Watch this before you learn Chinese - tips from a native speaker 

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 live in an Asian community and would like to have better communication with the elderly people

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’m happy I came across your video. I subscribed and I’ll watch your videos for further knowledge of Chinese culture.

I find the chinese language quite majestic and beautiful! This video really motivates me to start my journey and learn about the culture😊谢谢!

Thank you for the recommendations.

Diana, you did an excellent job on this video. Keep up the good work. Ray

You are such a smart and beautiful soul!! I am your fan now !!

thank you for your positive message 🥰

❤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. 🇷🇺

Great tips! 謝謝你 :)

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.

Please make more content about language learning.

You are so kind😻

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!

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 ❤️ 💙

your hair is amazing!😘💞

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.

Your video is helpful 🙏🏿

Nice video, do you have any kids show to recommend for beginner ?

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 :)

I like how the thumbnail summarizes what you’re getting here.

sou brasileira tentando aprender mandarim, fico feliz que você se interessou em aprender português 😀

I love how the language sounds and the characters are so beautiful, definitely wanna learn the language in the future🩷🩷

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

Is it worth learning Chinese at any age with a busy schedule?

Hi!! I would love some recommendations for dramas, movies or other media! 谢谢！

Attractive teacher and want to learn your Chinese Language program.

Thank you for this. Is there a link to the page at 4:00

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.

I speak English but thought it would be helpful to learn at least some basic Mandarin since it is so widely spoken. I can also speak Spanish.

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

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.

I want to learn mandarin because I am part Chinese and to become a poli-lingual

I pass by communities close by and they may speak it.

"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.

Thank you. Very helpful. My motivation to learn. Chinese girlfriend. Zhu ni sheng huo yu kuai.

ام ترتر قبل الرفع ،،وبعد الرفع حاجه تانيه خالص،،،

2:50 oh wow! Small world! Sincerely, a Portuguese learning Mandarin :) 加油！

我覺得你是好人也覺得你有學樂音的能力。

I study Buddhism and history. I would like to understand and practice Buddhism. 謝謝

I want to learn mandarin for sepak with chinese people in my city and speak in discord, maybe travel to Taiwan as well

E já estava quase desistindo depois de ver que não consigo diferenciar quase nenhum dos tones 😵‍💫

it is very difficult for me to pronounce an en ang eng

Felt a bit relieved knowing it is even a bit hard even for you.I am just starting Level A. Finding it very unfamiliar with the grammar structure.

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.

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 have even more advice don't bother learning Hanzi until you can speak Mandarin. If you have to memorise those characters it is twice as much work.

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.

耶 穌 又 對 眾 人 說 ： 我 是 世 界 的 光 。 跟 從 我 的 ， 就 不 在 黑 暗 裡 走 ， 必 要 得 著 生 命 的 光 。❤

I want a Chinese Wife. Wǒ Yào Yìge Zhongguǒ TàiTài.

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)