中国の経済成長に固有傾向の1つはますます人々が中国の言語クラスを取っているという事実である。 それをする最もよい方法か。 中国に行き、サリーチャンに話しなさい。 彼女は北京の中国の語学教育構成で番組編成者として働く。 北京の繁華街の真中で位置して。

北京は彼女の学生のほとんどに家である。 「この時点で、私達は82人の学生に中国語を教えている。 大抵欧米人、しかし日本から来ているまた人々および韓国。 学生の絶えず増加する量は中国の外国会社の着実に増加する数によって程度に説明される、缶詰になる。 数年前に、ただあった 中国銀行、この頃は私に中国で作動する外国の銀行に勤めている5人の学生がある。 これらの財政の専門家は中国語のと同様、英語の新聞そして文書を読める必要がある。 幸いにもそれらのために、それらは英語が、この時点で、共通言語」。である会社で働く

難しさ
かもしれないようにそれが、中国語の少数の単語を話す機能あるまだ避けられないがありなさい。 しかし中国語の言語はなぜ私達のために習得しとてもにくいか。 「この言語は複雑な発音を使用する。 A different pronunciation has a different meaning. I think that is the most challenging part. The Chinese characters are hard to learn as well. A tip? Try to remember this: a character has basic strokes. After you remember the basic strokes, it becomes easier to learn and write the more complicated characters.”

Practice
“There are of course many ways to learn Chinese. Some teachers will push you very hard and after one day they will want you to learn sentences. I do not think this is the right way. If the pronunciation is not good, you will have a lot of problems later on. When you want to learn business Chinese, it is important that you cover some basics first. You need to learn and grasp the elementary grammar, before you can move forward to learning the business Chinese. The only difference is in the words, the grammar is the same.” Is that what Sally’s Chinese classes are all about?

Personal advice
“Personally I like to learn other languages. Therefore, our teachers must be able to speak at least one foreign language. If you are able to speak other languages as well, you have the ability to identify the differences. For example, if you come from Japan and you keep on making the same mistake over and over again, I can help you out better if I know your language. Because by knowing your language, I would understand why you make this mistake. Some of our teachers speak German and others speak English. The use of English is very limited in our classes though. I think that when you are, for example, from the Netherlands and your Chinese lessons are in English, you have to translate sentences twice. That is very difficult. That is why I use English only in the beginning of the course. The sooner you start talking Chinese in class, the faster you will master it.”

Go there
“Further, you need to go to China to seriously practice your tones and pronunciation. The best place to learn, would in my opinion be Beijing. In this city, the Mandarin is ‘accent-free’ and not too much people speak English. This way you are pushed to speak Chinese everywhere, all the time. Before you know it, your Chinese will be at such a level, that you do not need your pocket dictionary anymore!”

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