200 Hour Lingopie Review

What's up, grinders? Welcome back to the channel. This is the 200h hour Lingo Pie review, update, whatever the [ __ ] you want to call this series, where I am taking my Mandarin Chinese from an intermediate level up to an advanced level using the service called Lingo Pie. What is Lingo Pie? For all of those of you out there who might be asking, Lingo Pi be basically the Netflix languages. You come here, you watch native content at various levels. You have subtitles in your target language, your native language, any romanization that might exist. You watch that content, you click on words you don't know, turn it into flashcards, practice those flashcards, and when you finally feel ready to interact with real living humans, you go over to the lessons tab, sign up for their tutoring service. That is Lingo Pie, and I have been testing Lingo Pie for the last 200 hours. Now, I need to stress this is a sponsored series, meaning that LingoPie are paying me to use their service to show all of you guys. That's right. I'm being paid essentially to learn Mandarin Chinese, which is just, I'm going to be honest, [ __ ] fantastic. Okay. Like, that's like every freaking language learner's wet dream. Yeah. We don't sit there in bed dreaming about other stuff. We sit there dreaming about languages. Yeah. Yeah. Freaking weird, I know, but that's what we do. Okay. Now, of course, by the end of this video, if you decide in some way or another that you want to also join the Lingo Pi wet dream service, uh, all you got to do is go down to the description and hit that affiliate link and hit join. Do not go to the URL and type in lingo.com. I will go over there and I will stab you with a rusty butter knife, okay? Because that means I get no money. There's an affiliate link. Go click on that, sign up through that, then I get monies and it helps me make more unhinged videos like this on YouTube, okay? And apparently Lingo Pie have informed me that my previous promo of 55% off for you guys is now actually 73% off, which is like absolutely amazing for all of you. But I'm pretty sure is terrible for me. I'm pretty sure that means I get less money because, [laughter] you know, you're getting more money OFF LESS MONEY. WHY AM I promoting this? Hugo, what are you doing to me, my man? Okay, anyway, let's get back to Lingo Pie and what I've done over the last 50 hours. Okay, so this here been my Lingo Pie pie chart. And I can tell you already it's inaccurate because I screwed up the numbers, but basically what I've done is I've done 63 hours of time spent with both Lingo Pie and Chinese. No, actually, no, that's 63 hours. Yeah, I can't even remember. Whatever. 75% of my time has been with Lingo Pie. Okay. And I've done, you know, like what is that? four hours of tutoring. Most of the time has been on the platform. The rest of that's been flashcards. And then I've done a bunch of stuff off platform, including a whole heap of production practice, which is me sitting there talking to myself like a freaking someone who's a little bit off the the clunker, okay? In in my backyard. If you want to see me doing that, you can go watch my vlogs. So, I have pretty much just been watching a whole content on Lingo. That that's it. I hope you guys enjoyed the video. See you in the next No, I'm joking. Okay. If you want to see my abilities right now, where they stand, watch until the end of this video. You'll see clips of me speaking with both natives and non-natives using the service. Now, on this service, I've spent most of my time on this series over the last 50 hours. You are my glory. As you can see, I'm up to episode 7. Does this mean that I have mined absolutely every single word in these videos? No, that's not what I do. Normally, what I do is I'll watch a video, I'll watch it through once, I'll get the general gist because my Chinese is at a level where I can get the general gist. And then I'll go back through and I'll mine the crucial keywords. And by mine, I lit I literally mean this. Okay, I'll show you. I'll just go click on a video >> and let's say let's say I'm over here, okay, and I see a word that I I don't know. Let's go like >> I don't know why I clicked on that cuz now that's a flash card. Okay, let's say I didn't know what senzai means, which means thou. Now, okay, so there that's it. You got a flash card. Boom. It's done. It's in your flash card deck. You don't have to do anything else. Welcome to the how easy it is to use lingo pie. Okay, now what I will do is go remove that because I do not want to be practicing how to say now in Chinese. So, the way you do that is you just go over to uh my learning. No, you go over to the practice session and then you find the word and then you can just go don't I could click mastered and that would make it look like I've mastered more words and technically I have mastered that word but not on Lingo Pi. So, let me just go delete that. Let's go delete. Okay, so that's pretty much how the service works. You just watch the show, click on words, practice the words. Uh, as you can see, I got like 600. I got to add some more in here. I'm currently learning a bunch of words. Pretty simple if you think about it. Okay, it's not that crazy. Now, if you have a look at what I've done over the last month in July, I pretty much spent every day on Lingo Pie doing either 2 hours of CI with, you know, looking up words randomly, uh, or I spent an hour also doing tutoring. But if you have a look right here, look at this, bros. Look at this. This is August. Look, I slacked off. What happened there? No, I did not slack off, okay? I should not be spreading false information, rumors about what happened. If you watch my previous vlogs, basically over the weekend, for some reason, I lost access to Lingo Pie and it was like suddenly I was no longer institutionalized into this service and I sat there in the dark cold room in the corner scratching at my arm like a freaking druggo just waiting for his hit to come back. But I had to wait until Monday cuz apparently Lingo Pie guys don't work on the weekends. Like I was emailing him go guys give me access back to Lingo Pie. What's going on here? And then I finally got access back today. So as you can see it destroyed my streak that I was working towards and it's all their fault. It's Lingo Pie's fault. Okay. And also, Lingo Pie, why have you NOT CHANGED THIS TO hours yet? Come on, guys. It's driving me out to Guys, let's see how high we can get this number by the end of the series. Maybe I'll get the number so long that it will break the UI of the website and it will pop past here and it will just be overlapping the UI over there. I think I'll need a lot more numbers, but like you never know. So, let's talk about controversy. Yes, evil deer and controversy. I know the two things don't go together, but there have been controversies. In the 150 hour update, I showed some clips of me talking in Chinese with one of my teachers on LingoPie. A bunch of you guys asked me, "Why am I always talking with a non-native, you know, at Lingo Pie?" But then I game with natives, okay? Uh it's because I just vibe with this guy. I get along with him. He's a cool dude and all. Okay. So, like we just chat about all sorts of random [ __ ] and he loves languages. I love languages. Like it's it's a [ __ ] match made in heaven. Okay. So, I was chatting with him and then there was a bunch of comments and then also in the Discord that went along the lines of something like this. Honestly, if you were to ask me out of context, who is the Chinese teacher, I would have thought it was Evil Deer, not the Lingo Pie guy. Do you see the controversy here? This comment has been repeated by a few different people in the comment section and in the Discord. And this actually goes to the heart of what I like to talk about on this channel. Okay, one thing that I've covered a lot on this channel is [ __ ] People faking their abilities. Okay, as you can see, I am hyper polyglamorous. I am not a bullshitter. So, I can talk to this having known the inner secrets of the witters because I'm now hyper polyglamorous. What they generally do is they get good at pronouncing a language or maybe they were just always good at it. And then to fake their abilities in multiple languages, if they're just good enough at pronouncing it, you just get a script. So, if I wanted to with my abilities in Mandarin Chinese, I could easily get a really, really complex script, memorize it over a week or two, make a video, and appear way better than I am because my ability to pronounce Mandarin is actually quite good for my level. In fact, I would say it's above the average. Now, I'm talking about pronunciation here. I'm not talking about my use of the language, grammar, you know, word stock, any of those things. I'm talking about pronunciation. I am actually quite good at tones overall. Although I do make mistakes and every now and then there's sound issues here and there, but that's true of any learner. Okay, that therefore makes me sound good. And when I'm in a conversation I'm comfortable in, I sound pretty damn good. But it's not representative of how good I actually am. Now, this is my teacher has the opposite problem. My understanding he's learned via books before he went to China and now he's at university in China. I believe he said he also teaches. I'm not too sure, but he's lived there for a number of years. His abilities in Chinese, his tones and stuff are not as good as my own. He makes more mistakes. Okay. However, he has a much much deeper understanding of the language than myself. He's HSK6 level. He's passed the test. He's had to for different reasons, okay, over there. So, he's definitely a lot better than myself. It's just his tones let him down. And I guess this is why I always stress on this channel, you guys need to focus on pronunciation first. Not to become super hyper poly glamorous such as myself or a hyper polyglot. It's because it becomes more and more difficult later down the track to improve it. Especially if you move the country and you start fossilizing that [ __ ] hard. Okay, you can always fix it, but it just becomes to the point where it's just more effort than it's worth. And if you put in that little bit of effort at the beginning working on the pronunciation, you won't have this problem later on. Now, I do want to stress that I highly appreciate all the kind comments about how [ __ ] awesome I am at Chinese UK, but I'm being honest. I'm only like a HSK 5 level, okay? Somewhere around that range. I don't know where because I never followed a formal system. I kind of just wing [ __ ] as I went along. Okay, but he's definitely HSK6 and probably above that because like he lives and teaches in China and you know he he doesn't have any family over there that he lives with. So, he does everything himself. He lives literally lives the language. And in fact, um I spoke with him. I'm going to China in like two months for any of you guys who are interested. I might actually be meeting up with him. So, that might be cool. I'll be making a video with him. He doesn't know about that, but um he probably knows about this now after watching this video if he watches this video. Anyway, I just wanted to kind of cover off on that because I never want to present an image that I am better than I actually am. Now, I also do see some comments in the comments section of people who like to stress that I'm way worse than I actually am. Like, people even think I'm way better or I'm way worse. No one just thinks I'm at the level that I'm at. Okay, for those who don't think I'm as good as I am, just watch the clips at the end of the video or join my membership and then you can go hate on my Chinese abilities where I'm playing with a native speaker. Okay, playing video games, mind you. Now, I want to talk about an interesting observation. Now, over the last 50 to 100 hours, I've noticed something. I think I'm starting to break through the intermediate plateau because if you've learned languages, there's multiple points where you progress fast and then you kind of feel like you're just sitting at a level for ages and then you progress fast level age. Like there's these moments of burst and then very very long periods of that feel like absolutely no progression. So I've been in that intermediate plateau with men and Chinese for quite a long time. But I have noticed over the last 50 hours that suddenly I'm starting to comprehend a lot more than I did before. And even my production is just naturally starting to come out better, even without me massively stressing it. So I feel like what's happening right now is I'm starting to break out of that intermediate plateau, which thank freaking god because I'm going to China in like a month and a like a bit and obviously I want to be able to explore the wilds there using the language. So, I will be continuing to smash Lingo Pie to get my Mandarin Chinese up to a better level for that trip. And yeah, that's pretty much where I'm at. Why do I have one flash card? You know what? This will be a great demo of the flash cards. Let's go do this one flash card. Okay, what is this? Yo, J. Oh, okay. So, that's just naive. There you go. Cool. There you go, guys. That's how it works. I should probably have shown you. You click the audio and you know that's you you see the words and everything. But yeah, someone also mentioned that there was another feature. there was like a practice speaking feature. Where is it? Um I don't know where it is. But anyway, I'm going to continue using the service obviously over the next 50 hours. I do want to stress that I've done uh less tutoring this time and this is not because of anything to do with the teacher. So do with the fact that Lingo Pie has been improving overall and they've got a lot more students in the Chinese class now. And most of those students are actually at a level that's like HSK 3 max, which means I spend a lot more time just sitting there listening to people, you know, bumbling their way through Chinese. Not to say that I'm amazing or anything. It's just less the time's not as efficiently spent by me sitting there listening to that. That's the downside of a group class, okay? Especially when everyone's at different levels. Hopefully, as they get more students, they'll open up more classes at different levels and then that will allow me to take part in more advanced classes once again. You'll see actually back here when I was doing Lingo Pie, I was doing it almost daily tutoring. And then I slowed down massively just due to that. I found it just to be less efficient. it was just better to just spend my time just watching content, mining words, or actually hanging out with native speakers um in real life playing video games as opposed to just doing these uh group classes. Again, if you're at like a advanced beginner level, I'm assuming the group classes be absolutely [ __ ] fantastic for you. And intermediate level, yeah, good. But once you start breaking through a little bit further, it's like, okay, everyone else is generally a lot lower, at least in the Chinese side of things. So, it's less value for me. But I guess that's a testament to the fact that this service has helped me a lot in my progression. Hopefully, Lingo Pi open up more advanced classes, guys. Guys, I hope you're watching. Please, more advanced classes. Okay, so what I'm going to do now is just give you a quick demo of my abilities. You'll see me in conversations with both natives and non-natives. Uh, and the first one is going to be a clip with the aforementioned teacher. Boom. Mhm. Great firewall. VPN. Um VPN. Oh, boy. YouTube. Okay, so as you can see, I'm just getting into more kind of free flowing conversations. I still have hiccups in my grammar. I still get like I still stumble from time to time, but I'm being able to be more expressive now, which is quite good. And now we're going to do gaming content. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Okay. Okay. Oh, okay. Whoa. Okay. >> Okay. So, as you can see, gaming wise, I'm actually pretty happy where I'm at at this point. Obviously, I can't be talking about like every topic, but I'm able to talk about gaming topics under pressure now, which is kind of fun in a lot of ways. And if you watch that clip, you literally would have seen me learning new words. like maybe not learning new words, but actually implementing new words from the encouragement of the person I was playing with in real time. Like I literally went from using one word to a different word based on the recommendation of the person I was playing with while I was playing. So I'm actually starting to learn while just enjoying the language now. Less so in a learning environment, more so just in a gaming environment. Okay, now I want to talk plans. This is where stuff's going to get insane. Okay, so over the next month I've got a lot of time off. Like I've got three weeks where I'm literally just going to be at home chilling. Okay, now you might be thinking, "Evil dear, does that mean you're going to be doing Lingo Pie for like eight hours a day?" I wish I could say yes, I was, but Lingo Pie asked me not to do 8 hours of Lingo Pie a day. They said that would just be too much. Okay, they don't want me 8 hours on their platform every day. There's various reasons for that. One being is they don't want a 50hour update like every single week, which makes sense. Okay. So, instead, I want you guys to drop some ideas down in the comments section. I got three weeks before I go to China. Okay. Well, three, actually, I got four weeks, but three weeks where I'm doing nothing. What should I do during those three weeks, including my two hours of Lingo Pie per day to improve my Mandarin Chinese? Let me know your thoughts down in the comments section. And then, obviously, I'm going to be in China for an entire month. Now, that obviously makes an impact on the Lingo Pie series, but realistically, who's going to learn a language and not go out there and try to use it in the real world? So, it will be obviously all recorded. In this series, you guys will see everything I'm doing. And if you want to get more behind the scenes stuff specifically about how I'm using Lingo Pie, how like when I'm traveling overseas, make sure you join the membership down below. It's freaking cheap. It's the cost of a coffee. You get tons more videos, okay? Chinese, Spanish, the whole goddamn works. Espirano, it doesn't matter. It's all there. Go hit that join button. And I hope you guys have enjoyed this video. If you have any specific questions about LingoPie, also please drop them down in the comment section. I will answer those in future videos. Uh because I always need more content, okay? You know, ask me your questions. I live and breathe this thing now. I don't know what your problems are, okay? Or what you're curious about. I'll see you all next video. And if you're not there, I will find you and I will take the most blunt butter knife that I have and I will shave your head with