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Mandarin Chinese is one of the hardest languages in the world for a native English speaker to learn.

It's ranked as an FSI category 5 language, which is the hardest category.

In this video, I'm going to share with you how I taught myself Mandarin Chinese in six months.

This method is how I've gone from being practically a beginner

to passing my HSK -4 Chinese proficiency exam with 99 %

and also being able to have basic conversations with my native chinese friends this method is fully self -taught

so you don't need a teacher

and you don't need to join a class it's really low budget

and finally this method can be done from pretty much anywhere

in the world from the comfort of your own home

and there's no need to buy tickets to china just yet

if you're new here my name's izzy i'm a medical student

at cambridge university currently on a gap year learning mandarin

and also working with a health tech startup on this channel

we talk about designing lifestyle systems to stay happy healthy and efficient while studying let's get into the video.

To start, I'd just like to say two things.

Firstly, my Chinese is far from perfect.

I still have a lot to learn and secondly, I'm not an expert.

I don't teach languages.

I am just me

and today I'm just sharing with you what worked very well for me personally in the hopes

that it might help you as well.

So firstly, I'm going to talk about my process for planning and secondly, I'll move on to the key resources that really helped to improve my Mandarin.

Also, I just wanted to say that during these six months of me learning Chinese, I was learning very intensely.

I would be studying Chinese for between four to six hours per day

and you can obviously take it at your own pace there's no rush it's not a competition

so firstly we need to remember

that learning Mandarin is a marathon not a sprint this means

that we need to plan prioritize

and also stick to our motivations for learning the language at

the outset ask yourself what your motivations are to learn I

wrote down my motivations in my bullet journal as always

which is my favorite productivity tool

and whenever I felt like I was losing motivation I would

take a look at my reasons to learn mandarin page in my bullet journal

and this would help me to get back on track at

the outset you also want to define your language learning goals

so for me personally this was conversational competence digital literacy

and also passing my hsk4 exam just as a personal milestone

for me by defining your aims at the outset this means

that you can more efficiently prioritize your time and target the exact areas

that you need to improve to reach your goals For me, that meant working mostly on speaking, listening and reading, and also writing, but only by typing on a keyboard,

whether that was on my laptop or on my phone, because actually I realised that for myself, I wasn't interested in learning to actually handwrite Mandarin Chinese,

as this would probably double the time it would take me to learn vocabulary

and not really add very much to my communicative competence.

With all of this information, I of course made a big old Excel spreadsheet to plan and track my progress with my Mandarin.

When you're making your master plan, remember that a little bit every day is much better than a big huge session once per week,

as this gives your brain time to integrate what you've learned each day while you're sleeping at night.

So now moving on to the main resources that really supported and bolstered my learning.

The backbone to my learning, which really gave me a lot of structure, was the HSK curriculum.

HSK stands for which basically means Chinese level exam, so Chinese proficiency exam essentially,

and this is the official standard that they use in China.

I got copies of the HSK standard course textbooks and workbooks

and I worked through these systematically starting from HSK 1 to HSK 4.

The HSK standard course has all of the vocab, the grammar points, a few dialogues and exercises for to work on and i found

that it gave me a really nice structured way to go

about my chinese learning they also come with listening cds or

if you're like me

and you don't have a cd player then you can find them on youtube as well for me personally

when i was using these textbooks i would listen to each

dialogue first try to understand it just by listening then i would read the text

and try to understand all the characters and look up any

that i didn't understand and then finally i would look the translation of the text.

For HSK 1 to 3 I just used the textbooks and workbooks alone and I would just read through them myself, work through all the exercises, but then

when I reached HSK 4 I decided to invest a little

bit more in my Chinese learning since I was spending

so much time on it and

so I bought the Chinese Zero to Hero HSK 4 video course

which is essentially a series of videos following the HSK standard course

which explains each grammar point

and each dialogue point in a little bit more detail to

help you understand it more i personally think it's really good value

and very much worth it although i think that

if you're on a tight budget this is completely optional

and you don't need it to do well in your hsk

or to learn chinese it's just a nice addition my second favorite resource was anki decks

so i absolutely love anki for learning pretty much anything and

if you're not familiar with anki anki is spaced repetition software

which makes use of active recall spaced repetition

and active recall are both evidence -based ways to maximize the efficiency of memorizing literally anything.

Using Anki for this makes it really efficient

because the software automatically calculates the next time you need to review

or actively recall a fact or a word or vocabulary

and this means that you don't waste any extra time going over things that you actually already remember.

I used two Anki decks for my Chinese learning.

One was simply all the characters that I wanted to learn for my HSK4 exam

which I set to learning 10 new characters per day

and the second one was full sentences

that would come up on the flashcard along with audio of a native speaker reading it out

and also all the characters along with using the ankidek for

learning characters i also needed a chinese dictionary in order to understand any new words i didn't know

and put them in context with example sentences there were two chinese dictionary apps

that i would recommend the first one is pleco this one's amazing

and the second one is hanping which integrates with the ankidek

that i was using the third key resource is finding language buddies

or native speaker friends who you can practice speaking with for

me personally i had a few native speaker friends who i could practice with two websites

that i used to find my language exchange buddies were italki where there's a community section

and a website called language .exchange there are plenty of others

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out there as well i'll leave a link in the description for mandarin

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if your language buddies are in mainland china it may be worth installing wechat

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so i use wechat for most of my language exchanges simply

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because pretty much everyone in China has WeChat so it just made sense.

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Just do remember that little and often is better

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so try to have short sessions more frequently if possible

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and remember that your language body can also help you with your grammar or correcting any of your exercises as well.

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The fourth main category of resources I used were comprehensible inputs.

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These were to practice my listening primarily and they include tv, movies, music, podcasts.

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The term comprehensible input refers to language that is intelligible to us

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so we can understand the meaning but we don't fully understand every single word or grammar structure that's used.

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This is such a great way to supercharge your language acquisition

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because you will naturally pick up these words and grammar points as you listen to these comprehensible inputs over and over again.

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Much like how a baby would learn a language.

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TV shows that I would recommend for people who are beginning would be things like Peppa Pig

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or other children's shows which have very clear pronunciation and excellent grammar

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because it's actually designed to help kids learn i would also

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highly recommend a chrome extension called language learning with netflix

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which lets you watch shows with two sets of subtitles one set in your target learning language

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and one set in your native language

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so for me i'd be watching cheesy chinese dramas with both chinese subtitles

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and an english translation at the same time which meant

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that i could watch the shows

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and kind of mostly rely on the chinese subtitles along with the Chinese speaking

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and then if there wasn't something I was sure about I can pause and read the English subtitles as well.

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I would also listen to Chinese podcasts or music at any opportunity that I got.

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I had loads of podcasts that I listened to but two that I really loved were Chinese pod and chill chat.

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So those are all my top tips on how to learn Mandarin Chinese by yourself at home on a budget.

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Overall just remember to enjoy the process.

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Ultimately language learning is about having fun and developing new skills that you can communicate with others.

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As Confucius himself said it does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

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So keep at it ,加油!

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If you'd like to see more language learning content please leave me a comment below and

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if you enjoyed this video I think you might enjoy this

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playlist over here with lots of tips on how to stay happy, healthy and efficient while studying.

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I actually used a lot of these tips while I was learning Mandarin.

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Thank you so much for watching, take care of yourself and remember that the journey is the destination.

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Good luck!

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このレッスンの語彙とスピーキングのポイント

このB2レベルのスピーキングレッスンは、動画「How I learned Mandarin Chinese in 6 months *self-taught at home*」を教材にしています。繰り返し出てくる語は次のとおりです：chinese, learning, language, hsk, mandarin。この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が137文、単語が1762語あります。音声の長さは8:33です。話す速さは速く、1分あたり約206語です。音のつながりや弱く発音される音が多くなります。単語の82%は英語の頻出3,000語に含まれます。残りは練習の前に確認しておきましょう。

この動画の重要語彙

動画の中で特に難しい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語	発音	意味
grammar 名詞	/ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/	文法
subtitle 名詞	/ˈsʌbtaɪtəl/	字幕
comprehensible 形容詞	/kɒmpɹəˈhɛnsɪbəl/	理解できる
firstly 副詞	/ˈfɜɹstli/	先ず, 第一に
textbook 名詞	/ˈtɛkst.bʊk/	教科書, テキスト
podcast 名詞	/ˈpɑdˌkæst/	ポッドキャスト
prioritize 動詞	/pɹaɪˈɒɹ.ə.taɪz/	優先させる
proficiency 名詞	/pɹəˈfɪʃənsi/	上達, 習熟度
repetition 名詞	/ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/	繰り返し, 反復
workbook 名詞	/ˈwɝk.bʊk/	練習帳, ワークブック
vocabulary 名詞	/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/	語彙, 語彙力
secondly 副詞	/ˈsɛk.(ə)ndli/	第二に
dictionary 名詞	/ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/	辞書, 字書
flashcard 名詞	/ˈflæʃˌkɑɹd/	教材用のカード, フラッシュカード
memorize 動詞	/ˈmɛm.əˌɹaɪ̯z/	記憶する, 覚える

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語	発音	意味
look up 動詞	/ˌlʊk ˈʌp/	見上げる
pick up 動詞		拾う, 拾い上げる
write down 動詞		書き留める, 記す

この動画の文法

話し手がよく使っている文型を、動画の実際の表現とともに紹介します。

文型	動画での表現
関係詞節 who / which + 節 — 人や物について情報を加える	language, which is · friends who you · friends who i
現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係している	I've gone · you've learned
受動態 be + 過去分詞 — 誰がするかより、何が起きるかに焦点を当てる	can be done · is spaced

注意したい発音

話し手はdon't, you're, I'mなど、短縮形や弱形を29回使っています。聞こえたとおりの短い形で発音しましょう。

「sh」と「zh」の音: proficiency /pɹəˈfɪʃənsi/, repetition /ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/, dictionary /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/, conversational /ˌkɒnvə(ɹ)ˈseɪʃənəl/, flashcard /ˈflæʃˌkɑɹd/
長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: comprehensible /kɒmpɹəˈhɛnsɪbəl/, prioritize /pɹaɪˈɒɹ.ə.taɪz/, proficiency /pɹəˈfɪʃənsi/, repetition /ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/

日本語話者が苦手な音：

/r/ と /l/ の区別 — /l/ は舌先を歯茎につけ、/r/ はどこにもつけない: comprehensible /kɒmpɹəˈhɛnsɪbəl/, firstly /ˈfɜɹstli/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, conversational /ˌkɒnvə(ɹ)ˈseɪʃənəl/, flashcard /ˈflæʃˌkɑɹd/
/v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, communicative /kəˈmjuː.nə.keɪ.t̬ɪv/, conversational /ˌkɒnvə(ɹ)ˈseɪʃənəl/, productivity /ˌpɹɒdʌkˈtɪvəti/
/f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: firstly /ˈfɜɹstli/, proficiency /pɹəˈfɪʃənsi/, flashcard /ˈflæʃˌkɑɹd/

この動画での練習方法

まず声を出さずに動画を最後まで聞き、知らない単語をメモします。
まず0.75倍速で一文ずつシャドーイングし、慣れてきたら通常の速度に戻します。
自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。grammar, subtitle, comprehensibleなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。

シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由

シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。

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この動画での練習方法

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