I watch Peppa Pig videos in Mandarin too! It's definitely helping me learn, but now I oink after every three or four words.

That's why total immersion works.

Great video!! Thanks so much for the shout out and I'm glad you've been having so much success with input learning! 💪

When Xiao Zhan appeared at 2:51, my The Untamed feels just went gaga! Yibo and Zhan is the reason behind my undying desire for learning mandarin...

Seems like I've been doing this for the 2-3 years that I have been actually self-learning Chinese! I can totally vow to this method. My parents are Chinese but I grew up outside of China. My mother tongue is Taishanese which is totally different from Mandarin. After moving to the U.S. and seeing that so many people here know mandarin and their mother tongue (any Chinese dialect) I FELT SO EMBARRASSED I DIDN'T. My cousin introduced me to Hong Kong dramas (Cantonese is similar to Taishanese both come from the same region, Guangdong) but I stirred away into Chinese dramas. I started watching with English subs but then I fell in love with many Chinese actors and well decided to watch their dramas regardless of English subs. Since a year ago, I started to not care if there are subs or not, I will watch it. Now, I can fluently speak to my mom in three different dialects which is AWESOME!

Absolutely agreed , I have been watching only chinese drama for 2 years & on the third year (this year) ,I am able to understand many conversations on c drama ( modern ) without subtitles .

My English level was boosted at a higher rate when I started watching KZfaq English contents on a daily basis. Immense input and practicing, to me, is the only way to improve language proficiency.

Showing myself love from my second channel! Self love's important you guys... don't hate ✌️

Totally agree, I'm in the reversed situation as you, I'm a Chinese dude who is learning English through consuming tons of American TV shows, KZfaq, Twitch and video games, it's fun.

I am learning Chinese and I am 11 years old and I help my mum a bit

我是台灣人，您對媽媽非常孝順，果然有受到中華文化的影響，祝福您！

"our target languages are different" [but i can sorta read his target language] THANKS, CHIPPY.

I started watching Chinese dramas which increased my interest in Chinese, then watching KZfaq videos, building glossaries and I just finished my first semester of Chinese at a community college and did very well in the class. I’m enrolled in the second half. This year I had planned to travel either to Taiwan or China then the pandemic decided otherwise. There is nothing better than traveling to the country where they speak the language. It’s baptism by fire. When I was learning French, traveling to France and having conversations with French friends increased my understanding of the culture, the institutions, how people really speak, not text book French. I hope next year I’ll be able to travel again. Getting my Covid vaccine in a week or two. I work in healthcare. Hope everyone in the world will also have access to one and we can get somewhat back to normal. Stay safe and keep learning and growing. Never too late to learn. I’m in my 60’s.

I love both Matt vs Japan and your channels. So glad you discovered him- his advice is great!

I agree with you 100%. Another HUGE thing that helped me get really good with Korean was reading books! Especially books for kids and elementary school students. It’s difficult at first, but once you get through a few books, the basic grammar and structure always remain with you.

I love both of your channels! I've learned a lot from both of you, as well as from Xiaoma and Oriental Pearl. I constantly have something playing in Mandarin on my tv or phone. You all have greatly influenced my language learning. Please keep making videos!

Good to see you after long days. Such an amazing video ❤️❤️❤️. Really appreciate 🙏

Yesss! Love these type of videos!! Thanks for your advice!

It was Chinese dramas that got me interested in learning the language in the first place. At 68, I have been learning through both online courses and through watching the programs. At first I thought I would never learn this language but as the time has gone on, I am surprised at how much I know. I am no where near proficiency in the language and am always looking for ways to up my learning. I just find the language so fascinating and have made the learning a part of my daily routine. I just found your KZfaq site today and look forward to viewing your videos. I am a far cry from speaking the language comfortably with someone who's mother tongue is Mandarin, however, my comprehension grows stronger each day which is encouraging. Thanks for creating your channel.❤️

Lovely passion you have and lovely person you are! Thank you for sharing your life adventures with such a joyful enthusiasm!!! It is so encouraging and uplifting!

As a beginner, I learned 90 percent of my Chinese from your and Xiaoma's food-ordering videos. It was really great to learn the first successes of a difficult language with so much fun. You are great, thank you very much for that! Greetings from Berlin.

This video was really inspiring and helped me a lot, thank you so much

I love your videos ❤️ thank you for your advice!!!

Thank you so much for sharing your experiences & techniques with mandarin. You are awesome!

Thanks so much for the tips. JJ. I’m going to try Anki

Thank you so much for creating these helpful videos! It makes me really inspired and motivated to keep learning! One of the first tv-shows I watched in chinese was The Untamed and that made me just fall in love completelly with the language. It's still my main goal to be fluent enough to read the original books in simplified mandarin.

Thank you so so much for your channel and everything you do! It was a big struggle for me to start remembering my Chinese, I just couldn't find any motivation. And you're a huuge inspiration! Besides, you're so sweet and genuine. In one of your videos you asked about some ideas.. probably you could tell how your mum learned Chinese?

This Is Awesome!!! Thank you so much!!! You are a big Inspiration to me!!!!💕⭐

Everyone needs a great language nerd friend :) Thank you for your perspective and insight!

I never even thought of this before- thank you for the advice!!

You’re so articulate! Love to listen to you! BTW, Your speaking Chinese is Amazing! Almost like a native Chinese person! 👍👍👍

listening to podcasts have skyrocketed my Mandarin learning, totally agree!

I’m a super beginner at the moment, and I have seen a few shows on Netflix and some cooking channels on the Tube. Just wanted to say thank you for sharing your wisdom!! I’m new to the channel and can’t wait to catch up on all your vids 💜😁

Hi thank you for introducing some interesting applications and techniques for memorizing. I just started to learn Chinese as well and found your advise is really helpful.

2:51 Xiao Zhan is the main reason for me to learn mandarin chinese))

Thank you for amazing tips.

Love you jj! I am a Chinese Canadian living in California. I am fluent in Chinese but I still love your channel

So informative! Thanks a lot J J🥰

Thanks for this information!

謝謝 such a useful video, thanks x

ayyy this is how i learnt chinese mandarin and english growing up. i came from a cantonese speaking family and growing up i immersed myself in a lot of mandarin and english cartoons, as well as cantonese movies. i highly recommend this method over memorising a vocab list. immerse first, memorise second

I love using C-dramas to help me learn, even if they are a bit above my level... two good things about them, one is that they almost always have Mandarin subtitles to go with them (thank you China, very helpful!) and the second is that the desire to understand what's going on is a very good motivator to learn! My favourites are Legend of White Snake and Ashes of Love, but I will definitely be watching Peppa Pig for something a bit more comprehensible! 谢谢雪莲！

thank you so much after watching some of your pervious videos I started to learn the characters and vocabulary through writing too, I now can read and *write* about 260 characters and I am so happy.

I can't stop watching your videos. JJ I just subscribed to you after watching so many videos of Xiaoma.

you're my inspiration !!!

Already the way im learning. Works.

你是最棒的! JJ! 加油! 保重! 🙏🙏

I love you Jilian, thank you for your tips. I had an intermediate level 3 years ago but because of a lack of practising my level is lower, but anyways it's important to practice and not comparing ourselves to other ppl. 我们加油吧

actually the learning process is like a travel which you learn to enjoy all the steps ... and it makes the process more interesting and exciting

Hi JJ! I am taking Mandarin for school and I love your videos! They are a really big help and they are great! Keep up the great videos!

Love how the music is WAY in the background thank you!

Real Life Language Input! I love it. I've just started using Netflix and I use the Netflix for Languages Extension - the subtitles are a great way to add to your vocabulary. :-) Thank you for continuing to inspire me! Good for your Mum watching Peppa Pig. When I first started learning Mandarin, I used to watch nursery rhymes!

I would also say it's super important to find shows you're interested in watching, even if you have to turn on English subs. Even if you're a beginner (or low intermediate like me) you can still enjoy shows like The Untamed (excellent show btw!), and because you're interested you'll spend more time with it and improve your level

girl u are amazing!

Love your channel!

Nice to see u again JJ

you are right! I am topping up my chinese by watching Chinese cartoons. It helps me understand the natural flow of chinese speakers, so that when a native speaker talks to me, I can understand and not feel overwhelmed.

Hi, JJ. I don't know if you actually read comments, but anyway... I'm so grateful to Matt that he let me find him. I stumbled across him a few months ago and I feel it's very possible that it changed my life and I'll probably never turn back to what I was doing in the past. I'm a polyglot and I've been studying Chinese for a few years now. And I suck. I'm subscribed to your channel exactly in order to listen to (high quality) Chinese. But this wasn't the base of my study. My method was veeeeery different. But I applied what Matt recommended and I feel it works so well... I'm very happy for you that you found him too and his advice helped you. Thank you, Matt!

天才智慧聰明才華記憶第一名。佩服老外說Chinese

Hey JJ, I'm picking up vocabularies by watching your videos, regress and rote memorization in this video, thanks 😊

Very good experience . thank you !

Liked before watching gang 🤘🤘

I also like Matt vs Japan. His Japanese is so good he must be doing something right 😁

Really really enjoy listening to your English

哇欧，雪莲好棒啊！爱了爱了！ Excellent!👍❤️🍎

Listening your video today 31 Jan '21...Thanks a lot

So talented and beautiful!!

Omg I’ve been watching “Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom” and “Peppa Pig” in my target language (Italian) for 2 months!!! I love this method and I’m so glad you mentioned it JJ ❤️ Thanks for this awesome video!!!

I'm a beginner and it was Chinese dramas that made me intrested so I continue to watch it while learning

Thank you so much for your advices! I'm learning Mandarin Chinese as my third language and sometimes it gets challenging, is always pleasant to receive help! I study everyday because I have time and actually enjoy it. My routine starts in the morning with some writing, pronunciation tests, lessons, podcast and audio-news with subtitles. During the day I try to use as much vocabulary as possible (for example: when I go to the supermarket I tend to name the things I'm buying) Lately I've been seeing some dramas and it is surprising to notice how they use some words as expressions. Love from México!

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I been doing this recently I’ve cut all other languages I’m not fluent in shows to focus on learned Chinese shows (such as meteor garden,take my brother away,wait my youth,the prince who turns into a frog, triad princess and so many others) thanks for all the useful information!!

JJsay thanks for this app! I'm a Thai-American trying to learn the Thai language, the hardest part of learning the Thai language in US is finding other Thai's to speak with. ขอขอบคุณครับ

Very helpful, i'm learning Chinese ,i think i need to watch some children series😆

Like, the thing, I have been studying Chinese for 5 months and of course I first did some basic stuff like grammar structures etc, but I NEVER actually sat down and memorized vocabulary by heart. Immediately 1 week later I started watching stuff in Chinese, let it be Tv Shows, interviews, whatever. That's the thing why now my listening skills are very good as well as my pronunciation. That's the 1st thing I recommend, be around your target language as often as possible. Every night I spend 2 hours watching Tv shows in Chinese and I have a book where I write down stuff I come across while watching. Now my booklet is full, so I am having a new one. Also, I ask my "language parent" the next day about things I didn't understand the night before, let it be grammar or something else. Now however, because I am better at Chinese than 5 months ago, I started creating vocabulary lists, organized "to do with people - verbs", example 羡慕 or 接。, as well as adjectives or also phrases, such as 有好处，泰然处之，有自信。。and so on. All those are what I have come across in those shows/interviews. What I mean is that, for ME personally, it could not have been any better, because how can one possibly improve faster than when having real life input, analysing it, speaking it, asking about it, just generally devoting oneself completely to the language? Also, instead of a teacher I find it better to have a *language parent* , that way you interact way more and you are having more fun (Just my personal opinion).

I feel like there is a little lang universe in KZfaq now! My three favorite lang KZfaqrs, JJ, Anming and Matt know each other 🥺💛 I'm manifesting a collab between you three! 👀 Thank you JJ, the DIY videos is something that I didn't think about, great tip and great vid as always 🥺

2:52 肖战！！！！ 😍

good idea i started learning mandarin tooo

I like it when you mix Chinese and English😍

Something I have found very useful to improve your listening ability and vocabulary is teleshopping. Yes, teleshopping. It is all about describing products/objects and repeating the same words over and over again in no more than 10 minutes. You get to hear different people speaking the same words and short scripted dialogues And you might find something you need and never knew before , too. LOL

I watch a ton of dramas! Must be on the right track.

Thank you Jj😍💗

I like your video so much😍😍 hi I'm from Malaysia

Thank you!!!!

I love your channel. 🇲🇳🇲🇳🇲🇳

Wow! You're amazing! My must-watch C-drama recommendation is Story of Yanxi Palace《延禧攻略》 Aired in 2018 but is still AMAZING no matter what year you're watching in. It's 70 episodes long but it's worth the watch! :) (It also comes with the Chinese subtitles in the KZfaq version)

Thank you (: I'm learning Japanese and I've been watching anime for long but want to learn japanese vocab more and going to start watching kid shows more.

I don't why but I read in your title "The SECRET for being eternally YOUNG" 😂 I think it's because you are too beautiful!! Greetings !

I'm learning Korean and I'm sure your tips will help me thank you ( ps : you’re sooo beautiful 🥰 )

I definitely know what you mean by a feeling of familiarity with a language even if you don’t understand it. When I was very young, around 3-4, I had Cantonese children’s cassette tapes I would listen to over and over. My dad also taught us enough that I would tell my preschool teacher I need to use the bathroom in Cantonese, even though we were in America. I never got that far in the language since my mom only spoke English and now I’m trying to learn Mandarin and Cantonese, but even though I’m getting more Mandarin than Cantonese, the Cantonese feels more natural sounding.

She’s so pretty 🥺🥺🥺🥺

Thank you.

You are genius really welcome

讲得非常棒！

i've definitely picked up a LOT of phrases and words from anime

Great😻🌻

雪莲，做为美国人，努力成就自己，非常感人

I don't use Anki, but I use chrome extension goolge translator and read the comments in Facebook and KZfaq. I highlight the word and the pop up will tell me the meaning of that word. That's how I accumulate vocabulary

Yes I am using this approach to learn Russian. I am fortunate as I work with a Russian so I can get help from them too if I need.

非常有用。