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Why I love 小红书

Learn all about 小红书 so you can use it for language immersion

As I mentioned in my previous blog, immersion is a big part of learning a language, and there are a lot of different ways to be immersed in Chinese language, but my favorite one is using 小红书 also known as  RED.

What is 小红书 ? 

Red/ 小红书  is a social media platform filled with interesting content and amazing creators, the topics range from book recommendations to celebrities, in 小红书 you can find everything you can imagine, in my opinion it is like a mix between Instagram and Pinterest and the best part is that everything is in Chinese. 

Why I use this App for language immersion

I like this App, because it's all in Chinese and the content is so diverse that it helps you learn new vocabulary and even some slang, you will be able to practice your reading and listening, because there are a lot of videos and most pictures have long captions.

Something that is important to know, is that you are not going to be able to understand everything, and that's okay, because most people that use this app are native Chinese speakers, and as learners we usually don't have the same amount of vocabulary, to fix this problem you will need to use a translator, I recommend using Pleco, and for long sentences 百度翻译 (Baidu Translator), and you can add those new words to Anki so that you can review them later. 

How to use 小红书

1) After downloading the app, the first thing that it would ask you is to sign up, you can use your  phone number (手機號豋人)   or  sign up with another app (其他登人方式), the only options are: QQ, Weibo and apple. I recommend using your phone number because it's easier.

2) After you chose one of the two options it will appear something that says: 登人後更精彩, then in case you chose to sign up with your number it will appear this 輸入手機號碼 in there you will write your phone number, under that you will see something that says 輸入驗證碼 and you will click the button that is right next to it,  this will send you a code through a message, then you just need to add the code to where it says.輸入驗證碼, and finally you will click the big red button and after that you will have your account. 


3) Then you can personalize your account, just click on 編輯資料 and in will open another page where you are going to be able to add your name, a profile picture and more. The following vocabulary will be useful to personalize your profile:

名字: name / 小紅書號: Red account number  /性別: gender /生日: birthday /地區: district or region / 職業: profession / 學校: school / 簡介: brief introduction/ 背景圖: background image.


4) Finally I recommend you to choose some of your interests, in the main screen you will see a bar on the top and in there you are going to see options that range from 旅行 (travel) to 美甲 (to have your nails done) just select the topics you are interested in, so you can see more of that content.

In this App you can create boards just like you do on Pinterest, if you like a post just click on the star, and it will give you the option to create a board. 

For your main screen, the following vocabulary will be useful: 推薦: recommended/ 视频: video/ 直播: live 

My favorite thing to do inside this app, is watching video blogs about people's everyday life, I find it interesting and the vocabulary is useful, you can find them by looking up 日常vlog. 

I hope you find this post useful, and if you have any other question feel free to DM me or write a comment down below.

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