The detail of learning Chinese language for foreigners
For a foreigner in China, the first problem you would meet is the language difference. So I summarized some methods of how to learn Chinese language in order to help those foreigners who want to learn Chinese language. I collected the materials from echinacities.com plus my own experience of teaching and hope this would be helpful.
In fact you need do nothing but living in a Chinese environment, then you would have a good improvement in listening. This is also a good way for learning other languages. When you living in a different language life, you are forced to know others and known by others. That means you are learning every seconds. The fault is you maybe know or known by others but your pronunciation may not standard and you couldn’t write down what you had said.
So next, you need to listen to the audio tape to correct your pronunciation. China has many local accents. When you listening and talking in Chinese, you would talking in the way of who is talking with you unmindful. It is not standard and you need to learn the standard Chinese following the tape. This is very important. If you are accustomed to a wrong way of pronunciation, you would find it is really hard to correct it in the future.
At the period of correcting, you could learn to write the character. There are many characters but you don’t need to know them all. You just need to write the characters fluently being used in your daily use. That’s enough. The next, you could begin reading.
You could find different type of reading materials when you are reading. This would help you to know Chinese culture, history, and deeply understand the thought and language habit of Chinese. Though reading you also could know more Chinese characters.
Now, after the above done, you could live in China smoothly. At least language wouldn’t be your problem. Of course it is not enough if you want to know more. You also need to read newspaper, try to write articles, learn the grammar and translation from English to Chinese. If you really want to learn you could search in echinacities.com. They are professional and there are more details in the site. It is really a good site. You could have a try.
Hope my article would help you.
