subject: The Best Way To Learn Chinese Conversation Fast and Effectively [print this page] It really isn't a case of the best way to learn Chinese conversation. There really is only one right way to learn to speak Chinese, with a couple of variations in how you put the only way into effect!
Unfortunately, most of the Chinese courses, classes, and tutors are in denial about this fact. They want your money, so they will omit to tell you about the low number of people who succeed using their methods. It is a really startling and eye-opening statistic.
More than 80% of those who set out with the intention of learning to speak Chinese end up falling short! Unbelievable! At the same time, people then get sold into intermediate classes, and then advanced classes all using the wrong methods!
The best way to learn Chinese is to move to China and live the language for a couple of months! However, that is not practical for most of us.
So what's the secret? There is no secret! This is just the method that simulates most closely actually moving to China. It's called audio immersion. I was immersed in over 30 different extensive real conversations in the topics that I was going to be using in my earliest Mandarin conversations!
Not only that, but there was a full explanation and written narrative about each conversation. So I had the benefit of a virtual tutor, but most importantly I had the necessary audio immersion!
The course had verb tools and vocabulary tools as well, just like the other courses I tried before. But the other courses don't come even close to the quality and relevance of the audio immersion I got.
This makes all the difference. People who learn through proper immersion succeed over 85% of the time, assuming they put the time in. Now those are better odds in my view.
Obviously you're going to have to work to learn any language. For the 10 weeks, I spent about an hour a day, and I only missed four days due to work pressures. The daily reinforcement is really important.
So I would say based on my experience that if you can't move to China, the best way to learn Chinese conversationally is through audio immersion with daily reinforcement!
