Chinese people have a bad heart so how can you ever feel good about studying chinese?

Question

I can learn chinese from a website, but the pronunciaation is hard and chinese people still laugh at me.so?

should i keep studying it...., these chinese people are very mean.They laugh at me all the time. Are the Chinese people not warm and kind people? Then, why do they say they are. I never laugh at them when they speak english. I'm tired of them laughing at me, like i'm stupid.

Answer 1

hey it's good u r trying to learn Chinese... us chinks might be laughing at u because we r happy to see u trying to learn.. if we were mean we wouldn't even try and teach u..... appreciate

Answer 2

It's true Chinese people laugh a lot when you try to speak Chinese, but it's definitely not true they are mean, generally speaking!

They have many reasons to laugh: they are happy you try to speak their language (because most Westerners give up before they even try!), you sound funny (you do, just accept it!), you speak funny sentences when you make small, tiny mistakes (if you knew what you were really saying, you would laugh too!), they are not used to hearing the funny accents when people try to talk their language (you probably laugh a lot at people on TV talking English with various funny accents, so you can imagine how funny it sounds if you very seldom hear it, or maybe for the first time in your life, as is actually often the case in China!), sometimes they laugh just to save their face, because they can't show that they don't understand what you're saying (they just don't want to embarrass you, even if you might think the opposite ...), and so on.

My wife is Chinese, and I have many times met family and friends in China and met them online. Every time I try to practice some Chinese, and sure, they laugh a lot. I just laugh and smile back, and so we are very soon more friends than we were before (and more merry and cheerful!).

If you meet a laugh with a laugh, as the Chinese would do (actually, it's bad manner to be angry at them, and anyway, they wouldn't understand why!), you won't feel stupid or angry, you will make friends with many people and you will be more happy. Then you will also realize how warm and kind many, many Chinese people are!

Simply as that!

Answer 3

There are a lot of people in China - they can't ALL be bad.

I am trying to learn Chinese, but I can only read it right now. In all of the books, it emphasizes how you cannot learn it from a book only, that you need a teacher to help with pronunciation. Some books go to great lengths to differentiate the pronunciations of what appears to be the same word... bao, bào, báo, baò, baó, bàó, &c... vastly different meanings! Be careful! Even if your website has audio examples, you may need another ear to maye sure you are repeating it the same.

Also, make sure you are speaking the right dialect. There is one writing system, but several spoken languages.

Explain to them - in English - that you are trying, and would appreciate their support, if not their help and encouragement.

Maybe you can work out an exchange with one of those Chinese people - sit for an hour every day and talk in each others' language. You can both improve.

Answer 4

There is only so much of any foreign language that you can learn from a website or out of a book, or from a computer program.

No matter how good that interactive web site or computer program is, the benefit that you can get from it will be very limited at best.

"American people" cannot be generalized about from contact with my neanderthal kin, thank God, and you cannot make a generalization about the 1,260,000,000 Chinese people that grace the globe by your experiences with even a few hundred of them that you have daily contact with.

That said, I have a particular interest in Vietnamese cuisine. If I was trying to learn to speak Vietnamese, I would explain that to the staff. I do try to pronounce the names of dishes that I like and I ask them to "please correct me, as I do not want to butcher your beautiful language." They are pleased by my interest in their language, culture and cuisine and are more than generous in helping my pronunciation and explaining how dishes are usually eaten and what goes well together and so forth. You might try that approach.

I am starting my second year of Spanish study in a classroom, and the approach that I use works well. I say something (in English) like "Please excuse my poor Spanish, and correct my mistakes," and then I launch into my clunky academic Spanish. Be the listener Mexican, Cuban, Puerto Rican or Castillian, they are almost always receptive to my clumsy attempts to communicate in Spanish.

You might also search Craig's list (craigslist.com) or Yahoo meetup groups to see if there is a Chinese language conversation club near you that you could join. If these sources don't pan out, ask at your public library - but ask the librarian, not the clerk.


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If you want AN answer, go to Yahoo answers. If you want an answer that will actually adress the question that you are asking, ask a librarian.

Answer 5

No offense, but this question gives the impression of being prejudiced. There is no way that you have met enough Chinese people to say that, as a whole, they have bad hearts.

Perhaps you have met a few people who were unkind. Believe me, English speakers don't always treat Chinese people who are learning English with respect either. I'm sorry your language-learning experiences have been uncomfortable, but I assure you that learning a new language is a worthwhile pursuit. Keep trying.

Answer 6

you have NEVER laughed at someone's accent when they speak english? when their accent is so thick that you can barely understand it? never joked about them with your friends?
what you need is to find someone who speaks chinese who is willing to sit down with you to help you. learn a language, especially chinese that is based on tones, is not ideal for learning of the internet.
and yes chinese people can be very warm and kind. i should know, im half chinese.

Answer 7

http://www.cucas.edu.cn/
I will suggest you to apply through CUCAS, CUCAS is a professional online platform for international students to apply for Chinese universities, it has a strong relationship with over 300 universities in China. They do not ask for any fee, the application fee is collect by them but only on behalf of the university, CUCAS also hold social activities for international students so they will not get bored, they always try to think as a foreigner and help international students to solve their problems. Very nice.

Answer 8

I find chinese people very kind and helpful to me speaking mandarin...maybe you are using the wrong tones....Tones are the most difficult part of the language for me..I know it's tough.
Sometimes the best you can do is laugh with them at yourself.

Answer 9

Maybe the american accent when speaking chinese is actually funnier than the chinese accent when speaking english. Chinese accent can sound pretty funny sometimes.

Answer 10

maybe you're not saying what you actually think you're saying. they could just be laughing at what you're saying and not how you're saying it. also, you shouldn't judge an entire race of people just because you've been laughed at by them. maybe they're not the only people laughing at you.