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5 Golden Rules To Learn To Speak Mandarin Chinese

So you want to learn to speak mandarin Chinese? If you’ve spoken to any native speakers, or non-natives who are learning mandarin, you’ll have probably been given more advice that you know what to do with.
To save you from becoming dizzy with confusion, we’ve put together 5 golden rules every beginner should follow when [...]

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Learning Mandarin Chinese – Challenges & Rewards

As we all know, Chinese is a tonal language, which basically means that tones are pre-assigned to different characters. There are five tones used in Chinese, and these tones really have nothing to do with the position of the character in the sentence nor do written characters reveal how the tones are supposed to be [...]

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Mandarin Lessons – Learn Chinese Online!

Mandarin is one of the most difficult languages to learn but one of the most fulfilling once mastered.  Learning Mandarin can also be extremely expensive especially if you decide to have private lessons.  There are however, some good online resources to help you understand the basics.  One of the main advantages of using online resources [...]

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