How To Speak Fluent Mandarin Using Immersion: A Complete Guide 

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You can already use Chat GPT to create content at lower level, or with other limitations. I've created a bunch of texts asking it to use only the 500 most common words of the language, and generated audio (using LingQ makes this possible, plus basically gives you away to make 'flashcards' too. Other instructions, e.g. to make it A1 level or something, or getting it to focus on certain language (which it can translate from English even), can produce easier to understand texts to start with. And you can keep doing it and not have to get bored with what you're listening to/reading. One interesting thing I hit on was asking it to minimize use of nouns but to feel free to use as many 'indefinite nouns' as possible (that are general, referring to something more specific; e.g. place, person, situation, problem, theme, etc., etc.). Then I asked it to use 5 of them in a text, and to use each at least twice. The resulting texts were often interesting and varied (though not always, but you can keep going), and interestingly reasonably simple (though more like B1). Experiment with it and all sorts of stuff can be done with it. I'm also no fan of flashcards, find it tedious, so I collect new words and phrases, and then get Chat GPT to use them in a few texts, import them into LingQ, then listen to them first maybe more than once, making as much sense of them as you can, read them doing the same, create LingQs, do some of the stuff in there (particularly the mixed up sentence reordering), until you start to tire of the context. Move on. As you go you can create increasingly higher level material, and also stuff focusing on certain categories of language you notice, and on subjects or questions or situations that come to mind that appeal to you. A nice, free, individual, graded way to immerse in the language.

I can understand everything you said so easily like I do it in spanish. That is what I'm looking for with chinese. Is hard because I kind of forgot how I studied english 😅

Khatzumoto & Matt vs Japan put out so much good information back in the day when immersion learning wasn't well-known, & inspired so many language learners! These days, there are finally a few RU-vid channels with beginner listening material for Mandarin comprehensible input, hopefully someday soon it will be possible to learn from scratch with 100% immersion.

Considering how big the difference between English and Chinese languages is, I can totally feel the pain as English is the second language for myself. I totally agree with the immersion theory, in order to get rid of the mother tongue, AKA the voice in your head, you need to practice like you never knew any other languages, treat the language you're learning as your first language, your brain is a powerful machine it can quickly adapts the linguisctical changes via compensation.

I'm immersing in English, my second language, right now!

Man, I've done at least 4-5 hours of English emersion watching your videos!😄 Your tip in a different video, about not over-pronouncing the high pitch sounds really helped me with the English /i/ as in beach!

I’ve been reading Chinese since I began. I’ve been working on my listening skills because that’s what is getting in the way of immense progress.

3:11 I actually burst out laughing at the Johnny 5 reference! I knew exactly the part you were talking about... "INPuuuUT!". Love the videos also, your systems are among the best!

Great method, I actually learned English like that. Now I’m learning my 4th language via my 2d language learned 😂😄

First time watching your content and I subscribed immediately, extremely valuable and motivating, thank you!

Great tips! I’m especially a fan of comprehensible input. I try to watch Netflix movies in Chinese with subs to follow along and train my Hanzi. For reading and listening I use DuChinese a lot. You can listen to a native person read, listen without the text, tap to translate the characters, and you can save words to either it’s own flashcard SRS or you can export to Anki. I think getting tons of input so it feels second nature is the key. I’m also trying a Chinese tutor on Preply soon since I need to speak more, but it’s the scariest part haha.

I can't believe how much great content you are generating and making available. Thankyou so much. Every time my enthusiasm wanes, there is another fantastic pep talk and new stimulating ideas and suggestions to get me back on track. I'm just heading back for some more lessons and also try some of these new ideas. I do manage at least something Chinese every day. Thanks again to all at Mandarin blueprint.

You are absolutely right .I am Lucky that I found you 👍

If I'm understanding the way I work in English correctly, I believe that the best way to use traditional analytical learning is in addition to your normal use of the language as a way of polishing or ironing out any kinks in your practice and get a more global view and closer understanding of the language rather than gather new information, learned dutch mainly through the school system and despite having a really great surface level I really lack the personality and comfort I can inject into my English

This video really resonates with me because it intuitively seems like it makes a lot of sense. I am going to try it! I immediately installed Migaku and I will say that one powerful benefit of it that isn't even stated in the video is that it can automatically translate between simplified and traditional character sets, so people who are learning one character set can draw in additional content from videos that use the other set. That's huge! It also color-codes by tone, which is very helpful, and has pixelated English captions that become clear if you hover the mouse. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get Anki to work. It doesn't seem to work with Migaku. When I installed it yesterday, on Sept. 1, 2023, I got an error message that reads "Your Anki version 2.1.66 is newer than the currently recommended version for the Migaku addons (2.1.65). The Migaku addon may not work correctly." Indeed, it doesn't seem to work at all. When I attempt to use Anki add-on while using Migaku for viewing a video, I just get a rotating pinwheel and Anki ultimately fails to load. So what's weird about this is that I downloaded Migaku just a few minutes before downloading Anki, so I am assuming it is the latest version. There is no way to download the previous version of Anki that it says it the one that is compatible. Why would Anki create a newer update that is beyond the capabilities of the app it is supposed to sync with? Very strange. It makes it appear as if this is all bleeding-edge stuff and not really well-established functionality, which is fine. Hopefully it will get there as more people use it. (這個情況的原因可能是我現在使用免費的版本。) At any rate, it looks like for now I will be using Migaku to do two things. 1) to create flashcards manually, which I have been doing with the Sticky Study app, and 2) create subtitles that are better than the ones that are already in the video, colorful, possibly auto-paused for reading comprehension, and with definitions and English translations available by hovering the mouse. (What wasn't clear to me from watching this video is that although the majority of Chinese language RU-vid videos have subtitles that appear on screen, often using cool fonts and video effects to highlight key moments, it seems at first glance that Migaku can work only with videos that already have Chinese-language closed captioning enabled natively within RU-vid. This seems generally to be professionally produced TV series, but generally not your average vlogger, which is what I had tended to be trying to use for language learning.) So it isn't as if you can watch *any* Chinese-language video and have Migaku work with it. On a separate side note, I will just mention that Migaku appears to be a browser extension for Chrome, but lately I've been watching RU-vid using Microsoft Edge because RU-vid recently doesn't seem to work well with Chrome. It is slow and awkward. So basically everything would be perfect if Anki worked with Migaku and if RU-vid worked with Chrome or if Migaku had a Microsoft Edge browser extension.

9:44 I did this while watching lego monkie kid in chinese, and learnt a few new words, including 凡人, 尾巴 and 徒弟 I cheered when I could understand it more than the first time

Ha Ha! Great video! Loved the Short Circuit reference too! Thanks for sharing!

This is what i did with my kids with little fox chinese and tutors. After 5 years my 11 year old is taking debate classes in chinese designed for taiwanese kids.

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Yay Johnny 5 is a great reference 🎉 Great tips, I'm certainly gonna try that migaku thing, looks pretty handy. By the way, where do you buy manga written in mandarin Chinese? It hasn't been easy for me to find them. Just started following you, it's been quite instigating ^^

Thanks for the info 👍

I'm just starting and find listening to songs with the lyrics in English syllables makes it fun and easier to pronounce.

What's the name of the FM you've mentioned in this video? I wish to listen to that FM too, would you be able to drop it here, please?

Immersion process sounds a bit like the Waldorf/Steiner School 3 day rhythm but in that system the sleep in between is important. You don't have to wait 3 days to start a new thing to learn, you just need to keep track of which stage of the 3 parts applies to what content.

这么好的教☺

Number 5 is alive!

I love these ideas. Did you do the same thing to learn English?

Yo i loved johnny five , i wish i could do that

🔥🔥Gold gold gold. Currently on Phase 2 Mandarin Blueprint you guys are marvelous. The work y'all put into these RU-vid videos, the courses, and the advice in general it's crazy admirable the work you've put into all of it. So much attention to detail. I can only imagine how time consuming it is.

Cutting off the dramatic stares from tvshows?😮 But that's the best part😱🤣🤣🤣🤣

Nice

Is there a video on how to make the flashcards? This seems to be my hang up.

I've been looking for a translation of One piece into simplified Chinese but I haven't been able to find it but I saw that you had it in this video. Where can I find this?

what is the podcast app that you use? please helpp, i need the app that provide subtitle

Looks like your were missing some assets when you exported this in premiere lol

As a complete beginner, I am starting with listening to children's stories passively without reading any characters. Is this ok to do it?

I have a question about the ethics related to language learning. I am a life long language learner. In school I studied German, then French, then Spanish, and now as an adult I am focusing on improving my Spanish and I have started Persian/Farsi because I have a lot of family in Iran. I have also dabbled in other languages online for fun. Mostly Mandarin and Japanese. As I am studying Persian, I find myself increasingly frustrated with the government in Iran, their actions, and the circumstances there. It makes it difficult for me to enjoy learning the language, even though I have wonderful family members there. I feel the same way about learning Mandarin. I have no family in China, but of course there are so many Mandarin speakers world wide, it can be very useful. However, I often feel the same way about China, their government, and their actions and wonder about the ethics of learning this language. I’m curious about your thoughts on this subject, or anyone else reading this. Thank you for any thoughts/feedback. 🙏

I will be 71 next month and I've never been successful at setting goals. I'll leave that to David Beckenham 😅

I'm currently about to finish the Blueprint 30 day challenge, and I have been putting in a soldid 2-3 hours of focused study per day, adding in immersion for another 2-4 hours during my day while I can't even understand it, im just using english subtitles for movies. I am listening to podcasts and music in mandarin and I am just doing that while driving or walking etc so that is passive, but obviously I understang nothing still. I am at 205 characters currently, but 30-40 a day seems to be the max I am able to get in. I don't feel like it takes me long to do the movie method, but my reviews are starting to take like 2 hours some mornings. Any tips for keeping the reviews more short and to the point? I had 250 cards this morning and it took me 1 hour and 45 mins.

Quick question since I didn't find it anywhere. What app do you use to read the comics? 😅

Where is this matt vs japan interview video?? I can’t find it

The biggest problem I found was that most of the Chinese people I've met speak Cantonese and I learnt Mandarin .🤔

what are the graded readings and podcast he shows at 12:08?

How do I not get overwhelmed with trying to learn anki or migaku tho. Also, question, I am 2 months into mandarin am I supposed to be learning Hanzi already?

Gotta stop trying to learn and start trying to use the language like a living, breathing language that people live their entire lives in.

Spanish subtitles 😬🙏🏻🥺(? Me gustan mucho tus videos

I've tried Ximalaya and I believe it is not avalaible anymore for anyone outside mainland China

I hate when people say you need input but don't give you any damn resources to find it

No disassemble Johnny 5!

xianxia dramas with same language subtitles.......nice

in every second video you talked about 3000 words but i couldn't find it. do you have any link so we can come to know which 3000 words you are talking about ?

Sum / FOUNDATION : LEARN CHARACTERS (THE VIDEO) LEARN 1000 to 1500 MOST COMMON WORDS and (pronunciation + tones) Because reading is really important It's easier and faster to understand than listening IMMERSING / Spend as much time as you can with the language 10:17

At 30:20 - I think your inserted graphics didn’t work. This keeps coming up.

其实网络小说会是一个不错的可理解输入来源，因为要照顾大多数读者，它们用词不会特别难，掌握1500-2000个汉字应该能读懂？而且确实很容易上瘾，身边经常有每天花很长时间看网文的人

Why you added that background noise that totally ruined the video? What a pity, you have superb voice and explanations.

11:20 Don't think I didn't catch that one punch man chapter

ONEPUNCHMAAAAAAAN!

Cannabis may or may not help me understand Chinese

Why are you saying at least 3000 characters? you mean 3000 words

Hello， I am a Chinese，and work as a software development engineer. I wanna find a partner to practise English and teach her/him Chinese as far as I can. if you have the same idea as well， please leave me meesages and tell me how to touch with you

"How to Speak Fluent Mandarin..." by speaking English. This could have rather been something like "How to speak a language fluently..." With Chinese being an example

Hmm, I have to somewhat disagree with you here. There is nothing wrong about learning Chinese from textbooks and attending classes with teachers. Isn't that how we learn most subjects in school? 😄 Actually, Chinese/Mandarin is indeed one of the toughest languages to learn, according to official rankings out there. As with any language, I highly encourage learning Chinese from textbooks and teachers. The main problem is, as a beginner, you don't know which textbook is appropriate or good for yourself. You may also not have access to such textbooks. Many foreign language learners also don't practise enough even after attending classes and that is their downfall. If you simply learn Chinese on your own, it will be very difficult for you to be proficient at it. You need to practise using it as often as possible. It would be best if you have a native Chinese teacher to guide and correct you. I have seen too many Caucasians learn Chinese on their own. They think they speak reasonable well but actually, their pronunciation of the Chinese words is inaccurate, which may sometimes be difficult to understand, if not hilarious. 😃 (No sarcasm intended!)

You must have said 'passively' a hundred times in this video. But do you really mean 'passively'. What about the word modern teachers use (those who know these principles, which I at least half discovered 30 years ago), which is 'receptively'. Listening isn't 'passive'.

It's easy just start by learning 1500 characters and their pronunciation and meaning. Then watch TV.