3 Mistakes I Made Learning Chinese *Painful Lessons*
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00:00 My Mistakes
00:44 1 - Denying the Second Brain
02:51 2 - The Fundamental Function of Language
05:40 3 - Variable Rate Language Acquisition
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I have to admit I tend to have this fear of judgement all the time. At university, when professors ask us something and I do know the answer, I hesitate about whether I should say it out loud or not, or that "what if I'm wrong?" thinking. And it's soo frustrating because I blame myself always for knowing the answers but not being able to give them. Thank you a lot and I will try harder to step out of this fear!
❤❤🥰🥰
This happened to me just this week. This comment is so specific it's uncanny.
Good luck mate 💪💪💪
加油💪
Hi everyone, from Italy! I've been studying english for almost 1 year now, and a few days ago I started with Chinese.. wish me luck!
The extra brain for a new language is so true but it also takes very long to develop one.
And even after many years it can be quite difficult. In German, my native language, I usually can write very long texts without having to think about it much. In English it takes me a lot longer, even though I know all the needed vocabulary and grammar
Depends by what you mean by long. I learned chinese for 1 year. And I’m pretty conversational fluent as such I dont need to think in english and then translate it to chinese.
I’m legit the opposite lol
English native, my German brain is pretty good to go, but I lack the correct grammar and often straight up vocabulary. Maybe to do with different learning styles. Did you study English in a structured formal education system?
@@aaronluu9360 You have to admit it, someone is gifted in language, maybe you are one of them. 你可能有语言天赋，但是每个人都是不一样的，比如我就没有
I am proud how you change to say, I am a Cambridge medical student to I am a Cambridge graduate and a doctor working
Her video editing and design are incredibly impressive, which is saying something considering she's learning such a difficult language while working as a doctor. For someone of so many technical talents, she has an incredible eye for camera angles and makes these videos super engaging. I'm not even learning Chinese but I can't help but watch her videos!
She hires an editor. She doesn't do the editing herself. She said in anotehr video.
Knowing your struggles in learning Chinese brings me new insights into how to learn English effectively as a Mandarin speaker. By the way, your Mandarin is great. You can express yourself well in Chinese. Thank you for your sharing.
There are plenty of challenges with learning Mandarin, one of the more evident challenges I have (had?) was focusing on a verbal sentence with the anticipation it could end in a particle (such as "ma") which will essentially convert what I believed was a statement into a question.
When trying to focus on each word and it isn't until the very last word that the particle occurs, it can be daunting to listen/understand. Though I found it allows speaking the language to be easier as one only has to focus on the statement knowing they can just add a particle on the end to ask a question, change the tense etc.
Hi DR Lizz, This video is inspiring me a lot, basically, you have answered most of my self-doubt questions on continuing my Chinese learning. give me good confidence and impacted me to relook at the approach and methods of my Chinese learning. Like you, I started learning Chinese and french during the 2020 lockdown by myself to keep up the time in a useful way and continued last year with online tutors but I hardly reached pinyin and tones. always find difficulties recollecting the sentences learned in class. My work schedule is demanding, always have less time to focus on learning I used to worried about my progress like a snail always lagging behind on goals so I ended up thinking of my abilities to learn any new languages hence quit my learning from June but today after watching your video, especially you shared your experiences, lesson learned, the fact reason for your slow progress, identification of problem areas and the strategies you adopted to achieve fluency overcome fears, truly impressive and I decided to start my learning again! thank you once again, Lizz for showing some light focus areas and planning techniques! much appreciated keep up the good work as you do always
I have been learning a lot of things from you. Thank you!
@Izzy Sealey You're really amazing teacher. I really like the way you inspire people on hard work and being strategic. I am Tanzanian boy who learns Chinese for some months now. In the beggining I felt like I was going to give up learning Chinese but. You have really changed my attitude on Chinese. May God blessed you. Aamiin.
I can definitely relate to all your three points because those are the three areas that I had to deal with learning English when I first came to the US very very long time ago. I think I’m a bit linguistically talented. Looking back I believe I was able to pick up the language pretty quickly and now I’m try to pick up the British accent: the modern Received Pronunciation. I’ll be sure to watch all your videos to practice my British accent. Ha ha
A native Chinese speaker, I have to say that your spoken language is excellent, and your vocabulary is also very authentic.虽然长期使用中文，但是在学校也有一直学英文。(I am also learning English while watching your video hahaha.)视频中提到需要有 一个second brain给另一门语言。突然醒悟，近期在学习一门新的语言，但是一直抓不到感觉。浅看了一下所有关于中文学习的视频，打算把这些方法用在学习第二外语的道路上。Thanks for your videos!! 同时认真看完了其他视频，现在一看到您的视频就在提醒自己自律，向你学习！Thanks again for your sharing!!!
This is so encouraging Izzy. Thank you very much for those tips. Amazing channel. Subscribed! 👍
Very practical advice. Also had to learn them the hard way as I used to do word-for-word translation all the time while studying English. Had to point out that word-for-word translation does help when trying to understand the meaning of something in the language, but the key is not to do this 'computation' with the brain during practition.
Thanks for this video. I'm studying chinese by myself and listen your advice is really helpful. have a great day!
Recently, I usually watch some your videos on TH-cam to improve my English listening skill, I'm a Vietnamese, but my grandpa is from China, therefore, I decided to start learning Chinese two months ago. I want to connect and interact with Chinese people to know more about Chinese culture and tradition. Thanks for your useful videos!
Gud job
Editing is great, info even better. Cheers.
Thank you Izzy. I totally agree with all your points especially the first one about having a different brain. Cantonese is my mother tongue and learning Mandarin has been extremely difficult, painful and slow owing to the closeness (yet very different) of the Cantonese dialect to Mandarin; this all changed one day when I switched my 'Cantonese Brain' off and stop thinking and translating to Cantonese. As for the 3rd point Dr Sealey :) , I have yet to formulate a plan, not to mention setting too high an expectation. Slowly picking up your tips and techniques though. Thank you again for spending the time and effort in sharing your learning experience which I find extremely useful and to the point.
Try the Canto to Mando Blueprint she recommended in her last Chinese video! It's specific to Cantonese speakers (or those going from Cantonese to Mandarin)
Thanks to share your experience learning Chinese. I am starting and it's difficult for me. Now I know another experience and I know that I have to walk step by step ✊🏻🐥
谢谢 Izzy 老师.
Your mandarin pronunciation is great 👍 👌
I like your new editing style, keep up the good work! 🔥
I really enjoy your videos and it's r very refreshing. Keep doing the good work. Love from Sri Lanka
I love your smile, It’s so warm
Thank you for sharing. I'm learning chinese too and by myself. I really enjoy your mandarin related videos and I think it would be great whenever you speak chinese you could put the pinyin as well in the video, so we all can learn the basic sentences and phrases 🤗👍👍
I found this video very helpful as I started learning French whilst during pandemic but is now not learning as much, if at all! As someone who was born and raised in China - up to 4th grade, sometimes I still have to make sure that my sentence/pronunciation/flow makes sense lol...
Maybe I'm rambling at this point but nevertheless, I enjoyed the video!
This is like actually useful thanks 👍😁
hahaha讲的很棒!确实很多都是我们这些正在学语言学生的常见错误。而且我觉得姐姐其实可以试着往b站这个平台传视频，可能会有全新的视频和评论体验，可能也会有助于快速学中文!😄
I love your videos sooo much! I’ve been following your channel for almost a year now and you videos really speaks to me and inspire me because I’m a medical student learning Mandarin too!
I really enjoy watching your video, like a lot. I really like your voice in the video, it’s very calming😻
For this video, I noticed a change in editing style and to be very honest I enjoy the original style more🥺 but your video content is still very good and motivating!
Thanks so much for the support!! 🥰 hope both medicine and mandarin are going well for you! And thank you for the feedback on editing, I really appreciate it 😊 what aspects of the editing before did you prefer? Still experimenting so would love to hear your thoughts! 🥰
Thank you!
On editing style, your video normally have lower background music volume and doesn’t include gifs effect. Both of which I found kinda distracting from your voice (and your gorgeous accent🥺) and the video content.
@@ivy.noppanica Agreed. Loving the content overall though, very encouraging!
Music could be a bit softer indeed, I personally loved the GIFs though I can imagine it could be distracting. Preferences aside, good choices of GIFs👌
Thanks, that's great to know and I really appreciate and welcome the feedback! I'll defo aim for quieter and more chilled music in future videos 😊
Extensive reading, yes. Thank you for sharing
I love your chinese language learning videos. And it helps that you are so positive and excited in presenting something that i want to do but find a bit bland
Such a great summary and experience.. it was quite difficult to find a channel that have some similarity (especially in medical graduate person), big Thanks for shared it in youtube..
Hope the channel will be inspiring to other medical doctors for learn other thing outside medicine
#greetings from Indonesia
😂😂😂You used the phrase "water off a duck's back" It doesn't stick at all! It's so funny.🤣😂🤣😂 Also love the funny pictures inserted throughout the video!❤
Hello Izzy Sealey, Well done and my congratulations that you can speak Chinese, snd Mjandarin so well. You are a quick learner Izzy
Nothing like having a pretty teacher when you embark on learning a new skill. :)
Thank you again for sharing your experiences with us. Your content is concise, organized, and useful. Now that September 17th has passed, please do a new study plan video with your doctor schedule! Since as you said, the old one did not go to plan :)
Haha yes I definitely will do! Stay tuned for my updated study schedule 👀😄 doctor work is more intense than I thought too haha
Your tips are so helpful and I'm glad I have found your channel. You're so inspirational and it is great to have you on my journey to learning Chinese! Keep up the great work Izzy!
Those methods are really helpful🌿
I love your videos, please do you make a new video for tips about learning English? I love your accent 🙌
Love your videos, you're a big inspiration to me to keep learning chinese. the editing and format of your videos are done incredibly well. On an unrelated note, i'm curios as to what the song you used at 2:51? Keep up the content and good luck!
Wow, Izzy speaks awesome Mandarin with nice tones and goodness the confidence she carries. She kinda sounds like Eileen Gu when the words came out but softer.. How could she be so young, talented and looking gorgeous
Izzy, your Chinese speaking is very well. I am a native speaker, the sentences you spoke 無可挑剔.
Happy to have found your channel ^_^
I like reading because as I read and figure out sentence structure better while looking for words, i'm also looking up less as I go so it feels like a nice visual progression that's very satisfying. Same with movies and shows, and I can give stuff a scene with more context to attach the language to as well. Anki, I wish I could use it but sadly I just retain nothing from using that software, just doesn't work for me:( (I can only remember a word if I see it first when using Anki, that's the only skill it teaches me)
Beautiful I fall in love with Izzy 🤩
YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰
I LOVED HOW YOU CONTROL THE WORLD, YOU DONT LET THE WORLD CONTROL YOU..
take care Princess Izzy...😘😘😘
Yes absolutely! i've been learning Mandarin Chinese for almost two months now, and I'm really tracking all my progress. I've been working hard to learn and I can say that I've improved hehe coz I'm able to construct basics sentences without translating. I really avoid translation. except for the speaking skills ofcourse who on Earth can speak fluently in just 2 months.
You're really helping doc. Izzy you know ♥️ all your methods and techniques of learning are all brilliantly effective.
just wanted to say to my co-learners my few steps (just sharing)
Avoid translation, improve your language sense, and learn to think in Chinese! I know that's the last was mentioned above but I've using this tip since day 1 so yeah! that's all sorry for the long nonsense
有志者事竟成，加油。
@@yamingyang3046 oh come on are you cheering me? Thanks!
@@scykii yeah, maybe it's difficult. but different language have different story. to get it, and you'll find a new world.
@@yamingyang3046 谢谢你♥️ fighting. I know my reason is worth it and my learnings would be pay off.
If I'm confident enough to do so I will have Chinese friends in the future hehe
@@scykii haha
Your voice is so amazing..... love it.
听、说、读、写都需要一定的语言环境和很多的时间。为自己创造一定的语言环境才能充分利用有限的时间。
Nice video. Have you seen the Youdao dictionary pens? They are awesome, my child uses it for her Chinese homework and they translate Chinese and English instantly. Maybe can help you with learning Chinese. Good luck!
Thank you so much for this video. I m afraid to have a native chinese speaker to practise with because the first one i found was laughing at me the first time we had a chat. That s maybe worth it to try again.
I am lerning English as well, and I am very glad to see you learn Mandarin Chinese.
Am an English speaker, please drop your WeChat id let's practice together
Extensive reading 📚 let go judgments or criticism, negativity, embrace the mistakes, counterproductive, express communication. Use a second brain. Not solely predict by years, intensity, come to place, optimize individual needs, own journey
这对我英语学习也非常有帮助！谢谢凯琦:)
Hi Izzy, I just noticed that I love learning English is because I love the way it pronounced, the same as people like listening to music, I like listening to English. And speaking English to me is as enjoyable as singing. Do you have the same feeling? Because your Chinese pronunciation is so good, I guess you must do a lot of work on achieving the "perfect" accent and pronunciation.
This is really helpful! But please I’d like to ask how do you manage to recognize the characters?
Solid advice in this video so i dropped a couple comments. Jia you!
Thank you!! 🥰
wow, ni hun ke ai! thats about as far as my mandrin goes *subbed* :D
I love your shiny smile and, your unbelievably beautiful accent, and your language-related content in particular. Keep up the good work and keep shining❤️❤️. I wish you all the happiness in the world princess Izzy🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻.
' The second Brain' Brilliant concept
Do you have favorite TH-camrs who speak mandarin? Or do you use another platform which we can immerse ourselves to Mandarin Chinese?
Hi Izzy! A new subscriber here. I’m Chinese and your Chinese is really great! You do have a British accent even when you speak mandarin hehehe. Chinese is really hard (even though Chinese is my first language) so you’re really amazing already! English is my second language and I hope I can learn Korean or Italian as my third. Your videos have really inspired me to start learning a new language and to just keep on trying and trust the process.
Woo so happy to hear that! Keep it up 🤩
@@IzzySealey AHHHH freaking out right now. Can’t believe you replied to my comment. Thank you! Love your videos, keep up the good work!
This is really great video. I love Chinese language
I'm currently studying Arabic, but still I can relate! Thanks for sharing
太不可思议了！Izzy,你的中文发音很标准，加油！希望你好好学，非常希望你能来中国。💗
还是算了吧，没人想来厉害国做核算😊
Am an English speaker, please drop your WeChat id let's practice together
Nice to meet you Izzy, 🐥:I am a Chinese national born and raised in Japan. Izzy is good at British English. Because I was listening to the short wave broadcast of the BBC World Service. American English is prevalent in Japan, so if you master Japanese, you can teach Chinese and British English to Japanese people. 🙇 Please consider it.🙋
Thank you for the tips, it really helps to make my chinese learning izzy..er
Am an English speaker, please drop your WeChat id let's practice Chinese together
分享
作詞：姚謙
作曲：伍思凱
編曲：伍思凱
時間已做了選擇 什麼人叫做朋友
偶而碰頭 心情卻能一點就通
因為我們曾有過 理想類似的生活
太多感受 絕非三言兩語能形容
可能有時我們顧慮太多 太多決定需要我們去選擇 擔心會犯錯 難免會受挫 幸好一路上有你陪我
與你分享的快樂 勝過獨自擁有 至今我仍深深感動
好友如同一扇窗 能讓視野不同
與你分享的快樂 勝過獨自擁有 至今我仍深深感動
好友如同一扇門 讓世界(變)開闊
Making good friends is like opening a window to our life. Learning another language is also thank you the video.
I have been passively learning Mandarin from my Singaporean wife over the last 20 yrs.
The greatest roadblock to my progress is my inability to remember a words assigned tone when speaking AND to discern what tone is being used when spoken to.
I can't bridge the gap from no assigned tone in English to the five (including the "no") tones of Chinese. It limits my Chinese to conversational only. Wo ting bu dong!
I also haven't learned to read Chinese characters, I just use Han Yu Pin Yin.
书山有路勤为径
学海无涯苦作舟
For Chinese student to learn English, it's similar to your side.
I'm wondering how you go about doing extensive reading in Chinese. I'm struggling with Korean due to my small vocabulary. Even using a tool like LingQ (an e-reader app with a dictionary for looking up foreign words quickly) it's quite challenging. Korean doesn't have Chinese characters - you must have learned how to not just recognize but pronounce a LOT of Chinese characters to do extensive reading right? Thanks for the tips. I keep comparing mysef to my old self too learning other languages and Korean is going the slowest. I thought Japanese was rough but I'm showing myself I can learn even slower.
don't be so harsh on yourself! mandarin is very hard for non native speakers and i'm sure you have made a huge progress. i'm also learning japanese and even though my vocabulary is great i still struggle making sentences and speaking like a real native. takes time and patience. try to read as much as you can, listen to song, watch movies or chinese youtubers. input is important, good luck! :)
Road to 100k....let'ss go!!!
I really struggle with that first one. It's difficult to just lets words pass by without stopping at each one to look it up. lol...
Maybe someone else has already suggested this but I recommend starting a channel on bilibili (Chinese version youtube). It will submerge you in Chinese environment. You don’t even need to create new content. Just upload the same video to both YT and bilibili.
你说的对！医生都一直忙工作。而有自己的压力。你的视频有意思。加油！
I have been learning English and I am a big fan of you! Is English your first language?
You are so beautiful, Izzy!!
I watch a lot of Chinese films
and you remind me of one of those
beautiful Chinese actresses!!
You are a drop-dead gorgeous girl!!
Greetings from N.Y.!!
Take care!!
Well done, Izzy! Maybe add “犯的” to “三个错误”, which sounds more authentic! Would love to help you with your mandarin study if you need any help!
You are very beautiful and charming 🤩 I love your way of speaking
#2 paralysis fear of judgment, that's my biggest problem. My mom and aunties all speak Cantonese and it's embarrassing trying to speak. My mom has a great sense of humor so I'll just keep rattling off incoherent phrases and hopefully I'll get one right. Thanks Izzy!! Who is your favorite Mario Kart Character?
Take yourself! Too you ❤
I speak Roumanian language, Russian and English. of course, my next target is........... spanish. ufff. Well, I wish you all the best in your Chinese. :)
很好的经验，谢谢分享！
Thanks
非常正确 I have the same experience while I learnning English
Personally, I do not like the idea of "thinking" in another language because thinking, feeling and even communication itself is beyond words or languages. I prefer seeing languages as tools for expressing what is convenient. Maybe learning new languages seems to create new ways and connections in ourselves, and it helps not only to explore what appears to be new perspectives, but also to enjoy every other view in novel terms. As I learned and practised English throughout life, it made me appreciate more my mother language (Portuguese). Learning languages, the stranger, the better, is so satisfying when considering this. I would not say second brain, though. I would prefer comparing it two new branches or roots of a plant. Anyway, it is a pleasure to watch you.
Fear of judgment is huge. I definitely struggle with that.
You are perfect.
Nice ❤
Tal vez deberias intentar aprender un idioma mas similar al ingles como el español, de tal manera te darás cuenta que el chino es bastante más complicado y es normal que el aprendizaje lleve un tiempo significativo.
Have you watched Chinese drama 鹤唳华亭? This is really great. I would recommend^^
I am not sure how your viewers feel about this, but i would love to watch these videos without the background music!☺️🌺
你的中文很标准诶，我喜欢看你的视频学英文
凯琦，感谢你对中文的热爱与坚持。中文和英文都是世界上被广泛使用的语言，祝愿你能够在中文学习上有所成就，希望在以后的日子里能够来到中国游玩，体验不一样的生活！
来干嘛？隔离到酒店？体验nm。
@@Kyle-xv3mv 攻击性好高
Hi Izzy 😊
0:47 do you mean don't translate expecting the exact word right? because I do that but I search more the sense that the litteraly meaning
By the way, now I notice 1 question about english, I'm not sure if is correct to use the auxiliary "do" in a question which is in negative 😅, like my question above. In the translator is write: You mean not translate....
Explain me this too please 🙏🙏
You know what's funny? As soon as I learn a few words of a new language I start trying to think in that language, which is incredibly frustrating because your thoughts get stuck SO often because you don't know words. So, thinking in another language (for me at least) is only really possible once you build up a basic vocabulaire
Edit: how many hours you can devote to studying Chinese.
More like: how many minutes XD
太谢谢你了
很棒呀❤
哇！姐姐的中文真的讲的很好！那我以后是不是可以用中文评论啦！嘿嘿嘿我的英文实在是一般😢
Am an English speaker, please drop your WeChat id let's practice together
Like Yoda teaches: " do or do not, there is no trying "
我來自香港😇
有朋友跟你開玩笑，叫你Easy Silly嗎? 哈哈
很欣賞你的學習方法和執行力。
會叫幼稚園的女兒多跟你學習，她叫Isla。
你剪的片越來越有水準。由一個鏡頭一個距離到尾，到現在已經進步了很多。畫面上不悶，很接近電視台級。