How to Go About Learning Chinese

The immense growth that Chinese has witnessed in recent times has propelled many people the world over to learn Chinese. However what confounds most persons trying to learn Chinese is how they can go about doing so. Already the United States is witnessing a shortfall in Chinese teachers as the demand to learn Chinese touches a historic high.

In this case it is recommended that a person beginning to learn Chinese start with the Pinyin format. Pinyin was developed in China as a Romanization of the Chinese language and is now the official Mandarin Romanization of China and Singapore and is also recognized by the American Library Association, and the US Library of Congress. In Pinyin the need to learn the Chinese characters is removed so that the student can focus on the tones and pronunciation.

This is one of the most important steps into learning Chinese as the tones form an important part of it. For instance mà (spoken with a falling tone) is meant for scolding or expressing negative emotion, má (spoken with a rising tone) means hemp. All in all, Mandarin Chinese has four tones which determine the meaning of a word. As can be seen a good effort will be needed to understand these tones.

However merely understanding the tones is insufficient to understand written Chinese. Hence it is recommended that after a student has gained some understanding of the spoken form, he/she start to learn its written form as well as it is during the initial period that a student has the greatest ability to learn it.

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