This trick will skyrocket your Chinese speaking

[@ollieanntan4478]

I love the sound of your Chinese voice. You sound so relaxed and confident.

[@willhartmandarin]

Oh thank you!

[@hujymeng6696]

almost a madrain native speaker🎉

[@leamaz9622]

Will is prob the only one i believe when he gave tips in learning chinese

[@ollieanntan4478]

Same!

[@ruparkyitin]

I do not understand what he is talking..

[@ollieanntan4478]

@@ruparkyitin I understand.

[@Golo1949]

He's speaking Mandarin not Chinese! Chinese is a collection of at least 100 different dialects Mandarin being one. People dont say I speak European it's English or French etc.

[@AsterYuno]

@@Golo1949 most chinese people say chinese no one really says mandarin.

[@DanielleBaylor]

Doing this right now. I love that you did your whole video in Chinese

[@realjcav]

My listening comprehension is usually horrendous. Bro spoke so clearly I thought I was hallucinating for understanding the whole video 😂

[@abnewgemchoice1699]

Exactly!!!!! I can clearly point out the words that I already know while he was talking

[@klaussajons]

Speaking 6 languages, I fully confirm that this is a very powerful tool. Together with watching and working through lots of videos and transcripts of comprehensible input.

[@willhartmandarin]

Great to hear!

[@_fabiolaborges]

what languages do you speak? :)

[@MarkyTeriyaki]

@@_fabiolaborges Serbian, Croatian, Montenegran, Bosnian, English & British

[@Lexie810-b5r]

Best of luck to everyone on their 2025 language goals! 😊 You can get great language audio input here on youtube with bilingual stories, they will read a sentence of a story in English then read the same sentence in target language. Polyglot Beats on youtube does that well for multiple languages and there other channels for specific languages... its been helping me get passive listening and learning when going on walks... time is by FAR hardest obstacle in language learning - anything that can get us some passive learning is a plus😊🎉🎉🎉 happy new year, 2025 here we come!!! 😊😊

[@klaussajons]

German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Chinese...and now starting with Russian 😊​@@_fabiolaborges

[@MakingSenseofChinese]

天啊！你的方法跟我的一模一樣！🎉 As a native Chinese speaker learning English, I’ve found that consistency is key. Every day, I make it a point to 'do my homework' by writing at least one sentence using the new vocabulary I’ve learned. Then, I ask my native speaker friends or even ChatGPT to help correct my sentences. This way, I not only expand my vocabulary but also sharpen my grammar skills. Your methods are spot on-thank you for sharing them! I’ll keep doing my homework and hope to speak English as fluently as you speak Chinese one day!

[@briantomoconnor]

In the famous 1944 Ingrid Bergman movie, Gaslight, which takes place at the turn of the last century before electricity, when houses were lit by gaslight, an evil husband schemes to drive his wife insane by secretly raising and lowering the gas light. When the wife asked him why the lights keep going up and down, he said, "What are you talking about? They're not going up and down, you're imagining it." He did this repeatedly over time. So he was gaslighting her, meaning he was denying the reality of her own experience in order to belittle her and make her doubt her own intelligence and even her sanity. I hope this is helpful, because your wonderful video is!

[@saadamahmoud8108]

Thank you for this explanation! I didn't know the origin of the word at all.

[@MaxAmerica.Freedom]

Yes, and they were all talking in Chinese!

[@kellyt8836]

Omg now I finally know the definition and story behind it!!! (Never bothered to look it up before). I’ve heard it in conversations but have never used the word myself. Now I might hahah

[@Knānvąkattäreþäälsker]

Thank you! Now, I'll have to watch that film with Ingrid Bergman as well. Thanks and hugs from sunny Scotland 🥶🥶

[@user-vt7hm3pj1q]

Very interesting

[@gagaxueguzheng]

Good tips and I respect to your pronunciation and fluency. Most people I saw online with videos like "foreigner SHOCKS Chinese people on market with PERFECT Mandarin" have a very noticable accent and are far from the clickbaity perfection of the video's title. Thinking about sentence structure is really important. That's one reason why I already thought about doing videos in Mandarin because it forces myself to sit down and think about sentence structure and how to translate difficult concepts into Mandarin sentences. Maybe something for the next year. One good trick to practice I found is: 1. Make a second account on youtube (or use your own if you don't care) 2. Find a video where a controversial (maybe political) topic is discussed by Chinese people. Nationalists are really good practice partners. 3. Argue with strangers/trolls about politics or ethics or morals or gender. The good thing is that you have to make your points clear and concise and understandable by real Chinese. Also, heated discussions create the urge to reply and in the heat of an argument, you'll want to make the other side understand your point. The greatest praise I got from a Chinese user was: "Don't pretend that you are not Chinese just because you left the country and now you think you can say bad things about our country" :D Thank you unknown internet user, that comment made my day. And I wasn't even saying bad things. I was just criticizing nationalist views of the commenters there. When I was indistinguishable from other Chinese, then my arguments were correct (at least languagewise).

[@fabiennevlcan-sparks7445]

I already am forced to make my own sentences every day by virtue of the fact that I currently live in China, but your steps sound very helpful and I automatically trust you and this advice because you sound the closest to a Native Chinese speaker I've ever heard another foreigner sound! It's very impressive, even your pauses sound Chinese! Gonna start using your steps to practice today!

[@willhartmandarin]

Thanks so much for the comment, very jealous that you live in China! haha

[@liang1935]

As a Chinese native I learnt something new to improve my German, kudos for the good work!

[@PlaguevonKarma]

我用你的办法学了中文1年了，把你的视频成对我的学习习惯最有用！感谢您！

[@willhartmandarin]

不客气！一起加油！

[@Maimbowa]

I really am in love with the way you speak Chinese your voice is beautiful i am blushing........ Its like you are singing ❤❤❤

[@EverydayChinese]

感谢分享！ 这个造句学词汇的方法真的很有用。我们几年前也发现了。 所以我们在KZbin频道制作了很多hsk字词句的课程，帮助学生加深理解词义和字词的用法。

[@willhartmandarin]

那就太好了！感谢你们为中文学习者提高这么好的学习资料！希望以后我们有合作的机会 :)

[@dumfuc]

非常谢谢每天中文频道

[@aidenharris3189]

很不错的中文频道👍

[@Alltherage9496]

I stand behind this 100000%! Reading and writing and speaking could not be more different in terms of learning. Each of these need to have different methods to study them. I am nearly at the point where I can read a Chinese newspaper in traditional Chinese but most of the time, I have a hard time speaking a single sentence correctly.

[@my_tongue_speaks]

Me too, and worse I can read but then I don't understand. I have a TOCFL test on top of that

[@Alltherage9496]

@@my_tongue_speaks The understanding will definitely come to you no problem with enough listening time and reading. It is something that will come passively so don't sweat it too much. As for speaking..... we can all get through this together. 😎

[@allanmegill]

Thanks!

[@willhartmandarin]

Thanks so much!

[@TragicXOOfficial]

This is solid advice and btw 你的普通话说的太厉害!

[@tjungtio85]

The only thing is just that i am more inclined toward “ traditional or 繁體字” .But that is just my personal preference and majority of people are learning “ simplified writing or 簡體字”. And that is also what I learned in my native 印度尼西亞。

[@tjungtio85]

Your vocabularies are also very impressive .

[@jjstudiesxd]

thanks for the video! this is really helpful! i've been doing this with a friend but only during a time when we chat. i make a sentence and friend corrects it then i change the sentence again by replacing one word and ask "then this one is correct, as well". i limit this lesson when i have someone to talked to but you are right, i should be able to do it alone! just focus on the words on my level. thank you for this simple trick reminder

[@pridemoyo2964]

You content is really inspiring and encouraging me to continue to learn Chinese .

[@dimwitsadvocate6264]

I just found this guy by watching another channel called "Evildea". Will Hart has promising ideas in my opinion. I subscribed.

[@willhartmandarin]

Welcome aboard!

[@dimwitsadvocate6264]

@@willhartmandarin Thank you! I'm watching the video again, this time taking notes.

[@janecenufer9097]

That sounded like good advice! I will try to implement it!

[@adventurousones2260]

I literally took myself to weibo and have a Chinese friend now who communicates with me. The deal is that I translate everything in Google translate but I can only respond verbally and not in writing. My pronunciation is going really good

[@那个美国爸爸]

Nice job! Subscribed ✅

[@willhartmandarin]

Awesome, thank you!

[@yeroca]

Great CI material here, in addition to the studying advice! Thanks!

[@WingedShell82]

As someone who's studying Japanese, I think I've heard this before from one of my past professors, and I 100% agree. I've also thought about this kind of thing in the past, sometimes just trying to narrate what you're doing in your day to day life can help. Thank you for posting this video! It helped me mentally!

[@willhartmandarin]

Totally agree with the narrating your life point!

[@asutosakumbhar]

feichang piaoliang gege laizi yindu de ai ❤️

[@SassMode]

I use flash cards as a way to build up a bank of words. They may not be immediately useful but down the road when the dust settles and you’re calling on a word. You can bring out one from the back pocket.

[@willhartmandarin]

Totally agree!

[@mythilyyuvaraj5003]

I was not gonna buy it and then I heard him speak 😂I can trust him now

[@gypsyjessye]

Good advice and encouragement, thank you!

[@willhartmandarin]

You are so welcome!

[@VictorTalking]

Great advice in this video! Taking the sentence structure and changing it's components to internalize. I'd also add that these days we can validate our sentences with AI.

[@willhartmandarin]

Great point!

[@vishalgautamm]

Thanks Will. I usually try to rewatch your videos and mimic what you say.

[@willhartmandarin]

Glad you like them!

[@alishanziro]

天啊 你好厉害！

[@EASYCHINOIS]

谢谢你的分享，句子变换这个方法很有用😊 👍

[@yuenatv]

The effects at 2:15 made me laugh hahaha~ Although I hate to admit it, you are very right… making your own sentences is v important. But I think if you listen to it in context a lot beforehand, it’ll make forming sentences with that word easier!

[@gallopproductions7942]

I can't wait try this!!!1

[@EuanCai]

You are working hard to learn Chinese, while I am striving to improve my English. let's go for it together😂

[@vsn3229]

Your english seems already good. But he seems struggling with new words day by day.

[@themultilingualfamilyhub]

感谢分享！！看了你的视频后，我也想跟我的两个孩子试试这个技巧！👍👍👍 很喜欢你的视频内容，真的都是干货，很值得参考！！加油加油！！

[@willhartmandarin]

谢啦！

[@maximee.5036]

Hi Will, I'm a huge fan of your channel and I've been using your study methods for around 6 months now and found them super effective. I'm wondering how you tackled learning the differences between different 近义词，for example 区别 and 差别. Sometimes native speakers don't even know how to explain the differences between these synonyms, especially with regards to what they imply, and in what specific contexts to use them. Any advice you have would be appreciated

[@willhartmandarin]

Hey, thanks so much for the comment. I think that's a really good question, I think trying to learn Mandarin in 'chunks', getting a ton of input and feedback on when you use the synonyms wrong will definitely help. I think it will just take time, you don't necessarily need to be able to verbalize the nuances but instead 'feel' them if that makes any sense.

[@ollieanntan4478]

@@willhartmandarin I was wondering: What do you think of using ChatGPT to check and correct Chinese sentences? Or using it to explain the difference between synonyms?

[@Reflekt0r]

Have you seen the review of this video by Evildea? He's usually quite critical, but he agreed with everything you said. 😊

[@willhartmandarin]

I have, I was very nervous before I watched the video haha It was very kind of him

[@PeteR-gn5ep]

I always engage in virtual arguments with my boss or discussions with my crush in Chinese😅

[@DanielLeoSimpson]

何威，很高兴再次听到你讲中文 😊

[@willhartmandarin]

太好了，从现在开始我准备多拍中文视频

[@dumfuc]

WO XIANGXIN NI WILL!

[@foreverfriday5644]

这才叫流利的中文！而不像某些人觉得说得快等于说得流利。

[@RedGamer321]

oh hey, it's this guy! I didn't know you had your own Yt channel. subbed

[@willhartmandarin]

Thanks for the sub!

[@СундукпотерянныхсказокКитайски]

It's cool。 I want to learn chinese with。you。 🎉

[@xiaoyang-b2x]

哈哈哈好棒的儿化音

[@Raffaele-fb2hh]

威你好. Do you recommend creating own vocabulary with word and example all in Chinese?

[@tian1332]

wtf 95 percent speaking accuracy is crazy

[@natenoto]

Congratulations on 10k subs!

[@willhartmandarin]

Thank you so much 😀

[@오렛바이]

Good 👍

[@AlexBihbau]

I said xie xie to a waitress in a Chinese restaurant and I thought...wtf am I doing 😆. Still I tried

[@anthontm3332]

How would you recommended coming up with sentences? Like looking at random sentences online or something else? Thank you !

[@willhartmandarin]

Find a 'base sentence' from input e.g. listening and reading

[@noeya7308]

เพิ่งเคยเห็นฝรั่งพูดจีนโคดเก่ง😂👍🏼👍🏼

[@Lucy-cl4gi]

中文也说得太溜太地道了吧！厉害！

[@Baranausko]

It is simple. First you should learn Chinese and then listen to the tips how to learn Chinese here… :)

[@deborahromero6396]

Do you memorize the example sentence?

[@RiumEqua]

I wouldn't memorize the sentence, it's enough to work with the language and the new vocabulary.

[@waffleocalypse]

I know zero words in Chinese but I'll give this a try. Thanks KZbin

[@ImagineWYXZ]

You sound like Xiao Zhan. ♥️

[@fangirlhood]

The fact that I got the gist without the sub tells me something here 🤧🤧

[@LIUSHA-q8z]

What does gaslight? I'm dying to know!

[@julianclegg1922]

It's a way of playing with someone's mind to confuse and control them. The word comes from the title of an old film. You can find out more about it from KZbin and elsewhere.

[@viviennewijaya5153]

OMG !!! Your chinese speaking is so perfect. I am overseas borned Chinese of Indonesia. Listening to you intonation and spoken , I am so ashamed & envy you.

[@vishalgautamm]

Funny thing happened this morning. I was trying to remember the word "productivity" this morning and thought "xing lu"... but then i tried to remember in context used in this video.. then suddenly my brain said "ti gao xiao lu"... woahhhh

[@Grem305]

Dear Will I am playing the violin, the piano and trying to get to grips with the chinese language. It is reallly difficult to set priorities. What would you recommend ?

[@willhartmandarin]

I would recommend trying to build good habits in all three things, build up slowly and try and listen to Chinese when doing other things e.g. chores, walking etc as much as you can :)

[@Grem305]

Thank you ill for your good Tips

[@andrewwills6947]

Excellent video. So do you save the sentences after making them in Anki or other memory system or it is enough to just make the sentences?

[@willhartmandarin]

I would recommend putting the example sentence in anki as a clozed deletion and the you can repeat the process according to the algorithm

[@CardClash-tq3yh]

你好！我学中文有5年多时间了，还得多多向你学习哦

[@lillylovers341]

Same here

[@willhartmandarin]

这也太谦虚了吧，相互学习，共同进步哈，加油！

[@ChristianHibberd]

Will! 你的中文很棒！How can I contact you directly?

[@willhartmandarin]

Feel free to email me [e-mail]

[@hakiistudy]

谢谢你

[@CoCoLee-b8l]

我想学英语可是我的语法很烂😭而且我学了前面忘了后面的。造句也不知道造什么

[@masxhzmasxhz1145]

我发现当我把你的视频调到1.5倍速的时候，你发音就算有一点点的小瑕疵，都听不出来了。

[@ГалинаЧелебиева]

Какой красивый китаец!😂Как хорошо говорит по-китайски!🥰😘💋

[@aminsabatay8091]

Bro just flexing his Chinese 🚹

[@YijingYan]

新话筒🎙️不错😊

[@willhartmandarin]

我也觉得，总比以前的那个挂在衣服上的小麦强多了 哈哈

[@samlynas3175]

Oof, at 0.38 you pronounced your 为什么 with a 'V' at the beginning. Is that some dialect-related thing? I've heard Chinese natives do the same thing occasionally too, wondered if it was regional. Not sniping, just interested, it's not like a Brit should have any problems with 'W'.

[@willhartmandarin]

Yeah it's a regional thing, tends to happen more in northern China, if you listen to my gf in videos we've done together she often does this, so that's probably where I got it from haha

[@samlynas3175]

@@willhartmandarin It's very interesting. There's another Chinese language vlogger (a native) who speaks like that. She actually virtually apologises for it at one point, in one video-she seems to consider it a speech defect. To me, it seems like it's probably just a regional allophone of that phoneme, but the natives themselves might not see it that way, it might be slightly stigmatised. I suspect you're unusually sensitive to the input you get. My Chinese is much less good than yours, but I wouldn't start pronouncing the 'W' as 'V' no matter how much I heard it. In my head it's just a 'W' and they'd have to tie me up and kick me to get me to pronounce it as a 'V'. There's an intriguing tussle there between conscious phonetic knowledge and the language we're exposed to. Different people probably take different paths.

[@RobMartin-gz3zk]

@@samlynas3175 It's definitely an interesting topic, I've been learning Chinese for a long time now and I still change whether I pronounce it as "w" or "v" depending on who I'm with. On the other hand some of my friends who have just started are adamant with sticking to the standard pronunciation, probably because pronunciation is taught in such a formal way that you think any variation is immediately wrong. The only thing I would say is if you don't allow your pronunciation to be affected by the input you get at all, your speech will sound very robotic (imagine sounding like a news reporter all the time, it's not bad but a bit weird)

[@samlynas3175]

@@RobMartin-gz3zk Yes, I see what you're saying. When I talk about not being influenced, I don't mean I'm not influenced at all! If you're not being influenced by the natives, who would you be influenced by! I'm talking more about allophonic variation within a given phoneme, though even that description has fuzzy edges. If you take a word that ends in pinyin 'n', like 中国人, any attentive listener will notice that the 'n' at the end is not usually a nasal stop-it tends to turn into some sort of nasalisation of the vowel. That is something I picked up on directly well before I encountered any explicit reference to it. That said, I think I am more resistant to *regional* variation in this regard. And that would extend to other languages I speak, though it's a complex topic, to be sure. Will may have more of a chameleon-type attitude, which leads him to mimic these things more quickly and willingly.

[@julianclegg1922]

Some broadcasters do that. Maybe it originated from the V sound sounding clearer than W over public address systems such as train station announcements. Anyway that V-ish sound is not quite like an English V sound - more like half-way between a W and a V. We don't hear this affectation here in Taiwan.

[@xopowo1979]

总之为： 约定俗成 ❤

[@sargentopimienta5190]

我已经看了这个视频在b站咯， 反正我想再看一遍！🤓☝

[@willhartmandarin]

天呢，连B站都关注了！哈哈哈

[@sargentopimienta5190]

@@willhartmandarin 那必须的 😎

[@user-DonsWoman]

I didn't understand "the trick" to skyrocket speech. .. I think I learned about 7 - 10 words from watching: kdramas, Asian Crush, RoKu, & HuLu I read subtitles

[@JohanGuntur-v3t]

Very impressive how fluently your Chinese👋👌 besides Ni hen suai 🧑‍🦱lol😂

[@theonly33ad]

When you can only speak: zhidaole, mingbaile, and the other basic stuff. Although I know quite a few characters 😂

[@real_cherita]

I only know 我是美国人， 你喜欢我吗， 我不知道 😅 but I haven’t memorized any characters

[@flowwwtube3357]

这个人他说的对😅

[@alishanziro]

你可真牛逼啊!!

[@thekhokirov7871]

中文进步了，小哥

[@duskshadow25]

何威，你的中文说的很好，但我有一个推荐，就是你说单独的子包括 “词(cí)，事(shì)，字(zì)” 等等，后面不要加er的发音，那是当地东北的口音，不是标准的普通话发音，你可以把这些字放在网上听标准的发音，然后再回去听你自己说的发音就会听出来的，你把这些卷舌音改成弹舌音基本上和中国人说话就没区别了。

[@YufengCao-y4t]

别逗了北京话也是这样的而且普通话有很多儿化音 人家说得一点毛病没有😅

[@andy.j.williams6614]

我不知道你从哪得出er是东北音的结论，我知道的北方好多地方有儿化音，并非东北口音，倒是南方地区舌头是平的没有儿化音，我平时说话也不带er，有没有er并不妨碍交流，中国那么大，各个地方有各个地方的音调，你要是听多其他地方的口音，你并不觉得有er或没er是件很奇怪的事情

[@RohimMotu]

Hello there,, How are you? Do you need a professional KZbin thumbnail designer? Please let me know

[@elbowinhandout]

Chinese is a written language. You are speaking Putonghua.

[@ollieanntan4478]

People be jealous of you!

[@ugandaknuckles590]

How are you thin ? What’s your secret ?

[@BahriddinDavlatov-zo9lg]

I’m sure you have a Chinese girlfriend bro😂,cause you can’t reach this level by yourself

[@goldnwaters]

过来人，👍

[@xiaodi-e8w]

我想学英文帅哥又愿意互相学习的吗最好是有微信的

[@sirrobinofloxley7156]

Gaslight comes from the movie of the same name, about a couple of lovers who start to trick the wife of the man that she's going mental by moving stuff around the room then conspiring against her when she brings it up, as an example. So, politicians have become the gaslighters of the world, and their controlled media outlets, such like Starmer and Reeves, who just flatlined the uk economy this quarter, but she'll gaslight you and say it was your fault, kind of thing. So, it can be nuanced, but it' basically making falsities real and realities false, or inverting reality, which is being used for subversion of the nation's everything. Xi also has gaslit, when he said the CCP still uses Marxism as it's underlying doctrine, which is complete piffle.

[@kvuppal1]

Is this lady Diana talking in Chinese?

[@elleryprescott]

中國口音！單字兒😅

[@TimKennedysTinySack]

wut

[@InternalSynergy]

This video would be better if it was in English so I could listen to it in the background instead of being forced to stare at the subtitles the entire time 😔

[@Acer-w4e]

Look, you guys are kidding yourselves if you think you can learn Chinese at a later stage in life. You have to start when you're a toddler and be in the right environment. Speaking native level Chinese is a mental thing. You have to think in Chinese so you don't sound like an idiot.

[@israelquijada4324]

In short: Build sentences by changing one part that is easy to change. E.g. I go to the park - university - company 我去公园-大学-公司。

[@ZulkifliJamil4033-x6s]

我去公园-大学-公司

[@CarrotLovely-d9t]

I can teach Chinese,ı am the native ,ı want to study English,let us together,contact me please

[@ABJass]

Give Mr your wechat id