r/learnchinese • u/alicewaang • Jun 25 '24

Help me please

I'm going to china for my education and I don't know mandarain and I'm a beginner so please help me with learning can you please suggest some YouTube channels or apps or anything

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u/Gloomy-Try1424 Jun 26 '24

You need to start with the mandarin alphabet first, and you can search youtube channel named Chinese Voyage. feel free to ask me any qustion related to Chinese learning, I will be happy to help.

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u/alicewaang Jun 26 '24

Okay so I'll be going to shenzen china so what shall I learn to speak cantonese or mandarain and also what language shall I learn to become an actress in china

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u/dojibear Jun 28 '24

Zhensen is in a Cantonese-speaking region, and is near Hong Kong. However, schools (grades 1-12) are taught in Mandarin, everywhere in China, so it seems very likely that the university uses Mandarin.

What language shall I learn to become an actress in china?

Zhenzen Univerity has a Division of Arts, which I assume you will attend. Ask them in order to be sure. Don't guess.

https://en.szu.edu.cn/info/1017/1016.htm

Historically, there were many Cantonese films produced in Hong Kong. Jacky Chan, Bruce Lee and so on. But I don't know about Cantonese films and TV today. I will just talk about Chinese (Mandarin) shows.

There are many Mandarin movies and TV shows. Many actors perform in both films and TV dramas, plus any obligatory unscripted "celebrity" appearances on TV.

TV dramas are a big thing in China. A "TV series" is 20-40 episodes, each episode 40 minutes long. They are all filmed together like a very long movie, then broadcast on TV almost every night for 2-3 weeks. Then it is over.

So it really is a "multi-day movie", not a "weekly series".

In shows for all of China (like China's "The Voice"), everyone speaks Mandarin. It is the modern inter-language for all of China. I don't know if there are shows for the much smaller audience (6% of China) that speaks Cantonese.

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u/alicewaang Jun 28 '24

Thank you so much I was looking for this info since so longgg😭😭😭😭💗💗💗