A lot of language learners might have come across the question of whether to join a group class or to pick up a DVD course, even free Youtube videos to start study at home.
For fellow Mandarin Chinese learners, we highly recommend joining a class, here below are the opinions we collect from our students through out the years of learning with us.
The Top 5 Benefits to join a Mandarin Class (not one-to-one) are very essentials:
1. You will gain a systematic induction to the language. Mandarin Chinese has both phonetic and semantic systems, ie Pinyin and Characters. For a lot of European languages speakers, it’s just TOO EXOTIC. It’s also the beauty of the language too. And you should learn both from the beginning to build a good foundation.
2. You will gain instant feedback. Pronunciation is key to any language, not to mention to Mandarin Chinese that has FOUR TONES. Accordingly to linguists, the best way to correct your pronunciation mistakes is not only by listening to the correct ones, but also listening to how the wrong ones are corrected by a teacher.
3. Your questions will be answered instantly. The biggest drawbacks of self-learning is you will have questions unanswered.
4. The dynamic of a class will gives you more perspectives. Interacting with the teacher and classmates will inspire you to more interesting aspects of the language and culture.
5. You are likely to speak more often. It’s strange practising speaking to your own, right? With classmates and the teacher, you will have more opportunities to speak the new words or sentences you just learn.
Convinced yet? We have regular group courses across different levels, come and join us!
