How to Learn Mandarin Chinese - Part 1 Video
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In this interview with John Fotheringham we chat about how to learn Mandarin Chinese.
Mandarin Chinese is often seen by people as a very hard language to learn, and in this interview we discuss some of the most common questions about how to learn Mandarin Chinese.
In this first part of the interview we cover the following topics:
1. John's own story of learning Mandarin Chinese, which took him from the US, to Japan, and then on to Taiwan and Mainland China
2. Chinese is often thought to be a very hard language to learn. But is it?
3. Tones are a foreign concept for many new learners of Chinese. What are tones and how hard are they to learn?
4. Do you need to learn how to write? If so, how should you go about it? "I just wanna learn how to speak, and then when good I'm at speaking, I can try writing." Is that wise?
How to learn Mandarin Chinese Part II: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiD7vhSIAhs
How to learn Mandarin Chinese Part III: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxvjcoo9hq4
Resources mentioned in the interview:
http://lang-8.com (for crowd-sourced corrections for your writing)
http://rhinospike.com (for getting audio recordings done)
http://fluentu.com (interactive Chinese video lessons)
Remembering the Kanji, by James W. Heisig (book for learning Japanese kanji)
Remembering Simplified/Traditional Hanzi, by James W. Heisig & Timothy W. Richardson (book for learning Chinese hanzi)
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