Sunday, March 8, 2009

Learn Chinese For Free

If you're interested (or already) learning the Chinese language, you might want to learn Chinese for free. But the fact is, that idea may not be the beneficial for you at all.

First of all, the problem with materials that let you learn Chinese for free is that most of them lack multimedia-based training. That would not be too much of a problem if you're learning something such as computer language programming, but when it is a big problem when we talkk about learning Chinese or learning Mandarin. You would be missing out an important part of your education if you don't hear the Chinese language spoken or witness native Chinese interact among themselves.

And there is another big issue. Let me ask you this if you want to learn Chinese for free... How good is free stuff, usually? Well, it's rarely good. There are many reasons why a Chinese language course is offered for free and those include someone who is generous and is giving away a highly valuable course for free. However, more often than not, a Chinese lesson that's handed away for free is not match for the paid ones, which is why Chinese courses that promise to let you learn Chinese for free are usually not the best materials, in the first place.

And most likely, you wouldn't receive the "whole package" if you were chasing after what would let you learn Chinese for free, because learning Chinese takes tons of effort and commitment, and the entire learning will definitely demand some form of investment.

With that being said, it is actually a neat idea to obtain some resources to learn Chinese for free when you're just beginning to learn the language so that you see a bigger picture of you learning Chinese, but I have yet to encounter someone who did learn Chinese from scratch until she achieves a reasonable proficiency level, all relying on free resources to learn Chinese.

The truth is, if you're committed to learning Chinese or learning Mandarin, you should take a serious Chinese language course and seek out some really good Chinese learning programs.

So next time when you feel like hunting for resources to learn Chinese for free, recall what you just read.

1 comment:

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