 What's up guys, EvilDeer here. Welcome back to the channel. Okay, before I start the vlog in Mandarin Chinese, I just wanted to give you guys a little bit of information, especially if you're just learning here for the first time. The whole point of this vlog is not to flex my Chinese. I will say right now I am HSK2. I had to learn a whole heap of words and grammar points even to just say what I want to say in this vlog. And it took a lot of studying. I am not fluent in any way. The point of these vlogs is actually to force myself to start speaking this language and using it in ways that I haven't used it before. So in this video, I am going to try and tell you guys how I discovered Esperanto. So be prepared to hear some bad Chinese. Let's begin. 我就在一个叫 Singleton的小镇上那是澳大利亚新南卫尔市的一个偏远地区我真不喜欢那个地方太小了没有游去的商店没有女人因为无事可做我感到非常无聊我可以去酒吧玩电子游戏或者做一些有意义的事情我决定学习富有成效的事情但是我还不知道学习什么事情我一直想说不只一种语言但是学习哪种语言所有我问周围人我该学习哪种语言他们都见你我你该学习法语法语是一种古老帝国的语言并且仍然很重要我觉得它是一个很好的主意我开始学习法语不久之后我发现了一个问题法语有太多无声字母法语是一种愚蠢并不合逻辑的语言我真不喜欢我很快就停止了学习我很沮丧然后当我对工作感到厌倦时我决定去看维基百科我常常喜欢阅读维基百科那天我偶然发现了一篇关于世界语的文章我觉得世界语是英文但是那篇文章说世界语是国际语言它也说世界语是1887年发明的一种语言真要去我觉得如果我最简单的语言都学不会那我就有什么语言都学不会了我会学世界语学解语那是我的经理世界语 oh my god that was extremely stressful for me if you like you guys know me well I I can deal with stress pretty good but that was that was stressful so let's talk about what I've actually learned from this exercise one it's highly stressful two you get really good at talking about a selected domain like a very specific topic I can confidently say right now if a Chinese person came up to me I could talk about Esperanto in Chinese at least the basics of it without getting too far in depth which is something one week ago there was no way in the world I could so would I recommend this method if you can deal with stress and you want to get really good at your language and probably quite fast this is a really effective method for like getting good at it I will say this about why it's good because you end up practicing over and over and over and especially if you give yourself a deadline like me which was the Wednesday to release a video this becomes highly effective because you're like you're smashing it non-stop because you want to make sure when you jump in front of that camera you got those words down pat now I'm going to say that about 50% of that vlog was rehearsed and 50% was spontaneous there was a lot of words that didn't make it into that vlog because they just didn't pop into my head at the time and about 50% was rehearsed because you know when you're walking along you practice talking about the same topic over and over and over it becomes almost like a dance you know you just kind of know what you want to say so it becomes almost like a just a rehearsal and like it just naturally comes out so when you see that vlog there was probably parts where you're like yeah I know he's spoken about that or he said that one sentence a lot and then there's other parts where it's like ah he's pretty iffy on that sentence because that was more the spontaneous stuff would I recommend this method totally yes to anyone who's brave enough to actually do this I find this was this has been way more effective than anything else I've done to learn Chinese so far and I plan to every Wednesday moving forward drop a video in Mandarin Chinese it may be short it may be long but I'm going to keep doing this because I feel like if I do this until like the end of the year into the beginning of next year I may actually be at a conversational level and Mandarin Chinese this was this was really uplifting for me so anyway if you guys like this video and you want to follow my journey like it sub to the channel share it around and I'll see you all in the next video