a V and a W
Dear Will I am playing the violin, the piano and trying to get to grips with the chinese language. It is reallly difficult to set priorities. What would you recommend ?
I would recommend trying to build good habits in all three things, build up slowly and try and listen to Chinese when doing other things e.g. chores, walking etc as much as you can :)
It's a way of playing with someone's mind to confuse and control them. The word comes from the title of an old film. You can find out more about it from RUclips and elsewhere.
Funny thing happened this morning. I was trying to remember the word "productivity" this morning and thought "xing lu"... but then i tried to remember in context used in this video.. then suddenly my brain said "ti gao xiao lu"... woahhhh
Looking for a native American English speaker who is learning Chinese. I provide free Chinese conversations. If you have the same idea, please find the post in my channel community and leave a message.
OMG !!! Your chinese speaking is so perfect. I am overseas borned Chinese of Indonesia. Listening to you intonation and spoken , I am so ashamed & envy you.
I didn't understand "the trick" to skyrocket speech. .. I think I learned about 7 - 10 words from watching: kdramas, Asian Crush, RoKu, & HuLu I read subtitles
Oof, at 0.38 you pronounced your 为什么 with a 'V' at the beginning. Is that some dialect-related thing? I've heard Chinese natives do the same thing occasionally too, wondered if it was regional. Not sniping, just interested, it's not like a Brit should have any problems with 'W'.
Yeah it's a regional thing, tends to happen more in northern China, if you listen to my gf in videos we've done together she often does this, so that's probably where I got it from haha
@@willhartmandarin It's very interesting. There's another Chinese language vlogger (a native) who speaks like that. She actually virtually apologises for it at one point, in one video-she seems to consider it a speech defect. To me, it seems like it's probably just a regional allophone of that phoneme, but the natives themselves might not see it that way, it might be slightly stigmatised. I suspect you're unusually sensitive to the input you get. My Chinese is much less good than yours, but I wouldn't start pronouncing the 'W' as 'V' no matter how much I heard it. In my head it's just a 'W' and they'd have to tie me up and kick me to get me to pronounce it as a 'V'. There's an intriguing tussle there between conscious phonetic knowledge and the language we're exposed to. Different people probably take different paths.
@@samlynas3175 It's definitely an interesting topic, I've been learning Chinese for a long time now and I still change whether I pronounce it as "w" or "v" depending on who I'm with. On the other hand some of my friends who have just started are adamant with sticking to the standard pronunciation, probably because pronunciation is taught in such a formal way that you think any variation is immediately wrong. The only thing I would say is if you don't allow your pronunciation to be affected by the input you get at all, your speech will sound very robotic (imagine sounding like a news reporter all the time, it's not bad but a bit weird)
@@RobMartin-gz3zk Yes, I see what you're saying. When I talk about not being influenced, I don't mean I'm not influenced at all! If you're not being influenced by the natives, who would you be influenced by! I'm talking more about allophonic variation within a given phoneme, though even that description has fuzzy edges. If you take a word that ends in pinyin 'n', like 中国人, any attentive listener will notice that the 'n' at the end is not usually a nasal stop-it tends to turn into some sort of nasalisation of the vowel. That is something I picked up on directly well before I encountered any explicit reference to it. That said, I think I am more resistant to *regional* variation in this regard. And that would extend to other languages I speak, though it's a complex topic, to be sure. Will may have more of a chameleon-type attitude, which leads him to mimic these things more quickly and willingly.
Some broadcasters do that. Maybe it originated from the V sound sounding clearer than W over public address systems such as train station announcements. Anyway that V-ish sound is not quite like an English V sound - more like half-way between a W and a V. We don't hear this affectation here in Taiwan.
I love the sound of your Chinese voice. You sound so relaxed and confident.
Oh thank you!
almost a madrain native speaker🎉
My listening comprehension is usually horrendous. Bro spoke so clearly I thought I was hallucinating for understanding the whole video 😂
Exactly!!!!! I can clearly point out the words that I already know while he was talking
Will is prob the only one i believe when he gave tips in learning chinese
Same!
I do not understand what he is talking..
@@ruparkyitin I understand.
He's speaking Mandarin not Chinese! Chinese is a collection of at least 100 different dialects Mandarin being one. People dont say I speak European it's English or French etc.
@@Golo1949 most chinese people say chinese no one really says mandarin.
Doing this right now. I love that you did your whole video in Chinese
one of the best accents I've heard, great stuff
Speaking 6 languages, I fully confirm that this is a very powerful tool. Together with watching and working through lots of videos and transcripts of comprehensible input.
Great to hear!
what languages do you speak? :)
@@_fabiolaborges Serbian, Croatian, Montenegran, Bosnian, English & British
Best of luck to everyone on their 2025 language goals! 😊 You can get great language audio input here on youtube with bilingual stories, they will read a sentence of a story in English then read the same sentence in target language. Polyglot Beats on youtube does that well for multiple languages and there other channels for specific languages... its been helping me get passive listening and learning when going on walks... time is by FAR hardest obstacle in language learning - anything that can get us some passive learning is a plus😊🎉🎉🎉 happy new year, 2025 here we come!!! 😊😊
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Chinese...and now starting with Russian 😊@@_fabiolaborges
天啊！你的方法跟我的一模一樣！🎉 As a native Chinese speaker learning English, I’ve found that consistency is key. Every day, I make it a point to 'do my homework' by writing at least one sentence using the new vocabulary I’ve learned. Then, I ask my native speaker friends or even ChatGPT to help correct my sentences. This way, I not only expand my vocabulary but also sharpen my grammar skills. Your methods are spot on-thank you for sharing them! I’ll keep doing my homework and hope to speak English as fluently as you speak Chinese one day!
Would you as a native mandarin speaker, say he has perfect pronunciation? It sounds great to me but I'm a little afraid of learning from non native speakers.
感谢分享！
这个造句学词汇的方法真的很有用。我们几年前也发现了。
所以我们在RUclips频道制作了很多hsk字词句的课程，帮助学生加深理解词义和字词的用法。
那就太好了！感谢你们为中文学习者提高这么好的学习资料！希望以后我们有合作的机会 :)
非常谢谢每天中文频道
很不错的中文频道👍
In the words of my wife: 这个小老外中文说的太好了. She’s a native speaker learning English while I am learning Chinese. Well we both know some but trying to improve fluency.
You probably know and it's just an autofill problem but you should have written 中文说得太好了, 得 is the adverbial indicator. Also you should use the Chinese period 。
Good luck in your studies!
@@toku_u I can’t blame autofill, I’m just still not that good, but I’m excited to keep learning. I’ve never been fortunate enough to be someone who can pick up languages quickly.
For Mandarin, my journey started with various apps. Later, I took a semester of Mandarin in college (wanted to continue but the schedule didn’t work out). Now I mostly practice with my wife and watching movies (we alternate between English and Chinese movies).
I feel like I’m at a weird spot right now: sometimes I say something spur of the moment where I don’t know the translation but am told was said correctly, and correct for the circumstance… there are a few phrases I am really good with…. there are things I have to think about and force an awkward translation… and there are things I know but in the moment forget. Maybe in another year I’ll be confident enough to use it outside of home.
Good tips and I respect to your pronunciation and fluency. Most people I saw online with videos like "foreigner SHOCKS Chinese people on market with PERFECT Mandarin" have a very noticable accent and are far from the clickbaity perfection of the video's title.
Thinking about sentence structure is really important. That's one reason why I already thought about doing videos in Mandarin because it forces myself to sit down and think about sentence structure and how to translate difficult concepts into Mandarin sentences. Maybe something for the next year.
One good trick to practice I found is:
1. Make a second account on youtube (or use your own if you don't care)
2. Find a video where a controversial (maybe political) topic is discussed by Chinese people. Nationalists are really good practice partners.
3. Argue with strangers/trolls about politics or ethics or morals or gender.
The good thing is that you have to make your points clear and concise and understandable by real Chinese. Also, heated discussions create the urge to reply and in the heat of an argument, you'll want to make the other side understand your point. The greatest praise I got from a Chinese user was: "Don't pretend that you are not Chinese just because you left the country and now you think you can say bad things about our country" :D Thank you unknown internet user, that comment made my day. And I wasn't even saying bad things. I was just criticizing nationalist views of the commenters there. When I was indistinguishable from other Chinese, then my arguments were correct (at least languagewise).
I stand behind this 100000%! Reading and writing and speaking could not be more different in terms of learning. Each of these need to have different methods to study them. I am nearly at the point where I can read a Chinese newspaper in traditional Chinese but most of the time, I have a hard time speaking a single sentence correctly.
Me too, and worse I can read but then I don't understand. I have a TOCFL test on top of that
@@my_tongue_speaks The understanding will definitely come to you no problem with enough listening time and reading. It is something that will come passively so don't sweat it too much. As for speaking..... we can all get through this together. 😎
Your voice is so nice, i wish i sounded this natural speaking any language
我用你的办法学了中文1年了，把你的视频成对我的学习习惯最有用！感谢您！
不客气！一起加油！
I already am forced to make my own sentences every day by virtue of the fact that I currently live in China, but your steps sound very helpful and I automatically trust you and this advice because you sound the closest to a Native Chinese speaker I've ever heard another foreigner sound! It's very impressive, even your pauses sound Chinese! Gonna start using your steps to practice today!
Thanks so much for the comment, very jealous that you live in China! haha
Will, I am very impressed with your Chinese. Bravo, bravo. And I agree with your message. I've always been rather lazy to write much in my target language, but I'm going to try this more. Thank you.
Your vocabularies are also very impressive .
As a Chinese native I learnt something new to improve my German, kudos for the good work!
You content is really inspiring and encouraging me to continue to learn Chinese .
Very impressive pronunciation and great tips 👍
Thanks!
Thanks so much!
Yep. Talk to yourself in Chinese. It really helps.
thanks for the video! this is really helpful! i've been doing this with a friend but only during a time when we chat. i make a sentence and friend corrects it then i change the sentence again by replacing one word and ask "then this one is correct, as well". i limit this lesson when i have someone to talked to but you are right, i should be able to do it alone! just focus on the words on my level. thank you for this simple trick reminder
Haha, when I was learning English, our teacher also used to say: speak more, listen more, read more. It turns out that the basic methods are the same all around the world. But the other methods you shared are really great, thank you!
Your Chinese speech is so fluent and true as far as pronounciation goes, I wonder what your native language? Did you grow up in China?
Native English, definitely. He only said one english word "gaslight" but I can absolutely tell he was born and raised in the UK, probably around the London area or otherwise east england.
I just started using hello Chinese and only started learning Chinese Mandarin for a week now it’s so hard to get the tone right I speak and practice and practice and listen to Mandarin Chinese music but as someone with a heavy southern accent it’s hard for me. Any advice would be helpful. But I will just try to 加油!!
1:40 well I would say even as a kid you at some point get into the process of trying to put the words you automatically learned and put them together. Kids still struggle with that and also have to think about it, even though it's maybe not as conscious as when you're an adult.
Great CI material here, in addition to the studying advice! Thanks!
As someone who's studying Japanese, I think I've heard this before from one of my past professors, and I 100% agree. I've also thought about this kind of thing in the past, sometimes just trying to narrate what you're doing in your day to day life can help. Thank you for posting this video! It helped me mentally!
Totally agree with the narrating your life point!
That sounded like good advice! I will try to implement it!
I just found this guy by watching another channel called "Evildea". Will Hart has promising ideas in my opinion. I subscribed.
Welcome aboard!
@@willhartmandarin Thank you! I'm watching the video again, this time taking notes.
The effects at 2:15 made me laugh hahaha~ Although I hate to admit it, you are very right… making your own sentences is v important. But I think if you listen to it in context a lot beforehand, it’ll make forming sentences with that word easier!
This is solid advice and btw 你的普通话说的太厉害!
I literally took myself to weibo and have a Chinese friend now who communicates with me. The deal is that I translate everything in Google translate but I can only respond verbally and not in writing. My pronunciation is going really good
The only thing is just that i am more inclined toward “ traditional or 繁體字” .But that is just my personal preference and majority of people are learning “ simplified writing or 簡體字”. And that is also what I learned in my native 印度尼西亞。
I really am in love with the way you speak Chinese your voice is beautiful i am blushing........ Its like you are singing ❤❤❤
In the famous 1944 Ingrid Bergman movie, Gaslight, which takes place at the turn of the last century before electricity, when houses were lit by gaslight, an evil husband schemes to drive his wife insane by secretly raising and lowering the gas light. When the wife asked him why the lights keep going up and down, he said, "What are you talking about? They're not going up and down, you're imagining it." He did this repeatedly over time. So he was gaslighting her, meaning he was denying the reality of her own experience in order to belittle her and make her doubt her own intelligence and even her sanity.
I hope this is helpful, because your wonderful video is!
Thank you for this explanation! I didn't know the origin of the word at all.
Yes, and they were all talking in Chinese!
Omg now I finally know the definition and story behind it!!! (Never bothered to look it up before). I’ve heard it in conversations but have never used the word myself. Now I might hahah
Thank you! Now, I'll have to watch that film with Ingrid Bergman as well. Thanks and hugs from sunny Scotland 🥶🥶
Very interesting
feichang piaoliang gege
laizi yindu de ai ❤️
Good advice and encouragement, thank you!
You are so welcome!
Great advice in this video! Taking the sentence structure and changing it's components to internalize. I'd also add that these days we can validate our sentences with AI.
Great point!
谢谢你的分享，句子变换这个方法很有用😊 👍
I use flash cards as a way to build up a bank of words. They may not be immediately useful but down the road when the dust settles and you’re calling on a word. You can bring out one from the back pocket.
Totally agree!
Thanks Will. I usually try to rewatch your videos and mimic what you say.
Glad you like them!
感谢分享！！看了你的视频后，我也想跟我的两个孩子试试这个技巧！👍👍👍 很喜欢你的视频内容，真的都是干货，很值得参考！！加油加油！！
谢啦！
Nice job! Subscribed ✅
Awesome, thank you!
I was not gonna buy it and then I heard him speak 😂I can trust him now
I can't wait try this!!!1
oh hey, it's this guy! I didn't know you had your own Yt channel. subbed
Thanks for the sub!
何威，很高兴再次听到你讲中文 😊
太好了，从现在开始我准备多拍中文视频
天啊 你好厉害！
This actually made me think again in an idea I had when I started studying Chinese, but my level was such low that it wasn't worth. I was trying to write a diary in Chinese, writing a very short text everyday. I surrendered after a couple days because too hard. Now, two years later, I am starting to recognize many characters. I'm working methodically in HSK now but probably by the time I reach HSK3 I will start putting this in practise again. Maybe write a text or a script (like video script, casual conversation) and try to translate it myself as best as I can even if I need to use dictionary. Do you think this will be useful?
I always engage in virtual arguments with my boss or discussions with my crush in Chinese😅
Hi Will, I'm a huge fan of your channel and I've been using your study methods for around 6 months now and found them super effective. I'm wondering how you tackled learning the differences between different 近义词，for example 区别 and 差别. Sometimes native speakers don't even know how to explain the differences between these synonyms, especially with regards to what they imply, and in what specific contexts to use them. Any advice you have would be appreciated
Hey, thanks so much for the comment. I think that's a really good question, I think trying to learn Mandarin in 'chunks', getting a ton of input and feedback on when you use the synonyms wrong will definitely help. I think it will just take time, you don't necessarily need to be able to verbalize the nuances but instead 'feel' them if that makes any sense.
@@willhartmandarin I was wondering: What do you think of using ChatGPT to check and correct Chinese sentences? Or using it to explain the difference between synonyms?
Congratulations on 10k subs!
Thank you so much 😀
Is there a word or phrase in Chinese that sounds like the name Jason or jasonah?
“What is gaslighting? Did your friends teach you that word?” 💀
WO XIANGXIN NI WILL!
这才叫流利的中文！而不像某些人觉得说得快等于说得流利。
wtf 95 percent speaking accuracy is crazy
哈哈哈好棒的儿化音
威你好. Do you recommend creating own vocabulary with word and example all in Chinese?
How would you recommended coming up with sentences? Like looking at random sentences online or something else? Thank you !
Find a 'base sentence' from input e.g. listening and reading
เพิ่งเคยเห็นฝรั่งพูดจีนโคดเก่ง😂👍🏼👍🏼
Have you seen the review of this video by Evildea? He's usually quite critical, but he agreed with everything you said. 😊
I have, I was very nervous before I watched the video haha It was very kind of him
Good 👍
Do you memorize the example sentence?
I wouldn't memorize the sentence, it's enough to work with the language and the new vocabulary.
I used Pimsluer, you say "dan shi" they use "ka shi" for but?
可是 keshi is what I assume you meant and it can be used the same way as Dan shi 但是 to mean but
You are working hard to learn Chinese, while I am striving to improve my English. let's go for it together😂
Your english seems already good. But he seems struggling with new words day by day.
What level of Chinese do you have? If I may ask?
谢谢你
我发现当我把你的视频调到1.5倍速的时候，你发音就算有一点点的小瑕疵，都听不出来了。
It's cool。 I want to learn chinese with。you。 🎉
I notice your pronunciation of things like the w sound in 问题 sounds more like a V sound, which I've heard is something more characteristic of northern chinese speech. Is this something you've picked up naturally? just curious. I believe the accurate sound to describe it is a labiodental approximant so in between a V and a W
I said xie xie to a waitress in a Chinese restaurant and I thought...wtf am I doing 😆. Still I tried
Dear Will I am playing the violin, the piano and trying to get to grips with the chinese language. It is reallly difficult to set priorities. What would you recommend ?
I would recommend trying to build good habits in all three things, build up slowly and try and listen to Chinese when doing other things e.g. chores, walking etc as much as you can :)
Thank you ill for your good Tips
Will! 你的中文很棒！How can I contact you directly?
Feel free to email me will.hart2970@gmail.com
Excellent video. So do you save the sentences after making them in Anki or other memory system or it is enough to just make the sentences?
I would recommend putting the example sentence in anki as a clozed deletion and the you can repeat the process according to the algorithm
You sound like Xiao Zhan. ♥️
我想学英语可是我的语法很烂😭而且我学了前面忘了后面的。造句也不知道造什么
中文也说得太溜太地道了吧！厉害！
It is simple. First you should learn Chinese and then listen to the tips how to learn Chinese here… :)
The fact that I got the gist without the sub tells me something here 🤧🤧
What does gaslight? I'm dying to know!
It's a way of playing with someone's mind to confuse and control them. The word comes from the title of an old film. You can find out more about it from RUclips and elsewhere.
I know zero words in Chinese but I'll give this a try. Thanks RUclips
Funny thing happened this morning. I was trying to remember the word "productivity" this morning and thought "xing lu"... but then i tried to remember in context used in this video.. then suddenly my brain said "ti gao xiao lu"... woahhhh
Am I the only one who thought Will is gaslighting us about not knowing the meaning of the word “gaslight”?
新话筒🎙️不错😊
我也觉得，总比以前的那个挂在衣服上的小麦强多了 哈哈
你好！我学中文有5年多时间了，还得多多向你学习哦
Same here
这也太谦虚了吧，相互学习，共同进步哈，加油！
Какой красивый китаец!😂Как хорошо говорит по-китайски!🥰😘💋
Looking for a native American English speaker who is learning Chinese. I provide free Chinese conversations. If you have the same idea, please find the post in my channel community and leave a message.
OMG !!! Your chinese speaking is so perfect. I am overseas borned Chinese of Indonesia. Listening to you intonation and spoken , I am so ashamed & envy you.
我已经看了这个视频在b站咯， 反正我想再看一遍！🤓☝
天呢，连B站都关注了！哈哈哈
@@willhartmandarin 那必须的 😎
I didn't understand
"the trick" to skyrocket speech.
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I think I learned about 7 - 10 words from watching:
kdramas, Asian Crush, RoKu, & HuLu
I read subtitles
总之为： 约定俗成 ❤
Oof, at 0.38 you pronounced your 为什么 with a 'V' at the beginning. Is that some dialect-related thing? I've heard Chinese natives do the same thing occasionally too, wondered if it was regional. Not sniping, just interested, it's not like a Brit should have any problems with 'W'.
Yeah it's a regional thing, tends to happen more in northern China, if you listen to my gf in videos we've done together she often does this, so that's probably where I got it from haha
@@willhartmandarin It's very interesting. There's another Chinese language vlogger (a native) who speaks like that. She actually virtually apologises for it at one point, in one video-she seems to consider it a speech defect. To me, it seems like it's probably just a regional allophone of that phoneme, but the natives themselves might not see it that way, it might be slightly stigmatised.
I suspect you're unusually sensitive to the input you get. My Chinese is much less good than yours, but I wouldn't start pronouncing the 'W' as 'V' no matter how much I heard it. In my head it's just a 'W' and they'd have to tie me up and kick me to get me to pronounce it as a 'V'. There's an intriguing tussle there between conscious phonetic knowledge and the language we're exposed to. Different people probably take different paths.
@@samlynas3175 It's definitely an interesting topic, I've been learning Chinese for a long time now and I still change whether I pronounce it as "w" or "v" depending on who I'm with. On the other hand some of my friends who have just started are adamant with sticking to the standard pronunciation, probably because pronunciation is taught in such a formal way that you think any variation is immediately wrong. The only thing I would say is if you don't allow your pronunciation to be affected by the input you get at all, your speech will sound very robotic (imagine sounding like a news reporter all the time, it's not bad but a bit weird)
@@RobMartin-gz3zk Yes, I see what you're saying. When I talk about not being influenced, I don't mean I'm not influenced at all! If you're not being influenced by the natives, who would you be influenced by!
I'm talking more about allophonic variation within a given phoneme, though even that description has fuzzy edges. If you take a word that ends in pinyin 'n', like 中国人, any attentive listener will notice that the 'n' at the end is not usually a nasal stop-it tends to turn into some sort of nasalisation of the vowel. That is something I picked up on directly well before I encountered any explicit reference to it.
That said, I think I am more resistant to *regional* variation in this regard. And that would extend to other languages I speak, though it's a complex topic, to be sure. Will may have more of a chameleon-type attitude, which leads him to mimic these things more quickly and willingly.
Some broadcasters do that. Maybe it originated from the V sound sounding clearer than W over public address systems such as train station announcements. Anyway that V-ish sound is not quite like an English V sound - more like half-way between a W and a V. We don't hear this affectation here in Taiwan.
My man speaks with that Beijing accent
Bro just flexing his Chinese 🚹
这个人他说的对😅
你可真牛逼啊!!
Very impressive how fluently your Chinese👋👌 besides Ni hen suai 🧑🦱lol😂
O Brasil não está deste jeito a toa. É esse povinho maldito que temos
中文进步了，小哥