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There are lots of people that feel that they are highly educated when they're fluent in another language. . Just the idea of learning a whole new vocabulary and worse, stringing sentences together or pronouncing words properly could put them off. That's even more of an issue on the subject of "difficult" languages like Chinese or Japanese! It's usually the Chinese characters and precise pronunciation that make beginners think, "I can not do it" . But there are secrets to learning Chinese quickly.
For example, you may perhaps have heard that most Chinese must learn no less than 10,000 characters in four accents order to be fluent. That's enough to discourage anybody! But only about a thousand characters are commonly used along with the four accents are easily learned with practice . That becomes an easier bite to chew. Characters are easily learned through memorization. Words are merely formed with several basic strokes and a couple of flourishes added to generate more complicated words so it's not as hard as it seems. Make use of internet sites that can be found to inform you the way to pronounce the words and say them aloud when you write them.
However it's not advisable to memorize a sizable group of words. Go through your list of ten to fifteen words twice and then repeat until you already know them well. Group the words, though. It's easier learning words which can be related to each other than those which haven't any "hooks" to them at all. Memory work becomes a lot easier if you realize that the Chinese characters are really illustrations of those words they represent! You can discover the image embedded in the character and use that to mentally link it to the word.
Discs and books that will help you learn Chinese are readily available. Remember, there's nothing wrong with starting using the kids' books or learning materials. Write the characters on post-it notes and put them by the objects you are learning. You could include the pinyin (English pronunciation) in the sticker, too. As you are building your vocabulary, you're going to begin to see similarities with the characters. You can use this similarities to recollect new characters.
