What is the best way to learn Mandarin/Chinese Language?

[Sol_Itaire]

nimen zao!

yay karong friday and saturday na ang among "Mandarin Idol" contest for beginners hehe. because i help them review, nagkat-on pod kog ako and medyo naka gain kog momentum. when i read the textbooks now, i can understand about 70% of the dialogues (the pinyin part). teaching really makes one learn twice as fast.

[mio]

Skwela ka. Naa man school para Mandarin lang. Chix pa jud na pure Chinese ang teacher. Sayon ra siya kung ma memorize nimo ang Po Pho Mo Fo na alphabet.

[Eve's Apple Project]

@storyanmember: depende ra na bai..di tanan tao ingon ana ka interested og kapaspas makat-on og language. I can speak mandarin but only basic. enough for me to get by.

Thanks Sol_Itair. Keep it up.. i've been living in china for 6 years & still, my putonghua is still not that great. subscribe lang ko diri..hehehe

naa koy pinoy nga kaila diri sa china, 5 years pa sya but he already sounds like the locals. kadtong akong amigo hinoon naminyo man og local chinese so i think mao sad toy nakatabang niya. My advice, marry a local chinese..hehehe

[miramax]

@storyanmember: depende ra na bai..di tanan tao ingon ana ka interested og kapaspas makat-on og language. I can speak mandarin but only basic. enough for me to get by.

Thanks Sol_Itair. Keep it up.. i've been living in china for 6 years & still, my putonghua is still not that great. subscribe lang ko diri..hehehe

naa koy pinoy nga kaila diri sa china, 5 years pa sya but he already sounds like the locals. kadtong akong amigo hinoon naminyo man og local chinese so i think mao sad toy nakatabang niya. My advice, marry a local chinese..hehehe

Yeah, I strongly agree bro with ur opinion.
Like myself, we're from Chinese descendants.
My Ankong was from mainland China.
My mom attended half of her primary and full secondary education in a Chinese school in Davao.
The thing is they speak Amoy inside their home and not Mandarin.
When we were little they tried to teach us to learn the language but bcos we don't find it interesting so everytime my mom talks to her siblings in Amoy we make fun of it.
Now that we're grown up we realized what opportunity we missed!

Like last month , when I was in Quiapo shopping some clothes in a tiangge.
I was accompanied with my dormmate who worked as a DH in Singapore and is engaged with a Malaysian national whom she met in Singapore.
We happened to stumble a stall owned by a Chinese couple who is obviously who hardly can speak tagalog.
While bargaining with the Chinese owners my friend negotiated to them in Mandarin.
I feel so small of myself that here I am who has Chinese roots and my friend who is very pango, able to communicate fluently in Chinese while I don't.
Shame on me!

[mrvs19]

ako kay chinese sd akng ancestors pero d jd ko kblo mg chinese. nindot btaw jd mkablo ug mandarin chinese/amoy/fookien

[jud_ith]

lingaw pud ni dah! kapoya tuon ani oy

[PseudoSurgeon]

Daghan naman school TS. Nya maayo sad if naa kay makasturya na kibaw sad ana na language para ma-hasa jud kag maayo.

[LeeLeePot]

sayong magtuon ug chinese language..peo chinese nga sinuwatan hastang paita! T_T mura jud kag mudrawing..huhuhu! same sa jap...maypang korean, mejo namaster nako gamay. huhuhu

[ming_li]

@Sol_Itaire

dali ra ka mka kat-on if naa ka companion na chinese n mgspeak mu ug chinese always...

kana na program? mka limtan ra na.. hehehe believe me.. mura ra mo ga study sa CEC n ur not speaking chinese outside..

nka learn pud ko ug NIHONGO before pero pg human sa semester.. wa na gamita nka limtan na hehehe..

[Sol_Itaire]

^yup i live in a chinese-speaking environment although the chinese people here are also trying to learn english hehe.

this program is quite different because it's actually preparatory for further work or studies in chinese-speaking environments. i'm not expecting everyone to qualify, but with the few who will i would be happy.