Itâs good to remind ourselves of its many different uses, especially on those days when getting students to participate feels like pulling hensâ teeth. 1  Participation adds interest âItâs hard to maintain studentsâ focus and attention when all they hear is the professor talking.
Quora User, fluent speaker of Mandarin and Cantonese. Knowing Cantonese alone does not make you understand Mandarin due to the large differences in the language/dialect. However, I believe the majority of Cantonese speakers can understand Mandarin, but only because they have separately studied Mandarin (either formally in school, or self-taught).
1. Best way to learn Chinese. a) An easy first step is to just familiarise yourself with the sounds of Mandarin. Watch movies with Chinese language, browse Youku (Chinaâs Youtube), listen to podcasts âthere are lots of free resources out there.ith the range of media available today, you can get a very long way with learning Mandarin without being immersed in a Chinese language environment. However, to be in China just brings the language to life in a way that online and textbook learning alone cannot.