{"id":13692,"date":"2019-11-22T13:27:26","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T13:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/?p=13692"},"modified":"2019-11-22T13:27:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T13:27:26","slug":"mandarin-chinese-listening-practice-recommended-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/mandarin-chinese-listening-practice-recommended-films\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandarin Chinese Listening Practice: Recommended Films"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">It&#8217;s a simple language learning principle, but many people overlook it for some reason: If you want to learn to speak a language, you must<span>&nbsp;<\/span><em>hear<\/em><span>&nbsp;<\/span>it a great deal to become fluent. Babies and toddlers spend quite awhile listening and absorbing sounds before they become natural to them. Why shouldn&#8217;t we&mdash;especially since we may not have any choice in the matter. To wit: During my first year living in China, I couldn&#8217;t get a decent Chinese sentence to come out fluently for nearly six months&#8230;and I was trying<span>&nbsp;<\/span><em>hard<\/em>. And then one day my brain seemed to say, &quot;OK, that&#8217;s enough input; let&#8217;s start<span>&nbsp;<\/span><em><strong>talking<\/strong><\/em>, Baby!&quot; (My brain is kind of weird that way.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">If you can&#8217;t go live wher Mandarin is spoken natively, you might start your listening practice by watching Mandarin language films that are subtitled in your native language.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">I&#8217;ve provided a decent starter list for you just below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3530406317\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a simple language learning principle, but many people overlook it for some reason: If you want to learn to speak a language, you must&nbsp; hear&nbsp; it a great deal to become fluent. Babies and toddlers spend quite awhile listening and absorbing sounds before they become natural to them. Why shouldn&#8217;t we&mdash;especially since we may not have any choice in the matter. To wit: During my first year living in China, I couldn&#8217;t get a decent Chinese sentence to come out fluently for nearly six months&#8230;and I was trying&nbsp; hard. And then one day my brain seemed to say, &quot;OK, that&#8217;s enough input; let&#8217;s start&nbsp; talking, Baby!&quot; (My brain is kind of weird that way.)<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2855,2853],"tags":[151,157,159],"class_list":["post-13692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pronunciation","category-spoken-chinese","tag-mandarin","tag-mandarin-chinese","tag-mandarin-language"],"views":262,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}