Learn Secrets and Motivation to Make Chinese Study Easier
Are you learning Chinese, or do you want to learn Chinese? This book is here to motivate that desire. Ignore the scare tactics and intimidation. Chinese is damn easy! Use this book alongside your language study materials to help motivate and guide your desire, so you don’t get discouraged on your path to fluency. It will explain why Chinese is easy, and the advantages you have as a student. While others complain and bemoan the language among themselves, you will progress and advance.
Too many people avoid Chinese, picking what they consider to be an easier language. Follow your interests, rather than what others tell you about language difficulties. Their excuses and reasons for failure are pure and utter nonsense, and this book will show you why.
While learning Chinese as a second language, I discovered that no one was offering motivational or encouraging materials for the Chinese learner. Rather, I found people suffering and complaining, constantly comparing Chinese to other “easier” languages. What they lacked was proper perspective. Even if you compare languages, Chinese will still come out being easier. This book will provide you plenty of reasons to keep learning Chinese, and stay motivated through the studying!
I don’t care if you are black, white, blue or foreign born Chinese. You can learn Chinese, and you can learn to use it well. When discouraged or ready to give in, come back to this book again and again for a motivational boost.
There is only one language that is "impossible." It's the language you don't want to learn. If you have desire to learn Chinese, and want all the reasons why it is damn easy, read this book.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
This books approach
A question before we begin
Grammar and Foundation
Chinese grammar is beyond easy
Chinese nouns have no gender
Chinese verbs do not conjugate
Chinese simplify tenses
Nouns do not change with plurals
Chinese doesn't bother with indefinite/definite articles
Particles are easy and powerful
Word order is simple
Chinese DOES have cognates
Chinese vocab is blunt and intuitive
Classification adds a new layer of easy
Easy classifier secret: you don’t even need them!
Chinese vocabulary is short and predictable
Easy classical literature
Over a billion speakers for practice and use
Writing Chinese – The Characters
Skip writing the characters altogether!
Only need 2,000 to 3,000 characters
Wait, some of these are actual pictures!
Ideograms were a good idea
Radicals – how radical!
Phonetic Support ON TOP of Radicals!
Characters don’t mix!
No spacing saves the student!
Traditional vs. Simplified characters is decided
Idioms are easy to spot and ignore
Stroke order never changes!
Speaking Chinese – The Tones
Less tones than fingers on your hand
The Tones are simple patterns
Don’t pretend tones are foreign to you
Tones provide clarity and distinction
Pronunciation rarely changes
With enough context, throw the tones out!
Bonus Motivation!
Ignore calligraphy, scrolls and paintings
The Chinese will motivate and encourage you
Give up ideas of “weird and foreign”
Don’t buy into dumb tongue twisters
The language comparison trap
Conclusion - Easy enough for ya?
