Learning Chinese language

Maybe you will have a tough begining in learning chinese,beacuse it has thousands leeters,but if you have grasped those cute letters.The next stop will be very easy.Almost all the words are made of two or three letters.You can read it by reading every letters.And you can guess the meanings beacuse every letter has its meanings.And we learn english very easy at first."hello!","Nice to meet you!"But after then,thousands of diffcult words are waiting for us.But we think chinese is very easy.Oh,the grammer is the toughest part.we don't have "is,are"we say "?"in every osscation,We don't have "do,does,did"neither.Every college students in china must pass the CECT4 so that the can get the degree.So we don't have so much passion in learning english.But we are slaves to the degree.But we don't need to learn chinese in the college.that's not fear to our beautiful language. But we can do nothing!Hope you can learn chinese well.It's a beautiful language!And I'am very gald to help you if you have any problem.My english is not so good.Please parden me.And welcome to China!We have rich culture and breathetaking scenery.And the chinese are very friendly!

It is surprisingly not that hard. You have to learn the tones, the characters and the pinyin, so maybe it is more work. But the words are short (compared to some languages)so it is easier to hear the sounds. Chinese doesn't make words out of sentences either - which some languages do. So you will be surprised that it is easier than you thought. Courses are set up to learn x number of words per course and with a good teacher, you will find that you still know those words months and months later and can hear them in conversations. With only 50 words I could exchange pleasanteries with people next to me on a plane who had maybe slightly better English than my Chinese but not much better. Though the characters do not relate to sounds at all, I think in the end it is less arbitrary than English spelling, for example. Go for it! You won't regret the investment.

I tried to learn Chinese (Mandarin) some time ago, and I can tell you that you really have to put in the time to do it properly. I wanted to learn Chinese because I love the culture, and found that unless an English translation is done by a Chinese first language speaker, it can actually be wrong. Some English translations are just plain lazy, and even I, with only a little Chinese, can tell. So learn from them. I will eventually learn Chinese, but don't do what I did and get distracted. It's not that difficult, but you need working conversational Chinese to learn properly, because the language does get more complex. You've got some good advice here about the spoken and written language; it's extremely important to understand the way words are pronounced, and use them in conversation to see how they work. This is particularly important, because there are words which look the same but are pronounced differently, using "tones" or different inflections on vowels, and the different pronunciations mean quite different things. There are several tones in most words in Chinese dialects, sometimes as many as six, and four in Mandarin. The tone affects the meaning of the word. Like the word "ma" can mean mother or horse, for example, among other things. Vocabulary is important, so you can learn how the compound words are constructed. "Dianhua" means telephone in Mandarin, and the literal translation is "electric talk". So you can see that you need to understand how the word is created by using two other words. With the written language, the traditional way to learn is to learn first the one stroke characters, then the two stroke, etc. Again, as above, you get two words making a third. Chinese is a logical language, and if you understand the way the words are created, you should get it pretty right. The written language is common throughout China, by the way, it's the spoken dialects which are different.

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I am a Chinese girl from Hong Kong and I speak Chinese for my whole life. Learning Chinese is difficult. esp. writng Chinese. If you would like to learn, you should learn from native Chinese speaking talk to them first, learn to speak is very important. FOr reading and writing, I think you can ask The Chinese some words that you are interested in to write them down to you, learn few words at one time. Dont try to memorise a punch of vocab at once, it's boring and difficult. Learn about the meaning of the "root" part of the words. It will make you understand more. My husband is American, and I am teaching him Chinese, the problem is you have to talk, so that you can really use them. My husband have been learning short sentences that now he can organise some of the sentences. Chinese letter is not like English that combine only a-z. different word have different writng, and it;s hard to remember, but you can still see some of the hits by looking at the "root" of the words. I dont know if it will show Chinese here, but I get give you some examples: ?, means heart, so the following word, in the very bottom, that appear ?, that meant those two words have osmething to do with heart. ?,?,(these means think)