Casey Said:

Would like to learn Chinese language?

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I am a native speaker of Chinese (I'm from Taiwain), and I am currently learning French.

I think you can start with some language courses online. They often give you the basic survival phrases or words. Practice more on the tones, because people might get the wrong word if you pronounce the tones wrong. Also, pay special attention on the composition of the Chinese characters; it can help you remembering and writing it (either Traditional or Simplified). Furthermore, if you want to pick it up, read something in Chinese and listen to radio programs in Chinese would help a lot, even if you don't understand them. You can also try talking to yourself in the Chinese you know. You have to create a Chinese environment. You also need to practice writing the Chinese characters you have just learned again and again (I don't know about the pupils in China, but pupils in Taiwan repeat writing the same character more than 20 times and the same words 2 to 4 times, and that is how we remember how to write the characters). Finally, you need to keep practicing writing and using the new Chinese words you have learned.

Peter Said:

how can i learn chinese language?

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This is my message:yichun_jasmine@yahoo.com.tw

Though I am not very good at English,but I can speak Chinese very well.Because I am from Taiwan.
You can ask me if you have any question about Chinese,even we can chat to each other in Chinese.

Jessie Said:

Learn Chinese or Japanese language first?

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One thing that everyone up to this point has failed to mention to you is that appart from the writing system, there is NO linguistic similarity at all between Chinese and Japanese. They are from two completely seperate language families. There are a few borrowings from Chinese in Japanese and vice versa, but the grammar, vocabulary, and phonetics are not similar at all. What you really need to ask yourself in deciding which one to study first is 1. which is more interesting to you and 2. which is more useful?

Learning the Kanji characters in one might be marginally beneficial to the other (just in terms of recognizing them) but neither the pronunciation nor the utilization are anything alike and Chinese has thousands more than Japanese. In comparing the two, Japanese is probably the easier one to learn, so that might influence your decision as well, but honestly Chinese and Japanese are as different from each other as German is from Arabic.

Terrance Said:

Chinese immersion to learn language?

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Beijing,Guangzhou,shanghai,shenzhen.....… think it the best place to work,but chengdu is the best city to live.if you want to go to China,it's better learn some survial mandarin first.recommend a online Singapore mandarin school for your reference,edison mandarin.one to one teaching,Chinese native teacher,and low price.hope useful for you.
www.leranchinese.sg.and there are more tip for travel,work,live in China.

Marion Said:

How to Learn Chinese Language..?

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For any language,if you want to learn it,there is no short cut.You must practice,practice,and practice.I suggest you tuning in cctv-9 in which there is a chinese teaching programme hosted by a canadian guy,i forget his english name,but his chinese name is ???DaShan?.

Rachel Said:

how many fortune cookies would it have to buy to learn the whole chinese language?

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This is a complex question. You need to know 3000 characters (or ideograms) to read the Chinese newspaper, but Chinese has way more than 3000 words, you need to know combinations of ideograms. A well-known 12-volume reference Chinese dictionary lists over 370,000 different word definitions, but I don't think you would find all of them in fortune cookies! A common 1-volume dictionary lists about 80,000 different words in Chinese (and 11,000 ideograms).

Now back to your question: you would then need to open at least that many different cookies to learn Chinese, but assuming that you are going to the restaurant and getting cookies randomly, this is a different probabilistic problem : how many cookies would you need to open on average to sample all the Chinese words? The answer is way way more than that, because you will most likely pick up the same word several times over. The precise answer is probably meaningless.