Mandarin is a little bit easier for European students to learn, so don't worry about it.
TO beginners：
Students has different targets at the beginning to learn mandarin, maybe is because of the business needs 、trips or Chinese friends，but they would like to speak mandarin fluently finally. Maybe some students think mandarin is too difficult to learn. That is because they haven't known mandarin very well. It is better if they master the basic knowledge of mandarin before they start to learn.
About Chinese characters
The classification of Chinese characters
As you known，Chinese characters has the traditional Chinese characters and simplified characters these two parts. The using area and determined period of these words we are summarized as follow:
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Word
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Example
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Using areas now
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Determined period
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Simplified characters
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中华
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Mainland China・Overseas Chinese circle
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1950 age
（The people's Republic of China）
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经济
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运动
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Traditional Chinese characters
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中華
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Taiwan・Hongkong・Macao・Overseas Chinese circle
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1920 age（The Republic of China at that time）
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經濟
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運動
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About the Chinese pronunciation
Does Mandarin mean Beijing dialect, Shanghai dialect and Cantonese ?
China is a nation with 56 multi-ethnic country, the words that is used by 90% of the total population is called mandarin. We do have different dialects because of the different areas. So Beijing dialect, Shanghai dialect, Fujian dialect and Cantonese are the representative dialects.
You study Mandarin in HanYuan
There are so many dialects in China, for example, Shanghai dialect, Cantonese, Fujian dialect. All the dialects has the similar grammars, but different pronunciation. But we have different express ways and words, so Beijing people can not understand Shanghai dialect.
Now what you are learning is as the standard language of Mandarin.Television and radio are made of mandarin. We were asked before " Is it better for me to learn some Shanghai dialect because I have business trips here?" but this dialect is only used in Shanghai. And mandarin is well used in China. So it is better to study mandarin firstly for foreigners.
※We do have group lessons for Shanghai dialect, Cantonese, etc.
About Pinyin、4 tones
As you known, we have 4 tones in Pinyin. Different tone means different meaning and different character. So it is very important for students to remember 4 tones.
About 4 tones
We have 4 tones and neutral tone in mandarin.
We use different marks help you to distinguish that.
Point：
You will easy to master it if you follow our study plan.
The English Association
In mandarin, we have the same pronunciation like "r" and "sh" as English. But the grammars are different.
The basic word order of Chinese
For example:
Six elements in word order:
Subject, Predicate, Object, Attributive, Adverbial, Complement
Point
In one word, mandarin is not so difficult for foreign students actually, our teachers will try our best to help you to learn it and solve all the questions.
We are looking forward for you to join our big family.
