[English]
hello everyone
I am Che Lizi
Long time no see
How are you guys doing lately
So today’s video is not a vlog
Today’s video
I want to sit down and have a chat with you all
The question I have been asked the most in recent years
That’s why you can understand
YouTube Chinese teacher’s video
Why you can understand in class
What the Chinese teacher said
But you don’t understand
Chinese spoken by ordinary Chinese
I think since four years ago
I made a video about listening
I have been asked this question hundreds of times
Many students don’t understand
why they listen well in class
But when they come to China
Or chat with Chinese friends
Then they suddenly discovered
that their hearing had become zero again
In fact, from the time I first started teaching Chinese to now
it may have been five or six years in total
In fact, I don’t have much experience
So what I can tell you is
You can’t understand ordinary Chinese people speaking
But you can understand Chinese teachers
There are two reasons for this problem
From my experience
There are two reasons
First of all, the first reason I want to tell you
comes from a theory
It was when I was studying linguistics with a very good English teacher recently
He told me
In my linguistics course
The teacher told me
There used to be a linguist
He proposed a theory
The Chinese name of this theory is comprehensible input
What about in this theory
He analyzed
He said a lot
Methods that should be paid attention to in language learning
In this
there is a method of how to practice your listening
In his theory
He said that if a language learner
should practice his listening very well
Practice your listening very efficiently
There are four There are four aspects
The first aspect is also the most important aspect
That is, the practice you hear should be understandable
What does understandable mean
Understandable means that you understand
After you listen
You understand what he is saying
Then this is understandable
If you listen to a conversation
If you can't understand a word
then this is not a very good listening exercise
A very good listening exercise
For you
it should be 80% or 90% of the parts you understand
There may be only 5% to 10% of the parts you don't understand
Then this will actually better help you understand
and learn new words
So this is the most important part
The understandable part
That's why
Everyone can understand the teacher's words when taking Chinese class
...
Because when taking Chinese class
Chinese teacher
He will deliberately simplify what he wants to say
That is, it should be possible to use more difficult words
or speak it in a more authentic way
Chinese teachers have made it simpler
We usually use words or grammar that students can understand at their level
to communicate with them
In fact, after I have been a Chinese teacher for five or six years
I also found that
what I say slowly becomes simpler and simpler
I will no longer say many complex sentences
or very long sentences
I will turn them into short sentences
Speak in small sentences
The average Chinese
If he is not a language teacher
then he should not understand
how to speak his own language simply
how to explain a word simply
how to turn a long sentence
into small sentences and speak
Not to mention that they may not have the patience
Life is so busy now
Everyone is anxious to speak out
They don't have jobs like language teachers
They spend a lot of working time to teach students slowly
Slowly input the language they should hear
So this is the first reason why everyone
understands what the Chinese teacher says
but cannot understand ordinary Chinese people
Then say a little more
According to the theory of this linguist
Then you can go to
and try to find listening materials that suit you
Listening exercises that suit you
For example, the first point he said
You need to find listening materials that you can understand
For example, if you are still in HSK1
Then you listen to HSK1
Or listen to some HSK2 content
Don't listen to the content of HSK3 or HSK4
This is a very effective listening exercise
Some students may be anxious
When learning HSK1
they have already started to listen to the content of HSK5
But in fact, this is a waste of time
and does not help at all
Then the second point
This linguist proposed
If you want to practice your listening
Then you should choose interesting listening exercises
instead of some boring
very uninteresting listening exercises
He said that only when you are listening to interesting content
you will not realize that you are doing listening exercises
because your brain is listening
but at the same time attracted by the interesting material
You will not feel tired
You will be natural
It is natural to learn this language
So when you are looking for listening exercises
you can look for more interesting ones
For example, if you like watching TV series
then watch TV series
If you like listening to podcasts
then listen to podcasts
Listening to music is also good
I have students
I learned some from the lyrics of music
Very important grammar
So look for the material you are interested in and listen to it
Make yourself happy first
Then study
The third point
This linguist also said
When you are looking for listening exercises
you should notice that its content should be very rich
What does rich mean?
Rich means that it is not just one topic
There is not just one style
He has many topics
For example, there are topics about school
Hospital topics
Work topics
Going to the amusement park topics
Travel topics
Its content is very rich
If you only listen to one topic
That's really
In fact, it is not helpful for your new word learning
For example, when some students practice listening
they only listen to the listening materials in their textbooks
Some students study HSK books
Then all their listening exercises are HSK
Some students study, for example, developing Chinese
Then all their listening exercises are to develop Chinese
He does not listen to other things
Then we all know these textbooks
These textbooks
In fact, it is an old textbook many years ago
An old textbook
Many of the words we need now
cannot be found in these textbooks
And many of the words in these textbooks
We don't often speak them now
So find a rich material
Practicing your listening is the most important
There are many resources now
Everyone can find it
For example, YouTube podcasts
What about when I am in class
I usually look for Chinese vlogs in that country according to which country the students are from
and then listen to the vlogs of Chinese people in that country
for these students
Why
Because on the one hand
these students (slip of the tongue) are actually very familiar with the places in the video
these scenery
these cultures
What's second?
When they listen to Chinese people speaking Chinese,
they can quickly connect the words they heard
with this thing.
This way, for their listening practice,
it will not be tiring
and it will be interesting.
They can also listen to and see how Chinese people go, uh,
and how they travel in their country.
So this is one of my favorite exercises for students
which is to find some vlogs of Chinese people in that country based on their country
and then listen to them
...
so that students feel not tired but also interesting
And the last point
This linguist also said
Listening practice should be a lot
What does a lot mean?
A lot means a lot
Many, many
That's why
Many students suggested that I make a TikTok short video
It might only be one minute
But the reason why I haven't made many short videos
is because I think every useful listening exercise
after I have been working on YouTube for four years
should be around 10 to 15 minutes
If it is 20 minutes
That's better
So I think listening practice should be a lot
It shouldn't be just a one-minute short video
Because one minute is not enough time for a topic
For a topic
...
And it will also greatly affect your concentration
Yes
Some students may watch short videos.
I saw a short Chinese video and watched it for one minute.
Then the next short video changed to English
The next short video changed to another language
Actually
this is not very helpful to what we call immersive language learning
...
If you want to really improve your listening practice
You should listen to 10 minutes
15 minutes 20 minutes of video
Sometimes 40 minutes of TV series are not impossible
Give it a try
Then this is the comprehensible input of this linguist
Give us some suggestions for learning language and practicing listening
Now that we have finished talking about the linguist’s theory
Now let’s talk about Che Lizi’s experience
In fact, many advanced students
also find that
they still can’t understand what ordinary Chinese people say
For example, I have an HSK5
No, I have a lot of HSK5 students
You see their level is actually very high
Starting from HSK5
they have to learn written language
So this level is actually very high
But when I talk to them
I find that many students
can’t even hear the words of HSK1
So everyone must understand
You understand and listen.
This is two things
Two things
HSK5 students
He can understand the words of HSK1234
But he may not be able to understand the words of HSK1234
Why is this
This is because
They may be learning these simple words
They read these words more
It's more about reading and writing by yourself
But they really don't hear this word many times
That's why they can read this word
They can also speak it
But in ordinary Chinese conversations
they can't hear it
In fact, many times
I say a very simple sentence to my students
...
I find that they can't hear it
Then I wrote this sentence down
When I wrote it down
they immediately understood what it meant
So I found that many high-level students
high-level students
still couldn't understand what ordinary Chinese people said
Mainly because they were not used to hearing ordinary words
not enough
and ordinary words
In different Chinese speaking methods
they also have different pronunciations
And we all know
There are different dialects in China
Different accents
So even if you have learned to a very high level
You have learned HSK5 HSK6
But these very simple sentences and new words
You have to listen to them several times
That's why
The reason why everyone can understand my video
Because in my video
most of the words I use
are words from HSK1 to HSK3
In fact
many students are already familiar with these words
They just need to listen again
Listen again
Listen again
So many students say
Hey Is this video of Che Lizi HSK5?
Why can I understand it even at HSK2 level?
This is because
I want everyone to practice listening to common new words more
I want everyone to listen to more common words
You also need to listen to the HSK123 words several times
So in my video
I will not only speak relatively high-level words
I will also say a lot of words that you have learned
but are not used to hearing
So my suggestion is
Even if you have learned HSK5 HSK6
, you must practice it repeatedly
Different Chinese people
Different Chinese teachers
For the expression of simple words
I have already said it very hard in today’s video
I hope everyone understands it.
Well, if you still have any hearing problems
You can write it down in the comments
Then this is what I want to say
We will see you next time, bye.
