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Hi Alina I will buy English file book it's awesome. I've subscribed to your channel today 😊

Esperanto!

Linguistically, Chinese is not a language, but a language family(Sinitic language family). And Mandarin is not a standard dialect, it's a language and it has its own dialects, which are even not mutually intelligible. The mutual intelligibility between Mandarin and Cantonese(almost 0%) is way more low then between Russian and Ukrainian (about 70%).

Hello Alina! Thank you for the video and the tips 👍🏻 I have ordered "ENGLISH GRAMMAR IN USE" and "ENGLISH VOCABULARY IN USE". 📦 Best wishes, Gerold 👋🏻

Thanks Alina for your valuable advice! Per

watching that video and realising that i was already doing all of this, tells me that i`m on the right direction,

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Thank you very much for that video! thanks for the recommandations! your way of speaking is so clear and understandable! Your enunciate is so perfect!

Could you increase your volume, very difficult to hear you. Otherwise great advice, I like that part about goal setting and being selective. It would be great if you could dive deeper into that subject!

I have some additional recourses for you if you like mandarin content. For natural life spoken language blogs we have " Katherines Journey to the west" her chanel focuses on natural spoken language and Katherine has lived in China for 9 or so years. she's very high level with speaking. if you want educational content, theres "sys mandarin" which has a chinese teacher who explains everything in chinese which helps with comprehension. there's "blondie in china" for her food reviews, Amy lives in china now with her husband derk and do entertaining videos usually pertaining to Chinese food. i have more but im running out of space.. keep up the good work

I absolutely agree with your list. Some people in the comments are just mad that their favorites aren't included. Keep it up!

Hello! I like this video so much even i subscribed also

in chinese there isn't alphabet, no hangul alphabet like korean, you just have to write chinese words and memorize the pronunciation so that's why writing is important in chinese, and memorize by heart that's all and there is less grammar so chinese writing isn't really difficult if you understand how to write. Korean is different, it has alphabet and when you learn hangul alphabet you will know how to read with also pronunciation changing rules but in Chinese no, there isn't alphabet, you memorize just words by words that's all. And for korean, i have been watched kdrama since 15 years and i know à lot of vocabulary thanks to kdrama and i notice for korean i have more a listening memory than writing memory. It's useless for me to write a list of vocabulary i won't memorize it and i tried flashcard it's useless for me but by listening and watching kdrama and some tv show i remember so many words effortless

I'd like to study German, which I studied in high school (im Gymnasium!) and would like to pick up again as it is the language of Mozart, Bach and Beethoven--the language of classical music! Also, I'd like to learn Fox, so I can talk to the little guy whose portrait you painted ;) Nice painting, btw!

I hate your russian accent. It is terrible.

Great tips there Alina. Even learning how to learn Chinese is a constantly changing process. All the channels you recommend have their own special value. Grace is very good for succinct grammar points. For ordinary speaking and glimpses of everyday life and thinking in China I’m a big fan of Chinese Mandarin Cherry. She also does online lessons. One tip though for you as an English teacher - work on your short i sound. Make it short - shorter than you probably think you should. It’s video not veedeo etc. You share this problem with many Asian language native speakers and to native English speakers it really sticks out. Otherwise I like your native accent.

Good points

For me writing was not particularly useful. Despite thousands of repeated strokes of different characters, I could barely get anything to stick

Вы очень хорошо говорите по-английски, но всё равно слышится родной акцент. И поэтому всё очень понятно.

Love your enthusiasm, and it's inspirational to see you build up. Keep up the great stuff!

i learned chinese in my university and i studied in China at Beijing in 2015 but now i'm studying korean. My approach to study korean is so different, i don't write vocabulary like i did for chinese, i memorize mostly by listening and i didn't have difficulty to write chinese or korean

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I agree with your suggestion Alina because it is based on practical reasoning. I am Indian, so I already know Hindi and English very well. However, besides these two languages, I am confused about which language would be more beneficial for me-German or Japanese-for studies or job opportunities. Both Germany and Japan offer significant opportunities for Indian students.

Hindi will be an important language, but right now I wouldn't recommend it unless you want to watch Bollywood movies. I'd also recommend learning a language that's a little off the beaten path, something like Portuguese or Japanese.

Useless video. You are talking about languages as if one can acquire them in mere seconds. Also people have to speak English to understand this video in the first place. Most of the starter languages are French Spanish Italian and or German for most people and If they are into anime people usually start with Japanese. People already know where to start and that's why this video is truly illogical. Your video might be of interest to someone who'll download couple of kids who download language learning apps to flex on their friends but it won't reach beyond that. Hope you can make better content in the future. до свидания

The language spoken by more communists than any other

I respect your opinion but for me not placing Arabic or Germany instead of Hindi is a joke no one cares about learning Hindi but lots of people care about learning Arabic , Germany or even Turkish I think all of them should be listed but at the end it's a well made video and appreciate your efforts

your words made me feel very purposeful and confident about learning mandarin! thank you for your efforts and for sharing your knowledge!

Nice try, but you're not saying anything new. Try making videos about your language or something, this video is practically useless.

Hello Alina! English is my favorite language. I enjoy improving my English, and I don't currently have enough time for another language. If I had more time, I might consider learning Spanish. We travel often to Spain, and it can be helpful in the rural area to speak a little Spanish. Best wishes, Gerold 👋🏻

shuo shuo chinese and dashu mandarin (intermediate and advanced level videos) are also excellent teachers. I recommend their channels.

There is a Journey to the West series by Jeff Pepper and Xiao Hui Wang written in Chinese at a level akin to HSK 4~5. It has paragraphs in Chinese characters, followed by the same paragraphs in pinyin so you can easily double check the pronunciation of any new characters. I cannot recommend it enough to anyone who wants to read the story in Chinese but isn't quite ready for the original version.

Question for you, are you in italki?

Could we know your routine?

Super easy, barely an inconvenience!

Alina, 多謝你嘅分享!

I married a native Mandarin speaker and insisted on speaking Mandarin as much as possible. After having kids, I insisted on speaking to them in Mandarin only. That has boosted my learning more than anything else has.

Just found your channel! Great advice - pronunciation is a really great point. It gives you a lot of confidence knowing you can pronounce something correctly and that will set you up nicely for speaking :D

Is Mainland Xiaohongshu fully accessible from the West or are there some differences for regions like in TikTok vs Douyin, that international content and Mainland content are on different networks or something like this?

nice,feel free to talke with me, i am chinese.

u r pretty, I will marry u.

dashu mandarin might be a good podcast and TH-cam channel for listening to everyday Chinese for several different regions.

Your suggested channels are excellent. I love Mandarin Megan (@chinesewithmegan). Her voice is clear and easy to distinguish sounds.

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very practical,i as a Chinese recommend your channel to my foreign friends learning Chinese

Hello Alina, you voice is so beautiful!!! Could you please let me know what recording device and camera are??? Thank you sooooo much!!

Hi Alina, I totally agree with you! As a native Chinese who have been teaching Mandarin for over a year now, i always recommend beginners focus on tones and pinyin first, which is really essential for mastering Mandarin.

Thank you for the hood advise

your voice is so soothing

Good advices overall. I learned Chinese for 10 years and here is what I would change if I went back in time to start learning Chinese again: 1- I would first look into how the Chinese characters work and how they were created, their structure, origins etc before actually learning Chinese.Because I was taught in the traditional way, and we had to just write each character several times to memorize, which obviously doesn't help much. Because of this learning method, Chinese characters were a complete nonsense to me back then. Only much later I found out about the fascinating history and linguistics behind the Chinese characters so I kinda regret I didn't know those stuff earlier. Otherwise my progress would be much faster. 2- I would rely on myself more than the class. In my first years of learning Chinese in my hometown, we had only 2 hours of Chinese classes per week, which obviously meant extremely slow progress, so I did the mistake of going with the rythm of the class instead of doing more individual work, which held me back a lot.