Hoofd Chinees in China
Één van de tendensen inherent aan de economische groei aan China, is het feit dat more and more mensen Chinese taalklassen nemen. De beste manier om dat te doen? Ga naar China en bespreking naar Sally Zhang. Zij werkt als Directeur van het Programma bij de Chinese organisatie van het Onderwijs van de Taal in Peking. Gemakshalve gevestigd in het midden van commercieel van Peking centrum.
Peking is naar huis aan het grootste deel van haar studenten. „Op dit ogenblik, onderwijzen wij Chinees aan 82 studenten. Meestal Westerlingen, maar ook mensen die uit Japan en Korea komen. De onophoudelijk stijgende hoeveelheid studenten kan aan een graad, door het gestadig stijgende aantal buitenlandse bedrijven in China worden verklaard. Een paar jaar geleden, slechts waren er de Chinese bank, tegenwoordig heb ik vijf studenten die voor buitenlandse banken werken die in China werken. Deze financiële beroeps moeten kranten en documenten in het Engels evenals in Chinees kunnen lezen. Gelukkig voor hen, werken zij bij bedrijven waar het Engels is, op dit punt in time, de gemeenschappelijkste taal.“
Moeilijkheden
Ben dat aangezien het kan, de capaciteit om een paar woorden van Chinees te spreken nog onvermijdelijk is. Maar waarom de Chinese taal zo moeilijk om voor ons is te beheersen? „Deze taal gebruikt ingewikkelde uitspraken.
Een verschillende uitspraak heeft een verschillende betekenis. 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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