Learning to speak Chinese is no easy job, but it is extraordinarily interesting to study such a dissimilar language. There is a variety of Chinese language software computer programs, you could attend a course, or even make your way to Hong Kong or China to study!
Of course, there are a lot of benefits to speaking Chinese even if it is at a basic skill level:
You open doors by merely having a try at speaking Chinese, even if you pronounce words badly and get the tones wrong. As few Westerners even try, you stand out from the crowd.
There are many jobs, in intercontinental trade and additional fields, where knowing how to speak Chinese is essential. For some jobs, being able to read may be required. Reading Chinese is at a much higher level of difficulty than speaking it, but indubitably far more jobs are available if you can read as well as speak. By the way, there are two kinds of written Chinese: characters and pinyin, which makes use of the characters of our alphabet.
There are also many forms of the Chinese language. Most known and most widely spoken is Mandarin Chinese, while Cantonese is next most popular. More than a billion people speak some form of Chinese, and the preponderance of them speak Mandarin.
Most Westerners learn Mandarin. I once determined to study Mandarin but by mistake I actually took lessons in Cantonese for a little. This was before the internet. I don't think this error would take place now. Here is how it came about: one spring I was in Paris, studying French as a university student. My father, who spoke Mandarin, had business that would take him to Hong Kong. He told me that I could meet him there, and that he would cover the costs if I began learning to speak Mandarin while I was still in France.
I thought that sounded pretty good so I found my way to one of the main language schools in Paris. They introduced me to an aged Chinese gentleman, and I studied with him for several weeks. I struggled with the tones especially.
But when I got to Hong Kong and met my father, I greeted him in what I thought was good Mandarin. My father looked blank. So I began counting to ten, figuring that would prove I was speaking Mandarin. "That is Cantonese," my father said in astonishment. It turned out that everything I had learned was Cantonese.
And all was not lost. As it happened, the process of learning tones did help me to speak Mandarin much better.
Now, with the internet, you have a vast resource for learning Chinese. I am resuming the study of Mandarin again, using a program called Rocket Chinese. However you choose to learn Chinese, you won't learn Chinese fast in the sense of becoming fluent incredibly quickly, but you can pick up enough to have a lot of fun, or maybe even get a better job.
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