The Shocking Truth on How I Mastered Chinese: Zero to Fluent

How can you learn Chinese fast? I learned Chinese in record time and I want to share my study tips with you. Don't make the same mistakes I made in the beginning. Start studying Mandarin Chinese in the most efficient way possible with these tips! Start using your language skills shockingly fast.

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[PedalandTrek]

There are no short cuts to learning a new language. It's a lot of dedication and hard work.

[Jiraiya]

Question: How did I learn Chinese??
Answer: I worked hard, like really hard, like all day hard.

[franciscac.]

This is one of the best, honest, straightforward language channels I've seen. No bs, no sugar coating, but you're still so motivating at the same time!! Thank you so much 🙏

[frogexaggerator]

This is so true. Many people were surprised I became reasonably fluent in Spanish in one year despite never having studied it before, and at an age most people consider past the age of learning a language very well (40). Well, during that year (in Spain) I didn’t just hang out, eat tapas, and expect Spanish to just sink in. Ok, yes I ate a lot of tapas but you know what else I did? After I walked the kids to school, I spent that time studying it for 4-6 hours a day and spent the rest of my time trying to speak Spanish to the people around me. When home I watched Spanish tv, and turned off English subtitles very quickly into my time there. My kids got mad at that at first but they ended up fluent in only a few months, though, and stopped asking anyway! After a year, well, I was fluent. People sometimes dismiss it when they find out I was not just studying it from my home country, and say oh, well, immersion just works. As if it just passively leaks into you simply by being in a foreign country. And I agree that immersion is always better than trying to learn a language from far away, but that’s not the whole story, and it devalues the massive effort I put in each and every day: academic classroom study, rigorous homework, and challenging myself with conversations at every opportunity, just to maximize every bit of that immersion. I also hear “oh you’ve just got a knack for languages” and while I think I do have a bit of a knack for it, I would never have gotten as far as I did without the work I put in.

[Gideon]

I am tremendously impressed by this young lady's linguistic achievements. Oh, and she is also so utterly, irresistibly nice!

[Shelliblack]

I was normally watching the video and then, by the end of it, I was almost crying in happiness. Everything is possible, thank you for reminding it to us :)

[RespectOthers]

That’s an eternity compared to how quick you got from zero to 136K+ subscribers! :D

[IngMerK]

Since I started watching your videos everything has gotten better, nice edit nice background music, and great topic. Your videos are the reason why I started learning chinese😃.

[myalamaster]

Thank you for making your videos! I started learning Japanese in university and you really give me confidence that it is still possible to learn languages as an adult. Your videos really help keep me going

[spfconcept]

Great comparison between your Spanish learning and Chinese learning experiences. Arguably Spanish is much closer to English than Chinese is to English, so you're showing a living proof on putting your mind and efforts into what you want. Good going girl!

[estheriyjx]

Listening to you speaking both English and Chinese really relax, i can hear all :))). I love it, could you do more video like this? Very helpful, thank you <3

[davidkuo]

Me: “How do you have time to study 6 hrs a day?!” Right after thinking that, I get a notification from Facebook saying I’ve spent an average of 3 hrs/day on FB over the past month. Well...bye bye FB lol

[alak]

You have studied Chinese 6 hours a day and memorized 50 words each day?
That's a lot of work....!!

[ronjag]

It's so inspiring to hear other talk about the hard work they put into learning a foreign language. I hear so often from strangers that "oh, I could never learn a language like that", or "you're so lucky that you're good at languages", but they don't see the hours that are poured into learning vocabulary and grammar, practicing with natives, refining pronunciation...
I just started learning Chinese, and I hope one day I can become as good at it as you are!

[Dns.inceptiowl]

Right now, this is the motivation I needed to hear. I'm learning Mandarin and literally struggling with tones of new characters while constantly wondering why I pick it when I can probably learn Japanese in less time. It's gonna be tough be I will keep on learning till I reach proficiency. 加油中文

[kundakiss]

50 words a day is honestly pretty insane... That's a 1000 words in 20 days :O
What was your retention rate overloading your brain like that?

[allyquintero]

I have been studying chinese by myself for almost a year, and it has been very hard to get immersed into it. I can't travel now, but I'm saving money because I want to go to China to study Chinese, you are such an inspiration, 谢谢 Anming ❤️

[saffronscursex]

No, I want your channel to grow in record time 🥳

[louis]

Heya!
I lived in Japan in 2019 for the entire year, my Japanese isn’t quite as good as yours, I went to a school in Takadanobaba, I lived in Shinjuku-Ku and I have to admit It’s nice to see you had similar experience to me, I’m from the U.K. and it’s very obvious to tell I’m not from Asia, so whenever I spoke ‘fluent’ ( I’m not fluent but sometimes I sounded it if I was lucky enough. x) ) they would be blown away. I used to enter pubs in local area’s and talk to the locals, it was great to better understand how Japanese people lived day to day.

I’ve been really enjoying your videos and they’re making me miss living in Japan. Keep up the videos! And if you ever have like an online session of talking to people with like an AMA or something, I’d gladly come by and attempt to use my conversational level of Japanese to ask you some questions ^-^


I do occasionally refresh my Japanese でも
日本語はちょっと難しいですね-

[the_learner]

Anming, terrific video. Hopefully I can one day speak Chinese as a well as you--and I am Chinese!