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.
@YaoyaoShareChineseАй бұрын
I also recommend "Bilibili", which is a Chinese version of "KZbin". Many great Chinese content creators post real-life Vlogs there.
@alinaslearningcornerАй бұрын
@@YaoyaoShareChinese Thanks for mentioning this resource! I definitely should use it. Most vloggers on KZbin have the southern accent, and I'd prefer to have more versatility☺
@friedchicken89219 күн бұрын
Where could we find your contacts?
@WeEnYO064 күн бұрын
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!
@cactustacticsАй бұрын
Yeah writing's really important for making connections in your brain! You need to do the active stuff (speaking and writing) as well as passive listening and reading. I think people tend to forget that even if adults don't physically write so much now, they still spent their childhood in school practicing this stuff every day. And adults need a little more help to make things stick
@alinaslearningcornerАй бұрын
I couldn’t agree more!
@NavidErde22 күн бұрын
I'm curious if it could help me in any way to learn reading. And how much more time do I need when I include the characters? So even I heard a lot about the importance of the characters I'm still sure I will lost 30-50% of my spare time I could better use to practice speaking and listing. (if I could spend 15 minutes/day and split it 40:60 between reading & speaking/listing, how long do I need to reach HSK1?)
@cactustactics22 күн бұрын
@@NavidErde I can only talk generally because it's a completely personal thing, that depends on what works for you, the way you study and what you actually want to get out of it. Like I can say learning to read and write is important, but if you're trying to become conversational with people you might want to emphasise speaking and listening more, etc. So where to direct your effort, that's something only you can decide! The thing about reading and writing is it uses different parts of your brain, and helps you build a bigger picture of the language. More ways to remember stuff, more for your brain to grab onto It can also help you break things down when you understand how the words are formed, what parts go into them and what they mean. It can be easier to remember when you can put a word together from its component parts, or associate it with other words you know that share meaning. You definitely get that with ideograms like Chinese characters, where you can visually see shared characters or components within them (radicals). Especially handy when words are short and share the same pronunciation as other unrelated words! Being able to visualise them can help (for some people more than others, which is why I said it's a personal thing) I'd recommend devoting a bit of time to it at least, just to get a feel for it and work out how useful it seems. Learning the radicals is a good idea too - there aren't that many, and they make characters way more approachable when you recognise the building blocks instead of having to learn the whole thing as a unique thing. And they can imply meaning and even define the pronunciation! There's a lot of useful info in there - it evolved around the language after all Give it a go, that's my advice. If you skip it entirely you'll probably wish you hadn't later on, y'know? And try writing (even doing a character over and over) to see if it makes stuff easier to remember, though it might take time to know how it's going. And honestly, there's something nice about being able to read and write, or trying to nail a character decently - not really a learning thing exactly, but it can be a good motivator!
@wei.h568929 күн бұрын
very practical,i as a Chinese recommend your channel to my foreign friends learning Chinese
@alinaslearningcorner29 күн бұрын
Thank you🧡
@YocephBelisariusАй бұрын
You speak slowly and very clear! I'm from Brazil, I'm practing English and I really liked your accent and pronunciation! Spasibo!🤩
@alinaslearningcornerАй бұрын
Thank you! I appreciate your words a lot☺
@sailormiu10 күн бұрын
your words made me feel very purposeful and confident about learning mandarin! thank you for your efforts and for sharing your knowledge!
@alinaslearningcorner5 күн бұрын
I'm so happy to hear that! Good luck on your way to reaching fluency in Mandarin☺
@Reflekt0rАй бұрын
Great video, happy to see another fellow Chinese learner! I've also had a long break from Chinese and came back this year. Because I have a very specific goal, I went from about HSK 3 to 5 in four months. For media, I recommend the podcast Dashu Mandarin, it's great to have three experienced teachers coming from different parents of China talking in a colloquial manner. I've also found the channel 听书财富 that is similar to Blinkest and that allows me to engage in more written language, I usually mine those videos using migaku and then relisten once I've looked up all the words. By the way, there's a Russian audiobook of Journey to the West that came out this year, I like that translation better than the English one because the poems are translated as poems with rhymes and rhythm. 加油!
@alinaslearningcornerАй бұрын
Thanks a lot for sharing these resources! I'm reading in Russian (I also heard that Russian translation is better😅)
@Reflekt0rАй бұрын
@alinaslearningcorner Very cool ☺️ Knowing more languages also allows you to choose the best translation.
@Tommidgely1707 күн бұрын
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.
@alinaslearningcorner5 күн бұрын
Thank you for sharing more resources! And thank you for pointing out the i issue. Lately I've been focusing on my Chinese pronunciation, apparently it influences my English😬 In general, v and short i aren't my strong suit. I'll make sure to do some extra practice!
@amazing-u1zАй бұрын
Thank you for the advices 😄
@alinaslearningcornerАй бұрын
I'm happy to help!
@Lilolyglot12312 күн бұрын
shuo shuo chinese and dashu mandarin (intermediate and advanced level videos) are also excellent teachers. I recommend their channels.
@alinaslearningcorner5 күн бұрын
Thanks for sharing!
@edwardlin29418 күн бұрын
Good points
@alinaslearningcorner5 күн бұрын
🧡
@24丹老师Ай бұрын
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.
@nikos9257Ай бұрын
I totally agree with the individual work!!!
@alinaslearningcornerАй бұрын
Thanks for sharing your points! I also think that understanding radicals and the history behind the characters helps a lot
@geroldsssАй бұрын
Hello Alina! Thank you for sharing your story and experience. Best wishes, Gerold 👋🏻
@alinaslearningcornerАй бұрын
Thanks!
@proudwhovian516116 күн бұрын
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.
@alinaslearningcorner5 күн бұрын
Thank you for sharing! I should definitely try it out
@andrewtang631826 күн бұрын
dashu mandarin might be a good podcast and KZbin channel for listening to everyday Chinese for several different regions.
@alinaslearningcorner25 күн бұрын
Thanks for your recommendation!
@percarell655021 күн бұрын
Alina, 多謝你嘅分享!
@alinaslearningcorner5 күн бұрын
You're welcome🧡
@HellenicheavymetalАй бұрын
your voice is so soothing
@alinaslearningcornerАй бұрын
Thank you☺
@dadadadave965219 күн бұрын
Super easy, barely an inconvenience!
@BrandonBenberryWOFАй бұрын
Thank you for the hood advise
@alinaslearningcornerАй бұрын
I'm glad to help!
@newjeansfan2389 күн бұрын
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
@alinaslearningcorner5 күн бұрын
That’s impressive! Your experience with learning both Chinese and Korean sounds so inspiring☺I guess with Korean, it's a bit different since you're working with letters rather than characters like in Chinese. However, I know really little about Korean, so I might be wrong
@newjeansfan2385 күн бұрын
@alinaslearningcorner 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
@alinaslearningcorner5 күн бұрын
@@newjeansfan238 Thank you for sharing your experience! When I practice writing, I often practice many things at the same time. I listen to a dictor saying the word and repeat it. And every time I write the word, I say it out loud. To me, it works well for memorizing new words
@newjeansfan2385 күн бұрын
@alinaslearningcorner ok and i studied chinese at college at school, it isn't the same for korean, i started to learn korean alone. At school, we write words, translate but practice less speaking. And for korean, i studied korean alone and it's not necessary to write words to memorize, it depends on person but it's not necessary to do like school
@ishudshutup4 күн бұрын
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!
@friedchicken89219 күн бұрын
Could we know your routine?
@alinaslearningcorner5 күн бұрын
I'll make sure to make a video about it! Shortly speaking, I had weekly classes, one-on-one classes, and homework, and I wrote down new words or practiced pronunciation daily. Now I'm taking part in a Chinese 2-week course; it takes 30 minutes a day. In general, my routine changes with my Chinese goals, so it's really flexible
@Egal019023 күн бұрын
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?
@alinaslearningcorner5 күн бұрын
I think it's less tricky than TikTok. I often see more Chinese content, but occasionally there are posts from Ukraine
@SassMode4 күн бұрын
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
@watchgz96919 күн бұрын
呃。。。。 很漂亮
@alinaslearningcorner5 күн бұрын
谢谢💛
@geziliu292924 күн бұрын
nice,feel free to talke with me, i am chinese.
@alinaslearningcorner5 күн бұрын
非常感谢您的好意!我会在有更多时间练习口语后考虑☺
@user-vc5rp7nf8f29 күн бұрын
you're gorgeous
@alinaslearningcorner5 күн бұрын
Thank you!
@RobertHeniАй бұрын
Hehe❤
@vihodanyet8 күн бұрын
For me writing was not particularly useful. Despite thousands of repeated strokes of different characters, I could barely get anything to stick
@alinaslearningcorner5 күн бұрын
Thank you for sharing your experience! When I practice writing, I often practice many things at the same time. I listen to a dictor saying the word and repeat it. And every time I write the word, I say it out loud. To me, it works better for memorizing new words
@oraetlabora1922Ай бұрын
子曰。
@newjeansfan2385 күн бұрын
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
@terrynicholls19127 күн бұрын
Your suggested channels are excellent. I love Mandarin Megan (@chinesewithmegan). Her voice is clear and easy to distinguish sounds.