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How to Make Mandarin FUN
00:00 Intro 04:34 #1: Hanzi Movie Method (Mnemonic Visualization) 07:52 #2: Living Links (mnemonic association) 09:57 #3: Spaced Repetition 10:58 #4: Shadowing 11:48 #5: Active Recall Speaking & Flas…
Published on 4 hours ago
How To Stop Wasting Time Learning Chinese
00:00 Intro 01:00 Progress Killer #1: Shiny Object Learning 01:44 Progress Killer #2: Learning the Wrong Stuff at the Wrong Time 03:32 Progress Killer #3: Broken Learning Methods 05:25 Accelerator #1…
Published on 5 days, 4 hours ago
How I Speak Mandarin With (Almost) Perfect Tones
00:00 Intro 01:14 Cause #1: Poor Foundation 01:27 Cause #2: Not Enough Input 01:49 Cause #3: Not Enough Speaking Practice Exercises 01:59 Cause #4: Not Enough Focus on Sentences 02:50 Technique One: …
Published on 1 week ago
Not Sure How to Make Progress with Mandarin?
00:00 Intro 00:53 The first major constraint: Structure 01:36 The second major constraint: Methodology 02:20 The third major constraint: Consistency 03:18 If Your Constraint is STRUCTURE: You need to…
Published on 1 week, 4 days ago
Why You Keep Forgetting The Chinese You Learn
00:00 Intro 01:58 Reason 1: You’re not creating enough connections 03:13 Reason 2: You’re forgetting because you’re reviewing the wrong way 04:13 Reason 3: Focusing too much on passive recognition, n…
Published on 1 week, 6 days ago
Why Chinese Listening Is So Hard (And How to Fix It)
00:00 Intro 01:00 1. It’s out of your control 01:30 2. People don’t talk like they do in learning materials 01:49 3. The Real World Is Loud 02:23 1. Tones Change Meaning 03:05 2. Many Words Sound the…
Published on 2 weeks, 6 days ago
8 Mindset Shifts That Make Mandarin Fluency Inevitable
00:00 Intro 00:47 Mindset Shift #1 03:07 Mindset Shift #2 05:33 Mindset Shift #3 07:31 Mindset Shift #4 09:45 Mindset Shift #5 11:49 Mindset Shift #6 13:56 Mindset Shift #7 17:04 Mindset Shift #8 19:…
Published on 3 weeks, 5 days ago
This ONE Skill Makes Chinese Learning 10X Easier
00:00 Intro 01:00 Why Listening Alone Isn’t Enough for Fluency 02:30 The Hidden Problem with Only Learning Pinyin 04:15 How Chinese Characters Create Built-In Logic 06:00 Patterns That Unlock Vocabul…
Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago
6 Myths About Learning Chinese
00:00 Intro 00:22 Myth #1: Learning Fluent Chinese is an Impossible Task 04:06 Myth #2: The Chinese writing system is impossible (or takes many years) to master 06:18 Myth #3: Tones are Impossibly Di…
Published on 1 month ago
4 Techniques To Improve Your Spoken Chinese FAST
00:00 Intro 01:53 Technique #1 10:15 Technique #2 14:08 Technique #3 20:14 Technique #4 27:20 Conclusion
Published on 1 month ago