Have exactly the opposite problem: can read, but cannot speak. The more you read the more characters you can recognize

@ShuoshuoChinese

4 жыл бұрын

Haha, then you need to talk more in Chinese!

@stephtab922

4 жыл бұрын

I have the same problem!

@strategoscastaneda9095

4 жыл бұрын

Me too

@strategoscastaneda9095

4 жыл бұрын

@@ShuoshuoChinese I have a hypothesis. I've been learning Chinese for 15 years and I always quit, I go back to study and quit, then, I realized that I needed something like Du Chinese, since you learn a language by studying conversions.

@gracajose8474

4 жыл бұрын

Strategos Castaneda I use the same method with the app Dushu 读书 and the sentences are so useful for everyday conversations. So I just memorize lol.

Sorry about my pronunciation of "character", I really tried! 😂

@chilliworldnowadays2323

4 жыл бұрын

没关系，我懂了

@A._J_.

4 жыл бұрын

don't worry some westerners like how chinese women pronounce english

@mariaikram7469

4 жыл бұрын

love from algiria so good

@karabogaz

4 жыл бұрын

talking about pronunciation, in a former video it sounded like "...I bumped into my eggs"....only some ages later I got you meant ex, like ex gf :D :D :D

@ShuoshuoChinese

4 жыл бұрын

@@karabogaz 哈哈哈哈哈

One of the most useful channel about Chinese language ever i seen on KZread, thanks💐💐

@clairee4939

4 жыл бұрын

好真， 精彩!

I love your positivity towards learning! I've seen many comments under other videos where people would attack other learners for not being fluent or their language skills not being flawless. I don't know but your videos really motivate me because you tell us that we should just go for it instead of being scared of studying a language😊😊😊

@ShuoshuoChinese

4 жыл бұрын

加油！

@randomchina6982

2 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y3dk3LqNZbSzo84.html helps understand characters better

@Henry-teach-Chinese-in-jokes

Жыл бұрын

I’ve spent about 100,000 hours studying English humor and Western culture, and many years studying Chinese culture. My native language is Chinese. I teach Chinese in humorous way and with cute pictures. Hope somebody recommend my videos to those who want to learn Chinese.

Anyone else feel like writing is the ultimate measure of mastery over a language? Another thing is practicing writing will improve every other language skill: reading, speaking, grammar, vocabulary, comprehension etc.

Hey Shuo, I really wanted to thank you for your helpful lessons, I started learning chinese 2 weeks ago but made a big progress already thanks to your videos and explanations, they are really fun to watch! :) otherwise I'd probably already have lost my motivation, but thanks to you I have a lot of fun studying! Now I want to get into studying characters so your video came just at the right time, I've already looked into Du Chinese and will subscribe with your code because the app is super helpful. I can not thank you enough for your help, you're such a great teacher, I hope your channel will continue to grow a lot more!

@Henry-teach-Chinese-in-jokes

Жыл бұрын

I’ve spent about 100,000 hours studying English humor and Western culture, and many years studying Chinese culture. My native language is Chinese. I teach Chinese in humorous way and with cute pictures. Hope somebody recommend my videos to those who want to learn Chinese.

You are a wonderful and thorough teacher. Please don't stop making videos.

3:41 It's Friday night. I'm in the US, learning Mandarin from a teacher in Thailand, while listening to salsa music. I feel like I've won something... 👍😃😆🏆😊👏😎 I love this channel!

Got to know about your channel hours ago and I already watched a few of them. I am impressed! Your videos really have nice contents and easy to pick up. This video is my favourite so far. Keep up the good work, Shuo!

This video has so many resources I have been looking for. thank you!:)

I think that the VAST majority of foreign adult learners have exactly the opposite problem. Reading is normally the easiest skill. Then understanding, then speaking.

Hey Shuo, recently stated to watch your channel. Thanks for the great content, especially the Chinese stories in HSK 3/4 and this well laid out video 😄! Keep it up!

Oh my goodness! I'm so glad I found you yesterday and subscribed to your channel. This video is packed with incredibly helpful information. Xie xie, Shuo Shuo!

I like the way you explain Chinese 😭 you make Chinese easier than what I think. Thankyou!!

@ShuoshuoChinese

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you loved it!

Thank you for these recourses!!! This is so helpful!

Thanks so much! You were clear with these useful tools.

Extremely useful, as always. I love your dialogues! :D

the most succssful breakdown of the chinese great language wall I have seen so far

nice video , i learned Japanese for around 3 years but never got a single problem with Chinese characters..now i learn Chinese , they are really easy to relate with the Japanese character (漢字)

I just started using a lot of the resources you mentioned, been reading du Chinese, Mandarin companion (before I move on to other graded readers I found as well as some kid's story books a friend sent me) every day for about 2 to 3 hours, as well as making and reviewing flashcards for 1 hour. I honestly feel my vocab has increased a lot in the week I've been doing this, hope I can keep doing this and next week start writing once or twice a week and speaking maybe daily with a friend to test my progress. 加油 everyone.

@cheersfor6323

9 ай бұрын

Did you progress a lot since then?

I started learning to speak the basics, when I lived in China. Then I discovered a book explaining all 部首 radicals. It’s from Edoardo Fazzioli and exists in many languages. I also made up flash cards from the book as well checking on Wikipedia „227 Chinese radicals“ As there you find all different versions too. Like river chuān 巛 also can be 川, or shì worship can be 示 as well as 礻. It’s important to know. Since I know the radicals, remembering characters is much easier for me: Like the word 想 xiǎng , to miss, to think of.. for me now consists of mù 木 tree, mù 目 eye and xīn 心 heart ❤️ Much easier now 😃 Then there is the page characterpop to pop down characters to their radicals- but it’s not perfectly complete and some mistakes there... but still ok

@sasino

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, tbh, I think that's the only real way you can remember them, there's no way anyone could write a 20-stroke character by memorizing all the individual strokes, without prior knowledge of its components/radicals

@truthetaspirin464

Жыл бұрын

Vrai, that's how chinese learn chinese when they are young. Even as native speakers, they also spend years to learn how to write 汉字. 部首 logically relate with how 汉字 were invented and developed.

@sovietwizard1620

Жыл бұрын

isn't river 3 dots of water?

I love your contents! The introduction part where you act as foregner student with moustaches is totally me!! 😍❤️ I can understand and talk chinese very basic but im so slow in reading and i don't remeber many words! Your tips are great. You are such a good teacher ❤❤❤ 谢谢你

This channel is perfect!

Big big thanks, very helpful! 💛

I used Skritter all the time to prepare for 听写！！！And I bought "the secret garden" and "sherlock homes" from Mandarin Companion Graded Reader. Highly recommend both tools 👍🏻

This is my first day to study this language and I hope I will learn and reach the.advance level, thank you for helping us teacher!

@tainantaiwan8629

3 жыл бұрын

Keep it up!

@Moonsapphire419

2 жыл бұрын

How’s your journey so far?

you videos are very good and informative..... please continue making videos......dont stop 😀 谢谢师傅😀

Laoshi, u r wonderful teacher.

I have been dedicated to learning Korean for a few months now. It can get difficult and feel overwhelming sometimes, but I want to learn Chinese too. Instead of letting Chinese be a chore, I am simply watching your videos, listening to Chinese music, and doing an occasional lesson on Lingodeer whenever I feel like it. It isn't a very fast pace, but I am learning it and enjoying it a lot!!

@randomchina6982

2 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y3dk3LqNZbSzo84.html helps understand characters better

@blee_ww

Жыл бұрын

Have you learned it??? If yes plz give me some advice i just cant understand it

@user-pp7gb8vy3i

Жыл бұрын

@@blee_ww hi 👋 I'm currently learning Chinese Mandarin. I recommend you to learn the language by storys and proverbs. Also you have to know that Chinese Mandarin was made by old linguistic men in the past.. so the language has the logic of old men, and can be controversial sometimes 😅

@blee_ww

Жыл бұрын

@@user-pp7gb8vy3i yes like word argue is made of two women 😭👍

谢谢老师!! This is really helpful 😊

Well explained, a lot of help

Thank you for the recommendations. Will check out the chairman's bao!

@ShuoshuoChinese

4 жыл бұрын

Great!

My problem is that I can read characters but when I go to write them I cannot remember how the character looks exactly or the strokes. How can I overcome this?

@huojiaquan

4 жыл бұрын

Keep writing until it gets into your muscles, you need the muscle memory.

@DanielLeoSimpson

4 жыл бұрын

Happens to me too - then I must make an association immediately - like for Ni3 meaning 'you' (你）"Starts with standing man" and I say, "a PERSON STANDING outside wants to talk to YOU (keyword)" That helps get me started. Association jump starts everything I do - they are in Skritter as ShuoShuo points out - Mandarin Blueprint is all about association. Without association your doomed to a life of rote, drilling (I do those too) and constant forgetting... with association, at least there's a chance...a hope...and when it works you have a nice little victory for yourself... Good luck! Daniel Léo Simpson Composer San Francisco

@zainabahmed7482

4 жыл бұрын

HY F So does this mean that I should focus more on learning pinyin than the actual characters? If so, would the HSK exams still be doable for me?

@PhilB120

3 жыл бұрын

Zainab Ahmed HSK 3 onwards does not have any pinyin in the text books or tests

@elenat1092

3 жыл бұрын

Try this: Learn a new character. Let your brain forget it. Re-learn it once you find it again. Then let your brain re-forget it. Then re-learn it. Then see how your amazing brain just can't forget it any longer. I call it "active-passive brain digestion". Let your memory "digest" every new character at its own pace, the more you forget and bring back once needed, the better you will interiorise new words and concepts. Results guaranteed.

Very slowly starting to get better, I really need to expand my vocabulary though and actively listen!

This is so helpful!

I like the Skritter app. I like how it breaks down the radicals. I would like to use that app just so that I will be able to go and look at the radicals and figure out what they mean. I also would recommend that you use traditional Chinese when looking at the characters, because simplified Chinese does remove some of the radicals so it is easier to write, but it may not be as easy to understand if you go and look at the strokes.

I am watching this. I also tutor a student learning Mandarin. I am learning from you. Great video!

This is an interesting and great Hanyu lesson. 谢谢

老师,谢谢啊.这视频真利害. I love when you make the "drama scene". Your male actor is so funny. hahaha.......... You should make some smalls videos like small novels when you have free time. You are soooo funny giving the examples in Chinese that I keep watching the "couple" part. hahaha....

thanks for the good information and lesson

Wow. This is great. Love it

Fantastic channel! Thanks! I have found the Pleco dictionary indispensable in my studies.

@ShuoshuoChinese

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! I reason I didn’t recommend Pleco is because almost all my students already knew it!

I always used to think how Chinese people type when there are unlimited characters. Thanks for sharing. I’m revising my forgotten Chinese from the beginning. I’ll come back to this after a couple of weeks.

aaaa this is lots of useful apps, ty

thank so so muche dear teacher for this video lesson...!

Wow! So much information! Good suggestions for students at every level. I use DuChinese, and will try the others.

i like your chanel 'cause your videos are really useful✨

The list of common radicals is really useful! I'm Chinese but have very basic Chinese education so i'm trying to become proficient in it. Not a total beginner so beginner videos don't really do anything for me.

谢谢你！我以前觉得写汉字很难，现在我可以读、写很多汉字。 I started a “radical dictionary” and I’m going through all the words that I’ve learned and organizing them based on radical/common characters. Understanding the meaning behind the characters really helps you memorize it. Anyways, thank you, I found this video helpful!

@ShuoshuoChinese

4 жыл бұрын

加油！

@mrasmrengr

Жыл бұрын

please help me to contract with you

Your comedy sketches are the best bits, 我 xxxx 他 xxxx 不 xx reminds me of when I was in primary school.

Really great video that you made! The examples are very vivid and the way that you demonstrate them are appealing and easy to understand! Sometimes with Chinese is just like learing other languages, you get start with reading, speaking and listening are in the other hand the most difficult parts, but it will come with the practice, once you are in the environment with native speaker, the other two parts will get improved so quick that you wouldn't be able to imagine! Keep it up:)

Great. Thanks!

Thanks for your useful and interesting videos.

@ShuoshuoChinese

4 жыл бұрын

My pleasure;)

跳舞 first one looks like two persons are dancing ... Thanks for sharing

很有用的。真棒中文老师

Thanks for your video

你的演出能力越来越棒！😂

老师, 感谢!我真的喜欢了这个视频

@petslife3523

3 жыл бұрын

Help

Thanks it was helpful

Excellent !!!

The music on the backroad mack my dance 💃🏾 and learn Chinese in the same time that was fun 谢谢！

Very good and useful advice ! Take care your health to have enough rest. 谢谢老师。

@ShuoshuoChinese

4 жыл бұрын

:)

omg! DU CHINESE is the total game changer i have been looking for this app long time

Du Chinese is really excellent. I use it together with LingQ and M Mandarim (the one with manhua)... But i still love writting as a way of learning the most, writte it sometimes and try to compose small phrases, and short paragraphs using the words learning. I didn't know Skritter :O thanks for the rec!

@ShuoshuoChinese

4 жыл бұрын

Yes! Sometimes writing is like one kind of meditation for me!

Thank you so much ❤🥰

Thank you for your great video. I enjoyed it as always!I am gonna get the app you recommended. When I watched this video I realized the stroke order of 睡 was different from how I always write and thought like I had been writing 睡 in wrong order for over 10years!?!? 😱Then I googled and learned sometimes Chinese stroke order and Japanese stroke order are different .I relieved!!!😂

@ShuoshuoChinese

4 жыл бұрын

真的吗！？我也刚知道！

Gracias querida, muy bella la explicación, me has dado un punto de referencia bastante significativo. saludes desde Colombia. and of course I can understand your classes. I´m not sure what is the features of your videos but they are amazing!. thank you.

Pleco dictionary and Skritter are a must for Chinese learning! Love your videos Shuo!

@WCiossek

4 жыл бұрын

What do you do if your native language is not English and if in your language does not exist much teaching material? The effort to learn Chinese through a foreign language is very like if you try to learn Mandarin through a Caucasian language!

@TimBroganShaw

4 жыл бұрын

WCiossek what is your Native tongue? Pleco has German, French and Italian I believe. Failing that, google translate does a decent job!

@WCiossek

4 жыл бұрын

@@TimBroganShaw Hungarian! I use google translate and it seems, it works very well. But you be always on the level of written Chinese like if you use books to study Chinese!, I watch the English videos to have an impression of spoken Chinese and also to train the ears for distinguishing the tones. There is a lot of English material for learning Chinese, but not in Hungarian. This is also very helpfully even you don't understand the English part very fully! I also try to write an own application where you are independent to every language!

Thank you for such an informative video. You manage to pack in so many valuable tips into just a few minutes. I have recently just started using the DU Chinese App that one of your followers recommended to me. I will be using your voucher codes to make some big savings:). I am pretty good at reading and remembering the characters and combinations but writing is unbelievably difficult for me. I never really tried typing directly from my keyboard yet but now that I have had some good tips from you I will try it out. 谢谢

@ShuoshuoChinese

4 жыл бұрын

加油！💪💪💪

WOW! That Du Chinese APP is fei chang hao! lol :-) This was a great video, thank you so much. Xiexie ni, qin ai de!

@bantuvoicemuchaik.k.7715

3 жыл бұрын

哈哈哈。。。我已经爱你。。。

谢谢你。我爱你的意思这些很帮我。

@ShuoshuoChinese

4 жыл бұрын

不用谢！

Nice work:)

喜欢，长知识了❤

Du Chinese 非常愉快，设计很好

Pleco has an excellent flash card component, it’s totally worth the money. It’s a great dictionary app too.

The beginning of the video where the guy character was trying to read was so accurate 😂 I’ve only been learning for 2 months at that is me

Thanks

Love the video! :D

@RayBanks

4 жыл бұрын

Don't type your name wrong 😂😂

你英文真好😃

very nice

谢谢 for your videos😍😅

Thank you !!

@ShuoshuoChinese

4 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

Thanks for the recommendation of Sougou 搜狗! Before I used only native windows keyboard - these are much prettier ^^

我一个中国人，专门过来听你用英语教中文，只为练习英语听力，😄

谢谢 老师！

哈哈，我也已经用DuChinese哈哈，好棒噢。

Wonderful. 好極了。 I have my ideas to memorize I compose decomposed characters using... cangjie input. Not easy but cool

You are amazing

Loving your video's and learning tons! I was wondering what is Joshua's Chinese name, cause I'm still trying to figure out mine... Don't get me started on my family name, still looking for the meaning of that as well Thanks and keep making these video's.

谢谢 我喜欢你

谢谢您呀！

5:39 聊天 耳 ear radical. Makes sense in "chat" 天 heaven. I guess in the sense of "shooting the breeze".

I love the Cuban music in this chinese lesson...😆

你的视频很棒啊！

我的问题不是视频里的问题，而是是我无力跟别人聊天。我读书的能力是挺好。但是我说话的时候会有那种不知道的样子。Anyway重点不是关于我而是是你要看汉子的时候你需要天天练习读书。Practice makes perfect so let’s just all learn Chinese

@elenaxiao788

4 жыл бұрын

我没有视频中的问题，我的问题主要在于很难和别人聊天。我的阅读能力很强，但是我说话的时候会有那种不知道的样子。但是，重点不是我怎么样，而是如果你想要记住汉字，你需要天天练习读书。 Hey , there ~ I'm a Chinese native speaker . Your Chinese is good ,but I just made some corrections so that you can speak more like a native speaker~

@ColinPlayzPianoC418Music

4 жыл бұрын

Oh 谢谢！I really appreciate it

谢谢

i'm a beginner but omg i related so hard to the part where she can read wo ta bu and some random radicals here and there 😂😂😂

Your was quite interesting especially the acted out part. It really made me laugh haha. 😂😂😂😂

@tainantaiwan8629

3 жыл бұрын

Her acting as a man makes me confused about my sexuality.

@AfroLinguo

3 жыл бұрын

@@tainantaiwan8629 It is true that she still looks attractive as a man. lol

你是非常好老师。。。。。 我需要那样的一个老婆

@ShuoshuoChinese

4 жыл бұрын

哈哈哈哈😂

@chilliworldnowadays2323

4 жыл бұрын

@@ShuoshuoChinese 哈哈哈。我现在在中国在找找一个中国女生😂😂

謝謝妳的幫助. 我喜歡用繁體字因為更簡單的學... if you understand this I feel accomplished! 😆

@dipp1511

Жыл бұрын

你为什么认为用繁体字更简单的学？繁体字很美丽，但是我认为很难的学。