1.Emphasize vocabulary memorization 2. Write new vocabulary words over and over again 3.Get decently reviewed textbooks 4. Learn simplified over traditinoal characters 5. Dont stop and write down every unknown word 6. Practice speaking with natives 7. Invest in a teacher 8. Learn through music

As a native Chinese speaker, I was shocked by your level of Chinese. Awesome!

Ok, so this might sound kind of weird, but I SO enjoy how fast you talk. It's twice as fast as the average KZfaqr and I love it. I literally put every KZfaq video on double speed so that I can get through the information faster (some people speak SO slowly) and with yours I can to watch it on normal speed!! Plus, you maintain the same or an even faster pace when speaking Chinese, which is freaking impressive. I'm just starting to learn Chinese and your videos are an amazing resource and so fun to watch

*Most important thing to learn language is to LOVE it! Thats it...*

Her energy when she talks is totally on another level😍💯

You remind me of Julia Roberts in a way!

I love how expressive you are with your hands lol 😂👏🏻👏🏻

1000 words a month seems pretty intense but I do like the idea of memorizing more vocabulary. I definitely prioritize grammar and writing more than I probably should.

Your Chinese is so fluent and fast. The most important thing is that it sounds very natural.

Even I, a native Chinese speaker, forget how to write certain Chinese characters and have to look up my phone every time I need to write them. 🤣🤣🤣 problem of a world of digitalisation?

Your tips really helped me in my language learning journey:) I discovered your channel about a month and half ago when I was at a low point in learning Russian. Since focusing on vocabulary and using other tips of yours I’ve learned so much more than I would’ve! Thankyou!!

I am Japanese and I'm learning English and Chinese. This video is useful for me to study both language!Thank you so much!

I love your energy and positivity. Thank you so much for all the tips and tricks on how to improve and speak better Chinese.

If you don’t know which vocabularies to learn if you are a beginner: there are lists on the internet with the 1000 most frequently used words and characters. This can help you to build up a vocabulary you can easily use in everyday conversations

Brilliant advice! Thank you so much!

I just adore your passion and nerdy style..

Thank you these tips are absolutely helpful! Honestly I have searched through so many tips on studying Chinese and yours are just *chef kisses* 💕

Great video! #2 is especially important, most people don't realize how well repetitive writing works. I took drama for 3 years, and often we were tasked with learning big monologues (and sometimes entire scripts) with less than 48 hours till performing. The best method we used to remember our lines: repetitive writing! We'd write the entire play one line at a time, focusing on that line for dozens (sometimes hundreds) of times before it was engrained into our memories, then we'd move onto the next line. This was all 5-7 years ago and I can still recite whole monologues like they're nothing.

Hi. You’re an inspiration. I have been learning Chinese with class and self-study for 4 years. I am able to understand 80-90% of what you’re saying and your videos inspire me and help me learn at the same time. I agree, I enjoy learning new Chinese vocabulary and studying. Hopefully actually living and being immersed by living in Taiwan or China will one day help too when this pandemic is over.

What a great video. Thank you, JJ!

I really appreciate your content! I shared this video with a friend who is getting started with leaning a language.

You're an inspiration. I completely agree with your suggestions and have been using italki for a couple of years now to learn all sorts of languages. I'll definitely check out some of the textbooks you recommended. Thank you!

The curated list of Chinese speaking youtube channels is great, It is exactly what I was looking for since I feel I'm on that level where I have more to learn by watching videos and getting exposed to "real" content than by putting hours of studying chinese books... A great thank you from Brazil! :)

I'm only 13 but I really love Chinese.😊

Great content, got whiplash from the speed (in both languages!), would watch again.

Your enthusiasm toward learning a language is awesome... I LOVE IT!!!

I love your videos. You are so nice to hear that I feel like if I was talking with a close friend.

Amazing. I'm learning Japanese right now. This video inspired me.

I like how you emphasize learning vocabulary, and stringing words together. Like you said, the grammar will come. Love your channel!!

great tips for learning any kinds of language! thanks

Thank you so much for your video. Wonderful tips!

Thank you so much! Just starting my Chinese journey. Very helpful!

Thanks for all your tips!!! You really inspires me to keep practicing 💕💕✨

that video was so helpful! Thank you so much for opening up:)

Im so glad I found this channel!!

Thank you so much for this! I’ve been learning mandarin for 3 months and it’s been tough. But I’m not giving up! Love your videos!😊🙏🏽

It is very helpful ! Good job,雪蓮！

I would like to thank you so much. I’m a beginner of learning Chinese by myself. This video is very useful and encourage me. I will try my best with the language which is I find it very interesting and challenging. Thumbs up for you! 👍🏻❤️

Your video is of great help to Chinese learners. Thanks for making this video 😊😊

This is very good listening and language recognition advice.

Great content! Love your channel now! I hope one day I can make a video where I would also finally speak in Chinese ❤️

Literally just get a text book and memorise the crap out of it. YES !

I love how she’s speaks in English and in Chinese !

i feel like if you learn traditional then you’ll also get the bonus of recognising simplified really easily however if u learn simplified its harder for you to learn both versions. in early 2019 i only knew trad but when i started looking at more simplified chinese texts (like subtitles bc they usually come in simplified), i kinda immediately got the gist of it (background info: i’m a native chinese speaker that was taught traditional chinese)

You are awesome at chinese! Especially your axaint!

I'm in love!! Thanks sister!!!

whenever someone asks me something in chinese me: 我不知道 :)

question! where do you find pinyin lyrics for songs? I’ve been a fan of coco lee for like 20 years BUT honestly when Chinese got too hard I gave up 🥴 so now i wanna dip my toes back in and the only lyrics I can find are pinyinless 😩 if you know of a good resource lmk pls!

You are full of life & positive energy❣️

just subscribed to you but i've seen you in xiaoma's videos before!! thanks for keeping me motivated to learn chinese as well :))

Xiexie....thank you very much for the tips.I watched you singing with your mum.wonderful.

I appreciate your insight! As an Cantonese American, learning mandarin has been a long and slow process for me, but I’m still going at it. It’s a lot harder when you have no foundation in the written language, but it just takes years of practice. 😁

woh, fast and clear enough, 很喜欢听你说英文

I love your videos! So inspirational!

You have a great sense of humor! Really! "Let a girl know!" I started to laugh loudly;-) Thank you for the video!

Learn vocabulary is perhaps the most encouraging and motivating advice in this video. In Chinese I started it hoping to approch it synthetically, focusing on the one-syllable morphemes, which apparently was how classical Chinese worked. I do think one can get to HSK2 or even HSK3 that way. But by HSK4 it's fairly clear to me that there are so many metaphoric extensions into two syllable words that just memorizing the two or even three syllable words is a better method. I think vocabulary memorization is much more effective in context: you want to learn the word and then see or hear it or both in a sample sentence. There's no shortage of Chinese lessons which do exactly that (daily zhongwen is one example so is carly speaks shuo zhongwen), mandarin corner also offers vocabulary words which are then presented in context with a sample sentence. Mandarin monkey also has such material.

Jesus Christ, you speak chinese better and faster than I speak my mother tongue. Oh my Lord!!! you're amazing. I don´t know if I feel good or bad watching this video, because its impossible speak chinese like you, even if I live for 200 years. lol

When learning Japanese, I used ANKI and the heisig method to learn the kanji, and did a LOT of listening to native speakers, watching TV etc. Now that I am in the beginning stages of learning Mandarin, I am recognizing the hanzi even when they have been simplified, or at least I can often guess what it is replacing. That's kind of fun. I was liking Duolingo for chinese, but it started getting into complicated compound sentences rather quickly and I found myself getting frustrated at that when I thought I should be learning more simply sentences just across a broader topic set.

Thank you so much! Great Video

This is awesome. Thanks.

I love you, thank you 😁i subbed😁

Thank you for the tips!

A big tip is when you have basic vocab and grammar down is to keep a journal. No need to write deep thoughts in there just stuff like “today the weather was nice.” Etc just talk about your day and if you use new words put a small “word bank” at the bottom of the page. And just write everyday before you sleep or something!

I'm Korean planning to study Chinese as my third language, and I'm super shocked watching you speaking Chinese and here I am learning English & how-to study Chinese at the same time!

I also practice repeat listening. I would download an anime for instance, watch it with subs so I know what's happening. Then I would listen to it on my ipod over and over again (not back to back necessarily) and I would increase how much of it I would understand. After while, I had picked up enough that I didn't need to indoctrinate myself with the english subs first and I would still understand much of it, but that method requires you mix up material, because for whatever reason...a program, whatever that program is, somehow tends to use a lot of words often and never other words, so mix it up so you pick up new things.

I Love this channel. "Adam Bradshaw" and "Loukgolf's English Room"were also some of my favorite English-Thai and Thai-English Channel. I'm not Thai or American. Learning a new language can be entertaining and exciting.

I have decided to let go of the characters and focus on the vocabulary for now. Then, move onto Characters later. It has eased the load. Thank you for your video.

You speak English so beautifully！！I believe more confirmedly that American English is the most beautiful language in the world.

多谢小姐真的你是了不起的人，喜欢你说的

She speaks so fast . Wowww..

OMG. I was very surprised bc your speed when you talk. It's so amazing. However, I am not a native speaker, so it's a bit hard for me to listen to you (I did draw all my attention to your speeches :D).

Thank you so much for this video

I completely agree with all your points about learning Mandarin - I too learnt my Mandarin in Taiwan and I agree on all of your advice - despite them not being conventional at the time or even now.....Vocabulary is essential -i dont know why courses focus on grammar / sentence structure / pronounication so much - words are key!

Omg, i really love your voice, you're so beautiful. I'm from vietnam, i wish i could speak Chinese well like you❤❤

I’m surprised by some KZfaq channels you recommended!! 白癡公主 & 阿滴英文 are my favorites lol. Btw, The techniques you’ve mention are applicable for me in terms of learning English as well. Greetings from Taiwan.

I just want to say you remind me of kimmy gibbler and I LOVE IT

Really loved the video, and your advices are really good! The only part I don't agree with is the usage of simplified characters. Of course it's a subjective choice which character to learn, but from a personal experience I'd say that the traditional ones are way better: they not only look prettier, but I noticed that when you write them down they look better than if you were writing the simplified counterpart, and also by learning traditional ones, it is going to be easier to recognize simplified ones, but from simplified to traditional it isn't that immediate. I've seen University colleagues with great reading ability (in simplified) not regognizing almost any traditional character, which is sad and last but not least: not many people learn traditional, so you look cooler lol... just joking. but it's nice to experience the "true"* writing system, and native speakers (both Mainlanders and Taiwanese) will be very impressed with your traditional skills, if we can call it that lol. *i don't wanna offend anybody! Both simplified and traditional characters are the "true" system, and both have truly beautiful characters, but it's undeniable that some simplified characters are REALLY ugly, like 廣 (t) / 广 (s)... c'mon, they didn't even try lmfao. Learning 繁體字 is worth the effort, and god don't let me even start talking about 注音

这支影片也让我锻炼了英语听力！👍

Going to use these tips for Russian. Awesome! Thanks! Chinese next!

Awesome video.

I’m learning Japanese and Chinese and I love your videos!!

It is difficult to learn Chinese when you’re pretty old, I started to learn Chinese from the time I was 6 years old and it was fun. But I was shocked at her Chinese! And it is sooo worth learning this language

雪莲在家隔离唯一好事，更新快了

She’s so fluent!!!

Great 好厉害

I put the video in 1.75x to practice my listening skills hahaha sorry, you speak amazingly fast, and I'm an advanced English student, so I had to challenge myself even more.

Thank you!!!!!!

Guys, it's 100% possible to learn how to read Chinese without learning how to write it. As long as you can recognize the characters you can just stick to using pinyin to type on your phone or computer. I'm not that advanced yet (only hsk5) but I've never had any problem on the reading aspect of the language despite only knowing how to write my own name. I also suffer from carpial tunnel so writing was a big no from the start.

Wow I am venezuelan and I understood 80% of your English, thanks!

你好!! 我是巴西人, 我会说英语, and i just started to 学习 汉语, i wish i could reach the close as possible of your abilities!!

You are awesome at systemizing all your language tips! Thanks a lot for this marvelous work!

big fan!

中文非常好学，大多数中国人都愿意i跟你说中文，中国人非常谦虚，友善，乐于助人，爱交朋友。 因此如果你经常跟中国人呆在一起你的中文会突飞猛进的。

You've got to be smart to begin with and patient as well. Learning it takes time, effort and love and like you said it takes 'brain power' which can be exhausting. Forget reading and writing, I just want to get passed 'hi'....love how you're so expressive when you talk.

its funny how i'm literally doing all the things she mentioned in the video about learning Chinese when i have never watched the video before.

英文說的好標準啊~~~太棒了

很喜欢听你说英文

很有用！

I been learning Japanese and korean for coming up on 2 years now, and my biggest problem was I went through so much grammar in my books and didn’t focus on vocabulary until honestly a few months ago. Since then my speaking has really improved. I started mandarin a few months ago but stopped. Now I’m back and I’m gonna try to learn as much vocabulary before I start my textbook for mandarin again.

Thank you Also I would like to tell you Spanish is a very rich and incredible language