I want to learn Chinese...Any1 know any good websites?

Question

I currently speak English and turkish and I'm going to take french this spring at my university, but I'm wanting to learn chinese on the side seen I really like the country, culture and ppl :) So, anyone know any good websites or something I could look at?

Okay, I'm starting to think about taking Chinese 1 next semester....However, I'm afraid it will be too hard, and I'll fail or something...does anyone know how hard it is or about how much materiel is covered in a level one class?

Answer 1

I've answered this before, here's what I wrote:

try http://www.chinese-tools.com/learn/chinese

won't be easy but it is free, it's step-by-step, similar to how I first learnt, but it's a start, also check out your local library, see if you can find Chinese Reader books 1-4

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Learning Chinese from a website will probably be insufficient for casual conversation because it is a tonal language, and it's better if you hear native speakers speaking the language so that you can "imitate" their sounds. As others have mentioned, I have heard that Rosetta Stone is a good software to learn another language, and it will probably be the same for Chinese.

As it is very different from English, French, and Turkish, I would definitely recommend taking classes in person. There are specified ways to write the characters (i.e. the order of which strokes you write first, in which direction). Since it isn't based on an alphabet, if you don't know how to read a word, the only way to know is by asking someone who does know how to read the word (unless you employ modern technologies to electronically scan and "read" the word)... or if there's Pinyin beside the word, etc. And, as I said, Chinese is a tonal language and you must hear exactly how the word is pronounced in order to be able to efficiently communicate verbally (otherwise, the meaning of your words will be completely different!).

These days, as China is predicted to be the world's next superpower, there are more places in the Western World where you can learn Chinese, so I'm sure that you won't have too difficult of a problem finding a suitable teacher.

Answer 4

You should use Rosetta Stone its a program to teach you the language you want to learn and u could also get it in french too if u want to learn faster. Check out on the interent where u can order because they ordered it my school and im impressed

Answer 5

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Answer 6

No websites BUT there is a BRILLIANT software you can get to learn it... ROSETTA STONE... I have it, bought it on eBay actually. It's VERY interactive and you'll learn the vocabulary pretty quickly.

Answer 7

i would take a class on it, listening to it really helps, and interacting with people.

Answer 8

http://www.freechineselessons.com/

Answer 9

www.chinkspeak.com