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Know your best and favourite learning medium. Then use it and be in it.

My favourite way to learn a language, and as a result, the culture itself, is to be immersed in the country where the language originates.

Mandarin is primarily spoken in mainland China as well as Taiwan. You will also notice at your city's Chinatown (if you have one) that the owners and workers there will speak either Mandarin or Cantonese, usually.

What is your favourite learning medium?

With well more than a billion speakers around the world, Chinese language, also known as Mandarin, is the most widely spoken language on earth. As China has grown in power over the past several decades, there has been a big push worldwide for foreigners to study Chinese.

Chinese classes have cropped up in colleges and secondary schools around the world and, each year, thousands of people flock to Taiwan and China to travel, teach and hone their language skills. In case you need any more motivation than that, here are 7 good reasons why you should study Chinese.

One major difference between Chinese and western languages is that Chinese has different tones. It can be the most confusing part for foreign learners. We will share some tips with you about different tones in Chinese.

Being one of the mandarin students, Ford pursued Chinese because he believed the ability to speak a language other than Spanish or French by Americans who weren’t born into a non-English speaking culture is quite rare. His interest in Asia and China began early on and he wanted a better understanding of Chinese culture because it has such a rich history and exotic appeal to it. And the knowledge of Chinese is a great conversation starter.

Over 750,000 people from around the world took the Official Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK) every year. these people from different industries, backgrounds are learning in hope to understand the often-misunderstood country better and benefit from knowing the most widely spoken language in the world whether it is for personal reasons or business opportunities.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

You may already feel the festive atmosphere in town. At KIRIN, we are ready to celebrate the grand festival with all our members and students.

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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.

There are many compelling reasons to study Chinese. Many people simply enjoy studying foreign languages.

Chinese is particularly fascinating because of its beautiful handwriting, melodic spoken language, and poetic phrasing. There are also very practical reasons to acquire another language and Chinese is increasingly important to our current and future dialogue with China.

For most of our foreign students, their time is quite limited. School kids already have a lot on their plate-homework, exams, projects and so on. Working adults have countless meetings and field trips. It is beyond doubt that learning mandarin is important Singapore. But our teachers are making this journey a lot more fun. Instead of a burden, we link mandarin learning to excitement, laughter, and accomplishment.

One of the most common reactions people have when you suggest they learn Chinese is to complain that it’s incredibly difficult. Luckily for Chinese learners, this is completely wrong.
While there are probably easier languages to learn than Chinese, it is by no means the most difficult, and far from the insurmountable object, many make it out to be!
When it comes to the issue of grammatical complexity, Chinese is really one of the easiest languages there is to learn.
Unlike most European languages, it does not feature complicated constructs like cases and genders.