subject: Chinese Language Software That Works Fast And Effectively [print this page] Compared to the US, which has 300 million people, the population of China is 1,324,655,000. That's not 1 million people, but 1.3 BILLION people (and this was in the year 2008). The amount of people in China is over 20% of the world's population, which is HUMONGOUS.
People always joke about that if you just collect one cent from everyone in China, you'd be a multi-millionaire. Think about it: if 1.3 billion people each gave you one cent, you would have $13000000 - or $13 million.
If that doesn't start to convince you that China is a market to be reckoned with, then I don't really know what else will. However, there was one major problem. The amount of English speaking people in China was exceedingly rare.
So my first few days in China were spent rather aimlessly. I kept to the major shopping districts and developed areas, and stuck to the English-speaking crowd. As for business opportunities, you can imagine that it was absolutely impossible. It was rough, and it wasn't long before I decided that it couldn't continue any further. I decided that I had to learn Chinese, somehow.
I went around, looking for a Chinese class, and thankfully, I found one being advertised in the papers. The problem though, was the level of instruction. It was impossible, and after 3 weeks, I didn't feel as though I had learnt anything.
So I had to look for other methods - and I found it in the form of a college friend who had picked up Chinese. Turns out she was in love with the Chinese culture, and even had a bachelors in Chinese. She recommended me to try a Chinese language software online instead of a class, and said that it was more popular with language learners.
He pointed me to a website that taught how to learn the Chinese language. The website also recommended a few language programs which I did try and found much more effective than the ones that I used. It's been roughly 8 weeks since I bought and used the Chinese language learning program, and I have a pretty good grasp of conversational Chinese now. Next up will be another trip to China!
