learning chinese

2011年7月23日 星期六

Learn Chinese Fast With These Easy Tips


The Chinese language is widely spoken, especially in Asia, and learning it can be fun and useful. Of course, if you want to travel to China or other Chinese-speaking countries, it helps a lot to understand the language and not just rely on translations and rely on guides who will translate everything for you. Of course, a good knowledge of the language can also help you in your career or any other employment opportunities as well.

In these times when all people want everything fast and instant, you can also learn Chinese fast with some tips and techniques. Of course, you don't have to spend an entire semester mastering the conversational Chinese language. You can actually learn to speak Chinese in no time. If you are interested in the language, here are a few tips that may help you learn Chinese fast.

- Learn the spoken Chinese.

One challenge of learning the Chinese language is that, it is written differently from the Roman alphabet. In fact it does not use any Roman alphabets. However, you can help yourself to learn Chinese fast by starting with the system called Hanyu Pinyin. This system uses Roman alphabet to learn how to speak the Chinese language and as the sounds are found in the English language, it is much easier for you to learn to speak the language.

- Learn the tones.

Another important element of the language is the tone. In fact, there are a number of tones used in the language and this is very useful to help you learn how to say the language accurately. To learn Chinese, you have to master the high flat tone, the lowering tone, the dipping tone and the rising tone. Keep in mind that these pitch patterns can differentiate one word from another, thus it is important to master the tones as well. If you have a good ear, you will probably find this not that quite difficult however.

- Learn how to write Chinese.

This part can be challenging but of course, this can be learned. If you already know how to speak Chinese through Hanyu Pinyin, you can also start learning how to write Chinese by learning the basics of their alphabet and memorization of course. Learning them by hand is one of the effective ways to learn the characters accurately and you can start by learning the basic elements called radicals and learning the stroke order as well. You may need to have a good teacher in this part of learning to help you learn fast. You can also find a lot of learning tools to help you learn fast and easy. You can find workbooks for children where you can also learn to write from the very basics just like learning how to write your ABCs the first time.

Of course, you can also find a lot of resources like books and eBooks as well as online tutorials that uses multimedia to help you learn how to speak and write Chinese. With good determination and motivation, you will eventually find yourself learning the language fast and enjoying it.




Carolyn Anderson learned a few foreign languages on her own. If you are interested in learning the Chinese language, check out Rocket Chinese. Also check out Nihongo Japanese Lesson if you want to learn the Japanese language fast and easy.


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