As we know, Chinese is regarded as one of the most difficult languages in the world, one word may show different meanings in different situations. One can never get all of the points even to the original Chinese, so learn Chinese should be relaxing and fun. Exercise is a necessary part, but in my view you need to get into a Chinese environment. Of course it's hard for you to find one if you're abroad(not in China). Wen Yanwen , you don't have to worry about it, because it's hard to Chinese students too. All you can do is to try your best to read it, to get to know it, though you may understand nothing or have the wrong idea at the first time, as time goes by you'll find that you can be better. And, the background is very important before learning an ar tical. Today, online Chinese learning is become popular.

Chinese is one of the most difficult languages, it is hard to learn because of its spelling and pronunciation, especially for European. Before learning Chinese, you should learn Bromoform and practice until you can organize them to voice. and second basic fundament is strokes.
Chinese character seems non-regular, each word is different form one other. but as long as you practice more you can master it quickly. Chinese developed form ancient Chinese which every character is similar to the real thing. So it is more efficient that learn Chinese with thought of real thing or a picture to associate with Chinese taught by a Chinese teacher.

The best way to learn Chinese well, I think, is to learn and use Chinese all the time. Don't be afraid of being laughed at. We'd better do a lot of listening, speaking, reading and writing follow your Chinese teacher. If you can form the habit of thinking and writing in Chinese all day, you are sure to grasp the spirit of Chinese and will be able to read works in Chinese within a short period of time. Since Chinese is the language should be more training to listen to more speakers, used by as much as possible. Daily adhere to spend 1-3 minutes to learn Chinese or read something about online Chinese.

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