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Learning a second language opens up a ton of career opportunities. I’m not just talking about freelancing or working location-independently either, though these are excellent ideas which I’ve personally used. There are lots of other ways that speaking two or more languages can improve your employment prospects. The world is changing fast. More companies than ever are doing business in several – often dozens of – countries around the world, but they can’t do it without hiring globally-minded people who can speak at least one foreign language.

It is well known that learning a language is a matter of gradual perseverance. Chinese is no exception. Chinese is a more and more useful language in the world and you can benefit a lot from it if you can stick to it, no matter adults or kids. Here I would like to introduce two Chinese proverbs, which can inspire you to begin or to insist on it.

1. 一口吃不成胖子。(yìkŏu chī bù chéng pàngzi.)
One meal won’t make a fat man.
It means that you can’t build up the constitution on one mouthful. Nobody could get instant benefits, and success comes from the regular accumulation.

From 黄老师 (Huang Laoshi)

From Zhang laoshi (张老师)

From Li laoshi（李老师）

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One of our students come from Africa, his family is doing clothes trading business in China. He wants to learn Mandarin because he want to do business together with his families. The mandarin now is widely used all over the world. There are many opportunities for him to do the business between his hometown and China. Therefore, he start to learn not only the Mandarin but also the Chinese culture to know about how Chinese people do business and how they think in Chinese logic. The Mandarin study do helps a lot to him.

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As a Chinese teacher, I am always delighted to observe and learn from my students. One thing I have noticed in my interactions with my students is how hard most of them have to struggle during the learning process. The courses you take and the textbooks you use can of course be beneficial, but they alone cannot make you a better language learner. Too much time can be used up figuring out the meaning of words, taking notes in class, looking up words in the dictionary, or talking with friends.

When I teach a Chinese learner in the first stage, she felt that “gōng

Vocabulary in foreign language learning plays an important role. But for adults, especially the zero-level adults, the learning time is limited but the task is heavy. Do not worry about that, we will give you some tips about it, which can improve your efficiency to remember them.