how to start learning mandarin chinese by Yourself for Free as a complete beginner/newbie🐣

I know, Mandarin Chinese is a pretty scary language to learn just by looking at all the characters available lol! But I'll share with you how to start learning this language as a complete newbie in a simple and fun way! Hope you will enjoy it!🙌💚

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0:00 Chinese is hard BUT...
0:55 don't worry!
1:32 is Chinese hard?
2:26 simplified or traditional?
3:05 so where to start?
4:47 should I learn Pinyin?
8:57 Chinese characters are NOT scary
10:38 4. immerse yourself
12:27 how to NOT make Chinese scary haha

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Hi :) I'm Pearly! I've spent the majority of my adulthood (6 years)📚studying in law + working in the legal industry only to realize that both life as a lawyer and as a corporate worker are not for me. I decided to take the path less traveled by - to start my own business as a content creator on youtube!

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[fabian]

I would like to recommend 2 youtube channels: 1. Chinese comprehensible input, the name says what it is about. 2. Mandarin corner: this channel has interviews, vlogs and the old/new hsk vocab sentences, which is perfect because you learn words in the context and you can also learn sentence patterns.

[fabian]

No wayyyy, this is the video that I was waiting for 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[OttomaniaGaming]

Hey Baobao, I’m glad to find your video. we have 2 years old a huge chinese learning community with over 10k members where we give free service to encourage more people to learn Chinese., I’ll send more people to watch your video as well. Also it would be awesome if you can mention or show a link of us in your videos, in order to guide lost chinese learners, so we may can make their progress easier ❤ sharing is caring!

[willv]

Thaaaankk you sm for making this video!!! I just started learning chinese last month and honestly u’re on of my fav lang youtubers because ur vids are never full of pressure or anything. You’re so chill and it really gives me the motivation I need (to also take my time with this language and not expect myself to be at HSK4 level in 5 months or smth). Can’t wait for ur next video☺️

[OttomaniaGaming]

As A chinese learner, We also have a huge Chinese learning community in Discord, where we are able to ask questions to natives and join free lessons. If you guys need, I can send you the link.

[GregStew]

Hello 你好！Thanks very much for creating this video. I first saw your video with the English Teacher (Forrest) and am impressed with you. I started leaning Mandarin using Duolingo but switched to using the online course from YoyoChinese. Thanks for the tips about Hello Chinese and Ling. 我爱中国文化！

[rinientaoktaviani]

thank you so much Pearly, i love your efforts to try put yourself in our shoes as a newbie 😆 thanks for all of your recomendations and shares, may God always bless you, dear 😊

[nickcollard]

Thank you so much! Saving this for later.

[noemie.blchrd]

I take it as a sign to finally start learning mandarin chinese this summer !!

[luahoangthi]

Thank you for your sharing. This is give much so much helpful to start learning Chinese❤❤❤

[sobakasu]

I love your video.I'd like to learn English and Mandarin so sometimes please make a Chinese version daily video!!

[calste]

Great video. As a native English speaker who is trying to learn Mandarin I'd say the tones themselves though aren't as difficult as some of the tone combinations(e.g. 4th into 3rd), also tonal sandhi was really cool when I learned it. I don't know of a more suitable show but IMHO 家有儿女 is a little complex for people who are just starting, audible has books that are anywhere from free to cheap.

[oo-fyqh]

In my case, as a Spanish native speaker, the pronunciation is challenging haha. It's not imposible, but I personally can't do it. Grammar is so easy, Pearly is right.

[josephqu]

I recommend a good TV series to learn Chinese (go ahead) 中文名好像叫 以家之名，在youtube上就有的看。

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Hi girl i just want to say that this is a great video👍💯 and i totaly can understand why the natives cant really think of their own language as a hard one as an arab i never think arabic is difficult until i look at the grammer it was hard even for me thank you for this video also can you give an advice about how can i fix my french while learning spanish without mixing them? i will be thrilled if you reply to this comment , I am big fan💓, keep the great work

[MrPassiontruth]

Chinese people like to say that their grammar is easier, but their grammar is not easier. It's not easy to change the way you think. It's not easy to forget about words that you always think about. Just because you don't have to conjugate verbs, that doesn't mean you don't have to do anything. Just because a verb stays the same, doesn't mean that the sentence stays the same. I can argue that English is so easy that even a three-year-old child can learn it without ever going to school, and you can say the same thing about Chinese.

[AdamYLM]

Reason Chinese is most difficult, is because it functions very differently compared to other languages. People who speak tonal languages, their brains develop differently than those of other languages. Chinese grammar is not difficult, what makes its difficult is when you going to the stage where you have to think, speak and listen in Chinese like you do normally in your native language, this will much much more longer to get used to compared to other languages.

[Slothian-ryhf]

I have been studying by myself for 2 years now. I love it! 但因紧张我多次没聊天了 😢 好多机会但我说了没什么 😂 我现在知道，如果我没聊天，我不会学！

[philipdavis]

Unfortunately, Mandarin is no.3 of the languages I really want to learn (working my way through Japanese and just started Korean), but this seems to be to be a great introductory video. So many English speakers get intimidated by mandarin because of the tones and writing, but people I know who've learnt it say that once you get past that, its an exhilarating experience to learn it properly, and not nearly as hard as some other languages.

[Nonn]

Should I start learning the letters first?