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Chinese 中 文

I started learning chinese several years ago, and didn't make a whole lot of progress until recently. I was using Teach yourself Beginners Chinese for a long time which is a very good book, but eventually I decided to enrol in a course and do things properly. I'm now studying at SOAS on their Beginners Chinese Language course, which is good fun but a little intense. To give you some idea of how difficult it is, half the group had dropped out after the first four weeks! It's a pretty expensive option (I'm paying £280 per 12-week term), but if you're serious about learning a language it's money well spent.

If you can only see squares below, you'll need to install some Chinese fonts!

Characters Pinyin English
你 好 Ni hao Hello!
你 叫 什 么? Ni jiao shenme? What's your name?
我 不 喜欢 歌剧 Wo bu xihuan geju. I don't like Chinese opera.
我 怕 鲨鱼 Wo pa shayu I am afraid of sharks.