Volcanoes! 火山 - 妈妈老师 (Mum teacher) (best for upper beginners/pre-intermediate) · TrustyChinese

Volcanoes! 火山 - 妈妈老师 (Mum teacher) (best for upper beginners/pre-intermediate)

I’ve recently discovered this YouTube channel aimed at supporting children with learning Chinese in an immersive way. It’s great immersion for beginners + pre-intermediates and a good way to expose yourself to other Mandarin accents (they speak with a southern accent).

For beginners:

Listen for key words e.g. like / is / what / have / good etc.

Learn some words from the list below, then listen again.

For upper beginners/pre-intermediates:

Listen to see how much you understand.

Listen to see how many words from the list you can hear.

Learn the words from the list.

Listen again to see if you can understand more.

Practice shadowing with some key words/phrases to practice intonation + tones.

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This video shows a mum and her daughter creating a volcano experiment 🌋 at home and narrating the process to the audience.

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That said, there are no subtitles to support listening and the characters are in traditional Chinese. So, I have prepared a list of key words for you with pinyin, English + simplified characters.

This way you can learn some key words and enjoy some brilliant Mandarin immersion! 😊🎧📝.

Leave a comment/like to let me know if you liked it and I’ll post more in the future!

妈妈 mā ma - mum

老师 lăo shī - teacher

同学 tóng xué - classmate

火山 huǒ shān - volcano

实验 shí yàn - experiment

一起 yī qǐ - together

学习 xué xí - to study

大家好 dà jiā hǎo - hi everyone

今天 jīn tiān - today

做一个实验 zuò yī gè shí yàn - do an experiment