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Learning to speak Chinese is perhaps the hardest part about the language. In this video I go over some common mistakes that I myself made that you should avoid.

For pronunciation specifically, I recommend studying these three resources:

   • Master Chinese Tones | Pronunciation ...  
https://resources.allsetlearning.com/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standar...

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00:00 - Introduction
00:18 - Mistake 1: not starting with phonetics/pinyin
01:14 - Mistake 2 - thinking tones are "extra"
02:16 - Mistake 3 - focusing on speaking too early
03:09 - Mistake 4 - reading too much
04:28 - Conclusion