- Looking for a powerful way to get started with Mandarin Chinese?

- Getting tired of studying words and phrases that you can’t really use?

- Do you want to become conversational quickly?

- Want to learn Chinese by yourself in an effective way? 

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Hey, have you ever tried to learn Mandarin Chinese?

They say that Chinese is a difficult language to learn and let’s be honest - yes, learning Chinese can be very tricky!

The idea that you will have to learn 1000’s of characters, the tones and learn how to pronounce lots of tricky sounds is pretty intimidating. On top of that, there is almost no overlap with English vocabulary. 

Is there a way to tackle such an intimidating language like Mandarin Chinese?

Despite being very bad at learning languages at school and my teachers having no hope for me, I somehow managed to become conversational in Chinese in only 5 months.

A few years later, I became fluent and I was regularly asked for working on interpretation jobs for western-based businessmen in China. 
 

In the end, only one simple principle changed everything for me…

How could a bad language student like me quickly reach a solid level in Chinese in just a matter of months? 

For some reason I’ve always been deeply interested in other countries and cultures. When I heard about the exchange program in China I was all in!

China was like another world to me. Different food, different people with different habits and a completely new language. .

After a few weeks I got to know a nice local girl and she became my girlfriend.

Only one problem, she didn’t speak a word of English…

So, I had to learn Chinese and I had to learn it fast.

At first, I wasn’t sure I had the confidence to learn Chinese quickly, if at all. But my girlfriend changed all that and forced me into the situation where I had to learn the language.

In the end, by the time I left China, my Chinese was pretty good.

I remember that night at 1 a.m. when I walked back from her place to my dormitory through drenching rains. After 1 year in an exchange programme, I had to say goodbye to her and I thought I’d never see her again. 

At the time it broke my heart, but it later started to change my perspective on things.

I’d learned to speak a new language in only five months, after being told when I was younger that I was terrible at languages. But I’d learned enough Chinese to find love.

So, for the first time in my life, I started believing that I could become successful at learning languages.

This changed my ability to learn foreign languages and eventually, my whole life.

And it was all because I picked up one basic principle that made it a lot easier for me to learn Chinese, and later also many other languages.

It wasn’t just because I was living in another country.

And it wasn’t just because I fell in love with a native speaker, although that did help.

Let me show you step-by-step how you can hold conversations in Chinese from the very beginning, even if you’re bad at grammar and memorizing words.

This might help you find a new job, discover the real China, or perhaps even meet someone special.

Whatever your goal, you’ll be able to do this with enough confidence that you’ll eventually forget you’re talking in another language.

If you’re familiar with our method you know that learning first things first is the key to quick progress in the beginning.
 

The Pareto principle (also known as the 80–20 rule) states that you get 80% of the results from 20% of the work. This principle can be applied in language learning as well.

In language learning the ratio is more like 95-5, which means that native speakers only use 5% of the words, 95% of the time.

You see, languages contain hundreds of thousands of words but only a fraction of them are used daily by native speakers, and you only need a fraction of these words for your first conversations.
 

Besides that, your first conversations in a new language will always be the same.

You’ll be asked questions like;

- What’s your name?
- Where are you from?
- What do you do here?
- Do you live here?
- For how long have you been studying....?
 

Just learning a few answers to these questions by heart is not enough. You want to be able to construct your own sentences and speak naturally, right?

To create your first sentences you need important pronouns like: I and you; verbs like, can, do, want, be, have and a few nouns to get started.
 

But, just learning these important words isn’t quite enough…
 

At school or in traditional language courses you learn lots of words. Yet, most people can’t hold conversations in their target language after they finish their course.
 

Why?

Because to speak a language fluently you need to become good at two things:

1. You need to know a lot about the language. That means that you need to know many words and you need to know how the grammar works.

2. But what’s even more important, and what most people forget is that you need to know how to use these words and grammar rules in real, natural conversations.
 

So it’s not so much about “how much you know”, but about how well you can use what you’ve learned.
 

Which will help you communicate effectively with those around you and genuinely express who you are.
 

You see, learning a language is not just about learning a bunch of words. Your fluency is going to depend on how well and quickly you can put the words and grammar you know together.
 

At school we learn a lot of words and grammar. The problem is that we don’t spend enough time practicing what we have learned.
 

We don’t spend enough time constructing sentences that are personal to us.

Just learning is not enough, you need to activate what you learn inside your brain.
 

In other words: you use it, or you lose it!
 

By using what you’ve learned you aren’t just less likely to forget new words, you also train your brain to quickly produce sentences in your new language. 

If you practice doing this long enough, you’ll eventually become fluent.