TL;DR Summary Chinese (Mandarin) requires a different mindset: you’ll need patience, repetition, and lots of exposure to tones, characters, and context. Don’t expect fast gains. Start with lots of listening and reading,…
TL;DR Summary Chinese, Japanese, and Korean each have their unique traits and challenges. Regardless, all three can be learned effectively through consistent reading and listening. Knowing one language can help with the…
I studied Chinese in 1968. At the time I was working for the Canadian Government, the Ministry of Trade and Commerce’s Trade Commissioner Service to be exact. Canada was preparing to recognize…
The first thing about Chinese is that it’s not as difficult as people say. It has certain difficulties. I would say difficulty number one is the characters. It’s a lot of…
I lived in Hong Kong from ’68 to ’70, two and a half years, but my main task for the first year there was to learn Mandarin. Thereafter I worked at the…
