#ComprehensibleChinese

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Best Mandarin Comprehensible Input channel on Youtube

This woman has some kind of magical power (aka she's an incredible teacher) ! Even when I don't look at the subtitles and don't know half the words she's using, I can still get a sense of what she's talking about and even understand words in context !! She's doing an incredible job so go check her channel out !

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Mandarin Comprehensible Input, how many hours total of youtube lessons, and some other notes:

I found this site https://ytexplore.com/ that lets you find the total hours of video on a youtube channel or playlist, so I went through several Mandarin comprehensible input channels to see how much content they had. I looked through the Comprehensible Input wiki for these channels, and tried to pick channels that had more content and less non-target language used in their videos.

Comprehensible Input Youtube Channels At least some lessons on these channels are suitable for beginners, upper beginners, and intermediate learners.

Lazy Chinese https://www.youtube.com/@comprehensiblechinese Total hours of video: 25.80

Acquire Mandarin https://www.youtube.com/@acquiremandarin Total hours of video: 23.08

Blabla Chinese https://www.youtube.com/@blablachinese7526 Total hours of video: 46.43

Comprehensible Mandarin https://www.youtube.com/@ComprehensibleMandarin Total hours of video: 181.10

ALG Mandarin Online on Magic Ship https://www.youtube.com/@ALGMandarin Total hours of video: 104.92

Jiayun Mandarin https://www.youtube.com/@JiayunMandarin Total hours of video: 3.42

Simply Chinese https://www.youtube.com/@SimplyChinese Total hours of video: 1.76

Story Learning Chinese with Annie https://www.youtube.com/@annieluo1307 Total hours of video: 25.97

You Can Chinese 语感中文 https://www.youtube.com/@youcanchinese3992 Total hours of video: 12.37

CommonsenseChinese https://www.youtube.com/@CommonsenseChinese Total hours of video: 7.32

Comprehensible Taiwanese Mandarin https://www.youtube.com/@ComprehensibleTaiwaneseM-cd3rg Total hours of video: 3.44

Jun - Stickynote Chinese https://www.youtube.com/@Stickynote.Chinese Total hours of video: 4

Little Fox Chinese - Stories & Songs for Learners (Little Fox Chinese also has graded readers on their website https://chinese.littlefox.com/en) https://www.youtube.com/@LittleFoxChinese Total hours of video: 171.90

If you watch all of the content above, you'll have watched: 611.51

Children's Cartoon Channels The content is audio-visual and children's cartoons tend to mostly be language about things going on in the story, so it can be used by beginners if they need more visual content. Probably more suitable for intermediate learners.

Peppa Pig Mandarin (165 videos) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIBGRuWcCrZ7cuLwdQN9kqmxyUmZcN-jt&feature=shared Total hours of video: 14.64

简中 Little Chinese Learners [Simplified Chinese] https://www.youtube.com/@littlechineselearnerssimpl4680 Total hours of video: 12.41

熊熊乐园 Boonie Cubs Full show playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4egc7s5z_o&list=PL7Mo6zwP_iN2dpTb78hAzfGnDWHiW99NB Total hours of video: 11.71

Shimajiro Qiao Hu Full show playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMyYSBfFp63EKlH__aaASmIHtaCYtyKec Total hours of video: 29.80 hours

Total hours of all listed cartoon channel playlists: 68.56 hours

Additional resources that can be used as comprehensible input once a learner is upper beginner or intermediate:

Some of these have english in the transcripts or on the videos, just use as a listening resource if you are trying to do purely comprehensible input. Also, some of the spotify podcasts have some episodes locked for only people paying membership.

Maomi Chinese Podcast https://open.spotify.com/playlist/17W0woUfmMw4mpSZIAlWvG

Learn Chinese Through Stories Podcast (The easiest episode names start with 1, then 2 as more difficult, then 3) https://open.spotify.com/show/04re9FvL1xviHGWvXKoAhZ

Learn Chinese Through Vlogs https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLToqbzfhNVNqwSTxzmT9idncllckh25Zg Total hours on youtube: 1.1 hours

Talk Taiwanese Mandarin with Abby, Intermediate Chinese Podcast (HSK 4-5+ / TOCFL BAND A-B) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIy2zw_HVkZ9wFezMg_fW_2b70ktYXjvb Total hours on youtube: 18.36 hours

Talk Taiwanese Mandarin with Abby, Upper Intermediate - Advanced Chinese Podcast (HSK 5-6 +/TOCFL Band B - C) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIy2zw_HVkZ_WjG8vBVOHIdbpTJ9nefNH Total hours on youtube: 9.71 hours

Mandarin Corner Audio Podcasts https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7VdqFXO0LzfkppQUNIgbd7hSrYsRJHFn Total hours on youtube: 35.73

Chinese with Da Peng Podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/4Xgf5VBTn1azv5yFOX1EPI

TeaTime Chinese Podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/6mJNegfDGmNaG1mWJtZJed https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhRGJL8iF6uQ3-R-HRblNT2fMd-OoMfJi Total hours on youtube: 28.13 hours

Talk to Me in Chinese Podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/31VvYsaas7ijlHhR2dqB25

Chinese Podcast with Shenglan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUy2LT9PiME&list=PLiciRgVuKV1AXFuGYkHSBp3ENbiNfzGq1 Total hours on youtube: 30.44 hours

Dashu Mandarin Podcast https://www.youtube.com/@dashumandarin/ Total hours on youtube: 198.35 hours

For curiosity's sake I ran some other comprehensible input lesson youtube channels through ytexplore.com to see the hours of content they have.

Comprehensible Japanese Total hours of video: 28.33 hours (Comprehensible Japanese has a website that has more videos for a subscription)

French Comprehensible Input Total hours of video: 153.38 hours

Dreaming Spanish Total hours of video: 190.41 hours (Dreaming Spanish website subscription has more hours of content)

Comprehensible Thai (Out of all the channels I looked up, this comprehensible input channel has the most hours of lessons by far and the only one where I can see a learner using just this and then content made for native speakers once they understand enough. The other channels I looked at either have way too little content on their own to get to 1000-1500 hours, or require a paid subscription to get close to enough hours of lessons) Total hours of video: 1,254.92 hours

Comprehensible Russian Total hours of video: 50.18 hours