Are you still fond
of learning chinese?
Do you still keep
practicing?
I hope so !
Do you think learn
chinese is hard?
Yes, chinese
language is not so easy to learn. It is not as easy as we learn english, right?
But, if you have a
strong will and a hard effort to learn, nothing is impossible, right?
During working in
the field of chinese tutoring, I discovered that most of the chinese learners
who learned chinese as the autodidactic learners often faced 4 main difficulties
in chinese learning.
What difficulties?
Mainly are these 4
subjects:
1. Tone
2. Hanyu Pinyin
3. Character writing
4. Grammar
Yes, exactly !
Tone and hanyu
pinyin spelling method are the basic foundations that we must learn first in the
chinese learning. You have to master these well before you can continue to the
next subjects. So these are the first steps to learn. It needs quite a long
time to practice until you fully understand about it.
As you know, chinese
language is a language which is focused on tone. Different tones make different
meanings. Same tones with different characters also make different meanings.
So, It’s very important that you must learn it hard.
We can not jump as
much as we like in learning, cause everything has its step. There are rules in
learning. This is the reason why the autodidactic learners can not master it well,
because they don’t know about the rules and the steps. Furthermore, the
autodidactic learners learn it alone without the guidance of a tutor.
Learning grammar
and how to write the character are the same, too. There are rules too. The
learners surely need a tutor’s guidance.
Dear chinese
learners,
Remember, not all
subjects you can learn it alone just by yourself, no matter how hard you are
learning and how high spirit you are having.
What subjects that
you can not learn it alone without tutor?
Those four subjects
the above-mentioned !
Some learners said,
we can learn it on youtube by ourselves.
Yes, that’s right.
There are modules in youtube.
But, who will
correct you, if your tone and pinyin are wrong? None !
So, can you be
sure, that your tone and your pinyin are already correct?
Some learners will
say: I just want to learn speaking only is enough, the other are not important.
Absolutely wrong !
The chinese
learning have 4 main pillars:
2. Reading and writing
3. Grammar and vocabulary
4. Tone and Hanyu Pinyin spelling method
2. Reading and writing
3. Grammar and vocabulary
4. Tone and Hanyu Pinyin spelling method
These 4 main
pillars are one unity that can not be separated and are
interconnected and related to each other.
We
can not learn it separately. We can not choose which one we want to learn,
cause they are one unity. You learn one, you have to learn the other three too.
Have
you seen any people, which can speak only, but can not read and write? There are so
many in all over the world.
Those
people are the real example of the ones which learned chinese uncompletely,
always chose in learning. Have they mastered chinese well? Certainly, not !
Why
do we have to be like them? They are just
the same like the illiterate people !
Now,
I want to teach you, how to measure your achievement in chinese learning.
You
can measure your own achievement easily by this method:
2. If somebody speaks chinese with you, can you understand what he said?
3. Can you make a simple chinese sentence without making any mistakes on grammar and vocabulary?
4. Can you read and understand a simple children story for about 50% minimal?
If
you have learned chinese for some periods of time or have learned for a long
time, but you still can not meet these four items, that means you have no
achievement on your learning. Or you just make a little achievement but not significant.
There
were so many autodidact learners telling about their difficulties in learning
these subjects.
So,
this matter brings me an idea to write this. I hope all of you that are having
the same problem with them, from now on already know and understand how to seek
a solution.
Wish
you luck in learning !
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