How to learn Chinese well in the shortest time?

Chinese is notorious for being one of the toughest languages to master. While that notion isn’t completely untrue, that doesn’t mean its impossible to master. It just requires more time, effort and dedication than other languages. But if a language that offers a variety of great benefits requires you to be a little more dedicated, then it does not seem that difficult anymore. Since the 1950s, simplified Chinese characters have been promoted for use by the government of the People’s Republic of China, while traditional characters remain in use in Taiwan, Singapore and other countries with a significant amount of Chinese speaking populations such as Malaysia. The written form, using the logograms known as Chinese characters, is shared by literate speakers of unintelligible dialects.

Find conversation partners for yourself to start talking in Chinese. 

Begin your search from the neighbourhood, by attending a Chinese get-together, shopping in a Chinese grocery shop, volunteering for the Chinese community around you. In absence of all these, you could find one online at Hellotalk, Italki, Conversationpartner, Languagepartner, Tandem both as paid and free help.

Don’t feel shy to make mistakes. 

Beginners must give away the inhibition of making mistakes. If it’s going to deter you to talk; you will never be able to talk! So I suggest,  embrace your mistakes, know it’s okay to make mistakes during learning, and trust yourself to be better with each passing day.

Join a group course. 

I recommend all serious learners of Chinese to opt for classroom study, online or offline, but in group sessions. In this manner you would have multiple people to learn with and you won’t feel awkward making mistakes around them.

Maintain a journal or a diary conversation. 

When you are learning a new language you need to gradually step up your learning. The first step should be starting to talk in small sentences that help you convey the same meaning as the complex ones. Fill your diary or journal with connectors, fillers, commonly used phrases instead of just words!

Read aloud. 

Read the newly acquired vocabulary loudly to yourself in the mirror or to your pet or a plant to feel secure while making mistakes in pronunciation. Try talking in sentences as though you are conversing with someone. Read the transcript of the audio clips you have heard numerous times before, and try to talk along with the audio picking on accent and pronunciation.

Shadowing. 

To stay interested in learning Chinese by keeping it light! Watch Chinese movies with subtitles in English or your native tongue(if available)and enable Chinese titles to movies in English and your native tongue(if available). Speak up the dialogues as if you were the original speaker, maintaining the tonal variation, pitch, accent and pronunciation. 

Chinese is a language spoken by over 1.2 billion people over the world. The earliest Chinese written records are Shang dynasty-era oracle bone inscriptions, which can be dated to 1250 BCE. Standard Chinese, based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin, was adopted in the 1930s and is now an official language of both the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China on Taiwan, one of the four official languages of Singapore, and one of the six official languages of the United Nations. 

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