I found its better to start with the final phrase (coda?) & get that worked out, then work back..the end cadence determines the how the sentence starts...
im in my late 60's & have been teaching myself for about 3 years..one little trick i came up with to improve verbal dexterity is to write down a long complicated sentence but just use the ~ symbol for the individual character with the tone diacritics...I then can focus on just the rhythm: sounds like old fashioned morse code learning..dee dah dee dah dah..focusing on the tones...the nice native rhythm then appears like magic & you can then fill in the actual words..
Your level is advanced that I cannot use your videos as meaningful input as yet although I admire how you speak. I'm only able to understand another influencer called Felthomy
You have any tips for finding langaunge exchange partners? I can't seem to find one, so any tips and resources would be great. I live in a country where there are almost no chinese people so I can't find someone in person, so how should I go about finding one online?
@@che8004 I will second that and add "DASHU mandarin" videos/podcasts👍👍 lot of different topics with interesting guests. Will was on their podcast too.
I personally didn't use any textbooks, I did read a few graded readers from mandarin companion and 汉语风. I would recommend HSK up until around 4 and then from there you can just start doing loads of immersion in native content
I subbed, great logic behind all study points! Btw, what are your thoughts on the du reading app, and chatgpt's Chinese ability? If I limit my output but just constantly read in Chinese for like a year or so and watch podcasts/movies/etc, wouldn't output be way easier for me when I focus on it later? Is it okay to just do a ton of input? Like a baby might. I actually have a permanent messed up throat and can't really speak much. But still wanna learn Chinese.
Hey, it depends on your goals. What do you want to do? You perform better with those things you've practiced more. Obviously you get interconnected benefits too. The more you read, the more you know. The more you know, the more you can think about. This allows you to construct thoughts well and put them on paper or express your ideas verbally. For instance, I am not an English native and I have reached a bottleneck in the language. I am not limited by vocab or grammar, I know maybe 10-20 thousand of English words. I may make mistakes, but it is not a real issue. The real problem is my thinking ability and lack of habbit of expressing my thoughts in a well structured way. It troubles me in my native Russian too and I dont have enough external pressure to improve the situation. Regarding Chinese, I would really recommend to start with tones though as it is not just a pronunciation element. There is just not enough sound combinations in Chinese to forgive you for misspelling. 😅
@@EnricoCirulliUsing someone else's deck is a very bad idea. Spaced repetition is effective over vocab you've already encoded/studied during immersion. You should sentence mine and make your own cards.
The reason I don't give out my deck is because it has loads of stuff really personal to me, it would be in an order that wouldn't make sense to anyone and I think there is a great benefit from making your own deck once your past the beginner level. If you want high quality native-checked premade decks maybe checkout mandarinmosaic.com/ it's my friend's app.
Thanks so much for watching guys! Let me know how you guys plan to use these four strands in your learning plan!
I have watched your several videos before, as a native Chinese speaker, I would like to say that your pronunciation is really authentic.😂
Thank you! 😃
I found its better to start with the final phrase (coda?) & get that worked out, then work back..the end cadence determines the how the sentence starts...
im in my late 60's & have been teaching myself for about 3 years..one little trick i came up with to improve verbal dexterity is to write down a long complicated sentence but just use the ~ symbol for the individual character with the tone diacritics...I then can focus on just the rhythm: sounds like old fashioned morse code learning..dee dah dee dah dah..focusing on the tones...the nice native rhythm then appears like magic & you can then fill in the actual words..
Sounds really interesting！
I coincidentally did/do the same thing, I used to teach piano and was ultra into music so it makes sense for me to learn that way too ♪
شكرا أخي و أستاذي 🇩🇿
Your level is advanced that I cannot use your videos as meaningful input as yet although I admire how you speak. I'm only able to understand another influencer called Felthomy
Thanks for this video man. Getting ready to watch it all
Thanks for watching! Hope it helped!
You have any tips for finding langaunge exchange partners? I can't seem to find one, so any tips and resources would be great. I live in a country where there are almost no chinese people so I can't find someone in person, so how should I go about finding one online?
There are loads of Chinese people on tandem and hellotalk so maybe check them out!
Yeah, but what podcasts did you listen too please? Please give me some recommendations.....
Try mandarin corners on youtube
@@che8004 I will second that and add "DASHU mandarin" videos/podcasts👍👍 lot of different topics with interesting guests. Will was on their podcast too.
Those are both really good, also teatime chinese is a bit better for beginner level
Hi Will, would you mind sharing what books did you used for learning materials? Are HSK good?
I personally didn't use any textbooks, I did read a few graded readers from mandarin companion and 汉语风. I would recommend HSK up until around 4 and then from there you can just start doing loads of immersion in native content
I subbed, great logic behind all study points! Btw, what are your thoughts on the du reading app, and chatgpt's Chinese ability? If I limit my output but just constantly read in Chinese for like a year or so and watch podcasts/movies/etc, wouldn't output be way easier for me when I focus on it later? Is it okay to just do a ton of input? Like a baby might. I actually have a permanent messed up throat and can't really speak much. But still wanna learn Chinese.
Hey, it depends on your goals. What do you want to do?
You perform better with those things you've practiced more.
Obviously you get interconnected benefits too. The more you read, the more you know. The more you know, the more you can think about. This allows you to construct thoughts well and put them on paper or express your ideas verbally.
For instance, I am not an English native and I have reached a bottleneck in the language. I am not limited by vocab or grammar, I know maybe 10-20 thousand of English words. I may make mistakes, but it is not a real issue.
The real problem is my thinking ability and lack of habbit of expressing my thoughts in a well structured way. It troubles me in my native Russian too and I dont have enough external pressure to improve the situation.
Regarding Chinese, I would really recommend to start with tones though as it is not just a pronunciation element. There is just not enough sound combinations in Chinese to forgive you for misspelling. 😅
你好！我刚刚买你的mini-masterclass Anki course. 请问你可以跟大家分享你的Anki Deck吗
我感觉Will教的是学习方法，anki deck里面的句子应该按照你自己的节奏去加卡片吧。 我通常每天都加5-10的卡片到自己的anki deck里。虽然我加的英文😁，但是中文也是这样吧。因人而异！
Can you give us your anki deck?
That'd be amazing! I just bought your Mini-Masterclass and I'd love to get your Anki desk too! Please that would really help so many people!
@@EnricoCirulliUsing someone else's deck is a very bad idea. Spaced repetition is effective over vocab you've already encoded/studied during immersion. You should sentence mine and make your own cards.
@@tebby24chinese I've never had that problem with premade decks and I can understand 5 languages.
The reason I don't give out my deck is because it has loads of stuff really personal to me, it would be in an order that wouldn't make sense to anyone and I think there is a great benefit from making your own deck once your past the beginner level. If you want high quality native-checked premade decks maybe checkout mandarinmosaic.com/ it's my friend's app.
Looks amazing! Can't wait for this app to be out 😀
Where are you from in UK? Manchunian?
how many chinese characters do you already know?
😂I'm a Russian speaking guy watching English spoken video on how to learn Chinese.
Actually I'm learning Chinese.
I use his method to learn English😂
hahah Awesome!
Can someone give me timestamps this guy English is too thick to understand
😂 seriously? I understand perfectly....
@@frankraym Congratulations Frank....
Try turning on CC for English subs. Works great for me.
You maybe should practice English more before trying to learn Chinese