How to learn Chinese characters FAST improve Chinese speaking reading Chinese idioms 成语

[@AskAndy]

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[@wongxiaosean8358]

Mr Andy, I have learned how to talk and listening Chinese from Chinese drama played by my Idol xiao zhan, and now I want to learn how to read and write Chinese characters

[@AskAndy]

You can try the app "ginkgo chinese" if you want to learn characters fast

[@TechlikeL]

Such a great video, Andy. I am learning Chinese as a native German speaker. My mother tongue is German. But I wanted to learn Chinese and really. I did it like you said. I focus in the pronunciation of a character and don’t waste too much time on remembering the correct tones. Thank you. Keep it up. You’re helping me so much 🎉

[@Ripenready]

Am almost fluent with Wallace Chung’s dialogues in episode 15 of Because of Love! Am going to take your advice seriously! Right now watching beautiful drama about 3 hotel concierge’s life and friendship called, “My Super Hero”. 🥰

[@Sera-py9qi]

Great solid tips as always! And by the way, can you recommend me some good books/ novels to read for beginner learners?

[@nicoleraheem1195]

I like to think that writing helped me with reading more than subtitles. Also, during my first year of learning, I would be able to read and write some phrases but I couldn't catch the sounds when watching dramas. So, since I was able to recognize simple Hanzi characters, I was able to catch the sounds Maybe it's different for everyone. Reading has always been my strong point. Even in my native language. Yes. Writing takes so much time that I stopped at Hsk 2 and I still learn how to write characters on a whim, because writing each character takes time. Especially, when I was writing each 25 to 50 times each. That's 600-1200 characters.

[@celiad6012]

I adjust the speed on KZbin. Slow down to .75% for Chinese and speed up to x1.75 for most English speakers

[@nicoleraheem1195]

@@celiad6012 True because it makes listening easier

[@nicoleraheem1195]

@@celiad6012 with Korean I have to slow it down till like 0.5 😂

[@celiad6012]

@@nicoleraheem1195 Mostly I find listening to Chinese songs I like, learning the lyrics and writing them down is the best help. I soon forget how to write many characters, but I’ve learnt a lot in a year and trust my brain to sort it out ….eventually!

[@nicoleraheem1195]

@@celiad6012 Awesome ❤️ It's amazing how we can go from only knowing one or two words, like hello and thank you, in Chinese to being able to sing songs and speak phrases.

[@monicaoliola7892]

Super useful as always!✳

[@celiad6012]

When you type Chinese characters, do you always need to type in pinyin to find them? Once I learnt how to do this, writing became so much easier. No need to type in the full word, just the first letter - so amazing!

[@nicoleraheem1195]

Yes and no. A Chinese showed me that you can type the first letter of the pinyin So, "Ni hao. Ni jiao shen me mingzi? Could be Ni h n j s m mz and the system will automatically translate it. I have the Chinese keyboard on my phone, and it works like this but I still have to search for the character I want

[@celiad6012]

@Nicole Raheem I can do this, but I understood that Chinese people don’t usually learn pinyin, just learn the language by ear as children ( like most of us), then learn characters at school, by writing them again and again.

[@inesantunes9594]

Tones/ intonation ❤

[@vicsheldon427]

So, do you have suggestions for good Chinese dramas to watch? If some are better for lower or upper levels, could you indicate that? Thanks, 美风

[@nicoleraheem1195]

Stand by Me- Cheng Yi and some other people I just finished it

[@nicoleraheem1195]

Home With The Kids - Tv show Children's dialogues are slightly more simple than adults

[@vicsheldon427]

@@nicoleraheem1195 Thanks you.

[@nicoleraheem1195]

@@vicsheldon427 There's one more. Chinese Zero to Hero. I'm going to post the link. It has captions you're able to click on the character to get an instant definition of it, you're able to save these words and you're able to double click I think, and it'll play 10 different audio clips of the same character. Also he had already placed the hsk levels for each TV show that you can watch through the he site

[@AskAndy]

Thank you for your question!Most modern Chinese dramas are good to improve your Chinese listening and it's up to your own interest. You can search Chinese dramas on KZbin and check out some of them. You can try these two: ODE TO JOY & DIORS MAN

[@dottieshields5918]

I am enjoying your videos Andy. What are some Chinese dramas that I can watch to improve my listening experiences? Xièxie! And I am definitely interested in your upcoming Chinese speaking course.

[@AskAndy]

Thank you, Dottie! Most modern Chinese dramas are good to improve your Chinese listening and it's up to your own interest. You can search Chinese dramas on KZbin and check some of them. You can try these two: ODE TO JOY & DIORS MAN

[@dottieshields5918]

@@AskAndy Thank you Andy!

[@asifas8229]

How many chinese charater learn to read script please tell me

[@vanessamedina6882]

hello I was wondering if you were able to help me translate “blas” into chinese characters, thank you !

[@AskAndy]

There are various translations for blas and it is 灭瘟素 Mie wen su if you meant something related to anti-bacteria or anti-virus

[@kritterkult1318]

I'm just so happy Chinese doesn't have all the verb conjugation nonsense, and gender agreement between adjectives and nouns that almost every other language has. Even English has vestigial past tense (ed), present progressive (ing) ending conjugation and endless irregular past test verbs. Ug. As a native English speaker I feel bad about foisting all that junk on learners who are trying to learn "the International Language".

[@crazyboyyt2002]

How are you sir?

[@CrescentDC]

ni shi wo de han yu lao shu

[@SlyDogStudios]

Hello sir. I have a question that I have not been able to find the answer to through web searches. When is it proper to use only one character instead of two characters? I'll give you an example from where I work, and it was actually from tonight. We needed some assistance at the exit of the kiln. So I messaged the quality lady this: 我们需要帮在1号窑炉出口。 At the time, I could not remember the second character for help 帮 (助）

[@AskAndy]

Good question! We prefer to use two syllables in modern Chinese but we do keep some monosyllabic words from ancient Chinese. We don't have a certain rule to use one or two syllables but the collocations are mostly 2+2 - 需要帮助 When it comes to naming something, 3 syllables are most popular: 1号窑, 北京市，地铁站... For the sentence you typed, they could understand you because of the context but 帮 is a verb while 帮助 can be a noun and 需要帮助 is a fixed phrase. You are welcome to join my live Q&A at 21:00 (UTC +8) on Sundays.

[@SlyDogStudios]

@@AskAndy Thank you for your reply! This does help me a lot.