Among so many foreigners who are interested in Chinese language, most of the foreign students who learn Chinese in China believe the Chinese environment and context is the best condition to learn Chinese better. Therefore, they choose to come to China because they can study Chinese in China very soon. As long as you step into China, you need to know some Chinese language whatever you want to do, find a job or continue your further study, say nothing of living because you have to listen and say Chinese language even though you go to buy a towel.
After all, the Chinese language you learn in the Mandarin language program is limited while the best practicing place and learning place is the communication in your dailylife. However, the time that the foreign students study in China is usually limited. Some foreigners stay for several years, some for few semesters, some just a couple of months and even weeks. For instance, they may live after learning in summer program in China. Many of them are worried about whether they will forget the knowledge they acquired when they are leaving China.
Such kind of worry usually has bad effect on the initiative and enthusiasm of learning Mandarin Chinese.It is a good idea to continue to learn Mandarin by creating a good Chinese learning environment at home. First of all, they should firstly make full use of the time at home to listen to Chinese language. You can hear Chinese language broadcast or turn on the Chinese language records, songs and films whatever youare doing like washing clothes, cleaning up rooms, lying on the sofa, etc. Do not worry you can’t understand because you do it just for building up you Chinese language sense.
Of course, you can find several companies who speak Chinese language or make some Chinese friends to talk and chat with them on the internet. The reason why most foreign students like chatting with Chinese friends by using the network software is that it can not only helps them learn Chinese language, but also good for knowing about some popular words and expressions, which usually can’t be learned in Chinese classes. Therefore, you should make more Chinese friends during the period when you study Mandarin Chinese in China.
The last but not least thing you can do is to join the online Mandarin lessons which aregreatly recommended by Chinese teachers. The aim of network learning program is to help those students who come to study Chinese in China to improve their language levels. In China, many excellent Chinese language schools provide high quality online Chinese lessons. For example, Kunming Keats School in Yunnan. The mostobvious advantage of such lessons is to set learning plans and goals in accordancewith your language levels and requirements. And the time is flexible so that you can adjust to it yourself.
More importantly, in such program, you can learn from and talk with on teachers by the form of face-to-face, which is the best model to improve the ability of listening and speaking Chinese language. Therefore, it is equivalent to takepart in the one-on-one Chinese leaning program at schools inChina. Of course, you can purchase the records and written materials of the courses if you are satisfied with it. In this way, you can play it to learn andr eview after class, making you home a Chinese language environment.
Butwhat mentioned above are not the only ways to create a Chinese languagelearning environment. You can also use some other ways as a help such as puttingsome things with Chinese characteristics. If you are greatly attracted by Chineseculture when you learn in qualified Mandarin program in China, you can hangsome calligraphy works and embroideries, creating a home with Chinese features.It is a good way to increase your interest of Chinese language learning.
Inaddition, reading some Chinese magazines or newspaper or even advertisements isalso very beneficial. By reading these Chinese materials, you can memorize Chinesecharacters at the same time of practicing reading skills. All in all, you canjust do what you can to keep yourself in an imitating Chinese language learningenvironment.
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