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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: China Breeze books for learning Chinese... easy?
Dunno if anyone's familiar but China Breeze for learning Chinese - even the level one book seems scarier than HSK II. Perhaps the early levels of HSK are a bit misleading about actual progress.
9 years 3 weeks ago in Teaching & Learning - China
Secrious!for beginners learning Chinese,especially hsk , is very hard work.but the point is to practice and u need a experienced teacher who corrects your mistakes.so u can make progress,and realize your goals that pass hsk level 3. best wishes to u.
Not come across these books but I'm starting lessons again tomorrow with one aim being to get to HSK level 3 by the end of the year. Levels 1 & 2 don't look too difficult. 300 characters & the questions in pinyin. Not worried about them but level 3 will be the difficult one, especially as I ubderst you need to be able to write 600 characters & the questions are all in Chinese.
Secrious!for beginners learning Chinese,especially hsk , is very hard work.but the point is to practice and u need a experienced teacher who corrects your mistakes.so u can make progress,and realize your goals that pass hsk level 3. best wishes to u.
As smith.qiang writes I would also say that up to the upper intermediate level (let's say HSK 4-5) you may need a good teacher to correct your pronunciation and grammatical mistakes. Once you get used to certain wrong pattern so then you need a lot of effort to correct that.
I personally assume that the book is not the most important thing. If you spend everyday at least an hour learning and practicing vocabulary with at least 2-3x a week lessons with the teacher so after a year or so you shall clearly see the progress.
Then with higher levels the exposure to the language is important - try to find the friends who cannot speak English and that will force you to speak Chinese as well as develop your understanding abilities.
Using this way you shall become fluent within two years about - not having any main difficulties in everyday life (by this I do not mean shopping - I really mean interacting with people).
There are no miraculous ways and no shortcuts. Unfortunately it sounds easier than it's then done - it needs a lot of discipline. As a result majority of the foreigners who even claim speaking Chinese are at best able to order the meal in the restaurant or buy a train ticket. Saying this one shall of course acknowledge that there are also a lot of foreigners speaking really good Chinese. And with development of China and its expanding to the world the importance of speaking the Chinese language is growing so is the number of Westerners being able to communicate in Chinese on fairly good level.
At the end of the day generally all Chinese are able to manage the language so why we should not be able to do so?
are you in China ? or you want practice Chinese oral only ? i'm a beginners of english , from Small city Dongguan , if you don't mind we can mutual study