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Tips to Help Beginners Learn Chinese

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Dariya Lopukhina
Tips to Help Beginners Learn Chinese

One of the common challenges the beginners face while learning Chinese is the overwhelming amount of info they need to remember. Chinese teachers and learning resources tend to teach too much content that is often not immediately useful for learners.

So don’t try to learn everything at once! Try to reduce the items you learn. The essential aspects your need to memorize are verbs, adjectives, nouns, and grammar:

  • Verbs and adjectives are quite easy to grasp as there are not so many of them. About 300 words in total, maybe 1000 if you really want to learn all of them.
  • Grammar is also quite simple. There are no tenses, no plurals, no genders, and no conjugations.
  • The problem is the nouns. Learning programs usually contain many nouns we never use.

It's recommended to focus your memorizing efforts on verbs, adjectives, grammar, and 2 or 3 hundreds of nouns in the first few months. Build your list of most important words and practice putting these words into simple sentences. Repetition helps the vocabulary stick in your mind, so use the same words over and over again.

Another important thing is that pure willpower is not enough to keep you going in the long run. You need something that "forces" you to learn regularly and to stay motivated. For me, motivation comes from seeing results. That’s why it’s good to have some online tool with a dashboard that tracks your progress and motivates you to reach your study goals.

Check out this guide to learning Chinese for more helpful tips and insights.

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