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威你好. Do you recommend creating own vocabulary with word and example all in Chinese?

Can you put the captions on the bottom of the video, iphones cannot see the caption due to the wedge

thanks for the video! this is really helpful! i've been doing this with a friend but only during a time when we chat. i make a sentence and friend corrects it then i change the sentence again by replacing one word and ask "then this one is correct, as well". i limit this lesson when i have someone to talked to but you are right, i should be able to do it alone! just focus on the words on my level. thank you for this simple trick reminder

I already am forced to make my own sentences every day by virtue of the fact that I currently live in China, but your steps sound very helpful and I automatically trust you and this advice because you sound the closest to a Native Chinese speaker I've ever heard another foreigner sound! It's very impressive, even your pauses sound Chinese! Gonna start using your steps to practice today!

谢谢你

I use flash cards as a way to build up a bank of words. They may not be immediately useful but down the road when the dust settles and you’re calling on a word. You can bring out one from the back pocket.

Look, you guys are kidding yourselves if you think you can learn Chinese at a later stage in life. You have to start when you're a toddler and be in the right environment. Speaking native level Chinese is a mental thing. You have to think in Chinese so you don't sound like an idiot.

Could we see a schedule of what you do in a day?

Hi Will, I'm a huge fan of your channel and I've been using your study methods for around 6 months now and found them super effective. I'm wondering how you tackled learning the differences between different 近义词，for example 区别 and 差别. Sometimes native speakers don't even know how to explain the differences between these synonyms, especially with regards to what they imply, and in what specific contexts to use them. Any advice you have would be appreciated

I’m glad I looked more into this. I found it very frustrating that I learned over 100 words and I couldn’t carry out a full conversation in Chinese and it got me discouraged so I stopped. Now I’m picking it up again and now I see WHY I had that feeling about it. But it’s so frustrating because I was learning so quickly the way Duolingo teaches they just need to change the conversation in that app. They don’t even realize if they just changed this SO many people would become fluent in other languages and change so many peoples lives…

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Actually this is an important video to understand how to overcome the feeling of giving up or losing interest.

Another trick for practicing pronunciation is to talk to Google translate in Chinese and see if it correctly translates what you are saying back into English. Try to speak at the rate of a native speaker. It will force you to focus on the tones and speaking aloud instead of just in your head.

Good tips and I respect to your pronunciation and fluency. Most people I saw online with videos like "foreigner SHOCKS Chinese people on market with PERFECT Mandarin" have a very noticable accent and are far from the clickbaity perfection of the video's title. Thinking about sentence structure is really important. That's one reason why I already thought about doing videos in Mandarin because it forces myself to sit down and think about sentence structure and how to translate difficult concepts into Mandarin sentences. Maybe something for the next year. One good trick to practice I found is: 1. Make a second account on youtube (or use your own if you don't care) 2. Find a video where a controversial (maybe political) topic is discussed by Chinese people. Nationalists are really good practice partners. 3. Argue with strangers/trolls about politics or ethics or morals or gender. The good thing is that you have to make your points clear and concise and understandable by real Chinese. Also, heated discussions create the urge to reply and in the heat of an argument, you'll want to make the other side understand your point. The greatest praise I got from a Chinese user was: "Don't pretend that you are not Chinese just because you left the country and now you think you can say bad things about our country" :D Thank you unknown internet user, that comment made my day. And I wasn't even saying bad things. I was just criticizing nationalist views of the commenters there. When I was indistinguishable from other Chinese, then my arguments were correct (at least languagewise).

I can see it in your eyes that you're a man of your 词

It's amazing. But I want to ask you: Is it effective if I read the transcript while listening to the podcast?

Oof, at 0.38 you pronounced your 为什么 with a 'V' at the beginning. Is that some dialect-related thing? I've heard Chinese natives do the same thing occasionally too, wondered if it was regional. Not sniping, just interested, it's not like a Brit should have any problems with 'W'.

这个人他说的对😅

The fact that I got the gist without the sub tells me something here 🤧🤧

You sound like Xiao Zhan. ♥️

I love the sound of your Chinese voice. You sound so relaxed and confident.

过来人，👍

Good advice and encouragement, thank you!

Bro just flexing his Chinese 🚹

我想学英语可是我的语法很烂😭而且我学了前面忘了后面的。造句也不知道造什么

You content is really inspiring and encouraging me to continue to learn Chinese .

You are working hard to learn Chinese, while I am striving to improve my English. let's go for it together😂

I can teach Chinese,ı am the native ,ı want to study English,let us together,contact me please

What does gaslight? I'm dying to know!

OMG !!! Your chinese speaking is so perfect. I am overseas borned Chinese of Indonesia. Listening to you intonation and spoken , I am so ashamed & envy you.

谢谢你的分享，句子变换这个方法很有用😊 👍

wtf 95 percent speaking accuracy is crazy

好學不學，學匪語，難聽的大陸口音

中文也说得太溜太地道了吧！厉害！

Is this lady Diana talking in Chinese?

How are you thin ? What’s your secret ?

Chinese is a written language. You are speaking Putonghua.

You speak too fast for me. Would you please slow down a bit.

我用你的办法学了中文1年了，把你的视频成对我的学习习惯最有用！感谢您！

This guy’s Chinese has a heavy mainland accent. It’s as though he is talking with an egg in his mouth. I started getting a headache just listening to it. I can’t stand that accent. Loud, staccato, arrogant, and annoying.

chinese speaking gaslighter

Gaslight comes from the movie of the same name, about a couple of lovers who start to trick the wife of the man that she's going mental by moving stuff around the room then conspiring against her when she brings it up, as an example. So, politicians have become the gaslighters of the world, and their controlled media outlets, such like Starmer and Reeves, who just flatlined the uk economy this quarter, but she'll gaslight you and say it was your fault, kind of thing. So, it can be nuanced, but it' basically making falsities real and realities false, or inverting reality, which is being used for subversion of the nation's everything. Xi also has gaslit, when he said the CCP still uses Marxism as it's underlying doctrine, which is complete piffle.

何威，你的中文说的很好，但我有一个推荐，就是你说单独的子包括 “词(cí)，事(shì)，字(zì)” 等等，后面不要加er的发音，那是当地东北的口音，不是标准的普通话发音，你可以把这些字放在网上听标准的发音，然后再回去听你自己说的发音就会听出来的，你把这些卷舌音改成弹舌音基本上和中国人说话就没区别了。

I know zero words in Chinese but I'll give this a try. Thanks TH-cam

Great CI material here, in addition to the studying advice! Thanks!

Very impressive how fluently your Chinese👋👌 besides Ni hen suai 🧑‍🦱lol😂

In the famous 1944 Ingrid Bergman movie, Gaslight, which takes place at the turn of the last century before electricity, when houses were lit by gaslight, an evil husband schemes to drive his wife insane by secretly raising and lowering the gas light. When the wife asked him why the lights keep going up and down, he said, "What are you talking about? They're not going up and down, you're imagining it." He did this repeatedly over time. So he was gaslighting her, meaning he was denying the reality of her own experience in order to belittle her and make her doubt her own intelligence and even her sanity. I hope this is helpful, because your wonderful video is!

Congratulations on 10k subs!

总之为： 约定俗成 ❤

When you can only speak: zhidaole, mingbaile, and the other basic stuff. Although I know quite a few characters 😂