0:00 - Intro 0:22 - Why learn mandarin? 2:15 - Is mandarin hard? 5:40 - Where to start? 7:05 - How to make pronunciation better? 11:06 - How to learn 汉字/hanzi? 13:02 - Make it fun
I listen to around 40 Chinese singers on RU-vid. Their sounds make my heart sing. I listen to them every day.I want to understand whet they are singing and saying. I started studying Putonghua early in 2022. I am fascinated by this language which is so different from my native language of English, my high school French, and the Spanish I learned to be able to communicated with my patients. It is a big challenge. I am having to train my ear to new sounds, i.e., the tones. I have the most difficulty distinguishing between the rising (second) and the falling (fourth) tones. I have the Hello Chinese app on my phone and do that every day too. Thanks for your video.
I have volunteered in China to help teach in hospitals. I have had to try and learn Mandarin to communicate while in China. I fell in love with the culture and now the language. I am studying with a tutor and learning Hanzi & pinyin. I am looking forward to seeing more of your videos. Thank you for posting.
❤I never even thought of learning Chinese unless I got acquainted with a Chinese person who I made friends with about a year ago. Since then I started learning Chinese and the more I do it the more I love it. 🇷🇺
For me I have multiple reasons. My 1st reason is heritage. I come from A Chinoy Caviteno family ( Chinese filipino ) and my great grandpa was fully chinese during the qing dynasty and left china to the philippines in 1904-1905. 2nd is work, i plan on being a linguist and being able to read chinese historical books ect. My last reason is the Chinese-Korean-Japanese learning method; there are books in chinese i believe which details characters used by korea and japan aswell as old chinese which makes learning all of them way easier.
I always admire other languages and cultures around the world and its amazing how resilient and adaptive chinese and east asians are despite the difficulties and discrimination etc much love to all good people/citizens who immigrate to the west or anywhere else really ❤️ 💙
Good video Diana! In a few weeks I'll be starting my university course in Mandarin, part of my linguistics degree. I was feeling intimidated but this video eased my nerves, I'm looking forward to a new challenge and absorbing the Chinese language and culture :)
Hey same thing here! in a freshman and learning chinese, suprisingly its easier than i thought ( around 400 hours total due to school and home studying ). My recommendation is trying to memorize the character wrather than the pinyin. You can skip alot with this.
I have a Bachelor's degree in Spanish but I could have learned much more and much faster by using free internet materials, and it would have been thousands of dollars cheaper.
Thank you for the video! Cdramas introduced me to the Chinese language, and I've found it beautiful ever since.. So after starting 1-2 different languages, I decided I should follow my "heart" and learn this beautiful language!
Hi! Thanks for this tips! Actually, it's quite good to know that hanzi is really hard and it is not only me with difficulty! hahaha I'm new to your channel, so I don't know a lot about you, but could you make a video about chinese people and tattoos? I'm questioning this a lot because I have some of them and I'd like to know more about the subject!
With Mandarin it's interesting because one day you are learning tones and pinyin. The next day you can comprehend Hsk 1 learning content. Before you know it you can listen to online radio from China and then songs start making sense. Great excersize for the mind and especially memory. Everything can be done if you give it time and dedication.
Hi Diana! Thank you for the video. I just want to make a quick correction about Portuguese being in the same family of English. To the contrary, Portuguese, as well as the other romance languages such as Spanish and Italian, belong to the same family and have grammatical structures way more complicated than English.
Hello Diana Dai. Your video is excellent and clearly explained. Yes I have just subscribed your channel. Your lesson here is very motivational. Actually I have completed up to HSK 3. but I wish to revise on my ownself and your lesson and playlists will help me tremendously. 人 。从。众
I appreciated your explanation. I am eldery and my goal is to understand movie, pidcast and the culture as well. So far I start HSK 4, many writing too. The more I learn the more I fall in love. Please tell me what App to help me faster learning. And any group of elders for me to join. Thank so much to your time. The last thing is in Indonesia elder Chunese unable to speak Mandarin. Differ from Malaysia and Singapore
I am 86 days in my mandarin language journey. What works for me is immersion. Videos, conversations, reading, writing and lessons. I have 2 apps, an AI tutor, 5 books, a dictionary, and a hanzi workbook (hsk 1). I actually have been conversational in this short time and can speak better mandarin than most learners. Writing has been a major part of learning, as it burns the characters in your head. I'm almost done with hsk 1 because of incorporating writing
"Because Chinese is so different from most Western languages" ... except Irish 😄 ... and Turkish 😮 there are roots from ancient China/Xia there! Mandarin is so diverse, like how English, Spanish, Arab... have all become so diverse. Still a lot of 'native-indigenous Mandarin' speakers in China's central and northern plains... and in Beijing.
Learn how to speak. Correspond with Chinese speaking friends。using voice messages 。recognising the Chinese word ，using drawing method。eg 人，many Chinese character possesses 人。大，天，头，火，灾。人一→大。二人→天，夫。火→丷人。using Google translate。iPhone switch to 搜狗输入法keyboard
I wanna learn the language ie how to communicate not the characters. Its already late for me to learn almost 50 000 character let alone even 1000 is too much.
Memorable to me was your showing part-symbols that are bases of entire words/kanji. And interpreting bursts of fluent Chinese talk! Trouble! So, movies and dramas, will try.
I am new here (on your channel). I like Chinese language. But why do you start with a lie? 00:30 It doesn't mean chinese speaking people are everywhere but in China, and you need to learn it ONLY if you want to communicate with chinese people, as it's very inefficient language in day-to-day routine and thus it will never be an international language. Even Spanish which coverage is three time less is more eficient nowdays and its popularity grows. And I know how you call allmost all language of the world by naming them "western" ("nice" joke, especially for arabic, hindi and so on)
Hi! It’s nice to know that you like Chinese! ❤ There are actually LOTS OF Chinese people around the world, not only in China. So learning Chinese is a good way to communicate with them. And by western languages, I meant mainly European languages and English, sorry if there’s any confusion.
I’m starting HSK 2 next month.My biggest challenge is any word with the Pin Yin letter “R “ as we do not have this sound in English. XieXie this was good video❤🇨🇦
