Learn To Speak Chinese - Tips before you start Learning Chinese

May 23rd, 2008

Hi, I’m Jayden, a Chinese Language expert. I’m a Chinese who received Chinese education since young. I’ve been in overseas for years, and I’ve lots of foreign friends in Australia, Philippines, Indonesia, Europe wanting me to teach them English, so I did.

The first question my students always ask me would be “Is Chinese hard to learn? I would say ‘YES, if you use the wrong method!’, so, for me, Chinese isn’t hard to learn at all, It’s just like when you first watch a magic trick, it’s amazing! But when you know the secret about it, you will be able to learn it very fast.

Ok, the resources below are listed in http://www.LearnChineseForFree.com, you can easily Learn Chinese For Free, and so I’ll just do a short explanation of How to start learning Chinese?

Actually learning Chinese and able to speak Chinese isn’t very hard. A few tips below will help improve your Chinese skills step by step.

- You need to find a motive why you want to learn Chinese, and how long, how often you speak Chinese? E.g. : My colleague wanted to be a part time translator so he signed up for a Chinese course. My student had a Chinese girl friend and wanted to communicate with her and her parent in Asia. It all depends what motivates you to learn Chinese and always remember your motive.

- Use 20 minutes a day, to learn new words and practice the previous chapter, pronounce it out loud so you’ll remember them.

- Find a local group, or friends who are able to speak Chinese, go out with them more often and learn from them. You need a partner so you can improve your oral skills.

- Learn to speak and understand Chinese is easy, but writing and pronounce it accurately would be the harder part. You can find some useful materials at www.LearnChineseForFree.com.

- There’s no faster way to master Chinese Language, because it has totally no connection with French, Italian or Spanish. Chinese characters itself has more than 3000 kinds of it and each has its own meaning. Combining 2 character will form another meaning. If you wan to master Chinese language, go to www.LearnChineseForFree.com and you can find how to master them well.

- More info are shared at www.LearnChineseForFree.com

Lastly, I wish you all the best in Learning Chinese, you can visit my website to get more informations regarding Learn Chinese For Free. http://www.LearnChineseForFree.com

Best wishes,

Jayden

Reasons why you should start learning Chinese Today?

May 7th, 2008

The first question my students always ask me would be “Is Chinese hard to learn? I would say ‘YES, if you use the wrong method!’, so, for me, Chinese isn’t hard to learn at all, It’s just like when you first watch a magic trick, it’s amazing! But when you know the secret about it, you will master it in the shortest period.

So, why you should learn Chinese? What is the reasons that cause millions of students taking Chinese or Mandarin as their 2nd language?

There are just too many reasons to explain it. First, Chinese is the language of Nearly 1/4 of the World’s Population. Speakers of Chinese not only live in China, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia, but also spread throughout Southeast Asia, North America, and Europe, where large Chinese communities congregate. Basically you can find China town in majority city. Chinese people today have been playing increasingly important roles worldwide,4 out of 10 top corporates in the world are owned by Chinese.

Second, learning Chinese is an extraordinary and agreeable experience through which you can immerse yourself in a different culture. Unlike most languages, Chinese has a unique ideographic writing system, which provides visual comprehensibility. The grammatical structure of Chinese is not only logical, but also pragmatic, related to the particular way of Chinese thinking. Knowledge of the written language opens up the culture of one of the world’s oldest civilizations. Chinese cultural can be trace back to 5000 years ago.

Third, traditional Chinese culture, from Confucianism and Chan Buddhism to martial arts and Chinese cuisine, has an enormous influence on East and Southeast Asian nations. Chinese culture has also greatly inspired the western world through Marco Polo, G. W. Leibniz, Max Weber, Franz Kafka, Andre Malraux, Bertolt Brecht, Ezra Pound, and Luis Borges, among others.

Last, but not least, the People’s Republic of China currently boasts the fastest growing economy in the world and is widely regarded as the potentially biggest global market in the twenty-first century. Proficient speakers of Mandarin Chinese will find jobs in various fields such as business, government, international relations, information technology, tourism, education, translation and much, much more. Of all foreign languages at American universities and colleges, Chinese shows the highest proportional increase in enrollment. With us, you get to have a chance to experience how to learn Chinese, it’s not hard at all.

Many of our site visitors at Learn Chinese For Free .com learn chinese language for the purpose of working in China in the future, as now there are many opportunities to do so. Some people from our site followed our best recommended way to learn Chinese and they’ve successfully achieve certain level in Chinese. A few of our visitors learn Chinese just for challenge, as they believed (but later proven to be wrong) that it is one of the most difficult languages to learn, because with us, Mandarin Chinese is not as difficult as they thought.

Lastly, I wish you all the best in Learning Chinese!

Best wishes,

Jayden Yap

Learn Chinese For Free - Basic Conversation

April 25th, 2008

Here’s some basic conversation for you, so at least you know how to speak Chinese. If you want to know more, just go www.LearnChineseForFree.com

Normal Conversation

Conversation in Mandarin

How to pronounce.

Peter : Hi, How are you ?

Peter : ??????

Peter : Hi, Ni Hao Ma?

Jane : Hi, I’m fine, thanks, How are you?

Jane : ????????????

Jane : Hi, Wo Hai Hao, Xie Xie, Ni Ne?

Peter : I’m good, my name is Peter, what’s your name?

Peter : ??????Peter, ?????

Peter : Wo Hen Hao, Wo Shi Peter, Zhen Mer Cheng Hu?

Jane : I’m Jane, I’m a teacher/engineer/doctor

Jane : ??Jane, ??????/???/??

Jane : Wo shi Jane, Wo shi yi ming lao shi/gong cheng shi/yi sheng

Peter : Oh, ok, I’m a dentist/lawyer

Peter : ????????/??

Peter : oh, Wo Shi Yi Ming Ya Yi / LuiShi.

Jane : So, what do you think about this course?

Jane : ??????????????

Jane : Na Mer, Ni Jue De Zhe Ge Ke Chen Zhen Me yang?

Peter : This course is great!

Peter : ????????

Peter : Zhe Ge Ker Cheng Tai Hao Le!

Jane : Had your lunch already?

Jane : ???????

Jane : Ni Wu Chan Chi Le Ma?

Peter: Not yet, you?

Peter : ??????

Peter : Hai Mei, Ni Ner?

Jane : Not yet, why not let’s grab a lunch together?

Jane : ???????????????

Jane : Hai Mei, Na Wo Men Yi Qi Qu Chi Wu Chan Hao Ma ?

Peter: Sure, let’s have Mcdonald Fast Food.

Peter : ?????????????

PeteR : Hao Ah, Wo Men Chi Mai Dang Lao Kuai Chan Ba.

Jane : Good idea!

Jane : ???!

Jane : Hao Zhu Yi!

After Lunch …

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Wu Chang Hou …

Peter : I think it’s time we need to head back to our course.

Peter : ???????????????.

Peter : Wo Jue Der Si Shi Hou Wo Men Yao Hui Qu Shang Ke Cheng Le.

Jane : Ya, it was a great conversation and nice meeting you.

Jane : ?, ?????????????

Jane : Shi, Tai Duo Hao Tan Le, Heng Gao Xing Ren Shi Ni.

Peter : Ya, nice meeting you too, can I have your number so we can meet up in future?

Peter : ???????????????????????????

Peter : O, Hen Gao Xing Ren Shi Ni, Wo Ke Yi Xun Wen Ni De Dian Hua Hao Ma Yi Fang Bian Lian Luo Ma?

Jane : sure, why not? Here’s my number.

Jane : ??, ??????.

Jane : Ker Yi, Zhe Shi Wo De Hao Ma

Peter : Ok, thanks, I’ll catch up with you again later.

Peter : ?, ??, ????

Peter : Hao, Xie Xie, Dai Hui Jian.

Jane : Ok, bye!

Jane : ????!

Jane : Hao, Zai Jian!

The Above conversation is translated from left English to Chinese, and with pronunciation below the Chinese word. If all your words appeared to be in ?????, that means your browser doesn’t support Chinese character. The pronunciation is not Han Yu Ping Ying(HYPY). HYPY is the correct way of pronouncing Chinese word, it has 26 of them, to learn more, go to www.LearnChineseForFree.Com.

Best Wishes,

Jayden.