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| How to Learn Chinese Online Effectively
By:Charles Liuniu Brown

As the development of China, more and more people choose to learn Chinese, for visiting the old country, for future career development and so on. And many people choose to learn Chinese in Beijing, which is the best way to learn Zhong wen or Putonghua, for Beijing will provide putonghua learners best Mandarin learning environments than any other cities over the world.

However, there are also many people want to learn Chinese online free, and there are various Chinese learning materials online, how to choose the best ones to learn Chinese effectively? So this page will guide Mandarin learners how to learn Mandarin online effectively.

First of all, find a Chinese learning forum to learn from other Chinese learners, and share with them how to learn Mandarin; you can get real useful information from them, especially those learners who reach very high level of Chinese. Learning from others who can do better than you is a good way to improve yourself, for they are the same level with you before, and now through their efforts, they improve to higher level, so communicate with them, and then figure out the best way for you to learn Chinese, not everyone learn language the same way.

Second, read Zhongwen articles online each day, learn Mandarin day by day, read basic Chinese materials and check out the important Chinese characters and try to remember them. Most Chinese beginners will learn basic Putonghua phrases and sentences at first. And it is said that there are 3 key points to learn Chinese, one is Chinese Pinyin, one is Chinese characters, and the other one is Chinese pronunciation. So when you brown online Chinese learning materials, you will pay special attention on these three key points.

Third, register Weibo, which is China Twitter, and communicate with those people with the same interests with you in Mandarin, maybe you can make many Chinese friends there, which can do you great help at learning Putonghua, interests will arouse your motivate, so find what you are interested at, and communicate with them, no matter they are local Chinese people or Chinese learners like you, communicate with them in Mandarin, just try to forget your mother tone when you communicate wither others in Chinese, and try your best to find chances to practice what you've learned online.

Above all, in order to learn Chinese online effectively, you have to practice more and more, don't afraid of making mistakes, mistakes will improve you.


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