Learn Mandarin Using 5 Step Process
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This pre-recorded short course with the duration of 30 min will teach you basic mandarin language and structure and how to learn mandarin in 5 steps.
As we all know, learning Mandarin language offers many benefits to personal and professional growth. But how to get started in learning Mandarin?
That’s why we are here to show you how to learn Mandarin easily in just 5 simple steps. You will be able to speak some Mandarin words after this (even if you start with zero basic knowledge of Mandarin)
Chinese Language – Why is it important?
Learning Chinese language offers many benefits to personal and professional growth. You will also understand of one of the richest cultures in the world. Here are top 5 main reasons to learn Mandarin.
- Chinese language is the most widely spoken language in the world – Do you know that one fifth of the planet speaks Chinese? Chinese language is the most widely spoken language in the world with approximately 1,197,000,000 people speaking Chinese, of which 873,000 million speak Chinese language, according to infoplease.com therefore 14% of the global population speaking Chinese.
- Chinese Language offers you competitive edge – Knowing Chinese may give you an edge when competing for an important position. Do you know that employer will usually choose the candidates who can speak Mandarin? Yes it is true, even some companies are willing to pay up additional RM1,000 salary to employees who can speak Mandarin. Other than China, Mandarin is spoken in countries such as Malaysia, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Brunei, Phillipines and Mongolia. If you can speak Mandarin, you will have the confidence to speak with the locals in Chinese Mandarin and it would be beneficial for your work and business. Travelling around the world is always more enriching when you make friends with local people.
- Chinese Language is important for International businesses – As China has become a huge market, and business leaders are looking for people who can speak Chinese and operate successfully in a Chinese cultural context. China play a major role in world affairs. Chinese language is also an open door to a huge job market in all of the countries where Mandarin is the language of commerce like Mainland China, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore. Learning Mandarin today can help make a better future for you. Abundant opportunities for government and business careers as well as scientific and cultural exchanges await the student of Chinese.
- Chinese language is easier than you think – There are no verbs, no plurals, no tenses, no subject-verb agreement, and no conjugations in Mandarin. Yes, there are over 100,000 chinese characters but generally only 3,500 are used in converation. In fact, Chinese Mandarin is regarded as a more logical language than English.
- Chinese language takes intensive brain power – Did you know that learning Mandarin utilizes areas of the brain that other languages do not? Studies have been done on this, which means learning Chinese takes intensive brain power.
Who is this course for?
- Those who are thinking to learn 3rd language
- Those who want a brief glance to learning mandarin
- Those who want to learn a bit of mandarin & pronounciation
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STEP 1: Learn Mandarin Pronunciation (Han Yu Pin Yin)There are 3 components of han yu pin yin 汉语拼音 which are:
– 6 vowels
– 4 + 1 tones
– 21 consonants
You will be able to pronounce almost 95% of all Mandarin words if you know how to pronounce the pinyin in the table below. Let’s learn how to pronounce 6 vowels, 4 + 1 tones and 21 consonants by watching the videos.
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STEP 2 : Learn Mandarin words
After you learn Mandarin pronunciation, we will now learn Mandarin vocabularies. Just like English, Malay and other languages, there are more than 100,000 words in Mandarin. So how do we get started?
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STEP 3 : Learn to construct sentence
There are only a few patterns you need to learn, and once you’ve done that, you can just fill in the words you’ve learnt and people will be able to understand. Even if you mix things up, people will usually still understand.
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STEP 4 : Speak Mandarin everyday
After you have learn Mandarin pronunciation, vocabularies and sentence structure, the most important element to master Mandarin is to speak, speak & speak! Practice makes perfect! You have to speak Mandarin everyday and revise the lessons until you’re fully understood.
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STEP 5: Learn Chinese characters
We don’t encourage Beginner students to learn Chinese characters at the beginning because it is not easy. As you know, Chinese characters is the hardest language to learn. See the images below and you will notice Chinese characters are not easy to recognise and write, but good news is it is easy to read the pinyin.
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End Note
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