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Beginning To Converse In Chinese: Try Rocket Chinese
Learning to speak Chinese is no undemanding chore, but it is very interesting to study such a special language. There is a diversity of Chinese language software packages, you could take a course, or also make your way to China to study!Of course, there are numerous benefits to speaking Chinese even if it is at a basic skill level:
You open doors by just trying to speak Chinese, even if you mispronounce words and get the tones wrong. Given that few Westerners even try, you stand out from the crowd.
There are a lot of jobs, in worldwide commerce and additional fields, where knowing how to converse in Mandarin is required. For some jobs, knowing how to read may be required. Reading Chinese is at a much higher level of difficulty than speaking it, but undoubtedly far more jobs are available if you can read as well as speak. Incidentally, there are two types of written Chinese: characters and pinyin, which uses the characters of our alphabet.
There are also many forms of the Chinese language. Most recognized and most widely spoken is Mandarin Chinese, while Cantonese is next most popular. In excess of a billion people speak some form of Chinese, and the preponderance of them converse in Mandarin.
Most Westerners learn Mandarin. I once decided to study Mandarin but in error I actually took lessons in Cantonese for a period. This was before the internet. I don't think this mistake would occur now. Here is how it occurred: one spring I was in Paris, studying French as a college student. My father, who spoke Mandarin, had things to do that would take him to Hong Kong. He told 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 good so I found my way to one of the most important language schools in Paris. They introduced me to an elderly Chinese gentleman, and I studied with him for a few weeks. I struggled with the tones especially.
But when I got to Hong Kong and met my father, I greeted him in what I thought was good Mandarin. My father looked blank. So I began counting out loud to ten, figuring that would prove I was speaking Mandarin. "That is Cantonese," my father said. It turned out that everything I had studied was Cantonese.
And all was not lost. As it happened, the process of learning tones did help me to speak Mandarin much better.
Nowadays, with the internet, you have a vast resource for learning Chinese. I am picking up the study of Mandarin again, with a program called Rocket Chinese. However you choose to learn Chinese, you won't learn Chinese fast in the sense of becoming fluent incredibly quickly, but you can pick up enough to have a lot of fun, or maybe even get a better job.
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