Comments on: How to use YouTube and other video platforms to learn Chinese https://www.hackingchinese.com/how-to-use-youtube-and-other-video-platforms-to-learn-chinese/ A better way of learning Mandarin Sun, 07 Dec 2025 05:02:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: 李 https://www.hackingchinese.com/how-to-use-youtube-and-other-video-platforms-to-learn-chinese/#comment-144004 Sun, 07 Dec 2025 05:02:33 +0000 https://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=18856#comment-144004 Touching on your point about downloading audio from YouTube. I use Grayjay – it’s free, the source code of viewable and has none of the invasive harvesting and selling of your data. It’s built on a model of trust and openness instead of the close sourced nature of YouTube’s own app. You don’t even need to be signed into a google account to watch and download YouTube videos and subscribe to channels. And perhaps more importantly the audio or video is downloaded without any DRM. It’s only available on Android and Linux though.

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By: Vinicius Rossi https://www.hackingchinese.com/how-to-use-youtube-and-other-video-platforms-to-learn-chinese/#comment-126815 Sat, 28 Dec 2024 23:28:11 +0000 https://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=18856#comment-126815 My favorite youtube channels (in this order):
1. Lazy Chinese
2. Chinese Mandarin Cherry
3. Story Learning Chinese with Annie
4. Xiaogua Chinese (from her I discovered hackchinese)
5. ShuoShuo Chinese

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By: Olle Linge https://www.hackingchinese.com/how-to-use-youtube-and-other-video-platforms-to-learn-chinese/#comment-124210 Sun, 13 Oct 2024 19:11:12 +0000 https://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=18856#comment-124210 In reply to Xiaowang.

Thank you for your recommendation! I’ve put her channel on my list. 🙂

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By: Xiaowang https://www.hackingchinese.com/how-to-use-youtube-and-other-video-platforms-to-learn-chinese/#comment-124197 Sun, 13 Oct 2024 12:41:22 +0000 https://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=18856#comment-124197 I like Chinese podcast with Shenglan on Youtube. She recently made a video about a neighbourhood in Changsha which was brilliant.

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By: Olle Linge https://www.hackingchinese.com/how-to-use-youtube-and-other-video-platforms-to-learn-chinese/#comment-123455 Fri, 27 Sep 2024 16:43:05 +0000 https://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=18856#comment-123455 In reply to Don Green.

Thank you! I’m interested in channels that don’t update too. Older content is sometimes better and most listener content ages quite well (unless it’s about news or current events, maybe). As long as the channel has more than a handful of videos, I’d be curious which you like, even if they don’t update. I’ve added the others to my list as well!

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By: Don Green https://www.hackingchinese.com/how-to-use-youtube-and-other-video-platforms-to-learn-chinese/#comment-123416 Thu, 26 Sep 2024 18:52:51 +0000 https://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=18856#comment-123416 My top youtube CI creators:
1. Lazy Chinese – her channel like graduated readers but for listening
2. Story Learning Chinese with Annie
3. Blabla Chinese Comprehensible Input
4. Mandarin Corner
5. Several good ones that are no longer updated….

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By: Olle Linge https://www.hackingchinese.com/how-to-use-youtube-and-other-video-platforms-to-learn-chinese/#comment-123289 Tue, 24 Sep 2024 12:11:37 +0000 https://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=18856#comment-123289 In reply to MPaz.

That sounds great, I’ll check them out! Dashu I know about, assuming it’s the same as the podcast, and I like that one a lot. Thank you for also explaining why you like these channels, as it’s sometimes not obvious at first glance (not in this case, just a general comment that it’s easier for me to evaluate something if I know why it was recommended to me).

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By: Olle Linge https://www.hackingchinese.com/how-to-use-youtube-and-other-video-platforms-to-learn-chinese/#comment-123288 Tue, 24 Sep 2024 12:09:39 +0000 https://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=18856#comment-123288 In reply to Oriol 包瑞尔.

Thank you! I had most of those on my list, but not all! I’ll make sure to check them when I write the follow-up article.

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By: Oriol 包瑞尔 https://www.hackingchinese.com/how-to-use-youtube-and-other-video-platforms-to-learn-chinese/#comment-123284 Tue, 24 Sep 2024 09:58:04 +0000 https://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=18856#comment-123284 Hello Chinese
Dashu Mandarin
Mandarin corner
Everyday Chinese
Chinese Mandarin Cherry
Chinese zero to hero

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By: MPaz https://www.hackingchinese.com/how-to-use-youtube-and-other-video-platforms-to-learn-chinese/#comment-123250 Mon, 23 Sep 2024 18:33:25 +0000 https://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=18856#comment-123250 I really like the content created by talkinchinese_redred on YouTube, she travels around china and uses daily vocabulary.

She also narrates some stories so you can find variety on her channel. I study intensevely like five minutes of her videos, and after that I just enjoy the content. Some of them have CC so you can easily study with chrome plugins.

I also like eazy mandarin and dashu mandarin, they create interesting content for intermediate/advanced students. In a good day I can understand some parts of some of their videos, but the level is just too high for me. I still enjoy them now and then, just not on a regular basis.

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