How To Learn Mandarin Chinese
After 6 years of learning Mandarin Chinese I have some suggestions on how best to learn this surprisingly easy language.
The very first thing you should do is to spend at least a month just mastering the basic phonetics of this language. There are only about 60 in total and the entire language is based on those finite sounds. I don’t think this can be over emphasized enough how important these early stages of pronunciation practice are. Because once you develop a bad pronunciation habit it will be very hard to break. You will be very glad you spent the time you did practicing the basic sounds of Mandarin.
It may of course be very boring in the beginning just rhyming off sounds like a parrot and not actually learning any words, but these are the basic building blocks of Mandarin so I hope you trust me when I say practice practice practice the basic sounds until you are blue in the face.
These sounds can be found here http://howtolearnchineseonline.com/category/mandarin-chinese-pronunciation
Once you have those sounds/phonetics down pat pretty good then I would highly recommend this MP3 Chinese Course http://howtolearnchineseonline.com/chinesemp3course.
I listened to all 90 30 minute MP3s and it was amazing help. What is more is that I actually retained the Chinese that I learned through that course. The course is specially designed by a linguistics expert who has developed a system that kind of “brainwashes” you with the language. I was amazed at how effective this method is and I now try to use a similar method when teaching English to Chinese students because I was able to see how effective it was.
Further, this is the same method that the American government used to train their Spies how to speak foreign languages in the shortest period of time. After listening to the 90 MP3s and seeing how effective they were I can see why they are so expensive. Yes, unfortunately they are quite expensive but if you are looking for an effective way to get your Mandarin going then this course is definitely it. If I embark on another language I will be sure to use this method.
Save the money you plan to spend on school courses and books or whatever and pour it into the MP3 course. My wife listened to all 90 of them also and she too attests to their effectiveness.
http://howtolearnchineseonline.com/chinesemp3course
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