How do you learn Chinese easily? I felt so hard: (

Your profile said you are a Chinese, but you don't speak Mandarin?

Anyway, back to the language learning. I am sure you can pick up well as you can speak English. They share a simple grammar structure of "Subject + Verb + Object". Unlike Japanese, its sentence structure forms by "Subject + Object + Verb" mostly.

Feel confident now?

Compared to English that a language relies on spelling and you can pronounce words according to how they spell while affix and suffix will give you hints on vocabularies' meaning. This is the magic of 26 letters.


For Chinese, it doesn't have letters, instead the language is written in symbols. (I know speaking is important but without knowing the words, you have nothing to associate with your memory. Trust me, there isn't any short cut) So how can a person remember thousands of symbols in their life time?

There is a magic of 26 letters in English. Chinese has its magic as well. Most of the words (not sentence) are written in one single symbol or two symbols. If you want to pick up Chinese quickly, study the words which built by one single symbol first. These words are the root of the later stage. Keep writing and speaking them until you can remember their pronunciation and meaning correctly. Afterward, you can try the words which consist of two or more symbols. The good news is most of the words which consist of two symbols, their pronunciation and meaning are actually borrow from each symbol to associate a new meaning.

You may feel confusing about what I am saying, check out the video from TED.com via the link below, you will know what I am talking about.

http://www.ted.com/talks/shaolan_learn_ … _ease.html

Buy yourself a good Chinese language textbook and dictionary and learn it in systematical way. learn the words with one single symbols first as your foundation then move to words with multiple symbols. Don't forget to write them in correct stroke orders.

Wish my reply is helpful.