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Learn Chinese

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

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Welcome !

When my son was in preschool, he studied in a school where Chinese Mandarin was taught as another language. I was so amazed by the way young children learned the Chinese language and I just wondered if adults like me would be have the concentration,  flexibility and comprehension to learn it as well. I discovered, though that learning Chinese Mandarin isn’t as complicated as it seems to be. In fact, it’s quite fun!

Learning the language both orally and written is a challenging task. The Chinese language is conposed of many complex characters that represent both sound and meaning. It is written in Chinese characters called hanzi.
The modern Chinese Mandarin dictionary contains approximately 4000 to 5000 characters that you can memorize. That’s such enormous information to put in your brain!

But as I said, learning the Chinese language can be fun, and that’s what you’ll discover in the succeeding blog posts…