How I Learned PERFECT Chinese as an Adult | Anyone Can Do This

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Ever since I started making videos, one of the most frequently asked questions is, “How did you learn Chinese?”In today’s video, I’m finally sharing a little bit of my Chinese learning journey, what tips and tricks I used that got me from zero to sounding pretty good and fluent in 2 years and then after that to the level now where people are always very surprised when I started speaking. I’m by no means perfect, and I have quite a few friends who speak Chinese better than me, but I love language learning, and I love helping others improve, so I hope that my tips might be helpful. If you have any other questions, I’d love to hear from you, and I’ll probably be making more videos talking about what I did and how you can use it to improve, no matter what language you’re learning.
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[@cameronburnett9679]

I used to be a young guy who couldn't speak Chinese. Now, many years later, I am no longer young.

[@ariaviolete3738]

Jajajaja 😅

[@karlahdez]

Same hahaha

[@johnettaflomo1078]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@hoaimy45]

🤣🤣🤣

[@lights143]

Lmao

[@Mia82978]

Don‘t mind me, just summarizing for future references :) 0:00 Intro 1:49 Watching TV shows 3:24 Write down everything 4:05 Shadowing 4:53 Talk to yourself 6:38 Make friends 8:02 Rap music 9:08 Find a language idol 10:39 Outro

[@noooberwhistle1840]

thx mate

[@salmawu8627]

Tysm ❤️✨

[@rany5704]

Me who make friend with Chinese in English🤣🤣

[@g.j]

I totally agree with watching videos. I learn more in watching c dramas by listening closely. Later on I realized subs is not always accurate but just conveys the meaning. Still it is really useful.

[@eghes]

我花了两年时间才有今天的水平。我学习的方法也是看电视剧、电影、还有这些综艺节目-奔跑吧兄弟、相亲大会、非诚勿扰等、也跟很多中国人聊天儿。我一般会去模仿他们说话方式。现在的水平还行但我在不断地去提高自己的水平，把汉语说得越来越好。

[@user-jp6hl9qw3v]

牛逼

[@erturtemirbaev5207]

Where are you from? Are you from USA?

[@eghes]

@@erturtemirbaev5207 nah I’m from Cameroon 🇨🇲

[@user-cnmd]

很厉害

[@erturtemirbaev5207]

@@eghes great. I have never been to Cameroon. I want to visit Cameroon.

[@thetallestmaninasia5689]

Dude my Chinese has improved by leaps and bounds after stumbling upon your channel in Jan last year. I literally followed every bit of advice, and after a few thousand hours I finally am starting to feel like a bad ass. Thanks so much mate!

[@grasspitchstreet6675]

牛逼。加油

[@alphabetasearch624]

感同身受。而且他说的东西是适合任何一种外语的。所以每次他要说学习中文的经验了我就立马蹦起来仔细听☝️🤓🙈😂😂。他对发音的执着（嘴型，开口度，发音位置，等等等等）他讲出来对我学目标外语的语音帮助极大👍👍👍👍👍

[@brucelv]

help each other? I am China, I want to practise spoken english and help other to learn Chinese

[@christineliang8908]

怪不得你的中文讲得那么好，原来花了那么大功夫在里面！我想想自己，从来没做过一件事有你花的功夫的百分之一。太佩服你了！

[@oniiki]

These advices are actually amazing. I realised how i learned English with the same methods without even noticing. It's time to apply these advices to my other languages 🤡

[@xuexizhongwen]

“Advice” is an uncountable noun; it has no plural form.

[@jayf4612]

Not sure if everyone has the dedication that you did and time and motivation to put in the work that you've put in for so many years. Of course, there are many that will attempt it, but most will experience varying degrees of success. Thank you for the good tips to use when learning a new language.

[@nathanj1016]

FINALLY!! I have been waiting for this forever bro!

[@MexicanosenChina]

I was waiting for this one for so long😁😁😁😁

[@Ukw975]

I watch you and your girlfriend's videos sometimes.i like them alot.how did you guys learn your mandarin?thanks for the videos...

[@leonlu8157]

当老马把APP三个字母分开读的时候，真的戳中我笑点了，这太中国了

[@christinemao6293]

Same stand hhh

[@2011TWUW]

入乡随俗😁

[@victyra]

真的太中国了 哈哈哈

[@befunnytv3508]

简称又不是非得连读

[@yibingwang7613]

@@befunnytv3508 但是你要看是什么简称，如果APP是三个分别由A、P、P打头的单词组成的词组的简称，那才应该分开读，但实际上APP是application的简称，拆开读是很奇怪的。就好像广告advertisement，简称Ads，你能读成爱地艾斯吗？

[@nefertari_Kaneko]

我也不爱背单词，但不背单词的前提是单词有一定的基础，就像盖楼没打好基底，房子迟早得塌。 我初中某个暑假英文老师给我们补课的时候，我被逼着背了好多的单词😂但现在回头想，是非常感谢我初中的英语老师的

[@meliamedaverman3558]

I used to watch countless Chinese historical dramas and many times I had to wait for English subtitles... So I decided to learn so I don't have to wait for English subtitles, 3 months ago I started learning the language. I stopped watching these dramas but I am still learning Chinese.

[@Crystalbomb321]

Your Chinese is amazing! And your accent actually sounds legit.

[@noatbkrongh4785]

Thank you. This video is really useful for me. I'm learning both English and Chinese. You've motivated me a lot.

[@thatyoutubechannel9953]

I've finally found a Mandarin show I really like and I've only watched 9 or 10 episodes and I'm even using English subtitles, but even with that I can already tell I'm improving a lot in how natural I sound. I can't communicate as well as I'd like to, and I find it difficult to understand fluent speakers at full speed, but watching this show has vastly improved my listening and speaking in only a few days.

[@nileshbhattacharya2526]

Thank you bro for this wonderful video. I really appreciate it. Lots of love from India 🙏 ...

[@tatianatereshchenko8176]

太谢谢你了 你的视频是特别有用的 我已经学习汉语三年了住了在中国可是我只有HSK四级，有时候我根本失望，连三年了以后我都听不懂中国人的话。看外国人说汉语说得很好的时候我又失望，可是你说真的汉语是一门非常难的语言，你要花10千小时！你很棒！我们需要坚持下去 谢谢你！

[@noneedtoknowme]

I think I started learning at the wrong time with so much going on…BUT I am not giving up and your video is proof that I can do it too! 😂

[@crsimp9790]

Your chinese is so close to native That you pronounce the "APP" as A~P~P instead of Ap , Which is the way most chineses Dose it. U even notice the nuance of how chineses prononuncing english words, Exellent !

[@DanZhuShui]

Your Chinese is so close to native that you pronounce the "APP" as A~P~P instead of Ap , which is the way most Chinese do. U even notice the nuance of how Chinese pronounce English words. Excellent!

[@crsimp9790]

@@DanZhuShui Grammarly dose more than catch errors…

[@crsimp9790]

@@DanZhuShui 第二句的chinese 用单数形式的话，为什么谓语不是pronounces?

[@brotekaai7124]

@@crsimp9790 anyone can learn the language dont tell me you're jealous because he speak better then you it dosen't matter if the first native people got it first god put talent in people to good use

[@crsimp9790]

@@brotekaai7124 Did I forget to tell you guys that I'm a native chinese?

[@AshinAsia]

Really enjoyed this! Thanks. I like this new style of banner at the bottom, showing content places, Genius!

[@polyxin1817]

You don’t have any accent at all and your range of vocabulary is amazing and the expressions you use are perfectly natural, 作为北京人的我对你佩服得五体投地，功夫不负有心人，你付出了所以就有收获！ I know you have put a lot of effort into it, I only hope that my English could be as good as your Chinese one day!

[@moli1218]

That is soooooo helpful. Thank you， Chris. I'm planning to improve my English and learn some French.

[@csy1111]

太鸡血了，太激励了，我也在学习精进点我的英语跟入门韩语双管其下，向你学习！

[@sue7284]

Wow,! you are my idol from now on!😄👍 I’ve been living in the United States for more than 3 decades, but my English is still not good!!. I must start spending time on “shadowing”!! Thanks very very much Chris! You are really amazing!😎

[@thoseh2983]

非常感谢马老师，这集干货太多

[@akingskykingker1714]

Great! Ive been waiting so long for this video.. 谢谢你!

[@larissa8326]

Me brazilian going crazy trying to follow your language mix..... but I got it!!!!! I started Chinese for now 3 months and I'm going to try to do the same as you did.... never thought about copying and repeating every sentence, speech, chat I hear. Thank you for the advices.

[@skux]

thank you Chris! :) been binging your videos and starting to learn Mandarin (not as fast as you), thank you for the inspiration!

[@user-nc9pm6qt7c]

你会成功的，因为你的头像看起来不蠢。

[@Enjiy79]

你可是天才，英语与中文一样流利。佩服，佩服。

[@virginiacutchin7586]

Inspiring and impressive. I am now following you. Your advice is excellent and of course we all have to do what we can do, given the time, resources and other obligations we have. But it can be done! We make time for what we value.

[@erturtemirbaev5207]

You have good pronunciation. Greetings from Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬

[@annaxu6379]

男友正在学中文，这个视频太好了，希望多出

[@jporfirio_]

I'm not even learning Chinese but I love your videos and your attitude towards language learning. I would love to know what you did to deal with vocab!

[@user-lb7jx5gy2d]

兄弟啊 别谦虚了 你中文说的实在是太棒了

[@Lucy-cl4gi]

诚意满满的干货！谢谢马老师！

[@nataliasoares225]

Taiwanese hip hop is truly AMAZING. In fact, I started studying Chinese just because of it. I like it better than Korean hip hop which is superb. Chinese language is especially good for rap.

[@karogod]

Can you recommend anything?

[@nataliasoares225]

@@karogodThere's a lot of artists. I don't know what kind of rap you like. Some of them sing in Taiwanese. My favorites are 蛋堡 Soft Lipa, Leo 王, Gordon, 雙子GMN, STACO, 西屯純愛組(High Loc & Henry), LC, 柯蕭KE, 八八男, 榕幫 Banyan Gang, HSIEN CHAN, Goodiek, 熊仔 Kumachan, Trout Fresh, RPG, 老莫ILL MO and a few more. Some of them are underground rappers. There are some that are more famous like Dwagie or MJ116, but I don't like them that much. 😁

[@MattBrooks-Green]

YESSSSS! This is what I needed today. Thanks Chris

[@fraverie]

Wow love the humility in this. Unlike some people who speak with accented Chinese and call their speaking perfect..

[@artugert]

Uh, the title is literally “How I learned PERFECT Chinese…”

[@daisyl440]

非诚勿扰 哈哈 但好像在实景对话中真的很有帮助 看完这个视频 才知道小马真的很努力去学中文 对比自己学英语 真是惭愧

[@alexvibeschina5941]

*_Good advices! Thank you for the tips! I'm 4 years in China, still struggling to learn it! Hello from Guangzhou! Share my vibes with you! 你好_*

[@littlepear898]

Thanks for sharing your learning experience.

[@anhnguyenthilan7604]

Thanks for this video, I'm struggling to remember the characters and want to improve my listening/speaking skills. I can spend hours to study coursebook and write down the words but still cant reproduce and use it in daily life (I guess the method is not effective). However I always feel distracted when watching videos and I also watch wayy to much lol (I focus on entertaining, not studying), I prefer listening to podcast.

[@meibethm.2050]

Pondré en práctica todo lo que has mencionado, Gracias! ❤️

[@jackmanrapid4250]

is ur profile 魔道祖师？

[@keanuwardana6406]

This was very motivating! Great video ^^

[@TravelinChina]

Great video!

[@jazminewang1344]

Caught you! Stu!

[@cv00000]

well timed video, i've just started to take my chinese studies seriously now, thank you Chris!

[@hannahhan7511]

老马太厉害了 shadowing很难 没什么事情是容易的 10年👍

[@peterluo1776]

Wow..inspiring. He's so humble 👍✌

[@user-jr8us5gc8h]

功夫不负有心人！即便我年纪大了，你的学外语经验还是可以借鉴的👍！

[@relaxwhc]

对于中文汉语，可以做一个拼音图表，每天去看，慢慢就会知道全部常用字的精准拼音，发音自然就会很准确了。我自己本身都在做。

[@Mukdener]

马总太谦虚了，作为非中文母语者他绝对是最顶级的，我能想到的可能只比大山差点。

[@drl3247]

谢谢你 for the vids, they're great! Do you teach privately 吗？

[@csong4809]

很实在啊，语言学习就是积累和练习

[@Tiggerjac]

kudos to you! you've successfully mastered Chinese compared to most Chinese Singaporeans who struggle with it for 10 years in school.🙇🏻‍♀️

[@weizhang2834]

Because Singaporean have been taught looked down China and loook up USA for years, they have no WILL to learn mandarin, and always proud they didn’t speak mandarin. don’t try to argue with me . I met too much Singaporean in the USA

[@restoftheworld7200]

@@weizhang2834 因为不是我们的母语。祖先们下南洋时也不讲普通话。不讲普是因为尊重祖先。您的眼里只有美国吗？以前的新加坡是英国的殖民地，跟美国无关。到美国为了沟通当然是要讲英语。讲普通话也是为了跟他人沟通。

[@restoftheworld7200]

@@weizhang2834 这种北京音也在东南亚不通。以前的北京也是推广正式普，是没有儿化vu声的。这种音只有美国白人才掌握得到。

[@teddynkwabi4502]

Your video was recommended on my KZbin. 5 minutes in and I'm like WOW🙌😍, how I never came across your page is just beyond me. Subscribed immediately 🙏

[@Annabelle5218]

我也把这个视频分享给我刚开始学中文的男朋友，我说你的中文比很多中国人都标准哈哈哈

[@nicoledansby1805]

Great video! Thanks!

[@user-om1ze4mi7u]

我最喜欢的节目就是明星大侦探 各期都会出现不同的现场 可以学到很多在不同场合中要用的词汇 可是这个节目的中文难度稍高一些。我也只听懂百分之五十

[@port-ep7hx]

这些节目一是很多梗好多流行词，二是需要一点文化历史背景，很有趣就是对歪果仁可能要难一点。

[@user-om1ze4mi7u]

@@port-ep7hx 对 我刚开始听什么都不懂 因为有很多不知道的词汇。后来慢慢地学习、慢慢地记住，才更多听懂。也有很多梗我不明白像“如果我开挖掘机，你会爱我吗” 我也不懂为什么开挖掘机时，会有人爱我😊哈哈

[@doreenli3911]

@@user-om1ze4mi7u 哈哈哈哈 你太可爱了

[@rosesblue1218]

明侦的语文难度太高了吧

[@user-om1ze4mi7u]

@@rosesblue1218 对 我的目标是想把我的中文说得像中国人一样标准，所以必须经过艰苦的训练。你是哪儿人？

[@hotasian9205]

学习语言真的挺难的，环境很重要，如果我能去美国生活2年周边都是说英文的人，我觉得自己的口语和听力也可以进步很快。

[@imobiapp]

这集对我们学习英语非常有帮助。另外姜文应该算是北京人，从小北京大院长大，说的大院北京话，和王朔背景类似

[@nadiayc85]

loved your tips!

[@hlbobo85]

During Quarantine,I want to study Chinese so I was watching Cdramas, C tv shows and listening C music all the time. I felt like I'm in China😂.But it's really effective.

[@Stay-rq1so]

Same for me, since I watched The Untamed♡

[@IsisBehrendtcolorcodedvip]

Same with all-But now I want to move to china ^^"

[@hlbobo85]

@frosty cube 'Ode to Joy' I think it's an appropriate one.

[@kiri2058]

老马的声音更有磁性

[@guanzipo9718]

两年了...好漫长的路，准备开始输出。 谢谢老马。

[@brucezhou4655]

哈哈哈哈哈哈哈这次这剪辑也太魔鬼了

[@mouse912a]

As a native Chinese mandarin speaker, I think you speak better and clearer (enunciation) than many native speakers. Kudos! Perfectionism is the way, haha 😛

[@user-np9uv1oc8e]

How can chinese native speaker be in youtube???

[@mouse912a]

@@user-np9uv1oc8e lol why not 😂 I’m a native speaker of both Eng and Chi. Anyway if you mean geographically wise Chinese (from China) dun really access KZbin, well there’s always VPN. And btw, not all Chinese native speakers are from China. Cheers ^^

[@ppoortatopoteto4569]

Native chinese speaker speak like a gun, i cant keep up to what they say lmao

[@mouse912a]

@@ppoortatopoteto4569 it’s individual preference and pronunciation differences. Not all native speakers speak like that. Chinese native speakers can come from different regions and some accents are harder for learners to understand.

[@bragbounce9179]

10000个小时 我以为我为英语花的时间已经够多了 现在我要更加努力了

[@selenachen7154]

希望老马介绍一些英文适合练习的绕口令

[@YangXujing]

确实很多方法都是共通的，不管是什么语言，万变不离其宗。 大部分人不能把外语说得很好归根结底还是投入的努力和时间还不够多。

[@rainwu5543]

我是12年美国国庆节到的美国，😂，一直看你的视频，但是我的英文还是达不到你中文的水平，你真的很牛！

[@yeepett]

讲的很好

[@marklam1993]

期待你用以上的方法練出一口流利的粵語😂👍🏻

[@user-pt1ep5pz9c]

哈讲真，粤语博大精深甚至比国语仲要多溉一字多音多意存在，学习难度绝对系国语之上，而且都系母语好似无教科方式去学

[@alfredcheng5739]

係難既 不過我相信以佢既做法好快就會流利

[@yinenoch7877]

@@user-pt1ep5pz9c ？？？？？？

[@QQZH]

你好!谢谢你分享你的经验! 收益匪浅!会试着借鉴你说的方法再把我的瑞典语好好加强。对了，你有没有注意到你好像几次都把 "达到"的"达"发音成"打"... 如果是我听错，不要介意噢。

[@-jacebingham9217]

老马大哥，我叫跃龙 and I'm American! 我学了两年的中文了 我对语言学习非常感兴趣！会很喜欢和你1对1的聊聊学中文这件事 😁

[@Windsor77]

Hey! Do you wanna chat with someone who speak Chinese?Maybe we can help each other.🤗

[@DangRenBo]

I haven't spent a lot of time on Chinese, but have in Thai. You're right that the "secret" is just spending a lot of time in the right level of listening and reading ("I+1" in SLA talk). I tell people all the time that learning a language isn't complicated, but it's extremely difficult in mostly the same way that becoming a top-level distance runner is. Put in the right kind of time, and lots of it. There aren't really any shortcuts, despite all the videos trying to tell you that there are.

[@lookits_fran]

Love this!!

[@KGLTF]

Hey Dude，您真的太牛🐮逼！以您这老外的中文，已经达到高几十亿上的标准， 我封您语言“博学多才”奖！ Bravo！

[@AZ-rg3rf]

Really top notch advice

[@cecilabbey2955]

终于来谈怎么学中文的。哇塞。

[@guihermeborracha7412]

I don't know a single word in chinese, but as a Brazilian I feel tones are the most important thing by far, and then all those consonants (z/c/s, zh/ch/sh, j/q/x). Once you got all this extremely crazy stuff internalized you might be ready to start learning the language as a whole.

[@weikruse9869]

决定跟您学习英语

[@weiyue7420]

这些人只有小贝可能真的说得比你好，但是那家伙七岁之前在中国长大的，这个就算半个中国人了，和你这种纯老外不能比

[@yibingwang7613]

他虽然的确有谦虚的成分，但曹操、金小鱼和于中美他们的中文真的比马思瑞要强。马思瑞还是多少带点口音，而且发音有一点点过于用力。闭着眼睛听他说话，仔细一点还是能听出是外国人，但那几位几乎完全听不出来。

[@anonymoustaiwan5632]

Hi, Chris, you have mention about the concept of "language idol" before. And I do believe that plays a key role for your success on learning Chinese! Also we lack of that tip in our English education! There was no any instructor had ever mentioned about that even in my college of languages! 😭I really want to take your advice. But I don't know who I should pick from English speaking woman👩. They don't have 相聲 in America. I have though about Ellen Show. But the content is not for everybody. Would you please give me some lists for that? So appreciated!🙏

[@montekpncto7426]

谦虚了啊！谦虚了！

[@luckytiger311]

我觉得不会，应该你最棒👍👍👍

[@ksenia0217]

馬老師跟新生代偶像「鄧倫」的聲線也有點像~他的聲音好聽‼❤️❤️

[@stephenwei7924]

能说成这样已经很牛逼了大兄弟～

[@barbiewang1775]

Mimic TV series and shows is really helpful, as it has context and it is fun to keep learning. This is exactly how I learn ENglish hahaa

[@artugert]

The problem is that there are no interesting shows in Chinese…

[@gautamgulde9456]

Awesome.Thanks.

[@wadeyang1212]

自言自语 太戳中我了

[@user-zb3wz1sj3c]

Thank you for your tips for learning foreign language. I am kinda in a slump in terms of learning foreign language because of less chances to speak those languages in my daily life ... and it is really tough to leap over beyond normal communication lv to close to native lv on both chinese and english ... 作为一个韩国人真的掌握学习两门外语非常难 但是我还是要坚持下去 希望有一天我会说中文说的像你那么流利

[@AlenLi-fx3wv]

不可能的，他的口语已经比很多母语者都标准了。

[@relaxwhc]

你可以用 voice acting 的技巧，创造两个或更多的角色，然后透过这些角色互相对话

[@qmioimp]

谦虚了

[@gustavo.1160]

I LOVE THIS KIND OF VIDEO

[@unfinishedfruitloops7348]

Can you tell me the basic points of this video so I don’t have to watch it

[@ManfrediVullo]

关于第三个方法的，你以前提到过，而且我从那起就开始这样做。挺有用的 搞笑的是，当你把中文换成英文时，我也会不经意地继续和你往下说 哈哈哈哈，觉得自己笨

[@ljljhg123]

大山真的厉害，感觉是天花板了

[@messiercharles7775]

张家口人狂喜。老马有空可以来玩啊 明年正好能赶上冬奥会😆😆

[@hiba380]

I lost my motivation after hearing you talking in Chinese 😭 omg will I be able to talk like that in the future 😐❤️ your Chinese is perfect and pretty fast

[@hiba380]

@@marianatrinidad0712 I challenged myself to learn by my own and 100% for free and without quitting my country 👻❤️😌 It would be such a great deal 😉

[@hiba380]

@@marianatrinidad0712 From Morocco (North Africa) 👀 WBU?

[@relaxwhc]

哈哈，马嫂范老师也出现了。

[@iamclarity]

Sick vid!! At what point, Chris, did you feel like you were finally able to "think in Chinese" though?

[@nicoleraheem1195]

He had an early headstart since he went to school in China as a kid. Even if he had forgotten, it was in his subconscious. Keep learning and taking study tips

[@makeminemandarin79]

Awesome!👍🙏