Using Movies to Learn Chinese

Whether you’re studying Chinese in Taiwan or anywhere else around the world sometimes you just get tired of serious studying.  Learning Chinese from movies is great way to relax while still continuing your studies.  You’re probably not going to become fluent solely from watching movies in Chinese but it’s a great way to enhance your Chinese language studies, give you break from more serious Chinese study, introduce you to some different Chinese vocabulary that you might not find in your Chinese textbooks and have fun while improving your language ability.

Let’s take a look at how you can learn Chinese by watching movies.

Why should you learn Chinese by watching movies?

1. Watching movies in Chinese can improve your listening skills. The actors in the movie are usually speaking native Chinese and it also gives you a chance to listen to different people speaking. Plus you aren’t only listening to the spoken Chinese, you can also see what’s going on in the movie. It’s much easier to follow a conversation in Chinese when you can actually see the action taking place at the same time.

2. Watching movies in Chinese helps to improve your pronunciation. You can learn how native Chinese speakers pronounce words and also follow the movie to practice your pronunciation. If you want, you can actually break the conversation down sentence by sentence or word by word and follow it to practice how to pronounce each word.

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3. Watching movies improves your speaking ability. By watching movies you can actually closely observe how native Chinese speak in daily life – or at least in the daily life represented in film.

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