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Beginning To Converse In Chinese: Consider Rocket Chinese

Learning to speak Chinese is no effortless chore, but it is very fascinating to study such a different tongue. There is a variety of Chinese language software computer programs, you could find a class, or also go off to China to study!

Needless to say, there are a lot of benefits to speaking the Chinese language even if it is at a basic skill level:

You get respect by simply trying to speak Mandarin, even if you mispronounce words and make a mess of the tones. As few Westerners even try, you get noticed.

There are many jobs, in intercontinental trade and other fields, where knowing how to talk in Mandarin is required. For more challenging jobs, being able to read may be compulsory. Reading Chinese is at a much higher level of difficulty than speaking it, but indubitably far more employment is 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 most popular. More than a billion people speak some form of the Chinese language, and the majority of them converse in Mandarin.

Most Westerners study Mandarin. I once decided to learn Mandarin but by mistake I really took lessons in Cantonese for a little. This was before the internet. I don't think this error 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 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 enjoyable so I went to one of the most important 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 especially.

But when I got to Hong Kong and was met by 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 all was not lost. As it happened, the process of learning tones did assist me to speak Mandarin better.

Nowadays, 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 pick up enough to have a lot of fun, or maybe even get a better job.

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