I know few pepole like to study chinese language in fact, in there oppinon, chinese just like a "Mark" in cultrue and a "Market" in ecnomy .
While, there are a few softs for those pepole who like to study chinese for the purpose of tradtion or cultrue comunications, you can find it by yourself or ask me.
But I think It is really harder to study chinese without a primary teacher.
I think a chinese teacher is needed. Even though chinese learn chinese. Chinese words seems to be too many, there are many words mean the same thing.
I am a Chinese, and I am glad to help you to learn Chinese.
Yeah chinese is a nice language, but, wo bu jiang zhong wen. Yet. 
ni hui jiang shen me yu yan. What language do you speak in.So many chinese in this forum??? I am chinese ,too!!!
That sounds exciting! Out of my opinion...
I'm not Chinese but speak Chinese language.
da ja hao!!!
I am a chinese too. glad to see you all.
| takashiro wrote: |
| I think a chinese teacher is needed. Even though chinese learn chinese. Chinese words seems to be too many, there are many words mean the same thing. |
It's probably in your best interest to learn chinese with a teacher, so you know how to pronnounce the characters properly, with the right tone of voice. Or at least, if you have a tape or a program like Rosetta Stone, use that if you can't afford the assistance of a teacher. | takashiro wrote: |
So many chinese in this forum??? I am chinese ,too!!!
That sounds exciting! Out of my opinion... |
Your name Takashiro is not very Chinese no?Hey, it's cool to have so many chinese here =)
i ever wanted to learn chinese, but i'm limited to the 'ni hao ma' thing ,
someone could tellme what's the better way to learn chinese throught internt?, just the basics for now =)...
should i start with the writing or the speaking? should i try cantonese or mandarin first?
@hamihaha - the links in you're signature look very good , xiexie
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Congratulation boys
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my chinese is so perf!,Who want to learn ?I will teach him!
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I think it's very difficult language, particularly ðronounce correctly.
But why not to try learn this lang.
| D'Artagnan wrote: |
someone could tellme what's the better way to learn chinese throught internt?, just the basics for now =)...
should i start with the writing or the speaking? should i try cantonese or mandarin first?
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I don't think you can learn Chinese through the internet. It's a language that's almost opposite of English, for example, instead of "What did you eat?" which is how you would probably ask someone, in Chinese it'd be "you ate what?". And that's just the simpler aspect of how it's "opposite".
You should definitely learn mandarin first. Most Chinese will understand mandarin (even if they speak cantonese), but if you find someone from northern China, I don't think they'll understand Cantonese. | Quote: |
| I don't think you can learn Chinese through the internet. It's a language that's almost opposite of English, for example, instead of "What did you eat?" which is how you would probably ask someone, in Chinese it'd be "you ate what?". And that's just the simpler aspect of how it's "opposite". |
Actually, I think Chinese has pretty simple grammar, at least at the beginner/intermediate levels. It's not too far off from English. Sentences follow the Subject/Verb/Object word order as in English (I love you = Wo (I) ai (love) ni(you)), although there are some differences you have to keep in mind, such as time words always being before verbs (wo shi dian shang ke = I ten o'clock start class). The cool thing about Chinese is you don't have to worry about conjegating verbs!
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someone could tellme what's the better way to learn chinese throught internt?, just the basics for now =)...
should i start with the writing or the speaking? should i try cantonese or mandarin first? |
There is a great site to study Chinese online: www.chinesepod.com. This site has hundreds of free audio lessons (about 15 minutes long a piece) covering levels newbie through advanced. The hosts are fun, the topics of each lesson interesting, and the vocabulary/grammar is genuinely useful. I use it as a supplement to my Chinese textbook, but for those going for speaking ability, this would be a fine teacher (the free parts of the site have very little help for reading and writing).
I agree that Mandarin is the best choice. Although there are still many dialects widely used in everyday life throughout China, Mandarin is the standard used in all schools in mainland China and Taiwan (meaning middle-aged folk and younger should all be able to communicate it in). In Hong Kong you're still better off trying to communicate in English rather than Mandarin (I know from experience trying to use both), although it is increasing in popularity there.
If you're interested in the writing system, you might also consider whether you want to study simplified or traditional characters. Simplified is the official set used in mainland China; Taiwan and Hong Kong use traditional. If you never plan to go to China, I'd suggest traditional as it retains more meaning and history, and it's prettier ^_^. I live in China, so simplified is a must for me.Learn a new language may be very hard for most of us. But I think there are many reasons. First of all, I think because we come from different countries, and we have different mother-language. Second, I think it is our age and our ability of rememberion, as we get older and older, the ability of rememberion decreased. Another reason is we don't have more time spending in remembering the words and we don't try our best to remember the words. I think this is the most important reason. All the language are composed by words.
I have a good example in our class, he is 35, and his Engnish is the best in our class, he dosen't go abroad and perhaps learn Engnish in his late age.
So, we can learn the new language well, if we study hard. I hope you can learn our Chinese language successfully. 
hehe,i can help u with chinese too~
| hamihaha wrote: |
| Your name Takashiro is not very Chinese no? |
It's not a Chinese name, of course. That's my Japanese family name. My Chinese family name is Zhang.I'm indeed surprised that Chinese isn't available for the masses. It's a big economy with loads of people. The main thing might be that the politics aren't well received in Europe and USA. But I wouldn't mind learning a Asian language. Japanese particularly interests me. I'm Dutch BTW.
the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language
| foRs wrote: |
Congratulation boys
All chinese who talk in this topic live in china ? |
I am Chinese ,know Chinese, live in China . Yet !I will be your teacher if you wanna learn Chinese.
