Insightful! However, I disagree that this plateau is an illusion. The difficulty we encounter at the intermediate level seems to be directly proportional to the lack of appropriate content. For example, from my personal experience learning French, German, and Chinese, most of the available videos are either for beginners or advanced learners. The majority of stimulating topics are at the advanced level. Fortunately, a few individuals like Nathan from TeaTime Chinese create engaging content for intermediate learners.
Hi Will. Amazing, I can't believe that you only studied Chinese for 3 years, and I also watched your first video. You already did really well at that time. I can't remember how long I've been learning English, I still confused about vocabulary, grammar and phonetic transcription. As a Chinese native speaker, in my opinion, your speaking is very fluently, appropriately and naturally. I still shocked about your Chinese level. It's obviously much better than other non-Chinese native speakers I have seen, even some of them studied Chinese 10 or more years. If you need more materials about Chinese, I highly recommend 春节联欢晚会 for you. It is from 1983. I assume you know about this show. It's a really classical show for all Chinese people, and most of the performers have a clearly speaking. If you got any questions, I am pleased to talk with you. You are so amazing. wish you every happiness in your life. ❤❤❤
After passing hsk 4 I started improving my 口语, then I figured out meanwhile my classmates already got to learn hsk 6 vocabulary. I felt so stressed at that moment, cause my learning process is a little slow, but it is effective. I can use 大部分 of my vocabulary during conversation
These are great points Will… I appreciate your help regarding false conclusions, narrowing focus to relevant material, mastering language sentence templates and relentless self evaluation of tones and tone feedback from native speakers… I certainly will put these strategies to work in my daily practice… thanks! 👋😊
It's so refreshing to hear tip No. 4. Fully agree with you on this. Been taking group classes for almost 5 years now, have some of the same classmates for 3-4 years and their pronunciation still sucks ass, even to that point that I personally think the language they are speaking doesn't sound like Mandarin Chinese at all. And they really don't seem to care about it, which I find a little weird. Especially in a tonal language like Chinese, that has a very distinctive sound/flow to it, you should have the motivation to sound a little more authentic after so many years.
These are really good tips actually, thanks for this. Right now not learning Mandarin but will be doing it in future when my current languages are at an acceptable level.
Nice video. Recently I started doing these steps. I'm very interested in international politics, economics, chinese history and culture, so yesterday I started mining some sentences and adding them to Anki from Wikipedia, news websites, texts I come up with while using the internet and so on. Btw, do you have any tips for improving my output skills? I'm doing Pimsleur Chinese right now and quite liking the results. I'm around HSK 3-4 vocab and grammarly wise, but I can't really use what I know even in very basic conversations. I still get confused with the chinese sentence patterns, even though I know the grammar concepts and can understand the texts quite well.
Insightful! However, I disagree that this plateau is an illusion. The difficulty we encounter at the intermediate level seems to be directly proportional to the lack of appropriate content. For example, from my personal experience learning French, German, and Chinese, most of the available videos are either for beginners or advanced learners. The majority of stimulating topics are at the advanced level. Fortunately, a few individuals like Nathan from TeaTime Chinese create engaging content for intermediate learners.
u can look at "mandarin corner" they have so much content for intermediate learnes
Hi Will. Amazing, I can't believe that you only studied Chinese for 3 years, and I also watched your first video. You already did really well at that time. I can't remember how long I've been learning English, I still confused about vocabulary, grammar and phonetic transcription. As a Chinese native speaker, in my opinion, your speaking is very fluently, appropriately and naturally. I still shocked about your Chinese level. It's obviously much better than other non-Chinese native speakers I have seen, even some of them studied Chinese 10 or more years.
If you need more materials about Chinese, I highly recommend 春节联欢晚会 for you. It is from 1983. I assume you know about this show. It's a really classical show for all Chinese people, and most of the performers have a clearly speaking. If you got any questions, I am pleased to talk with you. You are so amazing. wish you every happiness in your life. ❤❤❤
Can you please make a video on classifiers and if they are important to learn from get go ? !
I am a native Chinese speaker and want to learn English.
After passing hsk 4 I started improving my 口语, then I figured out meanwhile my classmates already got to learn hsk 6 vocabulary. I felt so stressed at that moment, cause my learning process is a little slow, but it is effective. I can use 大部分 of my vocabulary during conversation
But anyway, I want to pass hsk 6 exam, not just for its certificate, it is like a challenge for me
These are great points Will… I appreciate your help regarding false conclusions, narrowing focus to relevant material, mastering language sentence templates and relentless self evaluation of tones and tone feedback from native speakers… I certainly will put these strategies to work in my daily practice… thanks! 👋😊
It's so refreshing to hear tip No. 4. Fully agree with you on this. Been taking group classes for almost 5 years now, have some of the same classmates for 3-4 years and their pronunciation still sucks ass, even to that point that I personally think the language they are speaking doesn't sound like Mandarin Chinese at all. And they really don't seem to care about it, which I find a little weird. Especially in a tonal language like Chinese, that has a very distinctive sound/flow to it, you should have the motivation to sound a little more authentic after so many years.
These are really good tips actually, thanks for this. Right now not learning Mandarin but will be doing it in future when my current languages are at an acceptable level.
Great video, man. Thanks!
Great tips, thanks!
Can you tell me how I can apply the sentence mining method in a language like English because I am learning it now?❤
Will do you mind using or including Pinyin in your subtitles?
What do you think about HSK exam?
Nice video. Recently I started doing these steps. I'm very interested in international politics, economics, chinese history and culture, so yesterday I started mining some sentences and adding them to Anki from Wikipedia, news websites, texts I come up with while using the internet and so on.
Btw, do you have any tips for improving my output skills? I'm doing Pimsleur Chinese right now and quite liking the results. I'm around HSK 3-4 vocab and grammarly wise, but I can't really use what I know even in very basic conversations. I still get confused with the chinese sentence patterns, even though I know the grammar concepts and can understand the texts quite well.
Good luck on your PhD! Will you be an MD/PhD after that?