UPDATE: 1.I'm getting so many questions regarding the book that appears in 01:48, so I would have to make a separate comment feed to let you guys know. It is a beginner's Chinese book for native Korean speakers, and the name of the book is 티엔티엔 (天天，tiantian) published by Pagoda. Pagoda is a foreign language institute in Korea. 2. 80/20 Rule's official name is Pareto's Law, not Parkinson's Law. I got confused because I learned about both terms in the same book. But I hope you got my message! 3. About the background music, I apologize if you find it a bit too loud or disturbing. I cannot get rid of it or tune it down anymore because it's already built-in now and I cannot replace it with a new video file either. I made this video about a month into starting making videos, and I was not good at adjusting the volume to the listener's best convenience back then. I kindly ask for your understanding (: Thank you to everyone for watching this video, and I wish you all the best learning Chinese! Also, please check the description box if you have questions regarding the apps and websites that appear in the video. Love, Vicky
can u tell me what app did u use for writing chinese letters u at 4:26 wrote freely by ur fingers and it transferred it to chinese letters what is ths app ??
I found it interesting that in your book published for Korean that pinyin is used because i would have thought that you could make all the chinese sounds easily with 한글 .. by the way Korean is sooo much easier to learn thanks to easy alphabet . i wished that they would have done something similar in China many decades ago instead of coming up with "simplified characters".. which are still pretty difficult to learn . I liked your comments because it is more or less the way i am learning Chinese .. songs,movie, and books like Tintin ... and it works for me .. that keeps me motivated ! 고마워.
I’m 13 almost 14 and I’m learning Mandarin Chinese it’s a very interesting language and writing it is difficult but I love learning languages :) I am currently taking classes online and watching videos in Chinese I hope to be fluent one day :)
Me aswell except it quite hard for me because at school I'm learning German, French, and Latin and then I'm learning manderin at home I started about 5 days ago and a know about 10-20 words and about 3 sentences, I want to learn maori but I don't know if I'll get round to it, and even though I'm English and know it 100% fluently you could still say I'm learning it because we have to have English lessons at school to learn new types of words with all the onomatopoeia's, tricolon, ect. 🤭
As a Chinese, I really think your Chinese is very good. Although it can still be able to hear foreign accent, but it is well done enough. It is difficult to speak Chinese without an accent, but it does not affect communication. The problem of pronunciation is very difficult not only to foreigners,but also to Chinese. There are a lot of characters we do not know how to read. even now,I can't read many idioms correctly.eg.沆瀣一气 or 虚与委蛇.Chinese is a difficult but charming language.不过既然你们选择了，那就是上了贼船了，哈哈，勇敢地面对吧！
I don't know why chinese are obsessed with the accent, people have accent, that's it. Even chinese have different accents if they come from different places. The most important thing in a language is get the message across.
@@brikenavokopola915 Very true. But to be completely honest, it is human nature to judge the people around us. Even I, speaking 3 languages from a very early age, judge others that have started learning the languages I speak for their accent or grammar. I understand that is completely disrespectful and downright wrong. Even so, I remind myself that at least they have the courage to try and learn a new language and they should not be judged for it.
@@garig9790 It doesn't work that way in Brazil. Don't know why 😂 but almost everyone who speaks our language we will say they sound very cute ( asians really sounds cute 'caz they pronounce words just like babys ). French is the only one accent that's more than strange!!! 😂
i was enrolled in chinese class for 4 years, i didn’t really want to learn and didn’t put my all in it. So now i want to try again to make my mom proud after she worked hard to pay it for nothing :D
Hey guys, I would like some advise on "how to manage time and study" for 2 languages at the same time. I'm currently learning German and Chinese throughout the week, but I feel my schedule/organization is weird e.e'
才学了六个月就这个程度，简直太棒了，我觉得你有语言天赋。I can't believe you have learned Chinese for only 6 months,because your grammar and pronounciation are both amazing.Maybe you are a talented language learner.
Hi guys, thanks so much for watching and for all your support! I noticed that many of you in the comment section were curious about where I found the movie scripts. I found them through some of the Korean blogs about Chinese language, but unfortunately I cannot get the script of ALL the movies I enjoyed. Sometimes, the movies you can watch for free on RUclips come with both English and Chinese subtitles so that's one good way to use as a script, too :) (e.g. 我的少女时代，谁的青春不迷茫，既然青春留不住 and many more! You can type "Chinese movies with subtitles" on YT search bar) I do not know as of yet any other bloggers from other countries that post Chinese movie scripts, but I'm pretty sure if you look into them more, there may be some. Even if you need to pay for it, I think it's still going to be worth the money.
There are several things for how to learn Chinese Decide exactly why you wish to speak it Try to use Chinese everyday Decide which method works for you the best. (I read about these and more from Magic Mandarin Blueprint website )
There are several components to learning Chinese online . One place I discovered which successfully combines these is the Magic Mandarin Blueprint (check it out on google) definately the most helpful treatment i've heard of. Look at all the amazing info .
There are several suggestions for how to learn Chinese Decide exactly why you wish to learn Mandarin Try to use Mandarin in your everyday life Decide which process works for you the best. (I learned about these and more from Magic mandarin blueprint site )
It's cause academics only gets you so far, eventually you have to submerge yourself into the language by speaking to native's or absorbing their culture somehow, wether it be through movies, shows, music, streaming, sports/eSports. What she's doing is very effecient in terms of learning language, the point of going abroad is to force yourself to speak the language and listen to it on a daily basis. She's basically doing that but from home.
I think we should consider a few factors: 1. She's really talented at languages because her English is really good for a Korean. I have many Korean friends and they cannot speak English like her. 2. Korean and Japanese have many things in common with Chinese (ex. numbers for Korean or characters for Japanese) so it's easier for them to learn Chinese than it is for europeans or americans. So 恭喜你，谢谢你的建议🙏🏻 I will definitely apply them, but I would also tell to all the beginners, don't compare with her and don't get upset if your pace is slower than hers. 大家加油！
For your point no.2, I agree that Japanese or Koreans have definitely more advantages in learning Chinese than others in terms of pronunciation or characters. But about your opinion no.1, it makes sense and also doesn't. Her good command of Enlgish can be also seen as result and evidence of effective seceret to learning new language, not only reason. She's speaking different languages well in hand because she's put this much of her time and effort through this effective methods. And she's showing us the exact way she'd done with the proof of her language skill as a result of that. So it's about 'how to get talented in language'. If she did, we all can guys! Way to go!
Bi Bi I don't think talent affects only how long you need to learn a language, in my opinion it also affects the level you can reach, how native you will sound.
I also use an app similar to that called “HelloChinese” , and I also used songs to learn words before I could understand them. My favorite Chinese song is Chengdu by Zhao Lei . I learned a lot of words from that song. Your English and Chinese are both good 👍👍👍 I also believe to stick to one or two methods of learning instead of overloading. I’ve been learning for about 9 months, but I also work a lot and have less time than I think a lot of people would, so I’m pleased. 加油 Vicki
I finished that app, that app is so much fun and colorful. After you finished that app, be sure to download Chinese Skill. It is more comprehensive and when you finished all the lesson tree, upgrade your account to paid version to continue your study to approximately HSK 3. 加油!
You can still listen to the music if you want to. When I am listening to music I am not learning. I listen to it because I love music and if you study a language and can understand what they are saying then you should also spot mistakes in the pronunciation, at least if you are focusing that much on the lyrics. I do not and I don't adapt the pronunciation used in songs. But I agree that you shouldn't learn from songs
and the good thing is that if you wanted to learn Korean, you won't have the problem in a sense of grammar. Because japanese and korean grammar are alike.
Thank you for the video, your advice is super helpful! I'm bilingual, but I've come to love Chinese as of recently. I've been struggling with the learning process quite a bit, because I don't even remember how I started to learn English, and I have no access to any Mandarin teachers/courses whatsoever. Seeing how you could start on your own with apps and books really gives me hope, it's amazing!
The best thing I like about this video is the background music, even during listening to the tips you feel more motivated by the music it feels like listening to the song over and over
Great tips! I am on my 2nd month of learning and I use edX as my guide. This is also very helpful, and I agree with the "work your way down from advance to basic" sometimes I walk around Chinatown and it thrills me to sometimes be able to decode the store's purpose by its characters, and not the english one. Thank you!
I'm Chinese and trying to learn Korean right now and you really inspire me! It's only been two weeks so far, but I'm really encouraged by you to keep it up!
Just started learning chinese a month ago. The tones were hard at first but through repetition and always listening to chinese audios, my ears are now accustomed to the sounds and tones although I don't understand the words. In the evening I'm learning 25 characters a week by writing them down many times. I'm using Living Language (chinese), Pleco, Anki, Reading and Writing Chinese Characters.
Enjoyed this! I recently re-started my study of Mandarin myself, as a native English speaker. Curious whether you've continued your study in the last three years. I am happy with the books I'm using for self study, by the way, and would recommend them to your audience. The series is called "Basic Mandarin Chinese" and comes in two separate tracks: Speaking&Listening and Reading&Writing. They're designed so that you can either focus on the spoken language for as long as you like and add the complications of the written language later when you're ready, or you can study the written language in parallel from the beginning. So it's four books instead of one, including the textbooks and workbooks from both tracks, but I appreciate the flexibility. The four come as paperback, and all four together are comparable to the price of a single hardback textbook. Published by Tuttle. Since you're studying language, I thought you might appreciate an English-language tip. A few times you used the phrase "I cannot but ..." which is perfectly good English, but to my American ears it sounds extremely bookish or old-fashioned, and out-of-place in your otherwise casual American-sounding English. You might think about replacing it, sometimes, with "I can't help ..." instead. For example "With the notes in front of me, I can't help looking at them" or the slightly less casual "With the notes in front of me, I can't help but look at them." Note the difference in final verb form with or without the "but". Either way, meaning is the same as "I can't but...", but this would sound much more natural to my ears with the rest of your speech. Hope you don't mind the unsolicited advice!
In biref: The video discusses the approach and tips that Vicky used to learn Mandarin Chinese in six months. 1. **Start with a Strong Basic Foundation**: Vicky emphasizes the importance of a strong basic foundation in language learning. She advises against seeking quick and easy methods, suggesting instead to focus on the basics, as they are the pillars of language skills and determine future fluency and improvement rate. 2. **Learn from Advanced to Basic**: Vicky suggests that beginners shouldn't wait to know all grammar rules or memorize extensive vocabulary before delving into advanced Chinese. She recommends studying advanced materials like movie scripts and song lyrics early on, as this can help in understanding frequently used vocabularies, sentence patterns, and colloquial phrases. 3. **Immerse in the Language Environment**: Vicky advises setting the language of personal devices and social media to Mandarin. This strategy not only increases exposure to the language but also creates a sense of urgency to learn, especially when dealing with important tasks. Additionally, decorating living spaces with Mandarin vocabulary notes can passively enhance language learning. 4. **Bond with Native Speakers**: Interacting with native speakers is crucial for understanding the cultural nuances and linguistic aspects that are not covered in textbooks. Vicky shares her experiences with native Mandarin-speaking friends who have helped her in understanding the language better. 5. **Integrate Hobbies into Learning**: Vicky, being a bookworm, incorporates her interest in reading into learning Mandarin. She reads poetry, children's books, and quotes in Chinese, which she finds both enjoyable and educational. Overall, Vicky’s approach to learning Mandarin Chinese is based on building a strong foundation, immersing oneself in the language, learning from real-life materials, interacting with native speakers, and integrating personal interests into the learning process. She encourages viewers to fall in love with the language they are learning and to find joy in the learning journey.gpt4
Great tips! Please reduce the volume of the background music, as I found it disturbing me when I tried to listen to your voice. I'll try these tips for learning Korean :)
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I’ve been practicing for 8 months and I can understand everything you say with out subtitles which is pretty cool to hear some Chinese from someone who had the same length Time as me
A. T. Yeah, that makes sense. Thanks for the clarification. I know that most countries in Asia are in some way influenced by China whether big or small.
Very cool stuff Kiddo! I was especially impressed by your suggestion of changing the default language settings on your electronic devices. Wow, that's a bold move but I suppose you're right. The more you can adapt your daily life to simulate complete imersion, the better right? Taking the initiative by volentarily raising the stakes on yourself. Willfully placing yourself in a 'Sink or Swim' dynamic and, by so doing, incentivising yourself to step things up a notch. As you say...through desperation and urgency. I started learning to sing in Mandarin a little over 4 years ago. I only started taking Chinese language Classes about a year and a half ago and I watch more Chinese television and cinema than American...by far... these days. Great, great tips Vicky! Thank you so much for sharing!
Thanks for your tips, But i would like to say that not all of us even after following these Golden rules would be able to learn Chinese as fast as you have learned. Koreans have the advantage, their language structure, Grammar have lot similarities with Chinese language. Similarly a student from Thailand will learn Mandarin faster too because the Thai is the Tone language.
That is true. We Asians have more advantage when it comes to learning fellow Asian languages, just as Western people have more advantage learning English or other European languages than us, or Arabs more in learning Hebrew or Persian. So despite everything, I believe all come down to hard work and willingness to learn with joy. That is what ultimately leads to fast learning.
yes i do agree with u vicky, motivation is they key. I myself started learn Chinese 5 months ago. I have also put lot of effort to know the best methods, and i found that, yes there are some. I appreciate your video and wish you a good luck, by the way 新年快乐，恭喜发财
Huh? Korean and Chinese are two very different languages... There are some loan words and Koreans also know a few thousand characters. But isn't that just about it? The grammar is *quite* different.
Peter Lund Traditional Chinese characters were incorporated into the Korean language with Korean pronunciation. It's called hanja. It was not until the 20th century that hangul (Korean alphabet) truly replaced hanja.
It's not so much about the characters as it is about the grammar, Kim Zhang. I would argue that Korean is more similar to Japanese in terms of grammar and syntax.
Thanks Vicky! I started my Chinese learning journey with my now one year old toddler during this time of Corona. Now we listen to nursery rhymes daily. I cannot express how much the Little Fox Chinese RUclips channel is helping us. It's been one week of listening to these songs and already I can sing some of the words! Little Fox website is also amazing. I've been able to learn tones, characters and pinyin from nursery rhymes. I also a few apps like: - Chinese skill - Super Chinese - Hello Chinese: this allows practicing write and native speakers - Nihao Chinese: practice write characters and free! I deleted the other apps as you suggested because as you rightly said it's too many resources can confuse and dishearten. I really enjoy many Chinese movies and tv shows with English subtitles because you pick up words that are repeated frequently. Thanks for making this vlog!
I think I'm going to Taiwan to live there in one year from now, so this has given me courage! I think I can atleast learn survival Chinese! (I'm English currently living in Japan and it took me about 1 year and a half to get on a basic conversational level in Japanese ^^)
There are some similar sound between Japanese and Mandarin, so it might be easier for you to learn it. But you should be aware of characters, sometimes the exact same words have different meanings, such as 勉強...etc. And happy to hear you're coming to Taiwan.
I'm a Chinese and ur chinese is AMAZING keep practicing because you can improve so much not that you are not good enough now but you have a bit of your accent which everyone had when they learn a new language
I've been living in Taiwan for 8 months and I totally agree with you! They're very kind people and are super supportive whenever I try speaking Chinese.
As a current intermediate speaker of Chinese, I think the tips I have heard so far are all very good. Just solid advice - no cheap gimmicks. Also, you're really cute lol.
I love you much! Thank you. I did some more research and found that Koreans and Japanese have a real head start learning Mandarin. Just as you said, many Korean words have Chinese origin like many European words have Latin origins. Korean Hanja (Chinese Kanji) are virtually identical to traditional Chinese characters. And Koreans are still exposed to them even though they use Hangul as their main script. I saw a video from one of my favorite Korean RUclipsrs who goes to Yonsei and Hanja was used on a giant flat screen during a soccer game. And I read that one time a Chinese language school had some Koreans visit. They passed the written HSK test all the way to the highest level though they couldn't speak Chinese! Then I found this on Wikipedia: "South Korean primary schools ceased the teaching of Hanja in elementary schools in the 1970s, although they are still taught as part of the mandatory curriculum in grade 6. They are taught in separate courses in South Korean high schools, separately from the normal Korean-language curriculum. Formal Hanja education begins in grade 7 (junior high school) and continues until graduation from senior high school in grade 12. A total of 1,800 Hanja are taught: 900 for junior high, and 900 for senior high (starting in grade 10).[20] Post-secondary Hanja education continues in some liberal-arts universities". " Former President Park speaks Mandarin. She wrote a book in Mandarin! Now I know how she could do that. Thank you Miss Vicky, you have one one the best channels concerning language! You have a big heart! 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷🇰🇷❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
OMG i watched this video way back when I started learning Mandarin and did not realize it was you 쌤! Now that I'm learning korean from your channel, I was so confused when I saw the thumbnail on my feed with your channel's name. I was like oh youtube is probably broken. But nah it was really you! So amazed by the coincidence 🥰
Great video, you do make strong points. Even though I am not a beginner, I did pick some good advices from your video (like that quaint little app). My thanks to you. p.s.: even though I am not Korean, I ask just out of curiosity, did you have any previous knowledge of Hanja, from school or some other place? if so, did it help you in your Mandarin learning?
I'm happy you found this video helpful! And yes, Koreans learn hanja from public education as early as in elementary school, so most Koreans have at least some basic knowledge of hanja; we all know what characters like 有，一，二，三，四，死，生 mean even before learning Mandarin. But that doesn't mean we also know how to pronounce it in Mandarin or how to form a sentence using these characters. We just simply know what each character means, in which Sino-Korean vocabularies these hanjas are used, and how they are pronounced in Korean way. How we pronounce each hanja is not exactly the same with standard Mandarin pinyin, although similar. For example, 无 is read Wu in Mandarin with the second tone, but in Korean it's read as Mu with no tone; 工 is read gong with the third tone, but in Korean it is read gong with no tone (the same romanization, but there are subtle differences between how it's actually pronounced in two languages.) Knowing Hanja definitely helped me understand and learn Mandarin much faster. I wouldn't say Chinese and Korean language themselves are similar to each other(in fact, Chinese is more similar to English than to Korean in many ways.) But what makes it easier for Koreans to learn Mandarin, at least in the beginning, is that we already know the meaning of some hanjas, and also pinyin is not that difficult to remember because it's not completely different from Korean pronunciation. In other words, we are not starting from the very beginning, the complete nothingness, as we would be when learning Western languages from scratch. We already know some parts of Mandarin naturally, and that's what comes in useful to us :)
I see. That is indeed very interesting input; and it always helps to have a "head start" of course. Now, if I may bother you for just a bit longer with just another question: the ChineseSkill app is quite entertaining as I've mentioned (it can be a bit tedious at times if you're not a beginner but nothing you cannot grin and bear through, and it's always good to revise anyway!), however it naturally uses simplified chinese characters. I have been studying for a couple of years using proper traditional characters (out of an aesthetical pursuit mostly; I find simplified characters to be most unsightly) and whilst I can understand simplified ones quite well, I'd very much rather have an app or other resource that uses the aforesaid traditional characters. Do you know of any? If you do, I'd be most grateful if you shared it with me. Have a good one!
hhh I thought the same, the only thing that comes to my mind when I hear parkinson is the disease. But when I watched this video, I looked it up and find out that there is actually a law of parkinson which is actually what she meant in the video but the image she showed was of Pareto, Parkinson's law is the adage that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion". It is sometimes applied to the growth of bureaucracy in an organization. This law is likely derived from ideal gas law, whereby a gas expands to fit the volume allotted.
your English is perfect i am a native English speaker and i found no problems listing to it you made no mistakes and anyone wouldn't even notice its a second language really good job or in mandarin fei shang hao
About working on movie script or song lyrics. I didn't study chinese yet but when i learned english and polish i didn't enjoy that method. So if you are like me i suggest doing same thing but in Wikipedia page. If you want to read smth in Wiki, just open it in language you learn and work on it. There are 2 disadvantages though: no listening (but you always can watch a movie without working on script), no dialogues (you encounter more advanced words, not everyday using words). But i think second one is not a big problem because we naturally learn common words faster, so working on wikipedia is really definition of "from advanced to basic" Stickers. If you are into it there is a better way than sticking to wall (i have a lot of work info on my wall right in front of me but i never look at it accidentally). Make stickers with meaning, like write "open" or "door" (without translation so you wont read latin text instead (maybe better even without pinyin)) and stick it to the door (close on the other side). "exit" on exit door and stuff like that. Attention!! Sticker has to be on your way to actually to stuff written and not just be nearby. For example: you have to take sticker away from your "fork" to use it. If it doesn't distract you, your brain will ignore it like it ignores all your surroundings while you reading it.
I am a Chinese.In China,many people watch videos or movies on these website:爱奇艺（www.iqiyi.com），优酷（www.youku.com），腾讯（v.qq.com）.Only a part of foreign movies have Chinese and English double script,most of the movies only have Chinese script.Hope to help you:)
I am a chinese , in my opinion Chiese is easy to learn .Because there are less word than English word.It means that you can use just a few words to express more
thank you for your video! I agree with you on the advanced --> basic technique, it's what I did to learn english as well, native fluency in about 9 months. What helped me a lot is watching a show episode (preferably something under 30 min). I'd watch it first my native language first (spanish) with subtitle in english --so I understand what it's being said AND also learn how it's said in english. Then watched again in english but with subtitle in spanish, and one last time in english with subtitle in english. This may seem repetitive but repetition is key to learn and memorize things effectively, just pick a show you enjoy!! there's also an app called "HelloTalk" that connects you with people that speak the language you want to learn and are trying to learn the language you speak, very good tool to practice conversation!!! hope this helps for those of u learning other languages! xo
For people with English first language, don't necessarily take her advice to heart. Korean's learn much faster and are way more intuitively connected to the chinese language. Just keep this in mind.
你好!我叫玛丽亚姆:) I learned chinese from the same app. I can understand a little bit if it comes to reading but the problem is that in my country there are no books like yours, and I cannot find anyone to teach me or to practice with, even my brothers get annoyed whenever I am talking or practicing or even singing chinese songs. I am a book worm too but I wish I could find a single chinese practice book :(
Have you thought about podcast or TV show? I think that's good resources to learn and practice. And most importantly, that's the dialogue native speakers use every day.
I was in Taiwan for a while and I totally agree, taiwanese people are really nice. I think it´s the confucian education system. I traveled a lot in Asia and personally I found taiwanese and indonesian people the best
Xie Xie Nin! This was SO helpful, as I've tried to learn Mandarin o and off (more off than on) for years and feel as though I've goten nowhere. Off to Conversation Exchange to see what's up! This was very positive and informative. Have a goodun!
jadekayak01 - I’m American and I teach myself Japanese and Chinese so “automatic advantage” or not, anyone that applies themselves can learn another language.
@@nicholejones3876 if youre american WHY did you say youre korean.any asian native speaker has an advantage learning another asian language as they mostly have similar roots. I learnt thai and got lao free. If i decide to learn vietnamese or khmer it will be much easier as they have very stron similarities. Not so much with mandarin and cantonese. I also come from a country where one of the languages make pronunciation of korean/japanese rather easy for us. If you really want to impress me learn to speak norwegien-apparantly a very difficult language to learn no matter what you already speak
The way you talk about Chinese is the way I feel about studying Korean! I have an interest in learning Mandarin (Hanja sparked my interest) but my current focus in Korean. Thank you for the advice and good luck in your studies!
A love so beautiful Meteor Garden 2018 Our Times I'm also learning Manderin and I just want to tell you that it really does help when you watch movies , also these movies/shows are really good, I highly recommend them
Hi Vicky Vicky i downloaded the app but I'm not sure whether i can use it without wifi because I'd like to learn it in school off my phone please could you tell me just as a heads up
Royce Elmsury Hi Royce! You cannot use Chinese Skill app without wifi unfortunately 😥 But there is another app called Hello Chinese and it works without wifi so you can give that a try!
Wow, these are really helpful tips! I am working in a Chinese restaurant, and I have been there for nearly two years now and it is killing me that I cannot have a conversation with the grandparents that work there. I am determined to learn Chinese because the family that owns the business are such sweet people and the culture intrigues me. Thank you entirely
I did exactly what you did but additionally, I always love & practiced Shaolin kungfu so my incentive to learn Mandarin was very strong. Good books, movie scripts, calligraphy & radicals books, dictionaries, real Chinese surrounding, drill, drill, drill. After 3 years of doing that, I decided to take my 1st private 1/1 HSK Mandarin class. I quickly noticed my HSK teacher wasn't organised because HSK is too academic & doesn't prepare you for real life situation plus none of my HSK lecturer's advanced students could read, write or speak near my level. I had at least 2 years of romance with calligraphy & radicals I remember I didn't have a teacher I couldn't afford one - so all I do was learning the whole block of radicals & try to memorise them as much as I could. I had a blackboard in my garden so with school chalk, I spent hours daily writing them I think my neighbours thought this black guy was mentally ill :) It pays off when one of my neighbours who was Chinese & lives two blocks away told them "No this is not bullshit he is actually writing legible Chinese letters. Wright now, he,s writing about car rental & insurance". It's funny because a few years before the global recession English people were xenophobic towards Chinese people. Now everyone wants to learn Mandarin :) I learnt that the best teacher is yourself & it's way cheaper all you need is or are good books. Advantage of books over HSK system is: Topics are organised into groups and blocks - 1st you learn how to intro yourself & meet people, then domestic vocab, then shopping vocab, then work, education, hospital, banking before you know you're learning business, politics etc... By starting at the top, you already set yourself a high target but of course without a strong basic it can be frustrating but it certainly is the best way to learn fast.
I am a Chinese.In China,many people watch videos or movies on these website:爱奇艺（www.iqiyi.com），优酷（www.youku.com），腾讯（v.qq.com）.Only a part of foreign movies have Chinese and English double script,most of the movies only have Chinese script.Hope to help you:)
我 想 学 习 不 难. wo3 xiang3 xue2 xi2 bu4 nan2. Vok. 我 wo3 I 想 xiang3 think 学习 xue2 xi2 study 汉语 han4 yu3 Han language (Chinese) 不 bu4 not 难 nan2 difficult The numbers means the tone 1 is high, 2 from low to high, 3 low, deep, 4 from high to low. (I am German and I hope that my English was correct, because I don't know the expression for the tone 3. Do you say deep or low voice? (voice with low frequency))
Sokkhoeun Chea: You would be astonished, that Chinese language is one of the easiest languages in the word to learn. I am German and know what I am talking. For an European or American is very hart to hear or regognize the tones, if chinese guy is speaking. To speak the tone is not difficult, but to hear, if you not be acustom to it. To write or read chinese characters are not difficult, because it exist about 240 radicals. The most characters is compounded from radicals and they tell a little story about the meaning of a character. So try it to learn this easy language! Do not think that this language is difficult to learn. This kind of thinking stops you! The georgian language (ქართული ენა kartuli ena) or sanskrit (संस्कृत, saṃskṛta) are the most difficult languages in the world. Some people are telling, that my native language German (Bavarian) is also very difficult to learn.
Vicky, thxs for the tips! I'm trying to hand write Chinese characters onto Google translate then I learn Mandarin, both traditional and simplified characters from it. Is been great so far.
I'm good at languages and will flat out tell you that, to excel in any language, you can't skip your practice speaking. If someone tells you that you can get fluent in a given language without practicing for many hundreds of hours (or sometimes thousands of hours) with someone else who is proficient in that language, then that person is just lying. You may not have to travel abroad to get proficient in a language, but nothing will accelerate your progress like that will. Of course you will make exponential progress if you go abroad and simultaneously study diligently. People who are good at languages 1. are interested in knowing how to say something in another language, and 2. put in the time.
UPDATE:
1.I'm getting so many questions regarding the book that appears in 01:48, so I would have to make a separate comment feed to let you guys know. It is a beginner's Chinese book for native Korean speakers, and the name of the book is 티엔티엔 (天天，tiantian) published by Pagoda. Pagoda is a foreign language institute in Korea.
2. 80/20 Rule's official name is Pareto's Law, not Parkinson's Law. I got confused because I learned about both terms in the same book. But I hope you got my message!
3. About the background music, I apologize if you find it a bit too loud or disturbing. I cannot get rid of it or tune it down anymore because it's already built-in now and I cannot replace it with a new video file either. I made this video about a month into starting making videos, and I was not good at adjusting the volume to the listener's best convenience back then. I kindly ask for your understanding (:
Thank you to everyone for watching this video, and I wish you all the best learning Chinese!
Also, please check the description box if you have questions regarding the apps and websites that appear in the video.
Love,
Vicky
can u tell me what app did u use for writing chinese letters
u at 4:26 wrote freely by ur fingers and it transferred it to chinese letters
what is ths app ??
It's called Hanping Lite (: It's a dictionary app
빅키Vicky thank u so much for replying
I hope to learn like u 😍☺️
I found it interesting that in your book published for Korean that pinyin is used because i would have thought that you could make all the chinese sounds easily with 한글 .. by the way Korean is sooo much easier to learn thanks to easy alphabet . i wished that they would have done something similar in China many decades ago instead of coming up with "simplified characters".. which are still pretty difficult to learn . I liked your comments because it is more or less the way i am learning Chinese .. songs,movie, and books like Tintin ... and it works for me .. that keeps me motivated ! 고마워.
Hey guys do not go to my house ok I was a good
I'm in my mid thirties and learning Mandarin. I'm probably 60% fluent. It's never too late to learn and your brain will always accept new knowledge.
I'm about to turn 30. And I'm like flooding my life with the language lol.
I'm 29 and moved to China 3 years ago... I still can't hold a conversation with anyone :/ pretty embarrassing tbh
Tips?
I'm 30 and am studying Mandarin. Your comment gives me more motivation :D
@@randomcallum well I guess when " An idiot learns " he or she takes a long time.😁
I’m 13 almost 14 and I’m learning Mandarin Chinese it’s a very interesting language and writing it is difficult but I love learning languages :) I am currently taking classes online and watching videos in Chinese I hope to be fluent one day :)
Me too! I’m also learning french and korean
Me aswell except it quite hard for me because at school I'm learning German, French, and Latin and then I'm learning manderin at home I started about 5 days ago and a know about 10-20 words and about 3 sentences, I want to learn maori but I don't know if I'll get round to it, and even though I'm English and know it 100% fluently you could still say I'm learning it because we have to have English lessons at school to learn new types of words with all the onomatopoeia's, tricolon, ect. 🤭
Good luck! Hope all the best to you.
Afrikaanse Boi thank you so much!!
Me too!I'm just learning korean,japanese,chinese,spanish,greek and russian..thou
As a Chinese, I really think your Chinese is very good. Although it can still be able to hear foreign accent, but it is well done enough. It is difficult to speak Chinese without an accent, but it does not affect communication. The problem of pronunciation is very difficult not only to foreigners,but also to Chinese. There are a lot of characters we do not know how to read. even now,I can't read many idioms correctly.eg.沆瀣一气 or 虚与委蛇.Chinese is a difficult but charming language.不过既然你们选择了，那就是上了贼船了，哈哈，勇敢地面对吧！
嗯嗯。厉害厉害
哦是吗，你应该不说
I don't know why chinese are obsessed with the accent, people have accent, that's it. Even chinese have different accents if they come from different places. The most important thing in a language is get the message across.
@@brikenavokopola915 Very true. But to be completely honest, it is human nature to judge the people around us. Even I, speaking 3 languages from a very early age, judge others that have started learning the languages I speak for their accent or grammar. I understand that is completely disrespectful and downright wrong. Even so, I remind myself that at least they have the courage to try and learn a new language and they should not be judged for it.
@@garig9790 It doesn't work that way in Brazil. Don't know why 😂 but almost everyone who speaks our language we will say they sound very cute ( asians really sounds cute 'caz they pronounce words just like babys ). French is the only one accent that's more than strange!!! 😂
girl your English is very good
i was enrolled in chinese class for 4 years, i didn’t really want to learn and didn’t put my all in it. So now i want to try again to make my mom proud after she worked hard to pay it for nothing :D
Meanwhile I'm Chinese but I speak Cantonese Chinese and english and I am learning Korean and mandarin Chinese 😅...
me too! Also learning Japanese as well tho :D
I found Cantonese super interesting.
I'm Greek. I speak Greek, English French. I also speak Japanese and Korean at a good level. I am also learning Chinese and Spanish
Hey guys, I would like some advise on "how to manage time and study" for 2 languages at the same time. I'm currently learning German and Chinese throughout the week, but I feel my schedule/organization
is weird e.e'
@angelwong Me too!
才学了六个月就这个程度，简直太棒了，我觉得你有语言天赋。I can't believe you have learned Chinese for only 6 months,because your grammar and pronounciation are both amazing.Maybe you are a talented language learner.
Hi guys, thanks so much for watching and for all your support! I noticed that many of you in the comment section were curious about where I found the movie scripts. I found them through some of the Korean blogs about Chinese language, but unfortunately I cannot get the script of ALL the movies I enjoyed. Sometimes, the movies you can watch for free on RUclips come with both English and Chinese subtitles so that's one good way to use as a script, too :) (e.g. 我的少女时代，谁的青春不迷茫，既然青春留不住 and many more! You can type "Chinese movies with subtitles" on YT search bar)
I do not know as of yet any other bloggers from other countries that post Chinese movie scripts, but I'm pretty sure if you look into them more, there may be some. Even if you need to pay for it, I think it's still going to be worth the money.
Vicky 빅키 I'm learning too..V sweet of you to explain these tips..Found them refreshing and helpful..God Bless ..Xiexie ni :)
Vicky 빅키 很好👀
There are several things for how to learn Chinese
Decide exactly why you wish to speak it
Try to use Chinese everyday
Decide which method works for you the best.
(I read about these and more from Magic Mandarin Blueprint website )
There are several components to learning Chinese online . One place I discovered which successfully combines these is the Magic Mandarin Blueprint (check it out on google) definately the most helpful treatment i've heard of. Look at all the amazing info .
There are several suggestions for how to learn Chinese
Decide exactly why you wish to learn Mandarin
Try to use Mandarin in your everyday life
Decide which process works for you the best.
(I learned about these and more from Magic mandarin blueprint site )
My school counselor has studied Chinese over 4 yours at college and your Chinese is way better than his.
Haha maybe you can show him this video then :) It will help him improve faster!
Vicky 빅키 我请你聊天💬
Vicky 빅키 Do you have other social media accounts?
i dont understand your chinesei am from taiwan
It's cause academics only gets you so far, eventually you have to submerge yourself into the language by speaking to native's or absorbing their culture somehow, wether it be through movies, shows, music, streaming, sports/eSports.
What she's doing is very effecient in terms of learning language, the point of going abroad is to force yourself to speak the language and listen to it on a daily basis. She's basically doing that but from home.
I think we should consider a few factors:
1. She's really talented at languages because her English is really good for a Korean. I have many Korean friends and they cannot speak English like her.
2. Korean and Japanese have many things in common with Chinese (ex. numbers for Korean or characters for Japanese) so it's easier for them to learn Chinese than it is for europeans or americans.
So 恭喜你，谢谢你的建议🙏🏻 I will definitely apply them, but I would also tell to all the beginners, don't compare with her and don't get upset if your pace is slower than hers.
大家加油！
I knew her English was exceptional when she said, "now, without further ado . ." :-)
For your point no.2, I agree that Japanese or Koreans have definitely more advantages in learning Chinese than others in terms of pronunciation or characters.
But about your opinion no.1, it makes sense and also doesn't. Her good command of Enlgish can be also seen as result and evidence of effective seceret to learning new language, not only reason. She's speaking different languages well in hand because she's put this much of her time and effort through this effective methods. And she's showing us the exact way she'd done with the proof of her language skill as a result of that. So it's about 'how to get talented in language'.
If she did, we all can guys! Way to go!
talent can only get you so far, for monolingual learners it might take 1 year instad of 6 months
Bi Bi I don't think talent affects only how long you need to learn a language, in my opinion it also affects the level you can reach, how native you will sound.
I also use an app similar to that called “HelloChinese” , and I also used songs to learn words before I could understand them. My favorite Chinese song is Chengdu by Zhao Lei . I learned a lot of words from that song. Your English and Chinese are both good 👍👍👍 I also believe to stick to one or two methods of learning instead of overloading. I’ve been learning for about 9 months, but I also work a lot and have less time than I think a lot of people would, so I’m pleased. 加油 Vicki
I am also using Hello Chinese and honestly I found it really helpful and for exercising speaking and hearing I use super Chinese
I finished that app, that app is so much fun and colorful. After you finished that app, be sure to download Chinese Skill. It is more comprehensive and when you finished all the lesson tree, upgrade your account to paid version to continue your study to approximately HSK 3. 加油!
@@danielwen67 oh wow i heard hello Chinese takes you to HSK4? I’m about to try out Chinese skill
Solid advice. Learning the foundation well (i.e., pinyin, tones, 1000 most common characters) is critical to scaling up.
I'm a Filipino and I've been learning Marndarin for 2 weeks. I use Chinese Skill App and it really works. Thanks for the advice. 谢谢。
Which ones
Im also a filipino and im studying in a chinese school 😂
@@ViciVidiVeni where is your school,
which app
I am a filipino and i play MLBB.
Im chinese and idk how to speak chinese😪
i giggled but then i realized i'm the same as you
晚安
哈哈
Same lol
哈哈哈哈哈
For a Korean person, your Chinese is actually pretty close to native fluency, kudos to you!
Get rid of the music. It destroys your audio.
I was about to write the same comment, I loved the video and hated the music :)
if any BGM, classical maybe a good choice. Chopin etc.
@@haihuachen2627 yeah great idea, just play op 10 no 4 in the background and im sure you'll be able to tell what she's saying
At least turn it down! It was hard to focus on her voice, I agree
You can still listen to the music if you want to. When I am listening to music I am not learning. I listen to it because I love music and if you study a language and can understand what they are saying then you should also spot mistakes in the pronunciation, at least if you are focusing that much on the lyrics. I do not and I don't adapt the pronunciation used in songs. But I agree that you shouldn't learn from songs
Im studying japanese right now but I so want to start learning chinese too. This videos is really helpful.
The good thing that Chinese characters are similar to kanji so you won't have problems in writing
and the good thing is that if you wanted to learn Korean, you won't have the problem in a sense of grammar. Because japanese and korean grammar are alike.
@@amylimna not really....
@@amylimna i speak korean and i just checked the japanese grammar and it is NOT that similar to be helpful so....
Well, learning Chinese is a long road. If you are learning that, don't be shy to speak just like the way we learnt English
Thank you for the video, your advice is super helpful! I'm bilingual, but I've come to love Chinese as of recently. I've been struggling with the learning process quite a bit, because I don't even remember how I started to learn English, and I have no access to any Mandarin teachers/courses whatsoever. Seeing how you could start on your own with apps and books really gives me hope, it's amazing!
I also realized a verse on the sticky note saying: love one another as I have loved you. That’s amazing
The best thing I like about this video is the background music, even during listening to the tips you feel more motivated by the music it feels like listening to the song over and over
Great tips! I am on my 2nd month of learning and I use edX as my guide. This is also very helpful, and I agree with the "work your way down from advance to basic" sometimes I walk around Chinatown and it thrills me to sometimes be able to decode the store's purpose by its characters, and not the english one. Thank you!
wow。。。it is a really good idea to learn Chinese .....加油
I'm Chinese and trying to learn Korean right now and you really inspire me! It's only been two weeks so far, but I'm really encouraged by you to keep it up!
6:28 urgency and desperation stimulate the brain more so one can absorb things faster.
Well, we should learn under torture then.😊
Like in school? xD
The music is too loud! I'd rather hear you. And I believe the "Parkinson's Law" is actually known as the "Pareto principle" - the 80/20 rule.
오!!😯 Chinese Skill은 진짜 진짜 좋아해요👏🏽👏🏽 That app 아주 좋아요!
한국 사람 이예요??
Just started learning chinese a month ago. The tones were hard at first but through repetition and always listening to chinese audios, my ears are now accustomed to the sounds and tones although I don't understand the words. In the evening I'm learning 25 characters a week by writing them down many times.
I'm using Living Language (chinese), Pleco, Anki, Reading and Writing Chinese Characters.
Enjoyed this! I recently re-started my study of Mandarin myself, as a native English speaker. Curious whether you've continued your study in the last three years. I am happy with the books I'm using for self study, by the way, and would recommend them to your audience. The series is called "Basic Mandarin Chinese" and comes in two separate tracks: Speaking&Listening and Reading&Writing. They're designed so that you can either focus on the spoken language for as long as you like and add the complications of the written language later when you're ready, or you can study the written language in parallel from the beginning. So it's four books instead of one, including the textbooks and workbooks from both tracks, but I appreciate the flexibility. The four come as paperback, and all four together are comparable to the price of a single hardback textbook. Published by Tuttle.
Since you're studying language, I thought you might appreciate an English-language tip. A few times you used the phrase "I cannot but ..." which is perfectly good English, but to my American ears it sounds extremely bookish or old-fashioned, and out-of-place in your otherwise casual American-sounding English. You might think about replacing it, sometimes, with "I can't help ..." instead. For example "With the notes in front of me, I can't help looking at them" or the slightly less casual "With the notes in front of me, I can't help but look at them." Note the difference in final verb form with or without the "but". Either way, meaning is the same as "I can't but...", but this would sound much more natural to my ears with the rest of your speech. Hope you don't mind the unsolicited advice!
Wow! You write with your thumb around the pen and under your forefinger!! Haven't noticed any persons writing that way before lol
Craig Jones yes ;)
I've seen many people around me in school write like that. It seems like something mostly girls use, for some reason.
I write like her haha
Amazing Vicky, thank you for these great tips!
In biref: The video discusses the approach and tips that Vicky used to learn Mandarin Chinese in six months.
1. **Start with a Strong Basic Foundation**: Vicky emphasizes the importance of a strong basic foundation in language learning. She advises against seeking quick and easy methods, suggesting instead to focus on the basics, as they are the pillars of language skills and determine future fluency and improvement rate.
2. **Learn from Advanced to Basic**: Vicky suggests that beginners shouldn't wait to know all grammar rules or memorize extensive vocabulary before delving into advanced Chinese. She recommends studying advanced materials like movie scripts and song lyrics early on, as this can help in understanding frequently used vocabularies, sentence patterns, and colloquial phrases.
3. **Immerse in the Language Environment**: Vicky advises setting the language of personal devices and social media to Mandarin. This strategy not only increases exposure to the language but also creates a sense of urgency to learn, especially when dealing with important tasks. Additionally, decorating living spaces with Mandarin vocabulary notes can passively enhance language learning.
4. **Bond with Native Speakers**: Interacting with native speakers is crucial for understanding the cultural nuances and linguistic aspects that are not covered in textbooks. Vicky shares her experiences with native Mandarin-speaking friends who have helped her in understanding the language better.
5. **Integrate Hobbies into Learning**: Vicky, being a bookworm, incorporates her interest in reading into learning Mandarin. She reads poetry, children's books, and quotes in Chinese, which she finds both enjoyable and educational.
Overall, Vicky’s approach to learning Mandarin Chinese is based on building a strong foundation, immersing oneself in the language, learning from real-life materials, interacting with native speakers, and integrating personal interests into the learning process. She encourages viewers to fall in love with the language they are learning and to find joy in the learning journey.gpt4
omggg i'm so glad one of my fav korean learning channel has a video on that!!!
I have been studying French Japanese and Chinese. I find the chinese language most difficult to understand. But your video brings me motivation!
Great tips! Please reduce the volume of the background music, as I found it disturbing me when I tried to listen to your voice. I'll try these tips for learning Korean :)
i enjoyed the video but I have a big problem with the back ground music. can you please cut it out?
When I first traveled to China in 2007 to teach English for a year, one of my favorite actives quickly became taking a walk after dinner with friends and exploring the narrow lanes of the subtropical city we lived in.
With a couple of lamb or chicken skewers in hand, we were set to explore the city for the night. On our nightly walk to the river that ran through the city, we observed the people around us selling clothes from carts along the streets and students playing ping pong in a park.
Everyone was outside doing something (or nothing) and you felt like you were a part of it. One of the best things about China is that you can walk out of your door and everything and everyone is right there waiting for you.
As China continues to grow, more and more foreigners are choosing to travel, live, work, or do business in China. No matter what your reason for exploring this vibrant country, the below tips on how to get by during your first days will help give you the confidence to buy your ticket and go have fun in China.
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I’ve been practicing for 8 months and I can understand everything you say with out subtitles which is pretty cool to hear some Chinese from someone who had the same length Time as me
@Alejandro where did you go to learn Mandarin Chinese?
Kay Vang-Thao i just used RUclips and a lot of audios on sound cloud but I stopped studying
@@Jandos47 why did you stop even though u were making progress
@@masterbeater3754 idk I lost interest after covid hit i should get back in to it tho
I think that it’s easier for Koreans to learn Chinese than it is for westerners.
A. T. Yeah, that makes sense. Thanks for the clarification. I know that most countries in Asia are in some way influenced by China whether big or small.
Very cool stuff Kiddo! I was especially impressed by your suggestion of changing the default language settings on your electronic devices. Wow, that's a bold move but I suppose you're right. The more you can adapt your daily life to simulate complete imersion, the better right? Taking the initiative by volentarily raising the stakes on yourself. Willfully placing yourself in a 'Sink or Swim' dynamic and, by so doing, incentivising yourself to step things up a notch. As you say...through desperation and urgency.
I started learning to sing in Mandarin a little over 4 years ago. I only started taking Chinese language Classes about a year and a half ago and I watch more Chinese television and cinema than American...by far... these days.
Great, great tips Vicky! Thank you so much for sharing!
This is really cool, Vicky. I am impressed that you put focus into learning the characters. During my studies, 99% has been on having a conversation.
Impressive progress. Just one thing, the character behind you, "囍", is normally used in a wedding scenario though.
J.T. li
My mom wondered what I was watching because of the character behind her, lol.
Wonderful, thank you for the shout out! 4:18 Very happy to see our app helping you learn Chinese 😊❤️🙏
You are sooo right - indeed from advanced to basics! Great, and thanks!
the music was a distraction...but great tips
The video is good but the music is too loud. :')
Changing your phone to languages works I promise. My phone has been set in French for 2 years and it’s really really helped
Your Chinese is so good for someone who's been studying for six months!!
Thanks for your tips, But i would like to say that not all of us even after following these Golden rules would be able to learn Chinese as fast as you have learned. Koreans have the advantage, their language structure, Grammar have lot similarities with Chinese language. Similarly a student from Thailand will learn Mandarin faster too because the Thai is the Tone language.
That is true. We Asians have more advantage when it comes to learning fellow Asian languages, just as Western people have more advantage learning English or other European languages than us, or Arabs more in learning Hebrew or Persian. So despite everything, I believe all come down to hard work and willingness to learn with joy. That is what ultimately leads to fast learning.
yes i do agree with u vicky, motivation is they key. I myself started learn Chinese 5 months ago. I have also put lot of effort to know the best methods, and i found that, yes there are some. I appreciate your video and wish you a good luck, by the way 新年快乐，恭喜发财
Huh? Korean and Chinese are two very different languages... There are some loan words and Koreans also know a few thousand characters. But isn't that just about it? The grammar is *quite* different.
Peter Lund Traditional Chinese characters were incorporated into the Korean language with Korean pronunciation. It's called hanja. It was not until the 20th century that hangul (Korean alphabet) truly replaced hanja.
It's not so much about the characters as it is about the grammar, Kim Zhang. I would argue that Korean is more similar to Japanese in terms of grammar and syntax.
The music is too high, can´t understand you !
Take an English course
Paul Garcia lool
Thanks Vicky! I started my Chinese learning journey with my now one year old toddler during this time of Corona. Now we listen to nursery rhymes daily. I cannot express how much the Little Fox Chinese RUclips channel is helping us. It's been one week of listening to these songs and already I can sing some of the words! Little Fox website is also amazing. I've been able to learn tones, characters and pinyin from nursery rhymes.
I also a few apps like:
- Chinese skill
- Super Chinese
- Hello Chinese: this allows practicing write and native speakers
- Nihao Chinese: practice write characters and free!
I deleted the other apps as you suggested because as you rightly said it's too many resources can confuse and dishearten.
I really enjoy many Chinese movies and tv shows with English subtitles because you pick up words that are repeated frequently. Thanks for making this vlog!
오늘 알고 계속 다른 영상들도 보고있어요 정말 대단쓰👍👍👍
You’re so good at this(speaking from a native
I think I'm going to Taiwan to live there in one year from now, so this has given me courage! I think I can atleast learn survival Chinese! (I'm English currently living in Japan and it took me about 1 year and a half to get on a basic conversational level in Japanese ^^)
There are some similar sound between Japanese and Mandarin, so it might be easier for you to learn it. But you should be aware of characters, sometimes the exact same words have different meanings, such as 勉強...etc. And happy to hear you're coming to Taiwan.
Welcome to Taiwan!!!
I'm a Chinese and ur chinese is AMAZING keep practicing because you can improve so much not that you are not good enough now but you have a bit of your accent which everyone had when they learn a new language
I've been living in Taiwan for 8 months and I totally agree with you! They're very kind people and are super supportive whenever I try speaking Chinese.
What is the name of the book you used?
ScoonieX wade do you have websites learning Chinese
Yes whats the name of the book?
Yes whats the name of the book?
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Music too loud
As a current intermediate speaker of Chinese, I think the tips I have heard so far are all very good. Just solid advice - no cheap gimmicks. Also, you're really cute lol.
I love you much! Thank you. I did some more research and found that Koreans and Japanese have a real head start learning Mandarin.
Just as you said, many Korean words have Chinese origin like many European words have Latin origins. Korean Hanja (Chinese Kanji) are virtually identical to traditional Chinese characters. And Koreans are still exposed to them even though they use Hangul as their main script.
I saw a video from one of my favorite Korean RUclipsrs who goes to Yonsei and Hanja was used on a giant flat screen during a soccer game. And I read that one time a Chinese language school had some Koreans visit. They passed the written HSK test all the way to the highest level though they couldn't speak Chinese! Then I found this on Wikipedia:
"South Korean primary schools ceased the teaching of Hanja in elementary schools in the 1970s, although they are still taught as part of the mandatory curriculum in grade 6. They are taught in separate courses in South Korean high schools, separately from the normal Korean-language curriculum. Formal Hanja education begins in grade 7 (junior high school) and continues until graduation from senior high school in grade 12. A total of 1,800 Hanja are taught: 900 for junior high, and 900 for senior high (starting in grade 10).[20] Post-secondary Hanja education continues in some liberal-arts universities". "
Former President Park speaks Mandarin. She wrote a book in Mandarin! Now I know how she could do that. Thank you Miss Vicky, you have one one the best channels concerning language! You have a big heart!
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Hi Vicky
Thanks for your advices. Where cauld I find chinese movies script? Thanks
tusaludintegral Yes, what movies and scripts were you able to find, Vicky?
Here for anime lovers
www.ktkkt.com/
all of chinese movie have chinese subtitle. you don't need to find
John, thanks for the page, I needed something like that!
pham thuong umm yeah we do
Can you please provide the name of the textbooks that you used?
Loved this ! I'm trying to learn Chinese too !!
OMG i watched this video way back when I started learning Mandarin and did not realize it was you 쌤! Now that I'm learning korean from your channel, I was so confused when I saw the thumbnail on my feed with your channel's name. I was like oh youtube is probably broken. But nah it was really you! So amazed by the coincidence 🥰
Great video, you do make strong points. Even though I am not a beginner, I did pick some good advices from your video (like that quaint little app). My thanks to you.
p.s.: even though I am not Korean, I ask just out of curiosity, did you have any previous knowledge of Hanja, from school or some other place? if so, did it help you in your Mandarin learning?
I'm happy you found this video helpful! And yes, Koreans learn hanja from public education as early as in elementary school, so most Koreans have at least some basic knowledge of hanja; we all know what characters like 有，一，二，三，四，死，生 mean even before learning Mandarin. But that doesn't mean we also know how to pronounce it in Mandarin or how to form a sentence using these characters. We just simply know what each character means, in which Sino-Korean vocabularies these hanjas are used, and how they are pronounced in Korean way. How we pronounce each hanja is not exactly the same with standard Mandarin pinyin, although similar. For example, 无 is read Wu in Mandarin with the second tone, but in Korean it's read as Mu with no tone; 工 is read gong with the third tone, but in Korean it is read gong with no tone (the same romanization, but there are subtle differences between how it's actually pronounced in two languages.)
Knowing Hanja definitely helped me understand and learn Mandarin much faster. I wouldn't say Chinese and Korean language themselves are similar to each other(in fact, Chinese is more similar to English than to Korean in many ways.) But what makes it easier for Koreans to learn Mandarin, at least in the beginning, is that we already know the meaning of some hanjas, and also pinyin is not that difficult to remember because it's not completely different from Korean pronunciation. In other words, we are not starting from the very beginning, the complete nothingness, as we would be when learning Western languages from scratch. We already know some parts of Mandarin naturally, and that's what comes in useful to us :)
I see. That is indeed very interesting input; and it always helps to have a "head start" of course.
Now, if I may bother you for just a bit longer with just another question: the ChineseSkill app is quite entertaining as I've mentioned (it can be a bit tedious at times if you're not a beginner but nothing you cannot grin and bear through, and it's always good to revise anyway!), however it naturally uses simplified chinese characters.
I have been studying for a couple of years using proper traditional characters (out of an aesthetical pursuit mostly; I find simplified characters to be most unsightly) and whilst I can understand simplified ones quite well, I'd very much rather have an app or other resource that uses the aforesaid traditional characters. Do you know of any? If you do, I'd be most grateful if you shared it with me.
Have a good one!
Vicky 빅키 I thought 工 is first tone? Maybe I'm wrong I never really paid attention to tones haha
Vicky 빅키 hello may you show me writing show dictionary
Parkinson? I thought it was the Pareto law 🤔..
I was wondering about that, too.
Lol. I was thinking something wrong about that
It's when Pareto contracted parkinsons disease, it became Parkinsons law
It´s 4 people who shaking learning languages.....
hhh I thought the same, the only thing that comes to my mind when I hear parkinson is the disease.
But when I watched this video, I looked it up and find out that there is actually a law of parkinson which is actually what she meant in the video but the image she showed was of Pareto,
Parkinson's law is the adage that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion". It is sometimes applied to the growth of bureaucracy in an organization. This law is likely derived from ideal gas law, whereby a gas expands to fit the volume allotted.
your English is perfect i am a native English speaker and i found no problems listing to it you made no mistakes and anyone wouldn't even notice its a second language really good job or in mandarin fei shang hao
About working on movie script or song lyrics. I didn't study chinese yet but when i learned english and polish i didn't enjoy that method. So if you are like me i suggest doing same thing but in Wikipedia page. If you want to read smth in Wiki, just open it in language you learn and work on it. There are 2 disadvantages though: no listening (but you always can watch a movie without working on script), no dialogues (you encounter more advanced words, not everyday using words). But i think second one is not a big problem because we naturally learn common words faster, so working on wikipedia is really definition of "from advanced to basic"
Stickers. If you are into it there is a better way than sticking to wall (i have a lot of work info on my wall right in front of me but i never look at it accidentally). Make stickers with meaning, like write "open" or "door" (without translation so you wont read latin text instead (maybe better even without pinyin)) and stick it to the door (close on the other side).
"exit" on exit door and stuff like that. Attention!! Sticker has to be on your way to actually to stuff written and not just be nearby. For example: you have to take sticker away from your "fork" to use it. If it doesn't distract you, your brain will ignore it like it ignores all your surroundings while you reading it.
I want to learn Chinese ;-; i really like it ;-;
我想学英语
ME TOO
hi I'm Chinese and I really want to learn English.Could we help each other😊
@@corrd1028 yes,and will you teach me Chinese
Im also from Tanzania
I realy like this Language
How can I find the script for a drama ? Or movie ...
I am a Chinese.In China,many people watch videos or movies on these website:爱奇艺（www.iqiyi.com），优酷（www.youku.com），腾讯（v.qq.com）.Only a part of foreign movies have Chinese and English double script,most of the movies only have Chinese script.Hope to help you:)
website:iqiyi、bilibili、youku
Great Video ! Thanks a lot for all the explanations and tips given! Really helpful
I am a chinese , in my opinion Chiese is easy to learn .Because there are less word than English word.It means that you can use just a few words to express more
The video is Very Good
But the backgrpund music is awesome ❤️❤️❤️💚💚💚💜💜💜💜💜
谢谢和我们分享你学中文的意见。我是美国人，已经学中文两年多。对我来讲学语言的成功就靠你自己的态度。如果在心里觉得一门语言太难了，怎么办呢？众所周知中文对外国人来讲不太容易，但是不用内化悲观的看法。谢谢你的youtube频道，加油！：）
英语也很难。我学了10来年了，但是很多英文文章看不懂，听不懂英语。
语言有时候一定很难啊。英文语法也特别难，比中文语法难多了。不过成功是可能的。加油！ ：）
Calbert Irons 我是越南人学中文，你的中文也很溜哦
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wow你写的很好👍，加油！
thank you for your video! I agree with you on the advanced --> basic technique, it's what I did to learn english as well, native fluency in about 9 months. What helped me a lot is watching a show episode (preferably something under 30 min). I'd watch it first my native language first (spanish) with subtitle in english --so I understand what it's being said AND also learn how it's said in english. Then watched again in english but with subtitle in spanish, and one last time in english with subtitle in english. This may seem repetitive but repetition is key to learn and memorize things effectively, just pick a show you enjoy!!
there's also an app called "HelloTalk" that connects you with people that speak the language you want to learn and are trying to learn the language you speak, very good tool to practice conversation!!! hope this helps for those of u learning other languages! xo
After six months of learning, your Chinese has spoken very well.
Bad background music can't hear what you say
Name of the books you used please? Thanks
"Chinese sounds like music to me....." Liked this!
For people with English first language, don't necessarily take her advice to heart. Korean's learn much faster and are way more intuitively connected to the chinese language. Just keep this in mind.
你好!我叫玛丽亚姆:)
I learned chinese from the same app. I can understand a little bit if it comes to reading but the problem is that in my country there are no books like yours, and I cannot find anyone to teach me or to practice with, even my brothers get annoyed whenever I am talking or practicing or even singing chinese songs. I am a book worm too but I wish I could find a single chinese practice book :(
What app did you use?
Hibaq Ali It's called "chineseskill".
Have you thought about podcast or TV show? I think that's good resources to learn and practice. And most importantly, that's the dialogue native speakers use every day.
Hey . You can google fsi language course. With free book exercise (pdf) and audio file. Also they have many languages
Try Chinese with me.
My mother making me NOW learn Chinese when im 15. Oh well i hope i can learn
Hobi Lover how is it coming
You can do it :)
I was in Taiwan for a while and I totally agree, taiwanese people are really nice. I think it´s the confucian education system. I traveled a lot in Asia and personally I found taiwanese and indonesian people the best
Xie Xie Nin! This was SO helpful, as I've tried to learn Mandarin o and off (more off than on) for years and feel as though I've goten nowhere. Off to Conversation Exchange to see what's up! This was very positive and informative. Have a goodun!
Hi Vicky, what is the title and author of the workbook you use early on in the video. Thank you,
Aaah, you write on books. My heart...
Being korean you have an automatic advantage as your native language has simmilar roots.
jadekayak01 - I’m American and I teach myself Japanese and Chinese so “automatic advantage” or not, anyone that applies themselves can learn another language.
@@nicholejones3876 if youre american WHY did you say youre korean.any asian native speaker has an advantage learning another asian language as they mostly have similar roots.
I learnt thai and got lao free.
If i decide to learn vietnamese or khmer it will be much easier as they have very stron similarities.
Not so much with mandarin and cantonese.
I also come from a country where one of the languages make pronunciation of korean/japanese rather easy for us.
If you really want to impress me learn to speak norwegien-apparantly a very difficult language to learn no matter what you already speak
jadekayak01 you can be Korean American ...so of course she could be both..just saying..
The way you talk about Chinese is the way I feel about studying Korean! I have an interest in learning Mandarin (Hanja sparked my interest) but my current focus in Korean. Thank you for the advice and good luck in your studies!
Could you recommend some good and easy movies in mandarin Chinese? Thanks!!
Advisor D hmm, does TV shows work? I recently watched a good one called 我们的少年时代
There is a movie on youtube called 17 again. It's awesome!
TMD SB
what is the last character? and is the pinyin right : women de shao nian de_______.
A love so beautiful
Meteor Garden 2018
Our Times
I'm also learning Manderin and I just want to tell you that it really does help when you watch movies , also these movies/shows are really good, I highly recommend them
Wow Vicky, it is really good motivation for me to learn Chinese. Can you recommend one book for learning that? 효정이 멋있다! ㅋㅋ
Thank you 오빠!^_^ If you are just beginning to learn, I recommend 티엔티엔! 파고다에서 출판한 책이에요!
Hi Vicky Vicky i downloaded the app but I'm not sure whether i can use it without wifi because I'd like to learn it in school off my phone please could you tell me just as a heads up
Royce Elmsury Hi Royce! You cannot use Chinese Skill app without wifi unfortunately 😥 But there is another app called Hello Chinese and it works without wifi so you can give that a try!
Vicky Vicky Thanks
Vicky 빅키 What is the name of the book in English?
Wow, these are really helpful tips! I am working in a Chinese restaurant, and I have been there for nearly two years now and it is killing me that I cannot have a conversation with the grandparents that work there. I am determined to learn Chinese because the family that owns the business are such sweet people and the culture intrigues me. Thank you entirely
Cayenne Columbia hi, do you have WeChat? I'm a native Chinese speaker,maybe I can help you with mandarin learning.
I did exactly what you did but additionally, I always love & practiced Shaolin kungfu so my incentive to learn Mandarin was very strong. Good books, movie scripts, calligraphy & radicals books, dictionaries, real Chinese surrounding, drill, drill, drill. After 3 years of doing that, I decided to take my 1st private 1/1 HSK Mandarin class. I quickly noticed my HSK teacher wasn't organised because HSK is too academic & doesn't prepare you for real life situation plus none of my HSK lecturer's advanced students could read, write or speak near my level. I had at least 2 years of romance with calligraphy & radicals I remember I didn't have a teacher I couldn't afford one - so all I do was learning the whole block of radicals & try to memorise them as much as I could.
I had a blackboard in my garden so with school chalk, I spent hours daily writing them I think my neighbours thought this black guy was mentally ill :) It pays off when one of my neighbours who was Chinese & lives two blocks away told them "No this is not bullshit he is actually writing legible Chinese letters. Wright now, he,s writing about car rental & insurance". It's funny because a few years before the global recession English people were xenophobic towards Chinese people. Now everyone wants to learn Mandarin :)
I learnt that the best teacher is yourself & it's way cheaper all you need is or are good books. Advantage of books over HSK system is: Topics are organised into groups and blocks - 1st you learn how to intro yourself & meet people, then domestic vocab, then shopping vocab, then work, education, hospital, banking before you know you're learning business, politics etc... By starting at the top, you already set yourself a high target but of course without a strong basic it can be frustrating but it certainly is the best way to learn fast.
Hi vicky, can you please tell me from where you find the script of chinese movies. Thanks
I am a Chinese.In China,many people watch videos or movies on these website:爱奇艺（www.iqiyi.com），优酷（www.youku.com），腾讯（v.qq.com）.Only a part of foreign movies have Chinese and English double script,most of the movies only have Chinese script.Hope to help you:)
Jeff Zhu 谢谢
Jeff Zhu 谢谢你!
I want to study Chinese language,
我 想 学 习 不 难. wo3 xiang3 xue2 xi2 bu4 nan2.
Vok.
我 wo3 I
想 xiang3 think
学习 xue2 xi2 study
汉语 han4 yu3 Han language (Chinese)
不 bu4 not
难 nan2 difficult
The numbers means the tone 1 is high, 2 from low to high, 3 low, deep, 4 from high to low.
(I am German and I hope that my English was correct, because I don't know the expression for the tone 3. Do you say deep or low voice? (voice with low frequency))
WCiossek me too want study Chinese but difficult
Sokkhoeun Chea: You would be astonished, that Chinese language is one of the easiest languages in the word to learn. I am German and know what I am talking. For an European or American is very hart to hear or regognize the tones, if chinese guy is speaking. To speak the tone is not difficult, but to hear, if you not be acustom to it. To write or read chinese characters are not difficult, because it exist about 240 radicals. The most characters is compounded from radicals and they tell a little story about the meaning of a character.
So try it to learn this easy language! Do not think that this language is difficult to learn. This kind of thinking stops you! The georgian language (ქართული ენა kartuli ena) or sanskrit (संस्कृत, saṃskṛta) are the most difficult languages in the world. Some people are telling, that my native language German (Bavarian) is also very difficult to learn.
Vicky, thxs for the tips! I'm trying to hand write Chinese characters onto Google translate then I learn Mandarin, both traditional and simplified characters from it. Is been great so far.
I'm good at languages and will flat out tell you that, to excel in any language, you can't skip your practice speaking. If someone tells you that you can get fluent in a given language without practicing for many hundreds of hours (or sometimes thousands of hours) with someone else who is proficient in that language, then that person is just lying. You may not have to travel abroad to get proficient in a language, but nothing will accelerate your progress like that will. Of course you will make exponential progress if you go abroad and simultaneously study diligently. People who are good at languages 1. are interested in knowing how to say something in another language, and 2. put in the time.
FOR GOD.S SAKE. KILL THAT AWFUL MUSIC!!!!
It was REALLY hard to listen to this video. Your background music is just WAY too loud and distracting!
This was so helpful, so much more than all the others: 5 tips and all,thank you so much
You have good time management! To not waste any time and to sneak in more Mandarin in your day 😊. Thanks for the tips!