Chinese language refers to a family of languages spoken in China and in some contagious countries of China. There are many different dialects of Chinese. Mandarin Chinese is referred as the most popular dialect of Chinese language and forms the world’s biggest community of speakers of one language. It is the language of nearly 850 million native speakers. The total number of Chinese speaking people counts more than 1 billion people. Perhaps Chinese is the only language in the world which has spoken and written distinctions. On spoken aspect, Chinese has almost thirteen dialects and some of them are categorically different to one anther and consequently making the language one of the complex language of the world. The dialect used in one of the biggest Chinese cities - Beijing is thought to be the Standard dialect. Mandarin Chinese follows Beijing dialect and is also recognized as the offical dialect of China.


For beginners, it is very difficult to understand the complex connection between spoken and written Chinese. Special attention is needed to learn to write Chinese language. The Chinese language courses pay thorough attention on developing writing skills in the learners. There are a number of traditional and online institutions offering Language programmes in Chinese. These language programmes range from certificate courses comprising very short period of time to lengthy courses of almost one-year. The most flexible courses among them are online courses which provide you maximum freedom to complete the study contents sitting at your place according to your own schedule. The entry to Chinese language course does not require any particular level of study as pre-requisite. The online institutions offer these courses against nominal fees and award certificates also at the end of successful completion of the academic studies.


Listening is the important part of a language programme. We should keep it in mind that the pronunciation pattern of different languages of the world is entirely different and there is scarcely any similarity among them. There are languages which are altogether different in their stress patterns and sound patterns. Sometimes it becomes almost impossible to follow and grasp the original language pattern. Strenuous efforts are required on the part of the learners to acquire proficiency in the phonology of another language. Listening programmes in this regard are extremely helpful. For your Chinese learning, there are a number of language learning programmes in form of cassettes and CD-Rom are available in the market which can improve your pronunciation a lot. The Online Chinese courses also include listening module as an integral part of the course and stress upon it.

The free learning material for Chinese is also available on many websites. Some of the organizations are running excellent programmes teaching basic Chinese language in the form of a few lessons. For the help of students of Chinese language, online dictionaries with many options of other languages are available online without paying any charges. The most common online Chinese dictionaries are Chinese/English, Chinese/French and Chinese/Spanish. These online dictionaries help you a lot to increase your vocabulary of Chinese language.