I FINISHED MY FIRST CHINESE GRADED READER! 🎈 | Learning Languages Through Reading 

This makes me so excited to get started! I wanted to celebrate doing a month of learning chinese with no days off by investing in some of these books in the breakthrough level and also got the audiobooks as well so i can practice my reading anddd listening skills as well. I think reading a chapter a day and creating decks out of the words you learn from each chapter is so freaking solid!

Emma was one of the first I read too, and I reread a long time later, after more than half a year in Chinese speaking countries, and it seemed like there was new stuff in there. Heads up, the Curly Haired company is harder than most of the level books, but it's very fun, one of their more popular books.

I feel like I accomplished something even reading a popular fiction book in English so of course it's that much better in a foreign language. When I was self learning German I basically measured my progress by the number of books I had read. I didn't actually count them though but I would gaze at them fondly on my bookshelf quite often. I actually will get a sore throat if I try to read everything out loud so I just read interesting bits out loud. Studying German and later Spanish, I totally found that reading helped my listening skills a lot just like you were talking about. With Japanese not so much though. I don't really know the reason why but I blamed the writing system. I think an alphabet stimulates our brain in a very similar way that listening does whereas with kanji it's a lot more of a visual memory thing going on. I think actually reading stuff out lout would probably help balance that out though. Do these graded readers include pinyin for all of the text?

I loved this video. Inspiring! Reading outloud - I'll remember to do that! Thank you Robin!

I am hanging on every word you say Robin. I am trying all of your good counsel. I am reading your book, but I haven't tried the graded readers. Your note-taking recommendations have given a real boost to my language studies! I like the 3-tiered system the best! I am also trying to learn notion. Best wishes to you Robin!

Thanks for recommending the Mandarin Companion readers. I just finished reading Emma, and am starting on The Prince and the Pauper next. If anyone is interested in having flashcards to use before reading, I created some Quizlet decks for these two readers that can be found in this folder: quizlet.com/JoelAaronSeely/folders/mandarin-companion-readers?x=1xqt&i=w6nyd. I will likely be adding to this as I go after more readers.

I've started drinking coffee because of you, and I really liked it. Thank you 💚 😊.

Thanks for these tips! I've been learning Chinese for some time and I feel like I'm at a stand still. I'll be looking forward to more tips!

It’s 1:45pm PST and I’m also drinking a cup of coffee lol. I just received Just Friends 我们是朋友吗？ I’m planning on buying more books from Mandarin Companion. I also regularly listen to their podcasts. Looking forward to you and Jared talk. He’s hilarious. 😀

So far from your channel I have purchased every Mandarin Companion book and got a yearly subscription to Skritter. Great study tool advice!

I love graded readers! I'm using them for Japanese.

Omg congrats!!!!

I'm actually learning french and italian just by reading.... AWESOME VIDEO I'm recommending to the most people i could for sure... At least for those are learning new lngs

I'm learning mandarin chinese as well and I really enjoy reading chinese! Even if it's just a little text. As you said, you feel that accomplishment and it's wonderful! But I feel that my listening is not improving. How do you practice chinese listening? Could you do a video about it?? (I'm a real fan, I love your videos! Thank you for all the great content)

eres un grande Robin, un grande

Graded readers really helped me to learn Chinese as well. They might have been the most important element in my success. Your experience with reading and just having trouble processing sentences mirrors my experience with a Vietnamese reader this summer. I try to read through each text multiple times until I can read it without looking up words. Do you ever read them in conjunction with a tutor? If so, how do you suggest going about it for maximum effectiveness?

I’ve read through the entire Harry Potter series in Chinese, yet I still feel like a noob 🤣 If you read on a Kindle it will automatically add any word you look up to a the inbuilt flashcard system ( if you’re really tech savvy the cards are stored on a SQLite database that you can extract and put into whatever system you want)

Which Spanish graded reader do you recommend for beginner Spanish ?

Robin, do you know if they have published a list of the 300 characters the reader is assumed to know? You inspired me to buy one of the series but it is 30+ years since I last studied Chinese, and my memory of basic vocabulary is, shall we say, a little patchy!

How do you do anything at 5am

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Mandarin companion books have an audio book version. Will you incorporate them in your reading? If so, how?

Robin, Which French graded readers do you recommend? I'm B1

I know it differentiates from person to person but how long it took you to become this level (I mean being able to read that book) in Chinese for you?

Are you learning Mandarin and German both?

I'm learning Japanese and I'm reading my second novel.Reading in another language is so much fun.

Can I ask another question instead, Can I ask what camera you are using?

Not a small task for Chinese 😊

I am learning French. How do I get to a point to begin reading and comprehend what I am reading. I am using Babble for my very basic French.

I would like to try to read a Chinese book, but I have a question. There are some characters which I still don't know, how can I understand the meaning and reading of that character?

I've been limiting myself to graded readers with audio. It seems to me that you are not using a graded reader with audio. How do you make sure you have the pronunciation correct?

Learn Chinese it's like u learn beautiful instrumentals, u just need to hit it at the right note. Also those who learned Chinese considered IQabove standard, not every one cld speak and understand Chinese. Btw, kudos my fren

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