But if you don't, then try connecting with language partners online. I'm on a university campus that has an English language school for foreigners associated with it, so I encounter numerous Chinese people nearly every day, in my daily life here. I also recommend getting feedback from native speakers on your pronunciation. There are significant differences for many of these sounds, from English. Don't be deceived by things written as familiar letters like "d", "t", etc. Keep in mind, it's not just the tones that make Chinese hard, the consonant sounds are VERY different from English. Don't just listen passively but listen actively, paying close attention the sounds and tones and structure. I also recommend starting to listen to some Mandarin Chinese probably several months before you start trying to learn. Learning Pinyin and pronunciation are hard. You need to master Pinyin and pronunciation before and get a good input method set up before starting the course. For German, Spanish, and Portuguese I did the "forward" courses first and then went back to the reverse courses for extra practice.įor the Chinese course in particular though, I want to emphasize, the course is not good as a standalone course. Chinese and Japanese would be my fourth and fifth languages, respectively. Perhaps my experience is different because I am experienced with language learning and have a good sense of how I need to approach learning a language to make it work. I have worked with the reverse courses in many languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, German, and Portuguese. I actually find the reverse courses very useful.
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