Frequently asked questions about studying mandarin Chinese in China
We at Learn Mandarin Now recently undertaken extensive research and put together a great article to help you decide if you wish to learn Chinese in China research—be sure to check it out.
How to Integrate into Chinese Society as a Language Learner
The current political and economic situation in China motivates many foreign students to study Chinese and consider getting an education in China. Education is commonly cheaper in China than it is in Europe and the US. Moreover, the standard of living is high enough, and prices for essential goods are relatively low as well.
5 top tips to help you learn Mandarin Chinese: great advice from a variety of experts
Over the last year, we at Learn Mandarin Now have been interviewing a wide variety of experts who are learning or have learnt to speak or write Mandarin. The questions we put to them were a selection of the top questions which we get asked by students of Chinese—and, today, we’re happy to share these questions and a summary of the top 5 answers with you:
How can I learn Mandarin Chinese quickly and without too much stress?
10 Things to Keep in Mind as You Learn Chinese
There are a lot of different ways to learn Mandarin Chinese, but whatever method you choose, it doesn’t have to be all that hard, provided you’re willing to work at it.
Forget all of the doubts that may have come up the first time you heard the language spoken and saw the written characters. Many people have learned Mandarin Chinese as a second or third (or more!) language, you can too. Just keep these 10 things in mind […]Read more…
Top resources to learn Mandarin Chinese as recommended by 50 top bloggers
If you are contemplating learning Mandarin Chinese, there are so many resources available these days and all sorts of media to use—but what really are the best ways to start learning the language or the best tools to use? In order to answer these questions, we decided to ask some experts for help so, recently, using our blog Learn Mandarin Now, we contacted 50+ bloggers and asked them about the resources they prefer to use to learn Mandarin. We […]Read more…
Learning Chinese – Mandarin or Cantonese?
There are many Chinese people who now live in the U.S., Canada, and many other countries, and China is becoming a powerful economic force in the world today. For this reason, learning Chinese is becoming increasingly important and a popular foreign language to study in high schools and universities.
If you’re thinking of studying Chinese, you may be contemplating whether it would be better to learn Mandarin or Cantonese.
With about 1.2 billion speakers, Chinese is more widely spoken than any other […]Read more…
Seeing it For Yourself: Pursuing an Educational Experience in China
When we read about dogs being beaten to death by health officials or women being forced to have abortions in China, how can we put these shocking stories in perspective? The same way we do it when we read about things like protests and politician sex scandals at home: by comparing those news stories to our usually much more mundane personal experiences. Those things make the news because they are unusual. When we read about China from thousands of miles […]Read more…
Chinglish signs in a school
(From Renren) The following are signs found in a school in China (Huizhou Boluo Experimental School). Clearly, English is probably not a subject they teach in this school.
Dormitory Affairs Office (Dormitory Caretaker’s Room)
Foreigners’ Chinese Tattoos
The title of this original post from Tianya was “Talk about some stupefied individual foreigners’ tattoos, not understanding Chinese is really frightening”. Tattoos of Chinese characters can be really beautiful and artistic, some also can be meaningful and speak the words of wisdoms, however some of the samples we have here really make us wonder if the person or even the tattoo artist understood the meaning of these words. If you don’t understand Chinese and ever were thinking […]Read more…
China Education Department to Revise 44 Chinese Characters Causes Debate
[Netease] A few days ago China Education Department published “General Standard Chinese Characters Table”, a draft for reviews and feedbacks by the general public intended to revise 44 Chinese Characters, also restored 51 variant characters. Review period begins on the 12th ends on the 31st of this month. This news resulted controversy debates. Yesterday according to the internet survey about 80% of netizens are against the change.
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