What is Chinese? Chinese is a a group of related but in many cases mutually unintelligible language varieties, forming a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. Chinese is spoken by the Han majority and many other ethnic groups in China. Nearly 1.2 billion people (around 16% of the world's population) speak some form of Chinese as their first language.
What steps should I follow?
Learn the Four Madarin Tones
Learn how to use Pinyin to help you pronounce
Learn the Four Madarin Tones
learn Essential Vocabulary
Expand Vocabulary
Learn the Grammar in Chinese
Reading and Writing Chinese characters
Why peopel say Chinese is HARD? Because Chinese is a language that combines two different systems; being different from the most Latin-orianted languages, Chinese cannot be pronounced based on what it looks like. The reading and writing system is seprerated from the listening and speaking system.
The chart above shows the Chinese alphabet which called Pinyin by Chinese people; pinyin in chinese means assistance of pronunciation
