How to Learn Chinese

Today, Chinese is now becoming one of the most popular languages that people are studying and learning. The reason for this is that China is becoming extremely influential in the world’s business markets.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. 1. By integrating new items with material that is more familiar to you, it will make the foundation of your learning much stronger.

2. 2. A good idea is to create a concept map, which will then help you to analyze characters or those groups of characters which are similar. However, it is important that the groups of characters should have the same sort of meaning, and should be created in the following types of clusters.
   
   
   
   a. Words which fit into the same sort of pattern.
   b. Those characters which share the same sort of radical or same sort of phonetic (similar pronunciation) components.
   c. Those characters which share any other type of component that is similar.
   d. Look at placing those characters together which have a shared idea, such as colors, activities or places.

3. 3. Create yourself a hierarchical chart that is able to break down single characters into much smaller and also more meaningful components.

4. 4. Create yourself a mnemonic device which will then help you to remember particular parts of your character. One way of remembering it is through using a picture, which will suggest the characters particular strokes.

5. 5. After each lesson, it is best if you review what you have been taught 15 minutes afterwards. In studies carried out, it has been shown that those students who carry out a review of what they have been taught shortly afterwards are able to retain the information much better.

6. 6. Read out loud. Reading out loud is not only a great way for you to practice what you are learning, but will help you to discover particular words and phrases which you may have not mastered as yet. Also, when it comes time to read out loud what you have been learning in classroom environment, you will find it much easier to do.

7. 7. Rather than studying for long periods of time, just study a little each day, especially before you are due to take a test. By doing this, you will find that it makes it much easier for you to learn the language, rather than having to spend time cramming at the end just before you are about to take the test. Certainly you are more likely to retain information better using this method.

8. The most effective way for anyone to learn Chinese characters is through memorizing them. A great way of doing this is through writing them down. However, instead of writing the same word down over and over again, you should write each word down once or twice before you move on to the next one. Then you need to go through the list again until you have carried out the number of repetitions as required by your instructor. Doing this actually helps to put the words more firmly in to your mind and memory.

Resources

• Learn Chinese Language
• Chinese Calligraphy

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on 7/29/2008 Easy to learn Chinese

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