The document provides five tips for effectively learning Chinese, emphasizing the importance of setting clear goals and assessing personal motivations for studying the language. It recommends starting with pinyin to grasp pronunciation, followed by learning basic characters for effective communication. The piece highlights prioritizing listening and speaking skills before reading and writing, suggesting that understanding spoken Chinese is foundational to mastering the language.

1. 5 TIPS TO ACE
5 TIPS TO ACE
CHINESE
CHINESE
LANGUAGE
LANGUAGE
Since you've arrived to this page, you're either
learning or considering learning Chinese. You will
eventually reach your target, sooner or later, if you
continue to put your time and effort in it and do not
abandon it halfway. However, we hope that it will be
"sooner" for you! That's why we've put together the
following 8 tried-and-true methods for learning
Chinese faster and more effectively. Have fun reading!

2. Consider the following questions and their answers:
why do I want to study Chinese? What is my driving
force?
Are you considering acquiring language skills to tap
into the far east market's business or career chances
now that China has surpassed Japan and developed
swiftly to become the world's second largest
economy? Do you like to go deeper into this unique
ancient oriental culture and unravel the mystery
surrounding the intriguing characters? Do you want
to prepare yourself with a new mindset and a new
way of looking at the world? or perhaps for a more
straightforward reason: you intend to travel around
Greater China on your own, without the assistance of
an English-speaking tour guide?
TIP 1: ASSESS YOUR REQUIREMENTS, SELECT A
GOAL, AND DETERMINE THE QUICKEST ROUTE
TO YOUR DESTINATION.

3. You must be aware of the most significant
differences between Chinese and English (or other
alphabetic languages). Are we talking about
Mandarin or Cantonese when we speak Chinese?
What are the differences between them? Where are
these two languages (or dialects, as the case may be)
spoken? Which version should I learn first? How do
the Chinese write if they don't have an alphabet?
Why are there two sets of characters (Chinese
Traditional and Chinese Simplified)? What is the
relationship between the ideographic text and the
phonetic letters? What is the Pinyin system, and how
does it work? How many characters must I learn in
order to become fluent in Chinese? Are there any
reputable training institutions or online APPs that
could help me learn faster, more efficiently, and with
less effort?
TIP 2: LEARN THE BASICS AND FOUNDATIONS
OF THE CHINESE LANGUAGE

4. TIP 3: START WITH PINYIN AND THEN MOVE ON
TO THE MORE COMPLICATED CHARACTERS
Many people find the Chinese characters to be
attractive, with a distinct aura of oriental mysticism,
and are eager to begin their learning process by
learning to read or write these hieroglyphic symbols.
We admit that this may have been the initial
incentive for many people to study Chinese, but
please be aware that, despite the apparent strong
motivation, this isn't the greatest or fastest way to
acquire a new language, especially one as difficult as
Chinese.

5. TIP 4: BEFORE READING THE BOOK, LEARN A
FEW SPOKEN CHINESE PHRASES FOR
EVERYDAY COMMUNICATION.
According to the "Second Language Acquisition" idea,
voice (audio) signals activate the language centres in
our brains before text (visual) impulses. In learning /
acquiring a foreign language (Chinese Mandarin in
our case), text reading may help you build up the
knowledge about the language, but only verbal
sounds can really help you get the feel about how
this new language is used. So, speaking/listening are
always prioritized over the reading/writing.

6. TIP 5: START LEARNING TO READ AND WRITE A
FEW BASIC CHINESE CHARACTERS.
Yes, once you've mastered the Pinyin and tones and
are able to pronounce a few dozens of verbal
sentences in Mandarin, you'll need to start working
on the tough task of learning the famous ideographic
symbols.
An average Chinese person's vocabulary is around
4,000 characters, which is sufficient to read most
newspapers, financial reports, and mobile phone
user instructions without consulting a dictionary.
You don't have to be intimidated by that large
undertaking; for starters, you only need to learn to
distinguish a few hundred of the most commonly
used ones.

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