How I learned Chinese Mandarin in 30 Days + tips on how to learn 2 languages | study with me 

Good luck , to people who are learning chinese It took me around 4 years to speak Chinese fluently.

If you're gonna watch C dramas to learn Chinese, I'd recommend watching modern dramas than historical ones. Because in many historical dramas, they may use archaic language that isn't used widely nowadays :D

My biggest flex is that I can understand C dramas without the subtitles because I am fully Chinese. :)

I was born Chinese so I was native until I moved to the US and started speaking English, now my Chinese is kindergarten level sduhsakjdhaskhdk

Some tips✨ 1) For the layout of the characters, the box should have two lines, one going vertically and the other, horizontally in the middles, this allows the characters to be center and all of the chinese booklets for 3-10 in china have that layout. 2) if your from america, its best to say 我是美国人, rather than saying 英国人 because that means your from the uk Just a reminder, its the hardest language to learn and natives only know about half of the 80,000 words and still gets them wrong daily. So your doing great hunny 😩 im native and im not even nearly fluent yet

The Untamed is a great Cdrama and its the best series i've ever watched. I still haven't gotten over it lol

Hi Jazmine, I am not a native chinese in China. However, I am born as a chinese in Malaysia. Juz want to tell you that you are heading in the right direction in learning chinese. Chinese is no doubt the hardest language I have ever encounter ( I know and can speak fluently cantonese, chinese, english, malay and now a little bit of korean). This is because of the unique chinese character. (You can't really read them by words, unlike english, each of them are different, and each of them carries a different meaning) I am very happy that's someone is interested in learning chinese, it's such a beautiful language (despite I definitely agree on the difficulty) Keep it up ! I am sure that sooner or later you will be able to speak fluently in Chinese !!

I love jasmine tea it’s myyyy favourite ,and I love how we have similar goals I’m learning Japanese and sometimes Chinese 💓

Girl, i also make notes in japanese while I'm studying chinese or korean. My notebooks are a completely mess that only I can understand lol lately I've been studying thai too xD

I highly recommend "The Untamed " for the Chinese drama. So great and you can learn many words from that. I am a Chinese leaner too. Chinese is a little difficult in my opinion. But you are great. I started learning that since I am 5 and now I am 14. Even 8 years I don't know everything.😆😆

If you want ideas on chinese dramas that you should watch then I recommend the following (I watched all of them, they are really good): - Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms (AKA Eternal Love) - The Wolf - The Romance of Tiger and Rose - Ashes of Love - Skate into Love If you watch any of them, hope you enjoy ♥️

30 days is incredibly fast! 10 years later and I still feel like I know nothing!

I'm Chinese (born in the U.S.) and am fluent and even I often forget characters. My mom, who lived in china for 32 years forgets characters even more than me so don't worry. Anyway, here are some drama/tv show recommendations Not all of them are for beginners but if you're there for the plot, these are all pretty good Love o2o 爸爸去哪儿 (I don't know the english name but this one is for beginners) General's wife The best of you in my mind Word of honor Begin again Sweet first love Professional single My girl Maiden holmes Goodbye my princess The long ballad You are my hero Go ahead (comment if you have a specific genre you like and I'll see what I can find)

this was so inspiring and aesthetically pleasing!! inspired me to continue learning korean and japanese again ^^

I'm so grateful i found this video. I'm literally struggling w mandarin class this semester. This video help me a lot ♥️ thank you for this!

im chinese and your handwriting is better than mine *teach me your ways-*

I would recommend you to watch Chinese drama about school. It can be quite cliche when it comes to romantic scenes (idk if you like that, but I really do haha). It's a good way I think to listen to everyday conversations between Chinese people and also to get familiar to the pronunciation by listening to common conversations topics

You're inspiring me! I started to learn Chinese a month ago, but i really have no idea where should start. Thanks✨♥️

i liked this already and i didn’t even finish the whole entire video aha , my goal is to learn chinese and japanese as well ✨ you’ve inspired me so well thanks for the vid 🙏🏽

i'm chinese and i'm fluent in mandarin but i'm still learning how to read and write in chinese because i never got the chance to learn when i was little/when i lived in china i was born in new york but my parents flew me to china when i was just a few months old because they couldn't take care of me and work full time jobs so they flew me to china for my grandparents and extended family to care for me. i moved florida when i was 4. i still occasionally go to china every 2-3 years 🇨🇳

Ahhh this is such an inspiration. As a newbie in Mandarin the real struggle for me is how to pronounce the e and r.

Your tones are extraordinary for a Chinese beginner. Keep going 💪

wow your videos are so peaceful and relaxing to watch! i love them :)

Thank you so much for this motivation! You're just amazing!

Woah thanks a lot. Your video is so refreshing to watch and keep my spirit to learn chinese. you also give some inspiration that I don't notice before to learn chinese easier. Thank you so much.

Thank you for the motivation! It’s been difficult picking up my notebook because it’s so daunting, but working through it a little at a time is better than nothing! May peace be upon you.

Aww 非常好! This was really inspirational~ You've come so far in your Chinese. And congratulations on over 800 subscribers 👏🏾

3:46 Wow! That's such a good way of learning and remembering! Amazing! ⭐

Yasss! Someone else who reviews their Japanese while practicing Chinese! I started with numbers, and in some cases, contextually, I can understand a written sentence because of a Japanese Kanji! I know this doesn't always work due to there being a lot of characters that are the same, but have different meaning, but it definitely helped me to ease into the study of Chinese feeling like there was at least SOMETHING I knew! I might be adopting some of these techniques! Thank you for this video! ❤

This is the second video if yours I'm watching and I'm definitely subscribing. I love ppl like you and smart tokki. U guys motivate me so much to keep learning the languages. Thank you!

Green tea is my favorite!! Chinese tones remind me somehow of trying to hit the right notes when I sing . Merry Christmas and happy new year. Already following you on Duolingo btw.

'I Hear You' is a great show - currently self-studying Chinese so thanks for this video ☺

I’ve been trying to learn mandarin since 2017 and only recently do I feel like I’ve made great progress! Don’t worry, and keep trying!

I commend you for what you have accomplished! You actually inspire me 😊

Love your note taking techniques. You are very inspiring 🎉

Very good, ive learned a lot of chinese without much study, i dont know how i did it. You inspire me to study hard like this to improve my chinese ❤️

I love your videos! I subscribed and followed you. My procrastination always gets the best of me and I get lazy to study which is why I'm still a beginner in French, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. I admire that you can stick to your routine. I hope we can learn together!

I always get so inspired to learn languages after I see your videos. Thank you!❤️ If you choose to learn Mandarin from Japanese it will change the language only for this course. All other courses will still be in English when you switch courses.

you really inspiring me^^ i always get lazy when i want to learn chinese, because sometimes it's getting bored. But because of your productive learning, i kinda inspired by your style of study! thank you and your chinese character is very beautiful!

Omg it helped me a lot, i was looking for some apps, sites and stuff. Thank you so much

i just came from your video about your japanese learning journey and you've inspired me to learn japanese over the summer! as a chinese-american, 1) your pronunciation and progress blew me away, and 2) i respect your diligence and hard work so much! it must be a bit trippy to learn simplified chinese after learning japanese kanji haha ;)

skate into love is a cute drama! go ahead is also another fav! if you are into light-hearted historical dramas i'd also recommend the romance of tiger and rose!

I am already learning Japanese since 5 years now, and just found chinese is such beautiful language, but i forgot how to start from beginning to learn a new language. This video is so inspiring and motivating for me !

I’m Chinese and I think your great and your pronunciation is good I’ve never seen a American with so good pronunciation

Pronunciation is really good!!!! I'm trying to learn reading/writing after being in a western country for majority of my life. This is motivating.

Thanks for the inspiration~ good luck with studying Japanese and Chinese ✨ I'm gonna add you on duo

i just talk with people and watch youtube but i really need to start actually studying i need to start actually learning more characters :(

Videos like this really make me wanna study Mandarin!

jazmine i love ur videos!!!!! im learning chinese to talk to my friend dion, she can speak english, but i have autism and i think it will let me tell her about my worries without everyone knowing! this video will help alot!! tysm

I was born in America, during when i was a child there weren’t many chinese th shows I could watch like Ciaohu, it’s a chinese show for kids and the mascot is a tiger. My parents spoke different dialects. I also have a baby sitter who spoke Taitonese (didn’t spell that right) So i learned how to listen and adapt very quickly. Although I can understand what they can say most of the time, i can’t speak mandarin very well because mandarin and cantonese sound the same to me so my mouth will say what ever is easiest on my mouth. I was pushed to learned chinese when 11, i didn’t learn much because i felt that my chinese teachers were jumping subject tk subject way to fast. Also being around small children didn’t get my excited to learn. I dropped out, my sister did too following me. When seeing other people who speak my assumed language better than me, I feel ashamed. I regret not pushing myself, but when i did back then I would cry if i didn’t get it right. I would make myself frustrated that i wasn’t perfect. Or seeing other chinese people reaching great highest when i’m below them, content. I do want to learn I truly do. Because I know I have an advantage, i can ask others around me yet I don’t use that advantage. Because if i try to start learning i’m afraid of getting things wrong and asking my parents and them ridiculing me. It makes me not want to learn. I cant blame them, both my parents didn’t even get into highschool, I know they mean no harm. They don’t know how to parent well, because they aren’t parent well. So i’ve done my studies on my own, i’ve learned how to shut my feeling. My sister she looks up to me as a mother figure because my mom is not. I can speak to her, she is annoying yes. I don’t understand her just as my mom doesn’t understand me. The thing is my sister follows me right? So when i learn she learns that what my mom also tells me. Another reason for me to learn more because it will benefit my sister. I always didn’t like this, i didn’t understand why my sister couldn’t do it on her own while my whole life i’ve done things myself. I didn’t ask teacher nor parents to help me understand things. I figured it by myself, so why doesn’t she have to? It was selfish of me and i still think like this now. I’m ultimately ashamed of myself lot doing better. I’m sorry this is me ranting about myself not hate to the creator you are doing great! I’m 13 btw not an adult, but when i go to highschool i will try to get into the mindset of learning mandarin by myself. I hope that I won’t give up and half ass it.

Really love to watch this channel and this video is superb

I needed this! If I can start today

哇～ 好棒呀！！ Fighting！！加油🥳🥳

I started teaching myself Chinese and Japanese together this month. So glad to see that the strategies I laid out for myself are what you are also doing. I stayed in China for a year but did not learn the language very well so when I got back home to Zimbabwe I thought of learning it myself. Then I realized how Japanese is similar to my mother tongue Shona so why not do both, it might take me long to learn but it's all good.

Your video is so useful to me now. Tks so much❤️

My fav part: "It's so messyyy" *shows us perfectly organized, neat CHINESE MANDARIN notes* I luv ur videos, they are so inspiring💖 Thank u for creating real quality content💖

I'm obsessed with stationary and language learning too 😍

Waw, thank you girl!! I am gonna follow your path. I might adjust it, but so far I like it. My native language is Mexican Spanish, then English. So, here it goes my 3rth one. Thank you so much.

As a native Chinese speaker I can say that your pronunciation is great 😊

thaks u so much i really loved this video, i speak spanish and i want to learn both chinese and japanese in english and you gaved me a looot of resources, mil gracias linda !

Inspirational. Keep at it Jaz!

Wow your writing and pronunciation is amazing you have inspired me to learn Chinese properly

i think learning languages is so fun + i’m learning multiple too so it makes me happy seeing others do it too! one thing i try to tell myself is it’ll take forever to be fluent & a lot of natives still get things incorrect & some of them will even tell you that. heck i’m an english native speaker & my grammar is still so bad lol moral of the story, no one is ever truly perfect in speaking a language, native or not.

I highly recommend "You are my hero" or any Ma Sichun drama. Her smile makes me feel happy for some reason ☺️

4:22 You both Smart Tokki and you are my favorite study vlogger!

"It is not much, but it is something" - I like this quote!

Great video Jazmine, as a fellow Chinese learner I know the beginning can be overwhelming, right now I'm trying to get out of a rut and finish hsk 3 and start with 4. If you want to watch some Chinese dramas I recommend 都挺好， 棋魂，The first half of my life and Nirvana on fire if you like fantasy it's really good. Keep it up 加油

omg you are doing so well girl!!! and also your Japanese. btw I'm a Chinese living in Japan right now. keep going!!

This was a really nice video! Ive been learning mandarin at uni and this gonna be my third year of learning chines, i'll be getting soon intermediate certificate, however it is still quite hard for me to grasp the tones , especially when I want to speak faster . I think the grammar parts are quite difficult even though my tutor always says how chinese grammar is easier than english lol dont know about that...but yea I would say if someone actually wants to start learning it , dont worry and take it slow , this comes from a person that is fluent in 3 languages (dont want to brag about it lol) it actually takes a lot of years to get that solid intermediate level

I started following you in Duolingo! 💖

FYI, Chinese words pronunciation has only 5 sound groups: yin, yang, shang, qu, and neutral. If you are interested to know more how these sounds created, you may search them from the Internet, or RU-vid: Chinese pinyin tone mark. Note: If the sound of the words are pronounce wrong, it may bring another meaning. Beware of that.

Not sure if you already knew this but there’s actually free writing practice sheets that you can find online. The website allows you to input whatever Chinese character you want and you can choose to have the sheets show you practice strokes or not, traditional Chinese etc. So it basically customisable and you can print/download.

C drama recommendation: Go go squid (2 seasons) Love scenery A love so beautiful Love 020 Meteor Garden Put your head in my shoulder Well intended love (2 seasons) Ode to joy (2 seasons)

Good job girl. You're amazing.

Im a chinese! Really amazed by how accurate your pronunciation is and your persistence to work through all 30 days! Your chinese handwriting is also neat consider that you are just learning them! Happy for your achievement :D Some C-dramas to recommend (I love watching chinese dramas): - 如此可爱的我们(ru ci ke ai de wo men) : a short series on the lives of a few high school students, really cute and funny - 微微一笑很倾城 (wei wei yi xiao hen qing cheng): a really popular chinese drama, i think the english name is love 020? Although the female actress is filled with controversy, this is still indeed a good drama. There are more but I watch more historical dramas than modern dramas and I think it is easier to understand modern ones so Ill reco this two first. :D All the best for your learning journey! Even though Im 5 months late haha

A few C-drama recommendations would be 1.The brightest star in the sky (absolutely love this one it is my a time favorite even though I also watch k-dramas. God tier) 2. Skate into love (this show is soo good I can't even explain it in words but if you like some ice sports than this is really good. Its based in college) 3. Chef hua (very relaxing show but also fun)

wow, people often don't put much learning Chinese videos, so I'm glad you did, and let us update GL :)

You’re so brave to learn Chinese and Japanese at the same time! At school I’m learning German and I constantly mix it up with Italian and Spanish 😰 Outside of school, I’m currently focusing on Japanese. 頑張ってください！💖

Your handwriting is so good, congratulations 👏

I love China because I m so obsessed with chinese dramasss,their tradition ,culture etc...🥰❤

4:55 if you haven’t watched the Untamed I HIGHLY recommend it

your notes are so prettyy

teeheehee i’m a bit late but good luck learning chinese! i’m chinese and more precisely, from hong kong so i speak cantonese. cantonese is a lot harder than mandarin though. if you do plan to learn cantonese then i wish you the best of luck!

watch Triad Princess!! its based in Taiwan so the accents are different than what you might be used to + theres some native dialect, but such a good show!!

Your handwriting is really good!

Well done dear jazmine👏❤️

I loved!! Hii Jazmine! i'm from brazil and i study japanese, korean and chinese, your channel inspires me a lot!! ☺☺

Your the best of vlogging a language

You should watch unrequited love and triad princess! (That one’s Taiwanese but it’s very good!)

oh I enjoyed so much see you studying

i would recommend watching the untamed and a thing called first love! and if you are interested in animated movies green snake! its based on a chinese folk tale im not sure if you have watched them already and if you want to watch some mordern ones i think nothing but thirty and ode to joy are good!!

wonderful.......you do it the best

your accent is already rlly good!

i had learned mandarin on duolingo too it looks so easy on it

For a cdrama i recommended "love better than immortality" and "love by hypnotic" or something like that

your writing is so perfect

Ooww I found your channel now and you are learning this 3 language that ı want to learn too. I choose korean and chinese, ı hope I will start someday😌 choosing was a big step for me😅

I dont know if you 've ever seen it but i highly reccoment ''the Untamed'' as a series . You can find it on youtube,btw love ur videos

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH ❤❤❤

Watching your video made me cheerful