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★ 3.8 (21 ratings) 8,244 students enrolled. (2018-07-18)

What you'll learn

  • Understand the only language without alphabets
  • know Chinese language structure, why there are many callings.
  • know the basic grammars (Chinese language is straight forward, you can see there are minimum rules of grammar or NO grammar in Certain Senses)
  • know basic rules of how the Characters are created
  • know basic 7 rules of how the Characters are written
  • speak out 100 sentences covering 10 topics, your survival guidance in China
  • know the right path for your further study, better with us, of course
  • know the Pinyin (Pronunciation System, Spell Sound literally)
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  • Balls on 25/06/2019 - 16:46
    +17

    chinese is really tough to learn man

    unless youre chinese

    • Taegukgi on 25/06/2019 - 16:48
      +3

      Korean is harder. Easy to read and write but grammatically one of the most challenging languages to learn.

      • Munki on 25/06/2019 - 20:14
        +3

        Nope. Chinese is way harder.

        • helloeatty on 25/06/2019 - 20:38
          +2

          Chinese is much much harder , according to me a native speaker

      • Bommi on 26/06/2019 - 09:23
        +2

        I find both Korean Chinese challenging. Korean is easier writing but grammar sooo complicated and there are soooo many ways to say one sentence by changing the verbs depending on the relationship with this person, your intention etc.
        Chinese grammar is simple but writing and tones are frustrating. Getting one tone wrong they don't understand. You also need to know about 5k letters to be able to read some articles in Chinese with no issue.

        I stopped learning a language now. It's good fun but life is too short.

      • [Deactivated] on 26/06/2019 - 10:12
        +3

        Is Korean tonal?

        Tonal languages are, by definition, harder. Many people who didn’t grow up with tonal language skills simply will never be able to hear the differences between tones.

        I spent more than a year doing Chinese classes and gave up because I’m tone deaf. When you literally can’t hear the difference between tones even after hundreds of hours of practice, then you’re not going to succeed.

        • AssamLaksa on 26/06/2019 - 11:46
          +1

          I relate to this on so many levels… Didn't pick up Chinese as a kid and trying to learn it as an adult is almost impossible because I can't differentiate the 4 tones either no matter how many times I listen to it… Thought I was the only one with this problem!

          • skittlebrau on 26/06/2019 - 12:39
            +1

            @AssamLaksa: I can somewhat differentiate the tones, but not in a consistent way. I couldn't imagine even trying to learn Cantonese with its 6–7 tones depending on dialect!

          • [Deactivated] on 26/06/2019 - 14:04
            +1

            @AssamLaksa: I used “tone drill” software to try to help.

            I put in a few hundred hours, and could barely get better than 50% correct. When there’s a one in four probability of getting it right by chance, that’s not great.

            • AssamLaksa on 26/06/2019 - 14:28

              @[Deactivated]: I was trying to learn it from Youtube. Admittedly hadn't put in hundreds of hours though.

              To this day, still can't differentiate when someone says "fried egg" (Jiān dàn) and "easy" (Jiǎn dān). However, once I built a small vocabulary of words, I found it more effective to rely on the words context in a sentence when I hear familiar terms. Except now I either understand the whole conversation topic or nothing makes sense lol

              What tone drill software did you use?

              • [Deactivated] on 26/06/2019 - 14:31

                @AssamLaksa: This was more than 10 years ago, so I don’t recall the software, and it may well not exist anymore.

                I can somewhat understand the meaning of sentences, picking out words and establishing context, but after more than a year of studying every single day, I pretty much plateaued at that level, and the total failure to recognise tones was mostly to blame.

        • sticky8anana on 26/06/2019 - 15:45

          agree tonal languages are a pain to learn, by the way the Vietnamese language is way more tonal but it uses ABC alphabet so it's easier to learn.

        • kiteo on 27/06/2019 - 11:13

          Tonal language kids are more likely to develop perfect pitch, apparently.

    • terrys on 25/06/2019 - 17:08
      -2

      Surely sentences such as " Where John had "had "had had"", Mary had had "had had had"." are easy to translate?

    • taki on 25/06/2019 - 20:27
      -2

      Not tougher than English for Chinese. :P

      • helloeatty on 25/06/2019 - 20:39

        Yes, considering it is compulsory subject in most Chinese schools nowadays, English is easier.

    • kiteo on 27/06/2019 - 11:11

      Chinese kids take years longer to master written language than kids learning alphabets.

      I'd ideally like to learn Chinese Mandarin, but this puts me right off. English native speaker here, I did study Thai for a while, a language with many spoken features similar to common Chinese languages (relatively speaking), speaking is fine, but at least it had an alphabet.

  • alvian on 25/06/2019 - 16:50

    Learn to speak 50 sentences in 90 minutes? Not even a Chinese child can learn that fast, unless you count trivial word substitutions as forming a new sentence.

    • Taegukgi on 25/06/2019 - 16:52
      +8

      你好 is one sentence.

      • chrisie on 25/06/2019 - 16:56

        Hello there

      • alvian on 25/06/2019 - 16:57

        And I guess you will count 你們好，我好，我們好，他也好，他們也好 as five sentences? That's my point, trivial word substitutions.

        • Taegukgi on 25/06/2019 - 16:59
          +8

          Congratulations. You have just learnt five sentences/phrases. Now you just need to learn when to use them.

  • payton on 25/06/2019 - 17:04
    +9

    thought the deal read "Basic Chinese for ABC" (aus born chinese) for a sec

    • TheOneWhoGotAway on 25/06/2019 - 19:13
      +1

      dam, that hits hard (as that book would be perfect for me…)

  • Jenny Death on 25/06/2019 - 17:06

    Friends, I'm suprised they don't list that it's Mandarin you'll be learning, as there's no one Chinese language.

    • alvian on 25/06/2019 - 17:24
      +2

      Mandarin is a dialect of Chinese. The Chinese language encompasses many dialects and regional variants. It is one language insofar as the written text is universally legible (until the communist "simplified" many characters) and the grammar standardised. The dialects however vary widely.

      • Munki on 25/06/2019 - 20:16

        Unless you write in Hong Kong Cantonese.

        • flud on 25/06/2019 - 20:58
          +1

          Aka Traditional Chinese

          • Munki on 25/06/2019 - 23:32

            @flud: No, it's more than just traditional vs simplified. Colloquialism in Cantonese does not translate to Mandarin very well.

    • Michaelz101 on 25/06/2019 - 17:25
      +1

      One language lots of different dialects. It’s still chinese mate. What about Arabic? Is there many different dialects or is there many Arabic languages?

      • Jenny Death on 25/06/2019 - 17:41
        +7

        Friend, the difference is arabic dialects are for the most part mutually intelligible, just like english. Cantonese and Mandarin are not mutually intelligible. While there are similar dialects like cantonese to hakka, theres only a half way overlap.
        If I was learning arabic I'd be fine with Eyptian, gulf or levantine as its close enough. If I was learning chinese and learned cantonese, then I wouldnt be fine.

        Fair enough on the dialect, bad wording on my behalf.

        • alvian on 25/06/2019 - 17:55

          Some regional English dialects are unintelligible and require subtitling and interpretating.

          Pronunciations in Chinese dialects vary widely but they shift mostly according to patterns. The shifts accumulate and produce the big difference you hear between the northern Mandarin and the southern Cantonese.

          Cantonese to Mandarin is easier than Mandarin to Cantonese. Mandarin lost half its tones and many consonants over time

      • skittlebrau on 26/06/2019 - 12:43

        I think what constitutes a language and a dialect is one of those debates that goes around in circles. That's why people usually make the joke that "a language is a dialect with an army and a navy.”

    • RanKKI on 25/06/2019 - 23:01

      It's not mandarin. It's more like Beijingese ( dialect of Chinese, people from Beijing ).
      because "哪儿" only exists in Beijingese, in Mandarin, we only say "哪里"

  • bailbondsh on 25/06/2019 - 17:12

    Thanks for this.

  • ylbeethoven on 25/06/2019 - 17:35
    +1

    It is better to find a Chinese partner to learn the language.

  • [Deactivated] on 25/06/2019 - 18:09

    Where is Brian?

  • sapsec on 25/06/2019 - 18:16
    -4

    Free and Chinese go together:)

  • Yummy on 25/06/2019 - 18:20
    -5

    Konichiwa, dealbot!

  • bdl on 25/06/2019 - 18:24
    -4

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  • The Value on 25/06/2019 - 18:27

    I,for one, welcome our new Chinese speaking overlords.

    As a experienced OZBer I can help them find the best baby formula and buy expensive cars.

    • CharityCase on 25/06/2019 - 19:24
      -1

      Asian Squat
      "Come on, gimme cheaper price, friend price kay? Yes No? Yes No!?"

  • John stephen on 25/06/2019 - 18:44

    I love to have this deal

  • AussieBahar on 25/06/2019 - 18:55

    谢谢您🙏

  • Aikafei on 25/06/2019 - 19:09

    Thanks.. just realised I already registered yesterday from here.. https://freebiesglobal.com/basic-chinese-abc-for-zero-beginn…

  • tardis3 on 25/06/2019 - 19:20

    Thank you

  • Javin on 25/06/2019 - 19:24
    -5

    Guys my suggestion is to get a chinese girl friend and you will learn atleast 50% mandrin..

    • Raymond1227 on 25/06/2019 - 20:11
      +1

      If I want to learn 5 different languages, should I find girlfriend from different countries… Funny argument..

    • johnwinkle on 25/06/2019 - 22:54

      Looks like you should try to get English down before tryiing Mandarin

  • submariner on 25/06/2019 - 19:29
    +4

    Doh mahhhh

    • homersyd on 25/06/2019 - 22:13
      +2

      bro i think that's Vietnamese…lmao

      • Machine on 26/06/2019 - 02:02
        +1

        haha. Dyou lei then

        • malaymail on 26/06/2019 - 08:12
          +2

          that's Cantonese XD

    • Yummy on 27/06/2019 - 13:08
      +1

      A vietnamese lady at work was so angry with a chinese guy as she thought he kept swearing infront of her. The guy was talking to another chinese person saying "Tong Mah". Which is translated as "understand", like in 'Do You Understand' (multiple times) in their convo.

      • submariner on 30/06/2019 - 14:59

        TONNNNG MAHHH!!! lol

  • lihelihe on 25/06/2019 - 19:29
    -4

    chinese is good

  • Diji on 25/06/2019 - 20:37
    +1

    the only language without alphabets

    What?

    • justausername on 25/06/2019 - 21:37

      instead, there are a million different scripts

  • wqt0806 on 25/06/2019 - 23:18

    Nooooo, English is much harder, if you remember some Chinese characters, you can composite words, phrase, and sentences.
    But every single English word is different!
    You only need 3000ish Chinese characters for daily use, but you need 8000+ for English

  • OrigamiRabbit on 25/06/2019 - 23:53
    +2

    “喜欢上一个人” This single sentence can possibly represent four totally different meanings in english.

    Those are translated as:
    1. Like someone (be fond of someone).
    2. Like to fxxk someone.
    3. Like the last one (the one in the previous relationship).
    4. Like to be alone (solitary).

  • shanus on 25/06/2019 - 23:54

    "I'm from the future. You should go to China."

    • MagicOZ on 26/06/2019 - 02:54

      I'm from the future, you becoming bald.

    • skittlebrau on 26/06/2019 - 12:45

      "Erlich Bachman, this is you as an old man. I'm ugly and I'm dead. Alone."

    • Yummy on 26/06/2019 - 16:13

      I'm from the future. You should go to Ur An Us.

  • xpllmmff on 26/06/2019 - 00:19

    Just speaking Chinese is the pretty simple one as there is much fewer Honorifics (respectly speaking) in japanese/Korea, no tense （meaning no -ed -ing and all irregular verbs）in English, no grammar gender in French, no multi verb conjugation as in Russian, no Grammatical case (he/him she/her are all the same whether normative or accusative). Plus same sentense structure as English （Subject–Verb–Object） and easier word memory, e.g. pork lamb/mutton beef veal are pronouced as pig meat, sheep meat, cattle meat and little cattle meat in chinese.

    However if you step further into writing, a totally different senario where you'd face world most difficult system, same or more difficult than arabic and thai language

    • terrys on 26/06/2019 - 09:33

      "pork lamb/mutton beef veal are pronouced as pig meat, sheep meat,"
      <Ahem> They are in French as well, which our rulers and betters spoke, as in mouton, [ram] bœuf [ox], porc [guess:-p]…

  • auslei on 26/06/2019 - 06:20

    Pretty sure AbC is not part of Chinese

  • Munki on 26/06/2019 - 08:13

    Y'all gon' learn Chinese.

    https://youtu.be/fB9ShKka_v4

  • [Deactivated] on 26/06/2019 - 10:15

    “know the basic grammars (Chinese language is straight forward, you can see there are minimum rules of grammar or NO grammar in Certain Senses)”

    Wow. Someone needs to learn English grammar.

  • yltsl on 12/07/2019 - 19:58

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8iKZEra5I0
    Ioannis Ikonomou works for the European Commission as a translator. It's a prestigious position, and yet it still sells him short. You see, Ioannis speaks 32 living languages. He belongs to a very small and special group of people called hyperpolyglots who have the extraordinary ability to attain fluency in many different tongues. According to Ioannis, there's no special trick or easy way to become a hyperpolyglot, but the best way to start is to boldly put yourself out there and SPEAK.

    According to him. Mandarin is the hardest.

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