Free Online Chinese Language Learning (Part 1)

As native Chinese speaker, I often aware of the websites which teach people Chinese language as second language. Chinese language is the main spoken language in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, and Malaysia. There are different forms of Chinese language such as Cantonese, Hakka, Teochew where the pronunciation and the writing system are different. However, Standard Chinese (or called Mandarin / Huáyǔ) is often taught as second or foreign language to non-native speakers. Standard Chinese has two main kinds of writing system, first is traditional Chinese (華語), second is simplified Chinese (华语). The traditional Chinese characters is more complicated than the simplified Chinese. However, they are actually having the same meaning (Standard Chinese = 華語 / 华语).

If you are interest in the history of Chinese development, you can always GOOGLE and get the detail.

Here is one of the great websites for non-Chinese speakers to learn the basic conversation of Standard Chinese. FREE!

Discover China, learn Chinese - Chinese-Tools.com

Source: Chinese-Tools.com

You need to click the "LEARN CHINESE" tab to reach this page. You can learn to speak basic Chinese language through online lessons with audio. There are total of 40 online lessons which are the most complete guide to those who want to learn Chinese starting from the beginning. Each lesson includes grammar and vocabulary are which frequently used everyday. It also teach you how to spell the Chinese characters (pinyin) and the Chinese culture exploration. Depend on your native language, you can also learn Chinese in the other languages besides English. 

Source: Chinese-Tools.com

Furthermore, it provides a broad range of free tools such as Chinese translation, dictionaries, pronunciation, pinyin editor and etc. to make learning Chinese language easier. 

More posts on Chinese Language Learning will coming soon. Be right back!