Where can i study Mandarin language in a short period of time?
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Some community collleges offer Mandarin.  I took it.  It was fun.  If the regular semester is too long, perhaps you can take an accelerated course or a summer course.  Those usually run faster/shorter...
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Xian in China. its a great place to go if u get the chance
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read more mandarin books, talk more, and listen more.... engage a tutor to coach u in mandarin..
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Please let me know what type of business.  I am tri-lingual, including Mandarin.  You may contact me at jpee_truecare@yahoo.com for further discussion.
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Suggest to him that you spend some time in Taiwan or China during the summers, to make up for any erosion of your Chinese. Rich memories of those experiences will keep Chinse burning bright in your mind.
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Go for it!\n\nYou can always go and teach English and learn more Chinese if you stumble to get a job in something a bit more advanced.
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Dear hippyJu,\n\nHave you considered doing both?\n\nIf I were you I would learn Mandarin because it is both the Standard Language of the PRC and Taiwan.\n\nIt would however be also a good opportunity for you to brush up your Cantonese especially if you're interested to visit Hong Kong.\n\nThe Cantonese language uses more and different Chinese characters than Mandarin. I don't mean Traditional versus Simplified, but a complete other set of characters.\n\nDo Mandarin and casually learn some Cantonese-specific characters. With both languages in your pockets, you'll go far!\n\nGood luck!
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It's always good to learn as much as you can. If you have the opportunity to do so, grab it.\n\nWhen I was in school, I studied Mandarin Chinese for two years. I loved it, but never had a chance to pursue those studies any further. For years, I have wished I could speak the language fluently. You just never know when you might use it.\n\nI spent five years taking the police emergency calls (e.g. 911 in the States) and the number of times I needed to get interpreters on the phone to help people was phenomenal. By far, the most common language I needed to get an interpreter for was... Mandarin Chinese. I remember a time I received a call from a woman who was clearly desperate. The operator who diverted the call to me couldn't work out what service she needed (whether she wanted Police, Fire, or Ambulance) so she put the woman through to Police. I couldn't understand what the woman was saying, but I was able to recognise what language she was speaking. After about ten minutes, I finally established (with the help of the interpreter) that her mother had had a suspected heart attack and she needed an ambulance - not police at all.\n\nIt takes only three minutes without air, and a person begins to die.\n\nI had lost at least ten minutes already, and that didn't count the time it took to ascertain basic details and transfer the call to the ambos, who in turn would have to get another interpreter for the finer details, and of course, the time it would take for the ambulance to reach the woman.\n\nDid she make it? I don't know.\n\nBut had I been able to speak Chinese - or had she been able to speak English - she would have had a fighting chance.\n\nI strongly urge you to learn another language if you have the opportunity. You never know when you might use it - and you never know when it could save a life.
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Look into Asiaexpat.com, HK magazine.  You may be able to find something that fits your requirement but if you are telling them it is temporary, I doubt you will get hired!
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Hello,\n\nMandarin, more people speak that and Cantonese is the next popular dialect of china. \n\nI wouldn't say that you should go to a country just to study a language i am living proof that self study works,. I am 22 yaers old and speak more than 9 Languages which are Mandarin,Japanese,Cantonese,Korean,Spanish,Portuguese,Arabic,Italian,Tagalog and a few others like Indonesia well on an intermediate level and also some Ancient languages.\nIf you want some good books i'll recommend some \n\nTeach yourself Cantonese\nTeach yourself Chinese ( Mandarin)\nLiving language chinese\nUltimate chinese\nColloquialm Cantonese\nColoquial Chinese\n\nPimsleur Recorded Books are very goos because they are like recorded conversations and it is also similar to the Rosetta Stone software, both a costly. i would recommend you checking it in your local library. \n\nHere are a few websites, that might help you out. \n\n1. http://chinese.rutgers.edu/class_content_simplified_chinese/level1/class1-to-9/class1/dialog_en.htm\n2.http://www.hanyu.com.cn/\n3.http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Chinese\n4.http://www.minmm.com/\n\nThese above are for Mandarin. \n\nYou could also try talk now cantonese it is designed for begineers and also travelers. \n\nIf you are really in a hurry like for travel try,\n\n1. Berlitz Cantonese chinese\n2.Berlitz Mandarin Chinese\n3. Rough guide to manadarin, this book is great because it has alot of cultural information and also the pronunciaion guide for non chinese speakers great buy though!\n4.Say it in chinese\n\nTake care and good luck
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You will probably need to learn to speak an obscure chinese dialect first as barely 50% of the population of China speaks mandarin, especially the older people.\nGood places to start would be Yangshuo or Dali, both of which have schools that accept foreigners and this would help you to make some contacts.\nEmail me if I can help some more as I live in China.\nMy own recommendation would be to go to Iga Ueno in Japan and study Ninjutsu under Hatsumi.
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It is possible to teach yourself, believe it or not. I started out with 'Modern Chinese: A Basic Course' by The Faculty of Peking University. It's put out by Dover and has a CD with native speakers, both male and female, to accompany the text. Quite old, so kind of 'communist', but describes the sound system in detail, gives you a good foundation for the grammar - the basic sentence patterns.\n\nAnd a nice book on the writing system: Teach Yourself Beginner's Chinese Script, put out by Teach Yourself Books.\n\nLater on, I found a very nice (and free!) course on the Internet. Here's the URL: www.hanyu.com.cn/en/default.asp\n\nThis will give you more modern vocabulary, how to use it in conversation.\n\nAlso if you want you can learn Chinese characters, they have very nice animations which slowly take you through each character, like an invisible hand drawing them for you so you know the order and direction of the strokes (every detail IS important - if you don't get it right and you learn with the wrong order or direction, it'll come back to haunt you when you are writing the characters fast and they just 'don't look Chinese'...).\n\nI believe they also have a Japanese and a Korean version of this site - don't have the URL for it handy.\n\nFinally, a nice dictionary for beginners: Oxford Starter Chinese Dictionary.\n\n祝你好运气！Zhu4 ni3 hao3 yun4 qi! Good luck!
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Depends on what you want to study.\n\nFor mandarin, Tsinghua University, Peking (aka Beijing) University, BLCU (Beijing Language and Culture University) are some great options. They tend to be on the more expensive range but still cheaper than universities in western countries.\n\nSome of the 'Ivy League' universities in China include: Tsinghua, Peking, Fudan, Zhejiang, Nanjing University. But it really depends on what you are interested in studying.
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Try these please\n\nlearn_chinese.ckungfu.com\nhttp://www.pinyin.org/index.cfm\nhttp://www.chinawestexchange.com/Mandarin/Pinyin/index.htm\nhttp://www.mandarintools.com\n\nPut "learn + pinyin" in google search engin, and you will find more.\n\nHappy learning!
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take up a beginner's course.\nsing (as you learn) along to some pop chinese songs, with your limited mandarin.\nhonest.\nhave fun, & good luck :)
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Language School in Beijing \nMandarin Study and Cultural Immersion in Beijing\nChinese Language Schools in China
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me too i would like to learn chinese becouse i am in beijing now