Learning To Speak Chinese: Try Out Rocket Chinese

Learning to speak Chinese is no trouble-free assignment, but it is extremely fascinating to study such a different tongue. There is a selection of Chinese language software computer programs, you could take a class, or even go off to China to study!

Not surprisingly, there are many benefits to speaking the Chinese language even if it is at a rudimentary skill level:

You open doors by simply having a try at speaking Mandarin, even if you mispronounce words and make a mess of the tones. Since few Westerners even try, you get noticed.

There are various jobs, in worldwide commerce and other fields, where knowing how to talk in Mandarin is necessary. For a number of jobs, being able to read may be compulsory. Reading Chinese is more challenging than speaking it, but unquestionably far more jobs are available if you can do both. As you may know, there are two types of written Chinese: characters and pinyin, which uses the characters of our alphabet.

There are also many varieties of the Chinese language. Most known and most widely spoken is Mandarin, while Cantonese is next in popularity. More than a billion people speak some form of Chinese, and the majority of them speak Mandarin.

Most Westerners study Mandarin. I once decided to learn Mandarin but by mistake I really had private lessons in Cantonese for a period. This was before the internet. I don't think this mistake would happen now. Here is how it happened: one year I was in Paris, studying French as a college student. My dad, who spoke Mandarin, had business that would take him to Hong Kong. He informed me that I could meet up with him there, and that he would cover the costs if I began learning to speak Mandarin while I was still in France.

I thought that sounded pretty good so I went to one of the main language schools in Paris. The people there introduced me to an elderly Chinese gentleman, and I took lessons with him for several weeks. I had a hard time with the tones in particular.

But when I got to Hong Kong and met my father, I greeted him in what I thought was good Mandarin. My father didn't understand me. So I began counting aloud to ten, guessing that would prove I was speaking Mandarin. "That is Cantonese," my father said. It turned out that all I had learned was Cantonese.

But things worked out fine. As it happened, the process of learning tones did help me to speak Mandarin better.

Now, with the internet, you have so many resources for learning Chinese. I am picking up the study of Mandarin a second time, using a program called Rocket Chinese. However you choose to learn Chinese, you won't learn Chinese fast in the sense of becoming fluent amazingly quickly, but you can learn enough to have a lot of fun, or maybe even get a better job.

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