How I learned Chinese Mandarin in 30 Days + tips on how to learn 2 languages | study with me
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ธ.ค. 2020
- ✨Welcome back everyone✨
✨I am so excited to share with you my first 30 days of learning a new language! I'm by no means trying to say that I've become fluent or even an upper beginner because Mandarin is very content heavy and I want to learn the writing system too! It's simply my journey with the language :)
✨I chose Mandarin because I've always wanted to speak, read and write the language just like Japanese! I also love the way it sounds too!
✨It's been a while since I've uploaded as I've not been very well, but I'm back! I hope you enjoy the video! If you have any questions let me know in the comments or give me a shout on my Studygram :)
✨Some Resources I used:
Notepad - Muji
Website - YoYo Chinese
Highlighters - Here are my fave Mildliners - amzn.to/3prrU7T
Pens - Muji 0.38 Black Ink Gel Pen - amzn.to/3jXFNt7
Apps - Chinesimple HSK 1, Duolingo, Chineasy
✨Books
Easy Peasy Chinese - amzn.to/2OLb4El
Easy Learning Mandarin Chinese Characters by Collins - amzn.to/3qsnAGR
✨Time Stamps:
00:11 - Day 1-2 Learning Chinese
01:33 - Day 3 Learning Chinese
02:48 - Day 5 Learning Chinese
03:58 - Day 8 Learning Chinese
04:45 - Day 10 Learning Chinese
05:05 - Day 14 Learning Chinese
06:14 - Unboxing new Stationery
07:04 - Day 18
07:43 - Top 3 Apps for Beginners in Chinese
11:32 - Day 19
12:02 - Day 26 Practicing My self-introduction
12:40 - Writing my final self-into and discussing what I've learned
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Good luck , to people who are learning chinese
It took me around 4 years to speak
Chinese fluently.
Thank you 💕💕 Yes I feel the same way with Japanese 😝
aaaa how did u learn 🥺
ONLY 4 YEARS BISSSSSS it took me 11 years to speak Russian and I did it 70 hours a week. But everyone brain works differently hehe
Sis I'm here on 10 years ongoing! Started learning in 6th grade and now I am in my junior year of university.
I am in my 4 year and yep I am not that bad but there need improvement.
If you're gonna watch C dramas to learn Chinese, I'd recommend watching modern dramas than historical ones. Because in many historical dramas, they may use archaic language that isn't used widely nowadays :D
Thanks for your advice, you're right.. the modern dramas use more everyday phrases, but I feel like in historical dramas they pronounce words more clearly x'D
"The Untamed" is not going to stop me lol ❤️
Sadd because my faves are the historical ones, I personally watch cartoons because they use really simple words😂
as someone who speaks fluent Chinese and was born in China (I lived there for about 7 years then I went to Adelaide), I don't even understand some of the stuff they say in the historical Chinese dramas. My mum really likes watching them lol
I agree, but The Untamed is an exemption. Haha! Im learning chinese and I watch historical dramas most. Because of this I learned some ancient chinese terms/words. Hahaha!
I was born Chinese so I was native until I moved to the US and started speaking English, now my Chinese is kindergarten level sduhsakjdhaskhdk
I’m Chinese too lmao but it’s not my speaking that I have a problem with but the Chinese words
Omg same with spanish im mexican and moved to the u.s at 6 and the only reason im still fluent(but elementary level)is bc of my family and bc i live in a 98% hispanic city i feel so embarrassed and ashamed that idk my own native language so im planning to study it more so i can make my family proud
@@montserratreyeshernandez3385 it’s ok since u listened to the language at an early age, you’ll be able to learn easier since you can remember. I was born in the US but I need to work on my spanish too :,)
same lmao
SAME.. im really scared about not being able to understand chinese fluently now..
My biggest flex is that I can understand C dramas without the subtitles because I am fully Chinese. :)
That's a ✨ flex ✨
Same
Same
Same:)
same 😝
Some tips✨
1) For the layout of the characters, the box should have two lines, one going vertically and the other, horizontally in the middles, this allows the characters to be center and all of the chinese booklets for 3-10 in china have that layout.
2) if your from america, its best to say 我是美国人, rather than saying 英国人 because that means your from the uk
Just a reminder, its the hardest language to learn and natives only know about half of the 80,000 words and still gets them wrong daily. So your doing great hunny 😩 im native and im not even nearly fluent yet
你好！你的名字又意思有漂亮！我真喜欢！
@@wwedddc5458 哦，那不是我真正的名字，但谢了🥺
@@leyiaah6862我知道啊，可是意思很漂亮的。不客气！因为你用这个词“正”，我学了一个生词和它的意思！所以，谢谢你！
@@wwedddc5458 啊, 不客气, 祝你学中文愉快
you are native and not fluent-? how old are you? I would understand if you were like 8 years old but if you are an adult, native chinese speaker and not fluent, what am I gonna do as a non native speaker lol?
Hi Jazmine, I am not a native chinese in China. However, I am born as a chinese in Malaysia. Juz want to tell you that you are heading in the right direction in learning chinese. Chinese is no doubt the hardest language I have ever encounter ( I know and can speak fluently cantonese, chinese, english, malay and now a little bit of korean). This is because of the unique chinese character. (You can't really read them by words, unlike english, each of them are different, and each of them carries a different meaning)
I am very happy that's someone is interested in learning chinese, it's such a beautiful language (despite I definitely agree on the difficulty)
Keep it up ! I am sure that sooner or later you will be able to speak fluently in Chinese !!
@@Hani-tr5ys wehh me too😭
@Jerrica Halim i'm from Germany and i'm learning Englisch,french (in school) and japanese and korean (selfstudy)
Someday I would like to learn Chinese, but I'm too scared to pronounce everything wrong
Chinese grammar and much vocabulary are quite simple,
but tones and writing are hard.
@@tymanung768its the opposite for me, the tones and writing will get easier overtime and the vocab and grammar will get harder, this is coming from a person who is fluent.
I love jasmine tea it’s myyyy favourite ,and I love how we have similar goals I’m learning Japanese and sometimes Chinese 💓
Me too! But I love coffee almost just as much ☕️ That’s so cool! Good luck 💕😆
@@jazminelayah9302 Thank you beautiful 💓
The Untamed is a great Cdrama and its the best series i've ever watched. I still haven't gotten over it lol
This has been my mood for more than a year, I'm never getting over it
@@sonialara2233 i only found it in February 😭
Don’t think I’ll ever get over it lol. I also wanna buy a flute now 😂😂😂
Edit: i bought a flute...
That’s why I started learning Chinese in the first place. I’ll never get over it.
Did you know that Vikki has a language learning option for some shows? The Untamed is one of them!!!!
omg omg YES
If you are looking for another c drama to look . I recommend word of honor it’s same auhter if I remember it’s right but the drama start is just terrible but it’s getting so much better ☺️and it’s bl like the untamed
Girl, i also make notes in japanese while I'm studying chinese or korean. My notebooks are a completely mess that only I can understand lol lately I've been studying thai too xD
How did you learn Korean
@@fatima_0935 ik u arent asking me😅 but i learn from a website called Howtostudykorean. Its free and it has everything you need, from vocab to grammar and it explains everything really clearly and well. I really recommend it! :) i also recommend Koreanjun. I havent been through the entire website but it looks promising from what i've seen so far and its also free!
I also do the same 3 languages
I kinda feel like you're PRAIKANTOPINI fan too lol hahahaha
@@fatima_0935 I'm learning in an online course made by brazilians who are graduated in Korean language, so idk if this course will help you cause it's in Portuguese ...
I highly recommend "The Untamed " for the Chinese drama. So great and you can learn many words from that. I am a Chinese leaner too. Chinese is a little difficult in my opinion. But you are great. I started learning that since I am 5 and now I am 14. Even 8 years I don't know everything.😆😆
Whatever you watch (and I love the Untamed too!) it's best to watch it on youtube - not because the subs are great (they're not) but because on top of the English there are subs in Hanzi - it's been great for me to recognize characters which I practiced and hear them pronounced too. Also, I've often paused the video and copied out the character to look it up online if I'm not sure. It's how I found out the many meanings of 'gǔn', haha.
The Untamed is how I learned the words 闭嘴 滚 and 无聊
@@demonschnauzer1555lmfao Lan Zhan 😭
From where you are learning????
If you want ideas on chinese dramas that you should watch then I recommend the following (I watched all of them, they are really good):
- Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms (AKA Eternal Love)
- The Wolf
- The Romance of Tiger and Rose
- Ashes of Love
- Skate into Love
If you watch any of them, hope you enjoy ♥️
The only thing I watched on your list is skate into love, Thanks for you recommendation tho :D
The untamed as well!
Try watch : Put Your Head On My Shoulder and also Love o2o too! ❤️
30 days is incredibly fast! 10 years later and I still feel like I know nothing!
Big fan
You didn't even watch the video lmao
I'm so grateful i found this video. I'm literally struggling w mandarin class this semester. This video help me a lot ♥️ thank you for this!
this was so inspiring and aesthetically pleasing!! inspired me to continue learning korean and japanese again ^^
I would recommend you to watch Chinese drama about school. It can be quite cliche when it comes to romantic scenes (idk if you like that, but I really do haha). It's a good way I think to listen to everyday conversations between Chinese people and also to get familiar to the pronunciation by listening to common conversations topics
@Kat Kufflings Meteor Garden
Falling into your smile is good too
I'm Chinese (born in the U.S.) and am fluent and even I often forget characters. My mom, who lived in china for 32 years forgets characters even more than me so don't worry.
Anyway, here are some drama/tv show recommendations
Not all of them are for beginners but if you're there for the plot, these are all pretty good
Love o2o
爸爸去哪儿 (I don't know the english name but this one is for beginners)
General's wife
The best of you in my mind
Word of honor
Begin again
Sweet first love
Professional single
My girl
Maiden holmes
Goodbye my princess
The long ballad
You are my hero
Go ahead
(comment if you have a specific genre you like and I'll see what I can find)
what do you think is the hsk level where you can understand most c-dramas?
@@hatdoghatdog1570 I mean I'd say that maybe 2 or 3ish? Regardless, watching C-dramas will help regardless, if you're on beginner levels theres also loads of Chinese children's shows or dubs of english ones that you can listen to to help! My brother was learning mandarin (my family is chinese so he's the only one that doesn't know it yet) and he just watched the mandarin dub for My Little Pony on Netflix. It sounds rather silly but a lot of children's TV shows use language thats easy to understand and actually used!
the English name for 爸爸去哪儿 is 'Where are we going Dad?'.
btw its been quite a while since i last heard about that tv show lol
Falling into your smile
Mountain and ocean
whenever i see word of honor and the long ballad i get happy💕
Your tones are extraordinary for a Chinese beginner. Keep going 💪
You're inspiring me! I started to learn Chinese a month ago, but i really have no idea where should start. Thanks✨♥️
Ahhh this is such an inspiration. As a newbie in Mandarin the real struggle for me is how to pronounce the e and r.
i liked this already and i didn’t even finish the whole entire video aha , my goal is to learn chinese and japanese as well ✨ you’ve inspired me so well thanks for the vid 🙏🏽
Yasss! Someone else who reviews their Japanese while practicing Chinese! I started with numbers, and in some cases, contextually, I can understand a written sentence because of a Japanese Kanji! I know this doesn't always work due to there being a lot of characters that are the same, but have different meaning, but it definitely helped me to ease into the study of Chinese feeling like there was at least SOMETHING I knew! I might be adopting some of these techniques! Thank you for this video! ❤
Thank you for the motivation! It’s been difficult picking up my notebook because it’s so daunting, but working through it a little at a time is better than nothing! May peace be upon you.
I’ve been trying to learn mandarin since 2017 and only recently do I feel like I’ve made great progress! Don’t worry, and keep trying!
Aww 非常好! This was really inspirational~ You've come so far in your Chinese. And congratulations on over 800 subscribers 👏🏾
Thank you 😊💕
'I Hear You' is a great show - currently self-studying Chinese so thanks for this video ☺
3:46
Wow! That's such a good way of learning and remembering!
Amazing! ⭐
im chinese and your handwriting is better than mine *teach me your ways-*
i'm chinese and i'm fluent in mandarin but i'm still learning how to read and write in chinese because i never got the chance to learn when i was little/when i lived in china
i was born in new york but my parents flew me to china when i was just a few months old because they couldn't take care of me and work full time jobs so they flew me to china for my grandparents and extended family to care for me. i moved florida when i was 4. i still occasionally go to china every 2-3 years 🇨🇳
Very good, ive learned a lot of chinese without much study, i dont know how i did it. You inspire me to study hard like this to improve my chinese ❤️
Woah thanks a lot. Your video is so refreshing to watch and keep my spirit to learn chinese. you also give some inspiration that I don't notice before to learn chinese easier. Thank you so much.
I am already learning Japanese since 5 years now, and just found chinese is such beautiful language, but i forgot how to start from beginning to learn a new language. This video is so inspiring and motivating for me !
you really inspiring me^^ i always get lazy when i want to learn chinese, because sometimes it's getting bored. But because of your productive learning, i kinda inspired by your style of study! thank you and your chinese character is very beautiful!
wow your videos are so peaceful and relaxing to watch! i love them :)
i just came from your video about your japanese learning journey and you've inspired me to learn japanese over the summer! as a chinese-american, 1) your pronunciation and progress blew me away, and 2) i respect your diligence and hard work so much! it must be a bit trippy to learn simplified chinese after learning japanese kanji haha ;)
Pronunciation is really good!!!! I'm trying to learn reading/writing after being in a western country for majority of my life. This is motivating.
Green tea is my favorite!! Chinese tones remind me somehow of trying to hit the right notes when I sing . Merry Christmas and happy new year. Already following you on Duolingo btw.
Thank you so much for this motivation! You're just amazing!
I’m Chinese and I think your great and your pronunciation is good I’ve never seen a American with so good pronunciation
My fav part:
"It's so messyyy"
*shows us perfectly organized, neat CHINESE MANDARIN notes*
I luv ur videos, they are so inspiring💖 Thank u for creating real quality content💖
I always get so inspired to learn languages after I see your videos. Thank you!❤️ If you choose to learn Mandarin from Japanese it will change the language only for this course. All other courses will still be in English when you switch courses.
skate into love is a cute drama! go ahead is also another fav! if you are into light-hearted historical dramas i'd also recommend the romance of tiger and rose!
This is the second video if yours I'm watching and I'm definitely subscribing. I love ppl like you and smart tokki. U guys motivate me so much to keep learning the languages. Thank you!
Videos like this really make me wanna study Mandarin!
I commend you for what you have accomplished! You actually inspire me 😊
Love your note taking techniques. You are very inspiring 🎉
jazmine i love ur videos!!!!! im learning chinese to talk to my friend dion, she can speak english, but i have autism and i think it will let me tell her about my worries without everyone knowing! this video will help alot!! tysm
I love your videos! I subscribed and followed you. My procrastination always gets the best of me and I get lazy to study which is why I'm still a beginner in French, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. I admire that you can stick to your routine. I hope we can learn together!
Omg it helped me a lot, i was looking for some apps, sites and stuff. Thank you so much
No problem good luck 💕✨
Thanks for the inspiration~ good luck with studying Japanese and Chinese ✨ I'm gonna add you on duo
Thank you so much サミちゃん! Your comment means a lot 💕 Yey! I’ll add you back 😊
Really love to watch this channel and this video is superb
I'm obsessed with stationary and language learning too 😍
哇～ 好棒呀！！ Fighting！！加油🥳🥳
I started teaching myself Chinese and Japanese together this month. So glad to see that the strategies I laid out for myself are what you are also doing. I stayed in China for a year but did not learn the language very well so when I got back home to Zimbabwe I thought of learning it myself. Then I realized how Japanese is similar to my mother tongue Shona so why not do both, it might take me long to learn but it's all good.
You’re so brave to learn Chinese and Japanese at the same time! At school I’m learning German and I constantly mix it up with Italian and Spanish 😰 Outside of school, I’m currently focusing on Japanese.
頑張ってください！💖
I was born in America, during when i was a child there weren’t many chinese th shows I could watch like Ciaohu, it’s a chinese show for kids and the mascot is a tiger. My parents spoke different dialects. I also have a baby sitter who spoke Taitonese (didn’t spell that right) So i learned how to listen and adapt very quickly.
Although I can understand what they can say most of the time, i can’t speak mandarin very well because mandarin and cantonese sound the same to me so my mouth will say what ever is easiest on my mouth.
I was pushed to learned chinese when 11, i didn’t learn much because i felt that my chinese teachers were jumping subject tk subject way to fast. Also being around small children didn’t get my excited to learn.
I dropped out, my sister did too following me.
When seeing other people who speak my assumed language better than me, I feel ashamed. I regret not pushing myself, but when i did back then I would cry if i didn’t get it right. I would make myself frustrated that i wasn’t perfect.
Or seeing other chinese people reaching great highest when i’m below them, content. I do want to learn I truly do. Because I know I have an advantage, i can ask others around me yet I don’t use that advantage. Because if i try to start learning i’m afraid of getting things wrong and asking my parents and them ridiculing me. It makes me not want to learn.
I cant blame them, both my parents didn’t even get into highschool, I know they mean no harm. They don’t know how to parent well, because they aren’t parent well. So i’ve done my studies on my own, i’ve learned how to shut my feeling.
My sister she looks up to me as a mother figure because my mom is not. I can speak to her, she is annoying yes. I don’t understand her just as my mom doesn’t understand me.
The thing is my sister follows me right? So when i learn she learns that what my mom also tells me. Another reason for me to learn more because it will benefit my sister.
I always didn’t like this, i didn’t understand why my sister couldn’t do it on her own while my whole life i’ve done things myself. I didn’t ask teacher nor parents to help me understand things. I figured it by myself, so why doesn’t she have to?
It was selfish of me and i still think like this now. I’m ultimately ashamed of myself lot doing better.
I’m sorry this is me ranting about myself not hate to the creator you are doing
great!
I’m 13 btw not an adult, but when i go to highschool i will try to get into the mindset of learning mandarin by myself. I hope that I won’t give up and half ass it.
Wow your writing and pronunciation is amazing you have inspired me to learn Chinese properly
Inspirational. Keep at it Jaz!
Thank you ❤️
wow, people often don't put much learning Chinese videos, so I'm glad you did, and let us update GL :)
"It is not much, but it is something" - I like this quote!
i think learning languages is so fun + i’m learning multiple too so it makes me happy seeing others do it too! one thing i try to tell myself is it’ll take forever to be fluent & a lot of natives still get things incorrect & some of them will even tell you that. heck i’m an english native speaker & my grammar is still so bad lol moral of the story, no one is ever truly perfect in speaking a language, native or not.
I needed this! If I can start today
I started following you in Duolingo! 💖
Yey!! I saw🙃💕✌️
Well done dear jazmine👏❤️
Good job girl. You're amazing.
I highly recommend "You are my hero" or any Ma Sichun drama. Her smile makes me feel happy for some reason ☺️
4:22 You both Smart Tokki and you are my favorite study vlogger!
Waw, thank you girl!! I am gonna follow your path. I might adjust it, but so far I like it. My native language is Mexican Spanish, then English. So, here it goes my 3rth one. Thank you so much.
This was a really nice video! Ive been learning mandarin at uni and this gonna be my third year of learning chines, i'll be getting soon intermediate certificate, however it is still quite hard for me to grasp the tones , especially when I want to speak faster . I think the grammar parts are quite difficult even though my tutor always says how chinese grammar is easier than english lol dont know about that...but yea I would say if someone actually wants to start learning it , dont worry and take it slow , this comes from a person that is fluent in 3 languages (dont want to brag about it lol) it actually takes a lot of years to get that solid intermediate level
thaks u so much i really loved this video, i speak spanish and i want to learn both chinese and japanese in english and you gaved me a looot of resources, mil gracias linda !
Your the best of vlogging a language
Your handwriting is so good, congratulations 👏
Your video is so useful to me now. Tks so much❤️
Your handwriting is really good!
As a native Chinese speaker I can say that your pronunciation is great 😊
Hello ,can you help me on my chinese .... 🥲
Im a chinese! Really amazed by how accurate your pronunciation is and your persistence to work through all 30 days! Your chinese handwriting is also neat consider that you are just learning them! Happy for your achievement :D
Some C-dramas to recommend (I love watching chinese dramas):
- 如此可爱的我们(ru ci ke ai de wo men) : a short series on the lives of a few high school students, really cute and funny
- 微微一笑很倾城 (wei wei yi xiao hen qing cheng): a really popular chinese drama, i think the english name is love 020? Although the female actress is filled with controversy, this is still indeed a good drama.
There are more but I watch more historical dramas than modern dramas and I think it is easier to understand modern ones so Ill reco this two first. :D
All the best for your learning journey! Even though Im 5 months late haha
your accent is already rlly good!
your notes are so prettyy
i just talk with people and watch youtube but i really need to start actually studying i need to start actually learning more characters :(
Great video Jazmine, as a fellow Chinese learner I know the beginning can be overwhelming, right now I'm trying to get out of a rut and finish hsk 3 and start with 4. If you want to watch some Chinese dramas I recommend 都挺好， 棋魂，The first half of my life and Nirvana on fire if you like fantasy it's really good. Keep it up 加油
teeheehee i’m a bit late but good luck learning chinese! i’m chinese and more precisely, from hong kong so i speak cantonese. cantonese is a lot harder than mandarin though. if you do plan to learn cantonese then i wish you the best of luck!
A few C-drama recommendations would be
1.The brightest star in the sky (absolutely love this one it is my a time favorite even though I also watch k-dramas. God tier)
2. Skate into love (this show is soo good I can't even explain it in words but if you like some ice sports than this is really good. Its based in college)
3. Chef hua (very relaxing show but also fun)
Watching your video made me cheerful
I haven't been the same without Ke Ke but Ke Ke would of loved this video, rest in Heaven long Live Ke Ke the cat! My cat has passed away now but she still loves you
your writing is so perfect
C drama recommendation:
Go go squid (2 seasons)
Love scenery
A love so beautiful
Love 020
Meteor Garden
Put your head in my shoulder
Well intended love (2 seasons)
Ode to joy (2 seasons)
omg you are doing so well girl!!! and also your Japanese. btw I'm a Chinese living in Japan right now. keep going!!
I LOVE YOU SO MUCH ❤❤❤
oh I enjoyed so much see you studying
wonderful.......you do it the best
I loved!! Hii Jazmine! i'm from brazil and i study japanese, korean and chinese, your channel inspires me a lot!! ☺☺
Yey! We’re so similar! If you have duolingo let’s stay in touch! 💕 and Instagram 😝
@@jazminelayah9302 I'm already following you on instagram
😋
mine is @ kelly.studies2 ☺
I love China because I m so obsessed with chinese dramasss,their tradition ,culture etc...🥰❤
Not sure if you already knew this but there’s actually free writing practice sheets that you can find online. The website allows you to input whatever Chinese character you want and you can choose to have the sheets show you practice strokes or not, traditional Chinese etc. So it basically customisable and you can print/download.
what is it called?
Ooww I found your channel now and you are learning this 3 language that ı want to learn too. I choose korean and chinese, ı hope I will start someday😌 choosing was a big step for me😅
FYI, Chinese words pronunciation has only 5 sound groups: yin, yang, shang, qu, and neutral. If you are interested to know more how these sounds created, you may search them from the Internet, or TH-cam: Chinese pinyin tone mark.
Note: If the sound of the words are pronounce wrong, it may bring another meaning. Beware of that.
watch Triad Princess!! its based in Taiwan so the accents are different than what you might be used to + theres some native dialect, but such a good show!!
You are very disciplined as far as I see
I'm learning chinese too! It's a really hard journey but it's worth it!
You can do it 😆💕
@@jazminelayah9302 i hopeee sooo❤
Wow! You’re learning Chinese too! 대단해요! 💕
Word of Honor is a good series to watch :)
This is sooo nice
You should watch unrequited love and triad princess! (That one’s Taiwanese but it’s very good!)