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The way on how to learn Chinese(tones)

Many things have changed since that distant 1988, and the number of foreign students coming to terms with the Chinese language and living in China has grown dramatically over the last 20 years. It is no longer unusual to come across a “wairen” (foreigner) in Mainland China. Yet, many students keep having problems when it comes to speaking Chinese, and this is mainly due to an aspect often considered “dramatic” from a Westerner’s perspective: Chinese tones.

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Chinese Language

Mandarin As one of the six official languages used by UN (United Nations), Chinese now has earned itself greater status in the World. The official language of China is the Mandarin (Standard Chinese), which is the very name of 'Hanyu' or 'Putonghua', belonging to Sino-Tibetan.
Putonghua, standard form of modern Chinese, is a parlance in mainland China. It is the common language of all modern Han nationality people. In Taiwan Province and Hong Kong, it is called 'Guoyu' while in Singapore and Malaysia, it is often called 'Huayu'.

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About Wang Dulu

Wang Dulu(王度卢Wáng Dùlú 1909–1977), who was a famous Chinese author whose novel Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was made into a successful feature film by director Ang Lee.

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Tips of China: China Overview

China has 1.2 billion people, representing 56 nationalities. However, 96% of the population is Han, whose written language is the same wherever you are, but whose spoken dialects can be more different than the languages of Portuguese and French are from each other. Putonghua–or Mandarin–can be understood in most parts of the country. Each United States dollar equals about 7.66 Chinese yuan (as of Oct. 2010). The Hong Kong dollar is pegged to the U.S. dollar at about US$1 = HK$7.8.

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Get a 20 Hours Free Chinese/Mandarin Course Online Now

What is the 20 hours free Chinese/Mandarin Course?
We can offer you 36 lessons(20 hours) free online lessons online. The 8-hour Pronunciation Course helps you master Pinyin easily. And the 12-hour Survial Chinese Course helps you learn real Chinese for real life. It is a basic Chinese course for beginners which contains 20 units with practical topics and expressions. In addition of learning Chinese language, you will also have some basic exposure to Chinese culture and traditions which will help you a lot if you plan to travel in China. Textbook is not required in Survival Chinese. 

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Verb Tenses in Chinese

Western languages such as English have several ways to express tense. The most common are verb conjunctions which change the form of the verb depending on the time frame. For example, the English verb "eat" can be changed to "ate" for past actions and "eating" for current actions.

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