TIPS FOR SELF-TEACHING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE 🌍 📚

How to get from zero to HSK 6 in less than three years 🥟 I have been getting lots of questions lately about how I learned Mandarin, so today I am sharing with you some of my tips about how to become fluent quickly through self-teaching 🐼😜

0:32 Why I learned Chinese
1:41 Why I didn't take classes
2:36 Is it really necessary to learn how to write by hand? (update: apparently the new HSK coming out next few years will require writing sone characters by hand, so if you plan to take HSK unfortunately the digital test will be phased out in 2023-4😭😭)
3:35 Importance of listening comprehension as a beginner
5:53 Don't rote memorize words without knowing how to use them
6:43 Make use of your new language as much as possible
8:05 Importance of being intrinsically motivated!!!!

Cartoons that I recommend:
Level 1 – Peppa pig 小猪佩奇，aka 佩佩猪 🐷(again, beware of the constant oinking, but it’s a great show to lay a foundation in listening comprehension): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJn8UmsibFw
Level 2 – 大耳朵图图👂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3fs9Q4ppfk&list=PLg0gVW-bweyfDngxBqPjtoq8LTtXwo032
Level 3 – 小丸子 🍡 (this is actually originally Japanese but it has a Chinese dubbed version）https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y9FGfDrRy4&list=PLQGFvBFre_B3sTKh8hrPOp9RU40o7TweR

There are plenty of other cartoons out there too but I personally found these to be the best because the voices are clearly understandable (no screechy/weird voices, no super fast talking, etc), the animation is well done, and the storylines are reasonably interesting and won’t completely bore you to sleep. 😴 I watched pretty much every episode on Youtube of all three of these and it was more than enough to move on to shows for adults 📺

Good places to find example sentences:
Pleco smartphone app 🐟
Linedict app or website https://dict.naver.com/linedict/zhendict/#/cnen/home 🐻
Anki spoonfed Chinese flashcard set https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/53920083 🥄

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