Let’s face it, learning any foreign language is tough, and Chinese is certainly one of the most difficult for native English speakers. This is my top ten resources for learning Chinese. 1. Skritter I love Skritter, it is my favourite Chinese learning App for learning Chinese words and Characters. Skritter uses SRS, which means your […]
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Teaching your children a second language is always a challenge. For those who are native Chinese speakers this is obviously a lot easier, but for those of us who would like to teach our Children Chinese despite our own lack of Chinese fluency, this is a challenge. There is no single correct approach to teaching
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Hanyu Pinyin, or simply Pinyin, is the the standard way of Romanising Chinese, or simply put, allows Chinese words to be written with the standard Latin Alphabet, A though to Z. Pinyin also uses tone markers (accents) to denote the four Mandarin tones. Pinyin provides a uniform way of documenting and thus standardising Chinese pronunciation.
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There is no doubt that Chinese is one of the more difficult languages for English speakers to learn. The approach I recommend can be summarised as follows: Start with learning spoken Chinese, initially emphasising pronunciation as it is hard to remember words if you have trouble with pronunciation. When you start put much less emphasis
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