Learn chinese from YouTube


 

I attended the Wellness conference at SICC from the 7th to the 9th June and have been away from social media. I learned many valuable facts from the convention including breathing exercises.

Meanwhile, I have been following an excellent YouTube channel to learn to speak Mandarin fluently. Each of the lessons has a portion for shadowing. 

By shadowing I mean learning by closely watching, listening and following the way the teacher teaches. I read out aloud what I hear on her channel. This is something I have not done in the past and believe it will improve my reading aloud skill and thereby improve my speaking fluency.

I believe her lessons will be equally useful to the existing Chinese speakers in Malaysia who speak Mandarin with Hakka and Cantonese pronunciations. It will also help to clarify what I wrote in my first two posts where many of the words are mispronounced by local Mandarin speakers.

Many Chinese cannot distinguish the difference in sounds such as cu/chu; ca/cha; zai/zhai; zan/zhan; can/chan; zuan/zhuan etc.

Here is her latest YouTube post. LINK

I like her channel because each lesson has a portion for shadowing. I will listen and shadow her for the next 6 months and expect my Mandarin to be fluent by the year end.

Here is a short portion of her video that I tried shadowing. 


 


Location: Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

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  1. Luqman MichelJune 10, 2024 at 11:11 PM

    There are a few differences between Beijing Mandarin and the way we speak Mandarin in Malaysia. Eg. weir in Beijing Mandarin and our wei (without the 'r' sound at the end of wei.)

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