how I study Chinese | self study routine 

me, a chinese person, who was born in guangdong watching a foreigner’s way of learning chinese to get tips 👁 👄 👁

It's nice to watch how students are learning Chinese characters. Thanks for vloging your journey. :)

Your notes are super cute and I'm so glad you're learning Chinese but if you are going to write the characters out for three lines like that, just look up the stroke order before you starting writing out each character! You're Chinese handwriting is actually one of the best I've ever seen from a beginner, but your stroke order is wrong (which I know you mentioned, but here's my point:) and you practiced that incorrect stroke order for 3 lines of your book! I really don't want you to feel upset to anything but I would like to suggest that if you look up the correct stroke order before you start writing it out, then you could be practicing the correct stroke order for 3 lines rather than the wrong one! And trust me, if you learn the correct stroke order, it will take you less time to write the characters (it will feel more natural) and it will also help you improve your Chinese handwriting! That's all I have to say, I'm so sorry if anything I said made you upset, I really am so happy you are studying Chinese and hope you will never give up ❤️😊

in my opinion, chinese is one of the hardest language to learn. big props to doing ur best. stroke order also has many "unwritten rules" so that if u learn correct stroke order for enough characters, new characters will come intuitively.

what scares me about learning mandarin is the fact that a text book might be giving you the wrong definition and you'd never know..

My japanese studies are screaming and telling me to keep going :D

Hey! You’re really good at Chinese for a beginner, just wanted to point that out. Having grown up speaking and writing Chinese (and English) and being fully Chinese, here’s what I would recommend: You’re currently learning to write in 簡體 (simplified Chinese), but if you are planning on learning both 繁體字 and 簡體字 I would recommend starting out with 繁體 (traditional Chinese). I get that learning simplified Chinese is easier and possibly faster than learning traditional Chinese, but learning 繁體 then 簡體 rather than 簡體 first and then 繁體 would be easier. (That might’ve been really confusing, lol sorry about that,) By that, I mean learning traditional Chinese then simplified Chinese, instead of simplified Chinese first then traditional would make it easier to learn to read and write the latter version of Chinese. Do also keep this in mind: mainland China (at least mainly) uses simplified Chinese, but if you’re planning to go to places like Taiwan, Hong Kong, or Macau, learning traditional Chinese would probably be a good idea.

I'm chinese and lemme just say your handwriting is way better than mine :)))

I’m currently studying Chinese, and that’s how I found your channel. I got so excited to learn that you were watching going seventeen while practicing Chinese characters!!! Those are two things that I love!! 加油！

Chinese is such a beautiful language. It has a long history and is really worth learning. Thanks for sharing your experience🥰

I am a fluent chinese and wow you right Chinese characters so much neater than me!! XD

"I know you wanna learn Chinese but you're procrastinating by watching my video!" haha you got me! SO ACCURATE

I learned Chinese for 3 years in high school, then college came around and it was 2 years on and off because of schedule conflicts. Now, I'm trying to maintain my Chinese skills, as well as continue to learn on my own. I've been watching Meteor Garden as well lol. Also, I've never followed the strict stroke order, and my teachers (who were both Chinese born) never really made a big deal about it. They said my handwriting was really nice, so I'm not sure if I should be following the stroke order or not. Also, for anyone in the USA, I use an app called Mango Languages, and if you have a membership with your local library, then you can have a free account with the app! I find it pretty helpful. You can learn words, phrases, and grammar points.

for book series i recommend the integrated chinese series (level 1, pt, level 1 pt 2, etc). It comes with a textbook, a workbook for practicing writing characters( details stroke order as well), as well as a workbook to practice what you learned from the textbook. there's also audio that pronounces the vocab and also reads textbook and workbook dialogue but im doing this through a university class so i think if you want to have the audio you have to buy through the publisher site directly. anyways hope this helps.

I usually use digital flashcards to memorize kanji, but I think I'll try writing a lot of times as well to see If that also helps me. Because the kanjis that look similar always make me feel confused. Please, whenever you have time, do a Japanese study with me video ♥️♥️♥️ I'll love it.

Ty for all the tips. I actually wanted to learn Korean but now that I have seen you you actually inspired me to learn more languages. So I've ordered some books and now I'll study Korean, Japanesse and Chinesse. It will help me cause in the future I want to travel to asia and maybe go to collage there :). Gl to you and I hope you learn your languages soon!

This makes me wanna learn mandarin >-

Hmm your Study methods though aesthetically pleasing - isn’t really efficient. When learning new characters in the beginning learn the most important ones writing over sample ones 10x or so. All others you should not endlessly write. This method takes forever and does not guarantee that you will remember them long term. This is how most study characters and they suffer through it and have to relearn repeatedly. What I use: flashcards - even new characters I only copy them 2x after that I just see the pinyin side of the card and try to write it down - than if successful Put it into the green pile - if not back to the end of the deck and with a red pen I correct my mistakes on the written character + rewrite the character with a red pen correctly 1x. In the second round the correct hanzi goes to the blue pile and after that correct hanzi goes into the red pile. I review the red pile later that day/ in the next card pile I do that day, the blue pile the next day and the green pile either the next day or 2 days later. - This is like ANKI but paper based. (Because I only write them down 1x/2x a time I can keep reviewing and the periods of review keep getting longer and longer until they became part of your long term memory and you can easily recall.) I realized when doing anki that rewriting and copying doesn’t help memorising - only helps in writing nice hanzi so when I struggle to write a character or it’s very ugly I use grey printed practice sheets to write over the hanzi to have the correct way. But it is not to memorise ! It is to have an aesthetic handwriting !

I wanted to learn the Chinese language, but I was too lazy, but when I see your videos, I get energy and start learning

I never thought about the graph study chart! I recognize Chinese characters, but I was worried about me memorizing them long term. This will definitely help! Thank you so much!

There's a basic rule in learning strokes in which a certain kind of stroke comes first before the other (e.g. heng which is the horizontal line comes first before the shu or the vertical line). You can look this up on Google. It's really helpful instead of learning the sequences for all characters. Also, it's very very important in writing correctly esp. in calligraphy. Try to master it so your muscle memory won't get used to your current practice.

i’m so motivated to learn Chinese now 🏃🏽‍♀️

HelloChinese and the Innovation (Chinese 101) apps are my favorite! And I’ve been watching Accidentally in Love on Netflix

'Watching going seventeen while writing characters' My heart: Aww my fellow Carat❤ Also love your videos!

As a chinese when I saw your handwriting i was so shocked and made me question about my handwriting now. Self esteem - 100000000000

You seem like a really hard working and artsy person. I’m Chinese and I encourage you to try learning chinese calligraphy. Not only does it require you to practice perfecting chinese characters, it also requires you to know the origin of the word and sometimes the history behind it before perfecting the character. Doing chinese calligraphy can benefit you a lot! 加油！👍👍

As a chinese, I must say it can be hard to learn chinese! But don't worry, Chinese people don't know to write as many words as you think, we still have loAds of words we don't know how to write, even if we know how to read it. Simple words like 鼻 (bi2, 鼻子 -nose) yea, some of us still forget it. I just realised how the translations are a lil off sometimes, and there are like random traditional characters in your book? Idk if it's supposed to be there but just so you know! I wish you all the best!

Wow, your characters are so neat, I was raised in Chins by my grandparents, but when I moved to America with my parents, I forgot literally everything I learned and can only speak Chinese and write simple words lol

Me as a chinese speaker, I wanna day myself that chinese is not easy at all. There's no alphabet, there are strokes, you have to rely on your memory and it can be confusing sometimes. The 汉语拼音 and the 成语，笔画 ，熟语EVRYTHING BY MEMORY it's hard but you will eventually get the hang of it and learn way way more to come. Also if you are ready you should change your phone language to chinese. It helps you to get to know some words that you may not know :) study hard! Learning any language is hard and If I were you I would procrastinate :) so you are 👏👏👏👏 加油↖(^ω^)↗你可以的!

i rlly recommend 马立平 chinese books! the kindergarten to second grade books are mostly poems or short stories third grade is longer but also short stories fourth grade is long stories the grades go up to 8th every story has words to learn from the stories and each chapter has a glossary telling the meaning of words

As Chinese myself, here is my salute to your dedication. We learned basic characters through elementary for 6+ years. Looking back, I dont think I can learn Chinese starting as a grown up man, it is just ... too much efforts. Glad it is my mother tongue so I could master it for free, lol. English is still hard, but that Chinese dauting lol Chinese is definitely a good language to learn for cultural perspective and business opportunity alike, so all the best luck!

I take mandarin at my school and it’s going great. I’m on lesson 10. But I wanted to learn how to organize my learning and this really helps.

Your learning journey makes me want to learn Mandarin

Hello! I am a student from a chinese school. I have learned chinese for 6 years and learned alot, but that doesn't mean i love it. I don't like it a bit but it's a good language in my opinion. I'm really proud seeing other people learn this language, it was hard for me to go through. In my grade level, there's no pin yin/funetics in our chinese textbooks. Lucky for you, you're trying to self-learn chinese. I have always wanted wanted learn Japanese, but I find it pretty hard. Thank you for trying to learn chinese and thank you for inspiring me!! :)

God I remember during primary school we had to do writing exercises to remember how to write the characters but I was a dumb ass kid who didn't know and I thought that it was stupid but now I cannot read and write much Chinese. I only know who to speak it

Even the native speakers from China can't write as beautiful as you do and I think you might be good at drawing since Chinese words are derived from pictures.

I'm.. amazed by how i still remember chinese even tho i stopped learning it 5 years ago.. guess my teacher's hardwork are not in vain 😅

I use a book by Tuttle. Tells you the stroke order and memory tips for each character. Also learning on Duolingo. Read each sentence out loud and from memory as best you can! Been a game changer for me.

ignoring the stroke order, your handwriting is honestly amazing 👏 加油 ^ ^

I NEED THIS IM LITERALLY DYING IN CHINESE THIS YEAR

your vids never fail to motivate me to study!!

I was wondering why yt recommended me this video cause I only think of learning Chinese and then I saw "going seventeen" and "find yourself"~ Good luck with your studies~^^

as someone who has been writing japanese characters my whole life, ur handwriting is BEAUTIFUL

I really love your videos so much!! ❤️ they are really inspirational to me because at the moment I’m studying Korean and now I want to start studying Chinese 💕 thanks for the motivation 😄 have a good day or night and stay safe!!!

your handwriting is great! 你的字写的很棒！💪

I hadn’t thought to do this sort of practice with the characters! I’ll definitely do that now, thank you! 💗

your pinyin handwriting is good tho! I'm still in the process of learning, thanks for the tips

Hi I am a Chinese and I just want to say that your handwriting is so good 🥺！

Thanks for this awesome vlog!!! I've started learning Mandarin Chinese!!!💕💕💕💖💖

I feel attacked at the "procrastinate" 😂 btw ur handwriting is so beautiful

I can speak chinese, I've studied it for a long time and let me say that your handwriting is sooo good so clear really

omg ur handwriting is so gd (im chinese btw and my handwriting needs to be at least half as good as yours ahhh )

You can try download pleco (its an offline dictionary for chinese) and they have this step by step stroke instruction✨✨✨

I guess learning Japanese was a right decision. I can't keep up with that much of hardwork to learn so many Kanjis lol But if I find some motivation to learn Chinese I'll surely learn someday. ✨🥰

I wouldn't dive so quickly into characters personally. When I lived in China I did the same and it was far too slow. When I learned pinyin sentence by sentence, I progressed much quicker. I studied characters just so I could read the menu's. I'm learning some more characters for HSK exams but if it wasn't for that I wouldn't have bothered. Just my two cents enjoy your studying :)

Honestly those books are for primary school but it's a great way to learn Chinese. Start from basic and your writing also really good even though sometime you wrote it in the wrong way but it's still perfect! Good luck! 加油！

thank you for this!! i've been struggling on how to use my notebooks for this tho. this is a great help for me!!

Me who shows symptoms of ADHD making it nearly impossible to learn chinese korean and japanese: 👁👃👁 💧👄💧

i liked how realistic this video was. not one of those language videos making u feel bad about not already being fluent in 20 languages

hh as a Singaporean Chinese- your study hack is way better then me-

YOUR HANDWRITING LOOKS SO FRUCKING GOOOD

Did I just see her watching Meteor Garden 😛 Good dramas = Instant subscribe 😏

I’ve been speaking Chinese for 6 years by now and I think she is doing a great job!

this Is the second video I watched on your channel I'm gonna subscribe now!💯💯💯✨

Now I'm re-viewing this video and omg 0:17, you actually inspired me to learn mandarin! Now I'm on my way to get the HSK 1

How is your handwriting so good? I’m Chinese American and I’ve been struggling because I have language classes in Highschool for Chinese. Your videos have helped and motivated me a lot. Tysm!!

I am bilingual Chinese and German. Your video just remember me my school time in China.... keep going!

thank you for making this content! i currently learn korean and same here watching gose while review the vocabularies lol XD, soon i wanna learn chinese as well and again thank you!

tip- don't try to learn both traditional chinese and simplified chinese at the same time, and since it's hard for u to remember the stroke order, i recommend simplified chinese as traditional chinese is only mostly used in china or taiwan

你好～ 我是墨西哥人和我学了中文4个年。Hi! I’m from Mexico and i studied mandarin for four years haha but i need to keep studying and practicing by myself. Your video really inspired me 🥺 keep going!! You’re doing amazing already

As a Chinese girl who was born in the Netherlands, had 8 years of Chinese school and still struggle to learn, I find this more impressive than what I've done. :)

Ahh I remember studying Mandarin back in 9th and 10th grade but stopped because my school stopped the mandarin classes. This video made me miss it and want to continue studying it 😭

im chinese but i was raised in the us and you know more chinese than i do istg also your writing is so pretty!!

Hey! I think I really find your videos aesthetic and it inspires me to learn chinese or mandarin too! I would really recommend the app Drops for your vocabulary :) it helps me to remember vocabs easier :)

I’m Asian (Chinese) personally and i honestly just love seeing people write Chinese 🥺 it makes me feel at home 🏠

I’m chinese, I’m very happy watching your learning chinese video, you wrote chinese are so beautiful than me

Hi,I am from China 🇨🇳 and also your writing is very good and you are learning it very well 👍 and you write the characters very good like me

You are so organized :) In short, great video

OMG!! I also watched Meteor Garden 2018 and started like Dylan Wang as Dao Ming Tse and Shen Yue as Dong Shan Cai 😍 watching them on your video makes me miss them ☺️

I have been studying chines for a year and let tell you that you method is really good fro beginners that is how I started 加油

I feel like she learns more from those books than I have ever learnt in Chinese class and I’ve been learning Chinese my whole life...

And suddenly "watching going seventeen ehile learning chinese" appears i was like OMG!!!!! 💎

I'm a beginner too at Chinese but I have some experience from studying Japanese. I personally don't care to write characters so I'm just doing lots of vocabulary flash cards. Reading them is a lot easier than writing them.

omg meteor garden yess!! MY FAVORITE DRAMA EVER😭😭💖

As a chinese, i really like your handwriting 😍😍😍

As a Chinese, for stroke patterns, I don't really pay much attention to it. As long it looks house it should look and is legible, it doesn't really matter how you write it. As long as it's comfortable to you I guess. I think it's because I have to write essays and I don't have time to care about the strokes. Good luck tho💕😙 You can do itt😝

This video really chills me. Opening pack voice is an another satisfying thing. Also, it really amazed me you're learning so many languages in one time. I am learning also 3 languages at the same time and my family calls me crazy because of this. I also used the same apps with you but Duolingo feels me like I am in a competition so I deleted it. Anyways, have a good study. Don't worry about your character writing. You're going a very good job.🌸

thank you so muuchhh babyyy i really confused from where i should start.... this is so helpful thankyouu after giving me a lot of motivation !!!!

I love that notebook! Do you have a link where to buy it?

I didn't expect that this video will recommended to me! I really want to learn Chinese language (Mandarin) on my own but I'm lazy to start and search "How to study by yourself" in youtube. Maybe this video will motivates me to start now hahaha...

This is actually good! Keep going!! You can do it!

Your Chinese writing is beautiful 🖊

Watching Going Svt was unexpected I'm am carat too. Thanks for such a enjoyable vlog, it's ver motivating.

Ok seriously your Chinese handwriting IS VERY NICE

I’m a beginner to learning languages and I’m learning Japanese at the moment. After that I’m going to learn Korean and then Chinese! I might start Korean soon though

your handwriting is so neat i'm actually jealous 😭😭

The links for the books please .

lol i'm not patient enough to have such a pretty workbook 😅 mine is a mess and all the character seems to be falling apart. thank you for the inspiration 💕

hey I see you learn Chinese mixed with traditional Chinese and simplied Chinese,you better choose one way to learn.it will confuse you, sorry my English is bad.