Many foreign friends want to learn Chinese and understand Chinese culture, but do not know how to learn.Compared with other countries, they think Chinese is one of the most difficult languages to learn.
As a matter of fact, Chinese is not a language that is difficult to learn.The point is, how much do you want to master or what level.If you just want to understand Chinese, understand the meaning, this is not very difficult to do. However, if you want to talk to the Chinese people, working or living in China, it needs to be more professional and systematic learning.In fact, the Chinese study of English is the same process. At least in China, English is a compulsory course in higher education, and important skills. Similarly, there are many Chinese people are very difficult to master English,The main reason is that Chinese students do not have an environment to communicate with foreigners,Students, just to cope with the exam.In the same way, foreign friends learn Chinese, they should also find a 'Chinese environment' to help themselves learn.
In China's knowledge sharing social network platform 'zhihu.com' , there are foreign friends living in China, they are how to answer the question of 'Chinese learning'.For example:
Questions : What is the most difficult for foreigners to learn Chinese?
Ryan Giordano , Reply:
I am an American who has studied Chinese for 2 years.
For me, the hardest thing is to listen to the Chinese, because the Chinese speak too fast!
As a matter of fact, I don't have many opportunities to speak Chinese with Chinese people, so I output far more than my input.
(meaning is : I want to speak Chinese, but nobody talks to me, Here, reflects the importance of language communication environment.In addition, the answer mentioned: Chinese pronunciation is not correct, will lead to misunderstanding, causing embarrassment .)
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Ariel Kim, Reply:
I am a Korean student in American high school. I want to apologize in advance, because my Chinese is not very good.
Although I am learning Chinese has been three years, but I still can't speak fluently or write Chinese. I can speak English and Korean, because I learned a long time English and Korean, so my Chinese is not as good as English and Korean.
First of all, I think Chinese is very difficult, because the Chinese let foreigners carry too many new words and grammar. Both Korean and English have alphabet, so it is easier for foreigners to learn English or Korean than to learn Chinese.
And, unlike other languages, Chinese have a tone. If one tone is not correct, Chinese sometimes don't understand what the man said. In addition to some of the words are pronounced the same tone than not, so if you don't know the tone, you cannot tell exactly you want to say. The tone is also a foreigner needs to remember.
(I also think intonation is a very important part of learning Chinese. )
Finally, in general, I think Chinese people speak Chinese very quickly, because they often speak very quickly, many foreigners can not hear clearly. (In fact, Chinese students have the same feeling of learning English, haha )
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Now, I also give some of my ideas to help foreign friends who want to learn Chinese and Chinese culture :
1. Learn Chinese pinyin and tone. You can use online video, or know some local Chinese educators.
2. Talk to the Chinese online communication platform.Through social platforms, or social software, Such as facebook, Weixin, QQ.(China's most popular social software). Chinese social knowledge platform, zhihu.com (it like quora.com).
3. Go to China to study, live and make friends. This is the most challenging and quick way to learn Chinese.Also, you can learn about the local culture. As a matter of fact, many foreign friends have a one-sided understanding of Chinese culture.Note that China has many dialects, it is best to learn Mandarin.
There's 'Confucius Institute Online' , maybe you can get something you want , there are some online videos and lessons about Chinese and Chinese culture : http://www.chinesecio.com/
2/13/2017 07:14:00 AM
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