​Details of the most common challenges in learning Chinese are presented in the above guide, grab a copy for FREE by answering 4 quick questions.

​Have you ever ​been struggling with any of the following challenges I've been told again and again by ​English speaking Chinese learners? How to solve these problems?

​面對漢語音調、漢字書寫、理解文字內涵這三大難題，怎麼辦？

• ​Lack of practice for pronunciation, listening & speaking.
  
• ​Distinguishing tones as well as pronouncing tones is big challenge. ​​The pronunciation of certain words is extremely difficult, because it sounds similar to other words, even have the same pinyin with different sounds and tones, sometimes even have same tones.​
  
• Picking up the tones in words and noticing the phonetic difference of c, z, and s.
  
• Memorize​ stroke orders​. I have a difficulty to learn and memorize the order of the stroke when doing a character​.
  
• ​Holding a large number of characters in memory over extended periods of time ​is very hard​. There needs to be a good organizing framework involving radicals and quasi-homonyms that helps remember and recall characters quickly.
  
• Learning sentence structure and new vocabulary. It's a challenge to understand sentence structure and use of new words and vocabulary. Expressions and vocabulary are no problem, just ​don't know how to string them into a sentence. i.e. I know some basic phrases that help me with day to day life but when I try to use them with new vocabulary I get told this is not right. It's getting confusing the more I learn.
  

1. PRONUNCIATION

​From very ​basic ​to ​professional level,

you can do it effectively

學習音調就是要多練習，可要是發音不准，怎麼辦？

What you can benefit from this methodology:

• ​Understand the essentials to mastering the initials and finals, check out my post here​.
  
• ​Practice initials and finals through characters, words and phrases (see screenshot below)
• ​Understand the tones and practice the different ​combinations of tones (see screenshot below)
  
• Practice with very slow to standard to fast speed, achieve results confidently with accuracy (see screenshot below)
  
• Practice through an interactive platform. ​By doing it this way, ​you can know yourself if you make any mistakes, then correct it, and keep practicing until you can do it accurately and fluently. (see screenshot below)

2. ​​Learn Through Stories
​​Learn the characters by discovering ​the legends ​& ​stories behind it.

​理解了一個字的來源及其背後的歷史內涵，你就什麼都明白了。
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Every Chinese character has very profound cultural identification behind. If you know the origin and the essential cultural context behind the character, it's not hard at all for you to get to know the character well. I'​m going to teach you the origin of each character as well as the historical stories related to that character, you will enjoy it, that's for sure.

​​F​or example, ​the Chinese character 忠 (zhōng) ​is composed of two characters: the character 中 (zhōng) on the top and the character 心 (xīn) at the bottom. ​中 (zhōng) means inside, central; ​心 (xīn) means heart. So ​忠 (zhōng) means put something  or someone inside your heart. As the oldest education book of Chinese language,《說文解字》explains, "忠, 敬也", "盡心曰忠", means "respectful" and "with all one's heart, put one's heart and soul into".

​Then I will tell you the historical story of 岳飛(Yuè Fēi), A general who has been treated as the incarnate of ​忠 (zhōng) by Chinese people until today.