   Chinese learning
  Hey there,Do any of you guys learn Chinese? Or you have any good suggestion where to go to find a good program? I am thinking of studying Chinese hopeful can help me find a good job in China.If you know any of those programs, do let me know.Appreciate that..   
  你想学中文吗？If you're attending university, enroll in Chinese classes, or find a local community college/language school. Why do you list your location as China?   ;  If you're in China there are many many local schools or tutors that want to teach you, in Kunming remember to find someone who speaks good mandarin, not everyone does down there.To supplement this the most important thing will be using what you learn again and again during the day to make it natural and eventually fluent, the traditional expat way is to find a girl who doesn't speak English and 'spending time' with her, try and mingle with locals and be careful not to get sucked into the expat subculture and never speaking the language.The thing that will require the most work will be vocabulary, I use Anki (Anki) for this along with the HSK vocabulary that I generated some cards from. I don't necessarily suggest using the HSK word list however, it's a bit outdated and skips some very useful words and expressions while including a lot of rather stiff formal ones. Your best bet is to use some sort of word list and add every word you hear during the day, try and read as much as possible and take words from there too (bbses if you can understand enough, like http://tt.mop.com/ or tianya etc, or small texts such as those on http://www.clavisinica.com/CVP/voices.html can be useful).Finally one thing that can be useful is a good grammar book, I purchased Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar and it's been very good so far, shop around.The grammar is mostly simple and often nonexistent, but it's useful to have a reference.One more thing, pronunciation is important, chinese pod has a useful little flash app that will pronounce pinyin for you, if your tones and pronunciation aren't up to scratch practice them, it will become natural fast if you start with good habits.Personally I've made a lot of mistakes over the past two years learning the language, first by making very little effort at first, by never having official teaching, by not doing enough vocabulary practice every day, etc. Even so I've gotten to a quite decent level by now, so it's very doable. Good luck.   ;  Chinese definitely has a very structured grammar. It's not an inflected language, which is nice, but it makes up for that with strict ordering requirements for sentence fragments and lots of fixed phrases.   ;  hey, you guys are so fast. Appreciate..Thank you for your replies. I just arrive in Kunming no long time ago and thinking of studying Chinese. So I want ask for help.Yes when I just got here. The sound of the language I heard is not like that of the Chinese language. Anyhow I was told the dialect here is close to Mandarin.Thank you Penten and trzy, your replies are very helpful.I think if I can find a good school,that will save me a lot troubles.;  Hey apple,If you're staying in Kunming, China then you should know about [REMOVED]. It's a very good Chinese school for learning Chinese language program.[Edited by - jbadams on June 17, 2009 7:50:21 AM];Quote:Original post by elina02Hey apple,If you're staying in Kunming, China then you should know about [REMOVED]. . It's a very good Chinese school for learning Chinese language program.do you minds tell me more about this one..thanks   ;  Maybe they can teach you some better advertising techniques as well, hrm?  Don't spam our forums kiddies, we'll just remove any links or product names, if not delete your posts outright.   