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Be born to chinese-speaking parents. Learning the language as a baby is the best way known.

Otherwise, find a total immersion program, where you have to live, eat, work, and function speaking chinese only for as much as possible.

2007-07-12 02:53:03 · answer #1 · answered by Ralfcoder 7 · 0 0

Engage a private tutor and practice with native speakers and other students of Chinese language.

If you have the resources, you should be able to find a deep immersion service. You not only learn the basics, but you go to lunch, go shopping, and get together while speaking the language the whole time.

2007-07-12 09:54:08 · answer #2 · answered by Buttercup 6 · 0 0

Go to China if a have friend there and speak her only in Chinese language by committing all mistakes You will learn the LAN . within a short time All the best Yours VRVRAO

2007-07-15 08:17:15 · answer #3 · answered by Raghavendra R 5 · 0 0

I used RosettaStone software, which helped me learn chinese in months. I got it based on recommendations at http://www.useful-info-for-you.com/learn-chinese/ which also has some great articles, and links to the RosettaStone website. The software is a combination of audio and visual learning.

2007-07-14 14:07:43 · answer #4 · answered by jasonm9876 2 · 0 0

If you live in a big city, see if there's a chinese american cultural group. They might offer classes, or you might find someone willing to help you with a book of your own.

2007-07-12 10:49:08 · answer #5 · answered by MorningG 2 · 0 0

Get a CD and learn it by playing it over and over again.Then try to mix with people who can only speak Mandarin.

2007-07-12 10:01:31 · answer #6 · answered by LiangMoi 5 · 0 0

buy a book that can teach u how to speak Chinese easily.

2007-07-12 09:51:14 · answer #7 · answered by krupt911 2 · 0 0

There are services online that teach you chinese using Skype, so that you can contact a chinese tutor and practice everyday. Check this article:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/04/30/HNskypelearnchinese_1.html

Interested in learning Chinese, but don't have the money or time to study in China? Some teachers are turning to Skype for help.

The high sound quality offered by Skype's VoIP (voice over IP) software, as well as the proliferation of high-speed Internet connections in China and elsewhere, make it possible to dial up a Chinese tutor who can help teach you the basics of Chinese or polish your language skills ahead of that big business trip.

Stephanie Xu, a tutor in Beijing, has been using Skype to teach Chinese for a little more than one month. She found her first online student, a U.S. businessman who already spoke some Chinese, through an advertisement she placed on the Web site of That's Beijing, a local English-language magazine.

"For teaching daily conversation, Skype is very, very good," she said.

Xu charges 80 renminbi ($10.35) per hour-long Skype session. That's less than the 100 renminbi she charges her offline students for face-to-face sessions, but she saves time by avoiding the one-hour commute into downtown Beijing from her home in the city's northern suburbs.

On the other hand, getting paid can be tricky. Xu's first student sent a letter with 800 renminbi in cash after two lessons, paying for subsequent lessons in advance. "In the future, I'm thinking about using PayPal or Western Union," she said, noting that bank transfers to China can be complicated and difficult to arrange.

Freelance tutors such as Xu aren't the only ones using Skype to teach Chinese. Language schools are also taking advantage of the technology.

EChineseLearning, in Beijing, offers daily Chinese classes for a monthly subscription fee of $100. The 50-minute lessons are taught by teachers from Beijing Language and Culture University and other schools that work for eChineseLearning on a part-time basis. The classes are all taught online, using the voice chat features of Skype, Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger, or Microsoft's Windows Live Messenger.

"We mostly use Skype because the sound quality is better," said Michael Zhong, an eChineseLearning sales executive.

Founded last year, eChineseLearning currently has about 100 students ranging in age from children to adults, mostly from the United States, Zhong said. They pay for their lessons using PayPal or Google Checkout.

Beijing may be half a world away from students in the United States, but the time difference is well suited to evening lessons for U.S. students, Zhong said, noting that 8 a.m., Beijing time, is equivalent to 8 p.m. in New York or 5 p.m. in San Francisco.

Building a business teaching Chinese online can be difficult, especially for freelancers such as Xu who lack the deeper pockets of a language school. Seeing promise in Skype as a teaching medium for conversational Chinese, she posted several ads on Internet forums hoping to attract potential students, without success. "Nobody tried to contact with me," she said.

Without the money for her own advertising campaign, Xu is looking for creative ways to promote her business and remains enthusiastic about the potential of online tutoring.

"I'm going to focus on Skype tutoring in the future," she said.

2007-07-12 10:32:00 · answer #8 · answered by pmarreroc1 1 · 0 1

Go to china for some time

2007-07-12 11:09:51 · answer #9 · answered by Rana 7 · 0 0

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