Learn to speak fluent Mandarin Chinese with Mandarin Blueprint! Mandarin Blueprint provides you with the most authentic Chinese phrases and words that are used everyday in China. The co-founders of Mandarin Blueprint, Luke and Phil, dedicated years to becoming fluent in Chinese without teachers or textbooks! That’s how they invented the Mandarin Blueprint Method and developed the fastest, most effective methods for learning Chinese ONLINE!
Wow! Ni de putonghua shi fei cheng hao de!!! (Please forgive any/All errors!) ALSO: Your VOICE sounds SO ***"CLASSIC!"*** TO ME! 😊 ALTHOUGH I HAVEN'T HEARD MANDARIN IN, LIKE, 15 YEARS, ***JUST AS SOON AS I HEARD YOU/YOUR VOICE SPEAKING MAND'l ("Mand'l", pronounced: /MAN-dill/) is my affectionate name for "Mandarin Chinese", which is--when spoken like this Gentleman!--is My Favorite Language!--well, along with My Native American variety of English!, especially--Again!--The Way that This Man speaks it! ANYWAY! 😳😊 WHAT I'M TRYING TO TRYING TO SAY IS!... "Sir!" 😊, Your Voice is Simply Beautiful!
There truely are endless idioms! Once in China I bought a dictionary with only chengyu. It has almost 600 pages with about 5 to 6 idioms per page...quite a lot!
@mandarinblueprint sent an email a couple of days ago about the kickstarter I might add on. How does the Pronunciation Mastery work? Is a recording used to "hear" my pronunciation, and then my pronunciation is corrected?
My second language is english but i didn't do anything like getting a tutor, studying the dictionary, no i didn't do any of that, instead i watched A TON of youtube videos and i just suddenly just understood it.
One thing I do is to listen to your video and many other teachers, and I will listen a few times, them let video repete and I don't listen, rather just hear- like elevator music - I lety non thinking brain hear many times.
Since I found your short tutorials I have had a burst of progress and ephifany clicks in my brain. I can learn and retain more easily now . Super huge thanks.
Note though, the rental bikes often don't work with foreign passports. Only supports locals, similar to hotels and some tourist locations. In Beijing and Shanghai though I'm sure it works fine, but many other cities not so much
It’s usual to stop briefly and repeat the saying to help a learner interpret the new content. By stopping briefly the learner’s brain can process the information. The information here is to class but it’s rushed and it was hard to follow all the content.
japanese grammar was one of the easiest and most intuitive systems for me to learn, it seems difficult from an outside perspective but there are 0 weird exceptions, you pick it up very quickly through memorisation (still definitely harder than chinese, I know chinese has no conjugations and few complex grammatical structures)
The first time I "spoke chinese" was a single word. Well. Two technically. I needed some chinese cooking wine from the chinese supermarket. I didn't find it so I asked a guy... But he wouldn't understand english. I knew enough to formulate the whole sentence but I panicked and I just said "料酒" his face changed, he got super happy, and guided me straight to the liaojiu haha.
what happened after they smacked a bottle on your head? I hope you called the police and they learned their lessons. Another thing about red color : don't write a letter or a post card in red. That means you are cutting ties with the recipient. About hat color : don't wear a green hat.
Adults are not children. Therefore they can accelerate the language acquisition process through intentional study. For example, I reached C1 in french in six months of studying. A baby cannot utter a single word after six months. How could I do that? I am an adult! I can intentionally focus on memorizing something (and actually memorize it) to accelerate my learning process.
Sorry, I just can't not study when learning a language... At least for the first thousand most common words/ structures, I find it helps to explicitly study this. I need some tools to help me understand the enormous amount of input.... And those tools are explicit knowledge of words and structures, which I can intentionally study and master in a short time.
@@dieglhix well maybe when I am taking a break from learning Chinese, I will try to learn a language without studying. But I just don't see it working.
Mandarin is overrated, 24 years ago less than 50% of every Chinese person on the planet could speak Mandarin, yet it's the language of China? lol sure....
HAHA, A little tip from local people, when finding a restaurant, skip the 5 stared extremely detailed, wonderful pictures comments, most of them are fake😂. The real ones are short or low stared. total 4 stars is good.
Constructive note while you explain about the characters they could be on the screen i checked out after seeing your face and no letters for 95time i know video is about method but still too bad
A Chinese here. I laughed out loud when you talk about the traffic and how we "calculate trajectories". Quite true, but we typically do that only when there are no traffic lights. Nowadays the traffic safety is taken more and more seriously.
Great video! I might add something from my recent visit to China, hoping it would be useful for someone: - VPN related, there is another perfectly working in China, called Mullvad. - Alipay and WeChat support international bank cards nowadays. - For me, it has been very very very useful downloading a photo translator on my phone, so I can basically translate everything written (for example when you are at the restaurant and the menu is written only in Chinese) which otherwise it would have been able to catch.
Regarding "what's wrong with stepping on earth": You need to consider the scale in China -- the mere population size itself makes a lot of "normal" occurrences in the west huge problems in China. Taking this particular occasion for example, allowing everybody to step outside of the designated plank walk would mean huge damages to the local ecosystem. A pair of shoes per tourist there can easily destroy lots of ground if not properly controlled.
Thank you so much for this genuine tips and guide trips ❤❤❤ I'm not planning to go to china except for Xinjiang and Kashgar maybe Harbin ...but i learned so much . Thank you for the pragmatism through and through ❤ I will definitely watch the video one more time and share it with you..
One tip for payments - AliPay and WeChat can both work with foreign bank accounts as Phil mentioned, but make sure you get your identity verified in the apps WELL BEFORE you land in China! For some reason it took multiple attempts (and days) to get my passport identity verified, which prevented me from using any of the payment features (including metro cards which you can use straight from the AliPay app for all larger cities) until the verification succeeded. Once you got that locked in though, you're golden, and it opens up so much convenience in China like Phil described.
I love content like this! Informative for someone like me that's learning Chinese with the Mandarin Blueprint Method and hoping to visit China for holidays sometime in the future. Cheers Phil 😎
I found this video motivating. Good advice and just a nice video. I listen to chinese music a lot, and I'm wondering, how much does it help me as a chinese learner?
