Why Listening Is Key to Learn Any Language

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If you’re new to our channel, we are Luke Neale and Phil Crimmins, the co-founders and co-CEOs of Mandarin Blueprint. Our company is focused on one mission: To make learning Chinese simple and rewarding. We do this by creating ground-breaking courses, services, and community for Mandarin learners like you.

How we got here:

2013:
We both started learning Chinese in Chengdu, Sichuan province (China). Phil got a degree in Chinese from Sichuan University. Luke went the self-study route.
We both struggled a lot for the first year, wasting thousands of hours and thousands of dollars getting nowhere.
2014:
We both almost quit, until we discovered the magic of ‘comprehensible input’. We used proven memory techniques to achieve advanced literacy in a few months, and began immersing in Chinese TV, movies, books, comics, and podcasts.
2015:
Within a year, we went from failures, to passing the highest level Chinese exam at the time (the HSK 6), and achieved B2 spoken fluency. We did this learning part time, while it should take a FULL TIME learner at least twice as long (that works out to at least 4x faster).
We became tired of everyone we knew falling into the same traps we did, struggling needlessly. We decided to share what we knew with the local community in Chengdu.
2016-2018:
We started Mandarin Blueprint. We spent 100s of hours teaching what we knew in live and online seminars, gradually developing our own curriculum.
2019-2024: We officially launched our online video curriculum, and continually improved and perfected the content, community, and various supplementary courses.
TODAY: Our paid membership Mandarin Blueprint Pro is taking the Mandarin-learning world by storm, making Chinese simple and rewarding for thousands of learners.

To our fellow Mandarin enthusiasts! Whether you’re learning this language to...

Connect more with a friend or family member,
Improve your career prospects,
Travel the world,
Massively raise your status as a human being
OR purely for fun, the challenge, or sheer love of the process…

…you are on a highly worthwhile mission. Chinese is NOT “hard”. It is MADE hard by methods that SUCK.

Our method does NOT suck.

If you aren’t ready yet, join the free version and master basic Chinese in 30 days or less:

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保重 (take care)
Luke & Phil
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agree :) my english has improved a lot after watching english videos with subtitles on. after a 3-6 months i was able to watch videos without subs on and i could also watch videos on the bg without minding them much. i also wanted to try this with chinese but im not quite sure about my chinese.... but giving a try is still worthy

dontusethesamenicknameonthenet
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I agree 100 percent. Pimselur method is awesome for this!

ms.montero
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Kinda crazy but I think that Mandarin has really soaked into your mind. When you first said 'new' in this video it sounded like 'lew', and if I'm not mistaken that substitution of sound is something that can happen in Chinese

octubre_lilaka
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What is your favorite podcast to recommend for a beginner in chinese?

MMCollect
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Imagine a language have 30000 characters and each of them could several meanings. Normal combination of vowels and constance are not enough to cover all. It employs different tones to express various meanings. For non-natives speakers, it is always a hard time with tonal language. Good listening skill is very essential

EricLeung-hk
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Thank you! If more people realized this, they would have a lot easier time learning languages!

coryjorgensen
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Do you have a recommendation for a web based Chinese radio Stream Service?
Thanks for your effort!

colognerider
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This is why I watch a lot of Chinese TV shows.

aceydaisy
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100% true. But if you’re studying Korean or Japanese. Then grammar does move close to the top. But still not as important as active listening.

aquilajedi
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Im learning chinese and your videos having been extremely helpful, i started 7 days ago and ive spent about 4-6 hours each day learning spending about half the time learning hanzi and the other half with immersing? Is this good?

FastestSal
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Is listening more important than reading then?

aljoschadietrich
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Me interested in Chinese so I can watch Donghua without subtitles 💀

Leo-jj