Mastering Chinese can be helped by a strong desire to learn the language, time, diligence, attentiveness, good memory and curiosity.
In the beginning, it will be difficult with pronunciation, writing characters, tones in words, because Chinese has 5 tones. If you pronounce the wrong tone, the word will have a different meaning. You can compare it to the first time you peel a chile pepper with your hands, it’s very painful, uncomfortable and your hands burn for the first half hour. In the first month of learning, everything will be very difficult, your head will boil from the rules, you can get tired of saying the same word many times, and it still sounds wrong, to write hieroglyphics – will not give pleasure, because you do not understand and do not see what the word consists of, but gradually you start to like writing characters, you start to understand what the word is, you get to pronounce it in a way that the Chinese understand, you say phrases, you learn Chenyu (this is a ready expression), you understand what the Chinese say to you or watch movies in Chinese and understand the meaning.
Step by step your language level starts to rise and you start to become more and more interested in this culture, history, literature, traditions, legends, holidays. You start to find out what events take place in your city dedicated to the culture or Chinese language, or maybe they organize different contests.
Each person overcomes his or her own difficulties in learning Chinese. A teacher can help you learn faster, because he or she has been through all the stages and support you.
5 strategies to learn Chinese
Every person sets new goals, such as learning Chinese and here are the main strategies that can help you learn Chinese:
1) Find time and devote at least 1 hour every day
2) Be curious and inquisitive and ask questions about China and read about the country
3) Future connect with Chinese at work, make friends, go to this country
4) To spell characters 50 times
5) Listen to interesting programs, watch videos or TV series in Chinese. Then it will be easy to learn Chinese