The link in the notes is just to sign up for lifetime access - is joining the course separate, or how does that fit in? How does one access the feedback? How much time daily/weekly does your 3-month plan take up? Also, in the video examples, everyone is reading Pinyin. Are characters also integrated? I have a hard time reading for any meaning when it's just Pinyin alone.
Hey Erin, great questions! Glad you asked: 1. The 3-month boot camp is based on the current Finding Your Mandarin Voice course, so everyone who wants to join the camp needs to sign up the course first. Then you all can join the camp for free - it won’t be free in the future! 2. The daily feedback will be given in our Discord groups, I’ll talk about common mistakes in weekly live streams. 3. It depends on the learner’s learning experience, learning style, and current level, but it’s gonna take approximately 45 minutes to watch the videos, do the quiz and drill, record and share, etc., Monday through Saturday. Weekly live stream on Sundays. 4. The course focuses only on pronunciation, so we use Pinyin a lot. However, everything we use in the course has a Chinese character copy that you can find and use in each of the 107 lessons. Hope these all make sense and help!
@@RitaChinese Thanks! So the daily lessons are just at our own pace/when we can fit them in each day? What time is the livestream on Sundays (want to make sure I can make it!). And so, steps to sign up, I follow the link above, pay for lifetime access, and then the link to sign up for the course itself (and camp? these are different?) is somewhere I'll get access to once I've paid?
I would love to see a series or something of you trying to learn a native English accent, and comparing it with how to learn a native Chinese accent. I think it would be really interesting.
Honestly, you have the most pally approach in your videos in its best sense. Feels like being in a cosy relaxed atmosphere with a friend sharing sophisticated things so casually you get them right away. 谢谢，Rita老师。
This is an insightful and refreshing video. Hearing people discuss the learning "journey" is just as helpful as the more technical videos :) I now have a larger aperture to see all this through, given that you introduced so many important considerations!
It's really awesome to see another awesome video of yours. I definitely attest to the Finding Your Mandarin Voice being the best thing I've used/seen for Chinese pronunciation. (BTW, if you ever want to use my recordings/monthly livestream footage in future videos I more than welcome you to do so).
Lol, the musician comment made me laugh. Everyone tells me my accent and tones are good, but I'm still a beginner so my vocab and grammar and writing is very basic so they are at unusually different levels and my teacher was confused why I picked that up faster... I have a bachelor's degree in classical music and my instrument is my voice, I'm an opera singer and trained to sing without an accent in 4 languages (German, French, Italian, Latin)... and I know how all the internal pronunciation and tone muscles work and how to control them, so I can hear a sound and work out what small muscles, breath speed and diphthongs etc make up the sounds. And I definitely think that accent coaching that breaks down hearing and accurate replication by breaking down the components like you are talking about is definitely what is missing from most language teaching in a lot of languages, which is why it's so common to have someone learn a language formally for years and still be unable to communicate. I'm very lucky I walked in with a skillset already that was so useful, a lot of my classmates had accents after a year that were completely unintelligible, even though they knew more vocabulary and grammar than I did, they were talking to native speakers and completely unable to communicate, but I was having longish conversations without any english and making friends with a very basic set of vocabulary to work with. I work in Sydney as a face painter, so I get a lot of opportunities to speak with people, including lots of grandparents who bring the kids and sometimes don't have much english. (God I love older ladies, no one is so patient and willing to have a chat with my very basic Mandarin than little old ladies and they aren't shy about correcting my pronunciation which is fantastic.) I definitely have so much to learn, but being able to speak and be understood is SO important and accelerates your learning because you can begin to communicate sooner which has so many flow on effects. I have learnt a lot of vocabulary just by having conversations with people which wouldn't have happened if I couldn't make what I do know understood. This sounds like a fantastic course!
That's awesome, Elizabeth! Yeah, it's really great when you have a special set of skills that can transfer over to another area so beautifully! Would love to see how you progress with your learning! Check out the boot camp if you're interested and good luck with your studies!
Ok newbies. You know how when you hear a Chinese person speaking English they often have a thick accent? Guess what? When YOU (yes You, me too!) speak Chinese: the shoe is on the other foot. We have a thick accent which makes it hard for them to understand. SO TAKE RITA'S COURSE AND LEARN TO SPEAK CHINESE LIKE YOU DON'T HAVE A MOUTH STUFFED FULL OF ROCKS OR NOODLES!
Hi Rita! I am trying to understand , what is the difference between the Bootcamp and the FYMV course? I will be out of the country for more than a week at the end of April, so if I enrol in the bootcamp, all that would mess up my bootcamp, and I feel really frustrated for that, and on the other hand, if I enrol in the course, then , as far as I understand, I can pause the learning while I am away (and do not have internet access) and resume when I am back home? So, the course does not have the end date and I can start any day I want, and I can have it completed any day , (even if takes more than 3 or 4 months), whereas the bootcamp has fixed start and end dates? is it the main difference? please help me to understand, thank you in advance and can't wait to enrol!
Hi, thank you for asking! The Masterclass is more like a self-paced pre-recorded course, where you’re provided with video lessons to break down how every sound in Mandarin is made, and what you should pay attention to when practicing, as well as hundreds of quizzes, recordings, exercises, and Chinese character pdf files. You’ll also be in our Discord group and your questions will be answered there. The course can be completed as soon as in months, or it can take a year or even longer to study, depending on your schedule, learning goals, and learning habits. The boot camp is an intensive training program that starts on February 12 and ends on May 12. During the 12 weeks, trainees will receive daily learning lessons and recording assignments. While you are learning the course content as the masterclass, the valuable part of the boot camp is that each of your daily recordings submitted 6 times a week will be given personalized feedback to ensure every bit of your practice is on the right track, and this makes the training process as effective as possible. In the boot camp, there are also weekly live streams on Sundays, where questions are answered in real-time, and students will be invited to the streams and do 1-on-1 sessions with me or the TA. You will have full access to our exclusive Discord groups for all questions, discussions, and sharing with our team and fellow Mandarin learners in the boot camp. Hope this helps! Looking forward to meeting you in RCA!
@@RitaChineseRita, thank you so much for the response! 🙏🏻so, the main difference is that the course has no feedback from you? so my understanding of how I pronounce something, or how I choose the tones for me, is based solely on my opinion, since you can not hear me and you can not provide any feedback? am I right? please confirm! if so, then I guess it would be better to wait for the next bootcamp, as I won't be able to join the upcoming one 🥹
@@oleksandrkovalov1543 we’ll have monthly livestream where I can answer students’ questions for the matserclass, and you’ll still have access to the FYMV Discord group where your specific questions can be answered. There’s just no personalized feedback on every single of your submissions like what you have in the boot camp, and the latter definitely will get better training results. You’re very welcome to join the FYMV course first and take a look at the course content, and maybe start studying a bit to have a better idea of your potential study schedule, then decide if you want to join this boot camp or the next one. (Tbh since my baby is gonna born in the coming June, I’m not sure when the next boot camp will be😅) Hope this helps!
I remember when I started learning Chinese at UNI, we spent a few lessons on repeating Chinese syllables... without the teacher telling us where and how to produce the sounds... She was from China, probably som 20+ years of teaching experience... and she was so useless! :) After I started teaching Chinese myself I actually found some usefull info in the HSK1 textbooks, which made me look more into the pronunciation.
I studied Mandarin in college and lived in china & Taiwan for about 12 months, but took around 10 years off. Now, I started with a tutor and I have intuition about what tones to use, but i know I make a ton of mistakes. Should I have my teacher aggressively correct each mistake, or is understanding me sufficient?
oh come on! unless one is a "language freak" then it takes years if not a lifetime to sound like a native in a totally foreign language like Chinese... In a few months you could get a nice pronunciation, for a foreigner. Also, for a price of 1k dollars I would rather hire a good instructor to give me live lessons online. You could get 50 * 20$ hours of lessons with 1k... not bad! But again , if I have to spend an amount of the order of 1k I would rather spend a few thousand dollars to go live in Shanghai or Singapore for a full immersion and attend a live mandarin course there...
@@RitaChinese don' t take it wrongly.. I admire you work and style, but 1k for a video course it completely out of this world.. I don ' t say sell it for 20 bucks like some do on Udemy, but for 1k one expects A TON (tens of hours) of live interaction with a teacher. Then , if you are able to pull this off chapeau, I might have underestimated the power of social media marketing...
I just wonder how someone who claims to have developed a system to improve pronunciation in her own native language still keeps a strong accent speaking English, when it should be much easier given the number of non-english native speakers speaking nearly perfectly english, including many Chinese.
This is just unnecessary… her advice has improved so many peoples’ Chinese skills to an incomparable level. Someone’s accent when they speak another language is not a determining factor of their intelligence or skill as a teacher. On top of it not everyone wants to erase their accent it’s up to personal choice 👎
The link in the notes is just to sign up for lifetime access - is joining the course separate, or how does that fit in? How does one access the feedback? How much time daily/weekly does your 3-month plan take up?
Also, in the video examples, everyone is reading Pinyin. Are characters also integrated? I have a hard time reading for any meaning when it's just Pinyin alone.
Hey Erin, great questions! Glad you asked:
1. The 3-month boot camp is based on the current Finding Your Mandarin Voice course, so everyone who wants to join the camp needs to sign up the course first. Then you all can join the camp for free - it won’t be free in the future!
2. The daily feedback will be given in our Discord groups, I’ll talk about common mistakes in weekly live streams.
3. It depends on the learner’s learning experience, learning style, and current level, but it’s gonna take approximately 45 minutes to watch the videos, do the quiz and drill, record and share, etc., Monday through Saturday. Weekly live stream on Sundays.
4. The course focuses only on pronunciation, so we use Pinyin a lot. However, everything we use in the course has a Chinese character copy that you can find and use in each of the 107 lessons.
Hope these all make sense and help!
@@RitaChinese Thanks! So the daily lessons are just at our own pace/when we can fit them in each day? What time is the livestream on Sundays (want to make sure I can make it!). And so, steps to sign up, I follow the link above, pay for lifetime access, and then the link to sign up for the course itself (and camp? these are different?) is somewhere I'll get access to once I've paid?
I would love to see a series or something of you trying to learn a native English accent, and comparing it with how to learn a native Chinese accent. I think it would be really interesting.
Honestly, you have the most pally approach in your videos in its best sense. Feels like being in a cosy relaxed atmosphere with a friend sharing sophisticated things so casually you get them right away. 谢谢，Rita老师。
I would like to see a handful of before and after skill improvements from students who have been through the course.
This is an insightful and refreshing video. Hearing people discuss the learning "journey" is just as helpful as the more technical videos :) I now have a larger aperture to see all this through, given that you introduced so many important considerations!
It's really awesome to see another awesome video of yours. I definitely attest to the Finding Your Mandarin Voice being the best thing I've used/seen for Chinese pronunciation. (BTW, if you ever want to use my recordings/monthly livestream footage in future videos I more than welcome you to do so).
Thank you so much, Benjamin!! I'm so happy that you find the course helpful🙌
Lol, the musician comment made me laugh.
Everyone tells me my accent and tones are good, but I'm still a beginner so my vocab and grammar and writing is very basic so they are at unusually different levels and my teacher was confused why I picked that up faster... I have a bachelor's degree in classical music and my instrument is my voice, I'm an opera singer and trained to sing without an accent in 4 languages (German, French, Italian, Latin)... and I know how all the internal pronunciation and tone muscles work and how to control them, so I can hear a sound and work out what small muscles, breath speed and diphthongs etc make up the sounds.
And I definitely think that accent coaching that breaks down hearing and accurate replication by breaking down the components like you are talking about is definitely what is missing from most language teaching in a lot of languages, which is why it's so common to have someone learn a language formally for years and still be unable to communicate.
I'm very lucky I walked in with a skillset already that was so useful, a lot of my classmates had accents after a year that were completely unintelligible, even though they knew more vocabulary and grammar than I did, they were talking to native speakers and completely unable to communicate, but I was having longish conversations without any english and making friends with a very basic set of vocabulary to work with.
I work in Sydney as a face painter, so I get a lot of opportunities to speak with people, including lots of grandparents who bring the kids and sometimes don't have much english. (God I love older ladies, no one is so patient and willing to have a chat with my very basic Mandarin than little old ladies and they aren't shy about correcting my pronunciation which is fantastic.)
I definitely have so much to learn, but being able to speak and be understood is SO important and accelerates your learning because you can begin to communicate sooner which has so many flow on effects. I have learnt a lot of vocabulary just by having conversations with people which wouldn't have happened if I couldn't make what I do know understood.
This sounds like a fantastic course!
That's awesome, Elizabeth! Yeah, it's really great when you have a special set of skills that can transfer over to another area so beautifully! Would love to see how you progress with your learning! Check out the boot camp if you're interested and good luck with your studies!
Jonathan Kos Read has mind-blowing Mandarin!
Thanks for sharing this!! We need to hear it!
Ok newbies. You know how when you hear a Chinese person speaking English they often have a thick accent?
Guess what? When YOU (yes You, me too!) speak Chinese: the shoe is on the other foot. We have a thick accent which makes it hard for them to understand. SO TAKE RITA'S COURSE AND LEARN TO SPEAK CHINESE LIKE YOU DON'T HAVE A MOUTH STUFFED FULL OF ROCKS OR NOODLES!
Noodles....mmmmm.....
@@tedc9682 i will eat soup with chopsticks for those noodles therein
I can’t wait to join!!❤
Hi Rita! I am trying to understand , what is the difference between the Bootcamp and the FYMV course? I will be out of the country for more than a week at the end of April, so if I enrol in the bootcamp, all that would mess up my bootcamp, and I feel really frustrated for that, and on the other hand, if I enrol in the course, then , as far as I understand, I can pause the learning while I am away (and do not have internet access) and resume when I am back home? So, the course does not have the end date and I can start any day I want, and I can have it completed any day , (even if takes more than 3 or 4 months), whereas the bootcamp has fixed start and end dates? is it the main difference? please help me to understand, thank you in advance and can't wait to enrol!
Hi, thank you for asking! The Masterclass is more like a self-paced pre-recorded course, where you’re provided with video lessons to break down how every sound in Mandarin is made, and what you should pay attention to when practicing, as well as hundreds of quizzes, recordings, exercises, and Chinese character pdf files. You’ll also be in our Discord group and your questions will be answered there. The course can be completed as soon as in months, or it can take a year or even longer to study, depending on your schedule, learning goals, and learning habits.
The boot camp is an intensive training program that starts on February 12 and ends on May 12. During the 12 weeks, trainees will receive daily learning lessons and recording assignments. While you are learning the course content as the masterclass, the valuable part of the boot camp is that each of your daily recordings submitted 6 times a week will be given personalized feedback to ensure every bit of your practice is on the right track, and this makes the training process as effective as possible. In the boot camp, there are also weekly live streams on Sundays, where questions are answered in real-time, and students will be invited to the streams and do 1-on-1 sessions with me or the TA. You will have full access to our exclusive Discord groups for all questions, discussions, and sharing with our team and fellow Mandarin learners in the boot camp.
Hope this helps! Looking forward to meeting you in RCA!
@@RitaChineseRita, thank you so much for the response! 🙏🏻so, the main difference is that the course has no feedback from you? so my understanding of how I pronounce something, or how I choose the tones for me, is based solely on my opinion, since you can not hear me and you can not provide any feedback? am I right? please confirm! if so, then I guess it would be better to wait for the next bootcamp, as I won't be able to join the upcoming one 🥹
@@oleksandrkovalov1543 we’ll have monthly livestream where I can answer students’ questions for the matserclass, and you’ll still have access to the FYMV Discord group where your specific questions can be answered. There’s just no personalized feedback on every single of your submissions like what you have in the boot camp, and the latter definitely will get better training results.
You’re very welcome to join the FYMV course first and take a look at the course content, and maybe start studying a bit to have a better idea of your potential study schedule, then decide if you want to join this boot camp or the next one. (Tbh since my baby is gonna born in the coming June, I’m not sure when the next boot camp will be😅)
Hope this helps!
@@RitaChinese thank you , Rita! responding to you via email!
I remember when I started learning Chinese at UNI, we spent a few lessons on repeating Chinese syllables... without the teacher telling us where and how to produce the sounds... She was from China, probably som 20+ years of teaching experience... and she was so useless! :) After I started teaching Chinese myself I actually found some usefull info in the HSK1 textbooks, which made me look more into the pronunciation.
I studied Mandarin in college and lived in china & Taiwan for about 12 months, but took around 10 years off. Now, I started with a tutor and I have intuition about what tones to use, but i know I make a ton of mistakes. Should I have my teacher aggressively correct each mistake, or is understanding me sufficient?
icomment on da shan video of intonation make more video that way us americans use this to learn diffrence in intonation
can i join the bootcamp, if I already have the lifetime access?
老師，你好票亮。❤️❤️
Thank you🎉
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oh come on!
unless one is a "language freak" then it takes years if not a lifetime to sound like a native in a totally foreign language like Chinese...
In a few months you could get a nice pronunciation, for a foreigner.
Also, for a price of 1k dollars I would rather hire a good instructor to give me live lessons online. You could get 50 * 20$ hours of lessons with 1k... not bad!
But again , if I have to spend an amount of the order of 1k I would rather spend a few thousand dollars to go live in Shanghai or Singapore for a full immersion and attend a live mandarin course there...
Good luck with all that😊
@@RitaChinese don' t take it wrongly.. I admire you work and style, but 1k for a video course it completely out of this world.. I don ' t say sell it for 20 bucks like some do on Udemy, but for 1k one expects A TON (tens of hours) of live interaction with a teacher.
Then , if you are able to pull this off chapeau, I might have underestimated the power of social media marketing...
I think this is a cheaper way than finding a Chinese Wife for learning the Language. lol
Chinese girlfriend. Like a wife but 40 pounds lighter and a better return policy.
I just wonder how someone who claims to have developed a system to improve pronunciation in her own native language still keeps a strong accent speaking English, when it should be much easier given the number of non-english native speakers speaking nearly perfectly english, including many Chinese.
This is just unnecessary… her advice has improved so many peoples’ Chinese skills to an incomparable level. Someone’s accent when they speak another language is not a determining factor of their intelligence or skill as a teacher. On top of it not everyone wants to erase their accent it’s up to personal choice 👎