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Start learning one of the most spoken languages in the world: Chinese

It’s time to start learning one of the most popular languages for travel and business.

With over 1.31 billion people speaking at least one dialect of Chinese, including the most common dialects of Mandarin, Cantonese and Xiang (Hunanese), being able to communicate in Chinese opens doors you’ve never imagined.

The 5 best reasons to learn Chinese with an online tutor

When you are learning a language, particularly one with as many dialects as Chinese, you are learning more than vocabulary and grammar.

So, when choosing how you will learn Chinese, you need to consider if your tutor will be able to teach you all the unspoken rules that come with your new language.

• Access to the best Chinese tutors in the world. When you aren’t restricted to just the teachers in your local area you can work with native Chinese speakers who excel at teaching the dialect you want to learn.
• Freedom to learn Chinese on your schedule. It can be hard to fit in travelling to classes to learn Chinese, so being able to learn with an experienced tutor during your lunch break, before work or whenever suits your lifestyle means it’s easier to meet your language learning goals.
• Meet your language goals faster. Whether you have a trip to China, a Chinese language exam at school, or a job interview coming up, when you work with a Superprof tutor you can create a schedule that helps you learn what you need. This could be a week of intensive Chinese revision, several business language sessions a week, or even a monthly conversational practice lesson.
• Make more progress than an app. While apps like Duolingo are great fun, for Chinese they’re not an effective way to learn the language. Many studies show the best way to learn a language is through one-to-one personal interaction. Learning with a real person via Zoom means you can see the facial expressions – and a great tutor will emphasise these so you can easily see the shapes your mouth needs to make to get a great accent.

• Your Chinese tutor knows all the tips and tricks. Working with one of the experienced Chinese tutors from Superprof means you have the advantage of a tutor who is knowledgeable in teaching languages. They will be able to teach you Chinese that is used in the area you are focused on, whether that means learning some of the slang terms that will help you blend in while travelling, or the cultural idiosyncrasies you need to know to be successful in business.

Why you need to learn Chinese

Although native English speakers tend to remain monolingual, the rest of the world has knowing multiple languages as a base requirement for any job.

Knowing how to communicate in Chinese allows you to work in areas from tourism and hospitality to government positions, or executive-level roles in international companies. Without leaving the country, knowing how to communicate in Chinese means you have an increased ability to work in the education section, healthcare, social services, and financial institutions.

However, employment isn’t everyone’s motivation for learning a language. For many of us, we want to enjoy the people and the culture that becomes accessible once we can communicate.

We may never set foot in China but being able to watch epics like “RedCliff” 赤壁 or the “Ip Man” film series and understanding the nuances that subtitles can never show brings additional joy to the entertainment.

If you are a student of history, being able to understand the interviews and recordings in the original language is a vital part of understanding history. So many subtleties get lost in translation, as every historian knows.

How to find the best Chinese teacher

For an absolute beginner, working with a Chinese tutor who can teach the dialect of Chinese you want to learn is all that’s needed.

However, if you want to engage with native Chinese speakers, as soon as you move beyond the basics you want to find a Chinese teacher who is a native speaker in that dialect, not just fluent.

This gives you access to all the quirks of language that only native speakers in a region understand and helps you become a fluent Chinese speaker faster.