200. Play the Understanding Game & Win Fluency

Phil here. In this week’s episode, I explore the idea of "playing to understand" when it comes to language acquisition. I believe that instead of focusing on memorization and knowledge about a language, we should adopt a more childlike attitude and focus on playing an understanding game to learn Chinese. By doing so, we can achieve real fluency and understand language patterns on a deeper level. I also emphasize that understanding does not equal memorization and that our brains are wired to extract patterns from languagess 🔴 Subscribe for more free Mandarin Chinese training: https://www.youtube.com/@MandarinBlueprint?sub_confirmation=1 _____________________________________ ✅ WATCH THESE NEXT Master THIS Emotion to Reach Fluency ▶▶ https://youtu.be/9ytfqwfFgAg TWO daily actions that will get you fluent▶▶https://youtu.be/yc5wf-ktb7I How To Develop An UNBREAKABLE Chinese Study Habit ▶ ▶ https://youtu.be/c_VzkF8GzbU _____________________________________ ✅ FREE RESOURCES What type of Chinese learner are you? Take this 2-minutes quiz to find out now! ▶▶ https://mandarinbp.com/quiz Subscribe to the Mandarin Insights Newsletter ▶▶ https://mandarinbp.com/newsletter Free course: "The Legends Of Language Learning" (interviews with experts): ▶▶ https://mandarinbp.com/LOLL Free Tone Pair Chart with audio flashcards ▶▶ https://mandarinbp.com/tonepairs 418 Phrases to sound more fluent In Mandarin (with pdf and audio flashcards) ▶▶ https://mandarinbp.com/phrases Get our free study checklist: "How to Speak Fluent Mandarin" ▶▶ https://go.mandarinblueprint.com/fluent-chinese-checklist Blog: Useful articles on Mandarin Chinese posted regularly ▶▶ https://mandarinbp.com/blog Podcast: Luke & Phil diving into everything Mandarin-related ▶▶ https://mandarinbp.com/podcast ___________________________________ ✅ OUR COURSES All-Course Bundle: Get all of our courses as a bundle and save 40% ▶▶ https://www.mandarinblueprint.com/courses/bundle/ Pronunciation Mastery: ▶▶ https://www.mandarinblueprint.com/courses/chinese-pronunciation/ The Mandarin Blueprint Method: Our flagship course ▶▶ https://www.mandarinblueprint.com/courses/mandarin-blueprint-method/ Mandarin Immersion Masterclass: ▶▶ https://www.mandarinblueprint.com/courses/mandarin-immersion-masterclass/ Habit-Building Bootcamp: ▶▶ https://www.mandarinblueprint.com/courses/habit-building-bootcamp/ The Mandarin Blueprint CHALLENGE! - Achieve basic literacy in Chinese in 15 days: ▶▶https://www.mandarinblueprint.com/challenge _____________________________________ ✅ LET’S CONNECT Instagram ▶▶ https://www.instagram.com/mandarinblueprint Twitter ▶▶ https://twitter.com/mandarinbp Tiktok ▶▶ https://www.tiktok.com/@mandarinblueprint Facebook ▶▶ https://www.facebook.com/mandarinblueprint Pinterest ▶▶ https://www.pinterest.com/mandarinblueprint/ LinkedIn ▶▶ https://www.linkedin.com/company/mandarin-blueprint _____________________________________ ✅ CONTACT US We’ll get back to you within a few hours: contact@mandarinblueprint.com _____________________________________ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Thank you for your support 1:12 Phil explains playing the understanding game and how to adopt a more childlike attitude 4:24 Thomas Brand on How You’re Going to Get to Fluency 5:00 The one true hack to adult language learners in comparison to children learning languages 7:18 Understanding the Chinese language through thoughts and patterns 16:18 Masterofpowers by Email on the importance of immersion and with a warning on how SRS is for long term, not short term gains. 27:31 Phil breaks down Christopher Weeks’ Email discussing his tutor sessions and how his current biggest issue is grammar 36:00 Responding to Christopher’s email, Phil explains why input is the only thing that matters to help you solve grammatical problems 44:40 Jack Wyldeck by Email in response to MB villain series talking about the serpents of safety and staying in your comfort zones 46:29 Richard Ashbrooke by Email seeing if he could speed up his Mandarin learning by only focusing on reading and pronunciation and NOT writing characters 48:58 Stevie on What Next? The final lesson of Habit Building Bootcamp 52:22 Kevin Swan 凯文 on 大 in Context 54:56 Kyano Maddock on Vocab Unlocked from 层 57:47 Kevin Swan 凯文 on Level 1 - Navigating the Desert