How I learn Mandarin (broke & lazy)

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I’M LEARNING MANDARIN CHINESE! Join me in this vlog where I study mandarin so I can finally reconnect with my roOts. This is usually my study routine for how I learn Chinese, but I change it up every few weeks to keep it fresh.
If you’re learning languages too, I’d like to know! Let me know how it’s going in the comments!
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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:22 Old lady trolled me
1:28 Studying Chinese
1:51 Learning method 1
5:08 Language learning app
5:40 Learning method 2
6:06 Future of the channel

Пікірлер: 64

@stephaniet1308 23 күн бұрын

the uncanniness of seeing this video while I also recently finished my final year exams and decided to learn mandarin

@yuenatv 23 күн бұрын

No wayyyy IT’S A SIGNNN

@bradli2255 21 күн бұрын

I’m 🇺🇸 learning 🇨🇳. I recently completed HSK-2, but my teacher returned to China. I found you whilst looking for resources to continue learning. You are so funny, we have many of the same struggles. Can’t wait to check out your app! Best luck with the moving house. Looking forward to your next video!😊

@yuenatv 20 күн бұрын

YO!! Congrats on completing HSK-2!! Of course, let's learn together!!

@sai8301 25 күн бұрын

saw this video and thought it was funny so i skimmed through your channel content and omg i also like learning languages, reading and i work in tech, i kind of want to be your friend 😭 anyways, this is so relatable (hsk4 is my goal this year) and your app looks really cool, hope to be able to try it someday!

@yuenatv 25 күн бұрын

ahhh! i’m so happy we found each other~!!

@cmaven4762 Күн бұрын

I swear my Chinese is almost as good as yours and I have also been learning the cheap and lazy way, but for less time... 😂😂😂 But seriously, you're right that learning the language works best if you consciously attempt to think in the target language... 加油

@yungchedda5270 24 күн бұрын

I just wanna hug you through the screen. Your personality really shines and thats why i just subscribed!!

@yuenatv 24 күн бұрын

your comment is so wholesome!! thank you!! 😊

@notama2679 25 күн бұрын

Wow, that's so cool that you made an app.

@yuenatv 25 күн бұрын

haha thank you!! soooo buggy but we try 🤣🤣

@Rika_kaiyo 25 күн бұрын

subbed instantly, ur acct so entertaining

@yuenatv 25 күн бұрын

Omg thank u so muchhh

@user-lu8cw5iv1r 22 күн бұрын

you are such a genius! I appreciate the recommendation! I've been using effective tools like DeepL and Immersive Translate, with Immersive Translate being particularly helpful. I'll definitely consider your suggestion.

@yuenatv 20 күн бұрын

OOh DeepL has been super helpful for me too, especially when trying to string together a vaguely correct sentence LMFAO! All the best with your language studies :)

@fabian1019 25 күн бұрын

You're so real 😅. I restarted learning Chinese, I'm a beginner tho

@yuenatv 25 күн бұрын

we got this!! let's become fluent yeeah ~~

@huangwen-si7498 21 күн бұрын

This is quite helpful!

@yuenatv 20 күн бұрын

Thank you!!

@huangwen-si7498 20 күн бұрын

@@yuenatvI really means something to me to see people like you making these kind of videos.

@illumigk6307 19 күн бұрын

I'm also british learning Japanese and Korean but recently thought to try out either mandarin or norwegian. very different languages but yeah haha. My strongest is definitely japanese and I found comprehensible input to be a very good way of learning vocabulary and grammar in conversational context because you can pick the more native ways of saying things. Very much looking forward to more content from you :)

@yuenatv 18 күн бұрын

EYY FELLOW BRITISH!! I totally agree, comprehensible input is really helpful! The main struggle is actually finding the comprehensible input 😔😔😩😩 how do u go about that? Also I fully recommend learning mandarin hehehe

@illumigk6307 18 күн бұрын

@@yuenatv wheyyy haha but hm I'd say finding comprehensible input can be easy or really hard depending on the language you learn. For really popular languages like japanese there are alot of videos on youtube, all you have to is search it up. With korean though I found it really hard to find so I kinda had to get creative. For example, depending on your level, listening to anything from kids shows to kdramas. Podcasts are also really good, I ended up using ttmik's (talk to me in korean) podcasts and they were super helpful. Are you trying it find it for mandarin?

@ismygina 20 күн бұрын

lol girl love this 😭

@yuenatv 20 күн бұрын

🤣🤣😩😩 thank youu ❤️

@kingaragorn6485 27 күн бұрын

Best intro ive ever seen💯💯

@yuenatv 27 күн бұрын

😭 last time i’ll ever see DRA, had to show everything

@kingaragorn6485 27 күн бұрын

@@yuenatv noooooo😭😭😭 ill still be in dra next year, come visit hahaha

@jie-jie5408 27 күн бұрын

chinese queen!! 👑

@yuenatv 27 күн бұрын

😳😳 BACK ON UUU

@FizzNitro 24 күн бұрын

Maybe you can do like a 'how to sound like a native' feature? I (and my entire family) have trouble with 翘舌音 sounds lmao (which is a feature of my dialect, we don't have [ʂ] instead we speak a [ɕ] sound) and it took me like my entire life to realise that I just need to go to wikipedia and look at how I should've positioned my tongue upwards to make the 'sh' and 'zh' consonant. Like if there's a section on "how to pronounce pinyin properly" with a proper guide to the mouth and tongue movements without using all the linguistic jargon I couldn't understand :)

@yuenatv 24 күн бұрын

OOO i love this idea!! i’ll have a think about best way to implement it :) from reading books/ videos, people recommend training the mouth like muscle memory? Keep going over the alphabet sounds, and also watching people speak (on KZfaq, dramas etc) is very useful! I also use forvo.com for other languages since I'm just beginning to learn other languages and my mouth isn't very used to the language!

@FizzNitro 23 күн бұрын

My biggest trouble was mispronouncing words because of consonants not present in the languages I'm most familiar with, and thus I am not mimicking accurately the way a native will pronounce words because my old static brain is using sounds I'm most familiar with. Like my grandma can't do her 'r's and 'sh's of Mandarin cuz it isn't present in Hokkien no matter how much she've listened to Chinese media (which is pretty much since the 80s when Mandarin became the prestige dialect in Malaysia). And I wouldn't have guessed how to mimic Cantonese's characteristic [ɵ, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-mid_central_rounded_vowel], or Hakka's [ɲ] if I didn't speak it since childhood and I didn't have Wikipedia. In fact I was pronouncing my 'threes' like 'trees' up until recently cuz the [θ] sound just didn't exist in any Chinese dialect I know of. I feel like if I had discovered the International Phonetic Alphabet much sooner (and the table of phonology in Mandarin from Wikipedia + those really helpful mouth cross section pictures), I could actually practice with the correct way of saying things instead of people instantly recognising that I'm from Singapore or Taiwan with my [ɕ]'s and way off [y]'s hahhaa

@user-ph3ts5hx3y 25 күн бұрын

i’ve been learning chinese for almost a year now, but still haven’t moved to characters yet🤣

@yuenatv 25 күн бұрын

there’s no rush! everyone learns at their own time :) how have u been learning?

@Luvluna19 17 күн бұрын

I really wanna learn different languages so here I go 😭

@yuenatv 16 күн бұрын

You can do it!! All the best in ur journey :))

@infiniteworld3981 25 күн бұрын

你真棒！

@yuenatv 25 күн бұрын

谢谢!!

@user-je4ty3bt2q 22 күн бұрын

You made an app? That is looking amazing ? And you are telling me that you're lazy... Thank you for the tips and help. I am now learning HSK1 and no progress for 6 months 😢( because school and real lazyness) but now the summer break is coming and I hope I can focus on this language more. So yeah... I will seek tips in the future in your chanel! (And motivation 😀) .Some day i will try to return to this coment when i finally will be able to translate it to mandarin. That's the hope. Ok. See yah 😁

@yuliya1717 21 күн бұрын

I can to advice you app "Hello Chinese". It is the best app for learning Chinese

@yuenatv 20 күн бұрын

Thank you!! LOL I haven't touched the app in a while~~ but your words are very kind! Don't worry about the slow progress, the beginning phrase is really hard. I'll keep an eye out for your future comments! Keep me updated on your progress hehe, you got this!!

@manuth2008 26 күн бұрын

Chinese is too hard to learn but you did that good luck

@yuenatv 25 күн бұрын

thank you!! comments like these make me feel more motivated too hehe 😀

@ImbotTobmi 24 күн бұрын

U got good humour kiddo

@yuenatv 24 күн бұрын

🙏🙏 thank u good sir

@awkwardtissuebox 23 күн бұрын

Hii idk who u are and you dunno me butttt I also wanna learn those exact 3 languages. I'm also broke and lazy afff and I only know the Korean alphabet, hiragana, katakana and some random words and sentences in those three languages lmao.. my only motivation rn is my duolingo streak T_T idk what my next step is gonna be huhuhu

@yuenatv 23 күн бұрын

hey!! omg i feel that, im so lazy too haha. I'm also on that stage where I'm like ??? Recently I’ve been doing some shadowing of easy Korean podcasts on KZfaq and that seems to help!!

@justinmike0236 21 күн бұрын

why your writting so good?

@yuenatv 20 күн бұрын

omg thank you haha, I used to have to go to chinese saturday school and we were forced to write pages of the same character to practise stroke order RIP

@justinmike0236 20 күн бұрын

@@yuenatv that’s really cool where I live we don’t have access. Your hand writing was really nice looking forward to the next vid❤️