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Here Are Tips to Learn Mandarin
By:Laurianne Sumerset

Mandarin is one of the most useful languages to learn. Notice that there are so many people or should I say, with a large part of the world can able to speak it. It doesn't hurt either that a lot of businesses are now moving operations in China. In a survey of experienced Mandarin speakers, these tips turned out to be the most frequently dispensed when advising non-speakers to become more interested in getting acquainted with the language.

1. Get involved in a local group with plenty of Chinese members. This one should vary depending on your locale, but the idea is the same. The more you can practice your Mandarin around better speakers than you, the faster your improvement is likely to be.

2. Start with the spoken language and save the written for later. Spoken Mandarin is very straightforward and resembles English sentence construction in a lot of ways, making it easier to get into than the written counterpart.

3. Pay strict attention to the tones. Unlike many languages, you can't learn decent Mandarin while sticking to rudimentary tones - the language just doesn't work that way. As such, learn them and practice as much as you can.

4. Use a good language learning software with a wide range of components, such as audio and interactive exercises, for a complete learning experience. That's one of software's innate strengths - why not take advantage of it.

It is really a good thing to learn different language in order for us to understand other people who are not that fluent in english. And Mandarin is one of those language that needs to be learn, we all know that most of the people around the world came from China. It would better if we know their language too.

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