Where To Learn Chinese?

[Mohsen]

hey guys. part of a new business venture. one of our teams got to learn chinese. and guess who it is!

any idea where i can find chinese classes?

cheers

[Willie]

hey guys. part of a new business venture. one of our teams got to learn chinese. and guess who it is!

any idea where i can find chinese classes?

cheers

There are a lot of options. I presume you want to learn Mandarin. These days everybody seems to speak it but in the old days it was mostly Cantonese spoken here.

You can do 1 month (or more) intensive courses in China. They don't cost a lot but it's a commitment and you will learn.

Otherwise there are all sorts of options here. RMIT and the Unis will have courses. Whether or not they have night school arrangements (ie. not a full Degree) I'm not sure.

There are also (expensive) courses for business Chinese. I'm sure there are plenty of low priced classes around. (Maybe CAE and the Tafes)

Whatever way you go about it, it takes a fair bit of work. Speaking is the easy part. If you don't have to read and write, that's a lot better. Even reading isn't too bad but writing is pretty difficult.

There are even some CD pack, type things that are not a bad start but I would suggest lessons as well.

Most importantly, you will have to mix with Native speakers (there are plenty here) or you'll never get hold of it. I found Chinese people here, more than happy to help and correct you. Of course they get a good laugh out of it as well.

Good luck. It's a great language and in many ways easier (grammatically) than English. It's not toooo hard to get to a point where you will be understood and can understand others.

[Willie]

Check out these. Should cost less than most of the private places.

http://www.cae.edu.au/?category=145

http://www.confuciusinstitute.unimelb.edu.au/

http://www.lyceum.com.au/

http://www.shortcourses.rmit.edu.au/index....19ebb5160b1407e

[FrangaR33]

hey guys. part of a new business venture. one of our teams got to learn chinese. and guess who it is!

any idea where i can find chinese classes?

cheers

Try Krudd I hear he knows how to speak the chinese

On a more serious note your probably best looking around your local area for a private tutor it will go much faster than just learning it in a class. Also lots of Chinese kiddie books will go a long way to helping you learn, you gotta know your chinese ABC before you can speak or read or really do anything.

[Mohsen]

awesome. thanks guys. ill do a little more searching and see how i go

[xALmoN]

i've studied chinese for 10 years, and i can't even read/write properly, and i can never have a proper conversation in mandarin.

its a pretty tough language, a few thousand different characters, and a few hundred common ones.. tsk, how i hated chinese.

[Swiper the Fox]

Do what my daughter does...watch Kai Lan.

here's a clip...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB07xk9NZtQ

[W0rp3D]

Do what my daughter does...watch Kai Lan.

here's a clip...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB07xk9NZtQ

BAHAHAHAHA, if chinese is all like that i gotta learn me some.

[W0rp3D]

And here is another option to get started http://www.torrentz.com/search?q=speak+chinese

[adis]

just go to china

[NARTRI]

dont know about other places but im currently studing language classes at lyceum language center good place to go to havent looked back at it

http://www.lyceum.com.au/ as Willie posted

[MRSAMO]

I have someone in mind, she used to be a teacher in China and she does private tuition. She's MILF material if that's your thing lol

[Mohsen]

I have someone in mind, she used to be a teacher in China and she does private tuition. She's MILF material if that's your thing lol

HAHA PICS OR BAN!

thanks for the info guys but im not being sent to china anymore. so no need for me to learn

should be stickied in a languages thread