Study Chinese Online From China

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Learn Chinese online, it’s probably the most effective way to learn Chinese today. Although having a private teacher, taking classes or immersing yourself in China seem the best way to learn Mandarin Chinese, there are distinct disadvantages to learning this way.

Utilizing the resources that are available online today makes learning easier, flexible to suit your schedule, repeatable and at your own pace. Teach yourself Chinese with the internet, this site will show you how.

Whether you want to first start with pronunciation, writing characters, reading, daily or travel phrases, with video, thru podcasts, thru Skype or instant messaging, all these tools and resources are now readily available on the web. Learning Chinese today can be really done efficiently and with great success.

The growing interest in China has created a huge market for summer courses, year-long study abroad programs at Chinese universities (Such as the Beijing Language and Culture department typically referred to as BLCU, or programs in Hanzhou, Shanghai or Hainan), martial arts courses in kung-fu and tai-chi, culture courses such as Chinese calligraphy, Chinese painting and even Peking Opera. Learning this way in some ways is a convenient foot-in-the-door to learn about China, but today it’s not necessarily the fastest, most convenient and effective way to gain proficiency in speaking, writing and reading the Chinese language.

Learning to Write In Chinese Is Impossible

It’s just not true. It does take time, but there are several definite milestones or goals that you can use to make it manageable.

1. Learn familiar words

2. Learn the words you speak

3. Learn to write

First let’s talk a little bit about how hard it is to learn to write in any language. More to come soon…

Chinese Tools

It’s not the same studying Chinese as it was a few years ago, even a few months ago it was different. Chinese doesn’t need to be a particularly challenging language to learn. Actually there are many reasons why it is easy. We’ll talk about that soon.

In the meantime, let’s list some tools that are online today that make studying Chinese easier.

1. Copy/paste Chinese text into a tool which translates, provides romanization in pinyin, provides pop-up English definitions, and much more. Adso is the best.
http://www.adsotrans.com/new.html

2. Look up words in a tool that accepts English, Chinese characters, or pinyin romanization. MDBG is the way to go.
http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=worddictbasic

3. Pronounce sounds correctly. For a review of the most difficult sounds for an English speaker Sinosplice’s tutorial clears up the many myths.
http://www.sinosplice.com/lang/pronunciation/

Studying Chinese online in China

Study Chinese online in China. I’m in China learning Chinese but truth be told, I do much of my learning online. I’ll explain why and how I do this in this blog which is about studying Chinese online in China.